RSM UK Legal LLP

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,