Commercial Law Firms Manchester - mlplaw
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Commercial Law Firm Manchester

Commercial Legal Services in Manchester

As a commercial law firm in Manchester, our lawyers specialise in providing legal services related to business transactions, commercial relationships, and other business activities. We handle everything from sales agreements and partnership contracts to service terms and confidentiality clauses.

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Expert Commercial Lawyers

Our commercial lawyers bring a wealth of experience and take the time to understand you and your business. This allows us to provide tailored, effective legal advice that meets your specific commercial needs.

 

Our expertise in the following areas:

Technology, IT, Software and Digital

At mlplaw we recognise the critical role that commercial contracts and technology play in today’s business landscape.

Our expert solicitors are here to provide you with comprehensive legal support tailored to your commercial and technology needs.

We can help with:

  • E-commerce legal advice;
  • Software As A Services (SaaS);
  • Cloud and Subscription services (PaaS, IaaS);
  • Software Development;
  • Software Licensing;
  • Outsourcing;
  • Research and Development, Joint Ventures and Collaboration;
  • Regulatory
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Business Affairs and Succession Planning

We specialise in helping clients build their businesses and achieve successful exits – maximising value and making any transaction as smooth as possible.  Critical to the success of any transition – family businesses to next and future generations, and business owner exits – is having clear and up to date plans and arrangements in place for your business. Our business and succession planning experts provide support across all aspects of your personal and business affairs, including:

  • Corporate governance
  • Succession planning and management
  • Business continuity planning
  • Shareholder and partnership agreements
  • Exit strategies and business sales
  • Family business transition planning, family charters and legacy building
  • Tax-efficient succession and estate planning

Why is succession planning important for businesses?

Succession planning is crucial for businesses to ensure a smooth transition of leadership and ownership, minimise disruptions during changes, and preserve the long-term viability and legacy of the business.

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Brand and Business Protection

In this ever-growing and ever-opening marketplace, it is increasingly important to safeguard your brand and business assets.

At mlplaw we offer a comprehensive suite of legal strategies including:

  • Trademark registration and enforcement
  • Copyright protection and commercialisation
  • Brand management and protection
  • Intellectual property audits and strategy
  • Anti-counterfeiting measures
  • Trade secret protection and non-compete agreements
  • Defending any allegations of infringements

How can businesses protect their brand and intellectual property assets?

Businesses can protect their brand and intellectual property assets through strategies such as trademark registration, copyright protection, patent filings, trade secret protection, confidentiality agreements, and enforcement of intellectual property rights against infringers.

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Outsourcing, Joint Venture and consultancy agreements

If you need to collaborate with other businesses or individuals to carry out your business, we offer services to help optimise these strategic partnerships, helping you to collaborate whilst protecting your interest.

These include:

  • Drafting and negotiating outsourcing agreements
  • Joint venture agreements and strategic alliances
  • Consultancy and advisory agreements
  • Service level agreements (SLAs) and performance metrics
  • Risk assessment and management

 

What factors should businesses consider when entering into joint venture or consultancy agreements?

Businesses should consider factors such as the objectives and scope of the collaboration, the allocation of responsibilities and resources, the distribution of profits and losses, intellectual property ownership and licensing, confidentiality obligations, and exit strategies.

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Confidentiality Agreements (NDAs)

At some stage you will need or receive a confidentiality agreement (or NDA) to sign. We can help with producing or reviewing an agreement that fits your needs. Our experienced commercial solicitors can help with:

  • Producing an agreement that suits your needs, including the suitability of provisions such as non-compete or non-solicitation (non-poaching) of customers, or employees;
  • Protecting highly valuable information;
  • Sharing information for limited purposes;
  • Protecting discussion around forming business relationships including R&D, collaboration and Joint Venture agreements; and
  • Breach of agreements and dispute resolution.

Why are confidentiality agreements (NDAs) important for businesses?

Confidentiality agreements are used by businesses to protect sensitive information, trade secrets, and proprietary data from unauthorised disclosure or use by third parties. This helps them to safeguard their competitive advantage, business strategies and reputation.

