We work with clients to structure and document business-critical relationships with suppliers, customers or strategic partners in order to preserve and enhance the value of their businesses.
The team provides advice and assistance in connection with the drafting, review, interpretation and negotiation of a wide range of commercial agreements, including:
Agency, distribution & franchising Collaboration & development Confidentiality & non-disclosure Consultancy Contracts & conditions for the sale or purchase
of goods or services Intellectual property IT & e-commerce (including distance selling)
The commercial team also provides a risk management service that is designed to analyse how clients do business, how they enter into contracts and other arrangements and how effectively they limit or exclude the associated risks. We also carry out an assessment of the extent to which their business complies with all relevant laws and regulations.
Training
Our experience tells us that many businesses feel poorly equipped and under-resourced when it comes to understanding and analysing the risks associated with entering into contracts.
The Flint Bishop commercial team can offer training and support across a broad range of subjects relating to contracts and risk in order to help clients enter into contracts, partnerships and alliances in a more commercially aware manner.
Training can be tailored to suit the individual needs of a client and can be provided on a one-to-one basis or in the form of seminars attended by a number of businesses.
Examples of the areas in which we are able to provide training are:
Basic principles of entering into contracts The use of standard terms and the “battle
of the forms” Contracts risks and limiting liability (and what
can and cannot be limited)
The use and dangers of letters of intent, memoranda of understanding and comfort letters The contractual aspects of tendering for business
Flint Bishop LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales.
Registered number OC317931. Registered office: St Michael's Court, St Michael's Lane, Derby DE1 3HQ.
Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A full list of members is available at the registered office