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Partner. Angela has a wealth of experience in dealing with the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Clients appreciate Angela's commercially minded 'no-nonsense' approach and her ability to work closely and effectively with clients in order to ensure that problems are avoided and/or dealt with in a calm, efficient and effective manner. Angela frequently represents clients in the Employment Tribunal and has particular expertise in advising senior executives in relation to recruitment and termination issues. Angela's typical clients include PLC's, owner managed businesses, charities and non-for-profit organisations and she has particular experience of advising clients in the healthcare, IT, retail, transport, construction and professional services sectors.
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Chris is a Partner and Head of the family law department. Having qualified as a solicitor in 1994, his practice has exclusively covered a wide spectrum of family law issues. He regularly advises spouses and civil partners in relation to divorce and financial matters arising out of the breakdown of marriages and also advises on the drafting of cohabitation, pre-nuptial and separation agreements. Chris is an experienced and respected court advocate and has represented parties in cases which have been cited in the Law Reports and on matters which have attracted national media coverage. He has also acted for and against people in the public domain. He has been a long standing member of the Law Society's specialist Children Panel since 1999 and was elected to the North and West Yorkshire Regional Committee of Resolution in 2013. Clients value the depth and breadth of experience, pragmatism and detail that Chris offers when advising, negotiating or litigating in family law matters.
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Dan is a partner and member at Lupton Fawcett. He trained and qualified in the Leeds office of an international law firm, having resisted temptation to return to his native Lancashire. Dan joined the corporate finance department in 2007. He specialises in all types of mergers and acquisitions and management buy-outs. He also has extensive experience of a wide variety of group re-organisations, joint ventures and shareholders' agreements. Dan also has experience acting for both borrowers and lenders in relation to all types of financing, including acquisition finance, invoice discounting, re-financing and mis-selling of interest rate hedging products. Clients cover a broad spectrum of sectors including catering, garden centres, hotels, events management, design agencies, children's nurseries and motor dealerships.
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David is a director at Lupton Fawcett and works in the commercial property department. He is a commercial lawyer with a particular specialism in commercial property law. David's client base is widely spread across the business sector and includes landlords, retailers, commercial and residential property developers, manufacturers and leisure operators. In addition to the UK, he represents clients in the USA, Andorra, Switzerland, Spain, the Isle of Man and Guernsey. He provides a bespoke service to his clients, bringing in colleagues with specialisms in other areas of law when required, but maintaining a close personal supervision of all his clients' matters. David is vastly experienced having set up his own boutique commercial law firm and headed it for 25 years, then headed up the commercial property department of a larger law firm, before joining Lupton Fawcett in 2009. His clients value his experience, his no-nonsense commercial approach and exceptional level of service.
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David is a partner at Lupton Fawcett. With nearly 30 years’ experience in all areas of corporate and personal insolvency and restructuring, there are very few situations involving UK-based distressed or insolvent businesses which David has not dealt with on behalf of all types of stakeholder (e.g. Insolvency Practitioners, directors, shareholders, lenders and creditors). David has a particularly strong national reputation for defendant director disqualification work, which is complemented by an excellent regional reputation in advising distressed businesses and acting for lenders and insolvency practitioners on corporate restructuring and formal insolvency assignments. David is a licensed insolvency practitioner and long standing member of R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals). Whilst he is highly regarded for his technical expertise and his innovative, pragmatic and commercial approach, clients particularly value David's professionalism and integrity and dedication to achieving the best possible outcome for his clients.
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David Whitaker is a partner and member at Lupton Fawcett. David heads the commercial property department and advises on a broad spectrum of commercial property work, with particular emphasis on the acquisition, management and disposal of investment property portfolios and the property aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals. David also acts for a number of religious, educational and other charities and is a member of the firm's cross-disciplinary Charities and Social Enterprises Group.
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Hayden is a partner at Lupton Fawcett and works within the firm’s dispute management department. Hayden deals with both contentious and non-contentious work across a variety of sectors. Hayden specialises in property litigation taking instructions nationally in relation to both residential and commercial property related matters. Hayden is known for his depth of knowledge, experience and recognised for his approachability and commerciality.
