Corporate & Commercial

The Corporate & Commercial Department as DJM is well established and experienced with it’s roots going back to 1946. The team have acted for a wide range of businesses and commercial entities regionally, nationally and internationally.

The dedicated and friendly team, headed by Sheraz Akram, offers a wide range of commercial legal services to its clients in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

We deliver clear and concise legal advice in a commercial context. We find solutions not problems. We pride ourselves on our ability to translate complex legal issues into ‘plain’ English so that our clients can appreciate what the issues are.

DJM’s Corporate and Commercial Team has a wealth of experience in providing legal advice to businesses and individuals on an array of issues. The team is dynamic and entrepreneurial and focuses on the client’s commercial objectives as well as the legal technicalities.

The focus of our highly regarded team is to provide high quality, quick and cost-effective advice on the law to its clients on a solution based approach.

All our clients quite properly expect the best advice at a reasonable cost and our overriding goal as their lawyers of choice is to ensure that we achieve a solution that matches their business needs. It is these values coupled with our team being business-minded that are a key part of our growth and success and it is a measure of the importance we place on our relationship with client that we are constantly complimented for the work we do and the relationships we develop.

Building relationships is a key component in allowing us to get the best results for our clients and we strive to get to know and understand our client and their business.

Within DJM’s Corporate and Commercial Department we have a wealth of experience across numerous sectors and areas of corporate and commercial work, including:

• Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
• Business recovery
• Banking, finance and private equity
• Security arrangements
• Corporate and group reorganisations
• Shareholder, LLP and partnership agreements
• Research and development agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Terms and conditions of trade
• Franchise agreements
• Joint venture arrangements
• All forms of commercial agreements
• Intellectual property rights

Legal 500 describes the Corporate and Commercial team at Douglas-Jones Mercer as “Commercially astute” and that it provides an ‘exemplary level of service’.