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Joint Ventures and Partnerships
Setting them up, varying them and bringing them to a close. Employment
Employment Contracts, Directors' Service Contracts, Unfair & Wrongful dismissal, Senior executive severance , Restrictive covenants.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR )
Licensing and Enforcement of EU and UK IPR, technology transfer agreements and legal implications of trading on the internet.
Doing Business Abroad
We advise UK client doing business abroad, in conjunction with local lawyers, and advise non-UK clients doing business in the UK , in conjunction with their home-state lawyers.
Commercial Litigation
We do some commercial litigation for established clients but not a great volume.
Requirements
It is not required that the successful candidate is highly skilled and highly experienced in all these areas of law. Support will be given to enhance legal and professional skills.
The major portion of work is in Business Transfers, Commercial Property and Commercial Contracts. It would be preferred that the successful candidate had some solid experience in these fields.
Two particular qualities are sought:
- Ability to create a tailor made document where there is no ready made precedent, and thinking “out of the box”.
- Ability to negotiate business contracts and commercial solutions with the other side, in a practical and commercial way, without losing sight of the legalities.
We do not cover residential conveyancing unless as a special favour for eg. a major client's Managing Director. We do not cover at all any financial services (unless purely ancillary to mergers and acquisitions) or divorce & family, or crime.
Temple & Co's purpose is to provide clear, positive, commercial, high quality and constructive legal advice to businesses at a competitive cost, which is responsive to the clients' needs and fulfils their objectives. There is frequently a high adrenalin factor in these matters, which can involve tense negotiations, complicated issues of law and critical time scales in fast-changing circumstances. Clients must have ready access to creative and practical legal advice in a commercial context. |