Business Services

Our Business Services department handles all non-contentious commercial advice including company formation, administration, mergers and acquisitions, partnership issues including business partnership agreements and general commercial matters.

Our multi-disciplinary Business Services team is able to provide you with specialist guidance tailored to your business´ requirements. We will work in close partnership with you to gain a clear understanding of your business, to resolve legal problems and to avoid potential pitfalls. Dealing with a variety of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues can often conspire to make life difficult for businesses, large and small. We understand that you need us to cut through the jargon. We will provide pragmatic advice and straight forward documentation, tailored to your organisation.

We recognise that successful businesses cannot afford to stand still and you will often need a rapid response where the situation demands it. We have good working relationships with other professionals and the ability to draw on the skills of other departments within the firm, enabling us to provide an efficient, thorough and high quality service.

Lees Direct 

If you want an even more convenient and cost effective service which puts you in control then Lees Direct lets you obtain legal advice and documents online.

Select a legal service and an interactive questionnaire lets you prepare a draft of the document tailored to your requirements for one of our specialist solicitors to review and finalise.

 

Our wide range of services for businesses, companies and individuals includes:

Company

  • Formation, administration and management
  • Acquisitions, mergers and disposals
  • Reorganisations and joint ventures
  • Corporate finance and securities
  • Share allotments
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share option schemes
  • Directors responsibilities and service agreements
  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • Insolvency

Partnership

  • Formation and business partnership agreements
  • Limited liability partnerships
  • Liability and dissolution

General commercial

  • Terms and conditions of business
  • Distribution and agency agreements
  • Franchising
  • Product liability
  • Insolvency
  • Contracts and commercial agreements
  • Business sales and purchases

Our experience has confirmed that commercial casualties are often the result of a failure to plan, especially in the early stages of a new business. Undoubtedly, prevention is better than cure. We therefore appreciate the need to work in close partnership with clients to gain a clear understanding of your business, to ensure that the many legal problems and pitfalls can be avoided.

Publication of new guidance on business and company sales and acquisitions

Buying or selling a business or company for the first time can be an intimidating experience. The process can seem complicated and full of legal terminology.
Lees are helping to make the process more straightforward for potential clients by producing a series of guides explaining the process in plain English so that you will know what to expect when buying or selling a business.

The first guide covers the area of warranties and disclosure (one of the more technical areas of the process) and is available now our website free of charge, click here to follow the link to the document.