Ownership and group restructuring
Introduction
Reorganising who owns what within a group or family: moving companies, assets and debt between entities efficiently and lawfully.
Groups restructure for many reasons: to prepare for investment or a listing, to separate businesses for a sale, to simplify a structure that grew over decades, or to divide a family group between branches. The steps include share transfers, mergers, conversions of company form and the insertion of a holding company.
Each step carries consequences: approvals from regulators and lenders, consents under key contracts, licences and employees moving between entities, and zakat, tax and real estate transaction tax costs that the right sequence can reduce.
We design the target structure with the client's tax advisers, plan the sequence, prepare the corporate documents and filings, and coordinate the governance redesign and the transfer of IP, technology and data assets between entities.
How we help
What the work covers
Target structure
Designing the structure the group needs for its next stage.
Sequencing
Ordering transfers, mergers and conversions to limit cost and risk.
Consents
Regulator, lender and counterparty approvals for each step.
Implementation
Corporate documents, registrations and the transfer of assets and staff.
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