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Partner in the construction team specialising in the management of construction and engineering claims with particular expertise in adjudication.
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Partner in the real estate department at Freeths Nottingham office. Specialist areas include investment property, site assembly for commercial and residential development, commercial property development and education.
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Ben assists the partners and senior lawyers in the team providing a cost effective resource, negotiating and drafting the necessary contract documentation on a variety of construction projects.Ben has advised and negotiated on a range of professional consultants’ appointments and warranties, acting for public and private sector clients engaging them, as well as for funders. Ben understands the issues from all angles and is able to give pragmatic, real-world advice resulting in documents which all parties can accept.Ben has negotiated and advised employers on market reality amendments to standard form building contracts on a variety of developments. These include new build developments, refurbishments and extensions to existing structures across a variety of sectors. Ben is an associate and is based in Nottingham.
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Ben has particular experience in the care, student accommodation and minerals sectors.He advises clients on a variety of matters including real estate finance, acquisition and disposal work, property development, and landlord and tenant portfolio management. Ben won the Nottinghamshire Law Society Junior Lawyer of the Year in 2014.
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Beth regularly deals with a wide range of Real Estate Litigation issues. These include trespass/possession claims, forfeiture and termination, contested and uncontested lease renewals, service charge disputes, disrepair/dilapidations claims, break clauses, adverse possession claims, claims relating to rent review and easement and covenant disputes.
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Head of tax, advises on a wide range of business and property tax matters, such as tax issues on share sales/acquisitions, VAT, stamp duty land tax, company reorganisations and demergers, employee share incentives and business-related IHT issues.
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Director leading the Plots & Management team acting for national, regional and local residential and commercial property developers selling new build properties as well as acting for social housing providers in respect of shared ownership and associated work.
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Charlotte qualified in 2010 and joined the private client team at Freeths from Browne Jacobson in 2018. Charlotte advises clients on a range of private client matters including the preparation of Wills and trusts, succession planning, inheritance tax, trust administration, powers of attorney and the administration of estates. She has particular experience dealing with complex probate matters and inheritance tax advice for small business owners. Charlotte is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and has received a STEP excellence award in the Taxation of Trusts and Estates.
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Partner specialising in all areas of finance, particularly property and project finance. Chris is head of the firm’s banking and finance team. Recent transactions include advising the issuer on a £100m mortgage bond issue, acting for the lender on enforcement and insolvency issues relating to indebtedness of approximately £180m secured against a portfolio of properties and advising Bridges Ventures on the £84m acquisition of a portfolio of offices from Regus Plc. Chris acts for investors, developers, development agencies and a number of lenders including ICG Longbow, HSBC, RBS, and Santander.
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Partner and National Head of Construction, specialising in construction procurement work including building, engineering and process plant contracts. Currently advising: London Luton Airport in relation to its major expansion project; Gleeds in relation to numerous projects in the UK and overseas; developers in relation to projects including hotels, student accommodation, PRS, offices and distribution centres; contractors and specialist sub-contractors in relation to a variety of projects; a major national retailer in relation to store, distribution centre and fit-out projects; a global company in relation to highways contracts.
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Claire is a Senior Associate based in our Nottingham office.She specialises in Real Estate, Development and Social Housing.
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Development, investment and general property-related work of a commercial nature. Clients include a series of developers of both commercial and residential property.
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Partner heading up team of employment lawyers, providing full range of legal risk management services in the employment field.
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Partner in risk management department, specialises in corporate finance and commercial work and partnership matters.
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Partner in Freeths LLP’s information technology and data business services group, dealing with contracts for the licensing/implementation/provision/outsourcing of IT and IT-based services, and data protection/freedom of information. Has worked on a range of national and ‘big-ticket’ deals.
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Member/partner, family department in the Derby office handling divorce with an emphasis on high-value ancillary relief. Several matters with assets well in excess of £1m. Has also handled pre-marital agreements including one in respect of a local ex-premiership footballer and his fiancée. Deeds of separation and also private law children matters. Trained collaborative lawyer. Very client focused and able to empathise with clients whilst retaining realistic expectations.
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Edward deals with all Real Estate litigation issues, including lease renewals, exercise of break options, easements, and covenant disputes. He has a focus on landlord-and-tenant work, particularly dilapidations disputes for both landlords and tenants. Edward has been praised for being very approachable.Whilst Edward is experienced in litigation, he prefers to work with his clients to avoid disputes reaching such a stage. Instead, he focusses on managing the issues to commercial and practical resolutions.
