Commercial Contracts

ALG’s Commercial Contracts team in Belfast acts on commercial contract mandates for some of Northern Ireland’s largest entities across both the private and public sectors, as well as for SME tech start-ups and large multinational clients investing in Northern Ireland.

Our lawyers have a deep understanding of the commercial rules and regulations applicable to businesses operating in the UK. We provide tailored, industry-specific advice to clients across a range of sectors, including:

  • Manufacturing
  • Agri-food and agri-tech
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Media
  • Sport
  • Professional services
  • Research and development
  • Consumer goods

The team leverages its industry insights to understand standard contracting positions, ensuring that its clients receive advice that is both relevant and practical.

We offer comprehensive, end-to-end contract management support, providing advice and strategic direction at every stage of the contract life cycle, from initial structuring through to drafting, negotiation, execution, implementation, and post-execution formalities.

Each of our lawyers has in-house experience and is therefore acutely aware of the internal pressures and deadlines that clients often face. We provide innovative and commercial support, always offering practical, business-oriented solutions.

Our Belfast team helps clients achieve pragmatic, commercially focused solutions for both day-to-day contractual matters and large, strategically significant projects. We regularly advise on the following types of agreements, many of which have an international dimension:

  • Agency agreements
  • Distribution and franchise agreements
  • E-commerce arrangements
  • Manufacturing agreements
  • Outsourcing agreements
  • Research and development collaboration arrangements
  • Sales agreements
  • Social media and influencer agreements
  • Software development and licensing agreements
  • Supply chain contracts
  • Terms of trading

Experience

  • Acting for a financial institution

    in the negotiation of an outsourced managed services contract regarding the upgrade of its IT infrastructure to a cloud delivery system.

  • Acting for a global manufacturing group

    in the negotiation and drafting of a development and supply arrangement for a new bespoke product to be manufactured in Northern Ireland.

  • Appointed sole external legal commercial law advisors

    to one of NI’s largest scientific research organisations, advising on its R&D and supply of services agreements.

  • Acting for a household name cosmetics brand

    in their marketing and collaboration agreements with celebrity social media influencers.

  • Instructed by a leading national manufacturing and outfitting business

    to negotiate the terms of a three-year full-service IT outsourcing agreement.

  • Instructed by an international payments provider

    to draft end user licence agreements relating to the provision of payment services to business customers in the UK and EEA.

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