Bio
Joseph is a Corporate Partner.
Joseph advises business owners on their options for exiting their business and acquiring other businesses. He delivers commercial advice with the aim of ensuring the smoothest and most efficient journey to completion. Joseph has more than 10 years of experience in M&A and assessing risk more generally.
He regularly supports on solvent structuring exercises for businesses and entrepreneurs, including share reorganisations, demergers, succession planning, family investment companies and tax/IHT planning. These exercises require meticulous planning and collaboration with other professional adviser.
Joseph also works alongside our litigation teams about disputes between shareholders, directors and other business stakeholders. He focuses on prioritising commercial solutions to disputes, with the aim of avoiding prolonged decision-making paralysis in the business and the escalation of the dispute via the courts.
Examples of Joseph’s work include:
- Acting for the majority shareholders on the sale of their shares in a compressed air system business, structured as a management buyout.
- Acting for a marina operator on the strategic acquisition of two marinas, one via share purchase and the other via asset purchase.
- Acting for a regional pub operator on the acquisition of a new site, structured as a share purchase.
- Acting for the shareholders on the sale of their shares in a pumping solutions business.
- Acting for an entrepreneur on the set-up of a family investment company, including the adoption of ‘bloodline’ shares and creation of a Trust.