No Ordinary Achievements

Blue Edge Software Limited - fast growing (and then sold) software company - creation of licensing and distribution / reseller structure; creating directors’ service agreements, bonus scheme, employee contracts; advising on ownership and alleged breach of Intellectual Property Rights; advising on applicability of restrictive covenants in recruiting within industry; preparing company for share sale and co-ordinating advisers in relation to sale, seeing multimillion dollar sale through in short timescale.

South Yorkshire food manufacturer - with substantial property interests. Have acted for this company for approx 15 years during substantial growth, particularly advising in relation to development of spreading industrial estate and retail facility; advising on employment matters and corporate matters; advice in relation to acquisition and sale mechanisms; advice to directors on their private affairs including wills; shareholders agreements.

North-east Based Household Wares Distributor - advising on and preparing agency agreements for company’s own clients; drafting agreements for joint development of new products with overseas manufacturers; preparing employment contracts and advising on employment issues; reorganisation of company structure with a view to potential partial or entire share sale

Major National DIY Chain - emergency advice on alleged trading standards breach on website sales - restructured and redrafted website terms in niche advice area.

Major Importers of Nurseryware - advising on and drafting distributors’ agreements for distributors in the Far East and elsewhere where company sources and has manufactured items for use in children’s’ nurseries; dealing with alternative means of payment and delivery; advising on manufacturing agreements; drafting bonds to secure company’s borrowings; acting in relation of breach of registered design rights.

Living Care Group - growing chain of healthcare and pharmacy centres - shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements, acquisition and disposal of retail and health centre premises and of existing businesses; articles of association; advice on trade mark acquisition and licensing; personal advice to directors; advice on warranty claims; advice on financial assistance issues and dealing with "whitewash" procedure.

Signage And Marketing Company - Relocating of head office, leasing of obsolete premises, acquisition of related business, advice on blocks to development of land; debt recovery; advice to directors on personal assets, wills, retirement from business.

National engineering company - disposal of unwanted subsidiary; acquisition of assets two companies - one from national company, other from initially unrepresented party; both with property complications; advice on consequent unfair dismissal claims

Datacraft Design Limited - software company with international clientele - advice on company formation and shareholders’ agreement; creating of licensing regime and negotiating all licences since 1995. Creation of employment contracts, advice on redundancies, advice to directors; creation of structure for incoming shareholder/investor including new articles, shareholders’ agreements, resolutions and board minutes; reseller agreements in USA and Australia.

National Healthcare Charity - advice on incorporation as company limited by guarantee and application for charitable status; advice on procedure and business structure; protection of intellectual property rights through funding relationships by with universities; employment contracts; advice on website content and contractual arrangements with website and journal contributors

Management buyout of Weedfree Limited - involved in rail vegetation clearance - acted for management team.

Mantic Point Limited - advice in relation to software licensing structure, subsequently in the acquisition of two patents from Rolls Royce plc and acting for Mantic Point Limited and its shareholders in relation to the investment in the company of Rolls Royce plc

EXRM Solutions Limited - acted in outsourcing agreements to supply gym facilities to national educational establishments through a subsidiary, the Management Academy Limited.

Management buy-out of agricultural merchant business – acted for Management Team in the acquisition of the entire share capital, creating share structure for the Management Team and dealing with a number of unusual property issues since the main offices were in a residential block.

 

Dan Dairies (UK) Limited – acted for the shareholders in the sale of the entire share capital for an undisclosed sum to Dairygold Food Ingredients (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of a major Irish dairy co-operative.  Dan Dairies is a leading producer of soft cheeses to the catering ingredients market and has enjoyed levels of success in growth and profitability, highly unusual within the food ingredients market.

 

Sale of a successful plumbers merchants – acted for the partners in a leading local plumbers merchants in the sale to a national PLC chain, incorporating some unusual employment issues arising out of the structure of the sellers’ business.

 

Electronics Company - over a 2 day period carried out a complete restructure of a Company Group to meet banking requirements, including hive-up of assets, transfer of shares to make an affiliated company into a subsidiary, increasing share capital, issuing new shares and all associated Resolutions and Filings.

 

Cartridge World Limited  - acting for them in numerous transactions, in relation to their commercial documentation, property acquisitions, business acquisitions and transfers.

 

Major National Tea & Coffee Brand and associated businesses - acted in relation to this Company's properties, employment and commercial advice, intellectual property rights protection.

Ellis Bates Financial Services - acted for Ellis Bates Holdings Ltd in the acquisition of Harrogate based independent financial advisors Brigham Brining, with the major shareholder of Brigham Brining, David Brigham, becoming the managing director of Ellis Bates Financial Solutions.

 

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