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Commerce

Commerce is the lifeblood of the global economy - navigate its legal and regulatory challenges with our expertise.

Whether you’re a buyer or a seller of goods or services, an intermediary, platform, or another operator in the supply chain, we can help you to achieve your commercial objectives.

We advise on a broad range of commercial arrangements, including:

  • Routes to market solutions
  • Agent and distributor relationships
  • Logistics and warehousing deals
  • Retail relationships (e-commerce, marketplace and bricks-and-mortar)
  • Franchise owners and operators
  • Asset managers
  • Referral and introducer arrangements
  • Brokerage services
  • Outsourcing arrangements
  • Public sector procurement contracts

With extensive commercial contract and regulatory experience, we can support you on small or large transactions and provide regulatory advice on everything from consumer and competition law to financial services, customs and tax.

Our expertise includes private sector outsourcing projects, most recently managing the outsourcing of a European client bank’s multibillion Euro Dublin-based bond market function.

Our services

Routes to market

We can provide you with holistic and strategic advice on everything you need to get your products and services to market and develop new opportunities.

Our expertise includes:

  • Agency and distribution arrangements
  • Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993
  • Drop ship
  • E-commerce solutions
  • Franchising
  • Licensing
  • Shipping, and transport (including Incoterms)
  • Platform terms
  • Joint ventures
  • Supply chain matters
 

We offer more than a typical law firm

Legal design

Our legal design services reimagine traditional legal documents and processes, making them more intuitive, user-friendly and memorable. We collaborate with you to strike the right balance between legal protections and commercial pragmatism when redesigning your contracts, and prioritise user needs to make your legal processes more efficient.

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Eleven

Eleven is an advisory firm which enables and empowers businesses at the nexus of media, tech and digital to grow and succeed in a world increasingly driven by disruption and convergence.

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