Freeths LLP
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Simon Hobbs
- Phone0845 271 6762
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Commercial litigation.
Position
Partner in charge of commercial litigation and restructuring/insolvency in Milton Keynes. Rated in both disciplines in both The Legal 500 and Chambers. On the insolvency front, Simon is a ‘highly rated’ expert on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency matters, with some 18 years’ experience. On the Commercial Litigation front, he is described by clients as ‘hard working’ with a ‘quietly confident style’. He deals with heavyweight contractual claims for major commercial clients and local SMEs, franchising, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims and IP matters. Simon prides himself on building up trusted advisor status with his clients.
Career
Qualified 1997, Bond Dickinson LLP; associate, Burges Salmon LLP; partner, IBB Solicitors; partner, Freeths LLP 2010 to date.
Memberships
Past president of Middlesex Law Society (2010); ADR Group Accredited Mediator (2009).
Education
Cheltenham College; Royal Holloway, University of London (1993 BA (Hons)); Nottingham Law School.
Leisure
Playing football and cricket, politics and political history, military history and wet and muddy walks in the countryside.