Director Legal Advice

As a director, your responsibilities are significant. From strategic decision-making to ensuring compliance, the pressures can be immense.

Our specialist lawyers, including lawyers from the commercial, employment, insolvency and criminal defence teams have the experience to protect you as director advice and to navigate the complexities and legal risks of your role.

How we help directors

• Advice on your duties as a company director - so that you understanding your fiduciary duties, including loyalty, care, and skill.

• Mitigating the risks of breach of director duty - whether in a conflict of interest situation or corporate governance areas such as bribery prevention. We advise on best practices for decision-making and record-keeping.

• Protecting you contractually - ensuring that the terms of any director service agreement, company articles and other contracts protect you whether in terms of suitable indemnities, express clauses which deal with conflict of interest situations, rights where you may need to whistle blow or resign, unfair and/or unenforceable post departure restrictive covenants.

• Defending company directors - against personal liability, whether civil (such as misrepresentation claims or director disqualification) or criminal (such as potential liability for fraud, bribery, corruption or Health & Safety criminal liability).

• Shareholder disputes - we represent directors embroiled in shareholder disputes or disputes with other directors.

• Corporate Insolvency - advice on reducing potential legal risks such as wrongful or fraudulent trading or where a company director client has given a personal guarantee for the company's debts.

• Regulatory breach defence

Practical ways directors can legally protect themselves

Some of the ways we assist directors who are concerned about their legal duties include :-

• ensuring that your role, duties, rights and responsibilities are very clear.

• what to do if you have legal concerns about activity of the company and how to resign, if necessary, whilst protecting your employment law and/or other rights.

• consider obtaining appropriate legal indemnities against liability from the company.

• ensuring you are properly and adequately covered under appropriate Directors & Officers Insurance.

For more information on how we can assist, please get in touch.