COMMERCIAL LAW
Running a business involves more than everyday decisions. It requires strong legal foundations and clear agreements to protect your interests. Our team supports businesses of all sizes with practical, commercially focused advice at every stage- from starting out to expanding, restructuring, or selling.
With decades of experience in commercial transactions and governance, we help ensure your business runs smoothly, meets its legal obligations, and operates with confidence.
OUR COMMERCIAL LAW SERVICES
Buying or selling a business is a major decision. We guide you through every stage, from due diligence to final settlement, ensuring the process is clear, compliant, and protects your interests. Our lawyers have extensive experience assisting clients with acquisitions, sales, mergers, insolvencies, franchising, and joint ventures.
From establishing a company to managing its ongoing obligations, we guide directors and shareholders through the legal framework that underpins good business governance. Our advice covers constitutions, governance, shareholder agreements, partnerships and compliance under the Companies Act 1993.
When business relationships break down, we work to resolve disputes efficiently and recover what is owed through negotiation or formal proceedings. We advocate for our client’s rights, advise on their responsibilities and map potential legal avenues to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Strong business relationships depend on well-drafted agreements. We prepare, review, and negotiate commercial contracts that set out each party’s rights, obligations, and responsibilities from the outset.
This includes supply agreements, service agreements, contractor agreements, confidentiality clauses, restraints of trade, and other business arrangements. Our focus is on making sure the terms are practical, enforceable, and designed to reduce the risk of future disputes.
Strong lease agreements protect both landlords and tenants. We draft, review, and negotiate commercial leases that set clear terms and minimise future risk. Our dedicated property team can assist with new leases, renewals, variations, assignments, and advice on existing lease obligations.
Terms of trade set the rules for how your business supplies goods or services, including payment terms, liability, ownership, and what happens if an account is not paid.
We assist with preparing and reviewing terms of trade, security arrangements, and Personal Property Securities Register registrations. This helps protect your position, particularly where goods are supplied on credit, payment is delayed, or your business needs to secure its interest in property or equipment.
