Business & Individuals

BUSINESS - What we do for business?

We delivers wide-ranging legal advice to all types of business. For details of our services, select your area of interest from the options below

Commercial

We offer a full range of commercial services to address all the legal angles of running a business.

Our commercial lawyers have enthusiasm, acumen and numeracy. They understand the need to achieve fast, effective solutions and to give you uncomplicated advice. We’ll always think laterally. So our advice takes in not only what’s happening today, but what it might mean in the future too.

We can help with:

• International trade and commerce
• Business start-ups
• Partnership & shareholder issues
• Contract negotiation and implementation
• Buying, selling and restructuring a business
• Joint ventures
• Franchising and agency/distribution
• Debt collection
• Insolvency and rescues
• Employment

Whatever the size of your business, you need good legal advice to ensure you comply with the law as far as your workers are concerned.

We’ll respond quickly if the unexpected happens, giving you urgent advice when it’s needed.

We will help with:

• Drafting employment contracts
• Directors’ service agreements
• Restraint and confidentiality undertakings
• Remuneration and incentive packages
• Disciplinary, termination and redundancy procedures
• Discrimination issues
• Consultancy contracts
• Disputes

If you’re involved in a business dispute of any sort, we have the experience and resources to help.

Whatever the issue we’ll first seek a positive resolution through careful negotiation. And if court action becomes necessary, we’ll advise on all options before providing cost effective representation to help achieve your goals.

We will help with:

• Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Court and arbitration proceedings
• Injunctions
• Enforcements
• Tribunal representation

Property

We cover all aspects of commercial, industrial and retail premises.

Whether you’re buying, selling or leasing, need guidance on licensing issues or new construction and developments, we’ll provide the practical, prompt help you need.

We offer expertise in:

• Property funding
• Property development
• Acquisition and disposal
• Planning applications and environmental issues
• Licensed premises
• Land acquisition and disposal
• Industrial, commercial or retail leases
• Joint ventures

Intellectual Property & Internet Law

Inventions, software, hardware, technology, design concepts, creative ideas-all are termed ’intellectual property’ and all need to be properly protected, so far as they can, in today’s fiercely competitive world., Internet law

Whatever your inventive and creative background, our intellectual property lawyers will advise on how best to safeguard your work.

We can help with:

• Artists and entertainers’ rights
• Patents, trade and service marks
• Copyright issues
• Royalty agreements
• Confidentiality agreements

INDIVIDUALS - What We Do for Individuals?

Property

Buying and selling your home or any form of property holds many pitfalls. So if you’re involved in a property transaction it’s a good idea to seek a strong, reliable legal partner.

We’ll provide you with professional, innovative advice in:

• Conveyancing
• Shared ownership
• Planning
• Leasehold enfranchisement
• Mortgaging and secured lending
• Portfolio acquisition and disposal
• Tax and stamp duty planning
• Family

Family problems need sensitive and expert handling.

We can call on our family lawyers who are members of the Solicitors Family Law Association to resolve the most complicated of situations.

We will help you with:

• Divorce and separation
• Unmarried partners
• Finance, pension and property arrangements
• Co-habitation & pre-nuptial agreements
• Mediation
• Contact with and residence of children

Life and Death

There are various ways, using our help, in which you can organise your affairs to the best advantage of yourself and your family during your lifetime and on your death.

We are here to assist you in deciding what is most beneficial for you, in the most tax efficient. We offer sympathetic and practical advice in the administration of estates on death.

We offer guidance in:

• Drafting and updating wills
• Tax planning
• Trusts
• Sheltering assets
• Enduring powers of attorney
• The special needs of elderly clients
• The administration of estates on death

Dispute

If you’re involved in a business dispute of any sort, we have the experience and resources to help.

Whatever the issue we’ll first seek a positive resolution through careful negotiation. And if court action becomes necessary, we’ll advise on all options before providing cost effective representation to help achieve your goals.

We will help with:

• Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Court and arbitration proceedings
• Injunctions
• Enforcements
• Tribunal representation

Personal injury

If you’ve suffered an accidental injury on the road, at work, at home or as a result of medical negligence, and it’s affected your earnings or health - you may want legal help to get compensation if someone else was at fault.

We offer you:

• Prompt, sympathetic help and advice
• An assessment of your chances of success
• Expert negotiation
• No-win, no-fee services

Employment problems

Being employed can bring with it a host of legal questions, complications and risks, especially at key moments, such as when you’re being hired, disciplined or fired.

We can help you with:

• Employment contracts and issues
• Disciplinary procedures
• Unfair dismissal
• RedundancyVictimisation
• Discrimination
• Whistle blowing
• Contractual disputes
• No-win, no-fee services