We specialise in:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Business/share acquisitions and disposals
• Management buy-outs
• Shareholders and partnership agreements
• Partnership/LLP advice
• Partnerships
• Joint ventures
• Refinancing
• Banking
• Restructuring
• Share option schemes

Some recent examples of our work:

Owner buyout of major motor dealership

Taylor&Emmet acted for the vendors of one of Sheffield’s main motor dealerships in successfully negotiating and finalising an innovative deal with a novel deal structure.

Sale of the entire issued share capital of a leading precision engineering company

Taylor&Emmet acted for the shareholders of one of Derbyshire’s leading precision engineering companies on their successful exit.

We acted for the vendors through a lengthy negotiation process which lasted more than eight months, with the deal being renegotiated and restructured on a number of occasions as a result of the changing requirements of the
purchaser’s funders.

Acquisition of the business and assets of a competitor business by a South Yorkshire based international manufacturer

Taylor&Emmet coordinated an in-depth due diligence exercise and complex negotiations relating to certain ongoing liabilities of the target business under tight time limitations, in order to bring the deal to a successful conclusion.

Sale of the entire issued share capital of a well known north east retailer

Taylor&Emmet acted for the shareholders of a well known retail company based in the north east of England in respect of the sale of the entire issued share capital of the company for approximately £1.5 million.

Commercial pressures meant that this deal was negotiated and concluded from start to finish in five days.

Corporate team

Taylor&Emmet LLP corporate team is described as 'helpful courteous and efficient' by the 2009 Legal 500 review. It comprises lawyers who pride themselves on understanding clients’ objectives and use the law to achieve your goals as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Peter Crawford Solicitor Peter specialises in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, general company/commercial law and banking. He has acted for a number of large national and international companies in multimillion-pound deals.

Lisa Wallis Solicitor Lisa has experience of a wide range of corporate and commercial law, including management buyouts, share sales, shareholders’ arrangements, partnership arrangements and commercial agreements.

Amit Bansal Legal assistant Amit is a Legal Assistant in Taylor&Emmet’s Corporate team. Amit completed the LPC in 2009 at Nottingham Law School and began working in central London as a Paralegal for Goodgers Solicitors. He has also worked as a Paralegal for City law firm Clyde & Co.

Andy Shooter Consultant Andy, until recently, was a career banker with RBS/NatWest Group where he held a variety of roles, many of which were in the Corporate and Commercial banking arena, finishing his 37 years as a Director in the South Yorkshire team.