CORPORATE AND FINANCE

Whether you are in the early discussions about company formation, need guidance on real estate, tax, governance, or are seeking to raise capital, Harcourt Stirling can provide you with bespoke, practical advice to help you realise your objectives. From financial institutions to investors, our representatives will apply their knowledge and experience to your unique vision and goals to find efficient and effective solutions to your need in ever changing circumstance.

Business Restructuring and Insolvency

Insolvency and restructuring are incredibly challenging and complex situations to navigate and finding solutions to them can be difficult to find. We can provide proactive, pragmatic and sensible advice to all stakeholders in restructuring and insolvency matters; from creditors to insolvency administrators to pension trustees and stressed financial institutions Harcourt Stirling can build the right team to help you find resolutions.
Some of the key areas we can assist you with are:

Transactional insolvency
Contentious insolvency
Corporate restructuring
Negotiation and realisation of assets
Exposures arising from insolvency and phoenixism
Administration of insolvent buisnesses and estates
Enforcement of creditor rights in insolvent situations

Solicitors providing legal advice on business restructuring

solicitors providing legal advice on digital asset like NFTs

Digital Assets and Blockchain

Blockchain technology is transforming the way markets are doing business as more and more sectors realise the potential it possesses. However as more institutions, financial and government, new laws and regulations are constantly being drafted to manage and regulate this landscape. Harcourt Stirling can provide your organisation with access to individuals with a deep knowledge of the blockchain and digital asset landscape to provide briefings and training sessions to help you reduce risk in financial transactions, defining ownership of NFTs or bringing transparency to a supply chain.

Investment Funds

In the competitive world of fundraising knowledge is key. Where to domicile? How to best structure your fund? What are the current market terms? How are the tax benefits changing? These among other questions can all have a significant impact on the legal requirements of your fund. Harcourt Stirling can provide you with insight that will leave you feeling informed and prepared not just on these questions but also on matters of fund reporting, conflicts of interest, co-investment and secondary rights.

solicitors providing legal advice on JV transactions

Joint Ventures

Whether to form a new entity, repurpose an existing one, or entering into contractual arrangements, we at Harcourt Stirling can help our clients identify the right structure for their purposes and ensure all the appropriate documentation is in place. We can assist you in establishing governance arrangement that whilst facilitating new relationships and building trust, also protect our clients’ position. From break ups and restructuring to continuing expansion Harcourt Stirling can be trusted to give you the correct advice.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Having the correct guidance through the complex procedure of corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions can be the difference between the success and failure. At Harcourt Stirling we know what matters commercially, and can assist in developing successful merger and acquisition strategies. We are able to offer a full range of legal capabilities that may be necessary during and acquisition or merger including anti-trust reviews, IP safeguards, and tax-efficiency structuring.