Several times a season Twickenham fills with eighty thousand people, and every pub, café and corner shop between the station and the stadium has a legal question about it: whether a temporary event notice is needed for the car-park bar, how many extra staff can be taken on for the day and on what terms, what the licence says about outdoor drinking, and whether the council's event-day restrictions apply. Business law solicitors in Richmond upon Thames have answered those questions for years; the rugby calendar is licensing, premises and employment law in one afternoon.
The borough's everyday economy is smaller in scale and larger in number. Richmond, Twickenham, Teddington and Barnes have independent shops, restaurants and cafés paying some of the highest rents in outer London, which makes lease negotiation, rent reviews and renewal rights the bread and butter of local commercial practice. Thousands of consultants, contractors, writers and media freelancers run limited companies from home and need advice on IR35, client contracts and what happens when a client does not pay. The film studios at St Margarets, the production companies around them, the laboratory at Teddington and the horticultural businesses around Kew and Hampton add contracts, intellectual property licences and investment agreements. Many residents own or direct larger companies elsewhere and want a local solicitor for a shareholder dispute, a director's duties question or the sale of a business.
Disputes go to the county court or, for larger sums, the Business and Property Courts in central London; most are resolved by negotiation or mediation first.
Company formation and standard documents are usually fixed-fee; negotiations and litigation are charged by stage, and a first meeting is often free.
Richmond upon Thames business solicitors appear below, verified firms first. Background reading: business law, corporate law and dispute resolution; the business law solicitors page sets out the service, and anything to do with staff is covered by employment law solicitors in Richmond upon Thames.
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