Practice Areas

Company Commercial

With so many different aspects to commercial law, clients need to know their legal advice is the very best. We have experience across the board, including acquisitions and disposals of businesses, assets and shares, business start-ups, joint ventures, company secretarial, supply, distribution, agency and franchise agreements, shareholder agreements, terms and conditions of sale and purchase, plus partnership and Limited Liability Partnership agreements.

Commercial Property

Our commercial property experts are well versed in acquisitions and disposals, investments, issues arising between landlords and tenants, sales, lettings and developments, liabilities, environmental law and insolvency planning applications. We work with a range of local and national clients such as property developers, investors, private companies and public sector organisations.

Construction and Engineering

Legal advice is an integral part of successful construction and engineering projects. The advice ranges across a wide area, from contract negotiation, amendment and agreement, to procurement and dispute resolution. We are also helping our clients monitor and plan for the changes constantly taking place in construction and engineering law, ensuring our services and clients remain up to date and effective.

Intellectual Property

We can help companies to protect their valuable intellectual property, protecting their ideas from the competition and exploiting them to fully realise their true value. Our experts help our clients to enforce their intellectual property rights with the best use of patents, trademarks, copyright and designs, both contentious and non-contentious.

Employment Law

If you are a business we can offer advice so that you do not become a victim of the many rules and regulations that employment law imposes on all employers.  We can help businesses with their employer employee relations by providing proactive advice to help prevent disputes from arising in the first place and where disputes have already arisen deliver commercially focused and workable solutions to help to quickly resolve matters.

As a business you can take advantage of our FREE EMPLOYMENT HEALTH CHECK please contact Christina Merrington for further details.

If you are employee we can help you to resolve workplace disputes through our expertise in employment law in areas such as disciplinary and grievances, performance and capability processes, redundancy, unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, discrimination, Employment Tribunal claims.  We also have extensive experience on providing independent legal advice on compromise agreements.

Property Litigation 

Our expert property litigation department offers advice across this area, such as business lease renewals, rent and service charge recovery, dilapidations claims, disputes over breaches of covenant, service charges, consent for sub-letting, change of use or alterations, land recovery from unlawful occupation, residential repossession or rent recovery.