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IP & commercial lawyers in London & Thames Valley

Our specialist commercial lawyers provide expert guidance on contracts and agreements across all sectors, from start-ups and SMEs to multinational corporations, ensuring clients have commercial arrangements that minimise risk and maximise profitability.

We can support you in growing your business giving you pragmatic, proactive commercial advice that helps you achieve your commercial goals. Our advice spans from drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, franchise agreements, terms of business, services agreements to specialist legal advice or post contract support, we can help you through the legal hurdles. 

Our IP and commercial experience covers most sectors, including financial services, film & media, IT Services, and  includes drafting and negotiating licenses and master services agreements for the automotive and manufacturing industry and sports clubs. 

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“Very professional, knowledgeable and accessible lawyers.” 

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Confidential info & non-disclosure agreements

Contract terms and conditions

Franchising

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MSA’s & reseller agreements

IP ownership and licensing

Partnerships & LLPs

Share incentives

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Ashan Arif

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+44 118 960 4651
Stuart Mullins

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+44 118 960 4672

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  • 05 April 2018
  • Construction

Building Information Modelling requirements

We are seeing an increased adoption of BIM (Building Information Modelling) in the projects we are advising on across the private sector. Of course, BIM Level 2 became mandatory for use on all UK public sector works in April 2016. The implementation of BIM means that the contract documents for the contractor and through the supply chain and professional consultants will need to consider the specific implications of BIM.
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  • 08 November 2017
  • Corporate and M&A

Changes to the PSC Regime

Since the PSC Regulations came into effect in June 2016, changes to a company’s PSC information have been filed annually at Companies House on the Confirmation Statement.
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  • 10 October 2017
  • IP and Commercial

EIS and SEIS – what are these and how can you benefit?

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) are schemes run by the government offering generous tax breaks to encourage SME growth and investment in such companies.
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  • 31 August 2017
  • Corporate and M&A

Directors’ & Officers’ Liability Insurance

We are often asked by directors (both exec and non-exec) of clients about whether their company should have D & O liability insurance in place, and what it does and does not cover.
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  • 18 July 2017
  • IP and Commercial

Diamonds are not a Commercial Agent’s best friend

The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 provide important rights for commercial agents who sell or negotiate the sale or purchase of goods on behalf of others, including the right to receive compensation or an indemnity on termination of the agency relationship.

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  • 12 June 2017
  • IP and Commercial

How to protect copyright on your mobile app

As of March this year, Android users were able to choose between 2.8 million apps and Apple’s App Store remained the second-largest app store with 2.2 million available apps (https://www.statista.com). This is a vast market, and, whilst many, many mobile apps make little or no money for their developers, the odd one may just be gold dust.
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“Stuart Mullins has always been highly professional, commercial and responsive whenever I have worked with him on projects, often in high pressure environments….Stuart is exactly the kind of advisor I want on my team.”

James Hawksworth, Director – RSM

“We are very pleased with the support and advice received from on the recent acquisition by BMW Group UK.  With clear, concise and timely advice and management, Ashan and his team helped us navigate through some complex arrangements and seamlessly bridged the gap between the legal and commercial issues”

Amit Kotecha, Senior Legal Counsel – BMW Legal Affairs UK & Ireland 

“I had an excellent experience working with Stuart Mullins. He was thoughtful, pragmatic, and extremely efficient. Thank you very much for all your hard work to get the deal across the line.”

Jerry Izard, Director, Independent Optics Ltd

“Stuart and the rest of the team provided expert support during a recent corporate restructuring. We were calmly guided through the complex legal process, and realised significant additional benefits directly related to the advice provided.”

Stefan Zabel, Director, Wood Designer Ltd

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