Category: Commercial Law

If you own or manage a business that uses commercial contracts as part of its operations, then we hope that before implementing those contracts, you sought the advice of commercial lawyers.

If you did not, then there is the possibility that because the contracts were not checked by a legal expert that they could include unfair terms.

Unfair contract terms are those terms and clauses within a contract that could be deemed to be unfair at best, potentially void, and almost undoubtedly unenforceable if you were to refer to or rely on them should any legal dispute arise between your business and a customer or client.

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If you are selling a business the complexities of transaction and the legalities that have to be observed means that it almost certainly going to be essential that you have experts to advise on the sale to ensure it completes correctly.

The last thing you need is to try and save the cost of a lawyer only to find out you are even more out of pocket because the sale was not conducted properly and falls through.

A commercial lawyer is the person who will handle what some refer to as ‘dotting the ‘i’s and crossing the ‘t’s’ although that unfairly underplays the importance of the role that they have. In effect, they will ensure that everything within the sale agreement is complete, accurate, and most importantly valid in terms of the sale proceeding.

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