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Adrian is a director dealing with development and construction including related planning and environmental issues. He also advises on commercial property generally.
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Amanda is a specialist employment solicitor based in our London office. She advises on all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and the drafting of HR policies and employee handbooks, through to advising on business reorganisations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, and drafting and negotiating settlement agreements and severance packages.
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Partner and Head of Competition Andrew leads the Competition team at Freeths LLP. He has extensive expertise on EU and UK competition/antitrust law and all related practice areas. Andrew represents both private and public sector clients in antitrust proceedings before the European Commission, the UK competition regulators and the courts. He advises on all aspects of worldwide merger control, EU/UK merger investigations, merger arbitrage, EU/UK competition law and litigation, antitrust and market investigations, competition compliance, dawn raids and leniency applications, state aid, procurement and litigation, regulatory, trade and EU law.
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Andrew is a leading real estate partner in the Liverpool market. He has over 15 years’ experience in property investment acquisitions, disposals, and management and property finance work.Andrew’s specialisms include acquisition finance, development finance, refinancing, and lending into specific structures around the Business Premises Renovation Allowance.
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Andy is a partner in the Freeths corporate team based in Leeds. Andy is a corporate lawyer advising on the full spectrum of corporate transactions and matters ranging from mergers and acquisitions, disposals, MBO’s, investments and private equity through to start ups, joint ventures and corporate governance.Andy also advises on banking transactions, advising both borrowers and lenders on facilities and security matters. Andy has a wealth of experience in advising on substantial bank re-financings, particularly in the leisure sector. Recently Andy has acted for: Hague SR Limited in their acquisition of iCOM Printworks Ltd; Growth Partner LLP in their investment in Keelham Farm Shop; Panintelligence Limited in its £4.5m investment from YFM Equity Partners and Comhar Capital; and the management team in the management buyout of high performance computing business, OCF Limited. Clients noted Andy Francey “stands out with his logical approach to resolving complex legal matters, coupled with his personable approach and ability to deliver outstanding service on a tight time line, within the budget originally estimated." Clients have praise him for his “top-quality, speedy responses”.
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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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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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Partner in Manchester Office Chris been recognised as a Recommended Lawyer by Legal 500 in 2018 and 2019. He uses his experience to advise predominantly on the transactional aspects of personal and corporate insolvency, recovery and restructuring. He also runs a specialist real estate advisory practice – assisting the firm’s insolvency clients with their possession, disposal, secured lending and forensic property requirements. He also performs mainstream landlord and tenant, acquisition and disposal work. Chris holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Law from the University of Warwick.
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Clare is an energy lawyer with over a decade of experience in the sector. She specialises in clean energy projects and sustainability, focussing on commercial, regulatory and transactional work. She acts for developers, equity and debt investors, joint venture partners, ESCOs, energy consumers, aggregators and suppliers, supporting clients in asset evaluation, structuring, due diligence, project management, contract development and deal execution.Clare has a Natural Sciences degree from Durham University as well as a Law degree from Cambridge University. She trained at Hogan Lovells and worked in their Energy & Infrastructure team for five years post-qualification, following which she was a senior member of the Energy Projects team at Osborne Clarke before joining Freeths in September 2018.
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Daniel advises corporate clients who are the subject of criminal and regulatory investigations across the Country. This includes, but is not limited to, investigations that are carried out by the Police, SFO, HSE, CQC, Trading Standards, and Local Authorities.He has over 15 years experience in criminal and regulatory law and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2012. Following a number of successful appearances before his local Courts, Daniel was awarded Young Advocate of the Year in 2013. He then joined a leading national firm, where he attained a senior appointment within 18 months, before joining Freeths in 2016.As part of his duties, Daniel represents clients who are facing allegations of corporate manslaughter and breaches of health and safety legislation as well as representing corporate bodies who appear as Interested Parties at Coroners’ Inquests.He also provides advice and assistance in relation to allegations of serious fraud, proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act, and allegations of bribery and corruption. This includes advice regarding the issue of ‘self reporting’, reviewing and drafting anti-bribery policies, and, where appropriate, negotiating for Deferred Prosecution Agreements.
