Corporate & Business Law

How can we help you?

Today every area of corporate and business life is affected by law and compliance. The ever increasing impact of regulation, the emergence of the wider-reaching market place, the increasing pace of technological development and the complexities of acquiring and managing business assets all serve to confront owners and managers of businesses daily with new legal challenges. The traditional legal concerns of a small business and the regulatory complexities and other problems of larger businesses are all addressed by lawyers involved in the broadly based corporate department of our firm.

We can advise business clients in all stages of their development from their very beginning through their growth both organically and by mergers and acquisitions. We assist in advising on the structure of new business entities, their representation through funding and development as well as assistance through our relationships with financial institutions including banking and other agencies who are able to provide debt and equity funding for growing enterprises.

As part of this broadly based advisory role we have specialist units in such areas as intellectual property and information technology, mergers and acquisitions, reconstructions and insolvency, competition law, banking and employee benefits. In addition, because of our long-standing association with the North Sea oil and gas industry, we have developed a specialist unit which is focused on the needs of oil and gas clients dealing with the regulatory framework and documentation affecting the upstream area of the industry.

We have considerable strength in depth in our corporate and business practice, not just in terms of our emphasis upon personal advisory skills but also in terms of the experience and expertise which only a broadly resourced law firm can provide.