Business Legal Services
We offer a wide range of legal services for businesses of all sizes, with pricing plans designed for start-up, small and venture-backed businesses and medium to large businesses.
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Business Disputes
Business Immigration Law
We advise businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and educational establishments on all aspects of UK immigration law, from recruiting overseas staff to ensuring ongoing compliance obligations are being met with the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).
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Commercial Law
Commercial Property Law
Construction Law
Corporate Law
Data Protection & Privacy Law
Employee Incentive Arrangements
Employment Law
Finance & Investment
Financial Services Regulation
Insolvency & Corporate Recovery
We support entrepreneurs, stakeholders and executive leadership confronted with financial difficulties. We also insolvency practitioners, creditors and individuals. Our insolvency team can help you choose a recovery or exit strategy that’s right for you.
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Intellectual Property
IT & Commercial Technology Law
Business Life Cycle
Our Business Life Cycle is designed to guide you through the different situations you’re likely to encounter on your business journey.
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Sectors
Our senior solicitors have built up a wealth of specialist sector knowledge throughout their careers. We appreciate that one size never fits all, which is why we leverage our team's sector knowledge through a multi-disciplinary approach to providing you with tailored and relevant advice. Our sector focused interest and experience enables us to provide up-to-the-minute advice and help you to anticipate the legal impact of potential future changes on your business.
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Creative Industries
Our creative sector solicitors keep abreast of the latest cases, legislative changes, and industry developments, to ensure our clients receive smart, pragmatic, insightful, and tailored legal services. We provide expert legal advice and representation in relation to all creative endeavours, including clients in advertising and marketing, television, theatre, music, art, publishing, architecture, technology, and all spheres of design.
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Energy, Utilities & Environment
Our energy, utilities and environment solicitors are expert legal advisers to the industry, including individual and institutional investors and funders, technical advisors, developers, entrepreneurs, utility firms, environmental and waste technology companies, landowners, aggregators, CICs, inventors and environmental scientists, contractors and suppliers and have vast experience in the sector.
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Life Sciences
Our multi-disciplinary life sciences legal team has specific sector experience, and our life sciences lawyers cover a range of areas such as risk assessment and management, manufacturing and supply chain issues, compliance review and advice including product liability, intellectual property issues and the development of IP strategies, data protection and GDPR advice, licensing and contractual issues, financial advice and mergers and acquisitions, as well as disputes and litigation management.
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Manufacturing & Engineering
Our manufacturing and engineering lawyers have an in-depth understanding of these sectors and the needs of businesses. We understand the vast and vital contribution manufacturing and engineering businesses make towards the British economy. Our solicitors partner with clients within these sectors to ensure their interests are protected and their commercial ambitions are achieved.
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Public Sector
Whether you’re situated directly within the public sector or you’re a commercial partner, our public sector solicitors can help you with all areas of business law you’re likely to need advice on, from banking and finance, commercial tenders and contracts, dispute resolution, real estate, intellectual property, data protection, employment law and much more.
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Retail & Luxury Brands
Whatever your business within the retail sector, our retail lawyers understand this challenging market and work across a range of areas including e-commerce, corporate and commercial, commercial property, dispute resolution and employment law to help advise and provide solutions for your business.
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Sports
Our sports law solicitors have expertise in the latest sports law and they also understand the industry; including its structures, regulations, challenges, pressures, trends, and developments. We offer legal advice and representation to national governing bodies, international federations, sports clubs, and athletes in any sport, whether amateur or professional.
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Start-ups
Our team of experienced senior solicitors are business and finance law specialists, with a proven track record in supporting start-ups - they have the legal skills and experience to help founders who want to get things right from day one. We act for start-up companies, entrepreneurs, founders, boards and individual directors of early-stage companies, financial institutions, and investors considering investment under the EIS and SEIS schemes.
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Technology
Our expert technology solicitors advise both specialist technology companies as well as their partners, customers, and users. We understand the commercial issues involved in tech depend on the services and products involved, which is why we endeavour to understand your niche and its implications. Whether you are a crowdfunded start-up or a large multi-national, our dedicated team of technology specialists are adept at acting for you wherever and whenever technology defines or intersects your organisation.