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David is a City trained real estate solicitor and his practice covers all aspects of property law. He has a proven track record of delivering high value and complicated transactions for both public and private sector clients.Before joining Freeths, David spent five years working in the Restructuring division of a major UK bank. Here, he advised on the acquisition, asset management and disposal of a £1.2 billion property portfolio covering all major asset classes.
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David is an experienced property litigation partner based in our Birmingham office. He is the co-author of “Enforcement and Debt Recovery: a Guide to the New Law”, published by the Law Society.He specialises in all commercial and residential disputes including rights to light, possession actions, dilapidations, consent to assign/sub-let, rent disputes, property fraud and insolvency.David has recent experience in the FTT involving the appointment of a manager and in complex property fraud cases.
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Edward specialises in commercial property work, with particular emphasis on energy, landlord and tenant matters, acquisitions and disposals and general property management issues.He has experience acting for a wide range of clients including pension funds, private investors, corporate occupiers and Further and Higher Education Institutions.
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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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Elizabeth advises on the management of all aspects of employment law and has experience of working with private companies, from SMEs up to multinational corporations, public sector organisations and NGO clients.Elizabeth also provides extensive in-house training to clients on a range of employment matters, including handling disciplinaries and grievances and tackling discrimination within the workplace.
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Farheen is a commercial litigator in the Freeths Milton Keynes office with progressive hands-on experience working on a portfolio of diverse cases.Her practice covers a broad range of commercial litigation (and some property litigation) with a particular focus on contractual disputes for large commercial clients, professional negligence claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, intellectual property matters, commercial fraud, and debt recovery.Farheen advises and assists a range of reputable clients across a number of sectors. She also has considerable experience of obtaining and resisting injunctions.
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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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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 is a senior associate in the family team, and has specialised in financial matters and arrangements for children for over 10 years. Gemma’s work has been recognised by the Legal 500 and the high calibre of her work means she is one of their recommended ‘Next Generation’ lawyers. Her clients regularly include business owners and directors, investment property owners, academics, teachers, medical professionals, those involved in the rural sector and members of the uniformed services (such as military and police).She supports her clients with advice where they feel able to discuss matters with their former partner, either through mediation or direct conversations.Gemma believes her clients benefit from her constructive way of dealing with matters and so has been a member of Resolution (previously the Solicitors Family Law Association) since 2006. She trained at Freeths, when it was known as Henmans, both in Oxford and Woodstock, and has been with the family team in Oxford since qualification.
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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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Hayley has experience in a broad range of property related matters. She acts on behalf of brewers, tenanted and managed pub companies, restaurant and hotel operators and Administrators and Receivers of such companies and operators.With a specialism in the Drinks, Hospitality and Leisure Sector, Hayley focuses predominately on licensed premises. She has expertise in delivering focused commercial advice on regulatory and business services issues on property focused transactions.
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Helen advises both lenders and borrowers on a full range of banking matters but has particular expertise in real estate investment and development finance. She trained at Freeths and is based at our London office.
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Helen joined Freeths in Spring 2018 after 12 years at an international law firm. She is based in the Manchester office where she offers practical and solution based advice to investors and developers across all sectors. Helen also has extensive experience of Landlord & Tenant work having acted for large pension funds to private occupiers.
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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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Iain specialises in agricultural and rural work, acting for farmers, landowners and landed estates. He is the head of the property department as well as the agricultural and land team. Iain’s work ranges from the acquisition, development and disposal of landed estates, farms and bare agricultural land, to advice on agricultural tenancies, farm business tenancies, and environmental matters. He specialises in the drafting and negotiation of strategic land option and promotion agreements. Recent/significant transactions include: option agreement for over 195 acres of farmland to a national house builder; promotion agreement over 215 acres of farm land on the edge of Thame; hybrid agreement for an Oxford College for over 400 dwellings; option agreements for 85 and 69 acres in relation to a proposed urban extension to a major settlement; sale of greenfield site with the benefit of a residential planning permission for £5.5m; the acquisition of the Kiddington Estate for a sum in excess of £23m; acquisition of a complex and diverse 480 acre unregistered landed estate in Wales, contracts were exchanged within one month of instructions being received; sale of land in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park for development of a Centre Parcs style holiday village; purchase of brownfield site for development of a 27 unit commercial business park; sale of greenfield site for development by major landed estate client with complex uplift provisions, the sale was by way of contract race with exchange of contracts taking place within 24 hours of issue of papers; grants of options and leases of wind farm and solar parks.
