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ADL SOLICITORS

A full service firm of solicitors based in Cannon Street in London. We are a law firm built around our people and our clients with the result that we are passionate in pursuing the interests of our clients and in helping them succeed. We are a caring listening and innovative firm.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

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General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

ADL Solicitors strive to be exceptional and meet the highest standards and do an exceptional job. We observe the highest personal, ethical and professional standards in everything we do and operate with integrity at all times. Our reputation is vital to our success.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

ADL Solicitors bring together the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to help our clients. We have a ‘one-firm’ mindset. We welcome feedback. Our goal is to add value in everything we do to help our clients to succeed. Only by our clients succeeding, can we succeed.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

Both Founding partners were advocates (barristers and avvocati) and therefore litigation is at the heart of the firm. As solicitor advocates, we work closely with barristers in resolving civil disputes of all types, whether commercial & contract disputes, employment matters, Insurance matters, Intellectual Property & Technology disputes, Product liability, media and entertainment matters…the list of commercial disputes is endless and we appear regularly in court litigation or ADR/arbitration.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

ADL Solicitors are creative, innovative & flexible and enjoy finding the best way to do things. We use our knowledge, intellectual abilities and our extensive experience to help clients make judgements and decisions based on sound legal advice and strategy. We have the creativity to find innovative solutions to difficult challenges and explain them simply.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

ADL SOLICITORS

Gerardo Aprovitolo, one of our founding Lawyers, is dual qualified in both English and Italian Law, and as an avvocato is able to provide clients with legal advice on both English and Italian legal issues and is fluent in both Italian and English. Our Italian team offers our British and Italian clients strategic focussed advice on a wide range of issues such as corporate/commercial law, franchising, property law and estate planning.

General Tel: 0200 888 0300 | Italian Tel: 0207 929 4311

Why Choose Us

Successful and Efficient

We have an outstanding reputation for being successful on behalf of our clients.


Innovative Value for Money Solutions

We are an innovative law firm that provides value for money and pioneered fixed fees and budgetary restrained fees.


Law Made Simple

We'll tell you how it is. Our advice won't change part way through litigation unless something new crops up, AND We'll explain it to you in plain English without the jargon.


Practice Areas

ADR, Arbitration and Mediation

ADL advocates are trained as mediators & are experienced in Mediation, a process where participants seek to find practical solutions to the dispute which turned into an enforceable order, enforceable at court & covering all types of commercial & workplace disputes in a completely confidential setting. ADL arbitration solicitors have extensive qualification, experience & expertise in settling disputes through arbitration as well as resolving legal disputes in order to prevent litigation via Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Business, Commercial & Corporate Law

Our lawyers have many years experience handling a wide variety of business-related issues for clients ranging from startups to professional practices and multi-national companies in manufacturing, distribution, services, telecommunication, healthcare, technical or retail markets, dealing with all general business and corporate law requirements including corporate formation & restructuring, joint venture agreements, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, sales & distribution, governance, drafting business contracts & shareholder, member, and partner agreements, startup and business succession planning etc.

Computer Law, A.I. & Ethics

As specialists in Computer Law, we have extensive experience in all aspects of computer law, including intellectual property disputes and contractual disputes, including restrictions on employees and trade secrets.
In addition, we have extensive experience in Artificial Intelligence ethics and law, and we understand that the rise of artificial intelligence presents not only technical challenges, but
important legal and ethical challenges for society, including presenting numerous unique moral assessments.

Contractual Drafting & Disputes

Contract drafting, one of the most critical parts of contract management providing the foundation upon which the contractual relationship is constructed and requiring clarity and precision making sure that both parties needs are met and providing a strong layer of legal protection. The secrets of good contract drafting includes the ability to express effective contract terms free from archaisms, redundancies, ambiguities. Contract disputes are among the most common types of all business disputes, including breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, coercion, force majeure, mistake, legality, etc.

