Nick Ball.
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Nick is a corporate and commercial solicitor with over 16 years’ experience helping businesses, founders and entrepreneurs. He has been recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 across multiple directory editions.
Nick advises on the corporate and commercial matters that arise throughout the life of a business, from setting up and putting the right agreements in place, through growth and investment, to buying, selling or restructuring a business and planning an exit.
He works with businesses of all sizes, with particular experience advising owner-managed and family businesses. His expertise includes acquisitions and disposals, private company takeovers, investments, share buybacks, shareholder agreements, articles of association, joint ventures and commercial contracts.
Nick is an experienced dealmaker and has completed transactions of varying size, value and complexity across a broad range of sectors. He takes the same practical approach whether helping a smaller business with its day-to-day corporate needs or advising on a substantial transaction. He focuses on understanding what his clients want to achieve and giving clear, commercial advice to help them get there.
Outside work, Nick is a keen football supporter and a season ticket holder at Brentford FC. He also enjoys watching his son play football for his local team, as well as fishing and boating on the Thames with his family.
Examples of Nick’s experience include:
- advising founders on a shareholders’ agreement.
- helping a small owner-managed business with a sale or purchase.
- advising on bringing a new shareholder or investor into a business.
- reviewing or negotiating commercial contracts.
- advising a 100-year-old property group with more than 30 shareholders and around 60 residential and commercial properties on a £16.5 million takeover offer, including advice on minority shareholder squeeze-out provisions under the Companies Act 2006.
- advising a care and residential property development company on the £5 million+ sale of one of its subsidiaries to a luxury care home group.
- advising the shareholders of a multi-site children’s nursery business on its nearly £3 million sale to the UK arm of an international childcare group.
- acting for a founder shareholder on the £2.5 million+ management buyout of his stone cleaning and restoration business.
- advising the shareholders of a family-owned golf club on its circa £2 million sale to a corporate group.
- advising an award-winning IT support company on a multi-million-pound company acquisition involving commercial property in London.
- advising a luxury sports car manufacturer on debt refinancing and security arrangements, including negotiations with the Welsh Government and other third parties.
- advising on the acquisition of the remaining shares in a company operating an air ambulance service at a major international airport, followed by the subsequent sale of the company’s business to a third-party buyer.
- providing ongoing corporate and commercial advice to a multi-award-winning brand
areas of work.
company, commercial and business law
Practical legal advice for business owners. Whether you’re starting a business, bringing in a new shareholder, buying another company, dealing...