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Partner. Hugh is a private client solicitor working in the Private Client Department in our Leeds office. He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and advises on all aspects of private client work including, inheritance tax planning, wills and succession planning, administration of estates and Lasting Powers of Attorney. In addition Hugh advises overseas based executors, beneficiaries, lawyers and trustee companies on all aspects of probate, re-seal of overseas probate, wills and estate administration involving cross border issues between the UK and overseas jurisdictions (particularly New Zealand and Australia). Hugh also provides advice to overseas advisors to new migrants moving abroad from the UK (particularly to New Zealand) on the possible UK taxation consequences that can arise from the use of a New Zealand qualifying discretionary family trust as part of their asset protection and succession planning structure.
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Jack Ferraro is a partner at Lupton Fawcett and heads the personal injury department. His expertise spans all areas of personal injury litigation, with particular expertise in occupational noise induced hearing loss, high-value employers' and occupiers' liability claims and costs litigation. As head of the personal injury department, Jack's role encompasses the required daily operational, risk management, training and financial responsibilities to ensure that the department runs smoothly and efficiently.
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Partner and head of the Business Recovery and Insolvency department. James has over 24 years’ experience of advising insolvency practitioners, banks, funders, asset based lenders, directors and individuals in respect of all aspects of personal and corporate insolvency. He has a wide and varied understanding of many industry sectors and the particular stresses and pressures that cause financial difficulties. He uses his wealth of knowledge to tailor pragmatic solution led advice. Having considerable and recognised skills in both the contentious and non-contentious arenas James has the versatility to handle a wide variety of assignments from the most straightforward to those of great complexity.
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Consultant Member. Jeremy deals with all aspects of residential property transactions specialising in high value transactions. His long experience means he has a vast depth of knowledge, especially in areas such as unregistered titles leasehold issues and land registry matters. Jeremy’s long standing connections with a number of leading Yorkshire estate agents is also invaluable when advising clients. Jeremy acts for a number of small niche developers – from site acquisition to plot disposals. Jeremy also acts in commercial lease transactions as well as small business sales and purchases.
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Partner. Jeremy joined Lupton Fawcett in November 2014 to head the regulatory and corporate defence team. Jeremy has 25 years' experience of defending companies, from owner managed businesses to national blue chip names, as well as their directors and other senior employees, when facing regulatory criminal investigation or prosecution. His objective is always to protect the business and key personnel from the potential negative outcomes of an investigation or prosecution, whether financial, reputational or personal. He has successfully represented clients in cases at all levels from the Magistrates Court to the European Court of Human Rights and is an experienced advocate. Jeremy has a reputation for being able to provide practical and sensible commercial advice to directors and senior management on the effective management of both individual and corporate criminal regulatory liability.
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Joan is a director of Lupton Fawcett in the employment law department. She advises employers and employees (mostly senior executives) on the full range of employment law and HR matters including trade union recognition and industrial action and is particularly noted for TUPE expertise and large scale restructuring. Having worked in house in financial services prior to qualifying, Joan has a very commercial no nonsense approach which keeps client's objectives at the fore. Joan is well known for being the 'go-to' person for big issues which have a real impact on an organisation's direction. Joan's approachable, friendly, professional but unstuffy style is welcomed by clients. Deeply knowledgeable and experienced she takes in both the detail and the wider picture to deliver winning solutions. She has been the lead advisor on a number of high-profile matters including in the steel, motor and manufacturing sectors. An experienced public speaker, Joan also frequently delivers training in employment law.
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Consultant Member. John has over 30 years’ experience as a specialist lawyer and advisor about intellectual property. He is one of the leading patent advisors in Europe and ranked in the top tier of intellectual property lawyers. His knowledge and experience is based on both national and international work. John advises and helps innovative businesses and individuals obtain worldwide protection for their inventions with patents, designs, and brands. He helps businesses in the management of these intellectual property assets, in their exploitation, and valuation. He also advises clients about intellectual property enforcement and has done so in many jurisdictions around the world including in the UK, US, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland (north and south), Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. Over the last thirty years he has handled many intellectual property disputes which have been sufficiently novel or interesting legal concepts to be reported. John has a Masters in competition law and is an experienced competition lawyer. He advises businesses about the application of EC and UK competition law in relation to the deals they are doing or proposed new ventures or market initiatives. This expertise is particularly relevant in the world wide exploitation of intellectual property rights.
