LAWHIVE ASSOCIATES

The Firm acts for a wide range of corporate clients, from owner-managed businesses to publicly quoted companies, and across a wide range of industry sectors including many in the media, entertainment and leisure sectors.

The Firm prides themselves on their responsiveness, commitment and pragmatic approach to structuring and completing any given transaction and clients praise them for their commercial awareness and hands-on approach.

The type of work undertaken includes:-

• Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
• Private equity and venture capital
• Management buy-outs / buy-ins
• Company, partnerships and LLP formations and structuring
• Company re-organisations
• Debt finance
• Rights issues
• Share buy-backs
• Joint ventures
• Other general corporate advice
• Franchise agreements
• Distribution and supplier agreements
• Licence agreements
• Software escrow agreements
• Security interest and release agreements
• Support and maintenance agreements
• General IP / IT advice relating to the above contracts
• Other general commercial contracts