Commercial & Technology

Commercial agreements are essential to all organisations, which is why we take time to understand clients' aims, objectives and strategies.

As part of this we provide solid legal advice as well as practical business solutions to enable businesses to maximise revenues, minimise risks and meet business goals.

All of our lawyers in the Commercial & Technology team act an extension of clients' teams, not just their legal advisors. In doing so, we regularly become the people they turn for both legal and commercial advice and guidance - their sounding boards and trusted advisers.

We advise clients ranging from entrepreneurs setting up a new business to established global companies on the full range of commercial issues including:

• Providing General Counsel services to support business strategies.
• IT, multimedia and communications contracts.
• Intellectual property.
• Business process outsourcing.
• Developing agency and distribution strategies to commercialise products and services, and drafting supporting documentation.
• Preparing a full range of other commercial agreements, including:

                         o Manufacturing agreements;
                         o Supply contracts;
                         o Partnering agreements;
                         o Sub-contracting agreements;
                         o Reseller agreements;
                         o Franchising agreements.

Our advice ranges from providing generic standard terms of business for the supply of commoditised goods and services to drafting detailed procurement terms or complex joint-venture agreements.

• Employment contracts.

Recent Commercial highlights include:

• Advising a GE Healthcare subsidiary on the distribution and sale of medical devices and related products across Europe and in Australia, including liaising with local counsel to obtain foreign law input where necessary.
• Assisting a client to develop a US distribution strategy to increase its US market share, including appointing a non-European contract manufacturer and settting up a distribution network. 
• Advising a Japanese client on the provision of services and micro-chip manufacturing equipment to a customer in Russia. 
• Outsourcing the warehouse management and distribution operations of a leading white goods supplier. 
• Advising a US-owned supplier of electronic goods on it EMEA trading strategy;
• Preparing a turnkey suite of standard agreements for a leading video conferencing solutions company.
• Advising a UK trade association on the impact of the Human Rights Act on its internal rules, procedures and member relations.
• Drafting finance agreements for a leading industrial refrigeration company. 
• Specialist advice on consumer credit finance for household name supplier of computers. 
• Manufacturing licences with Chinese companies for building PCBs.

We also provide training and workshops to enhance business managers' appreciation of contractual and other legal issues.

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