Commercial legal services for your business

Drafting and reviewing the agreements you send and the ones you are asked to sign, so that each deal stands on terms that protect the business.

NDAs, supplier terms, master services agreements and consultancy agreements and terms of business.

The decisions behind hiring, managing and parting with people, advised on by employment solicitors who know how growing businesses are run.

Employment contracts, staff handbooks and workplace policies, disciplinaries and grievances and settlement agreements.

The sector rules and the anti-bribery, modern slavery and cyber security obligations a business has to meet, kept in order as it scales.

Sector-specific regulation, anti-bribery, modern slavery and cyber security.

Trade mark searches and applications, assignments of intellectual property from contractors and staff, licensing, and the letters that protect a brand when someone borrows it.

Trade mark searches and applications, IP assignments, licensing agreements and cease and desist letters.

Disputes dealt with early, through correspondence, negotiation and the pre-action steps, so that the relationship and the cash flow survive. Where a matter must go to court, we engage a disputes firm on your behalf.

Contract disputes, shareholder and director disputes, letters before action and settlement agreements.

Legal planning done ahead of the decision rather than after it, so that growth, hiring and compliance are dealt with before they become urgent.

Legal readiness assessments, risk reviews before major decisions, a legal roadmap for the year ahead and terms and policy planning.

Leases drafted, reviewed and negotiated to fit how the business trades, with the break clauses, rent reviews and repairing obligations read before anything is signed.

Lease drafting and review, heads of terms negotiation, break clauses and renewals and licences to occupy.

Advice from a solicitor who knows the business, on the everyday questions and on the ones that worry you. Questions and check-in calls are not counted.

Answers from your solicitor as questions arise, advice when a letter or notice arrives, your options set out in plain English and a second opinion on your position.

Formal demands, letters before action and repayment arrangements that recover unpaid invoices and keep the cash flowing.

Formal payment demands, letters before action and repayment arrangements.

Strategy, cost control and coordination when a matter goes to court: we brief and instruct the litigation firm, hold their budget to account and stay alongside you.

Merits and strategy assessment, coordinating your litigation solicitors, cost and budget control and settlement negotiation.

Franchise agreements, disclosure documents and manual reviews for franchisors and franchisees, at every stage of building or joining a network.

Franchise agreements, disclosure documentation and franchise manual reviews.

UK GDPR compliance built around how the business actually operates, from the first privacy notice to the handling of a breach.

Privacy notices and cookie policies, data processing agreements, subject access requests (DSARs) and breach response.