Specialist Legal Support for Owner Managed Business and SME’s

We provide terms and conditions to cover both product and service-based businesses.

We review and negotiate commercial contracts with third parties, and assist with drafting standard commercial contracts for your business.

Whether you are looking at growing or exiting your business, we have an expert team who can assist you with the process.

If your succession planning involves a management team, we can assist with the planning and implementation of this structure.

We have a leading team of experts able to advise on implementing highly tax efficient sales to EOTs.

If you are looking to change the structure of your business or ownership thereof, we can assist in making proposals for new structures and their implementation.

It is important for owner managed businesses and SMEs to have a clear record of the agreement between owners; this usually takes the form of a Shareholders’ Agreement and / or Articles of Association.

We advise on the best way to incentivise key staff, including share options, EMI Options, Growth Shares and LTIPs.

If your business is governed by completed regulatory and / or compliance, we have a specialist regulatory team who can ensure that your business compliant with the most up to date requirements.

We help with employment contracts for your staff to protect your business, e.g, by ensuring that they include critical provisions such as Restrictive Covenants. Poorly drafted contracts may risk your former employees soliciting or poaching your clients, and staff and setting up competing businesses as soon as they leave.

We advise on handling large amounts of data and what processes to put in place to protect it. The ICO can, and have issued fines to companies that fail to operate within data protection laws.

Our Immigration team can assist you should any role be offered to someone without an existing right to work in the UK.

We can assist your business with its dispute resolution needs, where it has issues with staff or with non-paying clients.