Corporate / Commercial
Overview
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