You need a contract that protects you but doesn’t alienate your clients. We work quickly to establish what concerns you, your clients, suppliers and contractors. We then create documents that safeguard you against risk but don’t damage your important relationships. Our long term involvement with clients gives us a great perspective from which to advise them on the best contract for their business.

Our expertise covers a wide range of sectors and industries:

• IT & Telecoms: Members of the department have more than 10 years’ experience in negotiating and agreeing the full range of IT and Telecoms contracts.
• Marine: We with everything from standard terms and conditions and bespoke top-end contracts.  Working closely with our Marine Department, we handle everything from minor boat acquisition contracts through to major ship refit agreements.
• Property: We handle contracts and property management agreements for a variety of clients based in the property industry.
• Travel: Our team advises on all aspects of travel-related contracts and agreements.
• Outsourcing: Our clients include outsourcing suppliers as well as companies who outsource part of their business or function – giving us a broad perspective of all the issues involved.
• Intellectual Property:  We have nearly 20 years’ experience in IP and IP exploitation contracts dealing with a full range of licences and IP transfer agreements.

For all sectors we prepare

• Business terms and conditions
• Contracts relating to agents and distributors
• Business to business and business to consumer contracts
• Joint venture documentation ranging from contractual joint ventures through to Limited Liability Partnerships and joint venture companies.
• Supply agreements.

Working with our Dispute Resolution and Employment teams, we advise on advance preparation to avoid disputes and make terminations as straightforward as possible.