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Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions Overview

What We Do

The Company and Commercial Group at Cubism Law has extensive domestic and international experience in the legal aspects of private and public markets corporate finance (including both debt and securities finance structuring) and in private and public company acquisitions, takeovers, sales, mergers and restructurings of businesses and their ownership interests.

Whether you are a growing company seeking to enter new markets by way of acquisition or wishing to become a publicly traded company; or an entrepreneur / owner managed business considering undertaking an exit strategy, we can help you make your deal happen effectively and efficiently.

Cubism Law takes a highly commercial approach to matters, offering clients advice on the most practical and cost effective methods of achieving their objectives.

Areas Of Expertise

We provide a comprehensive offering but would highlight our services in the following four areas:

1. Mergers & Acquisitions (and Other Business and Corporate Structure Transactions)

2. Private Securities Finance (Venture Capital, Private Equity & Joint Ventures)

3. Public Securities Markets Finance (Flotations, IPOs & Secondary Fundraisings)

4. Debt Finance (Acquisition, Trade and Structured Banking and Other Facilities) & Taking Security

Representative Work Includes:

• The acquisition for an American private equity house of the worldwide manufacturing operations of a UK FTSE 250 listed company.

• The sale of an actuarial and pensions consultancy (a plc.) to a FTSE 100 company.

• Acting for the management team in the restructuring of the equity financing arrangements for a venture capital fund majority owned worldwide travel business with a EUR €120 million turnover.

• Advising a seed capital fund upon revisions to its limited partnership structure, following the receipt of a new round of H.M. Government funding for technologies in the public sector - taking its asset base to GBP £10 million.

• Legal work relating to new admissions, share issuances and transactions by companies admitted to trading upon the LSE’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and PLUS Markets.

• A large number of trade and acquisition finance facilities for the London, Mumbai and various other worldwide branch offices of the largest privately owned bank in India (including the finance for the £80m+ acquisition of a well-known tea brand business from a FTSE 250 listed company - and subsequent finance for that business’ merger with another well-known tea brand business).

We are always happy to provide prospective clients with further details of our particular relevant experience (where we are not bound by confidentiality) & testimonials as to our services; and to have initial discussions regarding our prospective advice and assistance upon a no-obligation basis.

Dan Johnson in a 2012 interview with Corporate Finance TV discusses the practical issues of legal process in a corporate finance transaction.

Contact Us

If you would like to speak to our Corporate Law team please call us on +44 (0) 20 7831 0101 or use the 'Get In touch' form on this page to send us your enquiry and some initial details.