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Data protection

Our specialist data protection solicitors protect our clients across a wide range of data protection issues in the UK and around the world. Our practical, commercial advice covers many areas, including:

  • Data Protection and GDPR compliance;
  • Appropriate policies – stand alone or alongside commercial agreements and business relationships;
  • ICO queries or dealing with a data breach or data leak; and
  • Dispute resolution.
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Website terms and privacy policies

It is a legal requirement to have your website terms of use, cookie and privacy policies available and agreed by visitors to your website. There is an ever increasing need to ensure your terms and policies stay up to date. This is especially important when it comes to privacy and your policies surrounding use of visitor and customer data.

Ensuring your online presence complies with legal standards, our Commercial team provides expert guidance on:

  • Drafting and updating website terms of use
  • Amending terms to have more client-focussed ‘friendly’ wording
  • Creating comprehensive cookie and privacy policies
  • Compliance with GDPR and other data privacy laws
  • Handling user data requests and rights

What are the key elements of an effective website terms of use agreement?

An effective website terms of use agreement should include provisions regarding your client/customer’s rights and responsibilities, your intellectual property rights, clear limits to parties’ liability, your privacy policy (or a link to it), and mechanisms to resolve any disputes that might arise. It should be written in plain English and serve to protect all parties, giving peace of mind when entering into the agreement.

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Commercial Contracts and Trade Agreements

Facilitating smooth and secure business transactions, we our commercial law specialists cover:

  • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts
  • International trade agreements and cross-border transactions
  • Sales and purchase agreements
  • Agency and distribution agreements
  • Joint venture and partnership agreements
  • Compliance with trade regulations and sanctions

What should businesses consider when entering into commercial contracts and trade agreements?

To protect their interests and ensure compliance, businesses should carefully consider key terms such as pricing, payment terms, delivery obligations, warranties, intellectual property rights, mechanisms to resolve disputes, addressing exclusivity or territorial restrictions, and clarity around termination of the contract.

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Supply, Agency and Distribution Agreements

If you operate a business that involves using third parties to carry out certain elements of your business, it’s crucial to ensure that your supply chain operates seamlessly and effectively.

Our Commercial team provides expertise in:

  • Drafting and negotiating supply agreements
  • Agency agreements and representative contracts
  • Distribution and franchise agreements
  • Logistics and transportation contracts
  • Risk management and liability clauses
  • Dispute resolution and contract enforcement
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Franchising

If you operate a franchise business or wish to franchise out all or part of your business, our Commercial team provides services to support the growth and success of your franchise network such as:

  • Franchise agreement drafting and review
  • Franchise disclosure documents
  • Franchisee onboarding and training
  • Intellectual property protection for franchises
  • Compliance with franchise regulations
  • Dispute resolution and franchise termination
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Competition Law & International Law

Competition Law can affect every business and a wide range of business relationships. Our expert competition law solicitors advise on the full range of issues relating to private organisations. We provide practical commercial advice on all aspects of UK, EU and international competition law through our trusted worldwide network of law firms, including:

  • Issues around distribution, franchising, or licensing;
  • Anti-competitive agreements;
  • Assessing impacts of mergers or acquisitions (including Market Share tests);
  • Merger control;
  • Abuse of a dominant position; and
  • Dispute Resolution.
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Trusted Commercial Law Firm Manchester

As a team of leading legal specialists, we have built a solid reputation around advising growing, entrepreneurial, and family-owned businesses and individuals in the region. We have worked with businesses across many industries such as IT & software, healthcare as well as retail, making us well-equipped with a deep understanding of the sectors your business is in. This helps us create unique solutions tailored to your needs.

We are also ranked within the top 500 Legal Firms, obtained from our decades of experience in assisting all types of businesses and business owners in different transactions. We prioritise being reliable, flexible, honest, and transparent with all of our clients.

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Why choose the mlplaw team?

  • Unparalleled Experience and Expertise

We are vastly experienced, Legal-500 recommended
legal experts who live and breathe Commercial Law. We provide no-nonsense, commercially-focused advice, achieving
successful outcomes for you and your business.

  • Your business, your service

Your business is unique, as are the challenges it faces.
That’s why our approach is always as unique as your business itself.

We don’t like one-size-fits-all strategies. We’re all about crafting tailored strategies that fit your specific needs.

Communication is key. We’re fluent in plain language and have no time for legal jargon. We believe in complete transparency and proactivity, providing you with a clear path and fixed fees so you’re never caught off guard.

  • Collaboration

Taking time to understand you and your business and working in tandem with you and in collaboration with other experienced teams within our business (i.e. Employment, Commercial, Property, Disputes) to achieve results in an effective manner.


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