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Thank you so much for your response! That is definitely something for us to think about.

As Loudogg says, with a 301 redirect you'll be fine, although you will experience a slight loss of link juice through the 301. Further losses can be avoided by ensuring (as much as is possible) that links are directed to your destination page, so they don't go through the redirect. I'd definitely make sure to implement a rel="canonical" directive, and focus on being consistent.