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    Commercial Legal Services

Successful businesses identify opportunities, exploit gains, and assess and minimise associated risk.

Whether you are a global brand or entrepreneurial venture, we will take the time to understand your long-term goals as a business to ensure that we offer strategic commercial legal advice that sets you up for success.

Our commercial law expertise

We know that for our clients, it’s not just about the next deal: it’s about the next decade. We have extensive experience advising UK and international clients across the firm’s key sectors, particularly those operating in the Technology, Retail and Financial Services sectors. We understand the unique complexities of these sectors and can support you on:

Our international team of commercial legal experts work together to provide you with tailored solutions, which could include supporting and collaborating with your in-house team behind the scenes, providing online reviews and reports, advising on implementation and operational issues, and even full deal structure planning and, leading negotiations on your behalf.

Brands, Advertising & Marketing

Our international team supports some of the world’s most successful brands  on a wide range of advertising, marketing, and sponsorship matters.

The team frequently supports clients with their advertising and sponsorship campaigns, drawing on their expert understanding of media activation and the ways in which the regulatory environment affects marketing messages to help our clients take hold of opportunities whilst mitigating risk. Our clients benefit from our ability to advise across:

  • brand partnership and sponsorship agreements
  • agreements to facilitate the delivery of advertising & marketing activities, including with creative agencies, media buying agencies, developers and talent
  • digital activations, including the interaction between marketing and technology (e.g. social media and viral campaigns)
  • compliance under the CAP and BCAP Codes, sales promotion and direct marketing, including pre-publication/pre-transmission clearance
  • compliance applicable only to advertising in regulated environments, ambush marketing, outdoor and ambient advertising, and advertising to children
  • compliance aspects of competitions and giveaways, including wider consumer law elements
  • compliance with event/experience-based activations, such as pop-up events
  • consumer protection, defamation, intellectual property clearances and use of personal data
  • contentious and litigious matters, including complaints handling with the Advertising Standards Authority and Information Commissioner
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Commercial Contracts

Helping you identify opportunities, assess risk, exploit strategic advantages and minimise the consequence of any drawbacks.

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Data Protection & Privacy services

Data Protection & Privacy

We can provide you with international contentious and non-contentious advice that exceeds straight-forward legal services.

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EU & Competition services

EU & Competition

We will work with you to ensure that your company is fully compliant and avoids sanction.

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Outsourcing legal services

Outsourcing

Our sourcing team can help you efficiently structure your sourcing portfolio and offer advice across the entire sourcing lifecycle. 

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Supply & Distribution

Supply & Distribution

The agreements that you have in place with your suppliers and agents are critical. We can adapt your agreements tailored to your requirements and objectives. 

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Technology, Media & Telecommunication Lawyers

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

We can help you to adapt to technological change to drive success for your business with experience supporting a wide variety of digital transformation projects. 

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Our thinking

  • Women in Leadership: Silencing your Inner Critic

    Sarah Wigington

    Events

  • Caroline Swain writes for Startups Magazine on 'Green Claims'

    Caroline Swain

    In the Press

  • Caroline Swain writes for Fashion Capital on the EU’s new legal framework on textiles

    Caroline Swain

    In the Press

  • The End of the SAG-AFTRA Strike & What it Means for the Middle East

    Mark Hill

    Quick Reads

  • Tech Monitor quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA restricting Meta from using certain customer data

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • UAE Strengthens its Position as Leading Destination for A.I.

    Mark Hill

    Quick Reads

  • Dubai Court of Cassation Extends Arbitration Agreement Across Subsequent Contracts

    Peter Smith

    Quick Reads

  • The rise in ESG reporting requirements for UK directors and of related shareholder activism

    Stephen Burns

    Insights

  • Top 5 tips for businesses to mitigate legal and regulatory risks associated with AI

    Janine Regan

    Insights

  • Private Mergers & Acquisitions in the United Arab Emirates

    William Reichert

    Insights

  • Jamie Cartwright writes for FoodBev Media on 'greedflation'

    Jamie Cartwright

    In the Press

  • UAE Polishes Federal Arbitration Law

    Peter Smith

    Quick Reads

  • Drone deliveries: Be Prepared

    Emma Humphreys

    Quick Reads

  • Charles Russell Speechlys expands commercial offering with the appointment of Rebecca Steer

    Rebecca Steer

    News

  • The Times quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s preliminary approval of the Activision Blizzard-Microsoft deal

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • City AM quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s new set of principles for regulating AI

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • Silicon quotes Gareth Mills on the UK consumer lawsuit against Google

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • Bloomberg and The Washington Post quote Richard Davies on multiclub ownership in world sports

    Richard Davies

    In the Press

  • Product compliance and Brexit - UK Government concedes to CE markings indefinite recognition

    Jamie Cartwright

    Quick Reads

  • UAE and the Grey List: Brief Update

    Karl Masi

    Insights

  • A Summer of Sport - Top 5 Legal Considerations

    Anna Sowerby

    Insights

  • Has the Orpéa plan impaired shareholder's consent? - Le plan de sauvegarde d'Orpéa n'a-t-il pas vicié le consentement des actionnaires historiques ?

    Dimitri-André Sonier

    Quick Reads

  • The Express quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s report on competition in the groceries sector

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • Reuters quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s deadline extension of the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal

    Gareth Mills

    In the Press

  • Les défaillances en France proches de leur niveau de 2019 - French insolvencies close to 2019 levels

    Dimitri-André Sonier

    Quick Reads

  • Law.com International quotes Simon Ridpath on the use of AI in the legal sector

    Simon Ridpath

    In the Press

  • Casino Group: An agreement with investors and debt holders is expected at the end of July

    Dimitri-André Sonier

    Quick Reads

  • Raconteur quotes Caroline Swain on misleading pricing practices

    Caroline Swain

    In the Press

  • DIAC Issues First Annual Report

    Georgia Fullarton

    Quick Reads

  • PE Hub quotes Richard Davies on private equity interest in football and sports

    Richard Davies

    In the Press

  • One year on: "Influencer Culture: lights, camera, inaction" remains astonishingly accurate

    Caroline Swain

    Quick Reads

  • Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration publishes new Arbitration Rules

    Peter Smith

    Quick Reads

  • WhatsAppGate - Should businesses be reviewing their social media policies?

    Anna Rogers

    Quick Reads

  • Dubai announces its plan to streamline the enforcement of civil judgments and arbitral awards

    Peter Smith

    Quick Reads

  • Sign of the times - the British record football transfer which very nearly didn't happen

    Pei Li Kew

    Quick Reads

  • No love (island) lost for the #muffboss – #ad is great but don’t forget the other ad rules

    Caroline Swain

    Quick Reads

  • Is it really against the law to share your Netflix password?

    Quick Reads

  • Omnichannel innovation essential in the face of outlet decline

    Caroline Swain

    Quick Reads

  • Brand owners now required to police influencers

    Katie Bewick

    Quick Reads

  • Ten Years Since The 2012 Saudi Arbitration Law: Where Are We Now?

    Peter Smith

    Quick Reads

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