If you’re contemplating a joint venture, we’ll help you create the foundations for commercial success

Our corporate and commercial law team support clients on a wide spectrum of joint ventures (JVs), from multi-party corporate projects to individuals pooling their finances and skills.

With all clients and deals, we offer a partner-led service, focusing on commercial realities as well as high-quality legal advice.

How we help

Whether your project involves a jointly owned corporate vehicle or a commercial contract-based collaboration, we’ll guide you through each legal step to achieving your goals.

If you’re not sure which structure works for you, we’ll advise you on your different options and their pros and cons.

Either way, we’ll use our experience to develop the structure you need for your business idea and ambitions.

Commercial contract JVs

Key issues we’ll discuss with you include:

  • What each party is bringing to the project
  • Each party’s financial and commercial role and obligations
  • How the returns will be distributed
  • The issues that are crucial to you.

We can also work with other professionals, such as your accountant, to optimise your tax arrangements.

Corporate JVs

Typically, the issues to consider when setting up a new single purpose vehicle (SPV) include:

  • Each party’s rights and contributions, including voting rights
  • Reserved matters
  • Rights to income and capital
  • How to deal with situations where the JV partners disagree on the strategic direction, or where one partner wants to exit.

As with contract-based joint ventures, our experienced lawyers will advise you on the issues involved and frame the documents you require.

Resolving JV disputes

If you’re already in a JV, we’re on hand with practical support. You may want help with updating a contract or shareholders’ agreement. Or with handling deadlock or changing direction. Or even with unwinding the JV entirely.

In these and other situations, we’ll use our experience to design solutions that make sound commercial and financial sense.

Meet the team

We combine big-picture corporate support with the day-to-day commercial agreements that keep your business running. From shareholder arrangements and joint ventures to customer and supplier contracts, we’ll help you manage risk without slowing momentum.