Thought Leadership
Practical commentary from our partners on the legal issues that matter to business owners — employment, disputes, corporate and commercial law, written for decision-makers rather than lawyers.
· Helen Phillips
Supplier contracts read as one-sided because they are drafted to protect the other party. How to read an agreement by asking who it was built to protect, and how to spot the silent clauses that wait for a trigger.
Read article →· Helen Phillips
Warranties and indemnities get treated as boilerplate you accept to close the deal. They are where survival-level exposure actually sits, and "standard" terms are far more negotiable than most owners assume.
Read article →· Helen Phillips
Disputes rarely start on the page. They start in the drift between what one party can see and what is actually governing them, including implied terms neither side drafted. How disciplined drafting closes the gap.
Read article →· Helen Phillips
Substantive risk often migrates into the boilerplate nobody reads with care. Why an indemnity buried in the closing pages can outweigh everything negotiated up front, and the discipline that catches it.
Read article →· Espen Skogen
How to move an unpaid invoice from polite reminder to recovered debt: the escalation steps that work, the statutory tools available, and how to avoid spending good money chasing bad.
Read article →· Helen Phillips
A £40,000 dispute heading toward £240,000 in legal costs. Why reading a contract is not the same as understanding your exposure, and why prevention is the cheapest legal spend you will ever make.
Read article →· Espen Skogen
A practical guide for employers on using settlement agreements to end employment relationships cleanly: the legal requirements, the commercial judgement calls, and the traps that undo them.
Read article →· Ian Burton
Why shareholder disputes in private companies escalate, the legal remedies available when they do, and the documents that prevent most of them, from a corporate lawyer who has seen both ends.
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