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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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We understand your world and are on-hand to equip you with practical, real-world advice, so you can tackle obstacles, seize competitive advantages, and move forward with confidence. Whether it’s scaling your business, managing teams, or navigating new legal terrain, our support can help you unlock your organisation’s full potential.
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We’ve reimagined the way law firms work with businesses to put you in control.
We offer three ways of working together to suit your needs, and thanks to our clever use of technology and remote operating model, they all deliver partner-level expertise with significant savings on ‘city’ law firm prices.
Our Engage plan gives you flexible access to our experienced solicitors, with no fixed monthly cost and low hourly rates, typically £298 per hour. Whatever legal assistance you need, we can support you, and the cost of using our experienced solicitors will provide a significant saving compared to those associated with traditional law firms.
Our Enable plan is a 12-month subscription, costing £219 per month. Included in the subscription is £149 of credit each month, plus access to our Standard Rates at 50% discount, providing consistently great savings on each project we assist you with.
Our Extend plan is a smarter way for high-growth and established businesses to get legal advice. A legal subscription service with dedicated account management, it gives you priority access to a curated team of highly experienced solicitors, whenever you need them, at a budget set by you.
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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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Sale and distribution agreements may be crucial to your business and can open up new markets, but they can also be severely detrimental if not drafted correctly. Our commercial specialists can assist you in preparing, negotiating and agreeing terms which benefit your business and protect you from risk.
In addition to drafting, negotiating and reviewing sales and distribution agreements, our team can assist you across all areas of commercial law, including:
Our team of commercial solicitors can support you with:
Advice on sale and distribution terms ensuring that all necessary issues have been considered and discussed.
Competition law issues which may arise as a result of the sale and distribution terms and arrangements.
Compliance with all necessary regulations.
Drafting documents to reflect, clarify and articulate your commercial proposals.
Explaining the risks of a proposed contract and advising on the practical measures to reduce these.
Insurance and liability related queries
Intellectual property related issues which may arise in the context of sale and distribution.
Negotiations in relation to the documentation.
Review of documents already in force to establish the actual legal position as it relates to the commercial position.
Understanding of the supply chain arrangements to ensure that an upstream arrangement takes account of the downstream position and vice versa.
Exiting from sale and distribution arrangements.
Dispute resolution if matters don’t go according to plan at a later date.
Sale and distribution arrangements are used to move a product or service along the supply chain from manufacturer through to the retailer or end user. They enable a third party to sell a supplier’s product or service into a territory or to certain customers without the supplier having to establish itself in that territory or with those customers. A simple concept, but one which can easily result in litigation or have anti-competitive effects if entered into without expert legal advice on the area.
We can steer you through the potential issues and pitfalls which can arise when negotiating these arrangements, helping you to achieve fully compliant arrangements and understand the potential risks to your business and how these can be minimised.
We will discuss with you and provide advice on the specific terms of the arrangement and also on the options available to protect your business. Working as a team, our commercial contract experts will help you to consider all of the pertinent issues.
Provide your product or service in new markets without the overheads of opening new offices or premises while also making use of the distributor’s local knowledge and network.
Ensure that all parties concerned understand and agree the specific terms of the arrangement, reducing the risk of uncertainty and potential contract disputes.
Receive the benefit of agreed protections we set out in your contract, such as limitation of liability, obtaining security for payments and termination rights.
Obtain knowledge of potential competitors who are already engaged with your supplier/distributor depending on the type of distribution arrangement agreed.
Benefit from non-compete obligations to ensure that your supplier/customer does not compete with your products/in your territory.
A contractual dispute resolution mechanism can resolve disputes without having to resort to litigation.
IP rights may be significant and the cornerstone of the product or service in question. Protect them through expertly drafted distribution arrangements.
We support a wide range of UK-based companies and business owners across diverse sectors whether you’re acting at the supply or customer end of the supply chain. Whether you’re a high growth start-up, SME or an established national business we can support you with your commercial contracts and provide you with a holistic methodology. We know that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to a sales or distribution agreement, which is why we get to know your business goals so that you can make the most of your product or service with our legal expertise.
We can provide you with full support and assistance during the sale and distribution process, advising you on those matters which are relevant to your business and providing you with pragmatic and commercial options and solutions.
Our commercial solicitors can offer you years of legal expertise in this area and consistently combine their extensive legal knowledge with commercial acumen, awareness of current market practice and a keen understanding of our clients’ businesses and objectives.
Plus, we have all worked at partner level in top 100 firms or in-house at major international businesses. Find out more about the team here:
Pricing and service plans
Our three transparent service plans are designed to give you the widest possible access to high-quality legal advice, whatever the size and nature of your business:
Flexible access to senior solicitors at highly competitive rates
An alternative to our subscription plans, offering access to full service legal expertise on a project-by-project basis.
Purpose built legal support for start-ups and smaller businesses
Monthly subscription plan for £219 per month, with £149 monthly credit and access to all legal services at 50% discount on our Standard Rates.
Comprehensive legal partnership for established businesses
Fully account managed and scalable annual subscription plan with support from a curated team of partners and senior solicitors, with up to 36% discount on our Standard Rates.
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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.
To access legal support from just £149 per hour arrange your no-obligation initial consultation to discuss your business requirements.