Zulon Begum

Partnership (Non-Contentious)

Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions

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.