Our team offer comprehensive support throughout the lifecycle of the deal
Mergers, acquisitions, and disposals are complex and often transformative transactions that require careful legal guidance to ensure success.
Our dedicated solicitors specialise in providing comprehensive support throughout the lifecycle of these deals, from strategic planning and due diligence to negotiation and completion.
Whether you’re a buyer, seller or investor, we can advise on the unique challenges and opportunities involved in reshaping business structures. We focus on minimising risk and optimising value.
Our team of experienced commercial solicitors deliver tailored solutions to help you achieve your commercial objectives with confidence and precision.
Due diligence is a critical step when buying or selling a business. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the target company’s financial, legal, and operational health.
For buyers, due diligence helps uncover potential risks, liabilities or hidden issues that could affect the value or success of the acquisition.
For sellers, it ensures transparency and prepares them to address concerns, enhancing buyer confidence and negotiation leverage.
Our experienced solicitors can guide buyers, sellers and investors through the due diligence process to safeguard the transaction and to lay the foundation for a successful and informed transaction.
The JPP Law team, has vast amounts of experience in this arena will do what it takes to get the deal over the line. We are accessible, responsive and commercially astute.
From drafting and reviewing contracts to conducting due diligence and managing compliance, our expertise safeguards against potential risks and disputes.
Our skilled team will facilitate smooth negotiations, protect your rights, and ensure all aspects of the deal are addressed and properly documented. We will ensure the transaction is legally sound and aligned with your best interests.
Share Sale or Purchase
Share sales involve transferring ownership of a company, including its assets, liabilities, and ongoing obligations, making it crucial to address complex legal and financial considerations.
Our skilled commercial solicitors will conduct thorough due diligence, draft and review agreements and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
We will also provide valuable advice on warranties, indemnities, and tax implications, protecting your interests and minimising risks.
Engaging a knowledgeable solicitor for a share sale or purchase is vital to ensure a seamless and secure transaction. JPP Law can help.
Mergers involve the consolidation of ownership and operations, often requiring complex negotiations, regulatory approvals, and detailed agreements.
Our skilled commercial solicitors will conduct due diligence to uncover potential risks, draft and review the necessary legal documentation, and, alongside other professionals such as accountants, address tax and compliance considerations.
Our expertise will help to mitigate disputes, safeguard stakeholder interests and streamline the merger process, allowing you and your team to focus on achieving the strategic goals of the newly unified business.
Management Buyout
JPP Law’s commercial solicitors regularly advise on management buyout deal structures, ensuring the transaction aligns with legal and regulatory requirements. We will draft, review, and negotiate critical documents such as share purchase agreements, financing contracts and shareholder agreements.
We will also support the MBO team through due diligence to identify potential legal risks and advise on mitigating them. We can also lead negotiations on complex issues such as balancing the interests of the management team, existing shareholders and any external financiers.
When you instruct JPP Law to guide you through a management buyout you can expect legally sound transaction that will address any potential conflicts of interest and minimise risk.
Management Buy-In
A management buy-in (MBI) involves an external management team purchasing and taking control of an existing business, which presents unique legal and commercial challenges.
Our experienced solicitors will structure the deal, negotiate contracts and drafts key legal documents, including share purchase agreements and financing arrangements. We will also provide strategic advice on regulatory compliance, employment matters and work alongside tax advisors and accountants to seamlessly consider tax and financial implications.
A skilled solicitor is essential to ensure the transaction is legally sound and strategically advantageous, a mix which sets a foundation for long-term success.
JPP Law can help.
Seller Finance
In seller financing (also known as vendor financing), the seller extends credit to the buyer to purchase the business. The buyer then repays the seller over time, typically with interest. This arrangement can bring many benefits. It can increase the number of potential buyers, offer more negotiable terms and potentially expedite the buying process.
However a business sale with seller finance is not without complexities which means instructing a commercial solicitor with experience and expertise in this type of sale is essential. You will require strategic advice and great negotiation skills.
JPP Law specialises in advising both buyers and sellers through every stage of the process ensuring that all legal and financial elements are clearly defined and effectively managed.
