Contracts for sale & purchase - IP , IT and media contracts - agency, distribution and general commercial contracts

Businesses and law firms often struggle to find reliable and cost effective ways to deal with legal aspects of their commercial contracts.

Clients sometimes tell law firms - you must do this work if you want to do our more lucrative, higher value work. Within other businesses, in-house counsel often tell us they tend to deal with routine commercial contracts themselves - because if the work is sent to outside law firms, it tends to be done by junior lawyers and is even then expensive.

With all of this in mind, we have created a group of lawyers who specialise in commercial contracts. Our lawyers invariably work for some weeks with our clients - usually in our clients' premises - at the beginning of each new assignment, to ensure that practical, procedural and timing issues are fully discussed, understood and agreed. Our lawyers welcome the opportunity of participating in our clients' own training programmes - in person or by video-link.

For some clients, we draft, negotiate and finalise commercial contracts - often with large corporations and their counsel on "the other side". For other clients we act as a part of their own in-house legal function - either sharing some types of work previously undertaken by these in-house lawyers or relieving these in-house lawyers of comparatively routine work and allowing them to devote more time to higher value and more challenging work in which application of their knowledge of the business in which they are working will be of much great economic and commercial benefit to that business.

We work equally comfortably on our clients' own document management systems and on our own Documentum© system. Contract databases (usually in the form of a short summary of key features of the relevant contract, plus a scanned copy of the actual contract) can be created, indexed and maintained - again on a wide range of document management systems.