Approach to costs
Solicitors at Humphreys & Co. always aim to approach
legal work in a financially-disciplined way. We offer
competitive rates. Our charging approach is both transparent
and geared to the options open to our clients. Our
solicitors generally charge by reference to time spent but
we can often agree fixed fees for specific work or in some
cases risk-adjusted funding structures.
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Commercial legal work: business lawyers
Humphreys & Co. Solicitors are a long-established commercial and business law practice representing business clients in the UK, Europe and internationally. We advise and represent commercial clients (in business as companies, in partnership or as individuals), as well as firms from other professions, with reference to English law transactions and proceedings. Clients engage us from throughout the UK and we have a substantial international practice.
You are welcome to contact us at lawyers@humphreys.co.uk to find out what we can offer in your circumstances. Our independent lawyers are available for rapid response by email, telephone & fax from offices in central Bristol. Lawyers here aim to deliver the high quality solicitors' advice and representation that commercial clients require.
Established as a niche commercial solicitors firm in 1986 by partners from City of London law firms, our lawyers are just 90 minutes from London by road or rail and 15 minutes from international flight connections. Communication by email and telephone is almost instantaneous.
We are not a legal factory offering a mass-produced product. What you can expect from our commercial lawyers
Helping your company with its business operation and activities in a wide variety of industries is the essential role of a commercial lawyer. It involves an understanding of your commercial and business practices, an understanding of the specialist substantive legal issues involved, and first class drafting skills. Our commercial team can help you to achieve your objectives in the following ways:
- Advising on rules and regulations for doing business in various sectors. Our legal know-how will be relevant to many different industries, from manufacturing and financial services to employment and consumer products.
- Drafting agreements and terms and conditions, advising on existing contractual relationships, and terminating, varying or novating agreements, and advising on the consequences of these. We have expertise in the fundamental principles of contract law.
- Advising on rules and regulations for doing business in various sectors. Our legal know-how will be relevant to many different industries, from oil and gas production and financial services to employment and consumer products.
- Helping you to identify and understand other relevant areas of law that may be relevant to your business, such as competition law, intellectual property rights and company law.
- Providing due diligence support during mergers and acquisitions. We are available if required to review share purchase agreements and report on issues to the buyer such as potential risks, assignment and novation rights, and termination compensation.
Commercial advice and commercial documents
Our solicitors have broad experience in documenting commercial relationships. Solicitors here use the practical skills and legal disciplines required to negotiate, draft and explain the documents which commercial clients routinely need. Typical work of this kind includes:
- agency, distribution and supply agreements
- partnership terms
- conditions of trading
- computer and IT contracts
- sponsorship and franchising agreements
- technology-sharing arrangements
- competition and restrictive practices
- contracts of insurance
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Corporate transactions
Solicitors here advise commercial concerns of all sizes on their corporate or partnership structure, on start-ups and reorganisations, on acquisitions, disposals and closure. The firm handles:
- company law and director compliance
- shareholder arrangements
- new ventures and joint ventures
- buy-ins and buy-outs
- share and asset sales and purchases
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Employment and industrial
Clients want solicitors who can supply practical human resources advice and documentation enabling clear, fair management of employee relations. They can obtain from solicitors here a fast and informed response on:
- contracts and staff manuals
- occupational health and safety
- redundancy, dismissal, discipline
- severance compensation
- unfair competition post-termination
- discrimination: race, sex, disability
- employment tribunal proceedings
- industrial relations
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Litigation and arbitration
The firm has strength in depth in litigation of all types. Our solicitors aim to make court, arbitration and mediation procedures work positively. They focus on achieving clients' objectives but without tunnel vision and always keeping the wider picture in view. Solicitors here are equipped to undertake:
- contractual claims and recoveries
- shareholder and partnership disputes
- professional negligence claims
- land and building claims
- insurance and reinsurance litigation
- reinsurance collections
- financial services issues
- defamation actions
- receivership and liquidation claims
- alternative dispute resolution
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Land and property
Most business transactions have property aspects requiring legal advice and documentation. Our solicitors handle all kinds of commercial property work, both routine transactions and complex project deals, for example:
- developments (residential and commercial)
- acquisitions and disposals
- finance and secured lending
- investments and industrial properties
- lease negotiation
- joint ventures and options
- environmental and planning issues
- landlord and tenant issues
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property rights are vitally important to many kinds of business. IP and IT law is one of our core areas of practice. Registration, maintenance, transfer, licensing, litigation: these are all aspects of intangible rights which our lawyers are used to managing. Work types include:
- trade marks and patents
- copyright and designs
- trade secrets and know-how
- employee obligations
- media, publishing and internet
- sponsorship and franchising
- technology transfer and licensing
- trade libel and passing off
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Accessibility
We take instructions from UK & international clients. Our independent lawyers are available by email, telephone & fax. With central Bristol offices we are just 90 minutes from London by road or rail and 15 minutes from Bristol International Airport. We can travel to meetings if required.
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Independent approach
We are an independent professional law firm here, not a legal factory turning out mass-produced products. In our experience, determined case-handling is more likely to produce effective results.
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Turnaround time
Solicitors at Humphreys & Co. look to input not only
careful legal work and precision but also the determination
to keep matters moving. They aim to work in clients' real
interests with energy and pragmatism.
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Communication skills
Solicitors at Humphreys & Co. always try to open up the
legal process by giving advice and explaining options to
clients in a concise and straightforward way, identifying
clear courses of action whatever the technical or legal
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