I head up the Cheltenham Dispute Resolution team, which includes over 33 in the team. I specialise in Corporate Disputes such as shareholder, franchise and contractual issues. I lead on finance and financial services disputes and fraud, including injunctive relief and acting as supervising solicitor.
Senior Solicitor. Alexandra has experience in leasehold and freehold transactions, including preparing and negotiating ancillary lease documents and deeds.
Trust Manager, Alexia deals with the administration of Trusts, ensuring tax compliance and dealing with the preparation of Trust tax returns and annual accounts.
Arpinder is Head of the Wales & West Corporate Team, Head of the Wye Valley Office and a Corporate Partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Arpinder has advised her clients for over 20 years on a wide variety of corporate matters. Arpinder acts for businesses of all shapes and sizes across a broad range of sectors and she focuses primarily on corporate transactional work, both in the UK and abroad. As well as acquisitions and disposals, Arpinder is experienced in corporate restructures and management buyouts. Alongside Arpinder's corporate role, she heads up HCR’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) team. EDI at HCR is about building on and nurturing HCR’s existing talent, and diversifying and widening our talent pool. Wye Valley office head, Arpinder Dhillon, maintains a strong focus on high-value transactions for clients spanning the worlds of IT infrastructure, legal compliance, manufacturing and financial services.
Ben is a Partner in the London office and works on Company & Commercial, Sport, Private Wealth, Charities and Trust matters.
Partner, head of Private Client team in Cambridge. Succession and capital tax planning, trusts.
Specialist in commercial work with emphasis on intellectual property (including in particular research and development and technology transfer); IT and e-commerce.
Partner in private wealth department in Northampton, specialising in wills, probates, tax planning and trusts.
Charlotte is a Partner within the corporate department at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and the Head of the Worcester and Central England Offices at HCR. With almost 20 years’ experience in the corporate legal arena, Charlotte is committed to delivering the best possible service to her clients and giving commercial and pragmatic advice. Charlotte has a wealth of experience in advising clients in connection with M&A transactions, investments and group reorganisations with a particular specialism in acting for clients across the health and social care sector.
Partner and Head of our Residential Property team with expertise of all aspects of Residential Property.
Clare is a partner within the corporate department and heads up the Dental Team sitting within the Health and Social Care team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Clare has been working within the dental sector for over 15 years, and as one of only a small number of NASDAL accredited lawyers within the United Kingdom, she is nationally recognised for my expertise in advising dentists. Clare's primary focus is on assisting dentists to achieve their potential, whether through buying, selling or restructuring their practices. Clare's in-depth knowledge of the NHS and CQC frameworks within which practices operate allows her to provide specialist support to clients where issues arise with their regulators. Clare is often called upon to speak at dental conferences and seminars to share her knowledge of the dental sector.
Partner dealing with agricultural and rural businesses and advising land-owning charities. Dealing with rural owners on acquisitions and disposals, all aspects of tenancy work and restructuring in relation to tax planning and trusts. Advising rural property owners on renewable enerrgy projects and options/leases for energy generation by solar, wind, AD and water. Dealing with acquisition of property and documentation in relation to management and development of sites by land-owning charities including joint ventures.
Derek is a partner within the corporate department with over 20 year’s experience. Derek has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of Corporate and Company Law matters, advising individuals and corporate clients, both locally, nationally and internationally on realising the maximum potential value/return from their business by buying, merging, re-structuring or selling their business/company through share or asset purchases and/or sales with multi-jurisdictional experience. Derek also advises on creating corporate joint ventures and or partnerships with specific expertise and interest in dealing with construction companies both private/plc and property developers/land owners; Derek has a specialist knowledge of the automotive sector and specifically advising a large Global Motor Manufacturing Group. He is also passionate about the Equine Law sector and the horse racing industry. Derek has also worked with clients across the globe advising American, Canadian, Spanish, Japanese, Irish and French based corporates on their corporate group interests within the United Kingdom.
Partner specialising in tax and estate planning, wills, trusts and probate.
Partner dealing with a wide range of real estate matters. Graeme is highly experienced in complex mixed use development work including site assembly, promotion, joint ventures and collaboration agreements, pre lets, funding and disposals. He is also involved in general property matters including funding and portfolio work.
Helen is a Legal Director within HCR's Corporate Team. Helen heads up the BRICS team and is a qualified chartered company secretary.
Chartered Legal Executive. James deals with both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and regularly acts for office holders in claims for possession and sale, setting aside antecedent transactions and challenges to office holders' remuneration.
Kerri is a Partner in the Private Wealth team, based in the Northampton office.
Head of commercial/technology unit in Northampton; main areas of work: commercial contracts, intellectual property, IT/e-commerce, competition law, data protection, partnerships.
