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Corporate and commercial law

Corporate and commercial law
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Running a business brings many challenges and opportunities. Some will be relatively simple to manage in-house, but others will be more complex and it is these transactions that can benefit from sound legal advice and an expert, external viewpoint. Clarke Willmott’s team of highly experienced commercial and corporate solicitors act for businesses of all sizes to make things as straightforward as possible.

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Simon Thomas

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Bristol
Simon helps businesses and their owners with their Corporate legal issues, advising on business structuring, funding and M&A transactions.
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Supreme Court judgment: FCA’s business interruption insurance test case

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The judgment should be welcomed by policy holders as it establishes a higher degree of clarity as to how certain key policy terms and conditions should be interpreted both by insurance companies and by the lower courts.

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Corporate mergers and acquisitions

Corporate and commercial law
Legal Services

Buying or selling a business can be a complex process with a number of important decisions to be made along the way. There are many legal, financial considerations and the right legal advice can help a business make the most of a merger or acquisition transaction and ensure the deal runs as smoothly as possible.

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Corporate restructuring, reorganisations & demergers

Corporate and commercial law
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There are many reasons why a company may wish to restructure its share capital or ownership structure, whether that be as part of a future sale strategy or to facilitate additional funding coming into the business. Clarke Willmott’s corporate team has extensive experience of all aspects of restructuring and demergers, from advising on solutions to meet your business goals to drafting the necessary agreements.

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Debt recovery

Debt recovery
Legal Services

We work with clients of all sizes, including large organisations that need support recovering debts on a regular basis such as government departments, local authorities, property management companies, utility companies, insurance companies, commercial businesses and FCA regulated companies.

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Failure to Abide by Court Rules Means That a Judicial Review Claim Fails at the First Hurdle: Case Study

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Property litigation
The importance of strictly complying with deadlines and the Court rules has been highlighted again in what the Judge described as an “unusual” case in ETM Contractors v Bristol City Council and Esteban Investments Limited [2024] EWHC 2263 (Admin).

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Social housing providers

Social housing providers
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Our national team of specialist social housing solicitors is one of the largest in the UK, acting for over 100 Registered Providers, including several G15 members.

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Franchising

Legal Services

Clarke Willmott provides a complete legal service to franchisors and franchisees across a broad range of industry sectors, including Retail and Leisure, Hospitality and Care.

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