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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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Litigation and arbitration partner, with a focus on high-value and ‘high stakes’ matters. Currently handling a number of significant cases, including a major Group Action, several high value finance/banking litigation cases, competition litigation and professional negligence cases. He regularly advises commercial clients on complex litigation risk management solutions, including funding and risk transfer/insurance. He is well respected in the London litigation funding market.
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Jane advises on wealth preservation through estate, succession and tax planning for farming, agricultural, landed and business clients through wills and trusts acting for UK-based and non-resident clients. She deals with complex estate administrations; private and charitable trusts; literary estates and Court of Protection work. Jane also acts as an independent administrator appointed by the Court in estates where there are family disputes and legal claims. Her work includes: trustee of multimillion pound trust holding a wide range of assets including commercial property, woodland, publicly and privately quoted shares; executor of a landed estate including agricultural and residential properties, agricultural land, animals, and personal chattels subject to conditional exemption from inheritance tax; advising the partners of a farming business in the exercise of an option to purchase a deceased’s partner’s share maximising the use of tax reliefs; creating, managing and dissolving trusts of shares in private limited companies; estate planning for farming partners grazing sheep and raising poultry, a farm shop, horses and holiday lets; deputy appointed by the Court of Protection to manage the affairs of clients incapable of managing their own financial affairs by reason of age infirmity or accident; managing multimillion pound clinical negligence awards on behalf of children or adults suffering brain injury; acting as independent administrator in contested estates; clerk to private charitable trust.
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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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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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Joanne has specialised in all aspects of Family Law since qualifying in 2012, developing a particular expertise in advising on marital agreements, divorce, cohabitation disputes and financial matters arising from the breakdown of a relationship. She regularly advises on cases involving family businesses, inherited wealth and complex legal issues.Whether advising on financial matters or disputes involving children, Joanne is dedicated to providing clear, pragmatic advice, which enables her clients to achieve the best, long-term solution.As a member of Resolution, a national organisation of professionals committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes, Joanne advocates resolving family issues as amicably and cost-effectively as possible, particularly where children are involved. However, it is not always possible to resolve family issues without involving the Court. Where contested court proceedings are instigated, Joanne is highly experienced in advising and supporting clients through the legal process.
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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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Jonathan heads Freeths’ corporate team in Milton Keynes where he has gained a reputation for his commercial and client focused approach to transactions. His expertise covers M&As, MBOs, joint ventures and corporate restructuring as well as banking and finance. His team has handled some highly complex and substantial deals, providing expert input on funding and structuring of transactions.
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Jonathan specialises in intellectual property and advertising law and regulation, providing pragmatic, commercially-focussed advice and solutions. His practice encompasses contentious work in the English Courts, at the UK and EU Intellectual Property Offices, Company Names Tribunals and various forums dealing with domain name disputes. He also assists clients with complaints and investigations at the Advertising Standards Authority.Jonathan has particular expertise in trade mark enforcement in online contexts and in the interface between trade mark law and advertising regulation. He also has in-house experience, having spent 6 months on secondment to a telecommunications business. Before becoming a lawyer, Jonathan worked variously in online marketing, retail and the construction industries.
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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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Julia is an experienced real estate lawyer, with a specific focus on the hospitality and leisure industry. She acts on behalf of brewers, tenanted and managed pub companies, restaurant and hotel operators, as well as Administrators. With a national client base, Julia works with hospitality clients across the country.
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Katie has experience in advising a wide variety of clients including corporate occupiers, institutional landlords, local authorities, and other public bodies. She offers legal advice on acquisitions, disposals, asset management and general property holding.Katie’s experience spans public and private sectors on assets including offices, retail, industrial and healthcare properties.
