Private M&A

We advise on the acquisition and disposal of private companies and businesses, from bilateral negotiations to competitive auction processes.

Our team works alongside Tax, Finance, Employment and Competition specialists to manage the full range of issues that arise in a private transaction, and we are experienced in transactions involving both strategic and financial buyers.

Experience

• Advising the shareholders of a consumer healthcare business on its sale to a global private equity firm

• Advising a strategic acquirer on its acquisition of a competitor's UK business

• Advising a founder-owned technology business on a majority sale to a growth investor

• Advising on a competitive auction process for the disposal of a manufacturing group