Along with your accountant, your lawyer needs to play a key role in your plans to sell your business, and in drawing up the legal documents that will carry out those plans.
It may be that the lawyers that you use for general commercial activities are not experienced in the mergers and acquisitions field. If this is true then find another practice.
It may also be worth considering that your present lawyer has a built-in incentive to dislike any deal you may propose: if you sell your business, he or she will probably lose a client! Consequently, whether they realise it or not, some lawyers who represent small businesses may tend to "pick apart" a deal by finding so many roadblocks that your deal falls to pieces, or drags on so long that the other party loses interest.
It is also true to say that it is unlikely to be necessary that you need to employ a big city practice whose fees can be exorbitant. There are a good number of experienced regional practices that will do an excellent job. Among these you will find the BCMS approved lawyers who have been through a screening programme with BCMS.
It should be noted that there is no commercial link or gain to BCMS in these partnerships.
