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Grant Saw Corporate – recent cases

Share sale and purchases

• Investment in an electrical wholesale by an individual in return for 50% shareholding, including a re-structure of the existing share structure, with an option for the investor to acquire the entire shareholding post-completion (Feb 2023)
• Buyback of shares in four family-owned companies to buyout one shareholder, with split exchange and completion (Feb 2023)
• Exercise of an option to buy out a minority shareholder for £50,000 in a property management company (Dec 2022)
• Restructuring of a family-owned holding company and subsidiary with multiple share classes in the commercial property sector to prepare the group for future sale (Aug 2022)
• Acquisition of various shareholding percentages of a group of companies in the further education sector for circa £750,000, with options for the buyer to acquire further shares in the target group post-completion (Feb 2022)
• Sale of Valley Wholesale Carpets, a family-owned national carpet wholesaler, to Likewise Group Plc for £30 million payable in cash (on completion and deferred) and shares. (Jan 2022)
• Acting on the acquisition of the entire share capital in a property holding company for the sum of £2.85 million (March 2020)
• Sale of the entire share capital in a company operating as a Montessori nursery, for the sum of £1.52 million (January 2020)
• Acting on the reconstruction and demerger of a leading IT and services infrastructure company, with a turnover of £44 million and over 500 workers (November 2019)
• Sale of the entire share capital in a real estate and lettings company for £1.2 million (July 2019)
• Advising on the proposed acquisition of the entire share capital in a company offering bespoke online educational courses, for circa £1.1 million (July 2019)
• MBO acquisition of 90% of the entire share capital in a scaffolding and construction company worth £3.5 million, involving deferred and share for share exchange consideration (May 2019)
• Sale of the entire share capital in, together with the business and assets of, a waste transfer and hazardous treatment facility business for circa. £4 million on a cash free / debt free basis (April 2019)
• MBO sale of 45% of the entire ordinary share capital in an online toy and gift retail company for circa. £250,000, with a put and call option in respect of 27% additional ordinary shares (March 2019)
• MBO acquisition of the entire share capital in a major retailer of theatrical goods for £1.25 million (August 2018)
• Acquisition of the entire share capital in a Montessori school for circa. £1.6 million (May 2018)
• Sale of the entire share capital in four nursery companies for circa. £12 million (April 2018)
• MBO Sale of 50% of the entire share capital in a commercial cleaning company for £2.25 million (January 2018)
• Acquisition of the entire share capital in a cash and carry food wholesaling company for circa. £1 million (September 2017)
• Acquisition of the entire share capital in a real estate management company for £1.65 million (July 2017)
• Acquisition of the entire share capital in a plumbing and heating company for £4 million, including a complex price structure

Business sale and purchases

• Acquisition of the business and assets of a magazine publication (July 2019)
• Acquisition of the business and assets of a fresh meat, poultry and game supplier (May 2019)
• Sale of the entire share capital in, together with the business and assets of, a waste transfer and hazardous treatment facility business for circa. £4 million on a cash free / debt free basis (April 2019)
• Acquisition of the business and assets of a web design company
• Sale of the business and assets of a café