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How to Keep Your Personal Affairs Protected with Ongoing Legal Support
Without ongoing legal oversight, important documents and arrangements can quietly fall out of date, leaving you exposed when it matters most. Ongoing legal support helps you stay protected, not just today, but throughout every stage of your life…
Who Owns AI Output? A Plain-English Guide for UK Businesses
As AI tools become a staple in the workplace, many businesses and professionals are asking: when you use an AI tool under a licence to generate work product, whether for commercial, professional, or internal purposes, who actually owns the output and the resulting intellectual property?
Leicester City’s Points Deduction – Why did it happen?
This week, Leicester City Football Club was hit with a six-point deduction in the Championship. For the club and its fans currently in the midst of a relegation fight in the Championship, this is a major effect on their season but what has happened and why is a points deduction the consequence?
Why Hourly Legal Services Are No Longer Fit For Your Modern Business Needs
The legal market is changing because your needs are changing. Efficiency, clarity, predictability and proactive support now sit at the centre of your commercial success. The traditional retainer struggles to deliver these benefits. A well structured legal subscription service, such as the Adam Benedict Membership, gives you…
Sale of National HGV Driving School, Securing Deferred Consideration
A key feature of the deal was deferred consideration payable after completion. Where a buyer is funded (or has existing lending arrangements), seller protections need to be structured so…
Clarity, Control and Continuity: Strengthening Shareholders’ Agreements for Family-Owned Businesses
Adam Benedict recently advised on a shareholders’ agreement for a company jointly owned by two family groups. Each family held half of the shares, so the agreement needed to provide absolute clarity on how ownership and control operated within and between the two sides…
High Court Injunction Secured to Protect Confidential Information and Company Property
In a recent High Court injunction matter, Senior Associate Grace Jenkins successfully secured urgent injunctive relief to protect a client’s confidential information and recover company property following the dismissal of a former employee…
Protecting Founders and Safeguarding Control: The Power of Good and Bad Leaver Provisions
In a recent matter, our corporate team helped a founder navigate precisely this challenge. A shareholder who had been granted shares in the company sought to leave the business and, despite never paying for their shares, was pressing for a payout upon exit…
UK Autumn Budget 2025 Review
There was a lot of speculation around the Autumn 2025 Budget, particularly about whether we would see big tax rises across the board. In the end, the Chancellor stepped back from that. The headline income tax and VAT rates remain where they are, but the dial has been moved in other places.
Fixed-Fee Legal Support: Why a Membership Model Beats Pay-As-You-Go Legal Services
As modern businesses demand more clarity, more control and more strategic input, savvy businesses are shifting towards legal subscriptions and fixed fee membership models. This shift is not a trend…
Cutting Through the Red Tape: Pragmatic Contracting for Real-World Results
When a long-standing client approached us to assist in finalising a supplier agreement with a major UK retailer, our role was to bring clarity and precision to a complex set of contractual terms, ensuring…
Driving Growth Through Secure Lending: Marco Difato Leads a New Corporate Finance Venture
Adam Benedict recently advised a long-standing client on the launch of a new corporate lending venture, providing end-to-end legal support to ensure the facility was properly structured, secured, and ready to scale. The client, an established accountancy firm branching into…
Structuring Rights Within a Buying Group
When a corporate client joined a large UK buying group structured as a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), Adam Benedict was engaged to advise on and prepare the suite of corporate documentation required to facilitate the merger and safeguard…
Dylan Birch’s Journey: An Internship Inside a Fast-Growing Law Firm
Throughout the two weeks of the internship, I undertook several drafting tasks which developed my legal written communication skills and impacted current matters of the firm. My first task was…
Sheffield Wednesday Enters Administration: What It Means and Lessons from Morecambe FC
The recent administration of Sheffield Wednesday is a stark reminder of how quickly and drastically a club can ‘unravel’ when its financial posture declines or breaks down. It is far from an isolated case, however. Clubs will differ in size, but the mechanics of collapse are…
Adam Benedict Wins the 2025 Reisman Award for Best New Law Firm
Adam Benedict is proud to announce that we have been officially named the winner of the 2025 Reisman Award for Best New Law Firm, presented today at the Clio Cloud Conference in Boston…
Fighting for a Cause: Our Associate Stepped into the Ring for the MCA Trust
We were incredibly proud of the dedication and commitment shown by our associate, Harrison Carr, who stepped out of the office and into the boxing ring this September in support of a remarkable cause.
The Shifting Landscape of Construction Law: Lessons from the Landmark BLO Seminar
Recently, Adam Benedict partnered with Gatehouse Chambers to host a seminar that brought together leading voices from law, surveying, engineering, and finance to unpack what this case means for the future of construction disputes, liability, and compliance. The event was…
Professional Negligence Dispute Highlights Importance of Proper Legal Procedures
…the matter, which developed into a multi-million-pound dispute, served as a stark reminder of the critical importance of compliance with regulatory and administrative procedures…
Defending a Business Legacy: Ian Coupland Leads Six-Day Trial to Victory
Representation of the founder of a well-established estate agency in a high-stakes dispute against a former business partner. The case, which culminated in a six-day trial…