Myerson Legal Plus for Accountants Brochure

Working behind the scenes so that you can provide your clients with a seamless service

For Accountants

To find out how we can help your business, speak with any member of our Corporate Team.

Tel: 0161 941 4000 Email: lawyers@myerson.co.uk www.myerson.co.uk

Welcome With years of experience working alongside accountants and tax advisers, we have developed Myerson Legal Plus, a specialist service providing expert legal support to professional advisers on a simple fixed fee basis.

Whilst there is a wealth of benefits, most of all, our service ensures you remain in control of transactions without distraction to your clients. We work behind the scenes so that you can provide your clients with a seamless service.

Why Myerson?

At Myerson, we put our clients and intermediaries at the heart of everything we do establishing long-term relationships acting as a trusted adviser.

We are proud to be ranked as ‘Top Tier’ in the prestigious international directory The Legal 500 and commended

by The Times ‘Best Law Firms 2019’. Therefore, you can rest assured you will be receiving the highest quality legal advice, with a personal and bespoke service.

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Our expert corporate team regularly deal with matters including those with local, national and international business elements, across a wide range of sectors including; professional services, technology, creative and media, private healthcare, charities, manufacturing, retail and leisure, fashion and textiles and agriculture.

So, you can be certain the Myerson team working alongside you are experienced, legal professionals.

How we can help.

Share rights and articles of association We can prepare the documentation to carry out share capital reductions, whether to tidy up a balance sheet or to create distributable reserves, by way of the insolvency process or otherwise.

Share rights and articles of association If your client needs to create a new class of shares, whether to split dividends or create growth/flowering shares, then we can assist with drafting the new articles and drafting the necessary authorities to achieve this.

Share options If your client is looking to implement share options, (whether EMI or otherwise) on either exit only or performance-based terms, we can prepare the option documents and create new classes of share (where relevant).

New holding companies Where tax structuring requires the insertion of a new holding company over an existing company, to facilitate a restructure or an exit, then we can prepare the share purchase on agreement and deal with any stamp duty adjudication applications.

Loans and security We can prepare a range of loan documentation and security documents for your clients looking to formalise their debt, especially if prior to arranging secured debt from a third-party lender.

Share buybacks

This is just a sample of the services that we can offer your clients, further information and a full price list can be made available on request.

If you have an exiting shareholder looking to have their shares bought back by the company, then we can prepare the necessary documents to achieve this.

Please email: lawyers@myerson.co.uk

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The key benefits.

As our client, we will work closely with you, to build a strong working relationship so that we can streamline the process of how we work together.

By maintaining regular communication, we hope to turn around instructions within agreed timescales which meet your client’s needs.

One-Stop-Shop By using our services, you can offer your client a “one-stop-shop” where all of their needs are satisfied by you without them having to shop around to get quotes. Your client will receive one fee quote and one invoice at the end of the job. They will have no need to go elsewhere.

Fixed Fee Pricing The work we carry out for you will be on a fixed fee basis so that you and your client have certainty of our costs. Further, we can give you a price list for our most common white label instructions, so that you can include our costs in your fees upfront when you speak to your client.

Cost Savings Remote Working

By acting for you directly, we can help you pass on cost savings to your client:

Geography is no issue to us, and we are happy to work at a distance. Where possible, we can utilise electronic signatures so that your clients don’t need to print or post any documents.

• As you are our client, we will not need to perform ID checks on your clients before work commences, which will speed up the process; • Our instructions come directly from you, so there is less chance of inaccuracy from the client, and any intricacies can be dealt with upfront;

Engaging with your Clients

• We act for you on an “execution-only” basis (i.e. drafting of documentation only). By the nature of the work we are carrying out, there is little to no legal advice required to be given to the end client, as we are simply drafting documentation to implement your strategy. This substantially reduces he amount of work involved if we were acting directly for your client.

If the nature of the work is too complex and requires us to give legal advice to the end client, such as Family Investment Company (FIC’s), Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT’s), management buyouts or demergers. In such cases, we are more than happy to engage with your client directly, and we can offer fixed fees to them, where appropriate.

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How we work.

Personal, partner-led service.

Our most experienced partners get to know you and your way of working. We strive to become your trusted legal advisers, providing added value where we can, as well as a genuine, personal service.

The highest level of expertise.

Combining commerciality, practicality and legal expertise enables us to deliver every time. As well as regularly working alongside you and other professional advisers, our solicitors are always at the forefront of new business practice, sector specialisms and knowledge.

Every case is different, and we are here to support you and your clients every step of the way.

A team you can trust.

You’re in safe hands. We help clients and other professionals nationwide with complex business matters on a daily basis – so you can trust that our expert team knows their stuff!

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Your corporate partners

Partner

Partner

Partner

Akeel Latif

Scott Sands

Andrew Brown

Head of Corporate Commercial

Corporate Commercial

Corporate Commercial

0161 941 4000 akeel.latif@myerson.co.uk

0161 941 4000 scott.sands@myerson.co.uk

0161 941 4000 andrew.brown@myerson.co.uk

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Don’t just take our word for it…

“We have worked with the team at Myerson for a number of years. The quality of their work is always excellent, and their fees are very competitive. They offer a range of legal services which they deliver in a timely manner whilst always keeping us informed. Myerson is a friendly firm, and we would highly recommend them to anyone.”

Steven Crompton, Partner, Jackson Stephen LLP. “The team have been excellent at accommodating my last-minute demands to turn documents around to meet client expectations. Working with the team creates a seamless approach for accountants and solicitor’s delivery a project for a client.”

Ann Bibby, Partner, Ellacotts.

“The team is known for its proactive approach, diverse range of skills and excellent response times, whilst home to extensive sector expertise.” Ranked ‘Tier 1’ by The Legal 500.

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You’re in safe hands!

Myerson Solicitors LLP is a full-service, independent law firm founded in South Manchester over 35 years ago.

We are consistently recommended as ‘Top Tier’

by The Legal 500, which praises us for “Fantastic speed of response and constructive, helpful and pragmatic advice delivered by a team that clearly knows its stuff”.

With over 20 partners and 100 staff, we represent businesses and individuals locally, nationally and internationally.

Offering an accessible, high-quality and cost-effective alternative to the city centre, regional and national law firms, we employ lawyers who are personable, talented and approachable.

This enables us to provide you with an enthusiastic and unrivalled service from experts in their field.

If you would like further information about our white label legal services, or if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of our Corporate Team today.

The Times recognises 200 firms for the quality of their legal services in its annual round-up of the Best Law Firms in the UK. With a heavy London-bias and just a handful of firms from the North of England, we were delighted to make the list for our company commercial expertise.

Myerson Solicitors LLP Grosvenor House, 20 Barrington Road, Altrincham WA14 1HB

Tel: 0161 941 4000 Email: lawyers@myerson.co.uk www.myerson.co.uk