Steven Mather Solicitor

Steven Mather Solicitor Helping Business Owners with Business Sales, Contracts, Employees, Disputes, Trade Marks and more.
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Delighted to complete on the purchase of a £26 million AUM client bank for one of my clients. She is an Authorised Repre...
02/09/2026

Delighted to complete on the purchase of a £26 million AUM client bank for one of my clients.

She is an Authorised Representative of an FCA-Regulated Principal Firm - and so this is a big investment, with challenges to align all parties.

It was great to work with Robin Gill of Excello Law who acted for the seller - it is always better to work with lawyers who approach matters collaboratively rather than aggressively - and the clients get a better job done through it. And someone who clearly understands financial services sales and purchases.

Congratulations to the Seller as well, who can now work on their retirement plans more.

If you're looking to buy a regulated business, or sell, get in touch. I'm regularly instructed by both buyers and sellers in this market place: https://www.stevenmather.co.uk/business-solicitor-leicester/business-purchase-sales/selling-a-financial-services-business/.

First day back after the summer holidays tomorrow.How many are you getting? 😂I’m backing myself for a full house by lunc...
01/09/2026

First day back after the summer holidays tomorrow.

How many are you getting? 😂

I’m backing myself for a full house by lunchtime.

Tonight’s the night to pick your fantasy premier league team And then enter the Steven Mather Super League. Or the free ...
19/08/2026

Tonight’s the night to pick your fantasy premier league team

And then enter the Steven Mather Super League.

Or the free Steven Mather Championship.

The charity league is just £50 for the whole season, with 50% going to LAMP charity and the rest to the prize fund for the top 3 managers.

FPL is simple: pick your squad using £100 million. Players get points for various things like goals, assists, clean sheets and so on.

I’d be super grateful if you could share this post or tag someone who likes premier league football or FPL and let’s get raising some money for charity.

Message me for details.

⚽️ 3 DAYS TO GO! Well three and a bit - deadline is Friday 18:30. The Premier League is nearly back. And, more important...
18/08/2026

⚽️ 3 DAYS TO GO!

Well three and a bit - deadline is Friday 18:30.

The Premier League is nearly back. And, more importantly, so are the Steven Mather Solicitor leagues.

🏆 STEVEN MATHER SUPERLEAGUE

£50 entry.

Half goes to the prize fund.
Half goes directly to Lamp, supporting mental health across Leicestershire.

So there’s money, pride and bragging rights on the line - while raising a few quid for a very good cause.

DM or email me if you want in. Open to everyone as ling as I can find you on LinkedIn.

⚽️ STEVEN MATHER CHAMPIONSHIP

Don’t fancy putting £50 on your questionable ability to pick a football team? Understandable.

The Championship is completely FREE and open to everyone.

League code: 8jqknp - https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/8jqknp

Three days left to endlessly rearrange your team, convince yourself this is finally your year, and then watch your carefully selected captain blanks in Gameweek 1.

Good luck. You’ll probably need it. I know I will ⚽️

Fantasy Premier League is back.Which means millions of otherwise sensible adults are spending their Sunday evening build...
16/08/2026

Fantasy Premier League is back.

Which means millions of otherwise sensible adults are spending their Sunday evening building a perfect team on a budget that bears no relation to reality.

Which got me thinking about Fantasy Premier Law.

£100m. Fifteen lawyers. Let’s gooooo!!

Up front:
The superstar M&A rainmaker.

£15m.
Bills £750 an hour.
Has not personally drafted anything since 2014.

Will still return 25+ goals a season. And provided you count "let me introduce you to a colleague", some assists too.

Alongside them:
The commercial litigator

An absolute menace.

Can sometimes blank for six months, then produces 38 points in a single week because somebody ignored a letter before action.

Yellow card magnet.

Midfield:
The commercial contracts lawyer.

Not glamorous and rarely if ever the captain.

But seven points every week for noticing that the clause 7 and 9 are unacceptable.

Essential.

Defensive midfield:
The employment lawyer.

Nobody thinks they need one until a client director says:

"I can just sack them though, can't I?"

Suddenly the most important player on the pitch.

At the back:
The property lawyer.

