Commercial Law

Clear, well-drafted contracts are the foundation of any successful business relationship while also acting as the cornerstone of your business’s legal protection.

Our team work with you to draft, review, and negotiate agreements that minimise risks and provide clarity in your dealings. Our support includes supplier and customer contracts as well as collaboration and partnership agreements, and much more.

Technology agreements are essential to doing business in today’s digitally powered business landscape.

Our commercial team can support you with licensing software, developing bespoke IT agreements and entering service-level agreements. We’re here to help you with negotiating intellectual property rights, data protection compliance, performance obligations and more, allowing you take your business forwards with confidence in your technology agreements.

Managing procurement is essential to maintaining efficient and healthy supply chains while achieving good value for your money.

We draft, review and negotiate procurement agreements including payment terms, performance standards and risk allocation. For public sector procurement, we can advise you on the relevant regulations. Our objective is to handle the technicalities of procurement law for you, working as an extension of your team, allowing you to focus on managing your procurement relationships.

Collaborative research and development (R&D) projects are vital for driving innovation and creating new opportunities, but they require carefully constructed agreements to protect your interests and maximise value.

Our team advises on drafting and negotiating contracts that safeguard your business while fostering productive partnerships. Whether you’re entering into joint ventures, university collaborations, or industry partnerships, we work with you to produce agreements that address confidentiality, data protection, and future commercialisation.

In a globalised digital economy, ecommerce and online trading are the life-blood of most businesses.

We can support you with drafting and negotiating contracts, terms and conditions, privacy policies, intellectual property rights and payment terms while keeping you on the right side of regulatory compliance including distance selling rules and website accessibility standards. Whether you’re just starting up and launching a new platform or if you’re hoping to expand your online presence, we’ve got your back.

Effective distribution, reselling, and agency agreements are key to expanding your reach and building successful commercial relationships.

We can help you structure these arrangements to protect your interests, minimise risks and remain compliant with the regulations, including those around competition and consumer protection. We’re here to help you with drafting and negotiating agreements that define roles, responsibilities and payment terms while addresses exclusivity, territory rights and termination provisions. We can support agents, distributors, and those in reselling partnerships.