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Sales and Acquisitions
Introduction
Buying or selling a business or shares in a company can be a detailed and complex process. A Buyer will want to have a full understanding of the target business and have protection for unknown liabilities. Sellers will want to limit their liability to specific considered matters. Ashfords have vast experience of local, national and international business and company sale and purchase transactions. With such wide ranging experience, our lawyers are able to manage the process under set timeframes and lead negotiations regarding the allocation of risk between the parties.
As well as transaction structuring and negotiation, our lawyers are able to assist the Buyer's due diligence process in relation to the target business and advise on specific Buyer protection warranties. When acting for Sellers, our lawyers can advise on Seller protection provisions in the transaction agreements and disclosure of key matters against warranties to limit the Sellers' liability.
Work handled includes:
- Sale or Acquisition of Shares in a Company
- Sale or Acquisition of Business and Assets
- Management Buy Out (MBO)
- Management Buy In (MBI)
- Company Mergers
Recent work undertaken includes:
- Acting for Schlumberger Oilfield UK Plc in the share purchase of Insensys Oil and Gas Limited
- Advising various partners of Hartnell Taylor Cook Project Management Partnership on the sale by way of buy back of its shares in APS Project Management Limited
- Advising on the sale of shares in Preferred Medical Ltd and Preferred Medical IT Ltd to Chase Templeton Group
- Advising on the sale of entire share capital of Healthskills Limited to Elision Health Limited
- Advising on the management buy-out of the data processing and analysis business of Systematics International Limited.
