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About
Provided by Zulon Begum
Practice Areas
Partnership (Non-Contentious)
Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
Career
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.
Chambers Review
UK
Zulon Begum assists professional services firms from the legal and financial sectors with partnership restructuring and amendments to LLP agreements. She also advises on the non-contentious aspects of sensitive issues such as partner exits.
Zulon Begum assists professional services firms from the legal and financial sectors with partnership restructuring and amendments to LLP agreements. She also advises on the non-contentious aspects of sensitive issues such as partner exits.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Zulon takes particular care to understand her client's needs when advising them on how to structure their partnership and its governance arrangements."
"Zulon is extremely knowledgeable and technically strong on complex matters. I have a huge amount of respect for her."
"Zulon is very intelligent and very good at structuring and organisation. She is incredibly industrious, technically excellent and very focused."
"Zulon takes particular care to understand her client's needs when advising them on how to structure their partnership and its governance arrangements."
"Zulon is extremely knowledgeable and technically strong on complex matters. I have a huge amount of respect for her."
"Zulon is very intelligent and very good at structuring and organisation. She is incredibly industrious, technically excellent and very focused."