Legal Counsel Services

Services for Legal Counsel

Kerseys Legal Counsel Services offer general counsel legal advice to SME’s and Corporations.

If your company is looking for well-rounded and pragmatic legal advice, with an easily transparent fee structure, we would welcome the opportunity to assist you. We can advise you on an estimated, quantifiable hourly or daily fee basis or alternatively, on a bespoke and fixed fee basis.

Kerseys legal counsel services are able to:

provide legal advice to corporate entities over a wide range of legal matters;
manage the legal requirements of a business as a whole;
work with management following strategic management objectives.

Kerseys Legal Counsel Services

Our services include a broad section of general company commercial legal services and specifically within the following areas:

Businesses and Partnerships

Forms of business vehicle
Setting up a company
Setting up a partnership

Business Development Projects

New business ventures
Stakeholder agreements
Contractual joint ventures
Collaborative projects
R&D and confidentiality agreements

Commercial Litigation

Breach of contract claims
Commercial debt recovery
Property Disputes
Professional negligence
Shareholder and partnership disputes
Construction claims
IP/IT disputes

Commercial Property

Acquisitions and disposals of commercial property and lease back
Acquisitions/disposals by auction
Strategic property development and site assembly, option agreements, conditional contracts and overages
Project finance and securitisation of asset portfolio
Landlord and Tenant law advice including renewals and terminations
Health and Safety law advice

Company Secretarial

Statutory and regulatory compliance
Constitution and governance
Directors’ duties
Members meetings and resolutions

Contracts

Standard terms and conditions
Purchase, supply and distribution of goods and services

Employment for the Business Manager

Staff employment contracts
Executive service agreements
Company Handbooks
Discrimination and the Equality Act (2010)
Protected rights in employment
Individual rights and union membership
Commercial transactions and TUPE
Statutory dispute resolution procedures
Termination of employment
Good practice, procedure and settlement

Employment Disputes

Settlement agreements
Employment Tribunals and Appeals
County Court and ADR
Mediation and ADR

Franchising

Setting up a franchise
Managing franchisees and agreements

How Kerseys Can Help

The needs and expectations of business leaders have been going through a period of change and significantly so over the last decade.

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As a result of this change, we have seen an elevated demand for legal counsel services due, in part, to increasing regulation (for instance, the Companies Act 2006, the Equality Act 2010 and the Bribery Act 2010). Further, where work is homogeneous or capable of being standardised or readily quantifiable within defined parameters, the expectation is that it should be priced accordingly and where possible on the basis of a fixed fee.

It is increasingly recognised by many organisations that taking advantage of legal counsel services can:

speed up the management decision making processes;
increase management options; and
manage legal and operational risk.

At Kerseys we work hard at understanding your business and the environment in which it operates and in doing so we can more readily assist in resisting your exposure to risk.

As part of a legal audit and review, we can assess your business risk and compliance and assist in achieving the most efficient legal strategy within your business forecasting in order to meet the longer term objectives.

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