Meet the experts

John Baddeley
Company Commercial, Corporate Finance


Michelle Hayward
Company Commercial


Duncan Shepherd
Company Commercial


David Ware
Company Commercial

Contact the team on
0114 266 6660
or via the enquiry form




Company Commercial Solicitors
Make an Enquiry
or call us on
0114 266 6660

Latest news
28 January 2014
The Consequences of not having a Partnership Agreement
A partnership automatically comes into being where persons are “carrying on in business in common with a view to ... read more

27 September 2013
Protected Conversations
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28 March 2013
Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/395) (Regulations) came into force on 16 March 2013 and ... read more

The team understands how businesses in the private sector operate and advises its business clients throughout their life cycle of start up, growth, success and failure, so we know every key issue that affects them.

We advise clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters from terms and conditions of business and agency/distributorship agreements to complex multi-party documentation often found in heavily regulated industries. The work we do requires us to have an appreciation, not just of the legal issues, but also the underlying commercial objectives. As a result of working with a broad range of business clients we have developed considerable sector knowledge of specific industries.

We provide a complete service for commercial contracting that covers all of the following and more:

Wake Smith is recommended in The Legal 500* for its corporate and commercial expertise

*The Legal 500 is the largest and most in-depth survey of the UK legal market. Used by commercial and private clients, corporate counsel, CEOs, financial directors and professional advisers, as well as by other referrers of work both nationally and internationally, The Legal 500 is widely regarded as offering the definitive judgment of law firm capabilities.

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