Beige&Co

A boutique multi-jurisdictional advisory. Boring by name, ferocious in practice.

Anno MMXXVI

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Practice

Eight focused areas across the UK, EU and Switzerland.

  1. i.

    Commercial contracts

    Customer terms, supplier and partner agreements, licensing, NDAs, framework arrangements. Choice-of-law, jurisdiction, and dispute-resolution clauses across the UK, EU, and Switzerland.

  2. ii.

    Data protection & privacy

    UK GDPR, EU GDPR, Swiss FADP. Cross-border transfers (UK IDTA, SCCs, Swiss adequacy). DPIAs, DSARs, breach response, regulator correspondence with the ICO, EDPB, and FDPIC.

  3. iii.

    Reputation & defamation

    UK Defamation Act 2013, EU national regimes, Swiss Civil Code art. 28. Forum analysis, online removal, enforcement under Brussels Recast and the Lugano Convention.

  4. iv.

    Intellectual property

    UKIPO, EUIPO, Madrid Protocol. Trade marks, copyright enforcement, takedowns and counter-notices. Post-Brexit divergence, customs seizures, brand protection across third-party platforms.

  5. v.

    Disputes & pre-action

    Letter-before-action, settlement, injunctive relief. Foreign-judgment enforcement under Brussels Recast, Lugano, and the Hague conventions. Instruction and management of external litigators in-jurisdiction.

  6. vi.

    Adverse media & online content

    Digital Services Act notices, UK Online Safety Act removals, GDPR Article 17 search delisting. Platform escalation across the EU, UK, and Switzerland. Post-incident remediation.

  7. vii.

    Law enforcement co-operation

    Response to UK and EU production orders. MLAT requests, Eurojust and Europol liaison, Swiss bilateral assistance. Voluntary disclosure frameworks, lawful interception requests, preservation orders.

  8. viii.

    Regulatory & governance

    Board support, policy library, incident response. Sanctions screening across OFSI, EU CFSP, US OFAC, and Swiss SECO. KYC/AML programmes spanning the UK, EU, and Switzerland. Regulator engagement and horizon scanning.

The role of an expert advisor is to know where the fine line ends. To understand that nothing is impossible, that there is a path that lets the business move forward, within the confines of the law, even when you are standing on that line, but never stepping over.

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Approach

Built around the work.

  1. i.

    Commercial first, defensive second.

    A position the business cannot use is not advice. We start from the commercial objective and work back toward what is defensible.

  2. ii.

    Written record, every time.

    Decisions made under pressure are remembered differently afterwards. We capture the reasoning in the moment.

  3. iii.

    One named owner, every matter.

    Every file has one owner. Nothing sits in a shared inbox waiting for someone else to claim it.

  4. iv.

    External instruction is a tool, not a default.

    Specialist external advisors are instructed when the matter genuinely requires it, and managed tightly when they are.

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III

Correspondence

Discuss a matter.

Initial enquiries are made through the contact page. Introductions through an existing professional contact are welcomed; direct enquiries about a defined matter are also considered, subject to a conflicts check and a written engagement letter before any substantive work begins.

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