LAWternative Solicitors
Your Outsourced Legal and Governance Team
Business Law
With years of working as business law specialists we can add value to your business, big or small, and help you to ensure that your business is legally compliant, that you are better protected against risks inherent to your business and that you have peace of mind knowing that it is all in hand and you have a law firm who really understands your business needs at the end of the phone (or email).
Outsourced in-house retainer: don't worry instead ask us - a monthly retainer including a legal help line, annual legal health check and may also include document review such as NDA's or contract reviews.
Contract management to reduce your business' risk: includes reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts including terms and conditions for Customers, Supplier Contracts, Technology Contracts, Non-disclosure agreements and variations.
Legal Advice: achieve your commercial aims legally including in accordance with law and regulation.
Trade Marks registration and Copyright advice: ensuring that your intellectual property is protected.
Employment Contracts: make sure your business complies with the requirements to provide written statements or contracts.
Contact us for a without obligation initial discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
Governance and Company Secretarial
Having the right Corporate Governance is essential to growing your business and investing in this area earlier can bring a good return on investment ensuring compliance and effective management of your business, a reduction in risks and make your business look better managed which can improve your chances of investment by third parties.
Choice of Business Medium and Company formation: advice on becoming a sole tradership, partnership or company and setting up the relevant documentation such as partnership agreements, memorandum and articles, constitutions and byelaws.
Shareholder agreements and Matters reserved for the Board: protect your investment by drafting an agreement between all the shareholders ensuring that certain rights remain with the shareholders rather than being decided by the Board of Directors.
Corporate Governance: organisation of Board meetings and committees, Terms of Reference, company secretarial advice, removal or appointment of directors, share transfers, delegations (financial and non-financial). Board Efficiency Reviews and Governance Reviews.
Charities and Not for Profits: advice and documentation, governance of charities and Community Interest Companies (CICs). Charities Governance Code and Sports Governance.
Non-Executive Director/Advisor services: do you need a sounding board for your strategy ideas or a Board Advisor/Non-Executive Director.
Contact us for a without obligation initial discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
Other Services
USA L1A VISA FOR EXECUTIVE OR MANAGERIAL STAFF
Are you thinking of expanding into the USA and need to be able to travel to your US subsidiaries in a business capacity. Lawternative Solicitors can provide you with the information you need to make your visa applications
Compliance
We can assist with compliance requirements such as Data Protection, Policy drafting, FCA registration and file reviews and financial services compliance.
Complaints Management
Do you hate having to deal with customers complaining about your service and would like to have someone deal with these complaints for you ensuring that they are dealt with properly and relieving you of the stress. We can assist you right up to the point of actual litigation and can also refer you to a litigation specialists.
Contact details
Contact us for a without obligation initial discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
About us
‘Your outsourced Legal and Governance Team’
We work with businesses of all sizes and with the individuals who own them and we also assist in-house law teams who need some extra capacity for a short period of time. They require competent, reliable and well-communicated legal advice from solicitors who make the effort to understand their businesses and their commercial aims.
We are a niche business law practice and provide all commercial law and governance services including contract review, drafting and negotiation, advice on setting up your business including setting up a limited company or partnership, shareholder’s agreements, terms of reference, delegations and assistance organising your boards and committees.
We also offer governance reviews for larger companies or charities/not for profits, board advisors, complaints handling, compliance and L1A US visas.
We are good value for money but also responsive, approachable and very highly experienced. Our retainer clients like being able to just pick up the phone or send us an email to answer their day-to-day questions knowing that this service is all included in the retainer fee.
About Natasha Kirsten
Natasha is a fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute of England and Wales (previously known as ICSA) and has over 10 years experience as a commercial lawyer/legal counsel and company secretary having worked mainly in telecommunications, charities and not for profits, engineering, technology and financial services. She speaks fluent German and a little Italian and Spanish. She trained and qualified at Thrings Solicitors and has worked in-house as sole counsel, company secretary as well as part of larger legal teams.
If you are looking for an experienced, dedicated, flexible and approachable Commercial Solicitor and someone who can add value across a wide range of areas please contact us for a without obligation initial discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
We ensure your legal foundations so that you can grow your business successfully.