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Fiona is an experienced employment specialist and acts for a diverse range of clients including those in the retail, charities and manufacturing sectors. Fiona advises on all elements of the employment relationship including business reorganisations, redundancies, strategic advice relating to exits, the TUPE Regulations, contracts of employment, employee handbooks and policies settlement agreements and manages all aspects of the Employment Tribunal litigation.
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Frances has over 10 years post qualification experience as a property lawyer, has worked in residential conveyancing, and specialises in working with developers and their new build developments.She acts for a wide range of developers including national house builders, local developers with smaller developments, bespoke exclusive developments, local authority and care home providers.Frances has experience with varying funding arrangements and government purchase schemes. She has a track record of working with smaller developers to guide them through, what may be, their first new build development process.
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Partner in commercial property department specialising in the acquisition of residential and commercial development sites including the preparation of options, housing association acquisitions and financing, licensed and leisure property acquisitions and disposals, health authority and NHS trust work and FE colleges work.
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Gemma is the principal point of contact for several SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises).She provides day-to-day advice including drafting contracts, drafting policies and procedures, and advising on disciplinaries, grievances and managing sickness absence.Gemma regularly represents clients in relation to employment tribunal claims. This involves the drafting of pleadings, disclosure of documents, production of witness statements and advocacy in the employment tribunal.
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Gemma works alongside Jane Williams on a wide range of cases including birth injury cases, complex orthopaedic surgical cases, sepsis and obstetric and gynaecological claims. She has over six years experience of bringing clinical negligence claims.Gemma is recommended for being approachable and helpful, helping you to feel at ease in difficult and emotional personal situations. She is dedicated to seeking answers and obtaining compensation – enabling you to pay for the care and equipment which you may require after the mismanagement of your medical treatment.She deals with all types of clinical negligence cases, but specialises in representing children with cerebral palsy and in representing families in fatal cases involving sepsis.
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Partner in real estate. Specialist areas include landlord and tenant, investment property, education and banking.
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Head of commercial litigation department and also head of the insolvency unit, Graham is widely recognised as one of the East Midlands’ leading insolvency lawyers with over 26 years’ experience in this field. He has acted nationally and internationally and has complimentary experience in banking litigation. Graham frequently represents a wide portfolio of insolvency practitioner clients acting regularly for many of the larger firms of accountants as well as the quality smaller firms. Graham’s commercial litigation experience is vast, including representing clients all the way up to the Court of Appeal. He regularly deals with complex, commercial, financial and professional negligence matters and has a depth and breadth of knowledge that is commensurate with his many years of experience.
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Partner & National Head of Dispute ManagementGuy has a wide-ranging experience of disputes arising out of all aspects of the built environment. He has time-served experience of managing closure of final accounts, defects and professional negligence claims, but with many years’ experience in wider commercial disputes including the demands of acting (and winning for clients) in emergency and injunctive applications.Guy prides himself on his ability to deliver the result that any client deserves quicker, cheaper and better than others in the market. His team remains the only construction group to publish its track record in adjudication work.His personal performance is: “Played 108, lost 9.” Clients who have benefited from his team’s approach include businesses within the construction, retail, logistics, materials, food and manufacturing sectors.Over 25 years’ specialist industry and sector experience have given Guy a highly developed understanding of ‘what should go where, why and when’ in relation to any construction or infrastructure project. This allows him, when any dispute or problem occurs, to get quickly to the heart of what has gone wrong, why and who is/should/could be accountable.Guy is recognised as an “Elite Leading Lawyer” in Construction by The Legal 500.
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Partner and head of the Real Estate team in Nottingham specialising in commercial development (town centre, retail and industrial) as well as residential development, property investment and property finance. Guy also leads the team acting for one of the UK’s leading gym operators. “Clients comment that he provides a best in class service with the ability to respond to matters very quickly, accurately and efficiently and has a skill of thinking laterally and "outside the box" often keeping deals alive and finding solutions to problems that would otherwise make a deal not happen”
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Helen deals with a variety of Real Estate matters including Landlord and Tenant and property sales and disposals. She has a particular interest in property finance. Helen deals with a range of property management matters including, assignments of leases, sublettings and licences to alter.Helen also acts for a range of clients from banks, pension funds and companies to small charities and individual commercial property owners. She assists her corporate colleagues in transactions where a property element is involved. Helen is based at our Derby office.
