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. Balancing the law, risk factors and required commercial outcomes, my goal

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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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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