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We combine extraordinary ability with cross-sector expertise

Our corporate and commercial teams offer a full range of business services, providing strategic legal advice and solutions to a variety of clients across a range of industry sectors. We act for national and international entrepreneurs, directors and members, as well as limited companies, LLPs, PLCs and multinational corporations.

We command a keen corporate and commercial awareness and work hard to gain a clear understanding of your business from the outset. We work with you to evaluate a transaction’s potential merits/risks against the wider backdrop of your business’s objectives and intentions. Attention to detail is of key importance.

The team prides itself on its response times and draws upon expertise from across the firm, catering to your every need.

Practice areas and expertise

Articles

Agile AI Regulation: Moving with the times – April 2024
Key aspects of the Chancellor’s March 2024 Spring Budget – March 2024
Starting a business? – March 2024
Are your business’s legal documents up to date? – January 2024
When dealmakers bite down on a MAC clause – November 2023
Directors must understand the implications of AI – November 2023
Legal considerations for launching a charity business – October 2023
Business First Magazine – October 2023
UK approach to AI regulation – September 2023
Death of a shareholder – September 2023
Greenwashing attracts the wrong attention – July 2023
What is the reasonableness test? – July 2023
How could your corporate commercial lawyer make or break your business? – June 2023
To merge or acquire – May 2023
Artificial intelligence will be challenged – May 2023
Articles of association and shareholders’ agreements explained – April 2023
Business First Magazine – April 2023
A Guide to the Economic Crime Act – January 2023
Protect SMEs from corporate criminal liability – December 2022
Embarrassing regulation breach for the MoJ – November 2022
Danger of Deceit – April 2022
Consumer credit and competition law reforms – January 2022
Business Interruption Insurance – December 2021
Excluding liability in commercial contracts – August 2021
Understanding if the force is with you – August 2021
Key English commercial law differences post-Brexit – June 2021
Small suppliers to get info on big companies’ payment performance – May 2017
Death of a shareholder – October 2016
Implied terms – January 2016

Commercial

We advise and assist with the drafting and negotiating of a wide range of commercial agreements, for example, assignments and licences of IP rights, commercial agency and distribution agreements, contracts for the sale of goods or provision of services, non-disclosure agreements, standard terms and conditions, supply contracts and website terms and conditions of use and disclaimers.

At a glance

  • Acquisition of a UK healthcare group through an assignment and refinancing of £70m of secured debt.
  • Acting for an FCA regulated business preparing a full suite of contracts including customer terms and conditions, white label agreements and broker agreements.
  • Dissolution of multiple interlinked businesses in a complex partnership structure, entailing the sale of assets and goodwill of the underlying businesses.
Corporate

We provide a wide range of corporate services, including: compliance, corporate governance, director arrangements and responsibilities, earn-outs, entry and exit strategies, equity capital markets, escrow arrangements, general counsel services, incorporations, investments and security offerings, joint venture arrangements, M&A transactions, partnership formations, restructuring and shareholder arrangements.

At a glance

  • Acting for beneficiaries on large corporate reconstruction and division of a trust involving a division of assets in excess of £600m.
  • Advising on the partition of a property portfolio with a value in excess of £350m.
  • Acting on a business separation agreement involving the division of assets and shareholdings, and the dissolution of a number of interlinked partnerships and joint ventures.
  • Advising a project vehicle company on large overseas developments, subscription agreements and placement memoranda.
  • Advising a publications holdings company in the sale of two of its subsidiaries.
  • All aspects of company start-up advice and guidance throughout.
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