Buying or Selling a Business

If you are thinking selling your business, we can help you get it ready for sale by working through the most common areas where due diligence derails a transaction, such as share transfers not being recorded, intellectual property not being owned by the correct party and agreements you can’t terminate or assign.

If you are buying a business, we can help you look under the bonnet of the business by undertaking due diligence for you either as external advisors or acting for you in your business purchase.

What we can do for you and your business:

1. A pre-sale audit to assess:
   • what contracts will need to be assigned or transferred; what staff issues might arise
   • where rights sit and where they should be
   • reviewing of your statutory books and records to ensure they are up to date and accurate
   • staff matters
2. Draft and negotiate the share sale or purchase agreement, paying particular attention to the warranties you can give or that as a purchaser, you need to get, as well as structuring payments via earn-outs, share swaps or cash consideration.
3. Undertake due diligence as part of sale or purchase or provide specialist advice or support for particular areas of due diligence concerning intellectual property matters and customer contracts.