Commercial & Contracts Law

Are you entering into a new business agreement, facing a contract dispute, or unsure if your contract fully protects you?

Whether you are negotiating a high-value supplier agreement, managing shareholder disputes, or responding to a breach of contract, DBN’s specialist barristers provide clear, commercially realistic advice to protect your position and reduce risk.

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How DBN can help:

Our barristers are regularly instructed by both start-ups and established companies and are experienced across all aspects of business, company and commercial law, including:

  • Company formation

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Franchising

  • Personal and company insolvency

  • Commercial agreements

  • Breach of Contract & Dispute Resolution

  • Shareholder & Partnership Disputes

  • Business Transactions & Risk Management

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Whether you need a new contract drafted, advice on a commercial agreement, or assistance resolving a dispute, our experienced commercial law barrister are here to help.

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Commercial & Contracts Law FAQs

  • Verbal agreements can still be legally binding. However, it’s usually much safer to put the agreement in writing.

    A written contract clearly sets out what everyone agreed to and can be used as proof if there is a dispute later on.

    In some cases, if there is no written contract, a court may look at how the people involved behaved after making the agreement to help work out what the terms were.

    It’s also important to know that in certain situations, the law requires a contract to be in writing, especially where registration or formal legal requirements are involved.

  • A legally binding contract requires offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, and certainty of terms.

  • Bankruptcy is a process whereby an Insolvency Practitioner (an individual authorised to carry out such work) collects whatever assets an insolvent person owns and uses them to pay whatever is possible to the persons who are owed money by the insolvent person (the bankrupt).

    The bankrupt is protected from claims being made by the persons he/she owes money to.

  • A statutory demand is a written demand from a creditor for the repayment of an outstanding debt. It indicates that the creditor will begin formal insolvency proceedings against you if you do not respond or pay the money, they believe you owe.

    A statutory demand is the precursor to a winding-up petition. This will force the closure of your business and therefore commences the start of the liquidation process.

    You can apply to ‘set aside’ a demand if you think that it is incorrect.

  • Seek legal advice promptly. You may be entitled to damages, specific performance, or termination rights depending on the circumstances.