Temple & Co, Great Britain
| Contact | Euan Temple Natwest Bank Chambers 46 High Street Daventry Northamptonshire NN11 4HU, Great Britain t: 00 44 8452 41 40 45 f: 00 44 8452 41 40 46 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it www: www.templesols.com |
| Practice areas | Agency and Distribution Law Antitrust Law Banking Law Building and Construction Law Charity Law Civil Law Commercial Law Company Law Corporate Finance Ecommerce Law EU Law Immovable Property Law Intellectual and Industrial Property Law Labour Law Litigation and Dispute Resolution Mediation Partnerships and joint ventures Succession Law |
| Firm Description | Based in Daventry, Northamptonshire, Temple & Co provides business clients across the country with an added-value professional legal service Our purpose is to provide clear, positive, commercial, high quality and constructive legal advice to businesses at a competitive cost, which is responsive to the clients’ needs and fulfils their objectives. There is frequently a high adrenalin factor in these matters, which can involve tense negotiations, complicated issues of law and critical time scales in fast-changing circumstances. Clients have ready access to creative and practical legal advice in a commercial context. General Description of the firm: Temple & Co is a niche law firm based at Daventry, Northamptonshire, a little over one hour North of London, just off England’s main motorway, the M1. It also has excellent road links to Birmingham in the West Midlands and to towns and cities in the East Midlands. It is about one hour by car from Airports at Luton, Birmingham and East Midlands. We believe that the loyalty of all our clients is a result of the excellence of our service, our commitment to communication and our policy of providing value for money. Temple & Co aim to deliver an added-value quality service to all our clients, and to be recognised as justifiably one of the leading niche business law firms in the East Midlands Region. This we achieve by providing high quality and constructive legal advice at a competitive cost, by being responsive to client needs, and by fulfilling client objectives. We meet or beat deadlines! Euan Temple’s Background Euan Temple graduated from Cambridge University in 1967, qualified as a solicitor in 1970 and was accredited as a commercial mediator in 1990. In 1990 Euan was accredited by ADR Group as a Commercial Mediator and nominated in 2006 as a national “leader in the field” by Chambers Directory, (an independent publication). This was not a ‘first’ for Euan as he had been nominated similarly in previous years. Euan is a University External Examiner for the Postgraduate Solicitors Diploma for English solicitors (the LPC). He is a part-time Lecturer to solicitors also. Euan frequently writes and speaks on European and UK Competition Law topics and has published two books on European Public Procurement Law as well as on E-commerce topics. Euan’s interests include umpiring Hockey matches and he has an abiding interest in Western and Central European history. President of East Midlands Regional Association of local Law societies 1994, Member of the English law Society’s International Committee 1994-97. Member-founder of Eurolegal. Member-founder of ADR Net (commercial mediation). Member of the British-Polish Lawyers Association. Member of the Law Society’s European Group. “Of Counsel “ to Peter Nielsen and Partners law firm, Warsaw, Poland. He likes “Positive Thinking” and dislikes “Red Tape”. Specialist practice areas: • Business Transfers • Corporate Finance • Corporate Re-organisations • Joint Ventures and Partnerships • Distribution and Commercial Agency Agreements • EU and UK Competition Law • Export Sales and Cross Border Trading • Intellectual Property Licensing • Commercial Property • Business Law • E-Commerce • Employment • Commercial Mediation Business Law: We are able to provide first-rate professional guidance in business law. We currently advise large companies as well as Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. As solicitors, we understand the issues and problems experienced by business people, and we have the depth and range of expertise to assist. Contact Euan Temple Corporate Law We are able to give advice and guidance in business sales and acquisitions and provide fast, accurate and positive guidance which enables clients to make informed decisions. • Share acquisitions and disposals • Management buy-outs • Management buy-ins • Mergers • Sale/purchase/ agreements by way of asset transfer • Sale by liquidators and receivers • Shareholders agreements There is always the possibility of negotiations becoming increasingly complicated and tense. Such occasions usually result in even more involved issues of law, critical time scales and in fast changing circumstances. We have the experience to deal with this. Contact Euan Temple Competition Law: We advise on the following types of agreement, whether for UK use or cross-border within Europe: • Exclusive Distribution agreements • Exclusive Commercial Agency agreements • Franchise agreements • Research and development agreements • Exclusive selling and buying agreements • Patent, know-how and trade mark licensing agreements (Technology transfer agreements) • Joint venture agreements and partnerships • Commercial contracts • Public procurement agreements Contact Euan Temple Intellectual Property Rights We advise clients, on both obtaining and maintaining protection (Nationally and Internationally) for:- • Brands • Trade secrets • Commercial and Creative designs • inventions We advise on licensing and sales of: • Trade Marks • Patents • Design rights • Copyright We advise in disputes involving: • Trade Marks • Patents • Design Rights • Copyright • Passing-off • Unfair competition and abuse of confidential information • EU Cross-border work We advise on Internet related issued such as E-commerce, Information Communications Technology, Technology Transfer Agreements (including for research and development) competition law and Cross- Border work. Contact Euan Temple Banking Contracts: We advise on banking and venture capital agreements, funding agreements – along with all supporting security documents – for either the investor or the investee company. Contact Euan Temple Business contracts: We advise on: • Joint ventures and Partnerships • Commercial agency and distribution contracts • EU and UK competition law issues • Research and development contracts • E-commerce • Shareholder agreements • Public procurement • Terms and conditions of trading. Contact Euan Temple Commercial property: As an investor, developer, landlord, tenant, purchaser or occupier, clients benefit from advice and negotiations undertaken on your behalf by us. We appreciate that significant sums of money are often involved in property transactions. We understand the needs of clients’ businesses, and can move fast when required. Property comprises many forms. Each specific type requires special handling and a separate approach, especially if this is a specially integrated part of the business. Every business needs somewhere from which to work. We conduct pre-acquisition investigations and preparation of the legal transfer documents for factories, shops and offices and any necessary banking security documents. It is our policy to meet or beat deadlines! Pubs, Clubs, Hotels and Restaurants is also an area we deal with. It involves a package of complicated issues relating to employment, alcohol licensing, taxation, and the transferring of goodwill and intellectual property. There are usually and complex related commercial agreements, including for the supply of alcohol. It is essential that these issues are addressed in the right order, and early enough in the transaction, for it to go smoothly and on time. Contact Euan Temple Dispute Resolution: We advise on issues arising from: • Employment law disputes • Shareholders and partnership disputes • Intellectual property rights disputes • Commercial mediation Our philosophy is to go the “extra mile” for the client providing a quality service where results meet expectations. Our approach to Dispute Resolution is solutions-driven rather than clients becoming lost in the legal process. We use commercial mediation at an early stage to help resolve disputes in a practical and cost-effective way. If the case is not suitable for Commercial mediation, and negotiations are not proving successful, we are pro-active in pushing forward the client’s case to bring it to a successful conclusion. At mediation, the objective is to obtain a fair and just settlement of the dispute. In 1990, Euan Temple was accredited by ADR Group as a Commercial Mediator, and was nominated in 2006 as a “leader in the field” by Chambers Directory (an independent publication). This was not the first time he had been nominated, as he had been so nominated in successive years before. Contact Euan Temple. |
| Languages | English |
| Membership | President of East Midlands Regional Association of local Law Societies 1994 Member of the English Law Society's International Committee 1994-1997 Member-founder of Eurolegal International Lawyers Network 'Of Counsel' to Peter Nielsen & Partners, Warsaw Member-founder of ADR Net (commercial mediation) Member of the British-Polish Lawyers Association |