For Businesses

Planning, Environment & Licensing

BlueprintsGriffin Law has experience in dealing with issues relating to planning, environmental and licensing law.

Planning

Griffin Law can handle all aspects of the planning process, from consultations with planning officers to the submission of planning applications to appeals. As the firm is a renowned litigation practice, the firm is well able to deal with matters when they become contentious.

Environment

We can advise on a variety of environmental protection measures such as under the pollution prevention and control, waste management or contaminated land regimes, and statutory, public or private nuisances.

We can also advise on environmental statements and the management of environmental risks and liabilities, whether clients are purchasers or vendors of property, conducting activities requiring an environmental licence or permit, dealing with pollution to land, air, water or regulatory/enforcement action.

Licensing

Griffin Law can also handle work relating to the licensing of the sale or supply of alcohol, the provision of regulated entertainment and late night refreshment under the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003, including applications to local authorities for personal and premises licenses.

Lobbying & Public Affairs

bullhornKnowledge is power.

Whereas most lobbying firms in the UK have evolved out of the PR industry, Griffin Law’s lobbying and public affairs practice is part and parcel of the firm itself.

Working closely with a team of public affairs consultants located throughout the United States, Europe and Britain, Griffin Law offers the following services:

  • Bid Support;
  • Campaign & Coalition Building;
  • Grassroots Outreach;
  • Intelligence, Monitoring & Analysis;
  • Issues Advocacy;
  • Media & Presentation Training;
  • National, Devolved, Regional & Local Government Relations;
  • New Media Campaigns;
  • Operational Reviews;
  • Political Crisis & Reputation Management;
  • Political Risk & Strategy Workshops;
  • Public Policy Trends & Analysis;
  • Reputation & Communications Audits;
  • Select Committee Training;
  • Stakeholder Briefing Programmes.

Of particular interest is the firm’s new media expertise. This means that the firm is able not only to provide its clients with rigorous analysis based on unrivalled intelligence but the firm is able to equip its clients to be able to run grassroots campaigns that will help ensure clients achieve the desired result.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

duelLitigation is at the heart of Griffin Law as a firm.

Griffin Law is a well-known, respected firm that represents its commercial clients’ interest fearlessly. The firm has particular experience in the obtaining injunctions, interlocutory relief and pursuing defendants around the globe.

Griffin Law is rare among solicitors by actively considering the use of innovative and commercially attractive funding source for commercial clients involved in disputes including contingency and conditional fee agreements (“no win, no fee” agreements), discounted hourly rates, third party funding and the use of after-the-event insurance as a means by which to reduce the risk of being ordered to pay the other side’s costs.

Griffin Law has also pioneered the use of Dispute Strategy Memoranda as a way of managing its clients’ case, thus reducing the costs payable by clients and leading to an earlier and less stressful resolution to commercial disputes.

If you are a business, no matter how large or small, and no matter how large or small your dispute is, Griffin Law can help.

We are the firm you want to be on your side, not against you.

Landlord & Tenant

Legal imagesCommercial property disputes between landlords and tenants can often become the most protracted and bitter arguments if not handled with sensitivity.

Landlords want to receive as high a return as possible on their investment properties – often by doing as little as possible to maintain a property and waiting for a periodic rent review to occur.

Tenants will want a landlord to leave them in peace while simultaneously expecting landlords to ensure that rented commercial premises reflect well on their own business’ brand.

Griffin Law is experienced in acting for both landlords and tenants and therefore knows the strategies and tactics to pursue in any dispute, ideally securing as mutually advantageous a result as possible so that a business relationship can be maintained once the dispute is resolved.

Insolvency & Restructuring

empty walletSometimes despite your best efforts, your business may not be able to continue. Liquidation, administration or other defensive options may be the best way forward for your business, your family and your own sanity.

Working with specialist licensed insolvency practitioners, Griffin Law can help you see a cost-effective, respectable and lawful way out. Rather than for you to be trading while insolvent and risking criminal sanctions, we can help you confront the realities of the situation, restructure (if appropriate) and move forward, salvaging your reputation, your home and your investment, as well as your customers and clients.

England & Wales have one of the most business-friendly regimes for entrepreneurs in the world. It makes sense for you to use the law to its fullest extent, rather than to bang your head against a brick wall trying to make a business work that simply never will.

We will tell you, straight up, what the reality of the situation is and how to get from A to B – using insolvency law, if appropriate.

Human Resources & Employment

Working at DeskThe days where employers could turn a blind eye to personnel issues are long gone.

