We help manufacturing businesses hire, scale, invest, and resolve issues with pace and precision. Our multidisciplinary integrates employment law, corporate law, commercial real estate, and dispute resolution expertise—so your legal support mirrors your production reality: efficient, compliant, and commercially focused.
Employment Law For Manufacturers
From multi-site operations and shift work to union relations and TUPE transfers, employment law in manufacturing demands sector-aware advice. We help you structure your workforce, manage risk, and resolve people issues without disrupting output.
- Contracts and policies: Robust contracts, handbooks, and shift/rota policies tailored to 24/7 operations
- Workforce change: Consultation and delivery of restructures, redundancies, and site closures
- TUPE and outsourcing: Seamless transfers for logistics, maintenance, and outsourced manufacturing
- Trade unions and IR: Collective bargaining, recognition agreements, and industrial action preparation
- Performance and conduct: Grievances, disciplinaries, capability, and absence management
- Tribunals and settlement: Focussed on supporting your objectives and resolving matters in the most appropriate, commercially focussed way
Our HR consultancy arm, Eclipse HR, also provides support with your regular HR requirements.
Corporate Law For Manufacturing Businesses
Our expert Corporate team will work with you to structure deals and governance to protect value, strengthen supply chains, and support growth—whether you’re acquiring a competitor, raising capital for automation, or setting up a joint venture.
- M&A and disposals: Buyer/seller support for plant, trading companies, and group carve-outs
- Joint ventures and partnerships: Tooling, IP, and capacity-sharing arrangements with clear risk allocation
- Governance and shareholder agreements: Reserved matters, minority protections, and succession clauses
- Commercial contracts: Supply, framework, distribution, toll manufacturing, and quality/warranty terms
- Funding and incentives: Bank facilities, asset-based lending, and management incentive plans
Commercial Property Lawyers For Manufacturing
Your sites are the backbone of your output. We acquire, finance, and optimise manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics facilities—keeping projects on time and compliant.
- Acquisitions and disposals: Freehold and leasehold sites, sale-and-leaseback
- Leases and asset management: Negotiations, renewals, rent reviews, alterations, and assignments
- Planning and use class: Change of use, operational consents, and environmental/ESG considerations
- Infrastructure and easements: Power upgrades, water/gas access, wayleaves, and transport links
- On-site energy: Solar, battery storage, and energy supply agreements integrated with site operations
Dispute resolution in manufacturing
When disputes arise, we act quickly and proportionately to protect production, cash flow, and customer relationships—prioritising settlement but ready to litigate if necessary.
- Supply chain disputes: Late delivery, quality/defect claims, penalties, force majeure, and variation pricing
- Product liability and recalls: Insurer coordination, indemnities, contribution, and reputational protection
- Commercial and IP disputes: Confidentiality, tooling ownership, data, and restrictive covenants
- Property and landlord-tenant: Dilapidations, service charges, and break/renewal disputes
- ADR and litigation: Negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and court proceedings with cost control
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