Expert M&A lawyers
Blake Morgan is an expert corporate and M&A law firm with nationwide offices. Our award-winning team of lawyers are specialist transaction lawyers and are recognised as leaders in their field advising on cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and private equity backed transactions.
Blake Morgan is a full-service law firm and can call upon an array of corporate support specialists including those with extensive experience in banking and finance, pensions, intellectual property, technology, tax, regulatory competition, employment, real estate and environmental issues.
We handle over 100 transactions in each year, with deal values typically ranging from the small, sub-£5m, to the very large, £100m +.
Mergers, acquisitions and disposals – our main areas of expertise
Our team is acknowledged within the legal industry and in the independent legal directories, as providing a first-class level of service across a wide range of transactions, such as:
Private company acquisitions and disposals
Our teams have significant experience in advising all relevant stakeholders in respect of corporate transactions. Our experts offer commercial and pragmatic advice and support to ensure our clients' commercial objectives are met and terms are properly documented. Transactions also commonly include a private equity, external capital or debt funding element and our M&A team work with our specialist Private Equity, Banking and Finance teams to provide the relevant support and advice.
Business transfers
We are experienced in advising on all aspects of business transfers, including dealing with pre-completion transfers of assets or restructuring exercises, tax issues, TUPE and employee consultations, real estate issues and third party consents and assignments.
Reorganisations and mergers
Our teams have significant experience in advising on complex group reorganisation and restructuring transactions across multiple jurisdictions.
Joint ventures
Our teams regularly advise on corporate and commercial joint venture transactions, including advising on the preparation of joint venture agreements, commercial arrangements, financing and tax structuring.
Due diligence
Our team of legal specialists enable us to undertake comprehensive due diligence exercises on behalf of our clients, including vendors, purchasers and funders. The firm has sufficient depth of resource to ensure that due diligence exercises are concluded within the requisite timescales using our in-house secure online data room and document sharing facilities to ensure that confidentiality and information security is maintained at every stage.
International transactions
Blake Morgan is a member of TAGLaw, which is a global alliance of vetted, high quality, independent law firms with more than 140 member firms based in nearly 100 countries. Its 7500+ lawyers work out of 300 offices to provide a full range of legal services to clients all over the world, meaning that cross-border and international transactions can be managed via our own network of trusted connections.
Our clients
Blake Morgan has an international portfolio of multinational client companies (public and private), SMEs, owner managed businesses and start-ups with a need for high-quality corporate and M&A support and advice. Blake Morgan also regularly advises funders, lenders and institutional investors and their portfolio in connection with M&A and the implementation of buy and build strategies.
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