RSM UK Legal LLP > London, England > Firm Profile
RSM UK Legal LLP Offices
25 FARRINGDON STREET
LONDON
EC4A 4AB
England
RSM UK Legal LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings
Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations Tier 3
RSM UK Legal LLP’s dedicated business reorganisations legal team leverages the firm’s wider global audit, tax and consulting network to handle large-scale international corporate reorganisations for substantial multinational private corporates. In a recent highlight, the team acted for Civica Group on its group simplification and the rationalisation of over £1bn of debt. Newly promoted partner Tristan Mutimer heads up the practice, which also includes the ‘top-notch’ Gilbert Collison. Carolyn Brown leads the wider legal services offering.Practice head(s):
Tristan Mutimer
Other key lawyers:
Gilbert Collison; Carolyn Brown; Bahareh Rahmani
Testimonials
‘The team I dealt with worked as a single unit and were clear and precise in their communications. They took ownership of the full piece of work from inception to execution.’
‘They were able to provide clear solutions to a complex piece of planning and had the skill sets and competencies to make the whole process a lot more simple. Ultimately, you had total comfort that the work would be done correctly and to a very high standard – and that is exactly what happened.’
‘The team supported us in an efficient, effective and timely way.’
‘Gilbert Collison and his team at RSM UK LLP stand out for their ability to grasp the nuances of each situation, liaise internally to bring to bear firm wide expertise to the problem and provide us a comprehensive, practical and effective solution.’
‘Bahareh Rahmani is an associate I know well. She is quick to learn and proactive in her approach to matters and highly personable.’
‘RSM has helped us with corporate matters related to structuring, reorganisation, and liquidation. In all areas, they have provided outstanding and timely service, and I would recommend them heartily to others.’
‘A special mention to the expertise and clarity of thought that we have seen in our interactions with Gilbert Collison over the past several years.’
‘Gilbert Collison is top notch. I’d happily use him again. Switched on, accessible, highly effective and utterly professional. He also came up with suggestions and ideas that might improve the reorganisation.’
Key clients
Civica Group
Richer Sounds
Language Line Solutions
Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC)
M247 UK
DHI Group Inc
Waterlogic Group
Optima Defence & Security
Yates Property Holdings
Trace Group
CRA International
Work highlights
- Advised Civica, the global leader in public sector software, on its group simplification and the rationalisation of in excess of £1bn of debt movements.
- Advised Richer Sounds on its transition to employee ownership by way of an initial group restructuring followed by the subsequent sale of 60% of the company’s shares to an employee ownership trust.
- Advised Language Line, part of Teleperformance Group and one of the largest language access companies in the world, on its group, share capital and debt reorganisation.
RSM UK Legal LLP > Firm Profile
The firm:
RSM is the seventh largest audit, tax and consulting firm in the world. Globally, RSM has over 50,000 staff operating out of 860 offices in 123 countries. Global turnover exceeds USD7.2bn. In the UK, RSM has 3,700 staff operating from 32 offices nationally with a turnover in exceeding £375m. The RSM Legal team operates within this international framework to deliver specialist corporate and employment law advice which complement RSM’s wider service offering to provide our clients with truly holistic and global solutions.
The national legal services team is headed by highly experienced partner Carolyn Brown, also a leading employment law practitioner.
Types of work undertaken
Employment: Our employment legal advice team supports organisations with legal advice to establish and manage both people structures and their people arrangements.
We guide you through business set up and organisational changes, like workforce integration / separation or legal and regulatory change, as well as partnering with you to overcome challenges to your people structures such as terminations and employment claims. We provide pragmatic advice on complex people challenges such as long-term sickness absence, dismissals and senior exits.
We work as part of RSM’s wider People Advisory Services and so our employment legal expertise is supplemented by specialist colleagues in employment tax, share plans, HR, and payroll, ensuring our advice to you is seamless and holistic.
Applying our unique combination of legal, HR and employment tax specialist knowledge, we advise organisations on issues such as National Minimum Wage, holiday pay, equal pay and employment status enabling you to address all practical and legal aspects of these regulatory challenges.
Corporate: As part of a global professional services firm, our corporate law team has access to a wealth of specialist advisers enabling us to provide you with the full spectrum of expert advice you need to achieve your best outcomes.
