How can our commercial law solicitors help your business?
As a business owner, we understand that your main focus is improving profitability, whilst growing your enterprise and making business practices operate more efficiently. Allowing your valuable time to be consumed by technical or regulatory matters can mean that other areas of your business may suffer. This is where a strong legal team, in the form of Redkite Solicitors, can make a huge difference. By entrusting us with your legal work, you will enter into a partnership model of a proactive legal service provision, addressing any potential legal issues before they become problems. Our advice can always be sought retrospectively, of course, but we find that it is better to work alongside your enterprise, helping you to achieve your business ambitions by handling the legal side of running the company for you.
Since opening our first offices more than 100 years ago, Redkite Solicitors have guided many companies across Wales and England in effectively resolving their corporate and commercial legal matters. We can provide you with expert legal representation for your business. Whatever industry you operate in, you can rely on our experts to provide high-quality advice on business law that uniquely fits your interests.
What Sort of Legal Services Do We Offer Businesses?
As mentioned, we offer a highly bespoke legal service to all of our corporate clients which can extend into every aspect of law. Typical legal services that are sought from us include:
- Business contract oversight
- Company procurement
- Employee disputes
- Public liability
- Management buyouts
- Management buy-ins
- Legal matters arising from mergers
- Intellectual property rights
- Joint ventures
- Corporate restructuring
- Small claims court representation
- Registering with Companies House
- Converting from sole trader status
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Company secretarial services
- Partnership dissolution
- Equity and finance
- Data protection compliance
- Tax disputes
- Licensing and regulatory requirements
Contracts
Contracts: Getting the Basics Right
It is important to have the basic contract concepts right. Contracts establish the basis for what you do and how you perform in business. Speak to our experts to ensure you have the right safeguards to deter and resolve legal disputes and lawsuits, and to get on with managing your business.
Our expertise across the board and business knowledge ensures we will configure the contracts to best suit the specific demands of your industry.
User-Friendly, Practical Contracts
Contracts should be clear and straightforward and we will collaborate with you to create documents that are concise and realistic and, most critically, stand there own under review.
We can help with:
- Terms and conditions of business
- Service level agreements
- Supply agreements
- Agency and distribution agreements
- Franchising and licensing agreements
- Data protection and competition contracts
Procurement
Public & Private Sector Procurement
From wide-scale projects utilising complex competitive dialogue process to smaller contracts, we always strive to save money by supporting clients to run effective procurement programs.
- Choice of appropriate procurement route
- Model documents
- Best practice advice
- Framework agreements
- Compliant debriefs
- Permitted evaluation criteria
Intellectual Property
Safeguard what belongs to your business
How do you defend a vital commodity of yours? Intellectual property covers trademarks, privacy, designs, copyright, and patents. When you adequately protect your intellectual property, you will be in a stronger position to contend with any infringements.
Securing Ownership
Ensuring that your company does completely own intellectual property is the initial stage in the protection procedure. Businesses frequently neglect to assure that the intellectual property rights generated by third parties on their behalf, such as staff or consultants, are correctly allocated. Our specialists will compile the agreements which the company needs to ensure that you own what you pay for.
Our expertise encompasses all aspects of intellectual property legislation including:
- Licensing and software
- Online content
- Research and development rights
- Collaboration
- Contractors
Joint Ventures
You’ll combine your money and skills as a joint venture team to reach a specific goal. To grow your business, produce new goods or push into new markets, especially overseas, you may want to establish a joint venture.
Always with you as you Make a Big Decision
It’s a significant choice to enter a joint venture and you’ll need solid legal guidance from a team with a true commercial awareness.
We will instruct you on all facets of joint ventures, including:
- General joint venture advice
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Joint venture set up
- Joint venture agreements
Our knowledge of business matters and how industries operate help us to work alongside you to deliver the best legal and commercial structure for your company.
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Disposals
Since we have extensive experience with business transactions, we are routinely relied upon to advise and assist clients through the nuances of what might be a “once in a lifetime” deal.
Purchasing or selling a business or organisation means bringing the many facets of a transaction together to a satisfactory conclusion.
Our emphasis is on providing accurate and strategic advice to make the deal happen, always operating under tight deadlines.
We will manage the entire process including:
- Due diligence
- Sale and purchase agreements
- Property advice
- Employment law advice
- Pensions guidance
- Intellectual property issues
- Liaison with fund providers, accountants, and tax advisers
MBOs and MBIs
Whether you’re a management team interested in buying into a company, or a shareholder planning to sell, our expertise and experience will direct you through the legal path towards a professional, successful transaction that appeals to all parties concerned.
Our experience covers:
MBOs
If a business owner wants to sell, the current management is often the ones in the strongest position to buy them out and move the company onward.
MBIs
If a company is underachieving owing to bad management, the solution to the problem may be a management buy-in. This is when new shareholders purchase a business that includes new management.
Equity and Finance
Our specialists will work with you, whether you are a lender, borrower or investor, so that you can take comfort in the knowledge that everything you do comes within the framework of legal compliance.
From guidance on private equity and debt financing to help raise funds for growth and progress, we will provide you with the relevant support and advice you need to reach your objectives.
Cash Flow Management
When cash-flow is a concern, measures such as discounting invoices, hire purchasing and leasing agreements could benefit your business.
Commercial Lending
Borrowing for business also calls for complex and lengthy infrastructure and security records. We make it easy for our clients to operate with them, directing from submission to draw down through the funding process.
Investment Advice
In our experience, the aim is to strike the right balance between the ability of a company to work without excessive interference and the need for the lender or investor to have sufficient control over its financing or expenditure.
To arrange an appointment, contact our Corporate and Commercial solicitors now.
Call us on: 01267 239 000 to speak to one of our experienced team members or complete our online enquiry form.