We work with businesses of all sizes and with the individuals who own them and we also assist in-house law teams who need some extra capacity for a short period of time. They require competent, reliable and well-communicated legal advice from solicitors who make the effort to understand their businesses and their commercial aims.
We are a niche business law practice and provide all commercial law and governance services including contract review, drafting and negotiation, advice on setting up your business including setting up a limited company or partnership, shareholder’s agreements, terms of reference, delegations and assistance organising your boards and committees.
We also offer governance reviews for larger companies or charities/not for profits, board advisors, complaints handling, compliance and L1A US visas.
We are good value for money but also responsive, approachable and very highly experienced. Our retainer clients like being able to just pick up the phone or send us an email to answer their day-to-day questions knowing that this service is all included in the retainer fee.
About Natasha Kirsten
Natasha is a fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute of England and Wales (previously known as ICSA) and has over 10 years experience as a commercial lawyer/legal counsel and company secretary having worked mainly in telecommunications, charities and not for profits, engineering, technology and financial services. She speaks fluent German and a little Italian and Spanish. She trained and qualified at Thrings Solicitors and has worked in-house as sole counsel, company secretary as well as part of larger legal teams.
If you are looking for an experienced, dedicated, flexible and approachable Commercial Solicitor and someone who can add value across a wide range of areas please contact us for a without obligation initial discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
We ensure your legal foundations so that you can grow your business successfully.
Contact
- Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
- +44-07980277479 - Lawternative Ltd
- natashak@lawternative.co.uk
- Mon-Fri - 08:00-19:00
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F.A.Q
What is your complaint's policy
Complaints policy
We are committed to providing high quality legal advice and client care. However, if at any point you become unhappy or concerned about the service provided, please inform us immediately so that we can do our best to resolve the problem.
Formal complaint procedure
The following outlines our recommended procedure for making a formal complaint. Please note that making a complaint will not affect how we handle your case.
A formal complaint should be addressed to our head of practice Natasha Kirsten who can be contacted in writing at 29 Clover Drive, Pickmere, Cheshire, WA16 OWF or by email natashak@lawternative.co.uk. Please set out the details of the complaint.
We will acknowledge your complaint within seven working days of receipt.
Our head of practice will conduct a thorough investigation of your complaint.
Where reasonably possible you will receive a written response to your complaint within 14 days from the date the complaint is first received. This response will set out the result of our investigation, any proposed resolution and, if relevant, any procedural changes we will make to ensure the situation does not arise again. Where this is not reasonably possible, we will write to you and explain why it cannot be completed within 14 days and when the complaint will be finalised. This extra time will be limited to 8 weeks as a maximum.
Taking the complaint further
We are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and complaints and redress mechanisms are provided through them and the Legal Ombudsman.
If we are unable to resolve any such concerns to your satisfaction you are entitled to make a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman.
The Legal Ombudsman investigates complaints about service issues with lawyers. They expect complaints to be made to them within one year of the date of the act or omission about which you are concerned, or within one year of you realising there was a concern. You must also refer your concerns to the Legal Ombudsman within six months of our final response to you.
The Legal Ombudsman may consider complaints made after these deadlines if it is fair and reasonable for them to do so. They may decide not to pursue a complaint if:
there was no significant loss, distress, inconvenience, or detriment;
the size or complexity of the complaint, or your behaviour, results in the complaint requiring a disproportionate use of resources;
there has been undue delay in bringing the complaint;
you have already accepted a reasonable offer we made.
The Legal Ombudsman’s contact details are:
Visit: | www.legalombudsman.org.uk |
Call: | 0300 555 0333 between 10am to 4pm |
Relay UK: | 18001 0300 555 0333 |
Email: | enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk |
Post: | Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6167, Slough, SL1 0EH |
Complaints about a client’s rights under the General Data Protection Regulation must be submitted to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk.
Any disputes or legal issues arising from our Client Care and Terms of Business will be determined by the law of England and Wales and considered exclusively by the English and Welsh co
How do we contact you?
Contact us for a without obligation discussion about your business needs: Natashak@lawternative.co.uk or 07980277479 or use the contact form below.
Company Information
LAWternative Ltd trading as 'LAW-ternative Solicitors' is a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales and whose registered office is at 29 Clover Dr, Pickmere, WA16 0WF, company number 01113693. Authorised and Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA number: 8007535.
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