Client Services
Mitigating risk. Adding value.
Providing concise, practical and cost-effective advice and support that is always in your best interests.
Commercial and Information Technology Law
We are instinctively business centric. We can help with all your commercial law needs including:
drafting or negotiating your standard terms;
helping you negotiate your customer terms;
setting up risk management frameworks to help you understand the legal and commercial risks you are taking on under your contracts;
reviewing your existing portfolio of contracts to understand your risk profile;
ensuring you have the right policies and processes in place to comply with your legal responsibilities such as anti-bribery and corruption and anti-modern slavery obligations;
data exploitation;
managing digital transformation projects such as setting up new cloud solutions
reviewing and negotiation agreement for Information Technology including SAAS terms, Support and Professional Services Agreements
We have expertise in consumer regulations and can help you ensure that all your business to consumer interactions are compliant with consumer protection legislation.
General Counsel Flex
Some of our lawyers act as an outsourced General Counsel to small charities and SMEs who need to manage their legal risk, but do not have their own in-house legal team. With our expertise as commercial in-house lawyers, we can help you to:
identify and manage legal risk in your organisation;
support your strategic aims and maximise efficiency in your approach to deals;
set up appropriate policy frameworks to manage compliance with legal obligations.
Like you, our aim is to maximise the value in your business. We:
proactively identify legal risks;
provide practical solutions; and
put in place compliance management frameworks.
When you seek extra funding to grow (or sell) your business, we can make sure you are in the best legal shape possible. This can help you avoid those last-minute value and price negotiations which could have been avoided with some advance planning.
Data Privacy Law
Every business will manage personal data in some capacity. Not only can data privacy failings result in substantial fines, but the regulator can also even prevent you from using data. The impact on the reputation (and consequent valuation) of a business found to be lacking in this area can be difficult to overcome for many businesses.
We can use our audit methodology to see where your organisation is on its data protection journey. We then work with you to improve your position and eventually manage your data privacy compliance framework on an on-going basis. We can even help you to implement data privacy management tools, which will make your data privacy compliance programme run like clockwork.
Alison has experience of managing data privacy risks across many sectors, including those processing sensitive data.
Alison holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional, Europe accreditation. Also having specialised in European Law as an undergraduate, Alison is well versed in how to address data privacy issues arising as a result of Brexit.
Intellectual Property Law
As former in-house lawyers, we have been fully immersed in all stages of brand development. We understand brands as living creatures with personalities and values attached to them and not just a list of legal rights.
Whatever sector you're in, you need to look after the elements of your business that make it unique and keep your customers coming back for more. If you're just starting out, we can advise on what you can protect, where and how. Maybe you are moving into new territories or fields, applying for funding, or collaborating to develop something new and exciting. Whatever stage you're at, we'd love to work with you to plan an effective IP strategy to underpin your business.
We can advise on trade mark selection and clearance, international registration programmes, exploitation and enforcement.
We have advised technology companies on the development and protection of new products and services; advised on collaboration, exploitation agreements and licensing programmes and supported a business through a transformation necessitated by a technological sea-change in its industry.
Advertising and Marketing Law
From copy clearance to handling complaints about advertising, we have extensive experience of supporting clients with the legal aspects of their advertising and marketing.
Has the Advertising Standards Authority contacted you to say that somebody has complained about your advertising? Perhaps one of your competitors is including misleading information about you, your products or services in its own marketing collateral. Talk to us about how we can help: we have a proven track record of resolving these issues without upheld complaints or resort to the courts.
We have specialist sponsorship experience relating to sporting and cultural events, product and media endorsements.
Consumer Law
Whether you are a bricks-and-mortar business, or carry out most of your sales online, if you sell to the public, you need to comply with consumer law.
Many of our clients are seeing huge changes to their businesses, whether brought about by the pandemic, Brexit, or a combination of the two and for many, they have been so busy fighting fires that they have not had a chance to run a healthcheck on their Terms and Conditions of business.
If this is you, or if you are exploring a new route to market – or an entirely new market, get in touch to see how we can help ensure that you are compliant in a way that protects your interests and your customers’ rights.
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