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Commercial Contracts

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Specialist commercial contract lawyers

Contracts are an inevitable necessity for any business. Our commercial contract lawyers provide expert legal advice and support across a broad range of contractual matters, from day-to-day operational agreements to high-value, complex, business-critical relationships. With expertise in commercial law, we ensure that our clients have the right contracts in place to protect their business interests.

Our commercial contract lawyers offer 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.

Our services

Our specialist commercial contracts solicitors can help advise on the following:

Our commercial contracts solicitors support clients with drafting and enforcing their standard terms and conditions for both business and consumer relationships.

Our commercial contract lawyers advise on a wide range of supply agreements that underpin the running of a business, acting for both customers and suppliers.

Our commercial contract solicitors draft, review, and negotiate complex, long-term framework agreements, ensuring legally binding contracts for ongoing commercial arrangements.

Our commercial contracts solicitors draft, review, and negotiate agreements for organising and hosting events, as well as supporting documentation for venue and equipment hire.

We help clients establish sponsorship agreements that facilitate revenue-generating marketing activities and brand visibility.

Our commercial contract lawyers advise clients on outsourcing non-core business functions to third-party suppliers, ensuring efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Our commercial contract specialists provide legal support to both franchisors and franchisees in drafting franchise agreements and structuring franchise businesses. Our clients range from start-ups to large multi-national corporations and we tailor our advice to each client’s business, providing practical and relevant advice.

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Why choose Foot Anstey?

At Foot Anstey, our commercial contract lawyers have extensive experience across a range of industries, ensuring that our clients receive the most relevant and effective legal support. We believe in genuinely getting to know our clients’ businesses. This allows us to deliver commercial contract matters advice that goes beyond just the monetary value. Collaborating with our clients helps us understand their culture, risk appetite, and strategic objectives, enabling us to provide tailored commercial law support.

BAU/operational support: We provide various clients with overflow support, working alongside their busy in-house teams to pick up day to day matters so that the in-house team can focus on more complex, strategic work. Through this service we advise on a broad range of legal queries such as reviewing commercial contracts, dealing with licence agreement queries & franchise partner queries and supporting with consumer matters including prize draws, refund policies and ad hoc GDPR queries.

Complex projects: We are engaged by clients to draft, review and negotiate business critical contracts which govern key operational or strategic relationships across their supply chain and/or customer base. We draw on our industry knowledge to advise clients on standard contractual protections, risk sharing and performance management tools in order to ensure they have appropriate legal protection in place for all of their significant relationships.

Whether drafting confidentiality agreements, negotiating commercial agreements, or advising on business contract compliance, our legal team is dedicated to providing first-class support in commercial contract matters.

Our people

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

Many of our commercial contract solicitors have spent considerable time working in-house on secondment, allowing them to build strong interpersonal connections with their clients and gain a deep understanding of business operations.

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What do our clients say?

“Excellent commercial advice tailored to the deal at hand.”

Legal 500 2025

“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

“They know what they are talking about and will not sit on the fence. We like firms that are happy to stick their neck out and give an opinion and face the challenges it may present. We always get that from Foot Anstey”

Legal 500 2023

“The people become part of your team and collaborate completely seamlessly. They have a real talent at getting to know your business, but also your staff on a personal level enabling them to deliver first class service.”

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