Services
Our Corporate team advises on the full spectrum of transactional and governance matters, supporting clients through pivotal moments in their business lifecycle.
Whether you are buying or selling a business, bringing in new investment, restructuring a group or planning a succession, you need advice that is technically sound and commercially grounded. We combine deep corporate experience with a forward-looking approach, helping you make informed decisions and move with clarity at each stage of your project.
Our work spans start-ups, group consolidations, family investment structures, complex joint ventures, and cross-border structures. This includes advice on joint venture agreements, legal project support, corporate acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins, investment rounds, buybacks and shareholder arrangements.
We act on matters involving a single shareholder through to multi-jurisdictional transactions with institutional and private capital. Whatever the size or sector, we assemble the right team for the transaction, scaling input where needed and keeping advice proportionate.
Our expertise extends across deal preparation, governance, and transactional execution, including due diligence for business acquisitions, covering contracts, finance, property, intellectual property, data protection, IT, HR, procurement, pensions and litigation. Being a partner-led firm means we draw quickly on specialist insight from across the practice on issues relating to property, disputes, regulatory, finance and more - ensuring decisions can be made with speed and confidence.
We act across a range of industries, including fintech, financial advice, retail, healthcare, facilities management, logistics, construction and technology. Recent matters include:
- Advising London & Quadrant Housing Trust on the acquisition of Gallagher Estates, a transaction valued at approximately £505 million.
- Acting for multiple IFA businesses on sales to major consolidators.
- Supporting Sodexo on a strategic acquisition, ensuring FCA, CQC and RSH regulatory compliance input as part of a seamless transition.
- Advising Trek Bicycle Corporation on UK expansion through share and asset purchases.
- Acting for Adsure Services PLC on all aspects of its AQSE listing process.
- Advising a Norwegian private equity fund on approximately £40 million of UK-based acquisitions.
- Supporting a Luxembourg-based structure on the purchase of a Greek real estate SPV for just over €50m.
- Guiding the restructure of a global family-owned business following a trust reorganisation.
For owner-managed businesses, we understand how personal priorities, investor expectations and commercial drivers intersect. Many of our clients see us as a long-term sounding board. We work alongside your other advisers; including accountants, tax specialists and consultants, to help keep the business aligned and moving in the right direction.
Our Services
Our corporate offering covers transactions, governance and structural change. We advise corporates, investors, founders, management teams, private equity funds, international groups and owner-managed businesses. Our key services include:
- Business Sales and Purchases – mergers and acquisitions legal advice delivered by a senior-led team, advising on share and asset deals, whether you are buying, selling or carving out part of a group.
- Management Buy-Outs – supporting outgoing owners and incoming management teams.
- Investment Rounds – provided by private equity and fundraising solicitors, including investor relations, valuation considerations and financial structuring.
- Restructuring – delivered by experienced business restructuring solicitors, handling group reorganisations, intra-group transfers and capital reduction demergers.
- Shareholder Arrangements – drafting, negotiating and advising on shareholder agreements legal support to protect governance rights and long-term stability.
- Corporate Finance – supporting lenders, borrowers and investors through tailored corporate finance legal services.
- AQSE Listings – managing the full legal process for admission to the Aquis Stock Exchange.
- Regulatory Compliance – ensuring alignment with FCA, CQC, FCA and RSH regulatory compliance standards and wider sector requirements.
Meet the Team
Helen Curtis, Partner, leads the Corporate team and brings more than 25 years’ experience across UK and cross-border transactions. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, investment rounds, restructures and complex group reorganisations. Clients value her measured, commercial guidance and her ability to keep multiple stakeholders aligned throughout each stage of a deal.
Prasan Modasia, Partner, focuses on listings, fundraising and cross-border M&A. He works closely with clients on funding structures, investor negotiations and the regulatory considerations that shape high-value transactions. His experience includes AQSE admissions, private equity investments and strategic acquisitions for UK and international groups.
Alastair Manning, Senior Associate, advises on UK and cross-border M&A, with particular depth in IFA sales, platform acquisitions and consolidation-driven transactions. His work spans acquisitions, disposals, carve-outs and complex group reorganisations, often involving regulated businesses, distressed situations or time-critical execution. Clients value his ability to run transactions end-to-end, anticipate pressure points early and keep deals moving where timing and risk are finely balanced.
Chantelle Adadevoh, Associate, advises across all areas of corporate law, with specialist experience in EMI schemes, EIS fundraising and investment structures for scaling businesses. She supports clients from early-stage planning through to live transactional work, ensuring that corporate structures and documentation remain aligned with growth plans.
Working as a single team, we combine detailed legal analysis with clear, practical advice. Where needed, we involve colleagues from other practice areas – including tax, real estate, disputes, employment and regulatory – so you have a joined-up view of the issues and a clear route through them.
Next Steps
If you are assessing your options or planning ahead for a transaction, it helps to speak to us early. We can:
- Sense-check your objectives and constraints;
- Outline the main routes available; and
- Help you map the steps needed to move from first discussion through to completion.
We aim to give you clarity, momentum and a team that stays with you for the long term.
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