Our Expertise
About Sue Grover, Founder
Sue trained at Eversheds and joined Wortley Byers LLP, a progressive firm based in Essex in 2001. She became a Partner in 2008 and headed up the Corporate Commercial Department from 2011. In 2019, Wortley Byers LLP merged with Tees Law. Sue left Tees Law in March 2020 to set up Aston Park Law Limited.
Sue’s aim for Aston Park Law Limited is to provide high quality and practical legal advice, which is prompt, friendly and accessible.
Outsourced In-house Legal Services
Our service is ideal if you need regular legal advice to meet the needs of your business and to effectively strengthen your management team without having to add to your headcount and allows your management to focus on business development activities. This gives you the flexibility to scale the service to your needs depending on your business activities and priorities.
We can work alongside you on specific projects or to lighten the legal burden of running a business.
Our aim in providing this service is to become embedded in your business and to advise strategically.
Commercial
We provide advice on all types of commercial contracts. We take the time to understand the way in which your business and industry sector operates, allowing us to negotiate the terms to meet your commercial objectives and interests. We are involved and experienced in the preparation of and advise on a wide variety of contracts.
Typical examples of the contracts that we advise on include:
- Agency agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Confidentiality
- Contracts for the sale and purchase of assets
- Contracts for the supply of services
- Distribution agreements
- Franchise agreements
- IP assignments
- Manufacturing agreements
- Outsourcing
- Preliminary agreements
- Terms and conditions of trading
Corporate Law
We provide advice on a range of transactions including assisting company start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, joint ventures and restructuring. Our experience together with our negotiation skills is often cited by our clients as a valuable contribution to the transactions.
Typical examples of the services that we advise on include:
- Partnership and members agreements
- Dissolution of partnerships
- Company formation, constitution and administration
- Company sales and purchases
- Cross option agreements
- Director’s service agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Mergers, takeovers and acquisitions
- Reorganisations
- Share buy-backs
- Shareholder agreements
Company Secretarial
We provide comprehensive company secretarial services to assist with the compliance and management of all statutory company information including:
- Company formations and start-ups
- Partnerships and LLP formations and start-ups
- Secretarial duties
- Directors duties
- Maintaining your statutory registers
- Holding and updating statutory books
- Filing all necessary forms, returns and resolutions on the public record at Companies House
Intellectual Property
We advise on a range of IP transactions including collaborations, joint ventures and strategic licensing deals.
Our experience includes:
- Advising on whether specific trademarks are available for use and the filing and registration of trademarks in the UK
- Coordination and management of the filing and registration of trademarks in other territories outside the UK
- Managing trademark portfolios
- Advising on trademark oppositions
- Sale and licensing of IP rights
- IP due diligence and verification, including related agreements
- Distribution, agency, contract manufacture, supply, sponsorship and other commercial agreements
Information Technology
We provide practical, user-friendly advice on all IT aspects including:
- Consultancy agreements
- Data protection
- Escrow agreements
- Internal IT policies
- Licensing and development
- Maintenance and support agreements
- Online terms and conditions
- Software and hardware licences
- Website design and hosting agreements
Pharmaceutical Law/Life Sciences
We have extensive experience advising life sciences clients on the full range of agreements that span the product life cycle in the life sciences sector. We advise on:
- In and out-licensing activities
- Partnering
- Collaboration
- Strategic transactions
In particular, we can prepare and advise on:
- Clinical trial agreements
- Pharmacovigilance/medical vigilance agreements
- Technical agreements
- Collaborative agreements
- Confidentiality agreements/non-disclosure agreements
- Commercialisation agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Supply agreements
- Wholesaler agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Licence agreements
- Technical transfer agreements
- Letters of authorisation
- Intra-group agreements
- Know-how licences
