Commercial & Business

Our Team provides clients with comprehensive and expert legal support on a wide range of commercial and business matters including commercial contracts, data protection, data privacy and intellectual property expertise and regulatory and compliance advice, among other issues. Our lawyers provide practical legal advice and are trusted external advisers to your business.

Expertise

We advise our clients on the full range of commercial and business issues which can arise.

This includes commercial contracts and transactional arrangements that underpin their day-to-day business operations and long term strategic objectives.

Our work spans advice on all forms of commercial agreements, from straightforward agreements, across the range from straightforward supplier and customer contracts through to complex, bespoke commercial contract arrangements.  Our clients and their counterparties include private companies, multi-national groups, financial institutions and public sector organisations.

We provide focused advice tailored to the specific objective of each client.  Our approach combines legal expertise with a strong understanding of the commercial, operational and regulatory environments in which our clients operate.

We ensure that commercial arrangements appropriately address issues such as risk allocation, data protection, intellectual property ownership and regulatory compliance.

We work closely with clients, often as an extension of their internal legal teams, providing ongoing practical advice informed by our extensive experience in the legal issues that arise in their day-to-day operations.  Where no in-house legal team exists, we can operate effectively as external general counsel.  In each case, we work alongside our clients as a trusted partner.

Services

  • Banking
  • Charities
  • Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
  • Competition and EU law
  • Debt recovery
  • Food, retail, hygiene, safety & labelling
  • Business establishment in Ireland
  • Company law
  • Corporate and Company Secretarial
  • Data Protection
  • Distribution, supply, agency, licensing & franchising agreements
  • Health & Safety
  • Insolvency and corporate recovery
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Pensions
  • Procurement
  • Shareholders, joint ventures and partnership agreements.
  • Intellectual property and information technology
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Product liability and public liability
  • Regulation
‘Knowledge and personality. They are real people finding real solutions. It's a given they have the legal knowledge but their attention to detail, how they embrace a challenge and find creative solutions is highly valuable.’
Legal 500 2026
‘Having utilised a variety of the firm's service offerings, I can say they are consistently excellent. Fast, practical advice and solutions. Highly responsive and genuinely lovely people to deal with. Quality service by great collaborators. In particular, their ability to find practical solutions to a variety of legal challenges is market leading. Their inclusive culture radiates in all meetings with them.’
Legal 500 2026
‘The experience was first class from the initial introductory meeting right through to the post deal queries. We felt that any query, question or concern was dealt with efficiently and quickly. At all times we felt that we were in safe hands and our interests were being protected. The ability to be able to have the support of other departments within Hayes made the process very seamless.’
Legal 500 2026
"Hayes solicitors provides clear advice and guidance and considers issues comprehensively having taken the time to understand our business and its values."
Chambers and Partners 2025
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