Transport & Logistics

Who we are

Tyr’s transport and logistics team brings together an internal network of specialists, offering a full range of legal services to clients across the road/rail/air transport and logistics sectors.

We understand the issues and pressures involved throughout the sector and we can rise to any challenge and present innovative and cost-effective solutions.

Tyr is involved with Driver First Assist, which is a national road safety initiative, through Partner Matthew Yates as a Founding Director. Driver First Assist is capable of significantly reducing the number of deaths on UK roads (driverfirstassist.org). Driver First Assist is a not-for-profit organisation that has been created with the support of the emergency services.

What we do

The firm advises on a full range of matters, such as:

• Employment, assisting you manage your workforce, whether that is fleet or onsite
• Health and Safety / Regulatory, including incidents arising from defect investigations or repairs
• General management of safety in the workplace, appeals against improvement notices
• Environmental matters including:
  • Investigations by environmental regulators
  • Representing clients at court hearings
  • Drafting policies and procedures
  • Advising on applications to regulators/appeals, such as for environmental permits
• Claims and disputes, including supply chain disputes, corporate and contractual disputes
• Specialist sector expertise in competition litigation, currently acting for RHA Used Trucks Limited in the RHA Trucks litigation
• Commercial trading arrangements, agency and distribution matters, supply and manufacturing contracts, franchising, outsourcing and other commercial contract matters as well as a full range of IT, e-commerce and data protection work
• Advising on any legal requirements for a transport or logistics organisation during business restructuring or insolvency
• Assisting you managing your property assets, sheds, offices, machinery or plant and advice in relation to your property strategy generally
• Corporate matters, including:
  • acquisitions and disposals (of both shares and assets)
  • management buy-outs and buy-ins
  • joint ventures
  • shareholder and partnership agreements
  • refinancing and reorganisations

How we can help you

We help our clients to navigate the challenges of the business environment, providing commercially focussed legal advice.

We can support you whether you are in the public or the private sectors.

Recent and previous experience

• We acted for various national hauliers and logistics businesses in defending all types of tribunal claims and advising on TUPE and other employment issues.
• We advised a major port operator on employment issues.
• We acted for a national airline on a contract dispute with an external provider.
• We acted for RHA Used Trucks Limited in the high-profile RHA Trucks competition litigation.
• We advised DFDS on property, litigation and commercial issues.
• We advised on a logistics client’s framework call off contracts for the supply of logistics and delivery services.
• We acted for a logistics company following an investigation by the EA into ground contamination and subsequent prosecution by HSE.
• We advised a logistics company on the health and safety implications of accessing their infrastructure via third party land.
• We advised a leading European logistics company in respect of contentious issues arising from the insolvency of a major customer and the implications for major contracts following the sale of the business and assets out of the administration.
• We acted for a US logistics company in a multi-million pound dispute concerning the procurement, shipping and import of PPE to the UK from China during the Covid 19 pandemic.