What Our Clients Say
“JPP Law were nothing short of amazing throughout the sale of our business.
The team guided us through the whole process and we really felt comfortable with them at the wheel. Their work and passionate ‘motorway’ negotiating means we are as protected as much as possible and have excellent terms. The due diligence questions and all the other stuff felt like an endless experience but JPP’s patience and guidance was invaluable.
The whole team were brilliant and a credit to each other.”
Mark Bonnici
We have engaged with JPP Law on multiple occasions, for matters relating to contract law, employment law, IP, as well as acquisitions. Unlike traditional firms, Mark and his team’s capability is quite broad and diverse, which is exactly what we require as an SME! Every single member of the JPP team we have worked with has been incredibly approachable, attentive, and have gone the extra mile to explain complex legal matters in simple terms, whilst mindful about costs involved. I would genuinely recommend them, and reach out, even if you have an existing relationship with a law firm.
Georgios Michalakidis Technical Director, Blue Tea Software
“JPP Law helped us with the acquisition of our company. A super friendly team who help explain M&A legal language in simple terms, always responsive on emails and very impressed with the full team being on hand during the early hours of the morning during the final signing of the deal. I would highly recommend JPP and will certainly use them again in the future.”
Mark Byrne Digital 22
”We cannot thank you enough for the hard work, patience, humour, diplomacy and professional yet highly personal approach with which you handled a most challenging negotiation for us.”
Sylvie Verinder Tumblebug Ltd
”Mark Glenister and his team were recommended to us when we needed legal support for our first investment round. Throughout the process the team at JPP Law made a complex process seem simple. They were incredibly supportive, responsive, accessible and they exceeded our expectations on timelines continuously. If you are looking for a law firm that feels like an extension of your team, wants you to succeed and is fully behind you, then JPP Law are the legal team for you.”
Martin O’Donnell DebtStream
”JPP helped with a number of complex operations related to our business, including a merger between our Spanish and our British businesses, the issuing of share options for our team and more importantly, the sale of our company in 2021. The quality of the work was impeccable, as well as the practical advising and the personal and close treatment. JPP get the job done and will go above and beyond to do it on a timely manner, making you relaxed about it along the way thanks to their professionalism and advising capability.”
Felipe Polo Co-Founder of GuideSmiths
”When you’re a founder you don’t want robotic advice and clock watchers. You need legal support that understands how much your business means personally and how the right advice can make a huge difference to how mergers, shareholder agreements and legal matters can impact you one, two or five years down the line. This experience and expertise, coupled with a caring approach from JPP had a beneficial and positive impact for the GuideSmiths team.”
Glenn O’Grady Former CEO of GuideSmiths
”Lawyers can be perceived as impersonal and dispassionate but this wasn’t the case with JPP. Mark Glenister the team are caring people by nature and it pervades throughout the JPP team. JPP Law supported GuideSmiths from soon after it was founded in 2014 right through to completion of the sale of the company in 2021. Throughout our dealings with them I knew with absolute confidence that JPP had the best interests of GuideSmiths and the founders at heart at all times.”
Glenn O’Grady Former CEO of GuideSmiths
“There is a moment within every start-up company when you need a lawyer.
Ideally someone pragmatic, insightful and responsive. Thank heavens we found Mark. He combines sound legal advice and commercial awareness with a priceless ability to reply to an email or take a call there and then. He has kept us on the straight and narrow, saved us time and money. On top of that is a thoroughly nice person to deal with. That puts him in the top echelon of legal advisors.”
Peter Lilley Co-Founder at iGeolise Ltd
What to Expect from an Introductory Call
We invite you to book an introductory call with one of our commercial solicitors. During the call we will listen to your requirements and likely provide some initial free advice. If you do need further legal advice we will follow up the call with a written, no obligation quote for you to consider.
The call will also provide you with the opportunity to assess how the JPP Law team operate. In terms of communication style, we aim to explain complex legal concepts in simple terms and try to be proactive with our advice – even during a free introductory call. We believe it’s important to have a good professional rapport with your data protection solicitor which is why the introductory call is so invaluable.