Our corporate law services team advises on:
- business sales and purchases;
- business restructuring, re-organisations, demergers and simplifications;
- joint venture and shareholders’ agreements;
- corporate tax;
- loan agreements;
- implementation of tax planning advice;
- corporate vehicle formation;
- bespoke company constitutional documents; and
- shareholder exits.
International Business Reorganisations:
RSM UK Legal LLP has a team of dedicated corporate solicitors who specialise in such corporate re-organisation projects.
Large international group re-organisations can be complicated and often require legal, tax and accounting advice to ensure that the re-organisation is carried out in a legal and tax efficient way.
Our specialist lawyers work with RSM’s tax, accounting and other business consultants, both nationally and internationally, to deliver a seamless end-to-end solution that ultimately saves you time and allows you to focus on business operations. This is important because corporate re-organisations often happen at business-critical times in a company’s life cycle, such as pre- or post-sale or listing.
Share schemes: RSM’s expert employee incentivisation team helps clients to design tailored solutions taking into account their clients’ business size, aspirations and objectives.
RSM’s legal services are complimented by:
- Employment tax specialists
- HR project consultants
- Payroll services
- Outsourced finance specialists
- Company secretarial services
- Corporate taxation specialists
- Accounting and Business Advisory specialists
- Private tax specialists
RSM’s legal services are at the forefront of the development of the legal services sector, being part of the largest firm of accountants outside the Big Four to establish itself as a multi-disciplinary practice. In addition to the benefits this affords clients, the firm is the first multi-disciplinary practice to specialise in successfully delivering employment legal advice to private sector large corporates and their people as part of a wider People Advisory Services offer.
RSM’s legal service lines are led by highly experienced specialists and it has depth in the areas of employment legal, corporate legal and share schemes.
The firm is ambitious and has grown through key strategic hires. It has added further depth and breadth to its complementary legal service lines while continuing to review service line expansion sympathetic to its core clients and its vision to become the first-choice adviser to major mid-market businesses globally.
Other offices: London, Basingstoke,
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | Carolyn Brown | ||
| Corporate | Tristan Mutimer | ||
| Share Schemes | Fiona Bell | ||
| Employment | Charlie Barnes |
Lawyer Profiles
| Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Charlie Barnes | Director. Specialises in employment law | View Profile |
 | Fiona Bell | Partner. Specialises in Corporate, Commercial, Employee Share Plans, Employee Trusts, Advice to Remuneration… | View Profile |
 | Carolyn Brown | Partner, Head of Client Legal Services. Specialises in Employment Rights advisory and… | View Profile |
 | Anna Burdett | Associate. Specialises in employment law. | View Profile |
 | Natasha Ganeriwala | Manager. Specialises in corporate law | View Profile |
 | Jennifer Mansoor | Associate Director. Specialises in employment law | View Profile |
 | Tristan Mutimer | Partner. Head of Corporate Legal Services | View Profile |
 | Bahareh Rahmani | Associate. Specialises in corporate law | View Profile |
 | Hadleigh Sabate | Manager. Specialises in corporate law | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Number of UK partners : 3 Number of other UK fee-earners : 6Diversity
At RSM, our people are our most valuable asset. We want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel that they can bring their true self to work.
Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our clients’ needs.
Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That’s why we’re working together with all our stakeholders to ensure our firm’s principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.
Listen. Educate. Act.
To drive forward our continuing commitment to ensure all our people feel valued we have set out a diversity and inclusion strategy of dialogue, understanding, and action. We consider this agenda to be a business imperative.
Listen
By bringing together the diverse voices and perspectives of our people, we endeavour to promote a culture of constructive conversation and engagement. We gather feedback from our networks, employee surveys and create spaces for people to share their experiences and be heard.
Educate
We empower our people to better understand diversity and inclusion and challenge thinking so that together, we can continue making progress. We have an annual calendar of learning opportunities which includes national broadcasts and regional events. We also provide resources and learning activities so that our people can inform themselves.
Act
Through intentional and purposeful action, we will deliver on our promise. Ensuring that our processes, benefits and learning opportunities reflect the diversity of our people and their needs.
Awards, accreditations and partnerships
To support our inclusion journey, we partner with and have received accreditations from a range of organisations helping us deliver our aims, including:
- Being awarded Top 100 Employer and Gold Employer Award in Stonewall’s 2022 Workplace Equality Index
- Disability Confident Employer
- Signatory of the Valuable 500
- Neurodiversity in Business membership
- Signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles
- Leadership Through Sport and Business
- Access Accountancy
- Working Families
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