Corporate & Commercial
David Bright
A partner in the firm’s corporate team, David helps clients drive forward their commercial transactions.
His clients range from global companies to SMEs.
David provides responsive and effective support for his clients with attention to detail and quick thinking. A thorough understanding of his client’s commercial needs enables him to provide the best legal advice to ensure transactions go though smoothly and efficiently.
Jeremy Over
Jeremy is an experienced and dynamic company lawyer delivering strategic legal solutions to his clients to help them achieve their commercial objectives. His clients are companies requiring legal expertise to help them with a wide range of acquisitions, disposals and fundraisings.
Jeremy also helps his clients with shareholders’ agreements, general company law, insolvency matters, partnerships and LLPs, and financial services matters. He combines a thorough knowledge of the law with common sense and commercial acumen.
He is passionate about helping his clients find solutions to their problems.
Kirsty Leary
Kirsty acts for companies at all different stages of their lifecycle; from initial idea or start up, through growth and expansion and ultimately exit.
She thrives from working for entrepreneurial businesses whether that is a single isolated transaction or being involved in the whole journey. She understands that, as a business owner, you will have a strong personal connection with your business and will endeavour to support you through the, often complex, legal processes that you encounter along the way.
She provides clients with clear and practical advice based on a good understanding of their business combined with an expert knowledge of the law. A good understanding of the entrepreneurial mind-set combined with close attention to detail means her clients are reassured that they will receive the best possible legal support.
John Warchus
John is a partner and specialist in all areas of commercial and technology law and provides advice to clients in these areas, including dispute management. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the TMT sector: his clients range from tech start-ups to multinational companies and public sector organisations and have advised a number of household names in this sector.
John and his colleagues always strive to be an extension of their client’s management or legal team as well as acting as their legal representative if they have no in-house legal team. He often helps clients to negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements, covering related areas such as data protection, social media and procurement issues. As a former litigator advising on large scale IT disputes, he is adept at avoiding the pitfalls that so often befall technology contracts.
John is also closely involved with the protection and exploitation of all forms of intellectual property, often advising UK universities and businesses on innovation projects and R&D collaboration.
Increasingly, his clients are from overseas carrying out business in the UK and/or looking for advice on contracts governed by English law. Equally, He is able to assist UK clients who need foreign legal advice through good connections with a range of international law firms. In particular, He is President of The IT and IP Law Group Europe, an alliance of European law firms specialising in Technology and Intellectual Property legal issues.
He has advised the following clients:
Carillion, ASOS.com, EDS, ICL Fujitsu, Canon, G4S, Mouchel, Paperchase, University of Reading, University of South Wales, Mahindra Satyam, Atmel Corporation, and Intellectual Property Online.
Mark Lucas
As a corporate Partner, He advises on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, shareholder arrangements and partnership law.
He enjoys identifying and achieving the right solutions and outcomes for clients and strongly believe that good service consists of responsive communication. He looks for long lasting solutions that reduce complexity, delay and risk.
He trained and qualified at Clifford Chance and spent the first eight years of my career working on a broad range of finance, company and commercial matters in the City. He believes that the best corporate lawyers are likely to have a broad range of experience of business and life.
He has a particular expertise in advising schools on mergers and in relation to their commercial contracts and other commercial issues.
He is an experienced school governor, having chaired the board at a very successful prep school in West Sussex for 6 years and served as vice-chair and chair of finance in the maintained sector for 5 years.
He has served as a member of the Law Society’s Company Law Committee and regularly contribute to the Solicitors’ Journal, for which he writes a quarterly update on commercial contract law
Roger Bailey
Roger is a partner and head of the corporate team, heading a team of 16 corporate and commercial solicitors. He has over 25 years’ experience supporting clients with M&A, private equity and public markets deals.
Roger's clients range from medium-sized organisations to global companies. He helps them extract the best value from their corporate deals.
He supports the full spectrum of corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs, joint ventures, corporate finance, stock market flotations and fundraisings and a range of other commercial matters. Over recent years, his team has successfully completed more than £1bn of deals.
Roger provides clients with legal advice that is commercially aware and practical. When issues arise, he provides clarity, good judgement and a quick response.
Momentum is vital for Roger's clients, so he makes sure any potential delays are dealt with quickly and effectively. He is recognised as a problem-fixer.
Team Services
Moore Barlow’s Corporate & Commercial team advises businesses of all sizes — from owner-managed and privately owned to listed companies — on the full spectrum of corporate transactions and commercial matters. Our expertise spans share and business sales and acquisitions, company reorganisations, constitutional matters, IT services, outsourcing agreements and emerging areas such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, social media and e-commerce.
We identify risks early and craft agreements that protect your interests while ensuring compliance with the latest legislation. Our support also extends to intellectual property, including strategy, registration, protection, exploitation and enforcement across copyright, trade marks, designs, patents and research & development. With an integrated approach that includes dispute resolution, we ensure your commercial and corporate objectives are achieved with clarity, efficiency and a practical focus on results.
Our services
Corporate
- Banking & finance
- Company secretarial
- Corporate transactions
- Insolvency & restructuring
- International business law
- Partnerships & LLPs
- Share schemes & incentives
- Shareholders’ agreements
Commercial
- Commercial contracts
- Technology, media & telecoms
- Data protection & privacy
- Franchising & licensing
- IP & copyright
- Notary services
- Outsourcing
- Regulatory advice