Corporate
Dynamic and forward-thinking lawyers.
Corporate lawyers who get deals done
Advising clients through all stages of their business lifecycle.
RWK Goodman has a dynamic, forward thinking team of corporate lawyers with the technical knowledge and experience necessary to get deals done in a manner underpinned by a personable and friendly style. We guide clients through all stages of their business lifecycle from advising start-ups on corporate structures and initial funding to venture capital investment and equity fundraising, strategic acquisitions and ultimate exit strategy and are widely recognised by the independent Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 directories for our M&A and investment work.
Our clients include entrepreneurs, founders, management teams, institutional and high net worth investors as well as SMEs, large UK and international corporates and domestic and international banks.
We work across a range of industry sectors but have particular expertise working with clients in the Health & Social Care, Technology & Innovation and Banking & Financial Services sectors.
We pride ourselves on providing the highest levels of client service and are focused on being responsive to your requirements, guiding you through transaction challenges and being the legal team you can trust.
Our main areas of expertise include:
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Our M&A team works collaboratively with our clients and their advisers on all aspects of M&A transactions. Clients include entrepreneurs, owner managers, and institutions, high net worth investors and UK and international corporates.
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Our Corporate team provides a broad range of advice to clients on areas including Companies Act compliance and UK corporate governance requirements.
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Our Corporate team is used to guiding clients through the complex legal issues arising on a corporate reorganisation or restructuring project.
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Our Corporate lawyers advise on a wide range of short term and long term, HMRC approved and unapproved, employee incentive plans with a particular focus on EMI share schemes and Company Share Option Plans.
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Our specialist Venture Capital & Private Equity team supports academics, entrepreneurs, founders and management teams on venture capital investment and equity fundraising.
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Our banking and finance lawyers have a high level of specialist knowledge and experience on a broad range of financing transactions.
Our corporate team's recognition in legal directories.
Acquisitions. Restructures. Mergers. Whatever your business wants to achieve, our commercial solicitors are recognised by legal directories as experts.
In Chambers, our team is ranked in the South West for commercial deals in excess of £5 million, with James Worrall and Katherine Mortimer listed as key contacts in this region.
Comments from Chambers include:
“A really good example of ‘big enough to cope but small enough to care’. The partners are excellent and accessible, and the teams under them are knowledgeable and very competent.”
“They are professional, prompt with their advice and communication and are able to work with you. The team is solution-based as opposed to problem-focused.”
Our corporate and commercial team is also included in Legal 500 in the South West, Bristol and for smaller deals in London between £10m-100m. Comments include:
“The firm has a number of offices and good territorial reach, meaning they are accessible for potential clients no matter where they are based.”
“Strong technical capabilities and very good partner level availability.”
Our specialist lawyers.
Hazel Phillips
“Katharine and her team not only worked incredibly hard but remained calm and completely focused on the commercial objectives throughout a hugely complicated and protracted transaction. They were a genuine pleasure to work with and I would not hesitate to use them again”
"I’d also like to thank the RWK Goodman team for their outstanding support on getting this investment over the line. Their hard work, strategic guidance and expertise has been greatly appreciated and we look forward to working with them again.”
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Headroom for buy-side M&A deals
A thought leadership project dedicated to psychological aspects of buy-side M&A deals.
Dealmakers’ psychology inevitably comes into play during transactions, whether it’s the additional pressure and stress felt by buyers having to balance the competing demands of the ‘day job’ alongside an intensive transaction process, or a first-time buyer’s nervousness about asking the right questions during commercial due diligence. This is why we have created Headroom.
