Cross-Border Legal Matters
Legal clarity for businesses working across jurisdictions.
When your business spans multiple countries, complexity can multiply. Complex 360 offers coordinated support for cross-border transactions, disputes, and compliance, providing a single point of contact, trusted local counsel, and focused advice that streamlines processes and enables growth.
The Facts
Why cross‑border businesses need legal support
Without expert support, dealing with multiple legal systems across jurisdictions, time zones and languages can quickly inflate costs, introduce risk and cause significant delays for your business. With Complex 360, you have an experienced team on hand to provide straightforward advice on contract terms, enforcement, compliance, litigation, and more – backed by a global network of in-country counsel.
The law
Cross-border claims may fall under the jurisdiction of multiple countries, which can introduce ambiguity when it comes to the recognition of rights or the enforcement of contracts or judgments. Conflicts‑of‑law analysis and early enforcement planning are essential to minimise your legal and commercial risks, as well as clear advice on issues such as tax, employment or consumer laws.
The risks
Without coordinated counsel, including reliable local advice, cross-border legal issues can leave you exposed to disputes, unable to enforce contracts, or subject to fines or penalties. From an operational point of view, legal hurdles can cause project delays, waste leadership time, and damage trust with international customers or partners.
Next steps
Whether it’s a dispute that has just arisen or an ongoing issue, speak to Complex Law. Our international law specialists will advise you on the best course of action, drawing on our global network for country-specific guidance as needed. And, if you join Complex 360, you’ll have access to proactive, ongoing legal support to minimise legal issues with cross-border business going forward.
How Complex Law can help
Complex 360 provides end‑to‑end support for businesses working across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring you have access to region-specific legal advice when you need it, explained in plain English.
International commercial agreements
Our lawyers will structure and negotiate cross‑border contracts, align INCOTERMS, liability, tax and payment mechanics, and localise mandatory terms for target markets.
Multi‑jurisdictional litigation and arbitration
Our disputes team will map assets and enforcement, select court or arbitration rules (LCIA/ICC), manage service and evidence issues, and coordinate with local counsel to adhere to strict timelines.
Regulatory compliance across markets
We can design practical compliance for sanctions, export controls, competition, and data transfers, and restructure contracts and supply chains to address Brexit‑driven changes.
Expansion planning and strategy
We’ll help you plan market entry, including entity choice, employment, and IP protection, as well as registrations, and we’ll maintain a single, budgeted workstream across all advisers.
Join Complex 360
If you don’t have an in-house legal team, navigating multiple jurisdictions as part of cross-border business activities can introduce unnecessary legal risk.
If the points on our checklist look familiar, you should speak to Complex Law. We’ll put together a tailored legal support plan that fits your business and your budget.
Common issues
Are counterparties insisting on unfamiliar governing law or arbitration rules?
Are you facing parallel claims across multiple countries?
Do you need asset‑focused enforcement planning?
Are sanctions, export controls, or data transfer rules slowing deals?
Do you need an expansion plan that aligns local advice with commercial goals?
Legal services tailored to your needs
Our practice is focused on three areas of law: Consumer Claims, Individuals, and Businesses (Complex 360), making it easy to match your legal issue with the right team and strategy.
Consumer Claims
If you’ve been missold a loan or targeted by fraudsters or scammers, you don’t have to face the fallout alone. We’ll represent you on a no-win, no-fee basis.
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Frequently asked questions
If you don’t find the answer to your question here, get in touch with us and we’ll be happy to help.
We work with you to assess the best governing law and jurisdiction based on your business objectives, the markets in which you operate, and any partnerships or supplier relationships. We’ll balance costs and enforceability against leverage and appetite for risk to develop a strategy that works in your interests – as well as drafting contracts and recommending court or arbitration options where needed.
Yes, many of our clients have business interests in more than one other country, and we’re experienced in handling multiple cross-border claims in parallel, or those which span two or more jurisdictions. With Complex 360, you’ll have access to a named contact in the UK who will coordinate local counsel in the relevant countries, work with you on strategy and objectives, and manage communications and evidence gathering on your behalf, as well as manage the process for court actions or arbitration if needed.
Cross-border movement of goods and services, transactions, and data transfer can be complex in terms of regulatory compliance and navigating legal restrictions – and the more jurisdictions involved, the higher the risk. Complex 360 makes it simple – reviewing your business activities against the relevant laws, ensuring contracts or purchase orders are screened for compliance, and advising on data protection and transfer standards, so you can be confident that you haven’t left yourself open to legal claims.
Complex 360 gives you full transparency over costs: in most cases, the legal support you receive for cross-border claims is covered by your usual monthly retainer. In cases where you need additional services outside your planned allowance, we’ll discuss this with you in advance and provide a clear breakdown of any fees. Depending on the details of the case, we may be able to offer fixed-fee or staged payment structures to reduce the immediate impact on your budget.
Our service isn’t just about putting you in touch with local counsel; we offer wrap-around support from instruction to resolution. As a member of Complex 360, you’ll receive dedicated, plain English legal advice from a UK-based team, personalised to the unique needs of your business. We’ll manage the relationship with outside counsel where needed, and represent you in interactions with regulatory bodies or legal systems, allowing you to focus on business as usual. From legal strategy to documentation, negotiations, and court action, our aim is to make each cross-border claim as straightforward as possible and secure the best outcome.
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