We met with Dr Amna Khan to explore the key trends driving consumer preferences.
Legal Solutions for Retail
As true partners and multidisciplinary retail legal experts, our lawyers understand the complex landscape and help to achieve your commercial goals.
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The retail landscape is always evolving — arguably at a faster rate now than ever before. Our specialist retail solicitors can help you to navigate it with commercially-driven, bespoke legal advice.
With retailers embracing technological advancements, responding to changing consumer behaviours, driving the ESG agenda and adapting to the cost-of-living crisis, it’s vital to have a true legal partner on your side to withstand the challenges and take advantage of opportunities as they develop — a partner that understands the complex retail landscape and can help to achieve your commercial goals.
As a leading independent full-service retail law firm, our retail team works closely with the UK’s largest retailers across beauty, fashion, leisure and hospitality, food and drink, automotive and health.
Expert legal services and advice for the retail sector
We provide the full spectrum of legal services for the retail sector, including advising on commercial contracts, data protection and cyber security, employment and HR, pensions, corporate transactions and restructuring, branding, intellectual property and reputation management, health and safety, real estate portfolios, charitable foundations and environmental responsibilities.
We also undertake contentious work through our specialists in commercial and real estate litigation, as well as contentious intellectual property and regulatory matters.
By gaining an intimate understanding of your organisation, our retail lawyers can develop a comprehensive, commercially-focused strategy to help meet your business objectives and tackle the ever-changing challenges and pressures of the sector.
Talented retail lawyers, on your side
Our retail team is led by experienced Partner and real estate litigator Helena Davies, who acts for many household name retailers.
As the UK’s largest law firm to achieve B Corp status, we're committed to driving positive change — and Helena’s focus on the sustainability challenge for retailers is bringing various retail leaders together to share best practice and help educate and inform on purpose-led business and the ESG agenda.
Recognised as the best law firm to work for in the UK, we bring together some of the UK’s most talented, award-winning legal experts and are also featured in numerous prestigious industry directories, including The Legal 500 and The Times’ Best Law Firms. Our solicitors provide advice to various high-profile, household names across the UK’s vast retail sector.
“Brabners’ retail team truly understands the complex retail landscape. We have worked closely together on Primark’s ongoing significant investments in new and existing UK stores. Highly responsive and commercially minded, Brabners helps us to find solutions and achieve our aims.”
Head of Property Asset Management, Primark
The Future of Retail and Placemaking Conference series
Watch the highlights from our conference series held in partnership with Portland Design in Manchester and London and read insights from our experts.
Perspectives from retail leaders
Find out what ESG really means to one of the UK’s best retail and leisure destinations.
We explore LK Bennett's approach to ESG in retail, including company culture, supplier networks and packaging.
Find out how Ellandi is regenerating town centres and giving back to local communities.
Mamas and Papas' COO Nathan Williams gives insight into the brand's ESG strategy.
We spoke with Kate Wright to understand DFS' approach to sustainability.
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ESG in the Retail Sector: Purpose, Product and Place
How do we find a model where the business wins, the customer wins, and the planet wins?
Our retail sector experts were joined by industry leaders to strip away the jargon and showcase how major retailers are rising to the challenge of becoming sustainable, through their products, their purpose, and their strategy for place.
Brabners is a purpose-led independent law firm.
Our independence allows us to be objective, principled and provide a service with heart and character.
We’re on a mission to make the difference for our clients, people and communities. Proudly anchored in the North since 1815, we serve all of England and Wales.
Sustainable Business
In 2022, we proudly became the UK’s largest law firm (and the first outside London) to become B Corp certified.
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The collaborative network for purpose-led businesses. We’re building a more sustainable and innovative tomorrow.
Community Impact
We channel the energy of our public-spirited people and clients towards improving our local communities.
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