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Corporate Solicitors

Our corporate team gives clear, pragmatic and commercial advice. We combine these essentials with our commitment to delivering a first-rate, personalised and responsive service to our clients.

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"Well-resourced and knowledgeable corporate department providing clear, practical advice" The Legal 500 UK

We provide services to clients who wish to sell their business, raise capital for them, make acquisitions or investments, dispose of existing assets or enter into strategic partnerships. Our experience includes advising on corporate acquisitions, disposals and fundraisings, private equity investments and exits, management buy-outs and buy-ins, joint ventures, restructurings and reorganisations.

We work as an integrated team with specialists in other departments of the firm in order to provide the full complement of legal services and all-round technical expertise that our clients require. For international work, as we are independent, we are able to select and work with the best lawyers for the job in the jurisdictions where overseas advice is needed.

Our clients include domestic and international high-net-worth individuals, business owners, private and publically listed companies, groups and family offices. We have significant experience in acting for wealthy individuals in relation to their corporate law and business requirements, complementing the firm’s leading position for private client work.

We value long-term successful relationships with our clients, which is why we spend time getting to know their businesses and commercial objectives, so we can provide the right solutions to the issues that matter most to them. We provide advice on a full range of company and commercial law matters for many of our clients.

We have expertise advising clients who operate across a wide range of different industries and sectors including:

  • financial services
  • technology
  • professional services
  • manufacturing
  • hotels and leisure
  • real estate
  • publishing
  • fashion
  • media
  • sport
  • food and beverages
  • chemicals
  • automobiles
  • transport

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

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Sale of 5 star Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa to the Arora Hotel Group

Payne Hicks Beach advised its longstanding client and luxury hotel chain, Elite Hotels (Rotherwick) ...
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Fairfield sale of Fairfield Seismic Technologies

Payne Hicks Beach advised Fairfield Industries Incorporated, trading as Fairfield Geotechnologies (&...
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Sale of The Club Company to Epiris

Payne Hicks Beach advised the management team of The Club Company, the UK’s leading country club o...
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Refinancing of Major Hotels Group  

Payne Hicks Beach advised on a £55 million refinancing of a major UK hotels group by HSBC. Norton R...
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Sale of Syntec to Eckoh

Payne Hicks Beach acted for the shareholders of Syntec Holdings Limited (“Syntec”), a leading pr...
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FairfieldNodal acquisition of WGP Group Ltd

Payne Hicks Beach advised its existing client Fairfield Industries Incorporated, trading as Fairfiel...
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Sale of Utilities Service Provider Business

Payne Hicks Beach advised one of the founders of a leading national utilities service provider on th...
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Sale of DNAFit Life Sciences Limited to Prenetics Limited

Payne Hicks Beach advised on the sale of the entire issued share capital of its existing client, DNA...
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Bonnier launches start up Footnote Press

Payne Hicks Beach acted for Bonnier Books UK Group Holdings Limited (“Bonnier Books UK”) on its ...
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Bonnier sale of Totally Entwined Group

Payne Hicks Beach advised Bonnier Zaffre Limited, part of the Bonnier global media and publishing gr...
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ATC acquires part of Furniture For Businesses Limited

Payne Hicks Beach advised its long-standing client Loudspeaker Technology Limited (trading as ATC) o...
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Sale of the business and certain assets of Recruitment & Contractor Services Limited

Payne Hicks Beach advised joint liquidators from Quantuma LLP and Macintyre Hudson LLP on the sale o...
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Mercury Publicity acquires International Graphic Press

Payne Hicks Beach advised its existing client Mercury Publicity Limited (“Mercury”) on its acqui...
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Reorganisation of a Model Agency Business

Payne Hicks Beach advised a leading, London-based model agency on a reorganisation, involving the st...
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Reorganisation of a Farming Business

Payne Hicks Beach advised a long-established and highly successful farming business on a reorganisat...
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Reorganisation of DNA Fit Limited

Payne Hicks Beach advised DNA Fit Limited (“DNA Fit”) on a reorganisation involving its acquisit...
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ICICI Bank UK Plc’s loan to Lux International AG

Payne Hicks Beach advised ICICI Bank UK Plc (“ICICI”) on its provision of a multi-millio...
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LMT Southgate Holdings Limited’s refinancing by HSBC Bank Plc

Payne Hicks Beach advised LMT Southgate Holdings Limited (“Southgate”) on the refinancing of its...
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