Do you know what you are doing when it comes to your employees and their rights?

Otherwise well-run companies can be brought to their knees, sometimes fatally, as a result of an employment claim – not least when many employees now have the benefit of legal expenses insurance as a way of funding any claim before the Employment Tribunals.

Working closely with our preferred partners, HRx Limited, Griffin Law can assist in respect of the following:

  • Absence Management
  • Career Development
  • Change & Crisis Management
  • Commercial and Corporate Support Recruitment
  • Discipline, Dismissal & Grievance Advice
  • Employee Handbooks Incorporating Policies & Procedures
  • Induction
  • Interview Techniques
  • Outplacement Coaching
  • Payroll Administration
  • Pension Administration
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Recruitment
  • Retirement
  • Salary & Benefits Administration
  • Training & Development

For further information about the ways in which Griffin Law can help lower your costs and reduce the risks of an adverse claim before the Employment Tribunals, contact us today.

Debt Recovery

CB023967In the current economic climate, cash is king.

Mindful that many of your customers or clients may be reluctant to pay you for goods or services rendered, thereby affecting your cash flow and jeopardising your livelihood, Griffin Law will work with you to salvage business relationships where they can be salvaged and to secure the fastest and most cost-effective recovery of money owed to you – whether it be by way of litigation, the use of bankruptcy and corporate insolvency proceedings or via an out-of-court settlement.

Thanks to Griffin Law’s proactive and rigorous approach to debt recovery, we will help you keep your business afloat in these difficult times.

We are prepared to act on a contingency basis, sharing the risk of recovery with you in many circumstances, as well as on a fixed fee basis.

Professional Negligence

Gavel Law BooksHave you ever received substandard service from a lawyer, accountant, surveyor, architect, doctor or other professional?

If so, you may have a cause of action in negligence – and as professionals are ordinarily compelled to hold professional indemnity insurance, you would be suing a defendant with the deepest of deep pockets.

Griffin Law has experience in acting for and against professionals in negligence actions stretching back over twelve years. The firm, through its proactive and creative use of court procedures, litigation tactics and legal remedies, has a sound track record in pursuing those who have given negligent advice to their clients.

We are pleased to offer a no obligation fixed fee interview for £50.00 plus VAT (£58.75), lasting up to 20 minutes, in order to listen to your problems, analyse your case and give you some initial advice.

At this interview you will be advised of our fees and fee options encompassing discounted hourly rates, contingency fees, conditional fees, third party funding, legal expenses insurance and after-the-event insurance. We do not offer legal aid.

Please note that we are unable to give legal advice for free, nor do we give advice over the telephone or by email until you are an established client.

We are lawyers you want on your side. Wouldn’t you like the scales of justice tilted in your favour for once?

Company & Commercial Contracts

42-15852445The mark of a good lawyer is that he or she must truly add value to your business, freeing you up to run your business to the best of your abilities. Good lawyers must be enablers, not pedants who stand in the way of you achieving your dreams.

Griffin Law is a proactive, commercially-minded law firm. Acting for small owner-managed firms, family businesses and multi-million pound companies based in Britain and around the world, Griffin Law has a wide range of expertise in helping you develop your business – and avoiding the pitfalls along the way.

Among the services Griffin Law can offer are:

  • Acquisitions & Mergers;
  • Compliance & Regulatory Advice;
  • Contractual Audits & Drafting;
  • Data Protection;
  • Debt Recovery & Credit Control;
  • Dispute Resolution;
  • Human Resources & Business Consultancy;
  • Intellectual Property;
  • Litigation & Risk Management;
  • Restructuring;
  • Shareholder Agreements;
  • Tax-Efficient Exit Planning.

Commercial Property

Tampa skylineDespite what the doom merchants would have you believe, commercial property remains a sound medium to long-term investment.

Instrucing Griffin Law as your solicitors to help with your commercial property needs is a smart short-term investment.

Assisted by a team of specialist property consultants located throughout the country and worldwide, Griffin Law is able to assist with:

  • Administering sales and leasebacks
  • Agricultural
  • Conditional contracts
  • Covenant Issues
  • Development Agreements
  • Enfranchisements
  • Funding
  • Landlord and Tenant relationships
  • Leasehold extensions
  • Managing development and regeneration projects
  • Property development
  • Property Litigation
  • Site acquisition and disposal
  • Taking, granting and renewing leases

We can also help you structure your commercial property transactions tax-effectively so as to help you turn your investment portfolio from a small acorn into a mighty oak.