Our Services
We offer a range of services for both business clients and individuals
Akin Palmer LLP Services
Our team of experts can provide legal help and advice when you need it, in an expedient, confidential manner. Please contact us for more information.
Business Clients
Whether yours is a mature business or a start-up you will find our business practice is comprehensive and integrated covering all your requirements from premises, staff, agreements, disputes through to taxation and if your business proves to be a great success franchising. Our expertise includes the following:
Commercial Property
- Sales and purchases of offices and warehouses
- Leases and tenancies
- Negotiation and surrender of leases
- Rent reviews
- Commercial mortgages and corporate lending
Commercial Disputes
- Contractual Disputes
- Debt recovery
- Employment
- Building / Construction / Right to Light Disputes
- Partnership
- Boundary / Covenant Disputes
Property Transactions
- Acquisitions / Disposal of Leasehold and Freehold Premises
- Public Houses and Commercial Premises
- Restaurants
- Renewal of Leases
- Sale and Purchase of Businesses
Landlord and Tenant
- Business Tenancies
- Renewing / breaking a lease
Insolvency
- Bankruptcy
- Company Winding Up
- Director’s Responsibilities and Creditor’s Rights
- IVA and CVA
Franchising
- Franchise Agreements
- Franchise Disputes
Our litigation lawyers handle a diverse range of civil disputes from simple debt collection through to more weighty commercial matters including International Arbitration, Building, Partnership and other commercial disputes. With the mix of lawyers who are barristers and solicitors we have the experience and knowledge to get to grips with the issues in disputes quickly. This allows us to give you early advice on the prospects for your case and our strategies for achieving a satisfactory outcome.
We cover the following areas:
- Contractual Disputes
- Partnership Disputes
- Company Disputes
- Building Disputes
- Employment Disputes
- Family Disputes
- Insurance and Consumer Matters
- Personal Injury Claims
- Boundary / Neighbourhood Disputes
Our expertise as business lawyers enables us to provide best advice to both employers and employees when joining or leaving both in happy and less happy circumstances. Most disputes can be compromised but if they cannot our employment litigation experience can take you all the way from Employment Tribunals to the High Court.
Our expertise includes:
- Unfair Dismissal
- Wrongful Dismissal
- Constructive Dismissal
- Redundancy
- Compromise Agreement
- Discrimination issues
- Restrictive covenants
- Drafting Contracts of Employment
- Remuneration packages
- Bonus Disputes
We act for Charities, Investment Clubs, Sports Clubs, Trusts and other organisations of individuals who come together for a common purpose.
Our expertise includes:
- Drafting the organisation’s constitutional documents
- Obtaining registration with the Charities Commission
- Advice on compliance and governance issues
- Disputes with funding and regulatory bodies
- Disputes between members
- Advice on taxation
Through one of our partners we are able to offer the services of a Notary Public separately regulated by the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury of 1 The Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3JT. Email Faculty.office@thesanctuary.com.
The notarial services on offer include:
- Attesting powers of attorney and other documents for use in countries throughout the world
- Certifying documents relating to companies registered at Companies House or in foreign commercial registers
- Assisting with documents required to set up a company abroad
- Attesting tender documents and other documents which require to be signed on behalf of a company for use abroad
- Applying for legalisation of documents at the Foreign and Commonwealth office (sometimes called ‘obtaining an apostille’) and for legalisation when necessary from the relevant embassy
- Administering oaths, affidavits and statutory declarations for Scotland and foreign jurisdictions
- Certifying copies of academic qualifications, passports and other documents
- Sponsorship documents
- Affidavits confirming freedom to marry
- Documents for foreign adoption applications
- Attesting foreign wills
For more information please click on this link http://www.notarypublicislington.co.uk/
Private Clients
Divorce and Separation
Ending a marriage or partnership is never easy but our lawyers can make it easier by helping you to protect your assets for not only your future, but your children’s. Whether you want a divorce or have decided to live apart, our solicitors can help you understand your legal rights on such matters as cohabitation and custody and access to your children.
