The Legal Firm to Partner with Wealth Advisers
Experts in all areas of Mergers & Acquisitions. Find out how we can help
The Legal Firm to Partner with Wealth Advisers
Experts in all areas of Mergers & Acquisitions. Find out how we can help
Key Areas
Strategic Consultancy
Identifying a viable Mergers & Acquisition strategy with you.
Legal Risk Assessment
Identifying and quantifying the impact of issues on pricing you will achieve on your deal.
Legal Support
Supporting your team at each step from issue management preparation through to deal execution.
Commercial Due Diligence
Using our expertise to aid you in the evaluation of the target business.
M&A Key Services
Vialex can guide you through the whole Mergers & Acquisitions process, seamlessly working with your business until the deal is done
We bring a commercially orientated mindset that understands your industry. We are here to help you manage and understand the impact of risk, to make decisions, and to deliver the documentation and governance that makes the deal. In all this we don’t lose sight of your goals and objectives. We work closely with professional service providers across all the disciplines involved in a sale to provide you with a seamless service.
Our legal services are for clients on either side of a business deal and span the entire M&A spectrum. These services include company and asset or business unit acquisitions, full & partial share deals, private equity, venture capital transactions, joint ventures, carve-outs and projects, distressed transactions, and takeovers. Business restructuring and realignment is in our scope too. We work with our trusted partners should there be an IPO or international dimension to any particular deal.
What we do
Strategy & Planning
You have your own M&A strategy, priorities, and objectives.
How Vialex works for you
- Assessing the impact of legal risks relevant to executing that strategy, assessing potential counterparties in relevant industry sectors.
- For sell side minimising impact of known issues and mitigating exposure to unknown issues.
- For buy side assessing particulars of information memoranda and initial due diligence assessments.
What we do
Deal Execution
This is the art of doing deals. Whether share or asset sales, an exclusive run, auction, responding to a regulator’s request to acquire or dispose, and everything in between we anticipate our client’s needs.
How Vialex works for you
- Supporting, directing, and advising on the whole deal execution cycle.
- Negotiating heads of terms, undertaking a due diligence review, finalising the principal and ancillary documents.
- Coordinating completion (including funding) and assisting in the rollout of the post-acquisition plan.
What we do
Deal Preparation
The buy and sell sides of an M&A transaction have different interests but both want to know the impact on price of any adverse issues.
How Vialex works for you
- Delivering effective commercial due diligence on the legal risks, governance, and regulatory conduct of the target firm.
- For sell side, preparing the data room and using our experience to eliminate issues that may trip up deal execution, pricing, or timing.
- For buy side, reporting, assessing and quantifying relevant information or gaps in that information, against your strategic plans.
What we do
Integration
Once the deal is done that is just the beginning and if it is to be a success effective integration is essential.
How Vialex works for you
- Harnessing the experience of our Legal Counsel Service to support the newly acquired business, in resolving the legal risks inherent in the integration process.
- Executing the underlying strategic plan to deliver success.
Getting Started
About To Do a Deal?
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Road Map & Next Steps
Where are you on your M&A journey?
This road map sets out the key stages of the business sale & purchase journey. M&A work involves data, time and decision making. How quickly that journey is completed depends on the commercial context. The better the preparation, the better your goals and their associated timetables are achieved.
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Our M&A Work & Clients
We have an active portfolio of clients progressing their businesses interests in M&A activity
- Acting for Argentis Financial Group in relation to the acquisitions of: The business and assets of the independent advisory firm operated by Barnes Marsland, Solicitors; Part of the business and associated rights of Cobra Financial Services Limited; Part of the business and associated rights of Hart Brown, Solicitors; Part of the business and associated rights of Herbert Parnell Financial Services Limited
- Acting for the management shareholders of TCAM Asset Management Group Limited in sale of that (wealth management) company to 7IM
- Acting for Save & Invest Group Limited in connection with the acquisition of Shepherd and Wedderburn Financial Holdings Limited
- Acting for the shareholders of Argentis Financial Group relating to its sale to AJ Gallagher
- Acting for the management shareholders of Cornerstone Asset Management LLP in the sale of the members’ interests in the LLP to Waverton Investment Management Group
- Acting for the shareholders of Caledonia Asset Management Limited in its sale to Mattioli Woods PLC
Why Work With Vialex?
M&A experts here for you
Our clients face pressure from regulators, disruption from platforms, increased competition, and continued digitalisation. We expect M&A activity to focus on the continued formation of strategic partnerships, ongoing consolidation, and a higher level of distressed assets.
We believe activity will continue to gain momentum as wealth advisers seek to optimise cost structures, grow the top line, and increase efficiency and margins. Our financial services experience is considerable. We understand the areas of legal risk in our chosen areas of expertise, and how to manage those risks. Our aim is to swiftly size any legal risk that impacts on value or progression of the deal, and agree with you how to address that risk in order to negotiate the best possible deal completion outcome for you.
The Vialex team has over 150 years’ combined experience in the financial services industry M&A market. We have seen the trends set by clients gaining strategic market advantage through deals driven by technology and innovation, client base growth and profit maximisation. We believe Vialex can provide vital support to wealth advisers seeking the best outcome for their business in today’s market.
