About our commercial services at Wright Hassall

OUR COMMERCIAL TEAM

HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU COMMERCIAL

When looking for a commercial solicitor, most clients want more than just legal advice about commercial transactions, they want practical legal solutions from legal advisers who understand the commercial realities of running a business. Our commercial lawyers are specialists with a wealth of varied industry and sector experience, gained both in private practice and in industry.

We advise corporates, SMEs and entrepreneurs on a range of commercial transactions that support day-to-day business operations and strategic projects. We draw on practical and in-depth industry experience across a diverse range of sectors to deliver tailored commercial solutions at competitive rates.

Whether you’re a fledgling start-up or entrepreneur, an established SME, or a large corporate, we’re here to deliver tailored, flexible solutions to support your strategic vision. We can help with a range of commercial aspects:

• Sale & supply

• Routes to market

• Marketing & sponsorship

• E-commerce

• Data protection and FOI

• Facilities management

• Outsourcing & projects

• IR35 compliance

• Software development and licensing

• Intellectual property (contentious and non-contentious)

• GDPR

OUR CREDENTIALS

SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR COMMERCIAL WORK…

We have a vast amount of experience across the team. Some recent examples that give an idea of the level of work we regularly undertake are:

• Advising a major automotive component supplier in relation to the intellectual property rights relating to its supply of particular products to a customer.

• Advising a leading provider of software for those with learning difficulties in relation to its dealings with one particular reseller which involved restrictions as to the language in which the client’s copyright works were distributed and the need for alignment with the terms agreed between our client and other parties.

• Negotiating a distribution and warehousing agreement between our client and a household name logistics provider to ensure it reflected the commercial terms set out in our client’s invitation to tender.

• Advising an online wine and beer retailer on the contractual implications of switching logistics provider. This included advice on the scope and extent of liability in respect of the staff TUPEtransferring to the new provider.

• Reviewing a draft product and supply agreement for our client, a battery manufacturer, provided by the other party, including amending the agreement appropriately to reflect their standard framework agreement for access and services.

• Reviewing and updating a software developer’s template SaaS Terms under which it licenses its platform to its clients, including making extensive changes to the data protection addendum, service level agreement and support and maintenance provisions annexed to the SaaS Terms.

OUR CREDENTIALS

SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR COMMERCIAL WORK…

• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating various contracts for a training company including managing its compliance with data protection legislation, and advising if it needed to appoint a data protection representative in the EU post-Brexit, non-disclosure agreements, and data processing agreements with both UK and French blue chip clients.

• Reviewing, advising on, and negotiating an agreement between our client, a liquid CO₂ producer, and a purchaser, covering supply limits, liability, specification parameters, price, title, and risk.

• Preparing bespoke agreements between a UK software developer and a Swedish software distributor, setting out rights and obligations pertaining to distribution, royalties, and ownership of IP.

• Reviewing, amending, and advising on a number of national and international collaboration agreements between our client, a university, and a mixture of other educational institutes and private organisations.

• Negotiating an agreement between two universities setting out the arrangements each had made in respect of jointly developed intellectual property, including the terms for the protection and commercial exploitation of such joint intellectual property.

• Negotiating several agreements between a university and thirdparty providers of apprenticeship programmes.

• Advising a university on its proposed joint venture agreement with UK Battery Industrialisation Centre Ltd, Johnson Matthey, Britishvolt and others in connection with the Faraday Centre, and the proposed new battery manufacturing installation in Coventry.