Corporate Re-structuring Solicitors
Our team have been advising successful businesses in the South West on all areas of their business.
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When growth starts to outpace your company structure
As your company grows, the structure that once supported your success can start to limit you. Part of running a thriving business is looking at areas where you can improve and grow; alternatively, as with many businesses today, you may be facing some tough challenges ahead and re-structuring is necessary in order to survive.
Whatever your reasoning for needing re-structure, it’s important to have the support of the right legal framework to ensure the transition is a smooth process. Our corporate solicitors’ expert advice will reduce your potential risk exposure and keep the momentum of your business going as it enters a transitional phase.
Your stronger, smarter business that's built for growth
A well-planned re-structure goes beyond compliance to unlock the full potential of your business. By putting the right framework in place, you can strengthen decision-making, stand out from competitors and ensure your organisation is structured for both current needs and future growth.
Our expert team works alongside you across all areas of your business, from asset stripping and group re-structuring to mergers and rapid expansion, ensuring your company’s reorganisation evolves in line with your ambitions.
Recent highlights
Strategic Management Buy Out
Winning tender to provide legal services for a strategic management buy out plan for the senior management team in the food manufacturing industry in the South West
New Partner Admissions
Ongoing work for a long established veterinary client assisting with succession planning in the form of structured growth via new partner admissions and planned strategic retirements
Strategic Retirement Plans
Advising founding shareholders of a family wholesale on a strategic plan for retirement – working closely with appointed accountants and successfully seeing the plan through via share exchanges, share buy backs and share capital reduction
Popular questions
There are several steps you can take to ensure that your loved ones are protected in case of your death or if you were ill and unable to make your own decisions.
Contact us to discuss your requirements.
Trying to plan your legal affairs and finances for later life can include
- Minimising your Inheritance Tax liability
- Sorting out pre-paid funeral plans
- Setting up trusts for your family and protecting assets for future generations through a Will.
- Appointing Attorneys to manage your financial affairs and to make health and welfare decisions on your behalf by Lasting Powers of Attorney is also an important part of the process.
The strategy will be different for each family, due to their unique circumstances and views on life. Nonetheless, the best advice is to plan early and have the right practical legal advice.
We are specialists in elderly and future planning with a long established reputation in Wiltshire.
Our future planning team includes lawyers belonging to Solicitors for the Elderly who are also Dementia Friends or Dementia Champions
Expert legal guidance to re-structure and strengthen your business
At Goughs, our corporate team specialise in helping businesses review, refine and reshape their legal structures to support strategic growth or re-structuring. We work with companies at all stages and understand that each business operates differently, with its own commercial goals, challenges and future plans.
Whether you’re scaling up, preparing for investment, planning succession, incentivising key people or re-structuring to improve efficiency, the right corporate framework is essential.
You can trust us to manage a wide range of company reorganisation methods, carefully tailored to your objectives and implemented with minimal disruption to your business.
- Group, holding company and subsidiary structures and set ups
- Company Share buybacks
- Share re-structures: introduction of new share classes, re-designation of shares and share consolidation
- Succession planning: focusing on exit strategies and planned retirement structures
- Share for share exchanges
- Employee Ownership Trusts
- Employee share incentives and share option schemes
- Corporate refinance, asset and share security
Meet Gemma Sumsion - Partner and Head of Corporate at Goughs Solicitors
Meet Jonathan Carter-Lewis - Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Team.
Why you should work with a Goughs re-structuring solicitor
At Goughs, we are more than just lawyers. We strive to be your trusted business adviser and have your best business interests at the forefront of everything we do. We provide expert advice for each stage of the re-structure or growth journey and tailor our approach to suit you and your company.
Ready to talk about the future of your business? Speak to one of our friendly team today for clear, practical legal advice that supports the next stage of your company.
Our clients rate us as excellent
D H
Professional, responsive and communicative at all times during the time they provided legal services to our business.
Paul Ealey
Gemma combines sound commercial judgement with a refreshing clarity and approach. An excellent commercial lawyer.
J B, Melksham
Very helpful, efficient friendly staff. My business matter was dealt with very well. I would be happy to recommend Goughs Solicitors.
Legal 500
The commercial property team is very responsive and efficient. They are also very nice people to deal with!
T R, Chippenham
I have dealt with Goughs on a professional level for over 10 years. I have always found them to be a diligent and trustworthy company, always willing to help when I contact them. They are truly professional and hard working people. As a result of their ongoing professionalism and friendly manner, I always recommend them to my clients.