Commercial lawyers generally work in teams to support clients with various aspects of transactions and disputes, as well as advise clients on how to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
In a transactional context, this can include helping clients to identify and assess legal and commercial risks, then mitigate these risks through the use of contractual protections. It can also include precisely documenting clients' intentions and the outcome of negotiations. Depending on their practice area, lawyers may also work on financings, employment agreements, real estate transactions, competition law analysis, tax structuring, and so on.
In a disputes context, lawyers may advise clients on investigations (involving regulators), litigation proceedings (involving courts), alternative dispute resolution proceedings (e.g. arbitration and mediation), and settlement negotiations and agreements. This can involve reviewing thousands of documents that are potentially relevant to disputes, engaging and coordinating barristers and experts, drafting witness statements, producing court bundles, and helping clients to understand the prescribed legal processes that they must follow.
In an advisory context, commercial lawyers may advise on a broad range of matters, for example issues relating to cybersecurity, data protection, employment law and environmental law.
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