Running a small business brings with it joy and challenge in equal measure. There is nothing that their corporate big brother tackles that the typical SME does not. From innovation to delivery, from marketing to customer after-care, from finance to people management, it all needs to be done. In the small business world, however, it has to be done without the resources and budget of the larger organisation. Legal services are a case in point. Starting or growing a business is financially challenging and having access to the legal expertise and advice to build a business on strong foundations often seem out of reach. This is why Dr Jure Chambers offers a Virtual Legal Counsel - your own dedicated legal counsel, available for advice, legal documents, protection of business assets and company structure – all for a single, fixed, monthly fee.  To learn more and book your initial meeting, click the link below.

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De Jure Chambers’ lawyers include litigators, mediators and arbitrators with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators who specialise in at least one sector of our work. De Jure litigators comprises of Solicitors (rights of audience mostly limited to the Magistrate and County Courts) as well as Barristers and Solicitor-Advocates accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with High Rights of Audience (Civil and Criminal) for all proceedings (including Judicial Review) in all courts in England and Wales.

The distributed De Jure Chambers model allows litigators to attend courts where they live, strengthening their local networks and eliminating additional costs and risks that come with travel.

We advise and represent on a range of matters: crime, family and civil matters, contentious and non-contentious, including

Direct engagement of De Jure Chambers with social enterprises’ management and activities provides a good background understanding of their business and charity vehicles to advice and represent social enterprise clients, a core value and central pillar of De Jure Chambers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).   De Jure Chambers is a member of Social Enterprise UK, the national body for social enterprise - business with a social or environmental mission where society profits.  Through its membership of Social Enterprise UK, De Jure engages with government on social enterprise campaigns and policy development consultations. De Jure Chambers advises Community Interest Companies (CiCs), Industrial and Provident Societies (IPSs) and Cooperatives from conception, and registration through to establishment and operation in the relevant sectors. 

We advice on crowd funding options from model conception, establishment and implementation, including due diligence on venture, terms and conditions between Crowd Funding Platform, venture and Investor; cross-jurisdictional issues, regulation, compliance and residual exposure risks.

Our lawyers have extensive experience of working with charities and social enterprises in various capacities, including as trustees and directors. 

De Jure also participates in regular charity events and we encourage all our professional and support staff as well as clients and supply chain to volunteer their services to charity. The engagement of De Jure and personal involvement of De Jure lawyers with charity in the various ways described above gives us our lawyers and Chambers a unique perspective from which to train, advice and represent charities working within and across sectors. This has allowed De Jure to offer a specialist Charity Package which includes registration and establishment, governance, regulatory compliance, restructuring, fundraising, state aid, social finance, political activities and campaigning

 We advise on crowd funding options from model conception, establishment and implementation, including due diligence on venture, terms and conditions between Crowd Funding Platform, venture and Investor; cross-jurisdictional issues, regulation, compliance and residual exposure risks.

Our SME clients want to ensure that their business is properly established and runs on a solid legal foundation. SMEs are prepared to pay reasonable fees for a lawyer to help ensure this is so and to navigate the legal terrain and secure their investments but expect certainty and clarity on costs. We have listened to the SMEs and have identified the key areas where they need the most legal support. De Jure suite of packaged legal services supports clients across the full range of business issues and legal services from start-up through compliance to running and growing the business.   

We advice on crowd funding options from model conception, establishment and implementation, including due diligence on venture; terms and conditions between Crowd Funding Platform, venture and Investor; cross-jurisdictional issues, regulation, compliance and residual exposure risks.

De Jure Corporate lawyers have advised on a range of corporate/commercial matters including foreign direct investment, banking and finance, joint ventures, acquisitions and securities; providing bespoke legal services to private sector domestic and international clientele and donor agencies; drafting bespoke agreements for joint ventures, investment projects, and project finance structures; and handling company incorporations and foreign mergers and acquisitions.  

De Jure lawyers all have specific expertise on acquisitions; agency and distribution; collaboration agreements; angel investment; banking and finance; confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, consultancy agreements; exploitation agreements; foreign direct investment; framing agreements; franchising; MoUs and HoTs; Joint venture agreements; lease, hire and maintenance agreements; licence agreements; logistics agreements; manufacture, purchase and supply; mergers; option agreements; outsourcing; partnership agreements; reseller agreements; securities; strategic alliance agreements and terms of business.

De Jure lawyers range of Corporate clients have included a mobile payments venture company, AIM-listed Utilities Companies, Google Inc., IBM, African Development Bank (AfDB), the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the German Development Finance Institution (DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH), the South African Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the Belgian Development Bank (BIO), Cordiant managed ICF Debt Pool, The Swedish Development Fund (Swedfund), Addax, Macmillan, Japan Tobacco Inc, commercial banks and other foreign companies.

Donor and international/regional agencies clients have include, UK Department for International Development, The World Bank, International Telecommunications Union, West African Telecoms Regulatory Assembly (WATRA) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

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