Commercial & Corporate

Commercial contracts, employment matters and corporate transactions

The work a business runs on rather than the funds it manages: supplier and client contracts, data privacy and trade marks, employment issues from offer to tribunal, and business and corporate acquisitions and disposals.

Areas we cover

Employment

  • Employment contracts
  • Settlement agreements
  • Workplace policies
  • Consultancy agreements

The employment relationship from the contract to its end: workplace policies, disciplinaries, grievances and redundancies, settlement agreements, tribunal claims, and the regulatory references SMCR requires of a regulated employer.

Commercial

  • Terms and conditions
  • Outsourcing agreements
  • Data processing agreements
  • NDAs

Contracts for goods and services, outsourcing arrangements and their regulatory requirements, personal data in the UK, EU and Australia, and trade mark clearance and enforcement.

Corporate Transactions

  • NDAs
  • Term sheets
  • Sale and purchase agreements
  • Board resolutions

Acting for buyer or seller: red flag due diligence scoped to a materiality threshold, the sale and purchase agreement, and necessary Companies House filings.

Matters we have run

Copyright and trade mark protection against intellectual property challenges

UK Savings Industry Body

11-50Team size
3In-house legal team

Member firms, internal stakeholders and external parties to balance on every project

Brief

Fintech pilot projects with banking and investment management firms

Outcome

Corporate governance policies strengthened to manage legal risk

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Recognition

  1. 2026
  2. 2025
    • Heroes Role Model ListsFeatured in the Executive Role Model List
  3. 2023
  4. 2022
    • Women in Investment AwardsNominated for Role Model of the YearNominated for Mentor of the Year
  5. 2021
  6. 2019
  7. 2018
  8. 2017
  9. 2016
Legal Sustainability Alliance member 2026

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