We cover the following areas:
- Divorce and Separation
- Financial Settlements
- Property Arrangements
- Children – Residence/Contact
- Pre Nuptial and Post Nuptial Agreements
- Civil Partnerships
- Exclusion Prohibition Orders
- Injunctions
- Pension Rights
Our approach is to help you to buy or sell your home quickly and with minimal stress and this is how we do it:
- We will offer a fixed fee for the legal work completed on your sale and/or purchase of your property. Our legal fees are very competitive and will be agreed at the outset.
- We will provide a breakdown of all additional costs e.g. stamp duty and search fees. This will eliminate any surprise fees and therefore help you stick to your “moving” budget.
- We will work with you to agree an achievable timeline for the sale/purchase to be completed.
- We will use electronic searches to help progress your sale/purchase as quickly as possible.
- We will keep you informed regularly of the progress.
Our expertise extends to the following areas:
- Sale/Purchase of Houses/Flats
- Remortgage
- Leases
- Landlord and Tenant
- Transferring Land and Purchase of Freeholds
- Joint Ownership Agreements
Our immigration lawyers will help you with any problems you may have entering, or settling in the UK. Whether you want to enter the UK to work, to set up your own business, to seek political asylum, to take a university course or to settle with a partner, the best advice is only a phone call away.
We provide legal services in all types of immigration, human rights and asylum matters at all stages including applications to the Home Office. We handle all stages of appeals right from the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) up to the European Court of Human Rights. We also deal with Judicial Review applications to the High Court and with immigration detainees in terms of bail applications and/or challenging removal/deportation from the UK.
Upon instructing Akin Palmer LLP to represent you, our clients should expect us to do the following:
- Provide a full and professional assessment of your case
- Advise on whether you should consider a different immigration programme or category
- Strong and weak points of your application
- Advise on correct list of documents and evidence required
- Instructing your sponsor, relative, employer or college (if required)
- Final check of your documents before submission to the Home Office/British Diplomatic Post
- Drafting representations and cover letters to the Home Office/British Diplomatic Post
- Working with interpreters (if required)
- Submission of your application to the Home Office/British Diplomatic Post
- Correspondence with the Home Office/British Diplomatic Post
- Keeping you updated by post, E-mail or phone on the progress of your application
- Any further in-country/out-of-country immigration assistance
Our litigation lawyers handle a diverse range of civil disputes from simple debt collection through to more weighty commercial matters including International Arbitration, Building, Partnership and other commercial disputes. With the mix of lawyers who are barristers and solicitors we have the experience and knowledge to get to grips with the issues in disputes quickly. This allows us to give you early advice on the prospects for your case and our strategies for achieving a satisfactory outcome.
We cover the following areas:
- Contractual Disputes
- Partnership Disputes
- Company Disputes
- Building Disputes
- Employment Disputes
- Family Disputes
- Insurance and Consumer Matters
- Personal Injury Claims
- Boundary / Neighbourhood Disputes
Our expertise as business lawyers enables us to provide best advice to both employers and employees when joining or leaving both in happy and less happy circumstances. Most disputes can be compromised but if they cannot our employment litigation experience can take you all the way from Employment Tribunals to the High Court.
Our expertise includes:
- Unfair Dismissal
- Wrongful Dismissal
- Constructive Dismissal
- Redundancy
- Compromise Agreement
- Discrimination issues
- Restrictive covenants
- Drafting Contracts of Employment
- Remuneration packages
- Bonus Disputes
Through one of our partners we are able to offer the services of a Notary Public separately regulated by the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury of 1 The Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3JT. Email Faculty.office@thesanctuary.com.
The notarial services on offer include:
- Attesting powers of attorney and other documents for use in countries throughout the world
- Certifying documents relating to companies registered at Companies House or in foreign commercial registers
- Assisting with documents required to set up a company abroad
- Attesting tender documents and other documents which require to be signed on behalf of a company for use abroad
- Applying for legalisation of documents at the Foreign and Commonwealth office (sometimes called ‘obtaining an apostille’) and for legalisation when necessary from the relevant embassy
- Administering oaths, affidavits and statutory declarations for Scotland and foreign jurisdictions
- Certifying copies of academic qualifications, passports and other documents
- Sponsorship documents
- Affidavits confirming freedom to marry
- Documents for foreign adoption applications
- Attesting foreign wills
For more information please click on this link http://www.notarypublicislington.co.uk/