If you are looking for business legal advice, Setfords Solicitors has a dedicated team of lawyers offering a comprehensive range of business legal services to help you run your business as efficiently as possible.

Whether you’re buying, selling or leasing commercial property, need employment or contractual advice, need assistance with your debt collection or you are looking to buy or sell a business and/or its assets we have business lawyers with extensive experience here to help you.

Our lawyers can also assist with a wide range of business immigration matters for the UK for multinational corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups both based locally and overseas in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

We can help you with

Banking & Asset Finance

Recovery of unsecured facilities and shortfalls, enforcement of charges over commercial and residential properties, enforcement of guarantees, delivery up orders, drafting precedent standard form documents, enforcement options, innocent purchaser guidance, storage charge claims

Business Law

Start a new business, buying and selling businesses, trading commercial and contractual matters

Commercial Property

Buying and selling, property development and construction, rent arrears, dilapidations, breach of covenant, site acquisition and plot sales, new homes and site set-up including management company formation, planning agreements, option, pre-emption and overage agreements, commercial landlord and tenant, rent reviews, granting, assigning and terminating commercial leases, property portfolio and management services, mortgages and securities, corporate support and property funds, environmental law

Business Immigration

We offer a high level of specialist expertise in all types of business immigration matters for corporate clients covering a range of industries including engineering, financial services, healthcare, insurance, media, oil and gas, real estate, sports, technology and telecommunications both in the UK and across the world.

Debt Recovery

Pre-litigation collections, letters before action, county court action, enforcement of judgments, insolvency proceedings, disputed and defended actions, service charge arrears

Dispute Resolution

Property disputes, insolvency, professional negligence, contract disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, education disputes, compliance and regulatory law

Employment Law

Employment documentation, disciplinary grievance and capability issues, termination of employment and settlement agreements, discrimination, redundancies and restructure, employment tribunal proceedings, restrictive covenants and restraint of trade, training

Landlord and Tenant

Forfeiture proceedings, lease disputes, dilapidations, disputed lease renewals or terminations, right to manage claims (including defending RTM claims against leaseholders), LVT proceedings

Real Estate

Development, finance, investment, joint venture, landlord and tenant, projects, public sector

Serious Fraud

Setfords’ Serious Fraud team provide clients with total support and a 24/7 service throughout the country on complex cases and serious fraud matters.

Licensing

Premises licence, highways licence, wedding licence, live and recorded music, temporary event notices, commercial lease/due diligence, registered clubs, when things go wrong.

Planning Law

Setfords’ planning team provides their clients with a comprehensive and highly skilled service by lawyers with extensive experience in the public and private sector.

Travel and Leisure

Our experienced and highly respected lawyers work with tour, flight, cruise, and leisure operators and agents on every aspect of their business.

Marine

Providing expertise in Marine Insurance, Legal Risk and Regulatory Matters and land developments in Ports, Harbours and Marinas.

Intellectual property

Intellectual Property comprises the tangible products of the mind be that a design, song, manuscript, brand, logo, or invention, to name but a few.

Insolvency and Restructuring

Our specialist consultants at Setfords Solicitors have substantial experience of insolvency, corporate recovery and restructuring in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Charity Law

At Setfords, our consultant solicitors pride themselves in their ability to provide practical and efficient solutions to issues experienced by their charity client, drawing on their charity law expertise and experience the environment in which charities operate.

Church Law

At Setfords, our charity law team also has experience with working with the unique and sensitive issues involved with ecclesiastical law. Our approach is personal, responsive and practical. In line with those values, we take time to consider the specific circumstances of the matter, helping you attain the goals that matter to you.

Telecommunications Law

The telecommunications industry is evolving; the transformation is rapid, bold and permanent. To keep up, your business needs to assess the challenges and opportunities raised by next-generation networks that offer further improved network performance, reliability, higher capacity, new business models and innovative services.