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Our fast effective teamwork is an integral part of our success in the business services team. We handle a wide range of transactional and non-transactional work and provide solutions tailored to your business needs.
Our clients range from sole proprietors of unincorporated businesses to multinationals. The services we provide range from preparing or reviewing simple agreements to buying and selling major companies.
The 2008 Deals Review undertaken by regional accountants Francis Clark in conjunction with the Western Morning News shows that Foot Anstey undertook more deals than any other law firm with offices in Devon and Cornwall. The survey also showed that in the past year, Foot Anstey undertook more MBO/MBI work than any of its competitors and also handled more sales than any other law firm in the survey.
Do you need specialist legal teams for complex transactions?
We can advise on:
- Business sales and acquisitions
- Agency and distribution agreements
- Commercial agreements
- Competition Law
- Corporate finance
- Employee share schemes
- Franchising
- eCommerce
- Intellectual Property Protection
- Charities Regulation
- Financial Services Law
- Computer/IT Law
The range and depth of our experience enables us to bring together a highly qualified team of legal experts to work with you. Whether you need help with company law, employment issues, property, litigation or environmental law, we can form a team which will answer your needs.
The most recent editions of the independent directories Chambers and Legal 500 comment on the team and its lawyers as follows:
The firm: With an established reputation and “historically strong regional background,” this team continues its involvement in a high volume of transactions. The team’s “strong technical, experienced approach” continues to prove popular. Chambers 2008
The lawyers: Bringing a wealth of business merger and acquisitions, MBO and MBI experience, Richard Coombs was described by sources as “one of the region’s leading lights.” He is a key figure within the team on major work. Mark Lewis is credited with having “grown the firm massively under his stewardship,” and clients continue to appreciate his “no-nonsense approach.” Chambers 2008
Richard Coombs... ‘sets an exceptional example as both a lawyer and a sensible commercial individual’. The Legal 500 2007
For inital advice, please contact:
- Richard Coombs at the Plymouth office on 01752 675022
- James Evans at the Exeter office on 01392 685243
- Mark Lewis at the Taunton office on 01823 625621
- Stephen Branfield at the Truro office on 01872 243357
