Corporate Structuring and Reorganisations

With the ever shifting pressures facing national and international businesses, there are increasing demands to restructure corporate groups in order to make them more competitive, cost-effective and tax efficient, and otherwise to properly align them to group business strategies. We have an established track record of working hand in hand with other professionals (including audit, tax, pensions and consulting advisors) in delivering a high quality and seamless restructuring service.

 

Areas of expertise include:

  • project management of large, complex and/or international transactions
  • legal entity reduction and corporate simplification projects
  • cross-border mergers under the European Directive
  • extracting profits from group companies and de-merger of assets to shareholders
  • advising on migration of businesses from one jurisdiction to another and from one entity to another
  • legal documentation of transfer pricing arrangements
  • section 425 schemes of arrangements and section 110 voluntary liquidations
  • capital reductions and share buybacks for limited and unlimited companies
  • reorganisation of share capital and special share rights
  • preparation of option, warrant and convertible loan note instruments
  • capitalising loans, intra-group financing and re-financing arrangements
  • listing of debt in order to eliminate withholding tax
  • sale and purchase of capital loss companies
  • re-registrations and establishment of partnerships, LPs, LLPs, and unlimited and guarantee companies corporate issues concerning incentivisation of employees and directors

 

For details of our recent work in this area please click here.