Corporate / Commercial

Overview

Our team at GWP & Co. have extensive experience in all major areas of Corporate and Commercial Law including commercial litigation and dispute settlement, restructuring, acquisitions, mergers, intellectual property and insolvency.

We service a domestic, regional and international client base with diverse interests across a wide spectrum of industries including telecommunications, oil and gas, energy and utilities, shipping, tourism, technology, sports, building construction, and more.

We provide timely bespoke legal solutions to onshore and offshore individuals, trusts and financial institutions, corporations, charitable organisations and law firms, many of which are engaged in the international business and financial services sectors.

GWP & Co. has particular expertise in the following areas:

    Corporate Finance

    Mergers and Acquisitions, re-organisations

    Initial equity offerings, private and public

    Private Equity

    Advising on public and private M&A transactions

    Leveraged financing (intercreditor agreements, facility agreements, loan notes assignments)

    Drafting bespoke articles of incorporation

    Drafting and advising on shareholder agreements and shareholder rights

    Venture Capital

    Joint Ventures

    Joint financing and service ventures

    Corporate structuring for real estate ventures

    Advising generally on limited partnership agreements

    General Corporate

    Corporate Administration

    Insurance

    Corporate governance, including directors duties and advising on dividend payments or distributions

    Intellectual property and trademarks

    Service contracts and other commercial contracts

    Redomiciliation advice

    Corporate Reorganisation

    Pre-insolvency restructurings

    Advising on cross-border corporate reorganisations

    Voluntary Liquidations and Liquidator Services

    Voluntary solvent liquidations

    Statutory schemes of arrangement and plans of arrangement

    Forbearance agreements and work-outs

    Creditors’ Voluntary Arrangements

    Using the available remedies of offshore jurisdictions alongside those of other jurisdictions in cross-border structures

    Voluntary Liquidations and Liquidator Services

    Consolidations

    Migrations

    Statutory Mergers

    Schemes

    Plans of Arrangement

    Insolvency

    Compulsory and members’ voluntary liquidation

    Appointment of Liquidators and Provisional Liquidators

    Administrative Receivership

    Liquidation of Insurance Companies

    Cross-border insolvency and international assistance to foreign insolvency practitioners

    Rights and duties of directors in respect of entities facing insolvency

    Distressed or insolvent investment funds

    Security Enforcement

    Advising on the rights of secured creditors and the enforcement of security

    Voidable transactions

    Team