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Paratus Law is a tech-enabled business law firm with entrepreneurial spirit at its core.
Our aim is to enhance the contracting process for you and your customers with our refreshed outlook. By viewing contracts as a strategic part of your business, we will enable you to gain advantage through converting data into intelligence, understanding risk and enabling better informed negotiation.
From initial phase, cornerstone commercial contracts to contract refresh and renewal; from reorganisations, returns of value, debt and equity finance and complex M&A we employ the latest technology to speed up the contracting process including secure, collaborative workspaces and highly secure encrypted digital signatures wherever we can.
Contract implementation is faster, customer experience is improved and revenue is accelerated. We want to make the contracting process easy and rewarding for you and your customers. Our goal is for you to see that we have succeeded.
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All initial consultations are free of charge.
We will always endeavour to get back to you on the same business day.
Legal advice for new & growth businesses
Dedicated
expertise
My name is
Simon Arthur
"I am a business law specialist, based in Newbury in Berkshire, with 16 years’ experience. My vision is to provide dedicated, expert legal advice to new and growth businesses, priced transparently and using the most efficient and appropriate solutions in every instance.
Speed, understanding risk and pragmatism are everything. 'No' has rarely been a winning commercial position. Above all, I’m friendly, plain speaking and meticulous, and I will tailor my approach to meet your specific needs."
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Our ability to help you leverage strategic advantage is based on talking.
The commercial document you sign is the embodiment of the process, but it’s the conversation and thought that builds this document which is most important. Without this, strategic advantage is lost.
Post-deal implementation of your legal contracts is vitally important. There is no merit in a contract that does not reflect your actual practice. We will help you design contractual systems for your in-house teams that maximise delivery and minimise slippage.
From the outset we will work with you to establish a detailed timetable and critical path for your commercial project that will enhance your reputation by providing the best possible customer experience.
We need to understand your business, your commercial motivation and your actual contractual deliverance processes. Once we do, we can take a truly refreshed approach to your contracts and create in turn, commercial and financial advantages for you.
Everything we do is fixed-fee and quoted in advance.
Our streamlined business model makes us competitively priced and we complete projects swiftly and efficiently.
What our clients say...
![“Simon has been superbly efficient, swift in his dealings, lucid and highly professional - and he knows just when to be diplomatic.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1493982355201-K5C264P38A3MF6U9PYRM/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Simon has been very helpful and knowledgeable in helping us turn a dream into reality. We sincerely thank him for assisting us on legal matters.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1493982575685-0C68DOQYK7PHIW40TI3I/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“After working with Simon for many years he would be the first lawyer I would think of to navigate the complex world of company law.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464278216414-6RQ79OH8W4QY2VXKE95K/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Contact was frequent and informative whilst Simon progressed the transaction alongside managing the risks.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464280979051-K0IMNBG934LXPZGR96C7/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“I’m proud to class Simon as a good friend and recommend him without reservation to anyone looking for the best.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464357412217-MPWXZQM7TBN3IS0XM64L/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“I have always found Simon to be professional, very responsive and discreet where necessary.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464357447330-72928MJWX12R2Y2U2F36/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Simon has consistently performed to an exceptional standard, outpacing our expectations in all corporate and commercial projects.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1465220388110-5PRDJ1GVO7X1BEP32CAU/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Simon has good negotiation skills where this is required especially with regard to M&A activities.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1465559830411-LL7MH46K3C3SB265RRDZ/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Simon is a rare breed – a legal expert who is also commercially very astute, but who brings with him a refreshingly irreverent sense of humour as well.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464356976061-31PZOH764MHL33GHM5EQ/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Finding people that take a natural interest in your business as much as you do is a rarity. Simon helped me with my business sale as if it were his own.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464357152164-5T5C3CKJUQWCB52KV7V7/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“It has been my huge pleasure to work with Simon on many projects over the years, including some very stressful ones where his inimitable style has been invaluable.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1464357200595-9LR43GZKJVXXYAISZL93/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“In the last 10 years of working together he continually exhibits an outstanding level of politeness, accommodation and professionalism”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1465220433019-JL8VC19R7YT16N0YULZL/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“We have recommended him to many of our peers in the IT industry and will continue to do so.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1465220471210-2P8AF5SEFVMB03EI1O94/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“I would embrace the opportunity to work with him again and highly recommend him.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1465565810641-2T1M2IXP1MCDFA8XP7NZ/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
![“Simon kept things on track and was professional at all times. He was extremely well organised both by email and phone.”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5728bf1460b5e9e3093b2c74/1493982730862-SA9ERDD7GMTC3AEOE7UE/Client-testimonial-background.jpg)
How we can
help you
- M&A
- Restructuring
- Joint Ventures
- Shareholder Agreements
- General Commercial Contracts
- Bespoke Commercial Contracts
- Employment Contracts
- Compliance
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