Commercial

Lawyers on hand to manage your commercial requirements

We specialise in advising clients on a wide range of day-to-day commercial matters across our core sectors of focus.

What we do in Commercial law

Our areas of expertise include:

• Commercial agreements
• Intellectual property and other brand protection
• Joint ventures
• Outsourcing
• E-commerce
• Procurement
• Technology Media and Telecoms
• Data Privacy
• Agency and distribution agreements
• Logistics
• Licensing
• Contracts of carriage
• Technical and management agreements
• Concession and operating agreements
• Sale of goods contracts
• Consultancy agreements

Our experience in Commercial law

We are regularly involved in complex commercial matters for our clients. We provide below some examples of our work in this area:

• Advising a leading consumer goods manufacturer on the competition aspects of its multi-billion logistics outsourcing arrangements.
• Preparing frame work agreements for the purchase of ocean freight, freight management and European haulage services for a major supermarket chain and separately for one of the UK's largest retailers.
• Advising a legal services provider regarding intellectual property aspects of a media services contract.
• Acting for a European shipping line in relation to the drafting of a long term terminal user agreement including the negotiation of KPIs and a throughput guarantee for use of the container terminal services and facilities at Felixstowe.
• Advising on the disposal of goods attracting excise duty by a port operator/warehousing business to avoid over £1 million in duty.
• Advising on Heads of Agreement for sub-contractors supporting bidder for upstream service contracts tendered by major oil companies.
• Advising a European energy company on a contract review for offshore contractors valued at in excess of €2 billion for the preparation and laying of a sub sea pipeline.
• Drafting and advising upon a software licence involving the procurement of a licence to use innovative electronic payment technology.

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