Corporate & Commercial
Our experienced commercial solicitors advise and assist businesses and business owners on all events and transactions affecting them and their interests.
Help for businesses owners
Our team also regularly advises business owners on the things that affect them personally.
Contracts
The success of any business will be very closely linked to the quality of the contracts it enters into. Good contracts will ensure that a business secures its assets and income, and protects it from unexpected or unwanted liability.
Read moreMaitland Walker has many years experience in advising businesses, including:
- ‘Terms of business’ and other contracts between a business and its customers.
- Sales, marketing, distribution and agency agreements with third parties with which a business engages to sell its products and services.
- Mergers and acquisitions – we regularly advise businesses when they’re buying and selling companies and assets.
- Employment - advising businesses on HR matters, drafting employment contracts, advising on disciplinary issues, redundancy and negotiating on termination of employment and compromise agreements. We also provide advice and representation in disputes before employment tribunals.
Intellectual property
We advise businesses on the registration of trademarks and patents, along with other means of protecting IP rights.
Company secretarial
We can advise on all aspects of compliance with companies legislation. We also regularly advise on company reorganisations.
We offer the following services:
- A ‘health-check’ service to assess a company’s level of compliance and to advise on any action required.
- Annual retainer designed to ensure compliance with the annual filing requirements stipulated by Companies House.
Regulatory
Competition law compliance data protection and freedom of information – we offer a ‘health-check’ service to assess a company’s level of compliance and advise on any action required.
Maitland Walker regularly advises business owners on the things that affect them personally, such as:
Business structure
The appropriate business structure (sole trader, limited company, limited liability partnerships, partnership etc) to use is important to consider when first starting a business. Trading via a limited company will provide protection to business owners from most claims by third parties which deal with the company.
Shareholder agreements
We advise on the type of agreements that should in place (such as shareholder and partnership agreements) with co-owners of a business, including new investors into a business.
As in all aspects of life, relationships between the co-owners of businesses can break down. If they do, a well-drafted shareholders agreement will help to deal with the important issues.
Exit
We can also help with an exit from a business, including advising on any share or asset sales.
For further information about our services, please contact Julian Maitland-Walker.
