Proactive and strategic

We focus on your commercial priorities, making sure you get practical value from legal advice by balancing risk and cost.

Our guiding principles are to:

Give practical advice – Making the complex simple with business-savvy advice and a proactive approach derived from years of experience.
Minimise your burden – By helping you navigate your way through the legal challenges that often complicate business and workplace dealings.
Work smarter – Many people fear that bringing in the lawyers will lead to runaway costs and a drain on management time; we don’t work that way. See How We Charge for more information.
Be adaptive – Adapting with you to changes in your circumstances, the legal arena and seeking more collaborative ways of working so we deliver solutions that meet your expectations.

Our services

Commercial agreements and disputes
Corporate and investor advice
Data protection and e-commerce
Employment and workplace relations
Intellectual property and exploitation of rights
Publishing and media rights
Regulatory
Technology contracting and licensing
Telco contracting
Wayleaves/easements

Commercial contracts and agreements, managing counsel in local and international jurisdictions.
Corporate work (including company secretarial advice) to clients in wide-ranging sectors and their UK and cross-border investors on corporate finance matters, such as M&A, investment and fundraising.
The commercialisation and use of technology and technology-related goods.
General employment advice including complex cases involving employment status, discrimination and whistleblowing, and provide representation at Employment Tribunals, as well as advising on business immigration.
The distribution, generation, protection and licensing of intellectual property rights.
Creation and protection of content and IP, worldwide distributor arrangements and the growing impact of AI.
Regulatory and consumer-related law.
Cyber security, data generation and licensing, deployment and change management.
Telco contracting and the Electronic Communications Code.
Wayleave and easement negotiations.

How we charge

We deliver great value at a reasonable price by keeping our overheads to a minimum.

Testimonials

“I wanted to extend my deepest gratitude for all of your fantastic work. Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) have been there every time with the entire team supporting us. I am so grateful to have met or spoken with you all. If I ever need the best of the best, I know who to call, Sphere Legal!”

“Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) offers us a complete solution without having to hire and manage a wide range of lawyers and consistently delivers creative highly commercial solutions to help us reach our goals without ever compromising on quality or attention to detail.”

“Each and every member of the Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) team is highly responsive, extremely diligent and highly professional while also being personable and integrating with our business teams and culture.”

“Sphere Legal’s (formerly Co-Counsel) practical and commercial approach combined with their focus on delivery and customer satisfaction makes the firm a highly trusted and valued partner for our business that has enabled and become integral to our success.”

“As a firm, they respond quickly, nothing is ever too much to discuss and I genuinely feel as though we have a legal partner that understand us personally and professionally.”

“The calibre of advice from the team that has worked with us is incredible. They are fast, clever, personable and always go the extra mile even when their plate is already overflowing with work.”

“They know us and care about doing the best work and we really feel as though they have our back. I can’t imagine a day ever when we would work with another law firm. We subsequently have moved all our legal services under Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) and view them as an integral part of our future.”

“Over the years Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) has consistently provided valuable advice, flawless documentation and practical support; reflecting their deep expertise, experience and eye for detail.”

“Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) work flexibly, responding to the size, stage and needs of the business. They commit to and hit tight deadlines and can always be relied upon to deliver value.”

“Their approach incorporates practical advice, alongside sound legal advice, resulting in the best outcomes, in the best turnaround time.”

“Sphere Legal (formerly Co-Counsel) has been an absolute pleasure to deal with in the trickiest of situations. Even for the smallest matters they have proven that their advice is sound, commercial and incredibly helpful.”

“We remain grateful for Sphere Legal’s (formerly Co-Counsel) amazing help and support last year. A few months have passed since a very tricky matter was resolved with their help and we are now in a much calmer state. We would recommend Sphere Legal at any opportunity.”