Services for Business

We offer a wide range of agency and distribution law services, including:

• Drafting and reviewing agency and distribution agreements: We can help you draft or review agency and distribution agreements to ensure that they meet your specific needs and comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Resolving disputes: We can help you resolve disputes with your agent or distributor, including through mediation, arbitration, or litigation.
• Enforcing your rights: We can help you enforce your rights under your agency or distribution agreement, including by seeking damages or injunctive relief.
• Intellectual property protection: We can help you protect your intellectual property rights, such as trademarks, copyrights, and patents, in relation to your agency or distribution business.
• Regulatory compliance: We can help you comply with all applicable laws and regulations governing agency and distribution law, including the Competition Act 1998 and the Sale of Goods Act 1979.

Agreements are inevitable to do business and it is important that one is protected adequately and aware of their rights and obligations.

From rules on transfer of title and risk, to insurance obligations, damages provisions and jurisdiction clauses, it is important that a contract is able to continue to operate even when the unexpected happens, in order to achieve your commercial aims, therefore it is essential that professional advice is sought to deal with drafting and interpreting your contracts.

We offer a wide range of lending and security services, including:

• Drafting and reviewing lending agreements: We can help you draft or review lending agreements, such as loan agreements, credit agreements, and security agreements, to ensure that they meet your specific needs and comply with all applicable laws and regulations
• Taking security: We can help you take security over assets, such as property, equipment, and intellectual property, to protect your loan or investment.
• Bridging and Facility Agreements
• Quasi-Security: Advising on alternative methods of security depending on the circumstances such as protection through contractual provisions, retention of title and third party guarantees

Should a dispute arise, Ai Law are experienced in handling contentious matters. Often, business disputes require a pragmatic approach to achieve swift results that protect your commercial interests with the least disruption to business. Where a resolution cannot be found our litigation team are able to represent your interest and present your case in a strategic and clinical way.

Carrying on business online poses its own risks. In a global marketplace it is important to be aware of and protected from the laws and regulations of each jurisdiction in which you do business.

It is important to ensure you and your customers are sufficiently protected online when doing business.

• Terms of business
• GDPR and data protection
• Privacy
• E-commerce
• Drop shipping and logistics
• Service level agreements and media agency agreements
• SEO and digital marketing agreements
• Policies
• IP copyright and trademark infringement
• Defamation and libel on social media
• Cease and desist
• Cross-border issues
• Distance selling and implied terms

Trademarks are identifying signs for a business to denote quality and differentiate its products from those of another. It captures the business’s brand and builds recognition and goodwill.

We advise businesses on their trademarks, including offering our tailored Trademark Application Services.

We also advise on all aspects of IP rights, including infringement, creation, protection and enforcement.

Setting up a new business? We advise on all aspects involving:

• Start ups and company registration
• Structuring and advising on appropriate forms of entities
• Drafting of Articles of Association
• Shareholder agreements
• Joint Ventures
• Board Meetings and Minutes (and chairing)
• Terms and Conditions

Sound corporate governance is the backbone of responsible business practices. We will help you establish governance frameworks, policies, and procedures that align with your objectives and keep you in compliance with the latest legal and regulatory standards. 

• Restructuring
• Articles of association
• Taking security
• Joint ventures
• Shareholder agreements
• Affiliation and collaboration agreements
• Directors’ duties and service agreements
• Employee share schemes
• Employee incentives and workplace benefits
• Company policies

We advise businesses on their trademarks, including offering our tailored Trademark Application Services.

How our Trademark Application Service Works:

We are able to carry out a preliminary review of your proposed Trademark. We also offer the assurance application service for which you will be eligible to a 50% fee reduction if the Trademark is not acceptable to the UK Intellectual Property Office.

We always advise that you instruct us to carry out a search of trademark registers in UK and EU. If you would like us to do this before proceeding to apply for your trademark registration, please let us know.

The process to register your TM will be as follows:

• You tell us the TM you want to have registered and for what services and in what location.
• We shall review your TM and tell you what classes you can register in.
• If you would like us to carry out a search for existing similar trademarks, for a view on whether there is risk of opposition, we shall do this.
• We shall apply to register your TM.
• We shall keep you updated on the process and on any objections or potential oppositions to your TM.
• Finally we shall send you your TM registration certificate.