About

I am a consultant in the firm's Corporate and Partnerships & LLPs legal practice groups. I've had a long and rewarding career working with clients across a variety of industry sectors but my principal focus is in the professional services and communications sectors.

I have an expertise in advising partnerships and LLPs and, in particular, working with professional services firms on their constitutional arrangements and structures. I'm recommended in both Chambers and Legal 500 directories as a leading practitioner for this area of work.

My practice covers a wide range of corporate matters with over forty years' experience of advising on mergers and acquisitions, shareholders' agreements, joint ventures and corporate borrowing transactions.

Experience

LLPs & partnerships

  • Advising law, accountancy and other professional services firms on their constitutional arrangements and drafting their partnership and LLP agreements
  • Managing LLP conversions
  • Handling LLP and partnership formations
  • Advising on and implementing restructuring projects and mergers
  • Advising on the use of LLPs as joint venture vehicles, particularly in the property sector
  • Documenting negotiated LLP member and partner exits

Corporate

  • Advising on corporate borrowing including negotiating loan and security documents
  • Managing mergers & acquisitions
  • Documenting corporate joint venture structures

Testimonials

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"Fergus is hugely knowledgeable, with great technical skills. He is very flexible in terms of time, he is very responsive and he listens in a very considered way to what the client actually wants to achieve. He has extensive experience and good understanding of our needs as a firm."
Chambers & Partners
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Services

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