01
Shareholder and founder breakdowns
Separating interests while keeping the underlying business functioning.
Special Situations
Matters that cut across ownership, funding, contracts and dispute risk, and usually need to be resolved quickly.
Capabilities
What we advise on.
02
Restructurings
Reorganising ownership, debt, contracts or operations under commercial pressure.
03
Distressed transactions
Acquisitions, disposals and asset transfers where time and risk are compressed.
04
Defaults and enforcement risk
Assessing rights, exposure and options when obligations are not being met.
05
Rescue funding
Structuring bridge or protective capital alongside existing rights and obligations.
06
Governance crises
Board deadlock, contested authority and decision-making under scrutiny.
07
Legacy liabilities
Identifying, containing and resolving exposures inherited from earlier decisions.
08
Negotiated settlements
Documenting outcomes that hold once the immediate pressure has passed.
When we help
The situations we step into.
A
Shareholders have fallen out.
Commercial interests have diverged and the business still has to operate.
B
Funding or liquidity is tight.
Control, contractual rights and enforcement risk have to be considered together.
C
A counterparty has defaulted.
Options need assessing fast, with leverage and downside clearly understood.
D
A decision cannot wait.
Management needs judgement and support in days rather than weeks.
How we work
Legal advice built around the decision.
- 01
Understand
Start with the business objective, the commercial context and the decision at hand.
- 02
Prioritise
Separate the issues that affect value or execution from those that can be managed.
- 03
Structure
Translate priorities into a clear legal and negotiating framework.
- 04
Execute
Keep documentation, stakeholders and next steps moving towards the outcome.
Connected advice
Problems rarely stay in one practice area.
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