Hay & Kilner has one of the leading corporate teams in Newcastle upon Tyne. Our highly regarded solicitors provide clear and focussed advice on all types and sizes of transactions. We offer strength in depth, enabling us to provide prompt advice from an appropriately experienced team of solicitors, irrespective of the complexity of your requirements.
Our clients regard us not just as their lawyers, but also as their trusted business advisors. Our corporate team is recommended by independently researched legal guide, Chambers UK, ‘Hay & Kilner has won a raft of new clients, drawn by the quality of advice from their lawyers, who ‘always treat clients as individuals and with respect’.
We successfully advise private investors and businesses on all aspects of corporate work:
- Acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses
- Management buyouts
- Mergers, joint ventures and collaboration agreements
- Private equity investment
- Group reorganisations
- Flotations
What others say about us
Hay & Kilner attracts clients who appreciate its friendly and attentive service. The group has won a raft of new clients who are drawn by the quality of advice and strength of the lawyers, who "always treat clients as individuals, and with respect."...The Healthcare sector has been a good source of work for Jonathan Waters. "Efficient, diligent and commercially minded," he receives praise for his "ability to prioritise his clients' needs effectively." Nick James enjoys an extremely visible regional profile for his representation of owner-managed businesses
Chambers Guide
This compact corporate offering has 'a definite commercial outlook', report peers. The firm's client base has continued to provide a steady stream of M&A work as well as commercial agreements, the latter primarily in the form of instructions from owner-managed businesses. The healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors continue to be traditional specialisms for the firm, and the group's performance remained buoyant throughout the year with the addition of new corporate clients. Nick James is considered: "a lawyer who really knows what he's doing. His forte is owner-managed businesses.
Chambers Guide