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Specialist areas: landlord and tenant, investment property, banking and education. Recent significant deals include: sale of investment properties in London valued at a total of £50m; dealing with the property aspects of a complex data centre services agreement; acquisition of an office park for redevelopment as a data centre site; several high-value refinancing transactions, acting for both banks and borrowers; dealing with a group reorganisation for a retail client involving the transfer of 50 freehold and leasehold properties. Clients include a number of corporate occupiers, national retailers, a data centre provider, a university and a number of banks.
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After training at a niche litigation practice, Jade joined the firm in 2014. She works within the Commercial Litigation department and Insolvency Unit in Nottingham, under the supervision of Graham Greenfield (the head of both departments).Jade acts on behalf of both claimants and defendants in a range of civil matters, including claims of professional negligence and breach of contract. Jade has particular expertise acting in relation to claims arising out of transactions undertaken prior to bankruptcy or liquidation. Jade regularly acts for Insolvency Practitioners and individuals in connection with these matters.
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Property development with particular emphasis on major projects. In recent years James has acted in some of the largest urban regeneration projects in the country, including in Solihull, Leeds, Derby and Greater London. In acting for private residential and commercial developers, public authorities, funders and housing associations James has developed a holistic understanding of major project and development work and regularly advises upon joint venture and structural agreements, site assembly, development agreements, overage, conditional contracts and options, infrastructure and funding arrangements. Recent projects include: major schemes to regenerate 1970s housing stock in Solihull and Greater London; the £70m extension of Touchwood Shopping Centre for the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; and a large-scale transfer of New Town legacy assets from the HCA to Milton Keynes Council, in which James headed the 25-strong project team representing the Council and its LLP subsidiary which acquired the majority of the assets in a pioneering use of local authority-controlled companies. James is also advising Bedford Borough Council on several significant development and disposal projects in the borough along with existing clients such as Halton Borough Council, Bassetlaw District Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and the London Borough of Havering on a range of property acquisition, management and disposal projects. For Derby City Council he has advised on the property aspects of a major, 30-year LLP joint venture proposed to be entered into with a private sector partner to transform a deprived inner-city neighbourhood through housing regeneration, and for the past ten years James has been closely advising Bellway Homes Limited in the highly successful public-private housing regeneration scheme covering four wards in the north of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.
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Partner advising on clinical negligence and catastrophic injury claims with particular expertise in brain and spinal injury claims. Jane is head of department and has more than 24 years experience of bringing clinical negligence claims. She has an active practice dealing with cases of maximum severity including spinal, neurological and birth injury clinical negligence claims. She also has a strong track record in misdiagnoses of cancer and epilepsy having co-ordinated two high profile group actions. She is renowned for her friendly and sympathetic approach putting her clients at ease from the outset.Jane’s aim is always to do the best for her clients and to take away the stress of bringing a claim at what is often a difficult and emotional time. She advocates a team approach and her clients are always involved and integral to this.Testimonials:“A warm heartfelt thank you for your support, dedication and hard graft over the last 5 years. Your professionalism has assured our daughter got what she deserved, a secure future with superb living standards and care team. You are a credit to your profession”. “Just wanted to say a very big thank you for all your help over these past few very emotional years ... we are so grateful for the way you have handled everything putting us at ease and getting the best for our son. You have truly been so nice, kind and friendly, it has been lovely knowing you!” “Jane has always been professional, thorough, helpful, kind and friendly and every time we have met or spoken put us at ease”. “We are extremely grateful to Jane for all her hard work and support on our behalf ... we are indebted for everything you have done for us as a family”.
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Head of PI team; partner dealing with personal injury (claimant) specialising in serious injury claims, particularly brain injury and spinal cord injury claims.
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Jennie has over 15 years experience in our Private Client team since before qualifying as a solicitor. She now mainly deals with the preparation of Wills and Powers of Attorney for many individuals, also advising on inheritance tax, estate planning and other elderly client matters. Jennie is very client focused and will always have the client’s interest as her main concern.
