Andrew Drake
Expertise
Family businesses: advice on share ownership structures, ownership and management succession, shareholders’ agreements/family charters and family business governance.
- General corporate advice: including the purchase and sale of businesses and companies, reconstructions, amalgamations and share buy-backs
- Partnerships and LLPs
- General commercial advice: including agency and distribution agreements
Experience
- Advised a family business on an ownership and management succession plan
- Advised on the partition of a family business between two branches of the family
- Advised on new articles of association and a family charter for a family business
- Advised on an LLP membership agreement
- Advised on the partition of a business into two separate trading groups
- Advised on a number of company and business sales and acquisitions (sale price typically between £5 million and £50 million)
- Advised on a number of distribution and agency agreements relating to a well known brand of spirits
- Advised on a s. 110 scheme of reconstruction
- Advised on a shareholders’ agreement relating to a substantial commercial property project
Career History
- Qualified: 1976
- 1973-2005: Boodle Hatfield
- 2005-2009 Penningtons
- 2009 - to date: Pemberton Greenish
Professional Memberships:
- The Law Society of England and Wales.
- Advisory Council to the Institute for Family Business
