Commercial Contracts for UK Companies: Formation to Exit

The book provides a lay reader whose business may not be large enough to employ full-time in-house counsel with an introductory and authoritative resource enabling meaningful engagement with external lawyers during the business life-cycle. It helps those running businesses to recognise legal and compliance issues at an earlier stage and to enrich the level of discourse between the business and its advisers.

Covering topics including commercial transactions, drafting issues, analysis on the choice of business vehicle, the relationship between collaborating entrepreneurs/joint venturers, guidance on the protection and exploitation of IP rights and other business assets, the book illustrates the business life-cycle through annotated precedents of legal documents (e.g. incorporation documents, transactional agreements etc.) providing clause-by clause commentary and analysing the purpose and operation of those documents.

The purpose of the book is not to replace the legal adviser, but to assist directors when negotiating deal terms and to recognise common contractual pitfalls and areas of risk.

Marc Samuels is a barrister with 36 Group. He has a wide-ranging commercial practice which focuses on high value and complex disputes.

Marc has advised some of the world’s largest corporations and financial institutions. Clients that he has worked with include global banks, private equity houses and buy-side investors, UK and international companies, public authorities, a major U.S. airline, and the investment arm of an overseas government. His expertise in commercial law is founded on time spent practising in London with leading New York law firms Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He has also been an in-house advisor to Lloyds Banking Group (Commercial Banking).

Marc’s experience covers litigation and international arbitration at all stages. His practice encompasses all forms of contractual dispute, including joint venture, shareholder and warranty claims, as well as banking and financial services disputes. He also handles civil fraud, asset tracing and recovery claims, and corporate and personal insolvency.