Business Sales and Acquisitions: from HilliersHRW Solicitors

If you are contemplating a business sale or acquisition you need to speak to your professional advisers at the outset. Both your solicitor and your accountant have important roles to play in the transaction. They should be working together with you as a team, with each of them having defined areas of responsibility.

At HilliersHRW, our Commercial Team can assist both vendors and purchasers to ensure that the transaction goes as smoothly as possible from beginning to end. Not only will we advise in connection with the business issues themselves but also all of the associated matters. These will often relate to business premises, property or planning, in which case our experienced Commercial Conveyancing Department will be to hand.

We can assist sole traders, partnerships, companies and LLPs in the sale and purchase of business assets alone or deal with complete businesses as going concerns. If the transaction involves a limited company, a share sale and purchase may be the route to take. Whatever the nature or scale of the transaction we will liaise with our client's other advisers to ensure that issues like tax and pension schemes will all be considered properly.

Please appreciate that as a purchaser or a vendor, you will have different viewpoints and objectives. In practice it will be the relative bargaining positions of each side which will determine the shape of the final agreement.

Contact:
Paul Hillier. Bedford Office: 01234 858000. email
Martin Addrison. Stevenage Office: 01438 346000. email

	Company & Business Law Contracts & Agreements Directors' Duties Intellectual Property Business Partnerships Business Sales/ Acquisitions Insolvency Commercial Property Agricultural Matters	If you are contemplating a business sale or acquisition you need to speak to your professional advisers at the outset. Both your solicitor and your accountant have important roles to play in the transaction. They should be working together with you as a team, with each of them having defined areas of responsibility. At HilliersHRW, our Commercial Team can assist both vendors and purchasers to ensure that the transaction goes as smoothly as possible from beginning to end. Not only will we advise in connection with the business issues themselves but also all of the associated matters. These will often relate to business premises, property or planning, in which case our experienced Commercial Conveyancing Department will be to hand. We can assist sole traders, partnerships, companies and LLPs in the sale and purchase of business assets alone or deal with complete businesses as going concerns. If the transaction involves a limited company, a share sale and purchase may be the route to take. Whatever the nature or scale of the transaction we will liaise with our client's other advisers to ensure that issues like tax and pension schemes will all be considered properly. Please appreciate that as a purchaser or a vendor, you will have different viewpoints and objectives. In practice it will be the relative bargaining positions of each side which will determine the shape of the final agreement. Contact: Paul Hillier. Bedford Office: 01234 858000. email Martin Addrison. Stevenage Office: 01438 346000. email Back to top

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