Joint Ventures

Why choose our Joint ventures lawyers?

We provide bespoke commercial advice and practical solutions to allow clients to structure realistic joint ventures.

We advise on structures that give participants clear and certain obligations, to exploit their combined strengths while safeguarding individual interests.

We draw on the expertise of lawyers in our corporate and finance teams across Europe, as well as the sector knowledge of our specialists in advertising, banking, communications, media, sports, technology, transport and travel, to devise corporate and contractual joint venture structures that take account of industry-specific commercial drivers, economic and political pressures, and regulatory regimes.

Our European and wider international experience includes ventures based on contractual, partnership, LLP and company structures; multi-party arrangements including those designed to facilitate the addition of new partners; JVs involving both public sector and private sector participants; mechanisms for ensuring compliance by JVs with statutory and regulatory requirements imposed on its participants and fixed term and open-ended JVs.

We also advise on mechanisms for protecting the interests of participants with different funding obligations and abilities; dispute resolution procedures; provisions to deal with defaulting or dissident parties and protect the interests of all participants; protection for the intellectual property made available by participants as well as that developed in the joint venture; and strategies for exit.