Corporate Law
✓ Trusted experts in Corporate Law and Business Structuring
✓ Transparent pricing and commercially focused solutions tailored to your goals
✓ Full-service support—seamlessly integrating with property, employment, and disputes teams
Corporate Law Solicitors
At Farnworth Rose, our Corporate Lawyers in Burnley provide clear legal advice to help you protect your business, grow with confidence and plan for the future.
We advise businesses at every stage of the corporate journey—whether you’re launching a new venture, restructuring your company, managing succession, or preparing for sale. If you're bringing in new shareholders, planning a merger, or navigating a management buyout, our Corporate Law Solicitors will provide the clarity and strategic insight you need to move forward with confidence.
With experience supporting SMEs, owner-managed businesses and company directors across Lancashire and beyond, we combine technical legal knowledge with real commercial understanding. We recognise the pressures business leaders face—and we’re here to provide practical, commercially sound solutions that protect your interests and create new opportunities.
Clients choose Farnworth Rose for our technical excellence, personal service, and straightforward advice. You’ll always have direct access to an experienced solicitor who knows your business and is genuinely invested in your success.
Choosing Farnworth Rose for your corporate legal matters guarantees peace of mind, tailored support, and outstanding expertise.
Why Choose Farnworth Rose For Corporate Law Advice?
In corporate matters, the stakes are high—so having the right legal partner is essential. Our team of Corporate Law Solicitors offers more than just technical expertise. We bring a commercial mindset, strategic focus, and the commitment to help your business succeed whatever stage you're at.
Farnworth Rose has been trusted by business owners, directors and shareholders across Lancashire and beyond. Whether you’re navigating a complex transaction or strengthening day-to-day governance, we provide tailored legal advice designed to reduce risk and create long-term value.
We don’t just advise on the law—we work as part of your team. Our Corporate Lawyers in Burnley are known for being responsive, pragmatic, and genuinely invested in your outcomes. We take the time to understand your business, your goals, and what success looks like for you. Clients choose Farnworth Rose because:
You work directly with senior solicitors who combine legal acumen with commercial insight.
We deliver high-calibre advice with clear, competitive pricing—no surprises.
Our client relationships are built on trust, transparency, and results that speak for themselves.
As a full-service firm, we offer integrated support across areas such as property, employment and dispute resolution.
We use technology smartly—to keep you informed, efficient, and in control.
We follow through on every promise and are committed to doing right by your business.
With Farnworth Rose, you're not just instructing solicitors—you’re gaining a dependable legal partner who will stand by you through every challenge and opportunity.
Our Corporate Law Services
Our Corporate Law Solicitors provide expert support to companies at each key milestone of their journey. We work closely with directors, shareholders, investors and management teams to ensure every decision is backed by clear legal insight and aligned with your commercial objectives.
The services we offer include:
+ Corporate Governance
We support businesses in building strong internal frameworks that promote transparency, compliance, and effective leadership. Our solicitors offer insight on director duties, board procedures, Articles of Association, and shareholder voting rights. We help ensure your company structure not only meets regulatory standards but also fosters confident, accountable decision-making.
+ Business Formations
Getting the structure right from the beginning is essential. We guide you through forming limited companies, LLPs, partnerships and joint ventures, and assist with company registrations, share structuring, and compliance obligations. With our advice, your new business starts off both legally secure and commercially prepared.
+ Buying or Selling Shares in a Company
Share transactions involve legal and strategic decisions that can shape a company’s future. We assist buyers and sellers with due diligence, drafting and negotiating share purchase agreements, and handling approvals and company filings. Our focus is on safeguarding your position and facilitating a clean, confident transfer of ownership.
+ Business Sales & Purchases
Whether you're acquiring a business or preparing for sale, we provide full legal support from early negotiations to final completion. We manage all contractual and regulatory elements of the transaction, ensuring that risk is minimised and value is preserved. Our team has extensive experience in both asset and share-based deals across a range of sectors.
+ Management Buyouts (MBOs)
For management teams ready to take control, an MBO is a natural step forward. We help structure the deal, coordinate with lenders and existing owners, and draft the legal documents needed to transition ownership smoothly. Our advice ensures the business—and your role in it—remains stable and secure throughout the process.
+ Management Buy-ins (MBIs)
Joining a company from the outside requires careful legal planning. We support MBI clients with assessing the opportunity, structuring the deal, and ensuring their investment and responsibilities are clearly defined. With our help, you can take the reins with confidence.
+ Buy Back of Shares
If a company is buying back its own shares, it must comply with strict legal requirements. We guide clients through this process, preparing necessary resolutions, checking Articles for authority, and ensuring that statutory obligations around solvency and procedure are fully met.
+ Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A transactions can reshape a business’s future. We act for buyers, sellers, and merging parties, advising on structure, negotiation, due diligence and compliance. Our solicitors work to reduce risk, align interests, and bring all the moving parts of a deal together with minimal disruption to business operations.
+ Demergers
Where a business needs to split its operations—for tax efficiency, succession planning, or dispute resolution—we deliver tailored advise on demergers that meet both legal and strategic goals. We structure the process to ensure strategic direction between separated parts of the business, safeguarding continuity and compliance throughout.
+ Corporate Restructuring
Restructuring can involve changes to share capital, business operations, or group entities. Whether proactive or reactive, we support corporate restructures with legal advice that protects the business and reflects your evolving goals. Our team ensures that changes are correctly documented, tax-aware, and future-ready.
+ Employee Share Schemes
We design and implement share schemes that help businesses incentivise, retain, and reward staff. From EMI schemes to growth shares and unapproved options, we ensure compliance with HMRC requirements and provide clear guidance on scheme rules, tax treatment and documentation.
+ Employee Share Schemes
Selling your business to an EOT can preserve your company’s legacy while giving employees a meaningful stake. We support owners on eligibility, structure, and implementation—managing everything from initial planning to trust creation and post-sale governance.
+ Business Succession Planning
A well-prepared succession plan secures everything you’ve built. We help clients create legal frameworks that allow for smooth leadership or ownership transitions, including cross-option agreements, wills, governance changes, and shareholder protections. It’s about securing the future—on your terms.
+ Restoration from Register of Companies
If your company has been struck off the Companies Register, we can help reinstate it. Whether through an administrative restoration or court application, we handle the full process—gathering required documents, liaising with Companies House and HMRC, and ensuring a lawful return to trading.
Contact Our Corporate Lawyers in Burnley Today
Making the right legal decisions is vital to the success and longevity of any business. Whether you're structuring a new venture, managing shareholder relationships, planning an exit, or preparing for a major transaction, our expert team will provide the right legal guidance and commercial insight you need to move forward.
Our experienced Corporate Law Solicitors in Lancashire are based in Nelson, near Burnley. We are committed to delivering exceptional levels of client care, working closely, strategically and with absolute discretion to help you achieve the outcomes that matter most to your business.
As a full-service law firm, our Solicitors in Burnley & Nelson are supported by in-house specialists across commercial property, employment law, dispute resolution and more—ensuring every legal angle is covered and aligned with your commercial goals.
Wherever you’re based in England or Wales, our team is ready to provide trusted, commercially focused legal advice—tailored to your business, your sector, and your goals.
To speak with one of our specialist Corporate Law Solicitors at Farnworth Rose, call us today on 01282 695 400 or complete the form below and we’ll be in touch.
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