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We helped our clients with the acquisition of: i) a holiday lodge business operated in Cambridgeshire by one of the two sellers ii) a residential dwelling owned and occupied by...
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We helped three of five sellers of significant shareholdings in five private limited companies, which together own and operate three care homes across the West Midlands. The purchase price comprised:...
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InspireAll is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee that provides community sport, recreational and arts services. After a successful bid to run two multi-million-pound leisure centres in Hertsmere and Milton Keynes, they...
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We helped a property developer with a particularly complex lease and its assignment in central London. The developer owned a freehold property in Fleet Street, which unusually did not include...
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We acted for an educational foundation on the lease renewal of its head office. The charity had occupied the property (two adjoining buildings) for around five years under an excluded...
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A million pound plus valued estate included some major UK charities as beneficiaries. A family member who was unhappy with the legacy left to them threatened a legal challenge on...
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The members of a famous band engaged well-known accountants to provide tax planning advice between 2013 and 2016. The advice received was to use an Employee Shareholder Scheme (ESS) to...
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We helped a group of companies defend claims against them for a) undervalued transactions, and b) preference payments totalling £2.4 million. These claims had been brought by a company in...
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Our client was the secret lovechild of the deceased, a married man who had an affair in the 1970s with a married woman. We helped her in bringing an Inheritance...
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Our client was the main beneficiary of her late good friend’s estate worth £570,000. The deceased’s daughter from a failed relationship brought a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family...
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Our client is a company that operates several pharmacies in North London. One of these pharmacies was operated through a corporate joint venture, with 50% of the shares owned by...
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Our client was a large independent licensed insolvency firm, specialising in business rescue and recovery. We helped the firm with the appointment of two of its members as joint administrators,...
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We helped our client with an asset disposal of a hotel situated in historic windmill. The matter was complicated by a property solicitor acting for the buyer dabbling at a...
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We acted as executors of an estate left to over 20 charities. The estate included multiple shareholdings not held in a portfolio, requiring us to check the validity of vast...
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Sigma Imaging Ltd, a well-established multinational distributor based in Holland with a UK subsidiary, needed support with relocating their head office premises to St Albans. They were taking on new...
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A not-for-profit trust manages a large rural park for the benefit of the local community. The site includes several open spaces within residential developments. The trust is also landlord to...
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An educational trust had been occupying a new school in Hertfordshire. We dealt with a grant of a new underlease from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local...
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We helped the former owner of a football club and theatre group in a case arising from an investment made into an events company by two venture capitalist trusts. The...
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We helped the widow of a deceased partner in a telecommunications partnership dispute where there was no written partnership agreement. As demands were being made for the estate to settle...
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We helped the liquidators of a company behind a well-known bidding website. The liquidators were left with a small amount to declare a dividend payment to the creditors. However, there...
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