Our Legal Team
We are an exclusively online business offering legal documents for commerce. Several lawyers contribute to our catalogue, each with expertise in different areas of commercial and construction law. Between them they have over 150 years of experience in drafting contracts and you can benefit from this experience at very low cost when you purchase contracts here.
Giles
is the founder and managing director of ContractStore. It was his idea to set up a company selling documents online and he has played a major part in the company's development. He is an English solicitor, with over thirty years' experience of drafting and negotiating commercial and construction contracts in the UK and overseas. He has long been convinced that there is a quicker and simpler approach to the delivery and supply of most contracts, and he is an active proponent of the use of plain English in legal documents. He specialises in the drafting of construction and engineering contracts and as well as contributing contracts to the ContractStore website, he is co-author of the JCT Constructing Excellence Contract publiushed in 2007 (and its predecessor, the Be Collaborative Contract, which is available online from ContractStore).
When not working on ContractStore, he has his own legal practice – information can be found on www.gilesdixon.com.
Derek
is a dual qualified English solicitor and US lawyer, having received legal education in both England and the US. He is currently in-house corporate counsel at a large multinational medical device company. With his extensive experience of drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, he has contributed to the US contracts section of the website.
Jeremy
is a solicitor and one of the founding shareholders. He specialises in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and advises on major oil and infrastructure projects. He has been living in Dubai for many years where he set up his own law firm in 1996 - information on www.keydixon.com
Xie Rong
is a Chinese lawyer who has been living in England for the past few years. She is the first lawyer from mainland China to have received a licence from the Law Society in England to practice in the UK. As an active member of the ContractStore team, she is not only involved in the production of our contracts in Chinese, but also provides advice on doing business in China to foreign investors. She was instrumental in setting up our Chinese website – www.contractstore.com.cn
Kong Wei
is a Chinese lawyer and a partner in the Zhonglun law firm in Shanghai. He specialises in corporate and commercial law, and has worked for some time in a London law firm. With Xie Rong he selects the contracts for translation and adaptation for the Chinese market. He also advises on regulatory matters affecting Contractstore's Chinese website. For more information www.zhonglun.com
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