Corporate law

At Browne Jacobson, we're experts in navigating the complexities of corporate law, ensuring your business transactions are executed smoothly. Our team is widely recognised for its strength in delivering successful corporate transactions and providing high-quality corporate law advice.

Our award-winning corporate lawyers are supported by top-tier specialists in various fields to ensure your business is effectively guided through its biggest challenges and opportunities.

Whether you're looking to expand through strategic partnerships, require advice on IPOs, or need assistance with cross-border restructuring, our corporate law firm offers bespoke, client-focused solutions. We pride ourselves on being easy to work with, acting as an extension of your team to help you achieve your business goals.

With a global reach and a commitment to exceptional service, we empower our clients to achieve their business objectives efficiently and effectively. Let us be the extension of your in-house legal team, providing pragmatic advice and industry insights that drive success.

Corporate law services

We advise domestic and international clients on a full spectrum of corporate law issues, including:

Major strategic transactions:
- mergers and acquisitions (M&A),
- private equity,
- venture capital and development capital investments,
- joint ventures, and
- corporate reorganisations.
Regulated corporate work:
- initial public offerings (IPOs), and
- cross border restructuring.

Client-focused legal solutions

Corporate transactions are often complex and involve multiple stakeholders. We understand that our clients need corporate transactions to be delivered efficiently with minimal distraction to their business.

Our award-winning corporate law firm, with 50 dedicated corporate lawyers, is supported by around 700 top-tier lawyers across our business, including specialists in banking, commercial, intellectual property, competition, data protection, employment, litigation, tax and property law.

We pride ourselves on our hands-on approach, acting as an extension of our clients’ in-house legal teams. Our pragmatic and responsive advice enables our clients to achieve their goals on a timely basis and with our national model we ensure our clients receive excellent, cost-effective support.

Our commitment to our corporate clients extends beyond legal advice. Alongside their legal expertise, our corporate lawyers’ sector focus means clients benefit from our industry knowledge. This in-depth sector expertise allows us to add real value by unlocking deal issues, and it has proved essential in assisting our clients with the day-to-day issues they face.

Exceptional client service with a global reach

We maintain strong connections with leading firms globally and regularly work with the best advisers overseas to provide our clients with seamless cross-border legal support, catering to all their corporate needs.

By combining specialist corporate law advice, sector experience and our extensive global network, we make life easier for our clients – delivering exceptional client service, every time.

Dr Nick Ash CEO, Source Bioscience plc

“We need advisors who understand transactions and the regulatory framework we operate under as a listed company. Browne Jacobson has a very strong corporate team who have consistently provided us with responsive, knowledgeable advice on both debt and equity fundraisings and acquisitions. It's a relationship we value.”

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Banking and finance

Commercial law

Company secretarial services

Competition and anti-trust

Data protection and privacy

Employment

Equity capital markets

Intellectual property

Mergers and acquisitions

Private equity services

Tax

Transaction support and due diligence

Venture capital

Dr Nick Ash CEO, Source Bioscience plc

“We need advisors who understand transactions and the regulatory framework we operate under as a listed company. Browne Jacobson has a very strong corporate team who have consistently provided us with responsive, knowledgeable advice on both debt and equity fundraisings and acquisitions. It's a relationship we value.”

Deborah Bolton CEO, Addo Food Group

“… really impressed by the professionalism, in-depth sector knowledge and service delivery of the Browne Jacobson team. This was a very important deal for our business … the team understood that and provided commercial and practical advice and real clarity on deal issues. It was a real pleasure to work with them on this transaction.”

Andy Grove Chief Investment Officer, LDC

“Browne Jacobson have been trusted advisers to LDC for a number of years and have achieved some really fantastic results for us. The quality of the advice and solutions that the team provided and the speed on the completion was first class. We would definitely recommend them and as ever look forward to working with them on our future investments.”