Shoosmiths’ dedicated, specialist, Simplification Advisory Group (SAG) has extensive experience working alongside clients and other professional advisers to seamlessly deliver simplification projects.
Whether preparing for a sale, post-acquisition integration, refinancing, international expansion or ongoing operational improvement, we deliver tailored solutions that simplify complexity and unlock value.
We work alongside boards, finance teams, in-house legal teams and other professional advisers to design and implement restructuring and simplification projects efficiently and with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations. By combining legal expertise with practical project management, we help clients achieve their objectives with certainty, transparency and pace.
Our international reach and extensive transaction experience enables us to support businesses across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring projects are delivered smoothly, commercially and on budget.
Why do our clients use SAG?
- to reduce complexity across legal entities, balance sheets and group structures
- to cut costs by removing unnecessary compliance and administration
- to unlock trapped value through capital funding restructurings
- to prepare for disposal, acquisition, refinancing and post M&A integration
- to support growth with a simpler, more agile business structure
Recent experience
- Element Solutions, Inc: advising in relation to multiple balance sheet restructuring projects, voluntary strike offs, reductions of share capital & intragroup share transfers
- Ikea: advising in relation to the hive up of a non-core business, a dividend in specie of a subsidiary, the assignment of intercompany receivables & voluntary strike off
- Interactive Investor Group: advising in relation to capital contributions & equity injections, reductions of share capital & dividend repatriation
- Edgewell Personal Care: advising in relation to dividends in specie, the capitalisation of receivables and capital injections
- Invica Holdings S.A.R.L: advising on a complex multi-jurisdictional group reorganisation, related legal due diligence and financing arrangements