Our dedicated Banking & Finance Team has a proven track record in advising banks and borrowers on a broad range of banking law and practice.
- Acquisition Finance
- Asset Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Property Finance
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Tax & Structuring
- Treasury Products
Our experienced and highly regarded litigation team have operated in all major courts and tribunals throughout the United Kingdom and can handle everything from high level, complex and hard fought litigation through mediation and negotiation.
- Alternative Dispute resolution, including Mediation
- Construction & Engineering
- Corporate & Commercial
- Debt Collection
- Employment
- Environment Liability
- Insolvency
- Intellectual Property
- Landlord-Tenant
- Licensing
- Planning
- Professional Negligence
- Property Disputes
- Public Law disputes including compulsory purchase
The commercial property industry is at the heart of our business. Our real estate department offers the full range of services the property industry requires, co-ordinated to meet the needs of the industry.
- Development & Investment
- Landlord & Tenant
- Property Disputes
- Property Finance
- Property Management
- Property Tax & Structures
- Residential Plot Sales
With a specialist division dedicated exclusively to the needs of the construction industry, we are uniquely placed to offer the added value of expert advice on matters important to our construction clients.
- Adjudication
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appointment Agreements & Novation Agreements
- Arbitration
- Building Contracts
- Collateral Warranties
- Guarantees & Bonds
- Health & Safety
- Litigation
- Procurement
- Sub-contracts
Our corporate team provides a broad range of corporate and commercial advice to a wide variety of UK-based businesses. Whatever the nature of the deal, we always focus on cutting through the legal complexities with clean commonsense advice.
- Commercial Contracts
- Competition
- Corporate Structures
- Directors & Corporate Governance
- Franchising
- Fundraising & Venture Capital
- Investment Funds
- Joint Ventures & Shareholder Arrangements
- MBOs & MBIs
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
- Partnerships, LPs & LLPs
- Procurement
- Restructuring & Re-organisations
- Shareholder Disputes
- Share Schemes
We act for clients of all sizes and types, to guide them through corporate and personal insolvency procedures and to advise on the legal and commercial issues arising. Helping companies get in better shape for the future through restructuring and refinancing also represents a major part of our work now.
- Administration
- Company Voluntary Arrangements
- Liquidation
- Personal Insolvency
- Receivership
- Security Review & Enforcement
- Turnaround Restructuring & Refinancing
Our employment group aim to avoid disputes and minimise the risks to your business. If however a relationship does break down, our team of experienced litigators will represent you at a tribunal or in court.
- Absence Management
- Data Protection
- Discipline & Grievance
- Discrimination in the Workplace
- Employment Advocacy
- Employment Health Check
- Flexible Working
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Redundancies & Reorganisations
- Restrictive Covenants
- Termination of Employment
- Terms & Conditions
Our Environment & Pollution team are uniquely placed to assist you in managing the complex legal and commercial impacts at EU, national, local and International levels.
- Climate Change Law
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Environmental Taxation, Reliefs & Grants
- EU Law
- Industrial Emissions Law
- Law of Waste & Product / Resource Management
- Proactive Liability Risk Management & Opportunity Creation
- Specialist Commercial Contracts
- Waste to Energy
With unrivalled expertise in every aspect of the planning process, we understand what a vital role planning has to play at the contractual stage in helping our clients gain maximum benefit from any property related deal. We also offer a dedicated planning litigation service.
- Advocacy at Public Inquiries & other Hearings
- Development Plan Representations & Inquiries
- Highways, CPOs & Compensation Claims
- Judicial Review & Statutory Appeals
- Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas
- Planning Audits
- Planning & Roads Agreements
We advise on a wide range of taxes in many commercial situations. Our skill is in exploring every avenue of opportunity open to us within the law to identify liabilities and minimise your tax bill.
- Capital Allowances
- Capital Gains Tax
- Corporation Tax
- Income Tax
- Offshore Structures
- Stamp Duty & Stamp Duty Land Tax
- VAT
Every business, no matter what it’s field, has to think about intellectual property and how best to protect its assets. IP protection is not an end in itself, but only one part of an overall strategy for achieving our client’s business aims.
- Brands
- Copyright
- Data Protection
- Designs
- Ecommerce
- Franchising
- Knowhow
- Passing Off
- Patents
- Software
- Trade Marks