Our commercial department acts for all sizes and types of businesses. Owing to the nature of the work we cannot always reveal specific transaction details but here is just a small selection of some of our recent deals:

Successful sale of tricky business
Sadly, businesses are not always successful and unravelling a failed business venture and transferring potential liabilities can be as complicated as, and in some ways even more important than, the sale of a successful business....

Success in buy back deals
A client was divorcing her husband and the marital assets included a wholesale company in which both our client and her huband owned shares. Another client owned half of the shares in a company and was in dispute with the other shareholder....

$3 million sale of assets and trade liabilities
We have completed the US$3 million sale of the assets and trade liabilities of the UK subsidiary of an American producer of personal protective body armour....

Media Monitoring BIMBO
We acted for long-standing clients and other shareholders in the £17 million sale of a leading media monitoring group to a BIMBO ('buy in/management buy out') team....

Management Buy Out of leading marketing communications group
We advised senior executives of a leading marketing communications team in their £7 million buy out of the UK group from its listed French parent company....

Share recycling deal
We acted for the owner of a company specialising in recyclable computer consumables in the buy out of his co-founder's half interest in the business for a price of £3.5 million....

Catering business sale worth £8 million
We acted for the seller of a business specialising in catering and banqueting services under contract at heritage sites to a French listed company....

Complex sale of power station
We acted for the UK subsidiary of a German multinational in the £4 million sale of a power station generating electricity from methane extracted from a former mine in the Midlands....

Expanding medical recruitment agency
We act for a fast growing medical recruitment agency and have recently assisted with its acquisition of another, high specialised, medical recruitment agency. The acquisition included an ongoing incentivised consultancy agreement for the seller.

Hair salon franchise deal
We acted for a Norwegian hairdressing salon franchise in their venture into the UK market. The deal included the acquisition of three salons from local entrepreneurs who took shares in the new company. Anthony Gold also drafted the investment agreement and franchise agreements for the new venture.

Realisation of investment in media reporting group
We acted for the founding shareholders of a media reporting company when they realised their investment by a sale of their shares representing half of the value of the business to the executive director for £500,000. The deal was funded by borrowing against the assets of the group with a financial assistance 'whitewash'.

Purchase of IT sector press cuttings agency
We acted for a longstanding press cuttings agency client in their expansion through acquisition of a small independent agency specialising in the IT sector. The potential consideration, depending upon future performance of the ongoing business of the target was £450,000.

Surveyors' business establishes Limited Liability Partnership
We acted for a new surveyors' partnership which was formed by exiting junior partners and associates from an established practice which was sold to a larger business. Our clients decided to set up the new practice using a limited liability partnership. This combines the advantages of self-employed partnership with limited personal liability, a more 'corporate' structure and public records.