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Taking everything into consideration -
21/01/2026

Taking everything into consideration -

I have acted on quite a few company and business sales in the last ahem 30 something+ years. None of them have been that enormous. In my career I have mainly acted for owners of small to medium owner-managed businesses, and my average deal size since I went out on this OnHand foray of my own over 1...

How to transfer a contract -
16/09/2025

How to transfer a contract -

This is the sixth Guide in my series about the differences between share sales and business (asset) sales. You should ideally be aware of these if you are a business owner who might ever want to sell (or buy) a business (or a company…).

Getting your ducks in order -
02/09/2025

Getting your ducks in order -

This is the fifth Guide in my series about the differences between share sales and business (asset) sales. You should ideally be aware of these if you are a business owner who might ever want to sell (or buy) a business (or a company…). This fifth Guide explains how you need to draft a business sa...

Advice for sincerely deluded directors and others -
24/07/2025

Advice for sincerely deluded directors and others -

As Flanders and Swann once advised, ‘always be sincere – whether you mean it or not’. But things are even more complicated nowadays in the world of corporate law and directors’ duties, and this recent case shows that it is not enough to be sincere even if you mean it if you are actually delu...

Beware the skeletons -
25/06/2025

Beware the skeletons -

This is the fourth Guide in my series about the differences between share sales and business (asset) sales. You should ideally be aware of these if you are a business owner who might ever want to sell (or buy) a business (or a company…). This fourth Guide focusses on some of the things to think ab...

What are you trying to sell? -
13/05/2025

What are you trying to sell? -

When speaking to company owners who are thinking of selling up, I am often surprised how many of them have not thought about the many differences between a company sale and a business sale. And even when speaking to quite savvy business owners or accountants and other professional advisors I am oft...

Loyalty isn’t what it used to be -
11/03/2025

Loyalty isn’t what it used to be -

As well as my useful but possibly rather boring Guides on things like business sales, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, I also do the occasional article which I put in the Updates and Tips section of my website. Usually they are based on a recent court decision which covers new or interes...

Who or what are you and what do you think you're selling? -
06/02/2025

Who or what are you and what do you think you're selling? -

When speaking to even quite savvy business owners or accountants and other professional advisors I am often surprised at how they have not appreciated some of the big differences between selling a company and selling the business of a company.  You should ideally be aware of them if you are a busi...

A case of sloppy drafting -
05/11/2024

A case of sloppy drafting -

As well as my series of Guides on areas such as share sales, joint ventures and shareholder investments and arrangements, I also do the occasional article which I put in the Updates and Tips section of my website. Appallingly I have not published one of these for nearly two years. Usually they are b...

Selling your business or your company- what's the difference? -
10/09/2024

Selling your business or your company- what's the difference? -

I am delighted to announce that the OnHand Counsel website has recently been re-jigged to pithily highlight the areas of law I specialise in, the headlines being 1/ business sales, 2/ joint venture and shareholder arrangements and 3/ corporate and commercial law (ie lots of other stuff!). The pedan...

How to deal with fallouts in deadlock companies -
27/02/2024

How to deal with fallouts in deadlock companies -

This Guide is the last of four Guides about deadlock companies, which are part of my series of Guides to shareholders arrangements. All my Guides can be found here. Although these Guides are about deadlock companies there is plenty in them which is relevant to other shareholding arrangements.

How to break through a shareholder bust-up -
17/01/2024

How to break through a shareholder bust-up -

Although this Guide is about deadlock companies there is plenty in it which is relevant to other shareholding arrangements.

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