Entrepreneurs and Startups

Herrington Carmichael’s Corporate Team provides a full range of corporate advisory and legal services in relation to the ownership, growth and structure of your business.

We have a specialist team of solicitors who have a wealth of experience in advising companies and business owners on a full range of business ownership matters. We offer expert advice to entrepreneurs at every stage of the business life cycle with services ranging from advising on suitable business structures to set up your business to advising on the process and options available to exit or sell your company.

Our Services:

• Structuring your business
• Partnerships and LLPs
• Joint Ventures
• Shareholder Agreements
• Exits

Our Commercial Contract Lawyers regularly negotiate and provide expert legal opinions on complex commercial agreements, agency & distribution agreements, outsourcing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, manufacturing agreements, IT & Technology contracts, and managed services agreements, to name a few.

• Business contracts
• Competition Law
• Confidentiality & non-disclosure agreements
• Consumer Contracts
• Software & IT contracts
• Managed Service Agreements
• Supply of goods, manufacturing, distribution and agency contracts
• International Contracts
• Outsourced Legal Solutions
• E-commerce
• FinTech
• Cosmetic Regulatory Agreements

Our Debt Recovery specialists have in-depth knowledge across a range of sectors. We use innovative ways to recover debts and market-leading case management. Clients recommend us for our approachability, range of options, service excellence and significant cost reductions.

Our Employment team has extensive experience advising well-known businesses in the leisure and hospitality sector, including hotels, restaurant groups, luxury travel companies, and leisure providers.

We work closely with leading hospitality organisations, including HR in Hospitality and Pride of Britain. Our leisure and hospitality specialists frequently speak at industry events and conferences, sharing insights on key legal challenges and developments in the sector.

Recent work:

1. Successfully represented a well-known restaurant chain in defending a complex sexual harassment claim.
2. Advising an international cruise line on various matters, including a complex restructure involving TUPE.
3. Advised a well-known global household name restaurant group on developing and refining its workplace policies and procedures.
4. Provided tailored training on employment law updates affecting the hospitality sector, to both management and board level teams for a number of high-end luxury hotels.