Our specialist legal team advise on a wide range of commercial matters for our clients.
Our commercial contracts lawyers based in London provide expert support to protect our clients’ interests, including advising on all contractual requirements across the full spectrum of sectors and specialisms – from strategy and negotiating tactics to drafting, contract formation and dispute resolution.
Our commercial contracts solicitors are both technically excellent and commercially astute and we pride ourselves on taking a pragmatic approach to the commercial pressures faced by our clients.
Case highlights
- Advising a technology platform company providing an online secondary market (the first of its kind) for waste disposal across the UK, on its incorporation and start-up processes.
- Advising a technology consultancy SME, on its incorporation, drafting of a shareholders agreement and advising on ongoing company law and commercial queries under an ongoing legal retainer.
- Advising a cloud services provider, on the implementation of a new “secure environment as a service” solution, including drafting appropriate terms and conditions for use with new customers.
- Advising a world-leading sound production company on its negotiation of an inbound services agreement with Google, for the provision of sound production services and copyrighted works.
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Price & Prejudice: Site provider successful in opposing the imposition of a telecoms agreement under the Electronic Communications Code in Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v University of The Arts London [2020] UKUT 248 (LC)
Despite the consistency with which the Upper Tribunal (the ‘UT’) has imposed telecoms agreements on landowners/site providers, a recent decision clarifies where the prejudice suffered by a site provider is Read more
Vodafone vs Hanover Capital [2020] – a valuable precedent for landowners?
The County Court delivered the first decision concerning the interaction between the 2017 Electronic Communications Code (“ECC” or “Code”) and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (“LTA 1954”) in Vodafone Read more
