Commercial agency law – we are the specialists

Our commercial agency lawyers can assist with negotiations over the terms of the agency contract and the drafting of an agency contract which meets your specific needs.

Where the principal and agent are in agreement that the terms of the agency contract need to be varied (e.g. changes to the territory covered by the agent, commission rates or the products to be covered), we can help you to comply with the legal formalities to give effect to those changes.

Where there is a written contract, our commercial agency lawyers can review it. Where there is not, we can consider how the agency operates in practice. In all cases we consider the effect of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 on the agency contract.

Our commercial agency lawyers can assist at a very early stage of the dispute, through to the issue of Court proceedings and all the way to trial if needed. Many disputes can be resolved without needing to go through the Court process or at an early stage of the Court process.

These issues often depend on whether the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 governed the agency contract, which party terminated the agency contract and whether they were entitled to do so, and what claims arise as a result. These claims usually relate to unpaid or pipeline commission, whether compensation or indemnity is payable to the sales agent under Regulation 17 and whether sufficient notice of termination has been given by the principal.