Whether you are looking to buy, sell, merge or even close your business our team have the expertise to guide you through your options and the processes involved. Our specialists have a proven track record of delivering results with vision and experience.
Corporate Finance Services
You know what you want out of your business, and working from these agreed objectives we will act as part of your team on all of your most important financial transactions.
Based across our offices in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, our corporate finance team has extensive experience in handling:
- Management buy-outs
- Management buy-ins
- Company acquisitions
- Company disposals
- Due diligence
- Business valuations
Our Corporate Finance team has a broad range of expertise and experience including regularly handling:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Disposals and divestments
- Business investigations
- Strategic planning
- Reconstructions and reorganisations
- Raising debt and equity finance
- Planning family succession
We will look at all aspects of the transaction and, with the support of our tax advisory team, will ensure we maximise tax planning opportunities as well.
Our investment activities are regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Business Recovery and Insolvency
From our earliest years we have built a reputation for handling business recovery assignments in a professional and sensitive manner. The aim is always to rescue a business or save an individual from bankruptcy, focusing on practical and sound advice to achieve the solution that best meets the particular needs of your business situation.
Our specialist team, which operates from our offices in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, provides a full range of recovery and insolvency options to businesses and individuals in East Anglia and beyond.
- Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA)
- Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVA)
- Creditors Voluntary Liquidations (CVL)
- Members Voluntary Liquidations (MVL)
- Turnaround services
- Director or Creditor advisory services
Our approach is always to preserve as much of the business as possible, this is why we recommend engaging with us at the earliest opportunity. We can support you with informal workouts leading to business rescue, voluntary arrangements and administrations, through to liquidations.
Our track record is first class and over many years advising businesses in East Anglia we have helped numerous organisations either continue in business, or where necessary assist them to efficiently wind up their companies once trading has ceased.
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For a useful guide for creditors on insolvency processes and terms, please see the “Creditor Insolvency Guide” website developed by R3 (The Association of Business Recovery Professionals)
http://www.creditorinsolvencyguide.co.uk/Key partners and staff
Lovewell Blake Corporate Finance and Business Recovery Services
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