Business Contracts

Your success in business depends on getting the best and most cost effective advice when necessary that will allow you to concentrate on your business and exploit and identify new opportunities. MLC have a track record in identifying your goals as soon as possible and delivering this advice to business clients of all sizes.

Our Commercial Team deals with business-to-business and business-to-consumer issues. We are able to spot potential problems early, negotiate effectively and help manage risk in your business contracts and documents. We are known as commercial Lawyers with excellent links to other local professional service firms acting for businesses in London, Ilford, Redbridge, Essex and Hertfordshire, and other business groups and organisations. We are very close to the issues affecting our business clients. We offer a very competitively priced service when compared to some of the larger central London firms.

We are well known for our work, and our team is lead by a partner with over 30 years of experience. We represent and advise clients locally in London / Greater London and nationally. We are known as a firm who are capable of pushing difficult deals through to conclusion and also for our professionalism and attention to detail.

We are proactive in eliminating legal shortcomings in both standard and bespoke contract terminology, and offer practical advice on important issues such as limitation of liability, trading restrictions and insurance. We aim to eliminate unnecessary jargon both in our work and our advice to our clients. Our team is highly experienced in the full range of Intellectual Property law, including copyright, patents, trademarks, software licences and distribution agreements, data protection and e-commerce disputes. In conjunction with a local business group, a recent instruction involved acting for new business pursuing manufacturers and seeking to protect its valuable ideas for a potentially major new product.

Our commercial team is based out of our Wanstead office and is skilled at the preparation of commercial contracts of all types, including:

  • Acquisition/disposal agreements
  • Agency agreements 
  • Computer software and hardware agreements
  • Ecommerce
  • Franchising 
  • Guarantees
  • Joint venture agreements
  • Intellectual property
  • Licensing agreements
  • Outsourcing
  • Partnership agreements 
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Sale of goods/services
  • Terms and conditions of trading
  • Intellectual Property law