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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Commercial
To Hull and Back: TCC considers whether adjudication decisions regarding EfW plant contract can be enforced
Engie v MW High Tech Projects[1] is the latest in a long line of cases arising from the construction and/or operation of Energy from Waste (EfW) plants. In this case, Read more
Procurement case note: Stagecoach East Midlands Trains Ltd & Ors v The Secretary of State for Transport (2020)
Considering the principles of transparency and fairness in the exercise of discretion On 17 June 2020, the High Court handed down its judgment in a case with important implications for Read more
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Commercial
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‘A step in the right direction’: Sharpe Pritchard’s response to the Government’s Green Paper on transforming public procurement
Sharpe Pritchard’s Procurement Working Group has recently responded to the Government’s Green Paper Transforming Public Procurement, which outlines the Government’s proposals for reforming what it describes as the ‘outdated’ public Read more