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Commercial Contracts

Our lawyers review, interpret, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts in different sectors on behalf of a range of clients from start-ups to multinationals.

The scale of our expertise covers the full scope of commercial work, from giving a view on enforceability of a particular clause through to major deals involving a team of lawyers committed to the project for a number of months. Relevant aspects of our work are described below.

Many of our commercial lawyers also offer specialist knowledge of key legal areas such as intellectual property and commercial property. This enables us to provide commercial advice in context, with an eye to protecting our clients’ brands and avoiding the pitfalls of anti-trust infringement.

Product and service supply agreements

Central to our commercial contract practice are the principal trading contracts associated with the supply of goods and services, including standard terms and conditions of sale/purchase, long term supply agreements, framework trading agreements, agency agreements, distribution agreements and franchise agreements. We are experts in our field at:

  • Advising on sales, mergers and acquisitions
  • Structuring and documenting relationships with suppliers, customers and strategic partners
  • Drafting (and advising on) the full range of business agreements including purchase and supply, partnering arrangements, agency and distribution, franchise, logistics and warehousing, partnerships and strategic alliances.

Commercial Property

Our lawyers review, interpret, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts in different sectors on behalf of a range of clients from start-ups to multinationals.

The team have a particular strength in the commercial retail and catering sector and have acted for many supermarkets, shopping arcades, restaurants/takeaways, boutiques to name a few.

The team combine technical expertise with commercial awareness.

Utmost attention is given to all requirements, from the important to the incidental. Specialist teams deal with every kind of commercial property matter, including:

  • Acquisitions and disposals
  • Commercial leases
  • Housing Associations
  • Licensed premises
  • Pension funds
  • Planning and environmental
  • Property finance
  • Public sector
  • Retail

Free Legal Health Check

PPS offers free legal health checks to help businesses keep up to date with forever changing legal developments.

We are happy to visit you to undertake the free legal health check, to discuss your business and identify any potential pitfalls or ways in which your business could benefit.

We can identify areas where your company may require assistance or can benefit from our detailed advice, including:

  • Intellectual property (trademarks registration & copyright)
  • Litigation
  • Employment
  • Company re-structuring and buyouts
  • Commercial property
  • Terms & conditions of trading
  • Debt recovery

Experience and Qualifications

CONVEYANCING

Our fees are calculated on the sale/purchase/re-mortgage value. Average fees can range from £350.00 to £1,500.00 plus VAT depending on the nature of the transaction on a property up to a value of £1 million.

These fees are calculated on the length of time we think a transaction will take. Our hourly rates are:

Nasreen Karim – 20 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
John Dowling – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Ed Wegorzewski – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Paul Stock – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT

PROBATE

Our fees are calculated on the value of the estate and time spent. Average fees can range from £750.00 to £1,500.00 plus VAT depending on the nature of the transaction.

Our fees are calculated on an hourly bases. These are the rates:

Nasreen Karim – 20 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
John Dowling – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Ed Wegorzewski – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Paul Stock – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT

DEBT RECOVERY UP TO £100,000

Our fees are calculated on an hourly bases. These are the rates:

Nasreen Karim – 20 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
John Dowling – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Ed Wegorzewski – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT
Paul Stock – 42 Years PQE, Grade A Solicitor, Hourly Rate £201.00 plus VAT

Commercial Litigation

All businesses will at some stage in their cycle be involved in disputes.

This will range from routine, day to day issues, to substantial problems that threaten the survival of the business. Platinum Partnership Solicitors’ team of specialist commercial litigation and dispute resolution solicitors are ideally placed to advise clients at any stage of a dispute. We provide robust, clear and practical advice to our clients and aim always to understand their commercial needs and objectives.

We understand that one of the paramount concerns to clients involved in litigation or dispute resolution is the level of cost involved and the ability to monitor and budget for those costs on a regular basis. We use bespoke software, designed by our in-house litigation costs analyst, to provide detailed and tailored budgets at the outset of a dispute. Our budgeting service provides a breakdown of the work and how much it will cost at each stage. This gives our clients greater certainty as to costs and cash flow.

Many disputes involve a significant volume of electronic documentation, in particular emails, which will need to be searched and reviewed during the course of a dispute. We have extensive experience of using specialist software and disclosure management systems, supplied by leading service providers, which can considerably reduce the time (and therefore cost) that would otherwise be involved in this aspect of our work.

The Commercial Litigation department has substantial depth of resources and expertise making it a robust force to reckon with! We cover:

  • Contract disputes
  • Corporate claims and shareholder disputes
  • Debt recovery
  • Franchising
  • Insolvency-related disputes
  • Intellectual Property
  • IT disputes
  • Partnership disputes
  • Property litigation
  • Tax

Debt Recovery

Having unpaid invoices can cripple any business. That is why our clients trust us to chase their debt with minimum disruption to their business.

We will ensure your left to run your business whilse we discretely collect your debts. With access to a wide range of data we can track and chase your bad debts and force them to pay. We received instructions from, not only our corporate customers but also from accountants and other professionals.

Choose from either our Individual Debt Collection Service, charged on a commission basis or, if you have a number of debts you may prefer to choose our cost effective Volume Debt Collection Service which covers debts up to litigation.

For a free debt collection appraisal please contact us providing as much information as possible. Dependant on the information supplied we can start contacting your debtor today and begin recovery of your debt.

Intellectual Property

Businesses today need effective strategies in place for managing their IP portfolios and ensuring that the IP they and their employees create is both protected and, where appropriate, marketable.

In order to compete in a market where corporate identity is so intrinsically linked with brand, your brand whether it incorporates a design, trademark or copyright must be effectively developed and managed in order to provide good return on investment, and be as fully assignable as physical property during corporate transactions.

Businesses today need effective strategies in place for managing their IP portfolios and ensuring that the IP they and their employees create is both protected and, where appropriate, marketable. The successful commercialisation of know-how and technology through sale and licensing is achieved through accurate portfolio valuation and careful and thorough negotiation of agreements by specialist lawyers.

And when disputes do occur, companies need legal advisers who can act sensitively to balance costs, publicity and other commercial considerations in choosing the most appropriate dispute resolution process and maximising results.

Platinum Partnership’s� intellectual property team works closely with clients to develop, protect, promote and enforce their intellectual property rights.

We have established a reputation for developing innovative solutions to deal cost-effectively with the challenges facing clients that arise from an ever-changing commercial market.

In common with our clients, our lawyers recognise the need to be innovative, easy to use, customer focused, highly responsive to market conditions and competitively priced.� We work closely with clients to understand their business so that we can ensure they maximise the value of their intellectual property rights. The specialist skills and know-how of our lawyers, coupled with cutting-edge technology, means that we make a real difference to our clients and their success.