Corporate

In an ever-changing world, businesses faced with consistently uncertain financial and economic conditions, with markets which are more competitive than ever before, need solid corporate legal advice. We’re responsive and connected – helping you manage relationships with key stakeholders, navigating your business journey and identifying potential risks.

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Key contact

 

Richard Wilkey

If you’re planning on buying or selling a company, looking to invest or seeking investment, or have any other issue related to running a business, let’s have a chat. I’m passionate about seeing businesses grow and develop, and I’ll provide you with commercial, proactive advice. I like to get involved with transactions as early as possible – that way, I can help you make important strategic decisions for your business or regarding an opportunity that you may not have considered.

Leading corporate advice for businesses

Whether you’re starting up or scaling up, facilitating mergers and acquisitions or making exit plans, we put ourselves in your shoes to give commercial, pragmatic advice at every turn. The award-winning team also work internationally as trusted advisers, following our clients wherever they go and facilitating deals globally through our network of contacts.

Our clients

From PLCs and healthcare organisations to family-run or owner-managed businesses, our experience extends across the board. We’re part of some of the most important moments any business faces. Working closely with our Banking and Finance team, we provide a variety of funding solutions, including venture capital and equity investments. We can also guide you through setting up employee ownership trusts, employee incentive schemes and corporate structuring and reorganisations.

Our clients are varied; from healthcare providers, angel investors and management teams to international business, private equity backed companies and pension funds to name a few.

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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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Need due diligence advice?

Our BRICS service is a pragmatic, commercially-minded advisory service focusing on the key issues facing bigger businesses that can either hold you back if you get them wrong, or truly maximise your position if you get them right. We advise on Business Risk, Investigation, Compliance and Secretarial.

BRICS will:

  • Save you the headache of getting into hot water, by helping you avoid high-risk situations or noncompliance
  • Help you manage your liabilities
  • Maximise your position, by identifying opportunities and areas to exploit Make it easier for you to run your business day-to-day.
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What our clients say about our Corporate team

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

Client testimonial Corporate

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.

Client testimonial Corporate

The ‘commercial and solutions oriented’ Martyn Davies has been pivotal to the firm’s success on the transactional front, leveraging his deep institutional knowledge of “what is market” on M&A deals – including those backed by venture and private equity.

The Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

The ‘outstanding’ team at HCR Law continues to gain traction in the (Welsh) market since opening its doors in February 2020 and provides ‘first-class advice’ to an impressive and growing roster of owner-managed businesses, SMEs and corporates across a broad swathe of transactional and commercial contracts-related work.

The Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

Motunrayo Adeeyo is noted for her expertise in the dental sector.

The Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

Charlotte Thornton-Smith is an expert in acting for social care providers and healthcare suppliers on disposals and acquisitions.

Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

Noted for its capabilities in commercial IP and IT matters, HCR Law enjoys a strong presence in the automotive, manufacturing, and technology sectors. The practice is also particularly skilled at demergers, governance issues, reorganizations, as well as refinancing transactions.

The Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

The team provides tailored assistance on all aspects of corporate transactions, from employment-related legal issues to intellectual property matters.

Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

Displaying ‘attention to detail’ and ‘expertise’ when handling cross-border M&A, complex management buyouts and joint ventures, HCR Law consistently advises businesses within the healthcare, manufacturing and tech sectors.

Legal 500 2025 Corporate and Commercial

Matt was always there no matter what time of the day to help, reassure, answer any queries and addressing the many concerns we had. He remained calm and demonstrated a clear understanding of what we had to do.

This was a challenging deal and would not have achieved a successful outcome without the professionalism and proactive approach of HCR

Client testimonial Shareholder

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

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