Patrick Peake of our corporate team recently wrote a blog for M&A experts, Evolution Complete Business Sales. The article highlights how a legal audit can help you ready your business for sale and also reduce the likelihood of a potential deal falling through. If you’re interested in a legal…
The global growth of Waterfront client, Taxibeat, continued recently with a USD $4 million investment by Hummingbird Ventures, a London based venture capital fund for high-growth digital media and software companies. Waterfront partner Matt Cunningham, assisted by Patrick Peake and Katie Broadley, advised on all English law aspects to the deal. Nayia Antoniou advised…
Employee share schemes allow employees of both quoted and private companies to share in the success of that company. Evidence suggests that by incentivising the workforce through share schemes, employees are more likely to be motivated to work harder. They are used to attract new employees as well…
We’ve set out some brief highlights from our last twelve months. When reflecting on 2013, Waterfront’s Founding Partner, Carole Hailey, said: “We’ve always believed that our clients are a weathervane for the economy as a whole and it’s been exciting to see the number of our SME clients…
Share buybacks enable a company to purchase its own shares from one or more of its shareholders. This can have several advantages including returning surplus money to shareholders, increasing liquidity and allowing for the removal of a dissident shareholder who wishes to sell but the other shareholders cannot afford to…