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Business Set Up and Administration We can help you with the start up, structure and administration of your business. From an assessment on whether a limited company is the best vehicle through which to trade, to the formalities of setting up and registering your company. We have real commercial experience and so can act as your company secretary or as a non-executive director. For directors and officers, we have extensive experience in advising on your rights, duties and responsibilities. For shareholders, we can produce shareholder agreements and advise on your rights. We can also advise on sole trader status, draft partnership agreements and form limited liability partnerships. We often advise on protecting the personal liability of sole traders and partners, and for partnerships on retirement and dissolution issues. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Business Sales, Mergers and Purchases Looking to develop your business by buying or merging, or setting up a joint ventures? We have the experience to help businesses and/ or their owners prepare for and deal with the transaction. Examples of some of the transactions we have been involved in include:
We aim to ensure the deal is done on time and cost effectively by finding simple ways through or round the barriers that can often arise. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Commerce and Intellectual Property We have advised and drafted various commercial contracts ranging from standard terms and conditions to the purchase of large items of plant and machinery. We can also guide you on protecting and licensing the intellectual property rights you or your business may own eg trade marks, patents and copyright. We believe in using plain English in our agreements. If you think we haven’t, please tell us! For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Employment Do you fully understand your obligations to your staff? We can help with drafting employment contracts, policies and procedures and have helped on grievance and disciplinary issues. We offer an audit of your current documentation to check compliance with the law. If you have a dispute we can help to sort it out. We have helped businesses with Employment Tribunal cases. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Dispute Resolution We have extensive experience in advising businesses on how to avoid costly and time consuming business disputes. If a dispute arises, we can work with management on dealing with it and resolving it often without the need for expensive court action and sometimes preserving commercial relationships with your opponent. We can help pursuing or defending the following claims:
And more… We have a particular interest in alternative forms of dispute resolution (ADR) such as arbitration (Rob is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators), mediation and, for construction disputes, adjudication. We believe in trying hard to sort out the dispute quickly and at a low cost rather than allowing it to drag on so no-one wins. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. PropertyWe can help with letting or taking a lease of premises. We advise on the recovery of rent, possession proceedings, dilapidation claims and boundary and access disputes. We don’t act in property purchases or sales, but we do work with a specialist commercial property solicitor on your behalf and can manage that relationship, if you wish, for you. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Media and EntertainmentWe can help with the set up, structure, operation and management of your involvement in this specialist field. Whether it is advice on the formation/ negotiation of commercial contracts, joint ventures, licensing of rights, management of events, the employment of your staff/ contractors or resolution of disputes, we can help. Rob is a trustee of Cross Rhythms City Radio www.crossrhythms.co.uk and is General Secretary of the Christian Broadcasting Council www.cbc.org.uk. He is developing an increasing caseload of work in this area, including advising on the set up of community radio stations, drafting a wide range of commercial contracts, and liaising with Ofcom on regulatory issues etc. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Charities and Churches If you are setting up a charity or are a trustee of one, we can help you set up and develop the structure of your organisation. We act for the trustees of churches, and have advised on forming companies for non-profit making ventures such as new churches and Christian community radio stations. Rob is a charity trustee and so has practical experience of the regulatory and legislative framework trustees now have to work within. Rob is a member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship www.lawcf.org and the firm is a member of the Association of Christian Law Firms www.aclf.org.uk. He is also company secretary of the Christian Legal Centre Ltd. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Construction IndustryRob previously worked at the Birmingham office of a specialist construction and insurance law firm, where he concentrated on construction industry disputes advising some well known local and national construction companies. During this time he developed a taste for the benefits of alternative forms of dispute resolution such as arbitration and mediation. He qualified in 2000 as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and has experience of advising on construction adjudications. Rob also advises on and drafts construction contracts. City/International Although we are proud of the extent and range of advice we can provide to businesses, we recognise that we cannot deal with some City of London corporate or regulatory work. We can however draw on the support of and work with a City law firm who assist us in dealing with your requirements in this area. This also gives us access to an international network of law firms to help if you have, or wish to do, business overseas. For a free initial discussion on how we can help, please contact us. Business Support Services Working with business owners and managers over the years has enabled us to help with business support services such as:
We have a wide network of fellow professional and experts in their field which we can often introduce to you to add value to your business. Please contact us to discuss your particular requirements and we will put together a proposal to suit your needs. |
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