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Finn Roache provides robust and cost-effective advice for its clients in most areas of commercial endeavour, including:

• Company structuring
• Shareholder agreements
• Company law
• Trade sales, mergers and acquisitions
• Review and drafting of contracts and licenses
• Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
• Retail and commercial leasing
• Property law
• Employment law
• Business names
• Exploitation of intellectual property
• Copyright advice on ownership and infringement
• Fashion and graphic designer law
• Trade mark research
• Trade mark applications
• Trade mark oppositions
• International registration of trade marks
• Identifying and exploiting intellectual property
• Infringement of IP rights
• Madrid Protocol trade mark applications
• IT contracts
• Website terms and conditions
• Protecting confidential information
• Franchising
• Hospitality and liquor law
• Liquor licensing

Founded in the year 1921, Finn Roache has always been a boutique commercial law firm with an enviable reputation for providing timely and accurate advice for businesses and corporation in all areas of commerce, particularly on structures, shareholding, shareholder relationships, company management and asset, business and share sales.

With the advent of intellectual property as a force to be reckoned with in the 1960s, Finn Roache was one of the first firms to embrace the importance of intellectual property as an asset to be protected and exploited by trading enterprises and, since then, intellectual property has formed a large part of Finn Roache's undertaking as lawyers and solicitors.

Since those early days, Finn Roache's reputation as an intellectual property and IT specialist law firm has grown immensely, along with their ability to protect their client's intellectual property and information technology in what has become a very competitive marketplace. "Goodwill" is no longer the amorphous concept it used to be in the minds of business executives. Brands, images, trade marks and copyright, trade dress and get-up are now all terms in everyday parlance, thereby increasing their recognition and value as assets requiring protection within the overall framework of intellectual property.

With 40 years' experience with the business community, Finn Roache's professional staff have a pre-eminent expertise in all areas of business endeavour, but particularly in the fields of intellectual property law, information technology, trade marks, designs, copyright and patent protection.

Finn Roache is mindful of its position in the marketplace as a boutique provider of commercial and intellectual property services and the balance between the turnaround time for its advice and the cost of it gives clients a serious competitive edge over larger law firms.

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