Corporate Law
Our Corporate team is highly experienced across a full ambit of corporate transactional work and across a wide range of industry sectors.
This enables us to provide our clients with solutions which are proportionate to the risk posed to them as well as ensuring that they are within budget. Our tailored service provides our clients with invaluable assistance in structuring a deal, rather than merely just attending to the legal process and documentation. A corporate lawyer needs to be a trusted adviser who can add value where at all possible; we do that, which is why our clients stay with us.
We provide our clients with a full range of corporate work, including:
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate Governance & Advisory Services
- Corporate Insolvency
- Corporate Lending
- Corporate Restructuring
- Disposals
- Employment Share Schemes / Set up an EMI Scheme
- Franchise Solicitors
- Financial Services
- Joint Ventures
- Management Buyouts / Buy-ins
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Partnerships and LLPs
- Private Equity
- SEIS & EIS Investment Schemes
- Shareholders Agreements
- Transaction due diligence
Our team are highly ranked in the UK’s major legal directories, Chambers UK Guide and The Legal 500, with offices in Camberley, Wokingham and London.
Many of the transactions that we advise on have an international dimension and as a recommended referral partner of the International Referral Group, we advise overseas clients with business interests within the UK and have established links in the major jurisdictions around the world so that we can refer our clients to suitable overseas specialist lawyers where appropriate.
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They are quick, constructive and flexible; instead of saying “we can’t do that” their general attitude was always “how can we make this work?”. They didn’t over-complicate, and all their advice on risk was placed squarely in a real-world commercial context. We would recommend them highly.
Corporate Team
- All departments
- Agricultural Law
- Brexit
- Careers
- Co Co - Employee Share Schemes
- Co Co - Recovery & Insolvency
- Co Co - Restructuring
- Co Co Corporate Governance
- Co Co Corporate lending
- Co Co Financial Services
- Co Co Franchising
- Co Co GDPR
- Co Co in-house legal support
- Co Co International Contracts
- Co Co M&A's
- Co Co MBOs & MBIs
- Co Co Partnership and LLPs
- Co Co Regulatory, Compliance & Competition
- Co Co Shareholders Agreements
- Co Co Terms and Conditions
- Co Co- Intellectual Property
- CoCo - Banking and Finance
- CoCo - New Businsess
- CoCo Competition Law
- CoCo Consumer Law
- CoCo Data Protection - Marketing
- CoCo Data, IT & Technology
- Commercial Law
- Commercial Property
- Construction
- Corporate & Commercial
- Corporate Law
- Debt Recovery
- Dispute Resolution
- Disputes - Business
- Disputes - Declarations of trust
- Disputes - Probate and inheritance
- Disputes - Professional negligence
- Disputes - Restrictive Covenants
- Disputes - Shareholders & Partnership
- Disputes - Tenants in Residential Property
- Disputes - Wills, trusts & probate disputes
- Disputes and Small Claims
- Disputes Construction
- Disputes with Co-owners
- Divorce
- Employee - Termination
- Employer - Termination
- Employment
- Employment - Business protection
- Employment - Collective consultations
- Employment - Contracts, services, consultancy
- Employment - Employee benefits
- Employment - Employee Procedures
- Employment - Equality, discrimination and harassment
- Employment - Family Friendly Rights
- Employment - GDPR and Data Protection
- Employment - Post employment obligations
- Employment - Redundancy & Reorganisation
- Employment - Settlement Agreements
- Employment - Tribunal Claims
- Employment - TUPE
- Employment - Wages, holiday and sick pay
- Employment - Workers rights
- Employment Tribunal claims
- Estate Administration
- Expat Legal Services
- Family Law
- Financial Services
- GDPR
- Help to Buy
- Immigration law
- International Legal Services
- Key Property Contacts
- Land and Property Disputes
- Land, development and construction
- Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Leasehold
- Licensing Law
- Money, Tax and Inheritance
- New Build Conveyancing
- Private Wealth and Inheritance
- Professional Negligence
- Property Finance
- Property Law
- Residential Property
- Residential Property - Completions
- Residential Property - Shared Ownership
- Trainee Solicitor
- Wills, Trusts & Probate
Insights & News
New JCT forms of building contract, 2024 Editions expected soon
The JCT announced at an event on 16 June 2023 that new editions of its contracts will be published in 2024.
Sold to an EOT – Who can be a trustee?
When you’re selling your shares to an Employee Ownership Trust, thought will need to be given to how the trust will be run after the sale has completed.
Selling your business – is an EOT the answer?
You may have heard of EOTs, and how they are an option for business owners to realise the value of their business.
Register of Overseas Annual Update Statement
For any overseas entity which has registered on the Register of Overseas Entities, it’s soon time to file their first annual update statement.
Reducing risk by conducting a Commercial Legal Audit
In the fast-paced business environment a company may experience challenges which could ultimately lead to legal risk.
The UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement and Government Procurement
The UK and Australia’s economic ties are set to become even stronger with the recent signing of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
Herrington Carmichael offers high-quality, jargon-free legal advice and representation, combined with very high levels of legal expertise. The firm believes in the traditional values of excellent service and value for money. Its clients appreciate its innovative, proactive and friendly approach to all their legal concerns.
Award winning legal advice
Herrington Carmichael offers legal advice to UK and International businesses as well as individuals and families. Rated as a ‘Leading Firm 2023’ by the legal directory Legal 500 and listed in The Times ‘Best Law Firms 2023’. Herrington Carmichael has offices in London, Farnborough, Reading, and Ascot.








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