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Partnerships and LLPs

Our experienced partnerships and LLPs team offers practical legal advice relating to partnerships and LLPs and their many uses, such as joint venture vehicles or asset holding structures, particularly concerning the London property market.

Our clients include professional services partnerships such as accountants, architects, dentists, doctors and solicitors. We advise both organisations and individuals on their rights and obligations and, when necessary, assist in resolving disputes through the court process or ADR.

Speak to our head of corporate and commercial, Victoria Holland, today.

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Death of a shareholder – September 2023

At a glance
  • Advising an asset management company on its restructuring and the creation of LLPs.
  • Advising the senior partner of a city law firm on his exit and negotiation of his new partnership terms.
  • Acting for the founder partner of a law firm on her exit from the firm and successfully defending arbitration claims brought by former partners.
  • Advising an outgoing partner of a “Big 4” accountancy firm on an exit strategy.
  • Advising the members of a financial services LLP on a hostile breakup of the business and a restructuring of the business through a new LLP following the resolution of the dispute.
Practice areas
  • Conversions
  • Dissolution and appointment of receivers
  • Formation of LLPs
  • Incorporations
  • Joint ventures
  • LLP agreements
  • M & A
  • Member disputes
  • Partnership deeds
  • Profit-sharing disputes
  • Retirement and post-retirement obligations

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