Bird & Bird's market leading practice in Commercial Law supports our clients across Europe and Asia. Lawyers in each of our 14 offices across 9 countries specialise in supporting your commercial contracting requirements. Commercial contract advice sits at the very core of our client offering; it is not a support offering to the rest of the business. The Group has immediate access to all relevant complementary practice areas such as corporate, tax, dispute resolution, employment and real estate from specialists who are adept at advising in the context of commercial transactions.
The strength and extent of our International Commercial Group means that we are regularly involved in advising on highly complex multi-national transactions. The direct result of this is an International Group who are well used to working together as a seamless team with a cohesive approach second to none. Our ability to provide teams of expert commercial lawyers in each of the major European jurisdictions provides an uniformity of service, experience, approach and pure joined up thinking. This in turn delivers better transactions enabling us to secure our clients’ commercial objectives more efficiently in terms of time to contract and enforceability.
We take pride in the commercial attitude of all members of the Group. Through working in fused teams with our clients and as a result of many of the Group having been seconded to clients, we know the value of providing advice that facilitates the taking of business decisions. We also appreciate the importance of setting and meeting expectations. We do not believe in artificial barriers between external counsel and clients and thrive on rolling up our sleeves and getting stuck in to transactions with a can do attitude. We always seek to promote teamwork between our lawyers and our clients’ in-house legal and commercial teams.
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