Corporate

Astle Paterson has developed a strong commercial team over many years. We now offer Corporate, Commercial Property and Employment services for all sizes of business. Our legal expertise is combined with a full understanding of your business requirements. We understand that our business clients require high performance standards, often to tight deadlines... this is an area where Astle Paterson excels.

Our Senior Director Jean Paterson leads the team which is fully equipped to deal with all aspects of specialist and general corporate and commercial advice.

The firm is a member of the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce and other local organisations. In an increasingly competitive commercial environment, we aim to strengthen our links within the professional and business communities. In this way we provide our clients, not only with legal support, but also access to other professional advisers including, Accountants, Banks, Surveyors and Financial Services Specialists.

Corporate services include:

• Agency, Distribution, Joint Venture and Franchise agreements
• Business / Company start ups
• Business reorganizations – including Section 110 reorganizations
• Company secretarial
• Conditions of Trading
• Licensing
• Management buy outs / buy ins
• Mergers, Disposals and Acquisitions
• Shareholder and Partnership agreements
• Software licensing and maintenance agreements
• Subscription for shares, debentures and directors loan accounts

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