Corporate Restructuring

Service overview: Corporate restructuring solicitors

  • Corporate restructuring is an option for businesses during times of economic or market fluctuation, including in the face of mounting debt, poor business performance or for the purposes of tax efficiency.
  • Restructuring requires considerable expertise on a wide range of disciplines – business, financial and legal knowledge is essential to make sure all conditions have been assessed in deciding the optimal way forward.
  • Our team of experienced corporate restructuring solicitors partner with alongside specialist insolvency firms to provide top-of-the-line strategic guidance and legal expertise to any business that is looking to restructure.
  • Our offices are in Sheffield, Birmingham, Cambridge and London, but our lawyers work remotely, so for face-to-face meetings we can work flexibly around you.
How can we help?

What we do: Corporate restructuring legal services

Our corporate restructuring solicitors work with you and with our insolvency specialist partners to provide a comprehensive range of restructuring support services which can play a pivotal role in turning around the fortunes of any company struggling with debt or performance concerns. By providing the guidance and insight that comes from working with expert lawyers, we can support your business through this complex and sensitive process.

As a full-service law firm, in addition to their own specialist advice our team can also call upon the knowledge of our other legal specialists across banking and finance, employment law and commercial law to provide you with informed and considered expertise for a seamless and holistic solution.

Working closely with our specialist insolvency partners, we can advise and represent any company or business stakeholder seeking advice on:

  • Advising and representing distressed companies
  • Bankruptcy litigation and enforcement
  • Capital reduction
  • Cash management and generation
  • Company administration
  • Company restructuring strategies (including company reorganisation, dilution of share capital, or de-mergers)
  • Company Voluntary Arrangements
  • Company contract review
  • Customer or supplier insolvency
  • Debt refinancing
  • Debt and asset tracing
  • Demergers
  • Distressed debt trading
  • Divestment
  • Enhancement of security
  • Impaired loans
  • Insolvency procedures
  • Insolvency litigation and enforcement
  • Liquidation
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Rescue planning
  • Restructuring structured and leveraged finance

In addition to directly helping with pressing issues, we will help to determine the optimal strategy for restructuring or insolvency. In cases of contentious matters, we will recommend an approach which balances risk, costs, time and reputation.

As trusted, friendly lawyers, our team will take the time to listen to your concerns and business objectives, putting together a number of options and drafting a strategic restructuring plan which meets your goals. At all stages throughout the resolution, we will provide expert legal support and guidance in a clear and objective manner.

Don’t forget to check the corporate area of our advice centre for more information, including: What happens to the assets of a dissolved company? and Who gets paid first in insolvency?

Who we help: Companies seeking support

As debt restructuring lawyers, our clients include:

  • Corporate entities
  • Lending institutions, including banks and asset-based lenders
  • Insolvency specialists
  • Pension schemes

We are able to work with all business stakeholders, including senior executives, directors and boards, shareholders, lenders, debt and equity investors, banking and finance companies, finance professionals, and accountants.

Why choose us? Our corporate restructuring solicitors’ expertise

Our team of corporate restructuring solicitors have all been recruited from top 100 law firms or large international businesses. Find out more about the lawyers who can help you:

Abby Watson

Corporate Solicitor

Abby Watson is a corporate solicitor, specialising in private equity investments, mergers & acquisitions, EMI share schemes, corporate finance and governance and more.

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Adam Kudryl

Corporate Partner

Adam Kudryl is a Partner and Corporate & Commercial Solicitor at Harper James Solicitors, specialising in strategic investments, acquisitions and sales.

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Jas Bhogal

Corporate Partner

Jas is a corporate partner at Harper James Solicitors, advising on corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital & investments.

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Stephen Evans

Corporate Solicitor

Stephen is an experienced corporate lawyer, with a career including time at DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and private equity work.

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Shubhu Patil

Corporate Solicitor

Shubhu specialises in early-stage fund raisings, shareholder arrangements and M&A. Prior to joining Harper James she worked at Mills & Reeve and before that at Addleshaw Goddard and Slaughter and May.

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Kate Wright

Commercial and Corporate Solicitor

Kate is a commercial and corporate lawyer, advising businesses from start-ups up to global companies on everything from investment and franchising to sale and purchase transactions, exits and much more.

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Callum Giliker

Corporate Associate

Callum is a corporate associate at Harper James, specialising in mergers and acquisitions and investments, as well as other corporate/commercial matters.

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Eleanor Stephens

Recovery and Insolvency Solicitor

Eleanor is an insolvency solicitor with over 20 years’ specialist knowledge in all aspects of insolvency, both corporate and personal, covering contentious and non-contentious matters.

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Matthew Shakesheff

Corporate Partner

Matthew is a highly experienced corporate partner at Harper James. With expertise in all aspects of corporate law and finance, Matthew’s tenacity and eye for detail helps get client deals and agreements across the line with the minimum of fuss.

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Examples of our work

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Pricing plans

Our three transparent pricing packages are designed to give you the widest possible access to high-quality legal advice, whatever the size and nature of your business:

City

Straightforward access to senior solicitors at a competitive rate.

An affordable solution for businesses needing one-off legal support. Receive ‘City’ partner-level expertise at a fraction of ‘City’ prices.

Enterprise

Have legal peace of mind for £189 per month with additional support from £99 per hour.

A monthly subscription legal support package specifically designed for start-ups and smaller businesses.

On-Demand

Providing you with priority access to a dedicated panel of highly experienced solicitors.

Fully account managed quarterly subscription service for businesses with more complex legal needs.

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A national law firm

We mainly work remotely, so we can work with you wherever you are. But we can arrange face-to-face meeting at our offices or a location of your choosing.

Our commercial lawyers are based in or close to major cities across the UK, providing expert legal advice to clients both locally and nationally.

Birmingham
Floor 2, Cavendish House, 39-41 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, B2 5PP
Cambridge
Stirling House, Cambridge Innovation Park, Denny End Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9QE
London
10 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 5HP
Manchester
13th Floor, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
Oxford
Harwell Innovation Centre, 173 Curie Avenue, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QG
Sheffield
2-5 Velocity Tower, 1 St Mary’s Square, Sheffield, S1 4LP