Services for Business

Name: Streathers Daynes Smith LLP
Address: 1 Heath Street, Hampstead, London, NW3 6TP, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)20 74318889

Focus when it counts. For owners, employers and investors.

Building a business comes with legal changes, challenges and pressures you expect - and some you don’t. With a close-knit team of experienced solicitors spread across four offices, we become an extension of your business – providing specialist advice when you need it most on complex, future-defining matters. Always from a place of understanding.

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Every business is built differently. So are we.

Every business, every sector, is unique. Our specialist solicitors take the time to learn about you and your place in the industry. Rather than passing you from department to department, we provide holistic support across all strategic decision-making.

The best decisions are made as a team

We work with owners, founders, employers and investors; growing businesses and well-established organisations. We get to know you and how you work, so you’re never starting from scratch when you pick up the phone. You’ll speak to team members who understand the pressures you face and the outcomes you want. Providing clear, tangible advice that reflects the wider context.

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Meet the experts

Commercial Property

Combining deep property expertise with a genuine understanding of your business, we provide dedicated support across commercial property matters – from acquisitions and disposals to leases, portfolio management and disputes.

Corporate Transactions

Our corporate solicitors provide senior support at the defining moments of your business – bringing clarity and commercial understanding to complex transactions from start to finish.

Commercial

From contracts and shareholder agreements to finance and corporate transactions – our commercial solicitors will get to know your business to provide clear advice that supports your ambitions.

Dispute Resolution

Our solicitors work towards practical resolutions without unnecessary conflict. We provide support from commercial and contractual disputes to property, business, financial and private wealth matters.

Employment Law for Employers

We work closely with employers to provide dedicated, commercially minded support on contracts, workplace issues and organisational change – with advice that evolves alongside your business and your people.

Property Finance

Our specialists support lenders and borrowers with commercially-driven advice, structuring and negotiating property finance arrangements while keeping the wider transaction firmly in view.

Why choose Streathers Daynes Smith?

Leading City expertise, close-knit responsiveness

We deliver the sophisticated legal capabilities of major city firms, but with the personal touch of a local practice.

Deeply connected to our community

We’ve been on the city’s high streets, supporting community endeavours, for over 15 years. Our local knowledge is priceless for property matters.

Resolution-focused, not conflict-driven

We prefer finding smart, efficient solutions over prolonged disputes. We like to resolve matters swiftly and sensitively, not escalate them unnecessarily.

Empathy meets excellence

Our approach combines expert legal knowledge with genuine empathy – we understand people as much as we know the law.

The specialist view

“A lot of my work involves helping businesses at significant points – whether transactions, negotiations or new ventures. The rest is being the kind of lawyer clients can call when something unexpected comes up, because they know I understand their business well enough to give them a straight answer.”

“During complicated court proceedings, I maintain a level head and balanced view of legal risk, which enables me to make consistently better decisions as a result. This growing appreciation of the skills and diligence being displayed allowed me to focus on the most important aspects, while being confident the detail was being carefully controlled.”

“A lot of the businesses I work with are at a stage where the legal decisions they make really matter - whether that's structuring a shareholders’ agreement properly or navigating a first acquisition. I try to make sure the advice they get reflects that.”

Philip Deja

Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial

Danielle Woodhouse

Senior Associate

Varishma Assani

Senior Associate