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Head of banking and finance division specialising in all aspects of corporate finance and banking; recent deals include: negotiating and advising the Lloyds Bank acquisition finance team on providing senior debt facilities on the ISIS equity partners backed MBO of Impetus Automotive. Advising shareholders of Gyron Internet Ltd on the sale of 85% of the shares of Gyron Internet Ltd. Advising the sellers on the sale of Viaton Industries. Advising Merlin labels on the acquisition of Labelsco from MSO.
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An experienced dispute lawyer, John specialises in complex construction defects cases, including dealing with matters of professional negligence. He also has significant experience in bringing and defending construction adjudications on matters of termination, payment, extension of time and defects. John has growing experience with international construction disputes. He has been involved within the construction industry since leaving school in 1982, until re-training as a solicitor in 2000 focusing solely on construction law. John’s in-depth sector knowledge is a significant advantage in assessing a client’s position. It allows John to work efficiently with his clients and enables him to obtain a quick grasp on the issues to be resolved. John is frequently brought in to assist on problem projects to help guide the project team, protecting a client’s position against a back drop of a live contract.
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Partner, real estate notably heading the care sector team. Wide range of landowner funder and occupier focused transactions and development work for clients including Eddie Stobart, LNT Group, Scotch Corner Designer Village, and Lloyds Bank.
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Partner specialising in family law, including prenuptial ,post nuptial and cohabitation agreements, divorce, separation, property and maintenance issues and cohabitee disputes; particular specialism is in dealing with financial cases which involve substantial assets , including property and pensions and advising clients who have owner/managed businesses; also advising and dealing with court proceedings in relation to child arrangements, including parental responsibility and financial provision . She appears in court and conducts her own advocacy on a regular basis.
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National Head of Employment, Pensions and Immigration.A highly specialised lawyer, Julian specialises in the ever-changing world of employment law. His main focus is on proactive risk reduction through the client’s internal skill development and the production of a commercial approach to human resource and managing people.Clients include:Aldi Stores Ltd;2 Sisters Food Group Ltd;British Psychological Society;British Dieticians AssociationDe Montfort UniversityEast Midlands Business LtdOakham SchoolThe Royal Air Forces AssociationThe Chairman and Directors of Leicester City Football ClubThe Chairman of Derby County FCDerby County FCJohn GregoryJulian advises businesses on implementing strategies for creating modern workplaces and delivering the most productive and engaged workforce. This is achieved through internal management training; planning and implementing reorganisations, collective consultations and individual case-handling. Always focussing on securing the best possible commercial outcomes, and maximising financial and reputational gain.During his career at Freeths, Julian has helped take it from a £2m turnover single-office solicitors practice into the circa £80m turnover 12 city law firm it is today. He has been Managing Partner of the Leicester Office, Managing Partner of the Head Office in Nottingham and National Head of the Employment, Pensions and Immigration Team.Julian is one of the few solicitors identified by Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession as an Eminent Practitioner.
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Julie has many years’ experience in all areas of planning law, including advising public and private sector clients on major developments, infrastructure, local government law and highways. She regularly acts on behalf of client promoting major residential, retail, commercial and mixed-use developments.Julie is a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
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Partner specialising in clinical negligence claims for claimants; particular interest in obstetric claims; recommended in ‘Chambers’.
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Karen is an experienced construction lawyer specialising in procurement and development work.Karen’s work includes advising on and negotiating procurement strategies, building, engineering and remediation contracts, development agreements, call-off contracts and framework agreements, consultants’ appointments, bonds, guarantees, and collateral warranties. She advises developers, lenders, investors, borrowers, purchasers, tenants, schools and universities. She can help with mixed-use schemes, residential, commercial, office, health centres, and hotel and sports developments. Karen has worked as a lawyer at Freeths since 2001.
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Partner and head of corporate dealing with acquisitions, disposals and mergers, private equity transactions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, restructuring and refinancing.
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Katie joined Freeths in March 2014. Previously Katie worked in the London office of an international law firm.Katie has a broad range of experience of finance transactions, with a particular interest in real estate investment and development finance. She also has experience of Islamic compliant financing structures and has advised strategically in relation to loan restructuring and work outs.
