Corporate finance
Joint ventures
Joint ventures provide a structure for
co-operation which allows businesses to share risk, resources and
rewards. Our lawyers have a wealth of experience helping clients
put in place - and, when necessary, unwind - joint venture
arrangements.
We provide bespoke commercial advice and
practical solutions together with legal expertise to enable clients
to structure realistic joint ventures. Ones which give the
participants clear and certain obligations, allowing them to
exploit their combined strengths while safeguarding individual
interests.
We draw on the expertise of lawyers in our
corporate and finance teams, as well as the sector knowledge of a
range of specialists in advertising, banking, communications, media, sports, technology, transport and travel to devise corporate and contractual
joint venture structures which take account of industry-specific
commercial drivers, economic and political pressures and regulatory
regimes.
Our experience includes:
- ventures based on contractual, partnership,
LLP and company structures
- multi-party arrangements including those
designed to facilitate the addition of new partners
- joint ventures involving both public sector
and private sector participants
- mechanisms for ensuring compliance by the
joint venture with statutory and regulatory requirements imposed on
its participants
- fixed term and open-ended joint
ventures
- mechanisms for protecting the interests of
participants with different funding obligations and
abilities
- dispute resolution procedures
- provisions which deal with defaulting or
dissident parties to protect the interests of all
participants
- protection for the intellectual property made
available by participants as well as that developed in the joint
venture
- strategies for exit