Commercial advice for co‑operatives, community businesses and small companies.
Advice on commercial agreements, organisational structure and governance.
Send an enquiryAreas of advice
Commercial agreements
Supplier, services and grant agreements: what they commit you to, where the risks lie, and what to change before signing.
Technology and platform agreements
Hosting, software and platform arrangements, including ownership of data and code, service levels, and the position on termination and exit.
Land licences and tenancies
Licences and tenancies for growing sites, yards and shared premises: the rights granted, the obligations assumed and the terms open to negotiation.
Terms and conditions
Membership terms, terms of service and funder schedules, drafted for your organisation to issue.
Legal structure
The choice between a co-operative, community benefit society, community interest company and company limited by guarantee or shares, and the implications of converting between them.
Rules and governance
Constitutions, committee powers, member decisions, and the governance requirements that attach to tax treatment and funding.
These are the areas most instructions fall within. Matters outside them are considered on enquiry.
Method
Instruction
The agreement and any related correspondence, sent by email or through the client portal.
Context
We establish the purpose of the arrangement, anything already agreed between the parties, and the outcomes the client needs to protect. The agreement is reviewed against those objectives.
Written report
A clause-by-clause report covering the effect of each provision, whether it is standard, and whether to accept or amend it, with a schedule of proposed amendments.
Consultation
A follow-up discussion once the client has read the report.
Negotiation support
Where instructed, we draft the covering correspondence and advise through the exchanges until the agreement is concluded.
Reports are written for a non-specialist reader.
Engagements
Agreement review
From £500
A written report on a single agreement with a schedule of proposed amendments, and a follow-up consultation.
Drafting
Quoted per matter
Terms and conditions, membership terms or funder schedules drafted for issue, with two rounds of revisions.
Structure and governance review
Quoted per matter
A written recommendation on legal form and rules, with proposed amendments prepared for adoption.
Retainer
Quoted per month
Ongoing advice for organisations with a regular flow of agreements, on an agreed monthly scope.
Terms of business
Regulatory status
Aaron Isaac Advisory is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Clients do not have access to the SRA Compensation Fund or the Legal Ombudsman. The practice holds professional indemnity insurance and operates the complaints procedure set out below.
Scope
We do not undertake litigation, advocacy, probate, the administration of oaths, or the preparation of deeds, including leases and farm business tenancies executed as deeds. These are reserved legal activities. On land matters we advise on the terms and prepare a schedule of amendments for the parties’ solicitors. Where a matter requires a regulated adviser we will say so and can work alongside the client’s solicitor.
Fees
Work is quoted as a fixed fee for a stated scope and agreed in writing before it begins. Any change in scope is quoted and agreed before further work is carried out. The Shinobi Project Limited is not registered for VAT.
Insurance
Professional indemnity insurance of £2,000,000 per claim and public liability insurance of £1,000,000, held with Markel.
Complaints
Complaints should be sent to [email protected], marked for the attention of the director. Complaints are acknowledged within five working days and answered in full within twenty working days.
Contact
Send an enquiryOr by email: [email protected]
We act for organisations in Leicestershire and the East Midlands, and remotely throughout England and Wales. The registered office below is for service of documents only.