Consumer Goods and Retail

Our team of expert lawyers provide full-service support at every stage. Whether you are a business or consumer, we are here to protect and further your interests in the consumer and retail market.

With the introduction of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, the consumer goods and retail sector is undergoing significant transformation. This fast-moving, brand-driven and highly regulated market places businesses under constant pressure to innovate, scale and maintain consumer trust, while responding to increased enforcement powers, heightened consumer protection obligations and evolving ESG expectations.

Legal and commercial challenges arise across the entire product lifecycle, from sourcing and manufacturing to marketing, distribution and post-sale obligations. The growth of e-commerce and omnichannel retail has intensified regulatory scrutiny and exposure to cyber risk, data protection issues and consumer claims, creating a more complex legal and commercial environment for businesses and individuals alike.

We offer a broad and integrated range of legal expertise designed to support those operating within the consumer goods and retail landscape. Bringing together specialists from across our commercial teams, we provide strategic, practical and commercially focused solutions across consumer protection, product safety and recalls, advertising compliance, supply chain contracting, intellectual property and brand protection, data privacy, property, employment and transactional matters. Our joined-up approach helps you adapt to regulatory change, mitigate risk, protect brand value and achieve your commercial objectives with confidence.

How can we help you?

Our clients benefit from the team’s depth of knowledge and cross-sector experience, underpinned by a collaborative and client-focused approach. We deliver tailored advice drawing on specialist expertise in corporate and commercial, dispute resolution, employment and property law, ensuring seamless support across all aspects of your business or personal legal needs.

We offer expertise in areas such as:

• Terms and Conditions and e-Commerce
• Franchising and licensing arrangements
• Intellectual property: trademark registration and dispute resolution
• Corporate governance
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Corporate reorganisations
• Financing
• Product liability
• Real estate: negotiating and drafting commercial leases and other occupational agreements, property acquisitions and disposals, real estate development projects, property management, secured lending, planning matters
• Guidance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices
• Health and Safety law compliance
• Employment contracts and policies
• Workplace investigations
• Discrimination and harassment claims
• Staff training
• Workforce restructuring