Corporate Services

Navigate corporate law with legal partners who understand your business. From mergers and acquisitions to shareholder agreements, obtain focused advice that keeps your company deal-ready. 

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Corporate law services for ambitious businesses

From buying and selling to restructuring, our corporate lawyers deliver tailored guidance that helps you secure value and plan for long-term success. We assist at every stage of a business’ life cycle from formation, expansion by acquisition, strategic alliances such as joint ventures, capital raising and ultimately a sale or other exit event.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

    Buy or sell corporations with confidence, guided by experts in complex legal deals.

  • Private Equity

    Navigate funding rounds, exits, and portfolio management with strategic insight.

  • Joint Ventures and Partnerships

    Create agreements that protect your interests and enable collaborative growth.

  • Corporate Restructuring

    Reshape your company with advice on reorganisations, distressed sales, and solvent wind-downs.

  • Shareholder Agreements

    Define rights, obligations, and protections to minimise conflicts and strengthen governance.

  • Corporate Governance

    Meet regulatory requirements and maintain structures that support effective decision-making.

Speak to a Legal Partner

Our team support you to navigate complexity, seize opportunity and move forward with legal clarity.

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Contact our Specialists

Get strategic advice from a team that knows how to protect and grow your business. Please complete our enquiry form and one of our experts will contact you by the next working day.


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What Corporate Services do we provide?

Our corporate lawyers can help you with:

  • Sales and purchases of businesses and companies
  • Business formations
  • Funding including private equity and venture capital
  • Management buyouts
  • Public company mergers and acquisitions
  • Stock exchange listings and fund raisings
  • Joint ventures and other strategic partnerships
  • Corporate reorganisations
  • Corporate governance
  • Company secretarial services.

Who do we help?

We work with and advise companies, businesses and individuals based in the UK and overseas including:

  • UK and international corporates
  • Business owners and company shareholders
  • Private equity and venture capital providers
  • Those looking for private equity investment
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Public market brokers and sponsors
  • Professional services organisations, banks and other financial services businesses.

About Irwin Mitchell

Legal partners for ambitious businesses

We help protect your position and plan your next moves across disputes, growth opportunities, and business change.

Our advice is always shaped around your sector, goals, and long-term success. Whether you are a specialist small or medium enterprise or an international group, we will give you understanding that makes decisions easier, and outcomes stronger.

Irwin Mitchell is a full-service law firm with 21 UK offices and a global reach. Our business lawyers work as long-term strategic partners, offering practical advice that helps you move with assurance.

Here’s where you’ll find us

We are a full-service firm with solicitors in 18 UK locations, giving you national expertise with local support.
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Our commitment to you

Our experts always start by listening, so we understand what matters most from day one.
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    Clear legal guidance

    You will always get straightforward, honest advice, with regular updates to keep you clear on the way forward.

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    Specialist knowledge

    A wide-ranging team of trusted specialists who understand what it takes to protect your future, your family or your business.

  • 03
    Your needs first

    Whether you’re navigating complex personal situations or business decisions, we take the time to understand your world and what’s at stake.

Recognised for excellence. Chosen for care.

  • Legal 500 Top Tier Firm UK 2026
  • Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025
  • ePrivateClient Top Law Firms 2025
  • Chambers High Net Worth 2025