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Our Pricing & Service Plans
Our Pricing & Service Plans
Our unique subscription plans coupled with our remote operating model allow us to deliver expert legal advice, from partner level lawyers, at a fraction of the cost compared with traditional law firms. Our Enterprise and On-demand plans help you spread the cost of advice and access discounted rates, providing flexibility, peace of mind and plans that can scale with your business.
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The City Plan
Our City service provides you flexible access to our experienced lawyers, with no fixed monthly cost and low hourly rates, from £250 per hour. Whatever legal assistance you need, we can help you and the cost of using our experienced lawyers will provide a significant saving compared to those associated with traditional law firms.
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The Enterprise Plan
Our Enterprise subscription package is specifically designed for start-ups and smaller sized businesses. With a £189 monthly subscription fee and additional legal support from senior solicitors at £125 per hour, it includes 1-hour of free legal support per month which rolls over if unused.
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The On-demand Plan
Our On-demand plan is a smarter way for high-growth and established businesses to get legal advice. A the fully account managed quarterly subscription service which provides you with priority access to experienced partner-level solicitors, recruited from top 100 UK law firms, whenever you need them, at an affordable and flexible budget set by you.
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About Us
Harper James is a new breed of commercial law firm – a national law firm designed exclusively to champion ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses, enabling them to access expert legal advice at an affordable cost when they need it most. We work with start-ups through to established businesses that have been running for years or looking to scale, futurecorns and unicorns as well as those ready to sell and often build their next business.
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Careers
Work with like-minded individuals and free from the bureaucracy of traditional law firms in a truly flexible workplace. We offer career opportunities for solicitors and business support professionals that meet your needs and evolve as you evolve.
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Meet Our Team
Meet the people of Harper James.
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Press & Media
Our solicitors are well-positioned to provide commentary on all manner of commercial legal issue and regularly contribute to both national, sector and industry press.
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What Our Clients Say
A selection of our client testimonials.
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Work with like-minded individuals and free from the bureaucracy of traditional law firms in a truly flexible workplace. We offer career opportunities for solicitors and business support professionals that meet your needs and evolve as you evolve.
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News & Insights
The latest news and insights from Harper James including our 'Meet the client' interview series, case studies, legal updates, thoughts & opinions, podcasts, videos and spotlights on our solicitors.
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Case Studies
In-depth stories of how our clients' businesses have evolved and how we have supported them.
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Company News
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Client News
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Podcasts and Videos
Watch and listen to our latest podcasts and videos featuring client and Harper James interviews and stories.
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Knowledge Hub for Growth
Our free resource designed to help your business overcome challenges and realise its potential. Written by lawyers and business experts, these resources will help you decipher legal terminology and tackle key milestones from securing funding and growing your team, to protecting your ideas and expanding to new markets.
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We mainly work remotely, so we can work with you wherever you are. But we can arrange face-to-face meeting at our offices or a location of your choosing.
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Charlie Cox - Finance Apprentice

Charlie Cox

Finance Apprentice

Charlie Cox joined Harper James in April 2022 as our Finance Apprentice.

Charlies duties will be to support in the processing of the purchase ledger, as well as assisting the team with various financial tasks such as reconciliations, billing, payments and answering any accounts related queries.

Outside of work, Charlie likes to go on long walks with his dogs. He also enjoys watching a good Netflix series or movie, is an avid gamer and in the future, he has ambitions to travel the world and discover new countries and cultures.

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Our commercial lawyers are based in or close to major cities across the UK, providing expert legal advice to clients both locally and nationally.

We mainly work remotely, so we can work with you wherever you are. But we can arrange face-to-face meeting at our offices or a location of your choosing.

Birmingham 
Floor 5, Cavendish House, 39-41 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, B2 5PP
Cambridge 
Stirling House, Cambridge Innovation Park, Denny End Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9QE
Manchester 
13th Floor, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT
London 
10 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 5HP
Oxford 
Harwell Innovation Centre, 173 Curie Avenue, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QG
Sheffield 
2-5 Velocity Tower, 1 St Mary’s Square, Sheffield, S1 4LP
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