Corporate and Commercial Law
Corporate and Commercial Law practice offers a wealth of experience and knowledge in the areas of Corporate and Commercial Law.
Thw Lawyers firms provide an advice to a varied client base from large publicly listed national and multinational corporations to local small to medium-sized enterprises on a wide range of corporate and commercial legal matters, including corporate advisory, commercial and corporate governance and compliance matters.
Commercial
Those lawyers provide responsive, clear and strategic commercial advice delivered in a way that can efficiently be used within your business. And focus on commercial solutions which protect you against key risks and deliver you the agreed outcome. In our list of lawyers firms can advise you on a wide range of commercial matters, including in relation to:- Sale - businesses and assets.
- Purchase - businesses and assets.
- Commercial credit arrangements.
- Supply of goods and services - terms and conditions of trade.
- Reseller arrangements.
- Contracting and outsourcing.
- Franchising.
- Supply and distributorship arrangements
- Loans documents.
- Security documents.
- Leasing of commercial property.
- Sale of commercial property and leasing.
- Confidentiality agreements
- Intellectual property - ownership, licensing and development.
- Internet and e-commerce law - licensing, reseller, agency.
- Trade practices law - misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Consumer protection.
- Anti-competitive and unfair market practices.
- Products - safety and liability.
- Compliance programs and polices.
- Company formation, reconstruction.
- Joint ventures.
- Partnerships and shareholders agreements.
- Mergers and acquisitions.
- Foreign investments.
- Due diligence.
- Privacy and spam laws.
- Drafting and negotiation of contracts.
- General commercial advice.
- Commercial dispute resolution and litigation.
- Debt recovery.
It is often considered to be a branch of civil law and deals both with issues of private law and public law.
Commercial law includes within its compass such titles as:
- Principal and agent.
- Carriage by land and sea.
- Merchant shipping.
- Guarantee.
- Marine.
- Fire.
- Life and accident insurance.
- Bills of exchange and partnership.
Many countries have adopted civil codes which contain comprehensive statements of their commercial law.
In the United States, commercial law is the province of both the United States Congress under its power to regulate interstate commerce and the states under their police power.
Efforts have been made to create a unified body of commercial law in the US; the most successful of these attempts has resulted in the general adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Various regulatory schemes control how commerce is conducted. Privacy laws, safety laws (i.e. the Occupational Safety and Health Act in the United States), food and drug laws are some examples.