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Travers Smith LLP

Commercial Contracts

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Commercial Contracts - UK-wide

Band 1

What the Team is Known For
Travers Smith is a well-regarded full-service firm with considerable skill in high-value and complex commercial agreements. The team often acts for well-known multinational clients on cross-border transactions especially in the retail, media, infrastructure and financial services sectors. It has considerable experience drafting and negotiating collaboration agreements, strategic partnerships and contracts relating to distribution and manufacturing.
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Work Highlights

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  • Travers Smith advised Yum! Brands on a number of matters relating to licensing arrangements, consumer protection and AI-enabled software.

Strengths

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  • Travers is a high-quality provider. They have a strong and experienced team offering advice across a wide range of topics, and provide exceptional response times and high levels of customer service.

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  • The team provide rapid responses and take a commercial and pragmatic approach. They quickly grasp complexities and the technical nature of the task and consistently provide high-standard deliverables.

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  • They have a wide range of capabilities and bring a constructive approach to negotiations with deep knowledge of our business. They are very commercially minded, flexible and highly adaptive.

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  • They have subject matter expertise with a thorough understanding of our organisation's mission and purpose. They have deep technical knowledge and provide excellent service levels and rapid responses.

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  • Travers have strong industry knowledge and understanding of our business, and provide technical legal expertise and client commitment. They are highly responsive and are very quick on turnaround.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Richard C Brown
    Richard C Brown

    Richard C Brown

    Richard Brown is respected for his expertise in advising well-known corporates, particularly in the infrastructure and energy space, on the full range of commercial agreements. He also has a substantial client following in the media sector.

    • Richard is very astute and supportive in all our dealings. His advice is accurate, timely and invariably proves successful in concluding legal discussions.

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    • He is a good operator - thoughtful, constructive and pragmatic.

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    • Richard has deep levels of expertise and experience, and is a tough negotiator.

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    • Richard is a very accomplished lawyer.

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    • Richard is a market leader, cuts through complexity and delivers practical advice that is tailored to our business. He has a deep understanding of the industry and is very responsive.

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  • Richard Offord
    Richard Offord

    Richard Offord

    Richard Offord's practice covers an array of contract work including supply, brand licensing and joint venture agreements.

    • Richard is always supportive of our business and provides good and timely advice.

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    • Richard demonstrates abilities beyond his level of experience.

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    • Richard has a pragmatic awareness of complex issues.

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    • Richard has been good and responsive, makes sensible mark-ups and has always done a good job.

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