Corporate Transaction Services

Investment structures and joint ventures

Strategic structuring advice for long-term success.

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The way you structure your investments or joint ventures can define not just the success of a deal, but the future shape of your business. Whether you’re a corporate, private investor, fund, or family office based in the UK or overseas, we help you make decisions that are commercially sound, compliant, and built to scale.

Our team advises across the full lifecycle of investment structuring. From selecting the right vehicle to navigating tax, governance, and regulatory challenges, we’ll work with you to design and implement arrangements that serve your strategic aims not just your immediate transaction.

We regularly act for clients investing across a wide range of asset classes including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and venture capital and have extensive experience with both onshore and offshore structuring. Whether you’re forming a limited company, LLP, partnership, trust or not-for-profit entity, we ensure the setup reflects your ambitions, risk appetite, and operational needs.

If you’re establishing a joint venture, we can advise on ownership and governance models, capital contributions, profit-sharing, and exit strategies always with an eye on protecting your interests and anticipating future scenarios. Our work often includes drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, LLP and LP arrangements, and collaboration frameworks tailored to UK and international regulatory environments.

Where investment structures involve funds, we support clients from the ground up advising on fund formation, choice of domicile, marketing rules, regulatory compliance, and eventual wind-down. We’re experienced in helping both first-time fund managers and established sponsors navigate complex regimes and launch with confidence.

Everything we do is underpinned by a cross-practice approach. Working closely with colleagues in corporate, tax, private wealth, regulatory and real estate, we deliver advice that’s joined up and commercially relevant, helping you avoid structural pitfalls and keep your focus on value creation.

If you’re looking to invest, co-invest, or scale up through a joint venture, talk to our team. We’ll help you structure your next move with clarity and purpose.

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