Commercial Legal Service

The Hugh James commercial team delivers strategic solutions on national and international commercial transaction structuring.

Led by Partner Richard Lane the commercial team has great strength, skill and depth in all areas relating to  commercial contracting.

Delivering strategic legal commerical solutions

The Hugh James commercial team delivers strategic solutions on national and international commercial transaction structuring.

 

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Our legal commercial service

Our approach is based upon developing strategic relationships with our clients. We continuously look for innovative commercial solutions to deal with sourcing life cycle and supply chain management issues.

We have extensive experience in all aspects of the development and negotiation of commercial agreements across a wide range of sectors including public sector, financial market, utilities, telecom, retail and media.

We have helped our clients achieve success in commercial arrangements ranging from agency, distribution and public sector procurement through to international sourcing and outsourcing arrangements.

We leverage the extensive senior in-house experience gained by our partners to provide pragmatic legal solutions to meet our clients' objectives within their timeframes.

We work closely with our corporate, employment and dispute resolution teams to provide comprehensive advice to our clients.

 

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Hugh James commercial experience

Our extensive experience includes:

  • Advising Central Government on a number of commercial matters within procurement projects including maintenance agreements, service level arrangements, software development and outsourcing arrangements.
  • Joint Venture Arrangement on Wind Farm projects. We have been advising on this matter in relation to the development of wind farm projects in Wales including drafting the turbine supply, operation and maintenance contracts.
  • As an appointed law firm to the Welsh Government Commercial Law panel advising on numerous commercial matters including advising the Health Commission Wales on the procurement of haemodialysis nursing services and facility management services at the West Wales General Hospital with an estimated contract of circa £4 million.
  • Advising devolved government on its contract for the procurement of a fully managed internet web hosting solution to the value of circa £1.5 million.
  • Advising devolved government in respect of financial services regulatory issues relating to the establishment of the £150 million investment fund.
  • Advising a higher education establishment on a variety of commercial arrangements, including collaboration agreements and advice on compliance with procurement regulations. Other significant projects have included advice in respect of research and collaboration agreements, reviews of general terms and conditions and advice on distant selling regulations.
  • Advising a local authority on various high profile projects including:
  • Advising the Cardiff Castle Visitor Centre project. 
  •  Advising on procurement for a strategic partner to develop a local authority IT delivery and future development.
  • Advising two major global financial institutions on a range of commercial contract agreements in respect of banking products technology and regulatory outsourcing requirements in Europe.

Further information

 


Richard Lane colourRichard Lane

Partner

Commercial

E richard.lane@hughjames.com

T 029 2039 1030

 

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Richard Lane colourContact

Richard Lane

Partner

Commercial

 

E richard.lane@hughjames.com

T 029 2039 1030

Testimonials

Richard Lane leads Hugh James’ IT and communications work, and advised Natural England on negotiating multi-million pound IT outsourcing with DEFRA and IBM.
Legal 500 2011


 

This "cost-effective and highly approachable" team acts for a range of customer-side clients, including financial services companies. Richard Lane led a multidisciplinary team advising Cardiff City and County Council on procuring a 15-year strategic IT partnership with Tata Consultancy Services, valued at around £150 million.

Chambers UK 2011

 

Richard “…is pragmatic and well versed in negotiating a successful outcome and contract for the client.” Linked in

 

"Hugh James consistently provide high quality strategic advice with “out of the box “ thinking"

Rod Bridgeman –  Sales Director Oblicore UK Ltd

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