Business Services

Our 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.

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.