Commercial decisions are at the heart of business activity.
Businesses need commercial lawyers who can help maximise the business opportunities from these decisions and avoid legal pitfalls.
We can help you to identify opportunities and strategic advantages, assess risks, exploit success and minimise the consequences of any downside. Whether you are a supplier or customer, a start-up or a large global brand, we can advise you on a wide variety of commercial matters.
Our experience comes from working in-house, as well as in private practice - most of the commercial team have undertaken a secondment with an in-house legal team equipping them with a thorough and invaluable grasp of the practical requirements of business.
Our team consists of sector specialists with a particular strength working across all the firm's key sectors, including Technology, Media & Telecoms, Retail & Leisure, Financial Services, Sport, Healthcare, and Charities. We are recognised as market leaders by our clients and independent directories.
Our team can assist you with:
- Large scale managed service and outsourcing agreements
- IT contracts
- Supply chain logistics
- Procurement through to sponsorship, merchandising, property management and marketing and advertising.
We chase solutions - whether that’s supporting your in-house team behind the scenes, providing online reviews and reports, through to full deal structure planning, leading negotiations on your behalf and advising on implementation and operational issues.
If you have international operations – we can call upon our international networks of associated firms to provide you with the local legal expertise required, where English law is not applicable.
Meet the team
- Call Jamie +44 (0)1483 252618
- Email Jamie
- Call Jonathan +44 (0)20 7427 6725
- Email Jonathan
- Call Claudine +44 (0)1242 246325
- Email Claudine
- Call Caroline +44 (0)20 7203 5381
- Email Caroline
Our thinking
Emma Humphreys
What has the Covid-19 Code of Practice achieved?
Landlords are particularly concerned that the commercial property sector will continue to be impacted by COVID-19 for quite a while.
Emma Humphreys
Are property guardians the solution for empty property?
A property guardian arrangement is usually made with a company which in turn grants rights to individuals to live in a vacant property.
Caroline Greenwell
Retail Recovery: Insolvency / Restructuring / Duties
Welcome to our new podcast series focusing on the Retail and Food and Beverage sectors.
Christophe Levet
Performance of contractual duties under Swiss law and COVID-19 health crisis
Reviewing how companies should deal with customers’ requests when the commercial contract is governed by Swiss law.
William Reichert
Document execution in the Kingdom of Bahrain - The use of Electronic Signatures
Considering the shift towards the use of digital documents in day-to-day transactions in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Mark Howard
Charles Russell Speechlys advises 1Spatial plc on strategic acquisition of GEOMAP-IMAGIS and partnership with Esri
1Spatial plc is a leading provider of global geospatial software and solutions.
Keir Gordon
Charles Russell Speechlys advises on sale of the Zenium Group to CyrusOne
Zenium is a leading hyperscale data center provider in Europe.
Limitation of the force majeure clause
On 3 July 2018, the High Court issued its judgment in the case of Seadrill Ghana Operations Limited v Tullow Ghana Limited.
Tanya Wilkie
Sweeping exclusion clauses can be reasonable under UCTA
An overview of the recent Goodlife Foods Ltd v Hall Fire Protection Ltd case.
Paul Henty
New rules on sub-contracting to affect TMT sector
Paul Henty reviews Action Note 01/18, designed to assist suppliers, including SMEs, in bidding for work in its supply chains.
Freddie Law
Good Faith – can it be relied upon in English Law?
Unlike other jurisdictions there is no general doctrine of good faith in English contract law. Will Al Nehayan v Kent change this?
Caroline Swain
Charles Russell Speechlys launches new product to support retail start-ups
The Attention to Retail Toolkit aims to support start-ups and help them reduce the risk of something going wrong as their business grows.
Richard Davies
125,000,000 reasons for Ben Stokes (and other sports stars) to focus on morality clauses
An overview of the typical ‘morality clauses’ which brands seek to include in endorsement deals.
Mark Bailey
GDPR: are you compliant?
We offer a comprehensive solution for businesses who are affected by the new General Data Protection Regulation.
Mark Bailey
GDPR for IT Services: Keeping compliance at the heart of the controller/processor relationship
This paper looks at measures processors can take to assist controllers to comply with GDPR and to adequately manage the associated risk.
Mark Bailey
Standards and contracts collide – lessons for IT services to learn from wind farm design defects
A recent case on the defective design and build of wind farm machinery bases is of relevance in contracts for other sectors
Jason Saiban
Charles Russell Speechlys appoints commercial partner with a focus on Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Megan Paul has been appointed as a commercial Partner, effective 2 October.
Freddie Law
Dealing on a party’s standard terms and conditions? Remember UCTA
An overview of African Export – Import Bank v Shebah Exploration and Production Co Ltd
John Sykes
Does your commercial contract protect you?
The importance of knowing your contract – where you are protected, where you may be exposed – is as high as ever.
Digital Single Market development: contracts for the supply of digital content
The European Council adopts general approach on aspects of the proposed EU Directive regarding contracts for the supply of digital content