Settlement Agreement Solicitors for Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan, so no single office is near everyone. It does not need to be. Settlement advice is handled entirely at a distance: your agreement reaches us by email, we advise you by phone or video, and the certificate is signed and returned electronically. The law requires a qualified independent adviser, not a local one. So a specialist covering the whole region serves you better than the nearest name, and that is the point of this service, the same free, same-day advice wherever in Greater Manchester you are. If you are in the city itself, see our Manchester page.

Greater Manchester is the largest regional economy in the UK outside London, home to around 2.8 million people and a workforce of roughly 2.2 million [Source: ONS / GM Combined Authority, verify]. The employment rate is about 71%, and unemployment has run at around 5%, a little above the national average [Source: ONS Labour Force Survey, verify]. Financial and professional services alone employ in the region of 280,000 people, about a fifth of the local economy, and the region has a fast-growing technology, digital and media base, anchored by the commercial district at Spinningfields and the media cluster at MediaCity in Salford [Source: GM Combined Authority / local analysis, verify]. Median full-time pay ranges from around £30,700 in the lower-paying boroughs to about £40,500 in Manchester itself [Source: ONS ASHE 2025, verify]. Across that spread of corporate, media, tech and public-sector employers, settlement agreements are a regular feature of exits.

Whatever your sector, we take you through the whole thing: we separate what you are owed anyway (notice, salary, holiday and statutory redundancy) from the genuine compensation on top, tell you whether the total is fair, value any claim, and negotiate for more where the leverage is there. For finance, legal and professional roles we focus on compensation, bonus and covenants; for media and tech roles, share options and project or fixed-term issues. See the settlement agreement guide, how much you should get and the calculator.

Send us your agreement and contract; we call you, usually the same working day, and explain every clause; we tell you whether it is fair and value any claim; we negotiate where it helps; and we advise you formally and sign the certificate electronically, often within a day or two.

Because independent advice is a legal requirement for a settlement agreement to be valid, your employer contributes to your fees as standard, and we invoice them directly, so for a standard agreement you normally pay nothing. See our pricing.