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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 £290 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 £215 per month. Included in the subscription is £145 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.
Solve common issues with our suite of fixed fee products, giving you clarity on costs and deliverables.
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.
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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Construction and engineering projects require careful and considered legal expertise from inception to completion and, ultimately, commissioning, use, sale or occupation. We provide legal expertise and industry knowledge to ensure that parties to construction and engineering projects have rigorous legal documents and agreements which protect their interests.
In addition to drafting, negotiating and reviewing construction and engineering contracts, our team can assist you across all areas of construction law, including:
We have specific expertise in drafting, amending, negotiating and advising on the various different contracts relating to the construction and engineering industry, including:
We are able to draft using all the major standard form contracts including JCT, NEC, ICE, FIDIC and IChemE as well as bespoke alternatives.
We understand that companies and professionals involved in construction and engineering contend with tight margins while seeking to avoid or mitigate any delays which can threaten the financial viability of projects.
Regardless of type or scale, projects must be undertaken with a thorough understanding of the commercial and legal realities of the deal being entered into. Many of our clients are not aware of the range of legal instruments available to meet their commercial needs; we therefore make it a priority to explain all of your options before proceeding to undertake work on your behalf.
Our specialist construction and engineering lawyers will focus on removing any friction which may slow down or complicate the construction process at any stage, ensuring that all parties to the project work in close collaboration. To do so, we take the time to listen to your commercial imperatives and ultimate goals. We then undertake the necessary due diligence to unearth all of the possible challenges and issues which may conflict with your interests before, during, and after the project.
Whatever your involvement in the construction and engineering process, our solicitors can create the documentation and agreements required to safeguard your interests, advising on risk assessment, management and protection. Here we outline the common ways in which we can support you:
Our construction solicitors have experience in acting for:
Whatever your involvement in the construction and engineering process, our solicitors can create the documentation and agreements required to safeguard your interests, advising on risk assessment, management and protection. Here we outline the common ways in which we can support you:
We draft, amend, negotiate and advise on construction/engineering contracts, sub-contracts, professional appointments, pre-construction service agreements, performance bonds and collateral warranties. We can also assist with the securitisation documentation required by any funders to the project.
In the developers’ role as an employer, we draft, amend, negotiate and advise on construction/engineering contracts, sub-contracts, professional appointments, pre-construction service agreements, performance bonds and collateral warranties, assisting with the securitisation documentation required by any funders. Further, we draft, amend, negotiate and advise on development agreements/agreements for lease with end users.
We draft, amend, negotiate and advise on construction/engineering contracts (including design and build contracts), sub-contracts, professional appointments, pre-construction service agreements, performance bonds and collateral warranties, ensuring that obligations and associated risks relating to the position of the main contractor are placed with those other parties best-placed to manage them.
We draft, amend, negotiate and advise on sub-contracts, performance bonds and collateral warranties paying particular attention to the provisions relating to payments to sub-contractors and any obligations sought to be imposed over and above those to the main contractor.
We draft, amend, negotiate and advise on professional appointments, collateral warranties and novation agreements paying particular attention to the relevant insurance provisions relating to professionals/consultants.
We draft supplier terms and conditions with particular emphasis on the passing of title in goods and materials supplied.
We review, negotiate and advise on as appropriate construction/engineering contracts, sub-contracts, professional appointments, pre-construction service agreements, performance bonds, collateral warranties and development agreements/agreements for lease relating to projects where a funder is providing finance on the basis of the funders’ securitisation requirements. We can also assist in the finalisation and production of the securitisation documentation.
We draft, amend, negotiate and advise on and development agreements and agreements for lease. As part of that process we review, negotiate and advise on as appropriate construction/engineering contracts, sub-contracts, professional appointments, pre-construction service agreements, performance bonds and collateral warranties. We can also assist in the finalisation and production of the documentation to protect end users’ interests.
We review and report upon the construction documentation relating to projects in which a party is to take a property interest, assisting in the finalisation and production of the documentation to protect that party’s interests.
We review and report upon the construction documentation relating to corporate transactions such as share sale agreements, assisting in the finalisation and production of the documentation to protect our client’s interests.
Our lawyers understand how business operates in the real world, with many of them coming from industry themselves. Acting as an extension of your team, we are available whenever you need us, helping you take the next step towards growth whilst making sure your business is protected.
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 £215 per month, with £145 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 34% 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 £145 per hour arrange your no-obligation initial consultation to discuss your business requirements.