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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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Kishan is an expert in IP and Media law. He leads the firm’s service offering for brands and private individuals on Reputation Protection. This includes key areas such as defamation, privacy, breach of personal data, image rights and online harassment. His specialism covers pre-publication advice and strategy, bespoke reputation protection audits and consultancy, through to providing solutions for all reputation related disputes. He is particularly skilled in solving problems arising through online publications including on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.In relation to IP, Kishan has substantial experience in advising on the creation, management, exploitation and protection of Intellectual Property rights, including trade marks, rights in passing off, copyright, registered and unregistered design rights, patents, confidential information and trade secrets. His practice includes the drafting and negotiation of all IP and reputation related contracts including non-disclosure agreements and undertakings aimed at protecting confidential and private information.
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Leanne is a Senior Associate in the corporate finance team, specialising in acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses of large corporates, SMEs and owner managers.Leanne has a particular focus on MBOs, private equity investments and equity release arrangements – acting for both management teams and private equity houses.Leanne also advises on all aspects of company and partnership law matters including directors’ liabilities, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes and minority shareholder protections.
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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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Lisa works in Freeths’ Sheffield corporate team and advises on a range of corporate and commercial law. Her expertise includes share sales, asset sales, MBIs, MBOs, company restructuring, loan and investment arrangements, joint ventures, partnership arrangements and a range of commercial agreements including distribution agreements, supply of goods and services agreements and service level agreements.Lisa deals with a range of clients in various sectors, including manufacturing, engineering and technology, from local SMEs to larger corporate and national clients.
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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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Lynne is a lawyer who has specialised in clinical negligence for over 14 years. She deals with all types of medical cases but particularly specialises in cardiology, neurology, orthopaedics and general surgery. Lynne has a special interest in fatal claims involving both children and adults. She is accredited by the Law Society as a clinical negligence specialist.Lynne often represents the interests of bereaved families at inquests, particularly where the deceased died in hospital or following medical treatment/surgery. She covers a variety of Coroner’s Courts around the country. Lynne has often assisted the families to recover compensation following the inquest.
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Matt has experience of acting for a range of clients in contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Matt provides advice on topics including disciplinary and grievance investigations, long term employee absence, TUPE, redundancy procedures and settlement agreements.He works with clients to draft effective employment contracts and procedures that are suited to the specific needs of the employer organisation. He also regularly provides bespoke training to managers and HR departments on a wide range of employment related topics.
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Matthew Thompson is a busy Real Estate Partner based at Freeths' Leeds office.
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Melanie is appointed as a professional property and affairs deputy in the Court of Protection for those with dementia, learning disabilities and acquired brain injury. This role involves taking responsibility for the financial assets of someone who lacks the capacity to make decisions for themselves. Melanie provides advice and support to lay deputies about their ongoing responsibilities. She can advise and assist with property and affairs applications, welfare applications deputyship returns and damages award management. She frequently makes applications to the Court of Protection for a statutory will where somebody cannot make their own will; instructions are taken, often from the deputy or a family member, and a draft of a proposed will is sent to the Court of Protection for approval. Representations may be made to Court by those who will be affected by the new will. Where possible, if all parties can agree, the matter can be concluded without the need for an attended hearing at Court. Melanie also deals with the drafting and administration of personal injury trusts including High Court approved trusts for injured children. She has a special interest in NHS Continuing Healthcare matters and represents clients going through the assessment process. She recently worked with a team of professionals to secure funding for a client with an acquired brain injury, living in her own home, where a primary health need could be evidenced. Where NHS funding is not available, Melanie advises on whether an application should be made for local authority funding. She recently pursued funding for a client which resulted in Social Services agreeing to pay for a package of care worth £6,000 per month and reimbursing fees of £120,000 already paid.
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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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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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Nichola Faith is an Associate based at our Leeds office. She specialises in construction disputes.
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Nigel is a pensions lawyer with 20 years’ experience of advising employers and trustees in relation to all types of pension arrangements, he has widespread experience of dealing with both public sector and private sector schemes, and has spent 19 years acting as director of an independent trustee company. Nigel is a member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers, and presents regular seminars and webinars on a range of pensions and employee benefits topics and is renowned for delivering a plain English approach to a technical area. Nigel has extensive experience in pensions and corporate reconstruction work, having dealt with both RAA’s and FAA’s on a number of occasions.
