Business Law
Edward Hands & Lewis Solicitors understand what drives business owners to succeed. If you are looking for a legal firm that will help you achieve your objectives, that will keep you up to date with changes in the law and offers support and advice as and when you need it...Let's talk business.
Some of the business law services we offer include:
Buying or Selling your Business
- Legal Due Diligence
- Price negotiation
- Business Valuation
- Transferring assets or shares
- Management Buy outs /Buy ins
Starting a Business
- Company formation
- Partnership Agreements
- Employment Contracts
- Advice on Business Plan
- Protection of Intellectual Property
Raising Finance
- Setting up a business
- Expanding a business
- Buying a business
- Working Capital
- Restructuring existing debt
Employment Law
- Contracts of employment
- Policies and procedures
- Redundancy
- Restraint of Trade and Business Secrets
- Representation at Employment Tribunals
- Unfair Dismissal, Discrimination and Equal Pay
Copyright, Trademarks, & Patents
- Filing and protection of your intellectual property rights
- Promoting brand names and creative works
- Brand management, and strategy to protect inventions
- Blatant copying of images, data, software, photographs etc
- Sale or exploitation of any Intellectual Property rights
E-commerce
- Terms of use for website
- Domain name protection
- Email internet and software policies
- Data Protection
- Hyper-link Agreements
Franchising
- Advice on the establishment of a franchise network
- Advice and assistance in preparing a franchise manual
- Selling franchises through our network of partners
- Operational support for your franchise network
Commercial Contracts
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Agency Agreements
- Terms of trading, for the sale and supply of goods etc
- Distribution Agreements, for a distribution network
- Framework Agreements, for the manufacture and supply of goods and services