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Keith is a partner in the corporate team. He advises on a broad range of corporate transactions, in particular acquisitions and disposals advising corporates, owners, management teams and funders. Keith also drafts, negotiates and advises on high value/complex commercial contracts. Advised James Convenience Retail Limited on the acquisition of First Stop News Limited, the holding company of Rippleglen Limited. Advised Carlsberg UK Limited on the acquisition of London Fields Brewery. Advised Lifetime Brands, Inc on several acquisitions, including the acquisition of a leading UK-based supplier of tableware and the subsequent acquisition of one of the UK's leading suppliers of kitchenware. Advised a waste and recycling group with US private investment on its growth by acquisition.
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Kelly advises clients on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, mainly acting for real estate investors, corporate occupiers, landlords and lenders.She has significant experience of acquisitions and disposals and landlord & tenant and portfolio management work as well as managing large scale projects. She has particular expertise in dealing with complex agreements for lease relating to the acquisition of retail, leisure and trade units located in shopping centres, edge of town locations and retail/leisure/trade parks.Kelly joined Freeths in May 2018 having previously worked at other national firms.
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Director – Real Estate. Kishen has been qualified for over 12 years and has a considerable breadth of experience in all aspects of real estate work including landlord and tenant matters and real estate finance. He has a particular specialism in dealing with complex development and development finance matters. Recent transactions include: Advising a developer in connection with the forward sale of a £63m PRS scheme Advising a funder on its forward funding of a new £6m hotel development. Advising an investor in connection with the acquisition and disposal of a residential development site for the construction of 52 dwellings. Advising the land owner in connection with a hybrid promotion and option agreement to promote land for a predominantly residential development scheme.
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Lilly is a senior associate with over seven years’ experience in Private Client practice. She is able to advise on a wide range of Private Client concerns, with a particular emphasis on tax planning and family succession.Lilly also works closely with the Contentious Trusts and Probates team at Freeths, and has a special interest in the administration of complicated or contentious estates. She is able to deal with difficult family situations in a sensitive and empathetic manner.
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Liz is an RTPI Chartered Town Planner with over 5 years planning experience in the private sector. Liz joined Freeths as a Graduate Planner in 2012 and qualified as a Chartered Planner in 2015.As a result, Liz is recognised as having a strong understanding of the legislative framework within which the planning system operates and is able to practically apply this to client’s queries regarding their developments.Liz deals with a broad scale and range of planning applications in the retail, commercial and residential planning sectors. She provides strategic planning advice, undertakes specific site appraisals and deals with the submission of Local Plan representations as well as managing the preparation and submission of a wide range of applications and appeals.She also has recent and up to date experience of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Listed Building Consents, Prior Approval Applications, Housing Land Supply Calculations and CIL mitigation advice.
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Louise specialises in private and public sector residential developments and strategic land advising developers, house builders and land owners on all aspects of property development. Her expertise includes acquisitions and disposals, promotion agreements, strategic options, overage agreements and deferred payment arrangements.
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Partner specialising in investment property, landlord and tenant, NHS and other healthcare property. Dealt with acquisitions and disposals for local authority pension funds with a combined value exceeding £100m during 2014.
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Partner in charge of private litigation unit; the unit covers a range of civil disputes for private clients, but specialises in contested trust and probate disputes; caseload comprises high-value contested probate and trust disputes including IPFDA 1975 claims, will disputes, contested court of protection proceedings and related professional negligence claims against other solicitors. Mark is also a qualified commercial mediator and regularly mediates contested trust and probate disputes.
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Partner in the employment department. Acts for a range of employer clients in the public and private sector. All aspects of employment law, including: tribunal representation and advocacy, designing and delivering training sessions, and senior executive terminations.
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Maxine is a commercial lawyer with significant experience in a broad range of Real Estate matters.She has experience dealing with a variety of clients including granting and taking leases, acquisitions and disposals, development, retail, joint ventures and property portfolio management.
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Senior partner Derby office; mergers and acquisitions; management/employee buy-outs, buy-ins; AIM and PLUS flotations; business purchases; corporate demergers; company reorganisations; local authority externalisation; shareholder agreements and joint ventures; commercial contracts; banking.
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Michaela specialises in acting for institutional investors and landlords (including local authority pension funds, company pension funds and FTSE100 property companies).She acts on the acquisition, disposal, financing and management of multi-let properties including mixed use properties, shopping centres and out of town retail parks.
