Commercial Contracts
Properly drafted and robust commercial contracts are an essential part of any successful business. Not only do they regulate business relationships and encourage compliance, they discourage disputes. When disputes do arise, they can protect your contractual positon and ultimately reduce the costs usually associated with non-compliance.
Our commercial contracts team advise a wide spectrum of clients ranging from start-up companies, to financial institutions to national and international household names. They rely on us because we take the time necessary to understand their business, their needs and their market place; and then apply that understanding in structuring commercial agreements that are exactly right for them.
Whilst our commercial contracts lawyers have the skill set to draft commercial contracts of virtually any kind, we frequently advise on commercial contracts relating to marketing, advertising, sponsorship, agency, franchising, supply of goods and services and distribution.
We also have specific expertise in drafting commercial contracts for clients operating in the technology, gaming, media, sport, healthcare, transport and information management sectors.
We take pride in providing practical and commercial orientated advice to our clients that helps them achieve their business objectives in an efficient and pragmatic way.
Representative Commercial Contracts Work
Examples of our team’s commercial contracts work include:
- Advised a listed document storage and facilities company in connection with numerous commercial contracts including contracts relating to outsourcing, data protection and privacy issues, data management services and service levels.
- Advised a national fertility programme provider in connection with the drafting and negotiation of service agreements with numerous fertility clinics in the UK.
- Advised a Middle-Eastern company in connection with an agency and consultancy agreement relating to several major infrastructure projects in Iraq.
- Advised a large UK telecoms provider in connection with a variety of marketing agreements being entering into with agencies.
- Advised a subsidiary of a listed company in connection with marine and air transport agreements, as well as a customs broker services agreement.
- Advised a UK company in connection with supply, distribution and licence agreements relating to its distribution of products in Europe and Africa on behalf of a US manufacturer.
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Biography
Kelly is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with broad transactional expertise in a wide range of sectors. Kelly provides advice on all aspects of private company mergers, acquisitions, investments and disposals acting for both buyers and sellers and has experience in working in, amongst others, the transport, property investment and management, media and advertising, manufacturing and health care sectors.
Kelly also handles certain financing arrangements, including debt/equity conversions, convertible loan note and invoice discount financing and advises on a broad spectrum of commercial contracts, including complex manufacturing and distribution agreements, white label licensing agreements, shareholders’ agreements and limited liability partnership arrangements.
Another area of Kelly’s expertise is employee benefits, in particular share schemes (both HMRC approved and unapproved schemes) where she has spent much time developing this area of practice around the concept of using an analytical approach to create effective business solutions for clients that genuinely contribute to improved performance across their business. Together with the rest of the employment team, Kelly works with our clients to fund cost reductions, ways to improve motivation and performance and attain staff retention targets through arrangements such as share option schemes, flexible working and salary sacrifice schemes.
Kelly is listed as a key lawyer in the Legal 500 2021 rankings and a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 2024 and 2025 rankings.
Year qualified
Solicitor, 2003
Representative Experience
Kelly has:
- acted as one of the lead advisors on the acquisition by Metroline Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of ComfortDelGro Corporation) of 31 bus routes operated from five separate bus depots in West London from First Group plc for a consideration of £57.5 million
- advised on a complex joint venture arrangement between two significant healthcare providers collaborating to provide comprehensive specialist treatments to patients at single geographical locations
- acted as the lead corporate advisor on a complex restructuring and refinancing of an extensive London based property holding and management business for a family owned and managed enterprise
- acted for the trustees of a significant London based property portfolio on its restructuring from a trust arrangement into a limited liability partnership structure
- advised on the sale of a corporate entity operating a central London based hotel
- acted on the investment into a successful South Kensington based patisserie venture
Kelly also leads our Corporate Social Responsibility team which is comprised of people from all aspects of the firm creating an enthusiastic and imaginative team of people that are passionate about making a difference in the community. Kelly and the CSR team have been involved in baking cakes, rowing dragon boats and painting walls to name just a few of the activities that the firm has been involved with recently.
