Bringing a deep understanding

Retail and leisure is exciting, highly reactive to the economy and ever-changing. No matter what area of retail or leisure you focus on, you're going to need lawyers with a genuine understanding of the world you operate in.

Our retail lawyers and our leisure lawyers have acted in these industries for years, which has given us a history and understanding of how trends, shifts and patterns change (and repeat) over time. We combine this context with forward-looking horizon scanning, helping you to prepare for and react to ongoing changes that could impact your business.

Support at all points of the retail eco system

Our team's all-round knowledge allows us to advise holistically, sitting with you as a long-term, trusted partner and building a relationship with your business so we can support you in achieving your goals. Whether that's through drafting technology or commercial contracts, advising on your commercial property portfolio, supporting with employment law, protecting your intellectual property and trademarks or using our global presence to assist with international manufacturing, delivery, cross border collaborations or expansion. Law on digital services, and especially on consumer-facing services, is increasingly inter-disciplinary so our close-knit team can work together to give you the advice you need. We'll be with you all the way.

Global and economic events can have huge impacts on retailers – on manufacturing locations and costs, delivery routes and timescales and taxes/tariffs. Our team aligns with experts more broadly across the firm to provide timely advice and assistance when the world changes. We also appreciate the pressures on margins that these events often result in, which we respond to with flexible fee structures and fixed price work where appropriate.