Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Whether you are preparing for your exit, or looking to make a strategic acquisition, our team understand how to get the deal done. We act as a genuine business partner to our clients, attempting to assist beyond the pure legal wording, imparting our hard earned experience, in order to allow a seamless transaction.

Our lawyers have worked in corporate teams at large acquisitive multi-nationals, as well as in SMEs that have gone through an exit.  In addition to M&A acquisition documentation, we also have the unique value add of understanding the challenges of implementation, with respect to merging the acquired company into an organisation.

Our experience spans both domestic (UK) and cross-border private M&A deals, as well as joint ventures. Our client base is made up of scaling SME technology companies, with a particular focus, and expertise, in FinTech and B2B SaaS applications.

Our wider Waterfront team also enable us to support you with respect to any employment, immigration, IP and real estate aspects of your deal.

Examples of the types of matters that we advise on are:

• Pre-due diligence audit
• Deal structure
• Pre-contract documentation (including confidentiality agreements and heads of terms)
• Due diligence
• Acquisition documentation (including purchase agreements and disclosure letters)
• Post-completion matters (including integration)
• All related employment law issues (including TUPE)
• All related data protection matters

If you are looking for a specialist technology M&A lawyer, please do get in contact with us.

For information about recent deals we have advised on please see our corporate deals page.