Corporate Commercial

Our Corporate/Commercial Department brings together a wealth of experience in every aspect of commercial transactions, corporate structures and funding mechanisms, and contractual arrangements of all kinds. We base our service on commercial knowledge, insight and a practical understanding of each client’s business so that our advice adds value beyond the deal or issue at hand.

Corporate/Commercial department


Our energetic and innovative team is widely known for its capacity to tackle even the most complex transactions in a client focused and approachable manner. We have particularly strong relationships with entrepreneurial businesses and investors of all kinds; our partners are trusted business advisers as well as first-rate legal practitioners. The ability to coordinate sector-specific and specialist input from within the corporate department and other parts of ByrneWallace is a key factor in the group’s success.

Corporate/commercial services

Public company services
  • IPOs: experience in acting for companies, underwriters and shareholders in ISE/Nasdaq flotations
  • DCM / AIM and OFEX admissions
  • Post-IPO fundraisings and secondary placings
  • Stock Exchange (ISE and Nasdaq) advisory and compliance services for publicly quoted clients
  • Mergers and acquisitions services for publicly quoted clients
  • Corporate structuring and restructuring
Private companies
  • Venture capital investment - extensive experience in acting for both venture capitalists and companies
  • Venture capital fund establishment
  • Private equity investments
  • Seed funding and grant aided investments
  • Debt financing
  • Project finance
  • Management buy-outs
  • Joint ventures and partnership agreements
  • Sale and purchase of private companies
Commercial
  • Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), confidentiality agreements
  • Trading terms and conditions
  • Share Option/Participation Schemes - public and private companies
  • Commercial contracts
  • Intellectual property law, copyright, patents and trade marks
  • EU and competition law

Recommendations

The Corporate / Commercial department is recommended by Chambers and Partners International.

Chambers Global 2010:

Clients say: "It really delivers and its advice is always clear and instructive.” “The firm is extremely pragmatic, and the speed of response and availability of senior lawyers are impressive.”