At Freeman Johnson, we can offer our business and commercial clients a comprehensive legal service with our varied expertise, experience in-house, and our long-established local contacts with outside specialists. Many local businesses come to us for all their legal requirements.

Commercial Property

Whether you are acquiring, disposing of, or leasing land and premises to meet your changing business needs, or investing in and developing property, we can provide the legal services you need, including:

• Commercial conveyancing
• Negotiating and drafting business and residential leases
• Planning law issues – development and changes of use
• Environmental issues

Business Litigation and Employee Relations

It’s to everyone’s benefit to do business amicably, but it doesn’t always work like that. We can help resolve your business disputes, whether with customers, suppliers or contractors, employees, partners or co-directors and shareholders, and will always use our experience to achieve the most speedy and economical solution possible – most of your problems should not have to go to a court or tribunal. We can also prepare contracts of employment and compromise agreements with your employees to avoid future disputes on terms and conditions.

Business Ventures and Company Law

We know that your first concern is to concentrate on developing your business, not on red tape and legal technicality – but you need the right framework. We can help you find the structures that fit your business, both at the outset and as new needs arise. Our services include:

• Advice on buying and selling businesses
• Sole trader, partnership, limited company or limited liability partnership – guiding you through the options
• Drawing up partnership and shareholders’ agreements and directors’ service contracts – looking after your interests when you go into business with others
• Helping you understand your duties as a director or company secretary

Licensing

At Freeman Johnson we have well-established relationships with many clients in the licensed trade, whom we regularly represent before the Justices. We may be able to act in your licensing matter for a fixed fee – please feel free to discuss this if interested. We can advise and represent on:

• Liquor licensing for all types of premises
• Advice on sale and purchase of licensed businesses in conjunction with our Property specialists
• Gaming and amusements licensing, both for the leisure industry and for fund-raising lotteries promoted by charities