For Commercial Agreements and Outsourced Services

“Margaret always responds very promptly to requests for assistance on commercial matters. Her advice is straightforward, clear and, most important, effective when negotiating with customers.

One aspect of the advice Margaret recently provided is in suggesting amendments to difficult Conditions which very big customers were trying to impose on us. This advice successfully strengthened Almor’s negotiating position and ultimately reduced the company’s risk.

The service provides excellent value for money.”

(Pat Clarke, Operations Director, The Almor Group)

“Thank you so much for your help with the Ts & Cs. I would have no hesitation in recommending you!

You made the whole process very easy.”

(Philippa Double, Owner, Double Image Photography)

“I asked Margaret to help writing an agency contract, and her ability to understand what we needed and translate that into an easily understandable contract was outstanding. Throughout the process, margaret kept me up to date, and provided extremely professional service and a great result. I would not hesitate to recommend Margaret to anyone seeking help with contracts.”

(John Clifford, Operations Director, parcelmouse Ltd and Owner Athena Delta Business Support Ltd)

“Margaret was retained to provide legal input into the drawing up of several international supply agreements. In all csases I found that she was able to translate complex legal/commercial jargon into terms such that all parties concerned were in no doubt about their obligations. I would thoroughly recommend her.”

(Chris Harris, Independent Consultant/Interim Manger in the Life Sciences Industries)

“In the world of packaging design and development, the need for solid agreements and contracts is paramount. Annesley Business Consulting Ltd, through Margaret, have provided invaluable support in this area. I have found her very easy to work with, personable, and she has provided good quality advice at reasonable rates and with a swift turnaround. I am more than happy to recommend Margaret and the services of Annesley Business Consulting Ltd to others.”

(Chris Penfold, CEO, Design Cognition Ltd)

“Margaret’s approach was thorough and practical, resulting in workable terms and conditions in clear English. A pleasure to work with and highly recommended.”

(Francine Pickering, Owner, Clarity Marketing Ltd)

“Margaret Burrell [from] Annesley Business Consulting Ltd possesses the clearest mind I know. Her incisive reasoning and the manner in which she is able to make sense out of potentially complex business correspondence, processes and agreements has been invaluable to me.

I have worked with Margaret over many years. I turn to her first when I need someone to bring order & professional focus to a variety of complex business issues.

Margaret continues to help me develop the foundation principles for clear and concise agreements with fellow suppliers and contractors and customers.

(Stephen Reid, Author and Director of Spring Business Innovation)

“Fantastic – really helped explain areas that I had no previous knowledge in.

The original blog post was very informative and the service provided straightened out my patchy documentation.  I feel this is a good investment, as misunderstanding can be costly in my industry.  Willingness to visit and explain was also excellent.”

(Nick Hayward, Owner, FCS Websites)

“Hire Margaret.

Her depth of knowledge is impressive. Her pragmatic style is ideal and her clarity of thought is enviable.

Margaret gets to know your business and the problems you face. Then, using her depth of knowledge, she creates terms and conditions / contracts that are tailor made for your business.

As a copywriter, I insist that contracts are not only effective, but are written in straightforward and easily understandable language – this is something Margaret excels in.

I would recommend her to any size of business.”

(Babu Basu, Business Writer)

“I was very impressed with Margaret’s grasp of the situation and efficiency…..excellent value for money and fantastic support with extras e.g. new procedures.”

(Julie Watson, Partner, The Jast Partnership)

“Working with Margaret was a great experience; I felt confident I was in good hands throughout the process. Ours is a fairly complicated set up, but Margaret advised me very well and managed to see a way through the chaos!”

(Lucy Cripps, Proprietor, English Pro)

“I needed to sign a contract for a piece of work but was unsure of the implications. Margaret carefully guided me through what it meant and rewrote it to ensure that my best interests were taken care of. I will certainly use Margaret again and have already recommended her to others”

(Denise Taylor, Chartered Psychologist and Career Coach. Owner of ‘Amazing People’)

“I can highly recommend Margaret for sorting out a business’ terms and conditions.  Margaret has a down to earth approach to simplifying the t&c’s so that both sides understand them and are willing to sign up to them.  During the process, areas important for clarity and protection will almost certainly be identified for inclusion.  Margaret has a great commonsense approach to business issues.”

(Bob Wilmot, Merlinpoint Sales Development)

“I worked with Margaret on a high-risk IT contract, advising her and one of her clients on IPR and liability issues. Margaret clearly has a good understanding of contractual principles but is not afraid to involve lawyers when this is in the best interests of her client. This ensures that clients obtain a high level of service at a price that they can afford. I found Margaret very easy to work with and would certainly recommend her services.”

(Ryan O’Sullivan, Solicitor, Shoosmiths)

For Training

“Margaret has delivered a very successful training event which focused on ‘Commercial Agreements’ as part of the University of Nottingham’s much wider Ingenuity Programme.

The verbal and written feedback following Margaret’s session certainly met the high standards of the programme and exceeded the delegates’ expectations by some margin.

The planning and preparation, the delivered material and the style of delivery were without doubt first class; as a result I have already recommended her to other colleagues and will be engaging her for future events.”

(Steve Upcraft, Head of Business Development, University of Nottingham Institute of Enterprise and Innovation)

“Some quick feedback too, an excellent day and truly great value for money.   I am about to go on holiday so really  busy at the moment and anyone that can run a course which I could understand on contract law after I’d had only 4 hours sleep is seriously impressive!”

(Kate Faulkner, Director, Designs on Property Ltd)

“I found your course to be one of the best that I have attended in a very long time and in particular:

• Firstly, your style of running the course put people very much at ease and made it easy for any of us to question any aspect of the content you delivered to us.
• Your personality was clearly well liked and when I had the chance to briefly talk to a few of the other attendees they agreed with this view.
• You gave people confidence to be able to go away and draft their own agreements or ideas with a view to then passing these to more experienced people to review/correct etc.
• I think you pitched the content really well for a one day course.
• As a direct result of your course, I feel I am more empowered to write better structured and formulated agreements and have a better understanding of what needs to be focused on.
• Whilst for me the whole course was thought provoking, the examples worked on certainly helped to consolidate what you had presented.”

(Aaron Ventura, Tendering Manager, KeTech Defence Ltd)

“Excellent delivery of lecture – perfectly pitched to the audience. Thoroughly professional – pleasure to work with.”

(Raj Birring, Project Manager, Business Incubation & Enterprise De Montfort University)