Covid-19 Hub

ADL has removed its Covid19 hub. This was a charitable pro-bono hub which ran in 2020 for low paid key workers who could not afford legal advice. You are now referred to the Pandemic Lawyers Association. PANLAW.ORG>

Data Protection, GDPR & Privacy

GDPR addresses the transfer of personal data within and outside the EU and EEA areas and gives control to individuals over their personal data, simplifying the regulatory environment for data by unifying the regulation within the EU. Controllers and processors of personal data must put in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to implement the data protection principles and to safeguard and control their data and put into place effective measures. Privacy in English law is a rapidly developing area of English law that considers in what situations an individual has a legal right to privacy in relation to personal or private information.

Employment Law

ADL has a wealth of first-rate talent & expertise in employment law, being commercial, persuasive and pragmatic, as well as robust and forthright and combative when necessary. Our lawyers are equally at ease in the corporate boardroom setting as well as when dealing with individual employees or groups of employees. We appear before Employment and Professional Disciplinary and Regulatory Tribunals as well as Appellate Courts. We also cover non-contentious work as well, everything from co-ordinating corporate restructures to advising on settlement agreements, from providing intensive in-house training to presenting informal, friendly seminars, all coupled with a practical and competitive approach to costs & funding.

Financial Law and FinTech

Financial regulators, both domestic & abroad, are increasingly looking into the conduct of UK financial services firms & we regularly provide expert advice to financial services firms & senior management members on the complexities of financial regulations, including Regulatory advice & compliance, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigations, applications for authorisation & Staff approval, supervision enquiries etc. as well as in specialist fields such as cryptocurrencies and tokens and whether these are caught by approval requirements. Headed by Nick Lockett, a former merchant banker, our team aims to reduce likelihood of costly and disruptive investigations as well as reducing risk of financial penalties and sanctions and we can provide both a legislative watch service as well as expert advice to ensure that contracts, warning notices and other documents are all up to date.

Franchising

There are no specific laws regulating franchise agreements in the UK and parties are generally free to agree all the terms of contracts, save to the extent that laws affecting commercial contracts may apply, such as competition law and this contrasts with many jurisdictions outside the UK that specifically regulate franchise relationships, including mandatory cooling-off periods, disclosure obligations, TM regulations, capital restrictions, good faith and marketing obligations, rights of sale and transfer. UK law also provides controls on misrepresentation, competition and restraint on trade and the remedies available.
So whether you’re selling franchise rights, buying a franchise or seeking to start a franchise, or in the middle of a franchise dispute, Call us.

Health & Safety Law

Health and safety legislation, enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities (the local council) and comes under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and various Health Protection Orders and Regulations and supporting practices contains a general duty on an employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees. We are also able to advise on matters specifically related to Covid19 (See our hub too) whether to do with redundancy and termination, wrongful dismissal on Health and Safety grounds, claims for PTSD in the workplace, working practices with PPE and furlough.

Insurance Law

Insurance law is the practice of law surrounding insurance, including insurance policies and claims. It can be broadly broken into three categories – regulation of the business of insurance; regulation of the content of insurance policies; and regulation of claim handling. ADL provides, together with specialist barristers, a full service claims proposition from disputes arising from whether cover is available, to strategic litigation across a broad range of insurance disciplines, including business interruption insurance, coverage exceptions, communicative and occupational disease, property damage, product liability, directors and officers, political risk and terrorism, professional risks, cyber, regulatory, reinsurance, subrogation, recoveries, marine and goods in transit.

Italian Law

Gerardo Aprovitolo, one of our founding Lawyers, is dual qualified in both English and Italian Law, and as an avvocato is able to provide clients with legal advice on both English and Italian legal issues and is fluent in both Italian and English. Our Italian team offers our British and Italian clients strategic focussed advice and cross border legal assistance on a wide range of issues such as corporate and commercial law, franchising, property law and estate planning, and together with our intrinsic knowledge of both the Italian and British business cultures, ADL provides an unrivalled bespoke service tailored to suit our clients’ needs.