Reliable. Methodical. Rarely ventures beyond the halfway line.

Still waiting for replies to enquiries.

Has been since gameweek 3.

Centre back:
The tax lawyer.

Nobody is entirely sure what they are doing.

But every time they touch the ball, everyone nods and says:

"Yes, that's probably more efficient."

£9.0m.

Left back:
The junior corporate solicitor.

£4.0m bargain.

Does 87% of the work.

Receives 3% of the bonus points.

In goal:
The prof neg lawyer.

Ideally never involved.

If they are making saves, something has gone badly wrong further up the pitch.

On the bench:
The trainee.

£4.0m.

Technically plays anywhere.

Currently doing a Companies House filing, proofreading a 146 page SPA, and trying to work out where the partner's tracked changes went.

Then the big decision.

Who gets the armband?

The rainmaker, obviously.

Double points for landing a £20m deal.

Triple captain if they know any other details beyond the client's surname.

And there is always someone in the mini league who captained a £4.5m insolvency lawyer in gameweek one because:

"I just had a feeling about the economy."

87 points.

Insufferable until Christmas.

Fancy some real Fantasy Premier League? Get in touch

Need a star player/lawyer - also get in touch.

Tomorrow is the Charity Shield. Ok they call it the Community Shield these days. No one else does. It’s the last pre-sea...
15/08/2026

Tomorrow is the Charity Shield.

Ok they call it the Community Shield these days. No one else does.

It’s the last pre-season match before the Premier League starts.

And a great time to enter your fantasy football team into my league.

Free league: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/8jqknp

Paid for league: DM for details.

Rapacious lawyers are parasites feeding on the back of productive Britain. That’s what Restore Britain’s new plan sets o...
04/08/2026

Rapacious lawyers are parasites feeding on the back of productive Britain.

That’s what Restore Britain’s new plan sets out.

By page two.

In the foreword.

Nice. Thanks. ☺️

By page 35 they want to amend the Immigration Act 1971.

By page 49 they’re rewriting corporation tax.

Somewhere in the middle they propose repealing twenty five years of regulation, restructuring public sector pension schemes, and abolishing five separate taxes.

What they don’t seem to grasp is every one of those is a legal exercise.

Someone has to draft it.

Someone has to work out what repealing one regulation does to everything other instrument that cross refers to it.

Someone has to defend it when it’s challenged, and it will be challenged.

This document is a manifesto for the largest expansion of legal work in modern British history.

It just opens by calling us parasites. 🪱

Forget the bad maths here. The bit that’s really daft is this.

The paper says prosperity needs the rule of law, it needs secure property rights and a predictable framework of rules.

But those things don’t just happen.

A country where a person who spent twenty five years building a business can sell it to a stranger and be confident the money arrives is not the natural state of humanity.

It’s a construction. And someone has to build it.

And that’s what lawyers do.

We build rules.
We create contracts. Systems.

We’re not parasites. Lawyers are an essential part of life.

Our legal system is undoubtedly one of the best, most respected in the world. (The Law Society)

The headlines are about raising basic rate band limit to £100k at 20% - which sounds great. But the paper is still full of misinformation, inaccuracies and insults to lawyers.

And to attack one of the best exports the country has is odd.

When you lose your job, the first £30,000 of compensation is tax free. The thing is, that £30,000 was set in 1988 and ha...
31/07/2026

When you lose your job, the first £30,000 of compensation is tax free.

The thing is, that £30,000 was set in 1988 and hasn’t moved since.

If it had kept up with inflation it would be north of £100,000 today.

Meanwhile the weekly pay figure used to calculate statutory redundancy goes up every April. It has to. The law says so.

It went from £719 to £751 this year.

Which sounds like good news. And for lower earners it is.

But statutory redundancy pay counts towards the £30,000.

So as that cap rises, it eats the tax free allowance quicker.

Particularly for the high earner c-suite client I generally advise with Settlement Agreements.

Max statutory redundancy is now £22,530. That leaves £7,470 of headroom before the taxman starts taking a cut of whatever else your employer offers you. Not much for a high earner.

Another way this government taxes normal working people.

If you need advice on a settlement agreement, get in touch or visit www.settlement-agreement.co.uk

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