Buy & Build Lawyers

We support over 100 transactions each year.

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We support you throughout your journey as you look to grow your business.

Acquisition, or ‘buy and build’, can be a successful strategy for growth, helping your business to gain new skills and technology, or enter new markets. However, it can also prove expensive and time-consuming to complete due diligence, close the deal and integrate a new business.

As one of the North’s most active deal advisers, advising on all sizes of transaction, we understand the complexities of corporate deals. Our approach is founded on consistency, continuity and capacity. We will build the long-term relationships needed to support you in your vision and strategy to continue to grow organically and through acquisition.

We support clients from a wide range of sectors, and we invest our time to understand the issues affecting their industries. We get the job done and that’s why each year Brabners advises on over 100 transactions for a range of private companies and household names.

Meet the team

Our expertise

Corporate transactions require the expertise of more than just corporate lawyers, and as a full-service law firm, we work collaboratively with experts from across our firm so that the right people are supporting you, ensuring your deal receives the comprehensive support required.

Our Corporate team is one of the largest in the North, with over 40 lawyers, including 18 partners, with industry sector specialists with a genuine understanding of your business and needs. We provide a full range of services, collaborating with the teams within our firm and your other advisers to ensure you receive fully integrated, comprehensive advice.

Underpinning our transactional and commercial expertise is the strength of our teams including Intellectual Property, Deal Advisory, Regulatory, Employment, Pensions, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Management, Tax, Procurement and Commercial Contracts.

Consistent approach, trusted partners

We will provide a seamless service by understanding and adopting processes and procedures you currently have in place, ensuring consistency and continuity of care whilst identifying opportunities to add value.

Throughout our relationship, we provide efficient and proactive support, advice and commitment during all your transactions.

We aim to build long-lasting relationships with our clients by supporting them throughout their acquisitive journey, and we have acted for clients over a number of years on numerous acquisitive transactions.

For clients who we act for who are recurring acquirers we help streamline the process by adopting a number of strategies including:

using the same team within Brabners so there is consistency of approach, and our people understand your business and your needs
tailored template documentation (such as heads of terms, due diligence questionnaires and acquisition agreements) that focusses on what matters to you
consistent reporting style on the due diligence
transaction summary reports that critically flag key commercial changes from Heads of Terms and/or material departures from template documents so you are aware of critical issues.