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Commercial

In the conduct of your business, you will face a broad variety of general commercial issues. Our Business Services Team is here to help you.  We act for businesses of all shapes and sizes - sole traders, partnerships and LLPs, small private companies, larger corporations and financial institutions.

We have extensive experience in the full range of commercial issues with which a modern business has to deal. We can handle the following:-

  • Commercial agreements - "I am looking to enter into a franchise or other agreement"
    We can prepare, advise on and negotiate on your behalf an extensive range of distribution agreements and documents, including terms of business, purchase and supply terms, commercial agency agreements, distribution and franchise arrangements, powers of attorney, general or bespoke contracts and boilerplate provisions. We can also advise on sale of goods and consumer protection legislation.
  • Dispute Resolution - If you are in dispute with a partner under a partnership or LLP members agreement, a customer or supplier under your or their terms of business, another shareholder in your company under a shareholders agreement, or another party to any other general commercial agreement - we can help.
  • Debt Recovery
  • Employment
  • Internet trading and E-commerce - "I want to start selling on-line but am unclear how to go about it"
    We can review and advise on the terms of your agreement with your ISP/website provider or designer: prepare on-line terms of business, privacy/security/data protection policies and other e-commerce terms
  • IT - Whether you are looking to acquire or sell hardware or software, or to ensure your hardware or software is properly maintained, updated or developed, we can advise you on the appropriate form of assignment, licence, maintenance and development arrangements to put in place with your supplier or customer.
  • Intellectual property - "I have had a brainwave and want to exploit it commercially"
    We can advise you on how best to protect your copyright or design rights, and on the registration of trademarks and patents and other intellectual property rights
  • Property

Other Commercial Issues

We can advise on a wide variety of general commercial issues including:

  • consumer credit
  • data protection
  • freedom of information
  • money laundering
  • environmental law
  • health and safety

Contact Us

To contact our Corporate Team please call the number below or email one of our team.

Call 01392 207020

Email: Richard Thorneycroft | Richard King

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