Internet & Hi-Tech Law

Nick Lockett, one of our founders, being a commercial and IP barrister with a high-tech & telecoms specialisation, was the first barrister in Europe to specialise in Internet, way back in 1992 in the infancy of the internet. He wrote the first UK Internet law book and for many years was a lead editor for World Internet Law . Formerly head of E-Commerce and Technology Group at Sidley & Austin London, he has nearly 30 years expertise and has sat on arbitration panels for many high-tech disputes. Nick Lockett developed the first Court Order to be allowed to be served by the internet. He is a shareholder in number of specialist internet companies and recognized worldwide for his experience and client service.

Intellectual Property Law

The city of London is home to a variety of exciting start-ups, entrepreneurs and established corporations. Intellectual property (copyright, trademarks, patents, licensing, brand identity, IP audits etc) is a critical tool in London, home to a variety of exciting start-ups, entrepreneurs and established corporations with enormous IP portfolios. Our experienced team of IP solicitors, assisted by some of the most able barristers in the field, provide a strong understanding of the technicalities of IP and needs in the competitive marketplace and provide you with advise and assertion of your rights, defences to claims of infringement, dispute resolution and all other Intellectual Property services. Our lawyers have advised in many of the highest profile cases in the UK and in other countries where the claims have a UK element.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Both Founding partners were advocates (barristers and avvocati) and therefore litigation is at the heart of the firm. As solicitor advocates, we work closely with barristers in resolving civil disputes of all types, whether contract disputes, employment matters, issues between commercial landlords and tenants, IP infringement, liability of insurers, shipping cases, defective products, media and entertainment industry matters…the list of commercial disputes is endless and we appear regularly in court litigation or ADR/arbitration.

Medical Law

As well as acting in respect of medical negligence cases via our professional negligence team, we also work with a large number of barristers to provide a wide range of medical professionals and employers and health trusts with defences to claims for malpractice, as well as successfully defending medical practitioners in relation to fitness to practise proceedings brought by their Regulatory Bodies (such as the General Medical Council (GMC), Nursing & Midwifery Council NMC etc. We are a leading firm in this area and we pride ourselves on achieving the best possible results for our clients. We have also acted for medical practitioners in making claims for unlawful working conditions whether exposure to medical harm without adequate PPE or subjecting them to unreasonable working conditions, PTSD claims and automatically unfair dismissals due to health and safety issues under the Employment Rights Act.

Professional Negligence & Claims

Professional negligence arises where a professional represents him/herself as having above average skills and abilities (i.e. is an expert in the area) and then falls below those standards. This applies to financial advisers, doctors, dentists, architects, valuers, surveyors, accountants, solicitors, etc where they fail to perform to the standards required of them, resulting in their client suffering damage or loss and in so doing breach the duty of care to their client to perform their job to a reasonable standard and with reasonable care.

Space Law

Although rare, Space law covers the body of law governing space-related activities, encompassing both international and domestic agreements, rules, and principles and including the Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space) & the ITU Space framework and UN Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) Convention, and covering space exploration, liability for damage, weapons use, rescue efforts, environmental preservation, information sharing, new technologies, and ethics.

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Client Testimonials

I have used ADL for three critical cases for our organisation, and they have been outstanding and robust. Their initial advice is clear, commercial and sensible and stays that way. Clever Strategists.

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J.B. Managing Director

“ADL Solicitors provided us with critical cover for our firm, covering both the role of internal counsel and compliance with a refreshing approach to reasonable fees.

Refreshingly honest, efficient and timely
GZ CEO

ADL were truly outstanding, providing fast, effective, and decisive advice at a critical time and providing us with clear direction without the jargon that allowed us to successfully manage our way through issues.

Outstanding
A.D. CEO

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