Commercial Law
Running a business brings with it a whole host of challenges and opportunities. Some will be familiar territory – others will require expert knowledge and fresh strategic input.
This is why sound legal advice from an experienced commercial solicitor can make all the difference to your business journey. As solicitors, we’ve grown our own company from the ground up and pride ourselves on our links to the local business community.
Whatever your business objectives are, we see it as our role to help you achieve your goals. We also understand the importance of getting the most out of any deal and our approach is always positive, transparent and tailored precisely to your needs.
Commercial Contracts
Robust commercial agreements are the foundations of well run and profitable businesses. At Jackson Lyon LLP, we understand that having the right commercial agreements - such as terms and conditions, distribution contracts and agency contracts - protects you.
To prevent and discourage commercial disputes, we will give you the confidence that your commercial agreements protects your position. As businessmen, we also get it - that there has to be a balance struck between the requirements to balance the risk, to turn around the agreements but also to seal the business deal.
Shareholders Agreements
A shareholders agreement is a simply a contract between the shareholders of a private company, dealing with how the shareholders intend to manage the company and regulating each of the shareholder’s roles and responsibilities. It therefore helps in managing and minimising the risk of internal conflict between management, by defining and outlining the responsibilities of the parties involved through a formal written contract.
Having Jackson Lyon LLP help draft a shareholders’ agreement is a beneficial start to your business venture as it encourages discussion between the shareholders, allowing them to see where their expectations for the business differ and to raise any potential areas of concern that may otherwise have been overlooked, until a problem actually occurs.
One of the benefits of a shareholders agreement is that it allows you and your business partners to regulate the running of your company privately. It also allows you to impose restrictions on the activities of shareholders both during ownership of shares and after sale of their shares; and to protect you.
Matters that would typically be dealt with in a shareholders’ agreement include:-
Voting rights
Transfer of shares
Shareholders’ rights to appoint directors
what happens if a shareholders leaves / dies / becomes ill
Dividend policy
Valuing shares in the event of a transfer/sale of those shares
Restrictive covenants
Minority shareholder protection
Our expertise in dealing with shareholders agreements is not just limited to drafting clauses. We also deal with resolution of shareholder disputes.
Share Purchase Agreements
If you need solicitors for a share purchase transaction, whether you are investing into a limited company or buying or selling the entire share capital of a business, we’re an ideal choice.
When it comes to share purchases, we’ve got vast experience advising businesses of all sizes and types. That experience means we focus quickly on the issues and strike the right balance between proportionate legal fees, speed and getting the right deal and protections in place for clients.
Employment Contracts & Agreements
If you require employment law services, we can provide them to you in an individual capacity or to businesses, in both litigious and non-litigious circumstances. Our legal services range from drafting and reviewing employment contracts to preparing and conducting Employment Tribunal proceedings.
If you are a business operating without employment contracts and the right policies, you are exposed. There is a presumption against employers in law.
We offer expertise in the following particular areas:
Employment Contracts (including drafting or review)
Compromise agreements
Settlement agreements
Contractual and statutory redundancy payments
TUPE
Contractual and statutory redundancy payments
Review of HR policies