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Pandora is a Senior Associate in Freeths’ Construction team and specialises in all aspects of construction and engineering law. She has particular expertise in advising on bespoke and standard form building contracts, consultants’ appointments, sub-contracts, bonds, warranties, guarantees, and framework agreements. Pandora can advise on the construction aspects of associated transactional documents such as agreements for lease, development agreements and loan agreements.Her clients include developers, funds, local authorities, contractors, architects, engineers, project managers and insurers. Pandora is also experienced in acting for clients in contentious matters in both proceedings (including adjudication, arbitration, mediation and other ADR) and pre-action dispute avoidance.
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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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Patrick specialises in many aspects of commercial property with particular expertise in commercial landlord and tenant, freehold acquisitions and disposals, developing out sites and all aspects of property portfolio management. He deals with a variety of complex commercial transactions including conditional contracts and options, sales and leasebacks, corporate support transactions and secured lending. Patrick deals primarily with industrial/warehouse sites and office blocks and his clients include landlords and tenants, property investors and occupiers, developers, banks and pension funds. While Patrick has a very strong landlord following he also acts for tenants on some of the most prominent business and industrial parks in the UK. Patrick also acts for one of the major Oxford University institutions on its property portfolio management and acquisitions of office and warehouse accommodation. Some examples of Patrick’s recent experience are: acting for landlords on general portfolio management issues such as lease renewals, termination notices, negotiating new leases, licences to assign/alter/change use, variations, surrenders, rent deposits, rent reviews and advising on dilapidation issues. Patrick also acts for many tenants on their own property portfolios, ie acting for a tenant this year on a 10 year lease of industrial premises at an annual rental value of £1.7m conditional plus valuable landlord’s and tenant’s works; complex disposals and leasebacks for sellers requiring capital and also disposals and leasebacks involving Heritage Fund grants and SIPPs; secured lending for banks and also acting for landlords on corporate refinancing of commercial property portfolios including a recent refinance of 30 industrial units over four sites.
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Consultant conducting professional and clinical negligence, product liability, defamation, and personal injury claims.
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Penny is considered by Legal 500 to be a Leading Individual in the field of Environment. Having trained in the City (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s environment team) and with 20 years’ experience in both private practice and in-house roles, Penny is a solid and experienced all-round environmental lawyer with particular expertise in “natural environment” law. Within the “natural environment” niche, she has built a strong, national reputation in advising a wide range of private and public sector clients on the regulation of protected habitats, protected species, water resources, air quality and environmental impact assessment. Her clients are most often developers, environmental consultancies, mineral sector operators and water sector operators, for whom she works to overcome the constraints imposed by natural environment law so as to deliver planning permissions and the other environmental consents they need (eg protected species licences, environmental permits, abstraction licences). She also advises local authorities, objectors and environmental organisations on these issues. She has significant experience in defending public and private sector clients when faced with environmental-related regulatory or criminal proceedings brought by the Environment Agency, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, the Forestry Commission or the police (eg pollution offences, protected species offences, breaches of permits / licences). More generally, she advises on the environmental aspects of property and company transactions where she negotiates to limit her client’s environmental liabilities. She also has significant experience in health and safety law and frequently advises her clients on health and safety compliance.
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A highly experienced litigator, Philip acts on a full range of contentious property matters on behalf of public sector, retail, developers and corporate occupiers. This is in relation to all aspects of contentious commercial property work.He advises on diverse aspects of property litigation issues including rights of way, party wall claims, rights to light issues, dilapidation claims, applications to assign, insolvencies, forfeiture and repossession, lease renewals and applications to assign/underlet.
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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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Raymond is a partner in the Birmingham office of Freeths LLP, specialising in all types of commercial law and dispute resolution, with particular emphasis on construction, engineering and health and safety. He is regularly appointed as a mediator in commercial disputes and as an adjudicator.
