COMMERCIAL
We handle everything commercial, whether it involves drafting and negotiating contracts or being on the end of the phone to sanity-check your latest idea.
Our clients use us to help ensure their business relationships are fair and don’t present surprises or disappointments down the line. We’re there for the whole process of growth, helping you to make the most of opportunities, identify pitfalls, and turn everyday situations in your favour.
Work we do includes
+ Service agreements
+ Manufacturing agreements
+ Agency and distributorship
+ IT and software contracts
+ NDAs
+ Advertising clearance
+ Consultancy agreements
+ Licensing agreements
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We’ll be a calm and decisive partner. Whether the issue needs to go all the way through the courts or can be settled by negotiation, our priority is your interests.
We recognise that while a dispute can be critical to you, it can also be an unwanted distraction from your core activities. We will aim get the best possible result for you as quickly as possible to enable you to focus on what you do best.
Not every dispute needs to end up before a judge or arbitrator – sometimes a sufficiently robust start can get what you need. That said, occasionally it makes sense to take it all the way, and when that happens we will bring the sharpest analysis, rock-solid strategy, the most eloquent arguments and the most dogged persistence to bear for you.
Work we do includes
+ Agency, distribution and supply-chain disputes and terminations
+ Arbitration
+ Branding and trade mark infringements
+ Commercial contract disputes
+ Commercial litigation
+ Confidential information and trade secrets
+ Copyright and design infringement
+ Domain name disputes
+ Fraud and asset-recovery
+ Injunctions
+ Mediation
+ Real estate disputes
+ Shareholder and partnership disputes
EMPLOYMENT
We help employers and employees get what they’re looking for: peace of mind, security, and the ability to move on to the next phase.
If you’re in business, we won’t need to remind you: whatever else it’s about, your organisation is about people. And people have more rights than ever, and they expect certain standards. If you’re an individual coming to us for help, you’ll recognise that just as keenly.
Our service covers everything from forming strategy and drafting documents to representing you in an Employment Tribunal. Some of the best work we do lies in between those stages: essentially, being here to guide you through a labyrinth of laws and difficult decisions, being extremely responsive and taking the stress from you as we go.
Work we do includes
+ Day-to-day HR support
+ All aspect of employee relations
+ Advice on consultants
+ Drafting contracts, policies, procedures and handbooks
+ Advising on restrictive covenants and team moves
+ Redundancies and restructures
+ Discrimination and whistleblowing
+ Disciplinary and grievance procedures
+ Employment litigation
+ TUPE
+ Settlement agreements
DATA PROTECTION
2018 saw the biggest shake-up of data protection law in 20 years, with the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation.
But that’s just the beginning. More than ever, people want to know what is happening to their data, and they have powers on which they can rely. With the UK now forming its own new relationships with the rest of the continent, it’s more important than ever to be up to speed with this difficult and growing area. Your reputation can be affected by the approach you take to data.
Work we do includes
+ Drafting internal and external privacy notices
+ Advising on your current processes
+ Helping you comply with e-marketing rules
+ Dealing with data breaches, including liaison with the ICO
+ Advising on Subject Access Requests
+ Drafting international transfer agreements
+ Negotiating Data Processing Agreements
+ Updating your standard documents to deal with privacy
REAL ESTATE
As lawyers working in a city containing some of the world’s most coveted real estate, we understand how important it is to get things right.
Our practice is not confined to London alone, however: we act in relation to valuable commercial property all over the country and beyond. We deal with commercial clients, banks and individuals on a wide range of transactions.
Work we do includes
+ Sales and purchases
+ Landlord and tenant
+ Portfolio management
+ Secured lending
+ Lease acquisitions, renewals and expiry
+ Development agreements
+ Conditional contracts
+ Put and call options
+ Property tax
+ Planning and infrastructure agreements
+ Joint ventures
+ Strategic land
+ Development finance and forward finance agreements
+ Property disputes