Our Experience

Corporate Finance expertise of Conybeare Solicitors is regularly relied upon by clients who appreciate a premium legal advisory service based on an exacting standard of technical expertise combined with a realistic grasp of economic reality and a healthy dose of business acumen. Their growing reputation often sees them working alongside or in place of international or large law firms on both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Our Corporate finance experience has been gained over many years and across a number of sectors.
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M&A – Oil & Gas – Hungary

We led and managed a team of Hungarian lawyers who acted for a NASDAQ listed oil & gas company on the sale of its European subsidiary focussed on exploration and production in Hungary, which was a complex transaction covering a variety of assets from producible wells, exploration licenses, natural gas pipelines, joint operating agreements and production licenses.

M&A – Real Estate Holding Companies – Hungary / Cyprus / Czech Republic / Netherlands

We managed a team of Hungarian lawyers who were local counsel to a leading Czech law firm on the legal due diligence of a number of Hungarian and offshore companies owning a prestigious office development let to the Hungarian State on behalf of a quasi-institutional property investor.

M&A – Residential Real Estate – Hungary / Cyprus

We advised a privately held private equity company from Cyprus in its legal due diligence investigations and subsequent negotiations for the acquisition of a number of companies which owned a variety of residential development projects and property portfolios in Budapest.

M&A – Residential Property Development – UK

We acted for a private company on its share buy-back of a significant equity holding from its institutional investor 3i plc via an off-market share purchase, which involved negotiations with shareholders and the drafting of a share purchase contract and associated board and shareholder resolutions and documents.

M&A – Mixed Use Real Estate Development – Hungary / Israel

We led and managed a team of Hungarian lawyers as local counsel on the extensive due diligence (legal, tax and financial) on a prominent Budapest city centre mixed use (hotel, office and commercial) real estate development project as well as ongoing transactional advisory support.

Venture Captial Trust – Composite Valve Technology – UK

We acted for a UK company on a series of fundraisings it undertook from a UK based venture capital trust (VCT) for the continued development and production of composite valves for use in a variety of industries, including offshore marine environments. The transactions were complex arrangements due to the need to comply with venture capital trust legislation requirements, resulting in an extended number of different share classes with different rights attaching to each class.

Venture Capital / EIS Investment – Independent Book Publisher – UK

We acted for a high-end UK publishing company on its raising of venture capital investment to provide it with working capital from a specialist venture capital investor along with private investors seeking Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax reliefs.

Private Equity – Specialist Manufacturer – Hungary / USA / Netherlands

We advised a team of Hungarian lawyers on the successful global business purchase by a pre-eminent US private equity firm of a leading Hungarian manufacturer of precision tools and its operational facilities and European sales and distribution arrangements.

Private Equity Ecological Water Treatment Company – Hungary

We acted for a private Hungarian company on a highly complex private equity investment by a US managed offshore hedge fund and an Austrian managed Luxembourg based venture capital fund, which included a secured bridging loan facility, all of which transactions were governed by English law.

Private Equity – Guernsey Investment Fund – Guernsey / Hungary / USA

We acted for an institutional Guernsey investment fund on the legal due diligence, negotiations and execution of a pre-IPO equity investment by it, alongside Russian institutional investors, in a US holding company of a leading CIS/CEE software development and licensing business.

Private Equity – Private Investment Fund – UK / Hungary / Czech Republic

We advised the property investment managers on their proposed establishment of a private investment fund to undertake grocery retail investments in and across CEE including the formation of joint venture arrangements with London based quasi-institutional and private family office investors.

EIS Investment – Film Financing – UK

We acted for a private limited company which raised finance from private investors who qualified under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) for tax reliefs. The work involved drafting a private placing memorandum and subsequent negotiations and execution of an EIS compliant shareholders agreement.

Finance – Invoice Discounting – UK

We acted for a private financing company on its arrangements relating to an invoice discounting agreement with an international recruitment company which involved drafting a bespoke factoring agreement and related security agreements and registering the same at Companies House.

Finance – Loan Agreement – UK

We negotiated, reviewed and drafted secured and unsecured loan agreements and promissory notes for both borrowers and lenders, including complex bridge financing agreements, security documents, including personal guarantees to be given by the directors of private companies, legal charges taken over shares, debentures, mortgages, floating charges as well as fixed charges over assets, as well as undertaking extensive legal due diligence reviews of bank financing documentation.

Joint Venture – Premium Cooperage – Hungary / USA / France

We advised a team of Hungarian lawyers whose client was the US owner of Hungarian operation in a complex incorporated joint venture with a prestigious French family-owned cooperage concerning the sourcing of Hungarian oak, the manufacture and worldwide distribution of premium oak casks, involving a master joint venture agreement and ancillary financing and distribution agreements.

Joint Venture – Proprietary Software – UK

We acted on the negotiation and preparation of a joint venture shareholders’ agreement for an incorporated joint venture relating to proprietary software used under license by global banks in their back office administration for the storage and retrieval of settlements and where the joint venture company was appointed as the exclusive UK reseller.

Joint Venture – Software Development – UK

We acted for one of Britain’s largest garment decoration specialists and helped them to negotiate and execute an incorporated joint venture with a software development company for the design, development and subsequent commercial exploitation of bespoke cloud-based commercial production software for use in the textile and printed garment industry by customers worldwide.

Joint Venture – Oil & Gas – Joint Operating Company – Austria / Hungary

We acted for a Hungarian oil & gas company on its incorporated 50/50 joint venture arrangement (JOC) with another Hungarian major in respect of proposed hydrocarbon exploration in the Hungarian/Croatian border areas.