Commercial Law Services for Startups and SMEs
Starting and growing a business involves legal steps that are easy to overlook. We provide clear, practical advice to founders and teams without in-house legal support.
Services
Commercial Law Services for Startups and SMEs
Starting or growing a business brings legal decisions that shouldn't be left until the last minute. Whether you're reviewing contracts, setting up terms and conditions, or preparing for investment, we help you put the right protections in place.
We work with founders, directors, and operations leads to offer clear and practical legal advice at the early stages of business growth.
What We Offer
We support new and growing businesses that don’t have an in-house legal team.
Our service offer includes:
Our service offer includes:
Fixed-Fee Legal Packages
Contract Review Package. Startup Legal Bundle (includes shareholder agreement, articles of association, employment contract, and privacy policy)
Monthly Retainer
Monthly Retainer For ongoing support with day-to-day legal needs. You’ll always have someone to review documents, answer legal questions, and guide decisions.
At Queensbury, we deliver practical and strategic legal advice to help businesses thrive in today’s complex regulatory environment. Our core areas of expertise include company law, corporate governance, risk and compliance advisory, commercial contract support, and GDPR/data protection compliance.
CORPORATE LAW & GOVERNANCE
Our team advises companies of all sizes on corporate legal matters, governance frameworks, and secretarial compliance.
Our services include:
- Company formation and restructuring
- Corporate governance frameworks tailored to your industry
- Board advisory and director responsibilities
- Shareholder agreements and joint venture arrangements
- Company secretarial services, including statutory filings and meeting support
We help businesses maintain compliance with their legal obligations while supporting sound decision- making and transparency at board level.
RISK ADVISORY & COMPLIANCE
We support businesses in identifying, managing, and mitigating legal and operational risks before they escalate.
Our services include:
- Preventative risk management strategies
- Tailored compliance frameworks across industries
- Regulatory audits and legal health checks
- Emergency response planning and crisis management advice
- Sector-specific regulatory risk assessments
Whether you're facing heightened regulatory scrutiny or preparing for growth, our risk and compliance team provides practical, forward-thinking guidance.
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
Our legal experts draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts to support day-to-day business operations and strategic growth.
We support with:
- Supplier, distribution, franchise and service agreements
- Consultancy and partnership contracts
- Technology and licensing arrangements
- Master service agreements
- Data Privacy and Confidentiality agreements
We ensure your contracts are legally sound, commercially balanced, and tailored to your operational needs.
GDPR & DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE
Our specialist GDPR compliance team provides comprehensive support to help your organisation meet its data protection obligations and build a culture of compliance.
We advise on:
- Data processing audits and compliance reviews
- Lawful bases for processing, including consent
- Privacy notices and cookie policies
- Data protection in corporate transactions (asset/share sales)
- Contracts with data processors (including SaaS/cloud providers)
- International data transfers and standard contractual clauses (SCCs)
- Electronic marketing compliance
- DPO appointment and responsibilities
- Record keeping and accountability obligations
Additional Support:
- Policy and procedure development
- Bespoke data protection training
- Employee data protection: contracts, monitoring policies, and SAR support
Our data privacy lawyers offer practical, risk-based solutions aligned with your operational and sector-specific needs.
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Ready to Speak with a Solicitor?
If you're preparing to hire, sign a contract, or attract investment, we can help you take care of the legal side. Book a short call to discuss what your business might need.
Contact our team to chat about your needs
If you have an enquiry, reach out to us to schedule a confidential
consultation to discuss your case.We'll listen to your concerns and provide an initial assessment.
Call us, email us or use our online enquiry form below.
The QCL Associate LLP website (the "website") is provided by QCL Associates LLP ("Queensbury") a limited
liability partnership (registered number OC412213) practising English law. QCL Associates LLP is
Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority ( 669878 ). A list of our members of the
LLP can be found at the registered office and on Companies House.