International legal services
Cripps is an English law firm with offices in London and Kent, acting for corporate and personal clients in the UK and around the world. We can help you navigate the requirements of different countries where you are doing business or where you have personal interests.
Whether you are establishing, investing in or acquiring a business in the UK, investing in property or moving to the UK personally, we can advise on all the legal implications of your UK venture.
We have dedicated, jurisdiction-specific teams for some of our overseas clients and can advise on:
How we can help
Over the last 30-plus years, we have helped numerous international businesses to establish themselves successfully in the UK, whether that be through set-up, investment or acquisition. We can help you through the full business life cycle, from setting up your business to exiting for sale. We have specialist teams to advise on all your operational and strategic matters along the way, including:
- mergers and acquisitions
- private equity investment
- company law
- commercial contracts
- data protection
- employment issues
- finding and developing premises
- resolving disputes, including international arbitration.
Find out more about doing business in the UK.
If your cross-border interests have an impact on your personal life, we can also advise on family law; wills and trusts; residential property; tax structuring; wealth management and succession planning. Our role is to see the bigger picture and make the whole process as straightforward as possible.
You may already be in the UK and are looking to expand overseas, or the work we do for you has an international dimension. We have built strong relationships with trusted, like-minded law firms in the world’s main jurisdictions to provide you with a consistently high-level of personalised service for your international activities. We are equally happy to work alongside your own preferred law firms in other countries. We are not tied to a fixed network, so our independence means we can work with whoever is the best fit for you, your business and the services you need.
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Our experience
Acting for high net worth individuals purchasing investments in London.
Led the UK acquisitions programme of a Spanish group specialised in domiciliary care since 2016 – some 25 transactions in five and a half years.
Advised a Franco-German group on the acquisitions of a world-leading synthetic equestrian surfaces group based in the UK, Australia, Hong-Kong and the US.
Retained as lead UK legal counsel for a pan-European €820 million-turnover French group Manutan.
Provided legal advice and assistance to the French Tourism Agency in the UK.
Project managed all legal aspects of the UK development of a French brand of retail and industrial bakery for some 20 years.
Reviewed and negotiated employer of record agreements for an international client looking to engage staff in foreign jurisdictions, significantly improving the protection for our client.
Advising an international proprietary trading business on several acquisitions and the related debt and equity financing arrangements.
Supporting an international management consultancy with a restructuring process involving changing employees’ terms and conditions and redundancies.
Supporting the UK subsidiary of an international manufacturing business on the closure of its UK operations and the redundancy of its employees.
Our client successes
Supercharging international growth
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Supporting global engagement tech company Uniguest with strategic UK acquisitions to drive growth.
Sale of boutique hotels
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We supported the sellers of a boutique hotel chain on their exit from the market, including complex and integrated banking and M&A advice.
Related thinking
Cripps advise Active Management Solutions on sale
Cripps advise Getlink SE on the acquisition of ChannelPorts Limited
Cripps advise Paris-headquartered Manutan on its acquisition of Findel
Cripps advises on the cross-border sale of Maytech Communications to Kiteworks
Service of a claim outside the jurisdiction
Cripps advise brand experience agency, Strata Creative Communications on its acquisition of On Event Production Co
Cripps advise global specialty chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan on its acquisition of 4PLAS
Cripps advise Richemon SAS on its cross-border acquisition of BREC (Holdings) Limited
Cripps advises Chromalloy on International pre-sale restructuring
Cripps advises global aerospace manufacturer Chromalloy on the sale of French subsidiary Malichaud
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If you have a question or need advice, please let us know how we can help.
