Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals

Acquiring or selling a business is a complex process with tight timescales and deal-breaking barriers at every stage. Our Corporate team has completed hundreds of deals of varying sizes – getting under the skin of each transaction to make sure we achieve the outcome our clients want.

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Rachel Turner

I take pride in every single thing I do – whether I’m lead adviser on a multimillion-pound corporate transaction or putting up wallpaper, I want to be the best. Therefore, when it comes to your corporate matters, I’ll use my skills, experience and commerciality to provide you with the best advice. I’m always looking beyond the obvious, and I never sit on the fence when my clients want guidance.

Cross-sector M&A specialists

When choosing a legal partner to support you in your corporate transaction, there’s no substitute for experience. We have one of the largest and most experienced corporate finance teams across the West Midlands and South West – we’ve acted for businesses in nearly every sector, including healthcare, manufacturing, technology and retail.

Our award-winning. relationship-driven team operates with the backing of a full-service law firm. We guide you through management buyouts, acquisitions and disposals of both private and public companies, as well as getting your business ready for sale. We also specialise in joint ventures and collaboration agreements, management roles on management buy outs, and pensions.

As part of the transaction process, we complete full due diligence for you and can also assist with post-acquisition issues such as resource streamlining and registering intellectual property rights.

Trusted M&A advisers

No matter the transaction, you need a team that understands your business’ past, present and future. Our team of corporate lawyers work closely with you to help you realise your ambitions and help you understand and mitigate against any risks from the outset.

Alongside this, our corporate finance experts work with companies that want to make a partial sale – providing help with restructuring and selling businesses while retaining shareholdings and setting up employee owned trusts.

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We’re consistently one of the top deal makers in the UK

HCR has consistently been ranked as one of the top three most active M&A advisors in the UK and RoI, for the last three years, according to Experian MarketIQ.

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Legal 500 2026 – Top Tier Firm

Legal 500 2026 – Top Tier Firm

What our clients say about our Corporate team

The team we had was fantastic, the process of selling a business was new to my business partner and I, and we could not have done it without the support, patience, knowledge of the team at HCR. I believe they went the extra mile to ensure deadlines were met and the whole process was explained in detail.

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Laurence Evans was extremely professional, knowledgeable and calm. I believe he got us the best deal possible and always seemed to be there when we needed clarification.

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Harrison Clark Rickerbys has dealt with my legal needs for many years. I am very confident when dealing with them that they have the wealth of knowledge to deal with my request. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

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The team at HCR is first class. They always deliver on time and to a very high standard, even during very challenging conditions. I cannot say enough good things about the team.

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Charlotte provides an amazing level of knowledge and assurance in dealing with complex matters. Victoria stands out for her practical support; she responded in a timely manner, and I felt totally reassured in the way she dealt with the various issues raised. Their backup contract team also did a really good job.

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Arpinder and the rest of the team are always available and will work any hours to get an assignment completed on time. Their knowledge and commercial acumen are exceptional.

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We principally work with Arpinder Dhillon. As a corporate partner, she leads from the front. She is the principal point of contact for us across the whole of HCR. She is efficient, attentive and extremely hardworking. We are genuinely grateful for her support during our transactions.

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On a day to day basis we dealt mainly with Matt Montgomery & Chris Sharp-Paul. They were very personable, conscientious, understood our feelings throughout the whole process and comprehended the enormity of what it meant to us as shareholders. Working well with our advisor team and also the buyer’s advisor team, they created a solid platform to resolve issues with our interests front of mind.

They have been patient, accommodating, honest, and kept us informed at all times. They have worked out of hours when required, have always been calm and collected and showed patience and understanding.

An absolute pleasure to work with. We would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone who was embarking on a similar transaction.

Shareholder Corporate Client

It was a pleasure working with James and Joe on this complex transaction. I relied on James’ experience for guidance on how to resolve certain conflicts in the negotiation process, and I relied on Joe’s minute attention to detail and overall management of the transaction to ensure that nothing was missed.

The communication with both has been smooth and efficient throughout the entire process, and turnaround times were to my highest expectations.

Stjepan Pavlek Posavec CEO, Koios Consulting Ltd

We found no weaknesses but abundant strengths.

Iain Mason Managing Director, VG Private Wealth

Thanks Savi and the team and everyone else involved in making this happen, a great result!

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Just wanted to drop you a message to thank you all for your relentless efforts & hard work on this project getting it over the line. I was honestly holding my breath at times but it happened in the end and I couldn’t be more grateful and happy. Not sure how you do what you do, but again a massive thank you.

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