Business Services

Commercial Finance

Care Homes

Licensed Trade

Employment Law

A major part of our services to Business Clients is concerned with actively assisting them with reaching their goals; from professional advice on company formation, financial backing and property purchase to tax planning and employment legislation.

Where appropriate, we like to work closely with your Accountant, your Bank and other professional advisors. In this way we can ensure that all your advisors are working to the same end - to achieve the best results for you, based on the maximum available information.

Our range of business services covers all aspects of business law, from setting up the business, mortgages and debentures, drafting commercial agreements and general business matters.

Our systems enable us to provide you with all the help and advice that you need whether you are on our doorstep or many miles away, with the assurance that you have regular reports on the progress of our work for you.

S M Reed & Co are Panel Solicitors for a number of specialist lenders in the business transfer market. We have acted on thousands of lending transactions for all types of businesses including Care and Nursing Homes, Investment Properties, Licensed Premises, Post Offices and other small businesses.

In all lending matters we pride ourselves in dealing with matters where possible on a “same day” basis to ensure that the transaction runs as smoothly as possible and that the loans are drawn down without delay.

Our long experience means that we can anticipate the requirements of any particular transaction both in respect of individual mortgage conditions and the particular requirements of the business so far as they affect the Lender’s security.

The purchase of a care business requires specialist help. S M Reed & Co have long experience in dealing with the particular requirements of the contract to purchase and the specific requirements of the Lenders who are financing the purchase. You will need our specialist advice on all aspects of the transaction. This would include advising on employment and residents contracts, planning matters and if necessary the registration process itself.

We will liaise closely with your Financial Advisors and ensure that the requirements of your Lender are dealt with on a timely basis.

Our motto is ‘We care for the carers’. Our clients have proved to be very successful Care Home owners and many have proceeded to buy further Homes.

Buying a tenancy, acquiring a Free House or simply applying for a Licence is not as simple as it may seem. The licensed trade is beset with legal intricacies that few laymen are familiar with.

We are very experienced in this area and are happy to arrange for the service of all Notices, renew Licences and Transfers of existing Licences, arrange Court hearings and ensure that a proper Licence is acquired as part of the business acquisition.

We advise employers or employees on unfair / wrongful dismissal, redundancy, discrimination, equal pay, Contracts of Employment, disciplinary issues and applications to the Industrial Tribunal.

When acting for a Buyer of a business we are happy to give full advice on the implication of employment legislation in the purchase or transfer of the business.