About

I've been the Head of the firm's Corporate practice group for several years and my work covers a wide range of corporate and company matters, in particular private company mergers and acquisitions. I started at the firm over 20 years ago as a trainee, so the firm's ethos and culture manifest themselves in my work and the interactions I have with my colleague and clients.

I specialise in mergers & acquisitions (from both a buyer and seller perspective), corporate advisory, growth, venture & private equity capital (from both an investor and investee perspective) and joint venture shareholder & shareholder arrangements.

I have worked with clients across a variety of industry sectors, but have significant expertise in the advertising & marketing, media & entertainment and technology sectors.

Experience

Mergers & acquisitions

  • Negotiating UK and cross-border share sale and purchase and asset sale and purchase agreements for company and business acquisitions and disposals
  • Creating complex earn-out, retention and warranty & indemnity arrangements
  • Undertaking and co-ordinating legal due diligence in resect of UK and overseas entities
  • Advising on detailed restrictive covenant provisions in the context of transactions
  • Advising management teams and purchasers in management buy-out transactions
  • Manging deals which involve significant people assets and / or IP rights e.g. creative and / or technology businesses

Corporate

  • Advising corporations on their statutory and constitutional liabilities and obligations
  • Advising individuals on the appropriate structure, constitutional and contractual framework for their businesses

Joint venture & shareholder arrangements

  • Drafting bespoke constitutions and arrangements between shareholders, partners or LLP members which are appropriate for the business as it is and how the parties plan to develop and grow it
  • Advising on shareholder disputes between individual shareholders to devise solutions such as staged exits and share buy-backs

Testimonials

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"Paul Rajput is the Rolls Royce of Corporate M&A lawyers. He is capable of driving the deal by himself, asking input from his clients when necessary, provides a variety of possible solutions for his clients to choose from, and is a force of nature when it comes to driving everyone to complete."
Legal 500
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