Get legal support where your business needs it most.
How Straight Line Legal can support your business
Straight Line Legal offers a number of services designed to help you cut through your legal to do list with minimal fuss.
I know all too well how difficult it can be to manage a business and for many, the legal aspects of running a business are put on the backburner because tackling them feels too messy, time consuming, or simply expensive. But dealing with legal issues early on, before they escalate, is critical and that is why I put so much focus on guiding my clients through essential legal matters with the least amount of fuss and cost to them. You can trust SLL to take on your legal burdens, so you can tick that off your to do list and focus on what you do best!
Have a look below to see what areas SLL can support you with. The examples listed aren’t exhaustive and if you’re not sure whether SLL can help with your legal issue / query, please get in touch.
There are some limited areas that SLL does not advise on including: formal litigation, conveyancing, taxation, or other personal legal matters (such as wills). However, SLL has many trusted partners to refer you to if you need assistance with any of these issues.
What SLL can help you with
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Commercial Contracts.
SLL can review, draft, and advise on all sorts of contracts between your business and other parties, including:
- Client Ts and Cs.
- Supplier/vendor contracts.
- Agency and distribution agreements.
- Franchise agreements.
- Freelance/consultancy agreements.
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Corporate.
SLL offers guidance and support in relation to key corporate matters affecting you and your business, including:
- Investment strategies and documents.
- Articles of Association and shareholder agreements.
- General corporate governance.
- Director’s duties, liabilities, and protections.
- Selecting and operating the right business structure.
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Dispute Resolution.
SLL has experience handling complex disputes and can help you to easily resolve issues without litigation, including:
- Internal shareholder disputes.
- Contract termination disputes.
- Debt and recovery claims.
- Agency commission cases.
- Professional negligence claims.
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Transactional.
SLL can act on your behalf in relation to any large or tricky one off transactions involving your business, including:
- Share sales and purchases.
- Asset sales and purchases.
- Business mergers.
- Business restructures.
- Financing and funding.
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Legal Strategy.
SLL offers a bespoke and holistic advice service for any general business strategy or compliance issues, including:
- Consumer law and e-commerce compliance.
- Data protection and security (including GDPR).
- Legal risk management and high level legal ops.
- Client payment processes and controls.
- Business startup requirements.
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Intellectual Property.
SLL offers practical support in identifying and protecting your IP rights and can assist with various matters, including:
- IP audits and reviews.
- IP licensing agreements.
- Infringement and IP disputes.
- Negotiating co-existence agreements.
- Protection of IP in existing contracts.
Who SLL helps
Typically, SLL’s clients are business owners and company directors in the UK looking to protect their business and avoid messy business disputes. SLL has helped lots of clients in creative, tech, and media industries, but has experience working across various different sectors. Businesses that have been operating for at least 2-3 years tend to get get more benefit from SLL’s services.
SLL also operates a consultancy model for other law firms who need extra support on an ad hoc basis.
“To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box.”
— Jerry Seinfeld.
Let’s Get Started!
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Make an enquiry.
Get in touch using the details on the contact page and we’ll arrange a free initial scoping call. In that call we’ll discuss your legal issues, what SLL can do to help, your options and costs, and what work is involved.
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Sign up.
If you choose to go ahead, SLL will send you a work scope and a fixed fee quote to your email which you can review and accept electronically. This will include full details of your chosen service(s) and SLL’s terms of service.
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Solve your problem!
Once payment is made, we can crack on with the work. SLL usually recommends an initial fixed fee strategy session to brainstorm and agree a legal roadmap to move forwards. The timescales and exact process depends on the agreed work scope.