Reddings Corporate Law offer a wide range of legal services to ensure your client’s company is protected.
Whether you are dealing with a major company purchase or a small company formation we have the expertise to make sure legal obligations are fulfilled with the minimum fuss and expense.
Company and business purchase
The purchase (or sale) of a Company or business can be extremely demanding. Small oversights can have disproportionately adverse consequences. We offer many years of professional experience of such transactions, large and small.
Asking the right questions at the beginning of a business sale/purchase can save your client time, money and risk –
A prospective Buyer should be invited to consider the pros and cons of buying either shares in the target company or the business of the target company.
Buying; – as a “rule of thumb”, it is better for a buyer to buy the business of a target company, rather than the shares in the target company.
Selling; – at an early stage, a prospective Seller should investigate the source of the prospective Buyer’s funds for the purchase. If substantial funding is to be obtained from a financial institution, this may give rise to significant extra or duplicated investigation of the target company and extra negotiation of documentation. Both could substantially increase the Seller’s professional costs.
About
Reddings Corporate Law has handled successful company sales and purchases in many different areas of business :
Event Management
Healthcare Products
Hotels
Property Development
Tyre Sales
Freight Forwarding
Publishing
Nursing Care Agency
Marine Engineering
Debt Collection
Golf Courses
Chemical Products
Commercial Agreements – Joint Venture Agreements – Shareholder Agreements By advising fully and promptly you can “oil the wheels” of the negotiation process and actively assist in ensuring that a deal is successfully concluded. We have very considerable experience of setting up joint ventures and commercial arrangements from the small to the multi-million pound venture.
Company Procedures
If your client company wishes, for example, to purchase its own shares or remove an unwanted Director, we give detailed guidance upon the formalities required.
If your client company has been struck off the Register of Companies, we will advise upon the restoration procedure.
Company Reconstructions, Mergers and Demergers
Organising and advising upon the implementation of a company reconstruction, merger or demerger can be complex and is made the more difficult if you cannot escape from your telephone. We provide comprehensive advice as well as all of the documents, forms, minutes and other papers which you need to execute your client’s plans to the satisfaction of the Companies Registrar and the HMRC.
Loan Documents
We draft debentures and loan stock documents. See Case Studies
Charities
We have much experience of dealing with Charity Commission and the special needs of Charity Companies.
Find out more about the charity we support: www.houseofillustration.org.uk
Divorce and the Family Company
We can assist in the planning and documentation of apportionment of corporate assets upon separation and divorce. See Case Studies
THE SMALL JOBS
Company Formations
You may only want help with a straightforward company formation.
We form companies limited by shares, companies limited by guarantee, property management companies, charity companies, charity trading companies and companies set up for the running of clubs. We have advised leading building companies upon the content of Articles of Association for their property management companies. If you are not sure what you require, then telephone us.
Company Law for the Conveyancing Department
Property management companies which own or manage the freehold of blocks of flats are very common. However, not all are satisfactorily constituted. See the cautionary tale in our Case Studies.
Company Searches
We provide a Company Search service which is fast and economical and can be tailored to your particular requirements.
Changes in Company names, Share Capital and Articles
We do not make mountains out of molehills. We are happy to deal with changes of company names, the creation of different classes of share and alterations to Articles. We will advise you of the simplest method of achieving your clients’ requirements.
Company Secretarial Work
We provide a Company Secretarial service.
We take our cue from you.
You may use us as a consultant and sounding board, commercial legal department and as a registration agency.
All help is given in the utmost confidence. Whatever help we provide, our service will be backed by substantial, professional knowledge.
Whatever you require, you will receive a personal service. We will visit your offices to discuss your clients’ needs or we will advise upon your written instructions or over the telephone, by post, fax and e-mail.
We have a series of fixed charges for standard types of work and an hourly charging rate for other advice.
Please note that for some types of work we can only accept instructions from a Solicitor.
Contact
Reddings Corporate Law Limited, Reddings, Oakridge Lane, Sidcot, Winscombe, North Somerset. BS25 1LZ
