OUR SERVICES

Corporate & Commercial

We provide straightforward legal advice to help businesses achieve their commercial goals and support clients through corporate transactions.

Corporate and Commercial

We offer our clients bespoke, strategic guidance for their businesses along with advice on general commercial and regulatory matters. We provide legal services to businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors. Our clients range from owner-managed start-ups to PLCs, as well as professional partnerships and bodies. Our aim is to fully understand your business and its goals and offer pragmatic advice that considers your long-term interests.

Expertise

Our in-depth experience includes advising on:

Mergers and acquisitions
Private equity agreements
Funding structures
Investment in privately owned companies
Commercial contracts, shareholder agreements, software and IP licences, joint venture and LLP agreements
Technology licensing
Distribution agreements and outsourcing contracts
Start-ups

Recent transactions

Acting for an AIM listed company on its takeover
Establishing a £125m property fund and advice on fundraising
Acting for a mobile comparison website on its latest VC investment
Acting for a non-UK ISP on its acquisition of a UK satellite company
Advising two listed US groups on numerous acquisitions and distribution of assets

Key Contact

Rachel Atherton | Partner, Corporate and Commercial

Rachel advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial legal matters that may arise during the lifetime of a business, including share and asset acquisitions and disposals; equity and loan investments; corporate governance and shareholder issues; drafting and/or advising on commercial contracts.

Rachel’s clients operate across diverse sectors such as video game development, design and media, manufacturing, financial investment, property development, pubs, hotels, care homes, medical/dental services through to provision of mobile engagement software and services.

Rachel qualified as a solicitor in 2000. She joined the corporate and commercial department of Bracher Rawlins in 2012 and became a partner in 2022.

Rachel graduated from Oxford Brookes in 1996 with a degree in Law, she then completed her legal training at the College of Law. She has previously worked in regional firms and as a consultant providing legal services in-house and direct to clients.

Contact Details

rachel.atherton@bracherrawlins.co.uk
+44 (0)207 400 1535
+44 (0)207 404 9400

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The Klesch Group have used the services of the Bracher Rawlins’ employment team for over three years and can confirm that the team are highly professional and very knowledgeable about employment law. The team are able to explain sometimes complex areas of law in a clear and concise manner. Bracher Rawlins are a small but very dedicated firm of lawyers providing responsive and professional legal advice in a cost efficient manner.

David Green – Group General Counsel, The Klesch Group

We have worked with Bracher Rawlins on matters relating to commercial, property and employment matters. What we particularly like about working with Bracher Rawlins is the close day-to-day contact with the partners.

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Simon Rawlins of Bracher Rawlins LLP is an experienced bloodstock lawyer, engaged by clients in both non-contentious and litigious matters. He acts on professional negligence claims as well as contractual disputes between owners and trainers.

Chambers UK

Our services

Our specialist team of commercial lawyers excels not only in technical proficiency but also in understanding the business landscape, foreseeing both opportunities and risks.