At Farthingales Legal, we offer an all-encompassing corporate law service designed to identify opportunities, manage risks, and foster sustainable business growth. Our integrated framework provides precise, tailored legal support to meet your operational, strategic, and commercial objectives.
What Sets Our Approach Apart?
Our services go beyond traditional, reactive legal support. We provide a proactive, forward-thinking, and strategic partnership that aligns with your wider business ambitions, offering continuous legal oversight, proactive guidance, and agile responses to emerging issues in your business.
Our Philosophy
Core Foundations of Our Corporate law Service
Proactive Risk Management
Through comprehensive legal health checks, we can detect and address potential issues early. This includes compliance audits, governance reviews, contract risk assessments, and protection of intellectual property.
Strategic Business Alignment
By gaining a deep understanding of your business, we can tailor our legal services to align seamlessly with your priorities, ensuring our advice actively contributes to your strategic success, not just regulatory compliance.
Advisory Services to Support Growth
We don’t just manage your day-to-day legal matters—we support your growth journey. From M&A transactions and joint ventures to structuring corporate finance, our strategic advice is designed to accelerate progress.
Flexible Legal Resourcing
Our Interim General Counsel services can either complement your current legal setup or operate as a fully outsourced legal function, giving you access to senior legal expertise when you need it on a more cost-effective basis.
Complete Corporate Law Coverage
We provide clear, pragmatic guidance to navigate the UK’s dynamic corporate legal landscape, covering commercial law, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, structuring and more.
Our Approach
Why Clients Choose Farthingales Legal
Reduced Risk Exposure
Early identification and resolution of legal issues minimises liabilities.
Cost Control
Proactive management helps lower long-term legal expenses.
Business-Centric Legal Advice
Our work supports your strategic and operational goals.
Scalable Expertise
Flexible access to senior legal professionals as your business evolves.
Our approach transforms corporate legal services into a true business asset—delivering certainty, value, and a lasting competitive edge.
Our Approach
How we operate
The Legal Services Act 2007 significantly changed the way that legal services can be provided to the public to allow more flexibility, to create incentives for a high quality legal market and enable those working in the legal services market to be more innovative in how they provide services to clients. The outcome of this has been to allow smaller, boutique firms such as FLS to operate more flexibly, offer better value for money and be more responsive and adaptable to the needs of their clients.
In addition, the Legal Service Act 2007 paved the way for certain legal services, called “unreserved” legal services, to be carried out by anyone, not just solicitors and removed the need for those providing unreserved legal services to be authorised and regulated by the SRA.
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Excluded services
FLS is a non-regulated law firm. This means the organisation is not regulated by the SRA or any other approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007 and is not able to provide reserved legal activities. In addition we do not hold any client money. The only money we will hold will be the money that we ask you to pay on account of our costs or any disbursements incurred on your behalf.
In brief this means we are able to provide any type of legal service except:
Reserved legal services as follows:Rights of audience: the right to appear before and address a court, including the right to call and examine witnesses.
Conduct of litigation.
Reserved instrument activities – conveyancing or lodging any applications to register documents under the Land Registration Act 2002
Probate activities.
Administration of oathsImmigration work
Claims management services
Certain financial services or activities.We do not provide any of the above services via FLS. Should you require assistance with any such matters, we are able to provide those services via our affiliation with 360 Law Services Limited which is a fully regulated organisation.
Legal services are provided by Stephanie Creasey who is an experiences practising solicitor authorised and regulated by the SRA in her personal capacity (SRA Number: 473948), and must follow the regulations governing her as a practising solicitor.
This authorisation and regulation does not apply to FLS as an organisation, to the services that are offered more widely or to work carried out by others who may be employed or engaged by FLS at any time.
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Insurance
FLS is not subject to the SRA’s compulsory professional indemnity insurance requirements and is not required to have professional indemnity insurance that meets the SRA’s minimum terms and conditions. In essence, the SRA requires the firms that it regulates to have compulsory minimum levels of insurance to protect clients in case something goes wrong. These arrangements do not apply to FLS because the SRA do not regulate it.
All services provided and work completed on behalf of our clients is covered by FLS own comprehensive business insurance policies and professional indemnity insurance. -
Complaints
In the event of a complaint regarding the services provided to you, please refer to our complaints policy for details of who to complain to and how your complaint will be dealt with.
If you are not satisfied with the result of that complaint, or if it has not been resolved within eight weeks, you have the right to take any complaint about the standard of service offered by the solicitor to the Legal Ombudsman.
If you are concerned about the actions of any solicitor employed or engaged by us, you can complain to the SRA about those concerns. -
SRA Compensation Fund
If you believe that a firm or solicitor regulated by the SRA owes you money, you may be able to make an application to recover your loss from the SRA Compensation Fund. The compensation fund is a discretionary fund made up of annual payments received from all solicitors and organisations regulated by the SRA. Payments from the Compensation Fund can be made where:
a client has suffered financial loss as a result of the dishonesty of a firm or solicitor regulated by the SRA;
money has been stolen or not been accounted for by a firm or solicitor regulated by the SRA; or
a regulated person did not have insurance in place.
As FLS is not a firm regulated by the SRA, our clients will not be able to make a claim on the SRA Compensation Fund.
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No matter your size or sector, strong legal foundations make growth easier and less risky. Let’s start with a conversation. We’ll ask the right questions, listen carefully, and help you make informed decisions — with confidence.