Alternative Legal Services works closely with Herbert Smith Freehills' Corporate practice as it guides the world's leading commercial organisations through all stages of their corporate development.
We support corporate transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, asset management, investment funds, commercial contracts and financial services regulatory.
Asset Management and Financial Services Regulatory
We provide a wide range of services to major asset management clients of the firm and the funds managed by them, including:
- dealing with complex restructuring projects;
- cross-jurisdictional regulatory projects;
- day-to-day operational support;
- private funds support; and
- listed funds support.
In addition to supporting teams across the Herbert Smith Freehills network, we also deliver services directly to clients, in respect of ad-hoc legal work, supporting and managing large transactional matters and on-going business-as-usual services.
In recent years, there has been an unprecedented level of regulatory reform across financial services. Against this backdrop, and complementing the expert, strategic advice provided by Herbert Smith Freehills, Alternative Legal Services offers execution and implementation solutions where changes need to be affected across large volumes of contracts or investor-facing documents.
Capital Markets
Our extensive experience of capital markets transactions means that we are ideally placed to assist instructing teams as they navigate the major economic impacts, political events and technological developments which are reshaping the markets.
We offer:
- due diligence;
- prospectus drafting;
- prospectus updates/management; and
- verification.
We tailor our offering to match the approach taken in the jurisdiction where the supported transaction is taking place.
Mergers & Acquisitions
We assist with due diligence projects on both buy-side and sell-side mandates, ranging from smaller and more focused red-flag reviews, to extensive, industry-specific exercises, allowing our instructing teams and clients to focus on key risks and challenges and address them before they threaten the success of deals.
We can also assist clients with co-ordinating other aspects of M&A deals, such as datarooms, non-disclosure agreements and the Q&A process.
Outsourcing and Commercial Contracts
Through an offering which is purposefully flexible, we design bespoke solutions for each client, in line with their own internal processes and expectations.
These solutions include:
- sales and supply agreements (for goods and services);
- non-disclosure agreements; and
- distribution agreements.
We also provide overflow services to in-house teams for busy periods, as well as designing full-service outsourcing models for them.
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