Commercial

Our specialist commercial lawyers bring clarity and insight to helping our clients structure and manage their business relationships, whether with their customers, suppliers or partners.

Commercial agreements are the life-blood of any organisation's business. From interpreting clauses in an existing contract to drafting and negotiating long-term outsourcing or supply chain agreements, we collaborate with our clients to ensure they achieve their strategic and commercial objectives.

Our team regularly advises on a wide range of agreements, often with an international dimension, including:

Terms of business
Distributorship and agency agreements
Logistics and supply chain contracts
Business process and IT outsourcing
Education joint ventures
Grant agreements
High-tech manufacturing and life sciences contracts

These issues are complex but we prepare agreements in plain English and advice without legalese.

Our experience

We help our clients achieve their strategic and business objectives, whether in the UK or overseas. Recent examples of where we've done this include:

Supporting an OEM in successfully establishing operations in central Europe, including working with the business to put in place a range of key commercial agreements
Helping French kitchens and interior solutions business, Cuisines Schmidt, on the development of its business in the UK by developing a suite of standard dealership agreements
Working with a range of clients on contractual arrangements for the roll-out of smart meters in the UK
Assisting the Department for Education to deliver its flagship technical training policy by putting in place contracts for the provision of T Level qualifications
Working with the British Council on the delivery of a number of key international programmes, including Erasmus+ and the Cultural Protection Fund

Did you know?

£500 million

Annual payments are made through online systems that we helped a major international client to establish.

50,0000

Items are dispatched per week by one of our fulfilment clients, under terms we’ve prepared.

£5 billion

Projected annual spend through NHS Supply Chain under the Future Operating Model, which we helped to create.

Our clients

We work with both start-up and household name clients across a range of sectors. Recently, we've been working with:

Jaguar Land Rover
Department of Health & Social Care
ARM
The British Council
Redgate Software

Our lawyers

Our specialist commercial lawyers bring deep expertise in a range of key sectors, including automotive, manufacturing, education, health,
central government, food and agriculture, charities, technology and life sciences.

What do others say?

“The Mills & Reeve team guided us through the complex negotiation of a major national outsourcing contract. Their expertise and pragmatic advice enabled us to see the discussions through to a successful outcome.”

Client

Central government department

“The team is praised by clients for its 'technical ability' and 'industry knowledge', which is underpinned by its 'strength in depth'.”

Legal 500 2019