Avoid Legal Pitfalls for Small Businesses

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An essential reference guide to law and litigation for SMEs

Do you want to protect yourself from all the legal pit-falls in planning, setting up and running your SME? Then let one of the UK's leading law firms guide you through the minefield with this book - the best quick reference to all of those risks and how to avoid them.

With a practical approach that takes you from:

Pre-start up (Operating structures; Restrictions preventing start up; Corporate finance considerations)

Through start up (Shareholder/partnership agreements and exit strategies; Property/premises issues; Employment of staff, including drafting contracts of employment; Supplier contracts; Customer/client contracts; Protecting IP rights)

To practical ongoing SME pitfalls (IP rights and disputes; Owner disputes; HR/employee problems; Health and Safety problems; PI claims and HSE prosecutions; Supplier disputes; Customer disputes including debt collection; Merger & Acquisitions activity including issues related to disposing of a business)