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Joint ventures and shareholders' agreements
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Building strong business relationships for the future
Our joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements solicitors will help give your business a solid foundation and head off any potential difficulties that may arise in the future.
Having the right agreement in place will help create and maintain harmonious relationships between all shareholders and will allow your business to thrive in the long-term. These agreements are just as important between family and friends as they are with purely business relationships, either with investors, owner managers or entrepreneurs.
Shared objectives – how our legal team can help you
Well drawn-up shareholders’ and joint ventures agreements help encourage all the parties involved towards shared objectives, and views on how to achieve these objectives through a common strategical vision. They can outline how the relationship between the shareholders will work and how the company or joint venture will be run, protecting your interests into the future.
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Taking care of your business from start to finish
Other issues taken into consideration include exit strategies and succession to help ensure clarity in the way you run your business, from setting it up to the time you choose to sell up or retire.
Our expertise
Our joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements solicitors can help you with:
- The nature of the business
- The right to appoint directors
- Voting rights
- Protection of minority shareholders
- Financial matters including dividend policy
- Confidentiality
- Transfer of shares
- Succession
- Problem resolution
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Tees is a top-tier Legal 500 firm offering joined-up legal and financial services. We have our own independent financial advisers (IFAs), who work closely with our lawyers.
Our advisers provide holistic financial planning, and as we are not connected to any one provider, we can offer a whole-of-market approach for the range of products we can advise on. We can also give independent advice for a whole range of insurance products to protect you and your family. Our IFAs are regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, which means we’re accountable for the advice we give.
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We advise on joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements, helping you establish clear terms, protect your interests and maintain strong business relationships.
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