Restructuring Services

There are often many reasons a business needs to reorganise or restructure. We work with our business clients to find the right structure and put it in place with as little disruption as possible.

Intra-group reorganisations

Intra-group reorganisations can help simplify your group structure, improve operational efficiency, ring-fence assets, prepare for investment or sale, integrate an acquisition, or align the legal structure with the way the business now actually operates. They might involve transferring shares, assets, contracts, property or intellectual property between group companies, inserting a new holding company, carrying out a hive-up or hive-down, or removing dormant or redundant entities.

We advise on the most appropriate structure and prepare the legal documentation needed to put it in place. We work alongside your accountants, tax advisers, lenders and other professional advisers throughout, so the legal steps support your wider commercial and tax objectives. Our focus is on keeping the process clear, compliant and efficient, reducing disruption to how the business runs day to day, and managing the risk involved for directors, shareholders and the wider group.

Demergers

Sometimes it’s necessary to split up a group of companies, whether that follows a relationship breakdown between shareholders or is about future-proofing part of the organisation. We advise on the structure and manage the process.

Partnerships and LLP restructures

We advise partnerships and limited liability partnerships on changes to their structure, governance and ownership arrangements, including transferring assets or moving from a partnership to an LLP.

Restructuring works best when the legal steps are planned around your tax and commercial objectives, not the other way round.