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Jonathan is a partner at Lupton Fawcett having originally joined Denison Till in 1989 from completing articles in Leeds. Recognised in The Legal 500 as a litigator, Jonathan has over 20 years' experience in the dispute resolution field. Jonathan has acted in a wide range of both commercial and private client litigation acquiring considerable practical experience which, combined with a commercial approach, has demonstrated a proven track record of successfully litigated and mediated cases. Jonathan also has extensive experience in the defence of regulatory enforcement/prosecutions brought by government departments helping clients through complex legislation, compliance issues and the risk management process.
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Jonathan Oxley is a member and managing partner at Lupton Fawcett. Jonathan specialises in buying, selling and financing companies. As well as corporate finance work he leads the firm's pharmacy team and advises on employee share schemes and employee share ownership. Jonathan particularly enjoys working with dedicated, creative and entrepreneurial business people who are looking for pro-active counsel to contribute to the growth and success of their business ventures. He has a particular focus on SME businesses where the benefit of his experience as Managing Partner at Lee & Priestley from 2000-2009 is a great asset to clients. A long-standing client describes Jonathan as 'customer focused, knowledgeable, reliable' and as having a 'can do attitude'.
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Partner. Julian is a highly experienced solicitor and tax adviser and has previously worked at international legal and accountancy firms in Leeds and London. He provides standalone tax advice and also works closely with his corporate, commercial and property colleagues to provide a seamless service of legal and tax advice. Julian advises on the buying and selling of businesses, management buy-outs, group reorganisations, demergers and liquidations, EIS and private equity, share incentives, VAT on construction and property transactions, and all stamp taxes.
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Julian Rowden is a partner and member at Lupton Fawcett. Julian graduated in Law (with a language) from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1980 and after living in Germany for a time where he taught English as a foreign language, he returned and qualified as a solicitor in 1986. After working for a City firm for several years where he specialised in commercial property, and a short spell working in the South-West of England, Julian and his family moved to Sheffield, and he has now made the Yorkshire city his home. Julian has extensive experience in dealing with commercial property of all types, and some of the projects he has been involved in have changed the face of Sheffield. He has particular experience in the leisure and retail sectors including acquisitions and disposals of hotels, restaurants and leisure centres, also leases of retail shops in both high street locations and in all the leading shopping centres across England, and with commercial and industrial premises including relocation of factories, including new builds with ancillary agreements for leases and collateral warranties. He has also dealt with complex site assembly and constructions of new developments of all sizes including brownfield and reclaimed sites and agricultural land, with all associated option agreements and overage agreements, especially former Coal Authority sites. He is well versed in the negotiation as well as the legal drafting. He can set up and advise on the structure of different types of joint venture, secured funding and option arrangements, and all associated statutory agreements.
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Chairman, finance director and consultant member. Kevin joined Lupton Fawcett in 1977 as an Articled Clerk. He trained as a non-contentious lawyer, qualifying in 1979, eventually specialising in corporate finance and is now a director in the corporate finance department as well as finance director and chairman. Kevin has experience of all types of commercial law but has principally dealt with sales and purchases of the whole (or parts) of businesses, re-structuring, and fund raising (largely for owner managed businesses in Yorkshire). Recent activities have included some public company and M&A work for Renew Holdings plc (a Leeds based AIM listed company), corporate advice for Seabrook Crisps (a local privately owned business), and corporate and commercial advice for Hubwise Holdings (a recent start up financial services support business). In addition, over the years, Kevin has developed a speciality for advising charitable entities on their corporate and governance structures, including Hollybank Trust, the National Day Nurseries Association, Scarborough College and, recently, PSL which is responsible for the new Tetleys building in Leeds.
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Lionel Lennox is a consultant member of Lupton Fawcett. Lionel is a leading national specialist in ecclesiastical law as the Deputy Registrar for both the Diocese and Province of York and Registrar of Sodor and Man. He is a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society and an appointed member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod. Lionel has acquired detailed knowledge of church discipline through practical caseload and regularly advising clergy. His expertise also covers listed and ancient buildings. Lionel is also involved in acting for charities. He is a regular speaker and leads working sessions for registrars in the North of England. Lionel is a former President of the Yorkshire Law Society. He is also an experienced Notary Public.
