From trading terms and conditions to international joint ventures, our multi-skilled team of business lawyers and advisers provides a full range of legal advice to help you minimise risk and maximise opportunities in commercial projects and transactions - wherever in the world you are doing business.
Our commercial work includes advice on matters such as:
- Business-to-business (B2B) contracts with customers, manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, distributors, introducers, agents, franchisees, and sponsors.
- Warehousing, logistics and port storage and handling agreements.
- API agreements.
- Consultancy agreements.
- Introducer agreements.
- Social media influencer agreements.
- Partnership and collaboration agreements.
- Business-to-consumer (B2C) contracts with customers.
- Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
- Contractual joint ventures.
- Public/private sector partnerships and collaborations.
- Private sector procurement and support in bidding/tendering for public sector contracts.
- Information technology (IT) and software contracts (including licensing, support and maintenance) and software as a service (SAAS) contracts.
- Standard trading terms and conditions.
- E-commerce terms and policies.
- Company policies and procedures.
- Contract interpretation, review, strategy and negotiation.
- Contract termination and commercial settlement agreements.
- Data protection.
- Cyber security.
- Competition law.
Our intellectual property (IP) work includes advice on matters such as:
- Preparing brand and other licences.
- Protecting and licensing of rights in individual/commercial sponsorship agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating software development agreements to ensure IP ownership.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements to further develop and commercialise IP assets including research and development agreements, franchising, data sharing agreements and collaboration agreements.
- Advising on transfers and assignments of IP rights intra-group and from third parties in respect of the disposal or acquisition of IP assets and rights.
- Advising on IP issues in NDAs or confidentiality agreements.