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Corporate and Commercial

Coodes’s specialist Corporate and Commercial team is one of the leading business practices in the South West. We advise businesses and shareholders throughout the region and beyond on a wide range of legal, business and financial challenges across a variety of sectors. In today’s ultra-competitive and highly regulated business landscape, accessing the right legal advice can make a critical difference to the success of your enterprise.

Our experienced team of corporate and commercial lawyers combines up-to-date technical and business knowledge with commercial insight. We understand how business works and we recognise that you want more than just dry legal guidance. Instead, you want practical legal solutions that help you to achieve your strategic and operational objectives efficiently. And we know that you want to work with lawyers who can be proactive, who can suggest strategies that will protect your assets, preserve your reputation and propel your business forward.

We are experienced in developing legal solutions for businesses of all sizes – from small family enterprises to international corporations – at every stage of their lifecycle, across a range of challenges, including:

Business growth
Mergers and acquisitions
Succession planning
Investment and funding
Corporate structuring
Share schemes

Our corporate and commercial clients include:

Regional and national SMEs
International businesses
Limited companies and LLPs
Partnerships – including farming partnerships
Franchised businesses
Family businesses
Sole traders
Charities and social enterprises

Whatever the challenge, our specialist Corporate and Commercial team can help you by developing pragmatic, commercially focused solutions. Contact us for an initial consultation.

Expertise

Team

Kirsty Davey

Head of Corporate and Commercial

Jack Peart

Senior Associate

Jess Field

Paralegal

Client Testimonials

Kirsty and Jess were outstanding throughout the purchase of the businesses. They made a complex process feel clear and manageable, kept everything moving quickly, and were always calm, friendly and responsive when I needed reassurance.

I must thank you again for all the help in selling the business. It was an emotive matter for me, but your support made the whole process so much easier.

Client

Throughout the acquisition, Coodes were able to give us an excellent all-round service. They have been as good as any top London firm I've worked with and I certainly plan to use them again.

Client

I first instructed Kirsty, arding a complex share sale and purchase which I was required to enter into, prior to my retirement. Kirsty's concise, timely and excellent advice enabled a better outcome for me from this transaction with a few concessions thus granted by the vendor, which I would otherwise not have benefitted from. I would have no hesitation in recommending Coodes to other clients.

Client

Straightforward, comprehensive, professional legal advice, delivered in a friendly informal manner.

Client

We do a significant amount of work with Kirsty, with us advising on the taxation aspects of a deal and Kirsty advising on the legal side. Kirsty provides a personal service to her clients and importantly makes a point of adopting an extremely practical and pragmatic approach to her advice.

Client