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Partner. Louise handholds clients through a whole spectrum of employment law issues, from recruitment right through to termination. These can include discrimination, contractual issues, disciplinary procedures and family friendly rights. She has particular expertise in restrictive covenants, employer's immigration issues, director/employee/shareholder disputes and TUPE. Most of Louise's clients are employers, but she does also advise and support senior executives negotiating their exit from an organisation. She is a member of the firm's Charities and Social Enterprise Group and acts for a number of clients in the education sector. Her clients include Leeds City College, Jacuzzi, Bradford Grammar School, the Higher Education Academy, Vocalink and Costcutter. Louise also speaks regularly at seminars, both at the firm's events and as a guest speaker for external organisations including CIPD. Her seminars are practical and jargon-free and she is consistently rated as "excellent" by delegates. She has appeared in the local press and on BBC Radio and TV as an employment law expert, and is consistently listed as a key individual in her field in the Chambers & Partners UK and The Legal 500 UK directories.
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Michele is a Corporate Partner and Head of the Sheffield Office Michele specialises in transactional work, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, group re-organisations (including cross border and international transactions), banking work, and refinancing. She often deals with transactions which are in different jurisdictions across the EU and has acted for a number of her clients for many years, garnering a greater understanding of both their short and long term strategic business objectives. Michele has edited the chapter on buying and selling companies/businesses for the last five editions of Kelly's Draftsman.
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Nigel Whitfield is a Partner and Head of the Business Recovery and Insolvency team at Lupton Fawcett LLP and was a former Partner at Lee & Priestley.He joined Lee & Priestley on 1 October 1984 and was Head of their Insolvency and Business Recovery Department. With more than 30 years experience, Nigel is renowned and highly respected. He has extensive knowledge of all aspects of personal and corporate insolvency law. He has particular experience in dealing with property related cases and investigations.
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Partner. Peter has built his strong reputation as a family lawyer through specialising in high-net-worth divorce cases, usually involving issues over complex assets and with values often running to many millions of pounds. Peter's pedigree is second to none and he is a highly regarded practitioner who is well respected in Leeds, West Yorkshire and the surrounding areas. Described as 'calm and incisive' Â in the 2015 edition of the Legal 500, Peter joined the firm's family team to deal specifically with high value claims and high net-worth individuals in family and matrimonial proceedings. Peter's arrival from Gordons LLP adds significant impetus to an expanding team who are able to offer premium advice on the whole spectrum of family-related matters and disputes.
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Partner. Richard joined the firm in 1992 and was appointed to the firm's management board with responsibility for marketing. He headed the firm's insolvency and business recovery department until taking over as the firm's managing director in April 2009. As a leader and manager, Richard is dedicated to driving Lupton Fawcett's strategy. As a lawyer, Richard is an insolvency and business recovery specialist, having qualified with DLA in 1987. Whilst currently having little time to practice law, Richard does advise on strategic issues (in insolvency and more widely), and leads a number of client relationships (both large and small). As a marketer, Richard is particularly interested in and passionate about brand. Richard's biggest challenge is orchestrating the contributions of the highly talented and creative group of people that together comprise Lupton Fawcett to ensure that all pull together in the same direction to deliver and grow the best possible offering and service to a quite rightly very demanding market place. Richard has for many years been recognised as an expert in the field of Insolvency in both Legal 500 and Chambers.
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Tricia is a Partner with Lupton Fawcett. Having practised as a solicitor in the City for more than 30 years, Tricia has a good reputation as a private client specialist and advises on wills and lasting powers of attorneys, and administers deceased estates. However, she has always undertaken residential conveyancing too and so is pleased to be able to deal with the property aspects of an estate whether this be deeds of gift or estate related transfers or sales. Tricia has also had strong links with Sheffield Mencap and Gateway for 20 years and is very proud of that connection. As well as providing advice to parents and contacts of those organisations, she is an appointed trustee in many trusts and settlements.