Zulon Begum > CM Murray LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
CM Murray LLP Offices
36-38 CORNHILL
LONDON
EC3V 3NG
England
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Zulon Begum
Work Department
Partnership Law
Position
Partner
Career
Zulon Begum has extensive experience of advising professional and financial services firms and senior equity partners on a whole range of partnership and corporate matters. Zulon has particular expertise in transactional work and regularly advises senior management in partnership businesses on a broad range of sensitive and strategically important issues.
Zulon acts for clients in diverse sectors, including law firms, accountants, architects, real estate consultants, patent attorneys, insurance/reinsurance brokers/underwriters, private equity houses and hedge funds. She has played a key role in a number of high-profile professional services firm mergers, both national and international.
Zulon’s expertise and experience includes:
- advising UK and international professional and financial services firms on mergers and acquisitions, including advice on corporate and regulatory structuring;
- advising on optimal business structures, considering liability, succession, cultural and regulatory issues and implementing internal restructuring, including conversion to LLP or company;
- advising on partnership and remuneration structures for partnership businesses, with in-depth expertise in current market practice;
- drafting and reviewing LLP and partnership agreements, including review of governance structures, partner indemnities, discrimination issues, family friendly rights and restrictive covenants;
- advising on international network structures using Swiss vereins or limited companies by guarantee, including advice on liability, profit pooling and shared network services;
- advising on partner investigations, disciplinaries and exits, as well as lateral hires, team moves and restrictive covenants issues; and
- establishing SRA regulated law firms (including Alternative Business Structures).
Zulon is an active member of, and speaker at, the Professional Practices Alliance, (of which CM Murray LLP is a founding member), the Association of Partnership Practitioners, the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Zulon was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in September 2009.
Memberships
- Member of the “Up and Coming” Committee for the Association of Partnership Practitioners (APP)
- Member of the American Bar Association (ABA)
- Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
(Next Generation Partners)Offering integrated partnership, employment and regulatory advice, the ‘standout firm for partnership disputes,’ CM Murray LLP, is headed up by Sarah Chilton, an ‘amazingly able’ specialist contentious partnership lawyer who also has expertise in the private equity sector, and Zulon Begum, ‘a top flight non-contentious lawyer’ who predominately focuses on corporate law matters. Acting for clients in the legal, accountancy, consultancy, real estate, insurance, private equity and hedge fund industries, the team has a significant reputation for handling disputes relating to team moves and internal investigations into alleged wrongdoing as well as corporate law matters such as governance of professional service firms. Founding and managing partner Clare Murray
, ‘a visionary leader in her field’, acts for US and UK professional services firms, as well as equity partners in professional services and investment management firms, handling partner conduct and performance issues, partner exits, restrictive covenants and litigation. Corinne Staves, ‘a superb new addition’, offers experience in advising on international structures and international governance for professional services businesses. David Fisher often represents firms and individuals in contentious partnership disputes and has a particular focus on business protection. Acting as general counsel and specialising in employment and partnership law is the ‘standout’ Beth Hale, while Emma Bartlett regularly advises on LLP and partnership matters in the private equity and financial services space. Also of note is Andrew Pavlovic, who offers assistance with sensitive partnership investigations, partnership structuring and law firm mergers.