Plain English on transactions, drafting, and the structural choices that decide who wins.
Referral arrangements often start with only the basic terms recorded, such as the percentage fee share payable to the referrer for any referral that results in new business. They can quickly become
A master services agreement is the framework that sits over a series of individual engagements, typically with statements of work or service orders sitting underneath. It is useful where the same parties
Franchising is not, in UK law, a separately regulated form of contract. But it is demanding to draft well because the agreement does several things at once. It licenses the brand and
Distribution differs from agency in one important respect: the distributor buys and resells in their own name, taking title and risk. That changes the legal analysis (the Commercial Agents Regulations do not
When someone sends you a contract to sign, the review serves two purposes. The first is to check that the document reflects what you have agreed commercially. The second is to identify
A bespoke contract is appropriate where the commercial deal does not fit a standard template, typically because the obligations are unusual, the risk allocation is negotiated, or the parties want something specific
Agency relationships in the UK are governed by the Commercial Agents Regulations, which give the agent statutory rights, including a right to compensation or indemnity on termination, that cannot be contracted out
A startup has a small number of legal moments that matter disproportionately: forming the company, defining the relationship between the founders, protecting the IP, hiring the first employee, and signing the first
E-commerce attracts more legal obligations than founders expect. Beyond the obvious documents, there are consumer rights obligations, distance-selling rules, mandatory pre-contract disclosures, and a complex set of expectations regarding how the checkout
Most established businesses have accumulated a contract estate that no one has looked at in years. This typically includes customer contracts on terms agreed long ago, supplier contracts auto-renewing on terms, NDAs
Setting up as a sole trader or single-director limited company is simple, which is why people do it without legal advice and then discover, six months in, that they are missing the
A shareholders' agreement is a private contract that sits on top of the company's articles and governs how the shareholders behave towards each other and the company. The drafting