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Expertise

Whether you are launching your start-up, driving forward a complex multinational organisation or a private individual seeking clear legal advice, our lawyers understand your sector and can provide practical support for the road ahead.

We understand the opportunities in the international business market, we have access to a worldwide network of excellent legal experts through our membership of TAGLaw, have strategic involvement with the CBI and are a strategic partner for the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC).

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Monica Atwal

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We have extensive expertise across all commercial law disciplines working together as a collaborative team to support businesses, institutions and individuals.

Corporate and M&A

Litigation and dispute resolution

Employment

Immigration

Commercial real estate

Public procurement

IP and Commercial

Privacy and data protection

Construction

Restructuring and insolvency

Our sectors

Automotive

Education

Finance & security

Telecom, media & technology

Pharma & healthcare

Retail, hospitality & leisure

International

Whether a business trading overseas, looking to set up in the UK or acquire UK businesses, we can provide the high-quality legal support you need. We are one of the founding members of TAGLaw, a leading international alliance of high-quality, independent law firms, which gives us access to a worldwide network of excellent legal experts.

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15 September 2017
Immigration

Establishing a business presence in the UK – the sole representative visa

Our immigration lawyers have recently seen an increase in enquiries from successful overseas business owners who wish to establish a business presence in the UK. Such individuals have explored the Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa route but either do not want to live in the UK or do not wish to make a large investment, such as the £200,000 required under the Entrepreneur route.

12 September 2017
Corporate and M&A

CG Archive Acquisition Marks 30th for OASIS Group

Clarkslegal, led by corporate lawyers Jon Chapman and Esma Kilic, have advised OASIS Group on all of their UK acquisitions.

12 September 2017
Employment

New requirements for companies to reveal pay ratio between bosses and workers

The government has announced a series of reforms aimed at increasing boardroom accountability and enhancing trust in business. These are a partial implementation of pledges in the Conservative manifesto for the May 2017 general election, which itself was much less alarming to businesses than Theresa May’s July 2016 Conservative party leadership campaign pledge to have employees represented on company boards.The proposals are that, on an annual basis around 900 listed companies will have to publish and justify the pay ratio between CEOs and their average UK worker

11 September 2017
Commercial Real Estate

Does a commercial tenant in a commercial building have responsibility for fire safety?

The Grenfell Tower fire struck on 14 June 2017 in the 24-storey block of public housing flats in North Kensington, West London, causing at least 80 deaths and initiated a debate into fire safety and the rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords. in relation to fire safety in premises, including in commercial, as well as residential, premises.

08 September 2017
Employment

Increase to damages bands for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury

The Presidents of the Employment Tribunal in England, Wales and Scotland have released a joint response to the Vento Bands Consultation (named after the case Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police in which these bands were originally set out). These bands apply to discrimination cases, as well as other specific types of claim such as whistleblowing.The new bands take account of inflation, as well as the 10% uplift to psychiatric injury or injury to feelings awards

08 September 2017
Employment

EAT confirms deposit orders should not be used to clarify cases

In the case of Tree v South East Coastal Services Ambulance NHS Trust, the EAT held that a Tribunal cannot make a deposit order merely because the Claimant’s case is unclear.