The Company/Commercial Department at Steele Raymond LLP consists of six fee earners and their support staff and provides a wide range of corporate and commercial law services. Many of the solicitors in the Department have experience of working in the City of London or other regional centres and the ethos of the Department is to provide specialist legal services of the highest calibre to its commercial clients.
The services provided by the Department include: - corporate formations, reorganisations and secretarial work
- shareholder and partnership agreements and joint ventures
- company and business sales and purchases
- management buy outs and buy ins
- venture capital and corporate finance work
- e-business start-ups
- commercial contracts, distributorship and agency contracts, IT contracts
- general insolvency law advice and transactions
- employment law work: contracts and employee benefits
- intellectual property work: trade mark, patent and copyright licences and agreements, merchandising and publishing agreements
- franchising agreements
In the course of acting for a wide range of clients, the Department has built up specialisms in various areas of law, including competition law, education and professional practices. A significant amount of the work has an overseas element so that we frequently work with overseas jurisdictions and lawyers based in those jurisdictions.
Recommended as joint leading practice for Corporate and Commercial in Dorset & South Wilts.
At Steele Raymond LLP, Paul Longland leads a dedicated three-partner team that also includes founding partner David Steele . It typically acts for local SMEs on transactions in the £1m-10m range, and recently advised the founder shareholders of Bighead Bond Fasteners on its sale to the management team.
Source: The Legal 500 2007 an independent guide to the legal profession.
The Firm: According to market commentators, this is a firm that "carries a lot of clout" in the Bournemouth market. The three-partner group has experience in both commercial and corporate transactions representing clients in the SME bracket. Having represented Hotel Du Vin since its inception, it is a major coup for the firm to be instructed on its £66.4 million sale to Marylebone Warwick Balfour. Other highlights include winning The Bournemouth & Poole College as a new client following a competitive tender. The group will be advising the college on contractual and commercial work.
The Lawyers: Head of Company Commercial is Paul Longland. The founder of the firm, David Steele, is also on hand to provide corporate and commercial advice.
Clients/Work Highlights: The clientele is drawn largely from local businesses.
Source: Chambers & Partners Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2006.
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