CHARLES LAW FIRM

Our core areas of legal advice and assistance services – cover business law aspects and issues relating to:- + Business Ownership, Management and Profit Share Arrangements (Inc. Incentivisation Arrangements) Comprehensive involvement with all forms of business-related structuring (and restructuring) arrangements, including Shareholders Agreements (plus Articles of Association and other formats of business governance bye-laws); plus Share Option Schemes (Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) Plans, and Other Staff Incentivisation Schemes and Arrangements). + Mergers And Acquisitions (‘M & A Deals’) – Business And Corporate Structure-Based Transactions Extensive involvement with both domestic and cross-border focussed business transactions, including public and private company acquisitions, sales/disposals, takeovers, mergers, de-mergers, reorganisations and various other corporate actions (on the buy, sell and intermediary side). + Private Securities Finance (Venture Capital & Private Equity) We also regularly act for management teams and investee companies in receipt of such finance (especially crowd-funding, and ‘business-angel’ investments under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), as well as from Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and venture capital/private equity funds.

In addition, we have considerable experience in the formation, evolution and dissolution of joint venture arrangements (using a wide range of structures and methodologies – as utilised both in the U.K. and various other worldwide/international jurisdictions).

+ Partnerships Legal advice upon and assistance with Partnerships, Limited Partnerships (LPs), Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) and all other forms of business entities – Formed (and existing) both under British and other jurisdictions. + Public Securities And Markets Finance (Plus Financial Services Regulation) Considerable involvement with flotations, IPOs, secondary fundraisings and other arrangements for the admission of securities to trading on public securities markets (both in London and on other global stock exchanges); together with ongoing regulatory and transactional advice and assistance to participants in such financial markets (of all descriptions).

Debt Finance (Including Banking) And Security Arrangements (Plus Restructuring And Insolvency) Significant involvement with a range of structured finance facilities (with related security arrangements) on behalf of lenders and other debt finance providers (of all types) – Plus the experience of acting for borrowers. In addition, we frequently advise clients on business (& related personal) insolvency and restructuring issues.

Major ongoing involvement with preparing, reviewing and amending business contracts of all manner and description, covering numerous agreements covering myriad areas of trading and commerce, including Advertising and Marketing, Agency, Bailment and Leasing, Betting and Gaming, Competition, Confidentiality, Consumer, Consultancy (& Service Agreements = Employment), Data Protection, Distribution, E-commerce, EU-law, Exclusion of Liability, Franchising, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Media, Outsourcing, Preliminary Agreements (‘Heads of Terms’), Supply of Goods and Services, Telecoms, Terms of Trading and Trade Finance.