Bio
Tim is a Corporate Partner.
Tim works with owner-managed and family-owned business throughout their lifecycle – from incorporation, to growth, and exit.
He advises on succession planning through shifts in generational ownership of family businesses; the development of management teams to facilitate exits; company restructuring and reorganisation to improve tax efficiency; employee incentives and retention; and corporate governance and strategy; buy-and-build growth projects.
Alongside advising businesses, Tim also advises charities from incorporation through to dissolution and merger, with a particular focus on governance and regulatory requirements.
Examples of Tim’s work include:
- Advising on several multimillion pound acquisitions within the care home sector.
- Supporting property developers using a variety of funding and corporate structures to acquire land and commercial premises for conversion to residential dwellings.
- Advising on succession planning within family-owned businesses to provide clear transfer of ownership and management control from one generation to the next.
- Advising an owner-managed business on a management buy-out, considering risks around earn-out provisions and deferred consideration, alongside advising on security options and alternatives to a management buy-out.
- Advising on sales of trading businesses to Employee Ownership Trusts, and advising exiting owners on benefits of sales to employee ownership.
- Advising an international timber agent on contractual arrangements, agency agreements and business structure.
- Assisting families with the incorporation of Family Investment Companies to protect generational wealth and facilitate the transfer of assets and value between generations in an orderly, and tax-efficient manner.
- Advising a care home business on a potential £20 million acquisition of up to 17 sites, providing detailed due diligence support which assisted in highlighting significant risks and issues with the target.