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Maximising opportunities and minimising risks

Whether or not your company has an in-house legal function, running a business today presents many complex challenges.

Our commercial offerings provide support for day-to-day matters and contractual advice that underpins business operations. Bringing in trusted experts lets your team focus on strategically driving your business forwards where their focus is needed. In addition, we are able to empower your business by creating templates that help to streamline contractual arrangements.

On a more advisory level our experts can help with brand reputation management by offering risk based commercial advice or input on more strategic goals. This work might include advice on consolidation and how to drive efficiencies and cost savings within supply chains or providing input on how you can grow your business through strategic investment in infrastructure to maximise profit.

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Commercial Contracts

Our commercial contracts team provide support with a broad range of contractual matters, from day to day operational agreements to high value, complex, business critical relationships.

We provide risk based, practical advice for businesses across all of our firm’s key sectors, always seeking to understand our client’s goals and objectives and tailoring our advice accordingly.

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Data, Privacy & Information Security

Business strategy continues to be shaped and transformed by data and technology.

We know that technology and data are at the very heart of the way that businesses interact with customers, develop products, manage staff and position themselves in the market.

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Technology

The rate at which new technology is developed and becomes mainstream is exponential.

Simply maintaining the status quo is challenging for both customers and providers of technology alike and being innovative and entrepreneurial requires incredible foresight; an agile and adaptive approach and an in-depth understanding as to the way technology can be used to solve corporate issues, create opportunities and improve efficiencies.

The impact therefore on businesses is unprecedented and rapid and can create a variety of complicated commercial, legal and regulatory aspects to explore and overcome.

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Employment

Having the right people in the right place, displaying the right behaviours through the right processes can be just as hard as it sounds.

Our experienced team of experts are able to provide you with timely, commercial advice for day-to-day advice to project support.

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General Counsel Services

Life as a General Counsel can be tough – balancing dealing with a wide range if proactive and reactive legal issues and risk management on behalf of your organisation, while also dealing with the operational side of the role such as running a team, supplier management, systems, processes and technology.

Our General Counsel services model takes a unique approach to working with you and helping you to address these challenges.

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Intellectual Property

Every business, from start-ups. through to international business giants, has intellectual property rights.

At Foot Anstey, our expert lawyers have a holistic approach to helping you manage your intellectual property.

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Procurement

Public bodies are under increasing pricing pressure to procure smartly and in a cost-effective manner.

Our team of expert lawyers can operate on both sides of the procurement process, for contracting authorities and for bidding parties.

 

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Projects, Infrastructure & Construction

All business ventures and activities are risky but none more so than in the fields of major projects, infrastructure and construction.

We get to know you, inside and out, so together we can assess, manage and navigate the path through risk to success.

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Reputation Management

Your brand and reputation is one of your most important assets and needs to be protected.

Our expert team can provide you with the best possible response to any reputation management scenario you face.

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Why choose Foot Anstey?

At Foot Anstey, we think it’s important that we genuinely get to know our clients’ businesses – that’s how we can deliver value that goes beyond just the monetary.  Getting to know you and collaborating with you allows us to understand the culture and ethos of your organisation and enables us to deliver tailored advice.

We know that every client’s strategy and risk appetite is different. Working in partnership with you enables us to deliver actionable and commercial advice which places an emphasis on operational and practical value that fits with your business goals.

We also place importance on getting to know you on a personal level. Though it sounds straightforward, we realise our clients like to actually see their lawyers and many of our lawyers have spent a considerable amount of time working in-house on secondment with public and private sector clients. Being on site gives us a first-hand view of your business needs and enables us to spot issues before they arise.

Our People

With one of the largest commercial teams outside of London, we bring together specialist units working in financial services, IT and outsourcing, public sector procurement, intellectual property, brand and data protection, projects and facilities management, consumer law and regulatory services. Our deep sector specialisms enable us to share trends and market themes with our clients and add value to our genuinely advisory service and practical and technical excellence.

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What do our clients say?

“Great practice full of high quality individuals and a real sense of team support – they understand our business and are available to step in when needed with smart, commercial and high quality advice. Very highly recommend.”

Legal 500 2024

“Very responsive, commercial, and provide excellent advice, giving our business exactly what it needs. The team is well set up, and the right level lawyer takes care of us depending on the request. Real quality in depth.”

Legal 500 2024

“A fantastic team producing City quality work in the South West. Punch well above their weight, and have a very transparent approach to fees. Everyone that I have dealt with has been responsive, clear and commercial.”

Legal 500 2023

“The team brings practical and actionable advice in a concise form, which we really appreciate. They are dependable and always happy to support adjusting to our needs and budget constraints.”

Legal 500 2023

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