We provide a full range of commercial advice to our clients doing business in the UK and overseas. In particular we advise on:
- Appropriate legal structures including wholly owned foreign enterprise, contractual and equity joint ventures
- Buying and leasing land and Premises
- Conflicts of law
- Developing an entry strategy into a foreign market
- Distribution/Agency agreements
- Employment legislation
- Export and Import
- Finance
- Foreign exchange controls
- Foreign investment policy
- Foreign technology agreements
- Franchising
- Import and export factoring
- Intellectual property rights protection
- International trade
- Repatriation of profits
- Sale and supply contracts
We are experienced in dealing with the legal issues facing manufacturers, retailers, suppliers and consumers. We have experience of supply chain legal advice on a global scale, delivering solutions to implement supply chain initiatives and resolving the many issues that can arise along the supply chain in a commercial and practical way.
Our expertise covers the automotive, chemicals and plastics, construction and engineering, energy, food and beverage and textiles industries.
We offer the full range of legal advice including:
- brand management & IP issues
- distribution, franchise and licensing arrangements
- consumer finance
- ecommerce
- logistics, distribution, packaging and manufacturing
- product liability and safety issues affecting manufacturers, importers and retailers
- corporate law and corporate governance
- real estate
- dispute resolution solutions, often in the context of ongoing commercial relationships
- share schemes, employment and pensions requirements
- environmental issues arising at all stages of the product life-cycle including Packaging Recovery Notes and WEEE
We act for owners, managers, investors, franchisors and developers. We have assisted clients new to the industry in dealing with the barriers to entry and existing players in maintaining their competitive advantage. We advise:
- brand management & IP issues
- franchise and licensing arrangements
- ecommerce
- corporate law and corporate governance
- real estate and construction
- employment
- dispute resolution solutions
- environmental issues
- sale and supply contracts
We have considerable experience in respect of funding and procurement to public and private sector organisations engaged in capital infrastructure and major projects around the world. Our experience includes BOT, PFI/PPP, EPC turnkey and traditional contracting. Our project experience includes:
- Heavy Rail
- Light Rail
- Ports
- Process Plants
- Roads
- Waste Recycling
- Urban Regeneration
We provide a full range of contentious and non-contentious services to developers, employers, contractors, consultants and funders covering the entire life cycle of a construction and engineering project.
Our non-contentious services include advising on and drafting:
- Bespoke or standard form domestic and international building contracts (including JCT, ICE, NEC, FIDIC)
- Development Agreements
- Performance Bonds
- Professional Appointments
- Warranties
Our contentious experience includes:
- Adjudication
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Domestic and International Arbitration
- Litigation in the Technology and Construction Court
We assist our clients on each step on the way from brand creation and protection to commercialisation and enforcement. Our experience includes
- Brand Protection
- International registration of trademarks
- International enforcement of Registered Trademarks
- Passing off
- Patents
- Design Rights
- Copyright
- Licensing
- Assignment
Technology and Media
We act for advertisers, agencies and promoters, broadcasters, distributors, event promoters, investors, programme makers, recording studios and sponsors.
Our experience covers:
- advertising
- animation
- business-to-business (B2B) media
- digital marketing
- interactive media
- IP rights
- journalism
- music production
- post-production
- publishing
- technical production
- web design
We have experience in Capital markets, Corporate, Construction, Dispute Resolution, Environment, PFI/PPP, Project Finance, Regulatory and Real Estate.
We have particular expertise in alternative energies and new technologies such as hydro power, solar, biomass and refuse derived fuel (RDF).
We advise on:
- EPC contracts
- fuel supply agreements
- power purchase agreements
- renewable obligation certificates (ROCs)
- real estate and planning
- boiler manufacture
- patent and intellectual property rights issues