Partner in commercial property business unit specialising in development and investment work, including development agreements, finance agreements, forward purchase agreements, forward funding agreements, agreements for lease, conditional contracts, options, equity sharing leases, investment acquisitions and disposals and commercial leases. Clients include the Stepnell group of companies, the Jelmac group of companies, The Midcounties Co-Operative Ltd, Kenmare Estates Ltd, Perrys Motor Sales Ltd, City & County Investments (Scotland) Ltd, Natwest/RBS, Greensand Trust, Church UK Retail Ltd, Crockett & Jones Ltd, Cheaneys Shoes Ltd.
Head of the firm’s contentious intellectual property group; specialises in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including patents, designs, trade marks, passing off and branding, copyright, confidential information actions, and domain name disputes; represents clients across a range of industries, including fashion, packaging, computer games, medical technology, novelty toys and products, agriculture, household and garden products, and retail. He also acts, or has acted for, a number of patent and trade mark attorneys in defending claims of professional negligence. He has represented clients in substantial intellectual property cases both here and in Australia, including multinational litigation involving dual proceedings in the UK and US; represented defendants in the ‘One in a Million’ domain name litigation.
Heads Hewitsons’ banking and finance group. Partner in corporate department, based in Northampton and Milton Keynes, dealing with a wide range of company law; specialising in the acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses, group reorganisations, joint ventures, banking and security and other related corporate finance matters. Neil also works from the firm’s Milton Keynes office. Practice areas: banking.
Senior Solicitor. Rachel advises clients on a wide range of Private Wealth matters including Wills, Inheritance Tax and Succession Planning, the administration of Estates and Powers of Attorney and Court of Protections matters.
Rachel is a Legal Director and Head of the Real Estate Litigation team.
Head of HCR's Thames Valley Corporate Team Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2020 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2022 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards
Rebecca is a corporate partner specialising in the health and social care legal arena. Rebecca is the Head of HCR’s Health and Social Care sector and Birmingham office.
Richard is a partner and Head of the Corporate Team at HCR both in London and the UK which was ranked 1st in the UK by Experian’s UK and Republic of Ireland M&A report. Richard has over 23 years of experience of offering clients pragmatic advice on large and complex corporate transactions and international deals. Richard also heads up HCR’s private equity offering, this is his primary focus and specialism. Richard has particular expertise in institutional equity investments, management buyouts, secondary buy-outs, development capital transactions and management roles.
Robert is a commercial partner with over 25 years’ experience known for his expertise within the manufacturing sector including advanced manufacturing. With a specialism in partnership work, Robert acts for professional partnerships and individual partners. He also has particular experience in acting for doctors’ practices. Robert works with businesses of all sizes and nature, ranging from SMEs to multi-national corporations and also professional partnerships. He is contract specialist and advise on all aspects of commercial deals, especially strategy, providing real practical solutions to enable businesses to focus on what they do best without having to worry about the legal issues. Robert also provides industry expertise by speaking at and also chairing various external and internal conferences and seminars. As well as his commercial work, Robert sits on as an advisory board member at Worcester University’s Business School.
Robert is a Corporate Partner in HCR’s Thames Valley office market with over 25 years’ experience. He has been involved in many transactions providing advice to buyers, sellers, lenders and investors. Robert acts for a wide range of clients from large multi-nationals to entrepreneurial individuals. Robert aims to provide the highest quality legal advice so as to enable our clients to achieve their strategic aims within time and budget and to build lasting and meaningful relationships with them. Specialties: Mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins. Advice to US and other inbound corporates. Setting up corporate structures and on-going practical and commercial corporate legal advice.
Partner dealing with commercial litigation, professional negligence and insolvency.
Tim is a partner and Head of the Cheltenham Corporate Team at HCR. He is committed to providing support to prospective clients on their strategies and is complimented on his pragmatic no nonsense style. Market commentators state that he is "a very pragmatic and strong operator." Tim works with a wide array of clients regarding succession planning for their businesses, advising on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has a particular specialism in employee ownership trusts (EOT’s) advising clients on how to sell the controlling stake in the company for full market value with potential tax benefits.
Legal Director (Solicitor), Tom Williams advises clients on a broad range of commercial litigation claims, with particular focus on: Supply of goods and services disputes Disputes arising out of business and share sales, including in relation completion accounts disputes and warranty claims Enforcement of restrictive covenants against employees and sellers of businesses. Tom is a member of the firm’s Healthcare specialist sector. He acts for clients within the Care, Dental and Veterinary sector in relation to corporate and commercial (non-clinical) disputes, where his understanding of the practical and commercial aspects of his clients’ businesses in these sectors allow him to offer focused commercial advice.
Partner in Cambridge employment team. Acts for employer and employee clients specialising in post-termination restrictive covenants.
