The founder of an engineering firm on an industrial estate in Erith is seventy, his daughter runs the shop floor, his son wants to sell, and nothing is written down. That is the commonest shape of business law in Bexley, a borough whose economy rests on family companies in manufacturing, haulage, building supplies, food production and the trades, many of them in their second or third generation. A business law solicitor in Bexley will draft the shareholder agreement that should have existed for thirty years, plan the succession or the sale, deal with the lease or freehold of the premises, and keep the family's business and private affairs from colliding in court.
Day to day, the work is the practical law of small firms: setting up companies and partnerships, terms and conditions that actually get paid, supplier and customer contracts, leases of industrial units in Erith, Belvedere and Crayford and of shops on Bexleyheath Broadway and Sidcup High Street, licensing for pubs and restaurants, and the regulatory questions, from waste to vehicle operator licences, that come with logistics and manufacturing on the riverside. The hundreds of businesses run from homes across the borough need the same documents on a smaller scale.
Disputes over unpaid invoices and broken contracts go to the county court, with larger claims to the Business and Property Courts in central London; most settle. Debt recovery is a steady trade, and insolvency advice is given early by the better firms when a customer's failure threatens to take a supplier down with it.
Company formation, standard contracts and lease work are usually fixed-fee; negotiation and litigation are hourly.
Business law firms serving Bexley are listed below, verified first. See the guides to business law, corporate law and debt and bankruptcy, the general business law solicitors page, and employment law solicitors in Bexley for staffing questions.
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