Carbon Law Partners

Our lawyers assist clients on a wide range of commercial legal issues, which include:

Agency and distribution agreements
Data protection
Franchising and licensing
General commercial agreements
Joint ventures
Manufacturing
Marketing, advertising and promotional arrangements
Outsourcing
Service level and supply agreements
Terms and conditions of business

It’s quite amazing how much business is done on a handshake or a verbal agreement. That’s all fine until, for example, your supplier doesn’t deliver, or what they provide isn’t up to standard.

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Corporate

Our lawyers assist clients with corporate transactions of all types, which include:

Mergers and acquisitions
Shareholder agreements
Private equity
Management buy outs/buy ins
Corporate financing
Partnerships
Restructuring
Company formation
Company sale and purchase

We support clients on all types of corporate transactions related to setting up a business, business as usual, corporate finance, business and structural change, mergers and acquisitions and business disposals.

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Disputes

Our lawyers work with clients creating strategies to avoid potential disputes or to resolve those that have already arisen. They provide advice on a range of commercial disputes, which include:

Breach of contract/contractual disputes
Commercial fraud
Corporate, shareholder and joint venture disputes
Financial disputes
Injunctions
Insurance disputes
International and UK litigation and arbitration
Landlord and Tenant
Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
Partnership disputes
Professional negligence
Property disputes
Social housing management
Trust and estate litigation

Carbon is great at litigation. But that’s not what makes our clients come back. It’s the help we give them in making sure they don’t repeat their bad experiences.

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Employment

Our lawyers provide advice on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters to a diverse range of clients in a variety of sectors. The range of services include:

Employment contracts and policies
Corporate restructuring and TUPE transfers
Recruitment, terminations and redundancies
Employment tribunal litigation
Industrial relations
Whistleblowing
Discrimination

Employment law is continuously changing, and fast. Just when you think you’re up to speed, a court decision or a government change to laws or regulations really put the cat amongst the pigeons. We monitor these changes closely and assess how they can affect our clients. In other words, we let you know about anything and everything you need to know about – before it happens.

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Health and Safety

Carbon’s expertise and up-to-the-minute knowledge on health and safety law can help you navigate the tricky bits. Our services cover:

Risk assessments
Health and Safety policies
Stress at work
Protecting pregnant team members
Working hours
Young workers
Directors’ health and safety obligations
Drug and alcohol testing
Basic health and safety requirements for new businesses
Health and safety-related dismissals
Lone workers and home workers
Occupational road risk

Employees are your most important assets, so it pays to keep them safe at work. But the legal landscape for health and safety is notoriously complex, and continuously changing.

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Intellectual Property

Our lawyers assist clients with advice on a range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property issues including:

Confidentiality agreements
Infringement of and disputes over copyright, and database and design protection
Domain name disputes
Patent, trademark and copyright licensing
Trademark filing and protection
IP due diligence
Strategic IP advice
IP licensing, ownership and protection

As any entrepreneur knows full well, a business’ real value is what it can sell. Ideas, great. Innovative products or services, great. But unless they’re legally protected, they’re essentially worthless. Our lawyers have experience of working with some of the biggest brands, helping them protect their intellectual assets.

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Planning & Highways

Our partners advise individuals, developers, landowners and local planning and highway authorities. Having worked in house with local planning and highway authorities we don’t just know the law, we give pragmatic, sensible, clear support when dealing with:

Section 106 planning obligations, highway works and other infrastructure agreements
Making planning and related applications
Permitted development rights
Preparing objections to planning applications
Promotion of sites through the development plan process
Enforcement advice
Making/reviewing applications for Certificates of Lawfulness
Waste and Minerals
Listed Buildings and conservation/heritage issues
Highway law
Public rights of way – stopping up, diversions and making/resisting claimed ways
Appeals, judicial review and high court challenges.

PRIVATE CLIENT

Our lawyers provide advice on a wide range of UK and international tax and wealth planning matters, which include:

Tax efficient arrangements for business and family assets
Creation, administration and governance of trusts
Contentious and non-contentious trust matters
Bespoke commercial trust matters for institutional clients

Business owners can often be so busy running their business – or businesses – they neglect their financial needs. So they can end up paying more tax than they need to on business and family assets. Or they lose out because too much of their wealth is tied up in the business.

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Property

Our lawyers work with corporate investors, developers, businesses and individuals providing advice on a range of real estate matters, which include:

Purchase and sale of commercial and residential premises
Corporate transactions
Commercial development
Sustainable housing development
Residential property schemes
Property portfolio management
Lease negotiations
Finance

Every business – even a disruptive, high-tech one – needs somewhere to work. And to grow and thrive, each needs a well-managed property strategy.

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Regulatory

We provide sound advice on the issues which affect your business – even if you haven’t thought of them yet.

We have experience of working with the following regulators:

Financial Conduct Authority
British Dental Association
British Medical Association
Competition and Markets Authority
Charity Commission

And advising and assisting on issues such as:

Consumer Credit Act
Consumer Rights Act
Competition Act
Digital Currency
Consumer Contracts Regulations

Regulation plays an ever-growing and increasingly important role in how companies function. As a result, there’s constant tension between fresh ideas and ticking the right regulatory boxes. As a disruptive business ourselves, Carbon understands your pain.

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Restructuring and Insolvency

Our lawyers provide insolvency practitioners, creditors, businesses and financial institutions with advice on contentious and non-contentious issues relating to restructuring, insolvency, bankruptcy and recovery issues. These include:

Insolvency litigation
Partnership disputes and insolvency
Director disqualifications
Voluntary and compulsory liquidations
Accelerated mergers and acquisitions
Investigations and proceedings related to fraud and misconduct
Intellectual property rights
Debt recovery and advice
Asset tracing and recovery

Restructuring is part of modern business. Especially in the fast-moving, constantly evolving and highly competitive markets our clients work in. And to be successful, restructuring often requires creativity, keeping up with competition, and finding more cost-efficient ways of doing things.

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CARBON.