Whether you are an emerging brand, a high-end luxury retailer, an online seller or an established food and beverage chain with a high street presence, you need a retail solicitor who understands the challenges and pressures all retailers face, whatever your size or location or market base.
As solicitors with sector experience in retail and consumer, including food and beverage sales, we provide a comprehensive range of retail legal advice services tailored to your business needs.
Get in touch to see how we can help your business.
Services for the retail and consumer sector
Whether you dominate the high street, are an exclusive brand or a start-up café, our retail and consumer team can assist you with:
- brand protection and trade marks
- compliance and regulation
- health and safety, environmental and product regulation
- marketing regulations, social media and introducer agreements
- data protection and GDPR
- commercial contracts
- cross border contracts and e-commerce
- consumer regulations
- franchise agreements
- intellectual property
- online retail
- sale and distribution agreements
- supply agreements
- mergers & acquisitions
- corporate solutions such as shareholder and partnership agreements
- commercial leases and property purchases
- retail property portfolios
- restaurant licensing and retail planning
- employment contracts and disputes
IMD Corporate retail services expertise
Our retail and consumer services solicitors have expertise in:
- delivering corporate solutions
- offering pragmatic commercial solutions
- global mobility solutions to attract overseas talent
- employment contracts and resolving employment disputes
- proactive compliance and regulatory services
- customer disputes
- supplier disputes
- shareholder disputes
- directors disputes
- intellectual-property disputes
- defamation and media claims
- competition and antitrust claims
- commercial debt collection
- restructuring and insolvency matters
- tax law services and investigations
Retail and consumer service clients
Our retail solicitors believe it helps to represent a cross section of retail, consumer, food and beverage businesses to keep our knowledge and expertise in the retail sector wide and up-to-date. Our experience and expertise extend to the full range of retail and hospitality services, including:
- online retail
- high street brands
- luxury retailers
- small independents
- multinationals
- pubs and hotels
- chain restaurants
- franchisors and franchisees
IMD Solicitors experts on your side
Our team of retail and consumer lawyers, drawn from the range of business law services, has the specialism combined with the commercial awareness your business needs from its retail lawyers. The team provides proactive legal advice so your business can focus on service and delivery, knowing that you have the support of efficient and effective solicitors behind you, whether you are looking to expand or merge or need to deal with an urgent contractual, regulatory or employment issue.
IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and several European cities, with many trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters governed by UK or EU law.
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List of notable commercial cases
- Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
- Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
- Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
- Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
- Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
- Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
- Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
- Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
- Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
- Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
- Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
- Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
- Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
- Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.
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