LEADING law firm Ward Hadaway has worked on a series of deals involving small and medium-sized businesses.

Recent deals have seen the firm, which has offices in Newcastle and Leeds, provide legal advice to a video production company, a petrol stock monitoring business and a storage company.

Martin Hulls, partner and head of corporate finance at Ward Hadaway, said: “It is the owner-managed sector which forms the real bedrock of the region’s economy and helps to keep it moving forward and helping them achieve expansion or a realisation of many years hard work is really rewarding.

“Good quality advice is important in every deal, but it is perhaps even more so when it comes to transactions which involve businessmen who may never have been involved in a corporate transaction before.”

Ward Hadaway advised the sellers of Newcastle video production company Twenty First Century Media on its acquisition by AIM-listed Ten Alps in a deal worth up to £750,000.

It also advised the shareholders of Sunderland petrol stock monitoring company Edensure on their sale to Brulines, of Stockton, a leading provider of real-time monitoring systems and data management services for the UK leisure sector.

Most recently, it advised Parsons Containers, of County Durham, on its acquisition of a self-storage business in Grantham, Lincolnshire.