The Corporate Team advises clients across a range of sectors and at different stages in the business life cycle from start-ups to mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs and buy-ins, development capital fund raisings, re-financings and private and public (capital markets) exits.
The Team of 16 Partners and over 45 specialist corporate lawyers, led by Rafael Ruiz, advises on a wide variety of corporate transactions.
Our expertise includes advising buyers and sellers (both individuals and corporates), on the full range of transactions from trade sales/purchases, institutional sales/purchases, management buyouts and employee ownership trust sales, to financial distress transactions.
As well as UK deals, our corporate lawyers are experienced in dealing with international transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of UK companies by and to international buyers, and assisting UK buyers with their acquisitions of overseas companies.
Many of our lawyers started their careers in other major domestic or international law firms, and bring not just their legal skills to transactions, but also their business experience and knowledge of market practice. Our corporate, mergers and acquisitions lawyers are highly responsive and successfully deliver complex transactions to the most demanding of timetables, focusing on key issues, demonstrating pragmatism where justified and, always, protecting the interests of our clients.
Our clients include entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital funds, financial institutions, owner-managed and privately owned businesses, as well as international investors and public companies.
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Accreditations
Legal 500 [UK 2025]
Top Tier Firm
Chambers [UK 2025]
Ranked in Band 1
Birketts acted as advisors, but then elevated their service to becoming a trusted source of expert advice and being a resolver of obstacles and problems. The professionalism of the Birketts team was motivating to us as clients
Legal 500 [UK 2025]
