Financing a Business
The team of corporate and banking lawyers at CFR have experience at all levels of funding both existing and start-up businesses. We consider and advise on a potentially wide range of options for businesses seeking to fund their growth or development.
We are familiar with the issues and commercial imperatives facing businesses at all stages of their life-cycle including:
- Pre-incorporation
- Early stage or grant funding
- Initial loan and equity funding from existing and new shareholders
- Refinancing and restructuring
- Business angel and venture capital investment
- AIM listings
- Initial or secondary public offers of shares
Our depth of expertise across many industry sectors provides us with sharp insight into the issues specific to different types of business. We also specialise in business recovery and banking enabling us to advise on wider aspects of business finance, taking into consideration the different interests of shareholders, lenders, directors and public funding bodies.
Typical examples of the areas of advice required include:
- Share Subscription and Shareholders Agreements
- Secured and unsecured lending to business
- Business angel and venture capital funding
- Mortgage Finance, asset / debt finance, project finance and acquisition finance
- Restructuring, for example by means of converting debt to equity, schemes of arrangement and solvent liquidation
- Various forms of grant aid
- Public Offers of Securities, AIM Listings
- Businesses in distress.