Corporate and Commercial
Corporate
Our Corporate team provides businesses with a responsive, speedy and business-orientated legal service. Our objective is to develop long-standing relationships with you, providing you continuity, and enabling us to get an in-depth understanding of your organisation and legal issues that may affect you.
- Finance
- Buying and selling a company or business
- Demergers and other corporate reorganisations
- Family company succession
- Joint ventures and shareholder agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Share buy-backs
Contact: Peter Fraser or Michael Stock
Business Contracts
Our Commercial Team deal with business-to-business issues we aim to spot potential problems early, negotiate effectively and help manage risk in your business contracts and documents.
Our commercial team is skilled at the preparation of commercial contracts of all types including :-
- Acquisition/disposal agreements
- Agency agreements
- Franchising
- Guarantees
- Intellectual property
- Licensing agreements
- Sale of goods/services
- Terms and conditions of trading
Contact: Peter Fraser
Commercial Litigation
Our Commercial Litigation Team has a depth of experience that can be applied to your advantage. They will take a pragmatic and robust approach in protecting your interests and will work with you to achieve the best possible outcome in line with your commercial objectives.
Disputes can range from breach of contract and sale of goods disagreements to major issues involving construction, engineering and property. Many cases involve problems that are internal to an organisation, such as partnership and shareholder disputes. We also have particular experience in media disputes, defamation and sports related matters.
Our team provides sensible, practical solutions and sound advice based on a wealth of experience. We are advocates of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and other alternatives to what can be lengthy and costly court proceedings.
Our team have worked on cases that have involved subjects such as :-
- Building disputes
- Corporate/partnership disputes
- Debt recovery
- Fiduciary duty claims
- Insurance matters
- Landlord and tenant disputes
- Sports disputes and sports disciplinary proceedings
Contact: Ian Pearl