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Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Birmingham office Richard has acted for individuals to PLCs in disputes up to £500m, both at home and abroad. He has particular experience in representing clients in complex chancery/commercial and corporate disputes. He also acts for companies and individuals in prosecuting and defending restrictive covenant claims within an employment context. Recent cases include acting for: an independent UK manufacturer of diesel generators and power generation systems in successfully defending a claim issued by a company based in the Caribbean;several defendants (including corporate and individuals) in relation to a multi-million pound, multi-jurisdictional shareholder dispute;an equity partner in the dissolution of a law firm;a partner in a multi-party high value partnership dispute;an exiting an equity partner from a law firm;a finance director summarily removed from his position and the consequential dispute arising over his shares;a European wide provider of specialist care in dispute with a supplier; andvarious individuals/companies in relation to professional negligence disputes in the building, surveying and legal sectors. In addition to providing strategic and focused advice in the context of litigation, Richard understands the importance of avoiding litigation and has acquired a wealth of experience in advising clients in relation to methods of alternative dispute resolution such as mediation. Client feedback: "Having engaged the services of Richard Coates and his team over the past 30 months to support me with a number of commercial legacy issues I inherited I can highly recommend him. He is not only fiercely strategic and crucially proactive but also objective and pragmatic. He is without doubt the solicitor you should have on your team”. “Confidence in the ability and integrity of your most senior legal adviser is paramount in managing a successful commercial organisation in today’s ever moving business environment. Richard Coates provides unerring confidence to our board members whenever legal advice is required ensuring business decisions are taken from a trusted legal position”. Duncan Williams Excool CEO Legal guides Recommended in Legal 500, 2015. Described as “pragmatic” and “focused”, Legal 500, 2014
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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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Simon is an intellectual property lawyer based in Birmingham. Qualified since 2000, he has many years’ experience in advising business on intellectual property related matters; covering trade marks, patents, designs, copyright and confidential information.A seasoned litigator of intellectual property disputes, Simon leads a team that is focussed on resolving disputes by keeping in mind the commercial objectives while ensuring there is understanding of all possible outcomes.Specialised with a team of dedicated lawyers, Simon’s practice is holistic. He offers intellectual property well-being with a fully integrated service that is necessary for efficient management and effective enforcement of intellectual property rights.Simon has acted in numerous cases before the UK courts, at the UK Intellectual Property Office and at the EU Intellectual Property Office. He has also appeared before the General Court in Luxembourg.
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Stuart advises across the full spectrum of Intellectual Property (IP) rights. These include copyright, trade marks, passing off rights, databases, designs, patents and confidential information.From a contentious side, his experience ranges from the resolution of IP infringement disputes at an early pre-action stage, through to litigation in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and IPEC Small Claims Court. He also specialises in trade mark oppositions at the UKIPO and EUIPO, as well as domain name and company name disputes at NOMINET, WIPO and the Company Names Tribunal.From a non-contentious side, Stuart specialises in the provision of strategic IP advice, trade mark filings, product clearance, advertising and marketing issues as well as corporate transactional work.Before joining Freeths, Stuart worked in-house for an American multinational entertainment company in the City where he also specialised in Intellectual Property. He is also a fluent Dutch speaker.
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Tahera has significant experience in advising public sector organisations with issues such as restructures, redundancy exercises, multi-party tribunal claims in all aspects of employment work and has particular experience in dealing with TUPE and high-level executive exits.Tahera has particular expertise in settlement negotiations and advising public sector organisations as to high-profile reorganisations and employee implications. She has advised on COSOP and compulsory bulk transfer of employees. She has also defended a number of multi-party claims in the tribunal and employment appeal tribunal, including areas such as discrimination, whistleblowing and TUPE. She is well-known for being tenacious in her advice and knowing her clients well enough to be able to tailor advice that is specific to their needs.
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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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Tristan is a trusted advisor in relation to legal and commercial issues.He has expertise in Commercial Litigation, Professional Negligence, Contracts, Partnership Disputes, Shareholder Disputes, SPAs (warranty and indemnity claims), Financial Mis-selling, Intellectual Property, Landlord & Tenants, Global Entities (international disputes), Property (domestic and commercial), Injunctions, Mediation, Debt Recovery and ICC arbitration.He is passionate about Dispute Management, rugby league, history and Japanese supercar slayers.
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Zoë 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 – as well as enforcement and proposed enforcement. Her areas of expertise include the Section 106 planning agreements and Section 106A Deed of Variation, and Highways Agreements under s38 and 278 of the Highways Act 1990.She can also give advice in respect of planning enforcement notices, planning due diligence work, advice on liability for Community Infrastructure Levy and village greens.