Whatever your role in a business funding transaction, our attention to detail and experience will keep you on safe ground
Every business funding decision requires the right legal foundations, whether you’re an investor, a lender, or someone seeking funding for your own business.
If starting a new business or looking to take an existing business to the next step and seeking funding from a bank, private equity house, or private investor, balancing the protection of your own business interests with the time pressures of securing the funding as quickly as possible is key.
Our experience as corporate solicitors makes us perfectly placed to guide you through what is often a complex and resource-intensive process as quickly and efficiently as possible, but without losing sight of your overall commercial objectives.
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Clear legal guidance throughout the funding process
Once you’ve chosen a funding stream and the wheels are in motion, our diligent and experienced team will guide you through the entire process, ensuring that you’re clear on your commitments and that your risks are identified and managed as effectively as possible.
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Helping to protect you during investments
Once you’ve chosen a funding stream and the wheels are in motion, our diligent and experienced team will guide you through the entire process, ensuring that you’re clear on your commitments and that your risks are identified and managed as effectively as possible.
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An extension of your own team
Once you’ve chosen a funding stream and the wheels are in motion, our diligent and experienced team will guide you through the entire process, ensuring that you’re clear on your commitments and that your risks are identified and managed as effectively as possible.
Personalised legal guidance for your professional practice
Trusted by a wide range of professional services firms to handle their legal affairs
Our lawyers provide advice on commercial, corporate, employment law, commercial property and dispute resolution to a wide range of businesses in the professional services sector, including:
- Accountancy firms
- Financial services professionals
- Health, dentistry and veterinary clinics
- Fellow law firms
View the case studies below to see some examples of the professional services firms we’ve shared our legal expertise with.
An extension of your own team
You can treat us an extension of your own team – we’ll be on hand with down-to-earth legal advice on issues involving day-to-day management and regulation, through to those critical strategic decisions.
Whether it’s advice on forming an LLP or implementing a succession plan, or you’re facing a shareholder dispute or an issue with your premises, our multi-disciplinary team have worked with firms like yours and can provide experience-based solutions.
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Some of our recent work
with professional practices
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Three Counties Agricultural Society
Three Counties Agricultural Society is a charity whose purpose is to promote agriculture, horticulture and rural enterprise across Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Read more"As a long-established charity, it’s vital that we work with advisers who understand our history and are committed to helping our rural communities to thrive for generations to come. Partnering with Willans has given us confidence that Three Counties’ legal affairs are handled with expertise, continuity, and a genuine understanding of both the agricultural and charitable sectors."
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Commercial Group
Bucking industry trends since its inception, Commercial is now the largest independently owned office services group in the UK.
Read more"We find Willans excellent in all aspects – easy to speak to, with in-depth knowledge and sound experience. They are one of my first ports of call when we need lawyers."
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The Mastectomy Tattooing Alliance
The Mastectomy Tattooing Alliance supports those with breast cancer, and the BRCA and transgender/non-binary communities, in their healing journey following mastectomy, reconstructive and gender affirming surgery. As well as offering mastectomy and 3D areola-nipple tattoos, Tanya and the MTA provide training to tattoo artists wanting to expand their skillset into medical tattooing.
Read more"Both Charlotte and Helen were super helpful. Helen’s been brilliant at answering any questions I've had, and she has gone above and beyond to help me as I've navigated learning to run a charity. I felt like she was as passionate about the charity as I am and that she really understood the importance of the work we were doing.” "
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Joedan Group
Joedan is a nationally renowned company and is one of the UK’s top 5 suppliers of aluminium-related products.
Read more"I have always been able to rely on the sound advice and services provided from Willans on both a personal and professional level. I have consistently found any member of the Willans team to back up the promise and values of the company, leading to a great deal of trust and comfort in working together."
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CEMAR
CEMAR is a secure, intuitive, web-based system which brings compliance, consistency, governance and business intelligence to the management of £75bn of works and services. From small projects to strategic infrastructure programmes, CEMAR provides leading business intelligence, governance, analytics and security, is quick to deploy and simple to use.
Read more"Willans is professional and responsive. They have helped with all legal aspects of our growth from start-up to SME. The Willans team comprises various specialists; each have taken the time to learn our company’s context. Their expert, pragmatic and commercially effective advice has helped us to grow and navigate the risks of doing business."
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Colleagues in the team
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View profileBridget RedmondLLB
Managing Partner
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View profileKatie DuthieLLB (Hons)
Senior associate, solicitor
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View profileMegan BullinghamBA (Hons), FCILEx
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View profileNick SouthwellBA (Hons)
Partner
Property litigation, Litigation & dispute resolution, Mediation, Inheritance & trust disputes
Our corporate law services
For both domestic companies
and firms doing business in the UK
Case study: Resolving a shareholder dispute with a £1.6 million settlement
Shareholder disputes can be highly disruptive, particularly in successful owner-managed businesses where personal relationships and commercial interests are closely intertwined. In this case, Willans acted for a minority shareholder and…
Nick Southwell BA (Hons)
Partner
What are directors’ duties and why do they matter?
The Companies Act 2006 introduced the most comprehensive legal framework for directors’ duties in UK company law. While many of these duties previously existed under common law and legal principles, the…
Nick Southwell BA (Hons)
Partner
Willans and Hazlewoods support launch of innovative funding platform for Gloucestershire charities
Willans and accountancy firm Hazlewoods have advised on the successful launch of Fund Gloucestershire, a new registered charity providing a technology platform designed to make it easier for Voluntary, Community…
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