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Mona qualified in 2008 and has wide-ranging experience in acting for private clients and commercial clients. She has expertise in contentious probate and trust disputes, professional negligence claims, property claims, web fraud claims, and commercial matters.Mona is always keen to explore alternative solutions for clients and has experience of mediation as well as arbitration. Mona deals with all types of will disputes and claims over lifetime gifts, often involving lack of testamentary capacity and/or undue influence. She has experience of trust disputes acting for trustees in multimillion pound estates.Clients like the clear and structured advice Mona provides and private clients appreciate the sympathetic manner in which Mona assists them through often very difficult cases (both emotionally and legally). Clients can rely on receiving a detailed and easy to understand explanation of the law from Mona and having their options set out for comparison.
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Managing partner, Leicester office. Specialises in commercial litigation. Particular focus on energy sector, financial services, competition law. All types of contractual claims, partnership and shareholder actions, to include warranty actions and injunction applications. Works closely with employment law colleagues on restrictive covenant claims. Acted for Beckett Investment Management Group (BIMG) on their successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in 2007 (Hall/Yader).
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Partner and Head of Court of Protection (Nottingham) Natasha is a highly experienced professional deputy who has acted for hundreds of clients who lack capacity to manage their own property and affairs. She deals with all types of cases but primarily specialises in acquired brain injury, representing both adults and children who lack capacity as a result of personal injury or clinical negligence. Her clients also include those with mental health issues, learning difficulties and birth injuries.
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Navada works in the Court of Protection department.She has acted for numerous clients as an Attorney managing their property and financial affairs. She has a keen interest in protecting those who are vulnerable and lack the capacity to manage their affairs.
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Nick Benton is a Senior Associate based in the Leicester office specialising in employment law. Nick has particular experience in dealing with Employment Tribunal litigation including complex claims involving allegations of discrimination and whistleblowing. Nick conducts his own advocacy where required. Nick also has experience in advising on the implications of TUPE on commercial contracts and senior employee exits, providing timely, pragmatic and commercial advice.
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Nicola is an experienced Associate with a broad range of experience in residential development, landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions, disposals, property portfolio management and property finance.
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Nicola Grange is a Senior Associate at our Nottingham office.She has acted for a wide range of clients with regards to Real Estate.
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Partner dealing with wills, trusts, probate and inheritance tax planning.
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Patrick is an experienced Partner in our Residential Development Team. He specialises in large residential-led schemes and acts for national house builders, developers, housing associations, contractors, promoters and estate owners. He also has significant experience on all types of real estate transactions including mixed-use developments, investment transactions, finance/funding and social housing. He known for being commercially focused, highly responsive and working collaboratively with all those involved on transactions to find pragmatic solutions. Patrick is a former recipient of the ‘Junior Lawyer of the Year’ award, chosen by the Nottinghamshire Law Society.
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Consultant conducting professional and clinical negligence, product liability, defamation, and personal injury claims.
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Partner in real estate litigation team dealing with all types of property disputes, ranging from disputed break notices to dilapidations to lease renewals to tenant insolvency advice. Clients comment that Paul’s advice “often brings a different angle to some of the more traditional advice provided” and that “having Paul Tomkins on your side is invaluable, he brings astuteness, clarityof thought and an awareness of client needs second to none”.
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Polly advises public and private sector clients on all areas of planning and highways law in relation to major residential, retail, commercial and mixed use developments.Her areas of expertise include S106 planning agreements, S106A deeds of variation and applications under section 106A, and S38/278 highways agreements. She also advises on public rights of way, Registered Providers on Affordable Housing provisions and Planning due diligence work.
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Rachel has over 12 years experience acting for the Social Housing sector in the area of residential development. The procurement route for Registered Providers tends to be through Development Agreements with housebuilders or land agreements with City Councils with associated Grant Agreement.Rachel acts for Registered Provider clients in the refinancing of their housing stock. She also acts for developers buying/selling land through conditional contracts or option agreements, and in relation to promoting land for development through Planning Promotion Agreements.
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Rebecca heads the residential property team in Nottingham and has 14 years’ experience of dealing with residential property transactions. Rebecca deals with all types of residential property work and is recommended for being proactive and thorough. Rebecca is often praised for her calm and efficient approach, helping her clients to feel at ease when it comes to the stresses of moving house.
