CM Murray LLP

Partnership Law

Partner

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.

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)