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Neil Cook
Partner, Solicitor & Head of Business Services
Business Services , Employment Law Advice , Insolvency , Specialist Sectors
My Approach
I have a business background having trained and worked in commerce and owned my own business (Care Home). I seek to achieve my client’s objectives by providing a no-nonsense approach that expedites transactions in an efficient and professional manner whilst keeping the client informed of progress at all times.
Areas of Expertise
- Business acquisitions and disposals
- Care Home regulation and law
- Company/Partnership formations/dissolution
- Company mergers and takeovers
- Shareholders' agreements
- Enterprise management incentives (EMI) share option schemes
- Loan agreements
- Share issues
- Commercial contracts and agreements
- Terms and conditions of trade
- Directors duties and liabilities
- Distribution agreements
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate restructuring
- Insolvency work
Recent Work Includes
- Representing the major shareholders in an engineering company in a multi million pound sale to a management led team
- Multiple sales and purchases of high value care homes in the South of England including the multi-million pounds Birds Hill in Poole
- Acting for both companies and Shareholders in share buy-back transactions
- Acting for a director/shareholder in complex loans and security arrangements as part of a property joint venture
- Acting for companies and, in other cases, shareholder employees in incentive share flowering schemes
- Acting for local companies in the implementation of EMI option schemes and other employee incentive matters
- Acting for a local international footwear branch in a seven figure exclusive distribution agreement for their products in Australia and New Zealand
- Acting for Swanage Railway in the implementation of its plans to extend its track and services to the Main Line at Wareham
- Acting for a local training company in its acquisition of Dutch and German Companies
- Working with Insolvency practitioners on pre-packs
Experience, Professional Associations and Qualifications
- Qualified as a solicitor in April 1981
- Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (UK 2020) for having 'extensive experience of the care home industry'.
- Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (UK 2019) for having a 'good commercial background'.
- Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 (UK 2017) for being a 'highly personable' department head with increasing involvement in the care home sector
- BA (Hons.) Law
- Admitted as a Solicitor and to the New York Bar
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