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Our corporate lawyers provide expert legal advice to manage legal risk and maximise returns as a genuine and trusted business partner for our clients.

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A well-developed growth strategy is important for any business looking to evolve and prosper. Organic growth in market share, geographic reach, product development and facilities is a natural part of business life, but growth also brings a wider range of legal decisions most owners and management teams face every day.

Whether you’re growing steadily through your existing operations, taking on investment to accelerate expansion, making a strategic acquisition, or moving into new markets, having an experienced legal team you trust is vital to making the right decisions when timescales are tight and the stakes are high.

We help ambitious business to grow and flourish both in the UK and worldwide.

Boyes Turner combines the level of expertise expected of City firms with a ‘more personal touch’.

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Business growth services

Business growth issues tend to arrive together rather than one at a time, we find that a business going through a growth phase are best served by a team that can move fluidly between corporate needs, commercial contracts, employment, property, and immigration, rather than having to brief multiple advisers separately. Our teams can support you with a full range of business services.

Commercial

Where commercial agreements — supplier, distribution, licensing, partnership that support your growth strategy are required our corporate and commercial teams will work closely together.

Corporate

Growth is rarely one single transaction, It tends to involve several legal considerations. Our corporate lawyers can support on acquisitions, governance, funding, investment, shareholder arrangements, international expansion and more.

Dispute Resolution

Believe it or not growth can create friction with existing contracts, suppliers, or shareholders. We have one of the largest litigation teams in the region to support you.

Employment & Immigration

Growth often means scaling teams, updating contracts and policies, and putting the right incentive structures in place to retain key people. Attracting talent to support growth, including sponsoring overseas workers where the skills you need aren’t available locally

Family Investment Companies (FICs)

Family business – there has been a rise in popularity of Family Investment Companies (FICs) as a tax-efficient tool for wealth and generational planning – especially if you are a high-net-worth individual.

Property

Where a business decides it needs to take on new premises, expanding existing sites, or restructuring how you occupy commercial property as your footprint grows.

Who we help

Whether you’re launching, scaling or looking ahead to your next chapter, our teams are built to support businesses like yours. 

Ambitious start-ups

Getting the foundations right from day one, from incorporation and shareholder agreements to protecting your IP.


Owner-managed businesses

Practical, commercially focused advice that understands the pressures of running your own company.

SMEs and scale-ups

Supporting the legal demands of growth: new contracts, new people, new markets.

UK and international corporates

Sophisticated, multi-disciplinary advice across sectors from tech and hospitality to healthcare, water and agriculture.

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Corporate Governance

We provide corporate governance and compliance services to a wide range of clients, from listed multinationals to enterprising start-ups, across a variety of industry sectors.
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Employee ownership trusts (EOTs)

Our expert EOT solicitors provide trusted guidance and comprehensive support throughout every stage of establishing an Employee Ownership Trust.

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Funding & investment

Our experienced solicitors provide strategic and effective corporate funding advice on all aspects of venture capital and equity fundraising.
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Joint venture agreements

We advise businesses of all sizes, from entrepreneurial start-ups and growing local businesses to listed multinationals — on the negotiation, preparation and structuring of joint venture arrangements.

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Restructuring a business

Reorganisations could be a pre-cursor to a sale of all or part of the group’s business, or a post-acquisition process. Benefits include the simplification of reporting and a reduced cost and compliance burden.

 

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Shareholder agreements

Our corporate lawyers have extensive experience of advising businesses of all sizes, drafting clear, practical, and tailored agreements that reflect commercial objectives whilst minimising risk.

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Boyes Turner is consistently ranked as a leading law firm by top legal directories Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.

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Positive experience

We were at crossroads with our business – and the information given by Matthew and Duncan was invaluable to us – regarding how we move forward with plans for our retirement. Information was given to us in a straightforward way which was easy to understand and we were given lots of ideas on how to restructure things that would work for us!
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Superb service.

Superb service. Hugely knowledgeable, ever accessible, a great experience. Thankyou!
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A very trusted partner to us

Chris Dobson is a very reactive, commercial, and skilled lawyer who helped us on many M&A deals last year through a pragmatic, balanced approach. A very trusted partner to us whom we can rely on for even the most complex & difficult transactions.
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