Work directly with someone who knows how to get deals done.
Over 20 years of hands-on experience, spanning hundreds of successful contracts.
Peter Lumley-Savile.
A commercial and technology solicitor with decades of experience advising businesses of all sizes, from founder-led companies to major corporates.
Peter honed his craft at RPC — one of the UK's leading Tier 1 commercial contracts practices — where he spent years working on complex, high-value transactions across technology, financial services, media, outsourcing and regulated industries.
He then moved to Keystone Law, developing his practice and building the client relationships that define how Plus Legal operates today.
He founded Plus Legal to offer something most firms cannot: genuine senior expertise, applied personally to every instruction, with the commercial instinct that only comes from decades of front-line deal work.
Tier 1 commercial contracts. Complex, high-value transactions across multiple sectors.
Direct client work across a wider range of businesses, sectors and deal types.
Founded to bring senior commercial expertise directly to every client, every matter.
What is Plus Legal?
Plus Legal provides commercial and technology law advice to start-ups, scale-ups, FTSE 100 companies and clients of all types and sizes, including government bodies, charities, universities and professional partnerships.
Plus Legal is a commercial and technology law practice founded by Peter Lumley-Savile, a senior solicitor with over twenty years experience advising businesses across a wide range of industries and transaction types.
The best commercial lawyers don't just know the law. They know what the other side will push for, where they'll fold, and how to get you the best deal.
What you get when you
instruct Plus Legal.
Trusted Advice
By understanding how your business operates, Peter anticipates risks, identifies opportunities and helps guide decisions with clarity and confidence.
More than legal answers — perspective.
Strategy
With over 20 years full time, frontline experience drafting and negotiating contracts, Peter's advice is finely honed. It is built on years of experience sitting across the table, navigating competing interests and reaching agreement time and time again.
Contracts shaped to support your business goals.
Clarity
We keep our advice simple, clear and immediately actionable. You will never leave a conversation with Peter unsure of what the advice means or what you should do next.
Complex issues explained in plain English.
Transparent Pricing
We believe in pricing that behaves itself. We avoid fee disputes by ensuring work is scoped clearly and priced fairly and transparently. Where appropriate, we work with fixed fees and bespoke fee structures, including secondments, retainers and subscription models.
Clear and predictable.
Our services
Decades of cross-sector experience leave their mark. They sharpen instinct, build pattern recognition, and make the difference between advice that sounds right and advice that works. That's what sits behind everything Plus Legal does.
Contracts
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating the commercial contracts that build your business — supplier side and buyer side.
Advisory
Commercial strategy, risk frameworks, dispute resolution and regulatory posture. The wise counsel that directors and business owners rely on.
Intellectual Property
IP ownership, licensing, protection and commercialisation — from assignment chains and trade secrets to brand protection.
Sector experience
that makes a difference.
Two decades of front-line work across these sectors means Peter understands the commercial pressures, regulatory frameworks and deal patterns specific to your industry.
Technology transactions, cloud services, API and integration agreements, support and maintenance, SLAs, AI and emerging tech contracts.
Subscription agreements, platform terms, SLAs and data processing arrangements.
The full suite of technology and business process outsourcing.
Affinity schemes and insurance white-labelling, embedded insurance, digital journeys, broker relationships and delegated underwriting.
Production, streaming, agencies, creative and music.
Author, agent and distributor agreements, licensing deals, digital publishing rights and content use across platforms.
Purchase and sales contracts, distribution agreements, warehousing and logistics, manufacturing and production, collaboration and joint ventures.
Consultancies, agencies and advisory firms.
Multi-channel retailers and consumer brands.
Management agreements, franchise agreements, supply and procurement contracts, terms of business and outsourcing.
Simple, clear,
immediately actionable.
Legal advice should make your decisions clearer, not harder. Peter keeps his advice practical, direct and shaped around what your business actually needs.
Start a conversationBefore advising, Peter takes the time to understand how your business operates, what you're trying to achieve and where the real risks and opportunities lie.
With over 20 years sitting across the table from sophisticated counterparties, Peter brings the commercial intelligence to shape strategy around where you're going.
Complex issues explained clearly and without jargon. You'll always know exactly what the advice means for your business and what you should do with it.
There are no juniors at Plus Legal. Every instruction is handled personally by Peter — giving you a level of senior focus and continuity that most firms simply cannot offer.
Transparent pricing.
No surprises.
We believe in pricing that behaves itself. We avoid fee disputes by ensuring work is scoped clearly and priced fairly and transparently upfront.
You pay only for the time dedicated to your matter.
A fixed price agreed at the outset, so you know exactly what you're paying before work begins.
A monthly or annual fee providing ongoing access to Peter's advice — ideal for businesses that need regular legal input.
Peter works alongside your team as needed — the expertise of a senior solicitor with the commitment of an in-house lawyer.
Ready to move
forward?
Speak directly with an experienced commercial solicitor. At Plus Legal you are entitled to a free initial consultation.