Commercial Contracts: Recent Matters

• Providing strategic advice and guidance to a leading outsourcing provider in relation to the negotiation of termination arrangements following termination of their contract with a global telecommunications provider.
• Acting for Que Pasa, a digital media business, in relation to their contractual agreement regarding creation and sourcing of content and management of a household-name mobile telephone operator's web and WAP portal.
• Negotiating settlement arrangements and advising on disputes related to multi-million pound compensation claims arising out of the termination of commercial agencies for a major international publisher and a multi-national tobacco manufacturer.
• Drafting and advising upon an EU-funded contract to manage and execute a UK-wide marketing and promotional campaign related to well-known French, Italian and Portuguese foods and alcoholic beverages for a food, drink and lifestyle PR agency.
• Advising on a high-value catering services agreement for a group of modern academic institutions and drafting catering outsourcing arrangements for a multi-national airline catering services business.
• Negotiating and strategizing effective debt recovery settlements and processes for multi-national clients across a number of international jurisdictions as well as the UK.
• Advising Trafficlink, a UK traffic and travel information aggregator, on a variety of commercial contracts linked to the collection and exploitation of its information, including advising on a dispute arising in relation to its high value tender to a governmental agency.
• Advising an enterprise and resource planning services business upon the terms of the master services agreement to be entered into with its clients.
• Advising a driver taking part in the Formula BMW Europe Championship in relation to the terms of his sponsorship agreement with a key sponsor and providing strategic advice to a well-known sports brand on "exit" issues surrounding its kit sponsorship deal with a national sports governing body.
• Advising a variety of high-end intermediaries in relation to their introductory activities and recovery of fees on international funding deals, including providing strategic advice in relation to fiduciary duty issues.
• Drafting, negotiating and enforcing complex joint venture agreements for clients in the natural resources, food manufacture and financial services sectors.
• Drafting and negotiating high-value framework agreements for a funding-provider in relation to the commercialisation of intellectual property realized from academic institutions.
• Advising an international industrial group specialising in the development, manufacture and marketing of electrical systems and supplies on its supply agreements with customers in the UK and Republic of Ireland.