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Rena is a Partner and Head of the Employment team in Leicester. She deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law for public and private sector clients. She has particular experience of representing clients at employment tribunals, advising on business reorganisations, redundancies, discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE regulations, providing strategic HR advice and bespoke training. Rena is recognised as a leader in the field of employment by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
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Partner dealing with company acquisitions and disposals and general corporate work.
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Robert has worked in our Dispute Resolution department since qualifying at Freeths in 2010. He has a broad range of litigation experience and of cases covering a varied range of different legal areas. Robert has acted for a wide breadth of clients, from private individuals through to large commercial organisations (including the public and not for profit sectors). This means that he is well placed to understand not only the needs of his own clients, but, significantly, those of the other parties to the dispute.Robert is a keen advocate of developing case strategy at the initial stages of litigation and providing a clear route to achieving client outcomes. Robert can provide helpful and practical advice from the outset, with a particular focus on how to resolve disputes in a cost-effective and timely way. He is sensitive to the needs of each client, focussing on the commercial and practical realities of the dispute.Having specialised over recent years, Robert’s case load now primarily focuses on disputes concerning contracts, estates, land, probate and trusts. He has dealt with a number of large contractual disputes, property disputes (including jointly owned property) and he has a busy caseload in relation to disputed estates, lifetime gifts and disputed trusts.
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Consultant with particular experience of commercial property development, commercial property funding, sale and purchase of commercial property investment portfolios, site assembly for commercial and residential development.
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Partner – real estate. Specialisms: real estate investment; medical and healthcare properties; real estate finance; and landlord and tenant. Recent/important cases: refinance of property in Nottingham valued at £11m; acquisition of medical centre investment property in Manchester for £4.6m; refinance of care home in London valued at £7m; sale of residential development property in London for £3.1m.
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A diligent Real Estate lawyer, Sarah specialises in development and investment acquisitions for large London based clients, assessing sites and advising on the crucial issues.Sarah also has a strong Landlord and Tenant background, advising both Landlords and Tenants on the grant of new leases and on all aspects of leasehold management work.
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Sarah specialises in advice relating to the creation, administration and termination of settlements, including the taxation aspects. Her specialism is personal injury trusts – trusts set up to hold and manage compensation awarded for personal injury.She advises the successful claimant or the parent, if the claimant is a minor, on merits of such trusts and their creation. She also deals with the day to day administration of the trusts on behalf of the trustees and prepares annual accounts and tax returns.Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 1995, having previously studied accountancy. She joined Freeths LLP in 2009 and is also a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians.
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Shama is a qualified solicitor, currently working as a professional support lawyer. She is also our E-Learning Co-ordinator and assists with a variety of projects around Freeths. These include writing training courses (including an online and gaming application), maintaining know-how for regulatory compliance, managing the firm’s membership on various external panels (conveyancing and personal injury, and managing our CQS accreditation with the Law Society.Shama is a member of the Nottinghamshire Law Society’s Education & Training Committee, a national Law Society Social Mobility Ambassador, and a national Law Society Council Member for Ethnic Minorities and an ex officio member of the Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division. She is also a Diversity & Inclusive group member.
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Partner -private client department; specialist area of work is Court of Protection.
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A partner in Freeths’ Real Estate department, Thomas advises businesses (and individuals) on a variety of commercial property matters. These include acquisitions and disposals, refinancings and property development.Whilst working across a broad range of areas, Thomas has particular expertise in the private care sector and acts for a number of household name care operators and developers. He offers significant experience in dealing with property aspects of banking / refinancing matters. Thomas also has extensive experience of dealing with institutional “sale and leaseback” funding transactions, including involving UK and US REITs.Whilst he is a property lawyer by trade, Thomas has extensive experience of property aspects of corporate transactions, and has led property aspects on many share and business sale transactions. Thomas is also experienced in property finance transactions.
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Tristam is a highly experienced transactional real estate lawyer who advises on a range of commercial real estate matters. This includes freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, development agreements, forward-funding agreements, complex agreements for lease and landlord & tenant and property management work.Tristam trained and practiced for a number of years at a leading City law firm before moving to Freeths in 2014.
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Vicky has considerable experience in the investment property field and of landlord and tenant matters, both for landlords and tenant occupiers. She has been advising local authority pension funds and other institutional investor clients for over 15 years.Vicky currently works closely alongside fund managers from CBRE, Aberdeen Asset Management and Colliers Capital – managing properties in the retail, industrial, leisure and other sectors.