HOW WE CAN HELP
Legal support across
your business.
From everyday queries to the legal terms of your important agreements to the decisions that shape what comes next. Practical advice, grounded in your commercial priorities.
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Commercial contracts, customers & suppliers
Clear commercial agreements help you manage relationships, set expectations and protect your business. We draft, review and negotiate contracts that reflect how your business operates.
- Terms and conditions
- Terms for supplying your products or services, including payment, delivery, liability and cancellation. We can ensure your business is well protected and help you get paid correctly and on time.
- Supplier agreements
- Documenting purchasing arrangements, delivery obligations, pricing and rights to end the relationship. We help clients negotiate better terms with suppliers to improve efficiency and costs.
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Protecting confidential information shared with prospective customers, suppliers, investors or business partners.
- Service level agreements
- Defining service standards, responsibilities and what happens if agreed levels are not met.
- Franchise agreements
- Advice on the rights and obligations involved in operating or granting a franchise.
- Licence agreements
- Setting the terms on which intellectual property, software or other business assets may be used.
- Website privacy and cookie policies
- Explaining how your business collects and uses personal data and cookies.
- Website terms and conditions
- Establishing the terms for using your website and, where relevant, purchasing through it.
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Corporate transactions & business structure
Whether you are buying or selling a business, bringing in investment or working with a business partner, we provide legal support to help you structure the arrangement and agree its terms.
- Buying or selling a business
- Support with the transaction process, legal due diligence and negotiating the relevant agreements.
- Raising capital or finance
- Advice on investment arrangements and funding documentation.
- Merging businesses
- Support with structuring and documenting the combination of businesses.
- Joint ventures
- Agreements setting out how the parties will work together, contribute resources, share returns and make decisions.
- Partnership agreements
- Documenting responsibilities, profit sharing, decision-making and arrangements for partners joining or leaving.
- Shareholder agreements
- Establishing how a company is owned and managed, including shareholder rights, share transfers and the resolution of disagreements.
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Employment & HR support
Practical legal support with the agreements and policies that underpin your working relationships, from employees and directors to independent consultants.
- Employment contracts
- Drafting and reviewing terms covering roles, pay, working arrangements, confidentiality and termination.
- Performance, dismissals and redundancies
- Practical support with managing performance concerns, disciplinary processes, employee dismissals and redundancy proposals, including consultation, documentation and assessing the risks of a proposed approach.
- Staff handbooks
- Developing and updating workplace policies and procedures to reflect your organisation.
- Director service agreements
- Documenting directors’ employment terms, responsibilities and contractual obligations.
- Consultancy agreements
- Setting out the scope of services, fees, confidentiality, intellectual property ownership and termination arrangements for independent consultants.
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Disputes and litigation
Step-by-step support when a disagreement puts your business relationships, finances or reputation at risk. We help you assess your options and we can provide specialist litigation support where proceedings are needed.
- Early assessment and strategy
- Reviewing the background, relevant agreements and available evidence to help you understand your position, risks and commercial options.
- Contract and commercial disputes
- Support with disagreements involving customers, suppliers or business partners, including performance, payment and termination issues.
- Unpaid invoices and debt recovery
- Helping you assess disputed or overdue payments, prepare correspondence and choose proportionate steps to pursue recovery.
- Negotiation and settlement
- Supporting settlement discussions and documenting agreed terms to bring a dispute to a clear conclusion.
- Mediation and alternative resolution
- Helping you explore ways to resolve a disagreement outside court, prepare for mediation and work with the advisers involved.
- Managing litigation
- We have the expertise to handle litigation from within your business, or can appoint and brief specialist litigation solicitors where required.
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Regulatory & compliance advice
Helping you understand the requirements relevant to your business and put proportionate policies and processes into practice.
- Understanding your obligations
- Identifying the legal and regulatory requirements relevant to your activities and helping you understand what they mean for your business.
- Policies and procedures
- Developing practical compliance policies and internal processes that reflect the size, activities and risks of your organisation.
- Compliance reviews
- Reviewing existing arrangements, identifying gaps and helping you prioritise improvements.
- Regulatory change
- Assessing how changes in legal and regulatory requirements affect your business and planning the steps needed to respond.
- Regulator enquiries
- Supporting your response to regulatory enquiries, information requests and concerns, with specialist input where needed.
- Embedding good practice
- Helping teams understand their responsibilities and apply compliance requirements in everyday decisions.
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Data protection & risk management
Advice on how your business handles personal data, alongside support to identify, assess and manage legal risks across your operations.
- Data protection policies and notices
- Drafting and reviewing privacy notices and internal policies to explain and support the responsible handling of personal data.
- Data sharing and supplier arrangements
- Reviewing how personal data is shared with other organisations and documenting the parties’ responsibilities.
- Data requests and incidents
- Supporting your response to requests about personal data, complaints and suspected data breaches, including assessing next steps.
- Assessing legal risk
- Identifying legal risks in your operations, contracts and proposed projects, and helping you agree proportionate ways to manage them.
- Protecting intellectual property rights
- Helping you protect your brand, content, designs and know-how through clear ownership terms, confidentiality arrangements and licences, with specialist registration advice where needed.
- Confidential information
- Putting practical safeguards and contractual protections in place for sensitive commercial information.
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Board & strategic advice
Senior legal input into board discussions, governance and business planning, bringing a legal perspective to important commercial decisions.
- Board support
- Providing a senior legal perspective on board papers, proposals and discussions so decision-makers understand the issues and available options.
- Corporate governance
- Reviewing decision-making processes, delegated authorities and governance arrangements to support clear responsibilities and accountability.
- Directors’ duties and conflicts
- Helping directors understand their responsibilities and manage potential conflicts when considering business decisions.
- Strategic projects
- Bringing legal input into growth plans, new products, market entry and changes to the way your business operates.
- Documenting decisions
- Supporting the preparation of board minutes, resolutions and approvals that accurately record important decisions.
- Balancing opportunity and risk
- Helping you weigh legal risks alongside commercial objectives and agree a practical route forward.
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Managing external advisers & suppliers
Support with appointing, briefing and managing external advisers and specialist providers, including agreeing scope, reviewing fees and keeping their work aligned with your business priorities.
- Selecting the right advisers
- Helping you identify when specialist support is needed, compare suitable providers and select advisers for the task.
- Briefing and scope of work
- Preparing clear instructions, deliverables and responsibilities so advisers understand your objectives and the boundaries of their work.
- Engagement terms and fees
- Reviewing appointment terms, fee proposals and budgets, including the basis for any additional charges.
- Coordinating advice
- Managing input from different specialists and translating their advice into clear actions for your business.
- Monitoring delivery
- Keeping track of progress, deadlines and costs, and addressing changes to scope or service concerns as they arise.
- Supplier relationships
- Supporting contract discussions, performance reviews and the renewal or termination of key supplier arrangements.
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