Alexander & Co assists UK businesses with corporate and business restructuring to improve profitability, reduce risk, and unlock tax efficiencies. Whether your business is preparing for a sale, preparing for investment or navigating financial challenges, our specialist team provides robust, practical, tailored solutions that support long-term success.
Corporate and business restructuring is the strategic process of re-engineering a firm’s legal, financial, or operational framework.
For healthy businesses, this is often a proactive step to adapt to market changes. For those looking to dispose or purchase a business, we provide expert advice on the tax efficiencies and tax due-diligence, minimising tax liabilities on the sale or purchase whilst protecting the key stakeholders.
For businesses facing financial pressures, it is a critical tool to stabilise finances, reduce debt, and streamline operations.
At Alexander & Co, we combine commercial insight with tax expertise, ensuring your business can restructure efficiently, remain compliant, and take advantage of all available tax reliefs.
Business & Corporate Restructuring with Alexander & Co
At Alexander & Co, we understand that each business is unique, and we do not believe in a one-size-fits-all solution. Our restructuring advisory team provides robust, expert advice that is tailored to your specific circumstances, ensuring we help you meet your long-term financial goals.
Our Restructuring Approach
Our approach to business restructuring is practical, trusted and client focused, to help businesses navigate complex change. We focus on delivering robust, tailored solutions to reduce risk and achieve greater operational and tax efficiency. We are dedicated to working closely with our clients to ensure a restructuring process takes advantage of all applicable tax reliefs.
Why work with our restructuring team?
Our team has a proven track record of supporting a wide range of owner managed businesses, bringing significant experience across multiple sectors. This deep expertise allows us to provide targeted advice on complex tax issues, ensuring your reorganisation is successful.
We have specific experience working with businesses in sectors including:
- Manufacturing
- Leisure & hospitality
- Property and construction
- Life sciences
- Fintech
Our Restructuring Services
There are distinct types of restructuring business (operational/financial) and corporate (legal/structural) and while there is often considerable cross-over, different businesses and organisations would have different needs.
This means it is not a one-size-fits-all approach, but Alexander & Co’s dedicated team can cover all scenarios.
Our Business Restructuring Services
The Alexander & Co Business Restructuring team offer services that include addressing profitability, managing risk, and planning for the future.
- Exit planning – Advising on the most tax efficient way to exit a business, both for the business and also the business owners’ perspective.
- Increased Profitability & Efficiency – Focus on cost-saving measures and streamlining operations to increase overall efficiency and the business’s bottom line.
- Asset Protection – Advice on moving valuable assets, such as land and buildings or Intellectual Property (IP) out of trading companies/groups.
- Risk Reduction & Financial Stabilisation – Providing expert guidance to stabilise financial problems and implement strategies for reducing overall financial and operational risks.
- Succession Planning & Asset Management – Advising on succession planning and the process of moving assets in the most effective and tax-efficient manner.
Our Corporate Restructuring Services
Our team can provide services that include fundamental structural changes to a company or group, improving tax efficiency
- Group Structure Reorganisation – Advising on consolidating businesses into a group structure or carrying out a demerging or splitting of an existing group structure.
- Share Capital Adjustment – Assisting with the complex tax implications involved in a share reorganisation.
- Holding Company Establishment – Guidance on the establishment of a new holding company to secure assets and optimise tax structure.
What are the Benefits of Business & Corporate Restructuring?
Restructuring helps businesses proactively boost profitability, improve tax efficiency, and adapt to markets, while reactively offering financial stabilisation, risk reduction, and navigating critical financial challenges.
The benefits of restructuring are outcome-focused and can provide significant value to clients:
- Tax Efficiency: Take advantage of corporate restructuring reliefs to minimise tax burdens.
- Cost-saving / increasing your efficiency: Implementing changes that result in lower operating costs and greater productivity.
- Attracting investment: Positioning your business to appeal to investors.
- Settling shareholder disputes: Reorganisation can provide a framework to resolve internal conflicts.
- Succession planning: Ensuring the smooth transfer of ownership.
- Efficient Asset Transfer: Facilitating the tax-efficient transfer of assets between entities.
- Reducing risks: Implementing structures and processes that lower exposure to future liabilities.
- Stabilising financial problems: Addressing and mitigating immediate financial distress.
You can find out more about the benefits of restructuring a business in our article here.
Other restructuring services from Alexander & Co
Alexander & Co provides a wide range of services to businesses considering restructuring, including:
- Business valuation services understand the true value of your business
- Business Growth Consultancy strategies for sustainable expansion
- Corporate finance (including advice on business disposals, mergers, and acquisitions)
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Why Choose Alexander & co?
Choosing Alexander & Co means partnering with a firm renowned for its credibility, expertise, and trust. With around 50 years of experience and offices in Manchester and London, our team is dedicated to assisting businesses from the owners’ perspectives and key stakeholders’ perspectives.
We offer tailored advice that leverages our significant experience across a wide range of industries.
Our dedication to success is reflected in our work, such as advising on the personal and business tax implications on the sale of a major tech company.
Furthermore, we are proud to be preferred partners with external organisations like The Business Growth Hub and The Northern Powerhouse and work alongside many of the region’s leading legal and financial advisory firms.
Contact an Alexander & Co restructuring advisor today
To discuss the corporate restructuring options available to your firm, please contact one of our corporate tax advisors without delay.
For more information on how we can support your business please email us at info@alexander.co.uk or alternatively fill in our online enquiry form.
Key contacts
John McCaffery
John is tax partner and head of tax at Alexander & Co, he has previously worked for KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. He advises individuals, entrepreneurs, families and their businesses on tax issues and planning with particular expertise in transactional and forensic taxes.
Rowan Morrow-McDade
Rowan is a Tax Director at Alexander & Co, operating out of their Manchester and London offices. He is widely recognised as the UK’s most qualified tax advisor, holding multiple professional qualifications, including BFP, ACA, ATT, CTA, ADIT, TEP, Certified Cryptocurrency Expert, Certificate in Business Valuation, Diploma in Tax Technology, and a BSc (Hons) in Accounting and Finance.
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