A law firm for owner-managed businesses, their owners and their families, acting across England and Wales.
We act on the legal work that comes with owning and running a business: the contracts it trades on, the people it employs, the premises it occupies, the disputes it gets into, and what happens to it when an owner retires, sells or dies.
The solicitor who takes your first call does the work on your matter and is the person you speak to until it is finished. Before we start, we set out in writing what we will do, how we will charge and what it is likely to cost.
We advise on commercial and corporate law, employment, dispute resolution and debt recovery, commercial and residential property, insolvency, judicial review, and wills, probate and trusts. Business and personal matters can be connected. A shareholder agreement and a will need to work together, and a director who has signed a personal guarantee carries a personal risk as well as a company one.
Most of our clients own the business they run, so we act for the company and for the people behind it at the same time: the directors and shareholders whose own money and personal guarantees are bound up in it, and who carry the consequences when something goes wrong.
What they need changes as the business does. A founder taking on a first employee wants a contract that holds. An employer with a full workforce wants policies, settlement agreements and somebody to call when a claim lands. We take the commercial property they buy and lease, and the disputes that come out of both.
The same clients come back for the private work: wills and lasting powers of attorney, drafted with the shareholder agreement open on the desk, and trusts where a trust does something a will cannot. When somebody dies we act for the executors and the family through the estate.
AD Solicitors Limited is a recognised body authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. These are the details on the public register.
If something goes wrong, our own complaints procedure comes first and the Legal Ombudsman after it. Both, along with our professional indemnity insurer and what the policy covers, are in our legal and regulatory notices.
A solicitor with more than two decades' experience in commercial law, dispute resolution, insolvency and judicial review. Robert acts for businesses, directors and individuals, and leads the firm.
A solicitor acting for business owners and private clients on commercial, property and private client work.
A free call to understand what has happened and what you need, and to tell you whether we can help.
We confirm what we will do, how we will charge and the likely cost before any work starts.
We tell you at the outset what a piece of work realistically takes, and say so if a deadline is not achievable.
We set out where you stand, the options and our recommendation, and keep you updated as the matter progresses.
Tell us what has happened and we'll arrange a call with one of our solicitors.