OUR SERVICES
Corporate & Commercial
We provide straightforward legal advice to help businesses achieve their commercial goals and support clients through corporate transactions.
Corporate and Commercial
We offer our clients bespoke, strategic guidance for their businesses along with advice on general commercial and regulatory matters. We provide legal services to businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors. Our clients range from owner-managed start-ups to PLCs, as well as professional partnerships and bodies. Our aim is to fully understand your business and its goals and offer pragmatic advice that considers your long-term interests.
Key Contacts
Matthew Cowan | Partner
Matthew is head of the firm’s corporate and commercial department. Having qualified as a solicitor in 1993, he became a partner within four years of qualification.
Matthew has over three decades of experience advising global companies on corporate and commercial transactions with an emphasis on emerging technologies and e-business solutions. He has played a key role in the first flotation of an internet service provider in the UK and recently the AIM listing of a market leader UK and Indian SMS aggregator. Matthew has a long standing client base and is a trusted adviser to his clients with an in depth knowledge of their business needs.
Matthew graduated with a BSc in Chemistry and Law and a BA in Law from Exeter University.
- matthew.cowan@bracherrawlins.co.uk
- +44 (0)20 7400 1533
- +44 (0)20 7404 9400
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Rachel Atherton | Partner
Rachel advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial legal matters that may arise during the lifetime of a business, including share and asset acquisitions and disposals; equity and loan investments; corporate governance and shareholder issues; drafting and/or advising on commercial contracts.
Rachel’s clients operate across diverse sectors such as video game development, design and media, manufacturing, financial investment, property development, pubs, hotels, care homes, medical/dental services through to provision of mobile engagement software and services.
Rachel qualified as a solicitor in 2000. She joined the corporate and commercial department of Bracher Rawlins in 2012 and became a partner in 2022.
Rachel graduated from Oxford Brookes in 1996 with a degree in Law, she then completed her legal training at the College of Law. She has previously worked in regional firms and as a consultant providing legal services in-house and direct to clients.
- rachel.atherton@bracherrawlins.co.uk
- +44 (0)207 400 1535
- +44 (0)207 404 9400
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