Professional Practices

Professional firms and individual partners achieve significant advantages by working with our professional practices team.

Our specialist knowledge and experience enables us to advise on any issue associated with managing a professional business.

The team acts for all types of professional businesses and other organisations trading as Partnerships or LLPs.

What we advise on:

Constitutional

Partnership formation

We provide detailed and bespoke advice to our clients and are recognised as a leading firm for partnership advice.

LLPs

We have a strong reputation as advisers to professional practices using LLPs and bring expert knowledge to find the best solution to a client’s needs.

Mergers, demergers & acquisitions

Making strategic decisions usually involves stepping back. We provide an objective input into your current and future strategy for growth.

Lateral hires

Good people know their worth and that there is a market for them. We help design, build and implement lateral hire strategies.

Joint ventures

Strategic alliances provide significant opportunities for professionals to share risk, access new markets and implement projects.

Inheritance planning

Financial planning and looking after your finances has never been so important. Effective management ensures you have all of the options available to you.

Retirement & succession

Linked to your growth plans, we use our expert knowledge to guide you on exit planning and how best to cope with the current financial climate.

Business & trading structure

Our aim is to leverage our expertise and sector knowledge to help organisations operate in the most efficient and profitable manner.

HR Services

Employment issues

We can guide you from contract of employment through practice and procedure (including TUPE) to resignation or dismissal.

Salaried / fixed share partners

We can advise on their entry into partnership, their contracts of employment or fixed profit share agreements and their employment status.

Discrimination

This is an increasingly important topic, particularly in relation to age discrimination. We provide comprehensive advice, including representation in tribunals.