Our International Strategy

Release Date: 13/02/2008

As we find ourselves increasingly operating in a global market, we are constantly developing ways of supporting our client’s international trade requirements, and we have actively sought associations with intermediaries and other professional service firms overseas. We now have good working relationships with a number of professional firms outside the UK, and are a member of Eurojuris which is a leading network of law firms in Europe. Click here to visit the Eurojuris website.

We will shortly be announcing more precise details of our overseas network in South East Asia.

We believe that through developing associations with likeminded firms, we can offer you greater peace of mind that you will get the quality and type of service individuals and businesses deserve. We have relationships with the people you will be dealing with and we have taken the time to ensure that we can work together to provide a seamless service.

Inward investment
We can help businesses wanting to set up in the UK. There are many issues to consider such as choosing the right legal structure for your business, choosing the right name, rules relating to selling goods and services, supplier contracts, buying or renting premises, employment issues, protecting your intellectual property, immigration law advice and much more.

International trade
We can help businesses wanting to trade overseas by linking up with advisors in our network of associated intermediaries and other professional service firms. Again there are many issues to consider such as supply, distribution and agency agreements, internet and e-commerce and anti-trust and competition law.

Our work
Examples of our international work and experience include:

• Acting for a UK pharmaceutical supply company in its disposal to a US health care business
  Acting for a UK paper maker in acquisition of a paper mill and converting plan in Sweden
  
• Advising a Russian bank on the formation of internet payment systems for its UK subsidiary
  
• Acting for a Japanese company on the acquisition on the acquisition of an electrical lighting manufacturer
  
• Providing advice on business structures to a jewellery design and manufacturing company based in Thailand
  
• Acting for a UK company which undertakes online payment processing and which is entering a proposed contract with a Lebanese supplier
  
• Advising on the establishment of a UK trading subsidiary for a family owned metal forging company based in India
  
• Advising a South Indian company on its proposed bid for the acquisition of a manufacturing plant in the UK
  
• Advising on the structure and foundation of a joint venture company for outsourcing data processing services in India