Leading Commercial Law Firm
Serving Manchester and Cheshire

Professional Services - Property & Engineering

We are well placed to advise you on all areas relating to your professional and business needs.

Our professional services team has gained knowledge over many years in acting for property businesses and also for many clients in the engineering sector. This has been during both the commercial property boom and the more recent leaner, less active period. With our professional services team specialising in various disciplines, we are well placed to advise you on all areas relating to your professional and business needs, including:

• Advising on your business structure: sole trader, company, partnership or limited liability partnership (LLP)
• Drafting shareholders’ agreements with tailored articles of association (satisfying any regulatory requirements), partnership agreements and LLP agreements together with appropriate income distribution arrangements
• Incorporation of sole traders and partnerships to companies or LLPs
• Sale, purchase and lease of properties
• Practice sales, purchases and mergers
• Funding and financing your business
• Admission or appointment of a new shareholder, partner or member (for example, appointment of an equity or fixed share/salaried partner)
• Retirement or removal of an existing shareholder, partner or member (whether voluntary or otherwise)
• Advising new shareholders, partners or members on the terms offered to them
• Dispute resolution between shareholders, partners or members
• Dissolution/winding-up property businesses
• Constitutional and governance matters including (for directors and, where appropriate, members) compliance with the Companies Act 2006
• Regulatory advice regarding your profession including compliance review and related disciplinary matters
• Protecting your practice using restrictive covenants and injunctions
• Drafting employment contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures
• All other employment and human resource related issues
• All issues in relation to the property needs of your practice and you personally
• Intellectual property rights and their use and protection

For a no obligation and confidential discussion about how we may be able to assist you in relation to your requirements, please contact us. We know you are busy professionals and our professional services team will always make time to talk and/or meet with you outside of your core practising hours.

Key Contacts

Akeel Latif, Partner
0161 941 4000
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Neil Myerson, Senior Partner
0161 941 4000
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Philip Kenny, Solicitor
0161 941 4000
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