Mergers & acquisitions

Our team understands and advises on a wide range of transactions, including:

• private share acquisitions and disposals
• private business acquisitions and disposals
• the acquisition and disposal of discrete assets
• auction sales
• share buy-backs
• public takeovers.

We also have extensive experience at the pre-transaction stage, advising our clients as to the structure of the transaction, recording that structure and principal terms in heads of terms and undertaking complex pre-sale or purchase restructuring (including asset hive-ups, hive-downs and hive-outs).

We routinely provide support and advice in relation to mergers and acquisitions activity across many different sectors.

Our team works closely with other external professional advisers in relation to taxation issues to ensure that consideration payments are structured as tax-efficiently as is possible. We also advise in relation to the incentivisation of vendors after completion by way of deferred consideration payments, shares as consideration and loan notes.

Whether you are buying or selling the whole or any part of a business or company, whether or not you have engaged corporate finance advisers, and whether or not you require assistance with the legal due diligence process or access to virtual data rooms, we can manage your transaction through to a prompt and successful conclusion.

Thomson Snell & Passmore is a member of the Kent Corporate Finance Alliance.

For further information please contact one of the team.