Protect what you are building

Securing your business and defending your interests

This is the firm's broadest family of work, and the only one that covers both moments in the life of a business: the moment you draft, and the moment you litigate. A well-written contract avoids a dispute; a dispute is often won on a clause written three years earlier. We handle both, with the same person on the other side of the table.

• Commercial contracts — Analysing, drafting and negotiating clauses for every kind of contract.
• Corporate law — Shareholders' agreements, fundraising, restructurings, general meetings.
• Unfair competition — Unfair competition, free-riding and abrupt termination of commercial relations.
• Debt recovery and insolvency proceedings — Recovery of unpaid invoices, insolvency proceedings, security interests and seizures.

Building value in your wealth strategy

Business wealth is built over twenty years and passed on once. The decisions that matter — how ownership is held, when the contribution is made, which retention undertaking is given — are taken years before the transaction, and are hard to put right afterwards. It is the one area of the firm's work where most of the value lies in anticipating.

• Tax and wealth protection — Legal and tax structuring, transfer mechanisms, better ways of holding your assets.

Protecting your creations and your data

A trade mark, a customer database, a body of know-how: three assets that no balance sheet values and whose loss is paid for at once. They call for the same reflex — you protect them before the incident, by filing a right or by bringing yourself into compliance, because afterwards only litigation is left.

• Intellectual property — Trade marks, copyright, designs, know-how: filing rights and fighting infringement.
• GDPR and outsourced DPO — GDPR compliance, audits, outsourced DPO and technology contracts.