Restructuring a business lawyers
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Business restructuring covers a wide range of legal and commercial processes used to reorganise how a company or group operates — from streamlining a group’s corporate structure, to renegotiating debt, to preparing a business for sale, growth, or a change in ownership.
Restructuring is rarely driven by a single motive. It might be a response to financial pressure, a step taken ahead of an acquisition or disposal, a way of separating profitable divisions from underperforming ones, or simply a matter of good housekeeping as a business matures and its original structure no longer fits how it operates.
Whatever the driver, restructuring touches company law, contract law, employment law, property, tax, and — in some cases — insolvency law, all at once. Getting it right calls for a team that can join up those disciplines rather than treat them as separate workstreams.
Boyes Turner combines the level of expertise expected of City firms with a ‘more personal touch’.
Business restructuring services
Business restructuring can often require the support of more than one type of lawyer and team. As a full service law firm Boyes Turner is well positioned to support as we cover a full range of business lawyers with specialist expertise within each team.
Commercial
Where key contracts need to be assigned, transferred, or renegotiated as part of the restructuring our corporate and commercial teams will work closely together.
Corporate
Our corporate team has extensive experience supporting through restructuring projects of all sizes. We take the time to understand the objectives behind the restructuring — not just the legal mechanics — so the structure we help you put in place actually works for how your business operates
Disputes
Renegotiating the terms of existing debts, agreeing standstill arrangements with lenders, or restructuring liabilities to give a business breathing room and a viable path forward.
Employment law
Where changes to group structure affect employees, or trigger TUPE, change of contracts, terminations, redundancies and possible training needs. Our employment lawyers will be on hand to offer necessary support.
Insolvency & business support
Financial distress determines what is the most appropriate support and restructuring or insolvency mechanism and so the sooner action is taken, the more options are likely to be available.
Property
Where a business reorganisation requires the need to transfer property interests our commercial property and property disputes teams are on hand to advise.
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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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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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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