Tom Purton
Partner
London
Overview
To properly act as legal counsel for business strategy, your legal partner needs to understand more than the surface-level information about your business. Our expert team of business advisory lawyers take the time to integrate themselves with everything there is to know; including your sector and the market in which you operate.
As a result, we act in a way that ensures you can make good business decisions – with empirical and experiential knowledge backing you every step of the way.
We utilise our deep sector knowledge across a wide range of industries and business models to help clients like you navigate even the most complex risks and opportunities that may arise. Our business advisory service places us as a strategic partner alongside your development, and we are confident to provide agile support that looks beyond the legal.
Our role ranges from early-stage advice on transactions, to acting as a sounding-board on a new direction. We’re also there to help when you’re considering options to manage risk and create business opportunities in an existing focus area. This pragmatic approach is tailored towards your business goals and is adaptable as you grow and evolve.
To learn more about how our business advisory services can work for you, please get in touch.
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Client comments
The Commercial team doesn't just advise on the law - they provide tailored, commercially minded solutions grounded in the realities of the client's sector.
RPC is well regarded for its commercial contracts work, with a dedicated team advising across strategic supply, distribution, joint venture, franchise and sponsorship agreements.
RPC can always be relied upon for proportionate, robust legal analysis and advice, and to provide wider guidance to firms in excess of just the base legal position.
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