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A consultant colicitor, David specialises in regulatory law, professional misconduct and health and safety. Many of David's clients are companies and individual directors charged with serious health and safety, environmental, or other regulatory offences. He also handles road traffic cases, representing drivers facing prosecution for a wide range of offences. He helps clients understand how to handle themselves through the investigation and court case. Whatever their situation, David's clients can be assured of the strongest possible defence, based on his expertise and many years of practical experience in these areas of the law.
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A partner in the firm’s corporate team, David helps clients drive forward their commercial transactions. His clients range from global companies to SMEs. David provides responsive and effective support for his clients with attention to detail and quick thinking. A thorough understanding of his client’s commercial needs enables him to provide the best legal advice to ensure transactions go though smoothly and efficiently.
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Dorothy is a partner and specialises in Information Technology, Telecommunications, Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Privacy. In particular she advises on IT and non-IT outsourcing agreements, development and commercialisation of new technologies, eCommerce, and the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights. She also provides businesses with advice on a variety of general commercial agreements including supply chain agreements (for both supplier and customer), outsourcing, data processing, merchandising, publishing, distribution, agency and commercial joint ventures. Her transactional work includes advising on mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures where technology, intellectual property and data are a key part of the business. This may involve drafting agreements to license or transfer rights, conducting complex due diligence and assisting with brand strategy. Her clients operate in a wide range of sectors including technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, engineering, retail, leisure, sport and media. My clients range from early-stage businesses to multinational organisations from the UK and abroad. Taking time to thoroughly understand a client’s business and the particular challenges it faces, I provide practical and effective legal advice. When issues arise, she provides clarity, good judgement and quick responses. Her clients have the reassurance of knowing that they have expert legal support to help drive forward their business ambitions.
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Edward Whittington is the firm's managing partner and has overall executive responsibility for Moore Blatch’s business and strategic direction. As a practising lawyer he specialises in rural property; typically acting for property owning families, businesses, trusts and individuals. He has extensive experience in development land, commercial property, farms, landed estates and country homes. Edward is also a member of the firm’s rural services team which specialises in all aspects of legal advice relating to this sector, including wills and trusts, tax and succession planning, business and partnership arrangements as well as land, property and development transactions.
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As an experienced solicitor, Emma advices employers and employees on all aspects of employment law. My clients are large corporate businesses and SMEs based throughout the South of England. She also acts for senior executives and directors. She specialises in supporting clients by: Drafting and updating senior executive employment contracts and director service agreements Advising on managing disciplinary, grievance, performance and sickness procedures and queries arising from family friendly leave Helping clients manage redundancies or internal reorganisations Providing employment support for corporate mergers and /or acquisitions, including advising on TUPE implications Settlement agreements (drafting on behalf of the employer and advising on behalf on an employee) Her clients know me to be approachable and friendly and trust her to provide them with practical and clear advice and support, always tailored to their specific needs. Clients can rely on me to be always available when support and advice is required.
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Fadwa is a Partner in the firm’s serious injury team and specialises in high value, complex claims representing both adults and children. She is passionate about the work she does and helps her clients with arranging private medical treatment, rehabilitation and securing the best possible settlement. Fadwa's clients are nationwide and she likes to maintain regular contact by visiting them at their home, in hospital or at rehabilitation centres. As most of her clients have suffered life changing injuries, Fadwa's primary concern is always to ensure they have early access to rehabilitation and treatment. She puts in place a team of support to help optimise their recovery and takes a proactive approach liaising and meeting with the therapists, case managers and consultants. She always looks to secure early interim payments where possible as she understands just how difficult life can be for her clients and their families following an accident. Fadwa works closely with charities and frequently participates in their fund raising events.
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Fiona is a partner in the private wealth department that ensures that her clients are given a voice so that they are able to achieve what they wish. She prides herself on providing a highly personalised service to ensure that whatever legal issues my clients may face, they are fully informed and receive the right advice at the right time. Fiona's clients are predominantly elderly people and, where appropriate, their carers. She helps them deal with issues that arise in later life, ensuring that their wishes are met – both now and in the future. Fiona has close relationships with many of her clients and often supports individuals and families over many years. She ensures that her clients can achieve what they want in the simplest manner possible.
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Partner in the commercial property department dealing with a wide range of real property transactions, including the acquisition, disposal and letting of business premises, higher value residential matters and development work.
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Partner in the commercial property department dealing with a wide range of transactions, including commercial landlord and tenant renewals, leases, surrenders; freehold acquisitions and sales and general commercial property development. Also specialises in high-value residential transactions, option agreements and residential property development. Executive partner of the firm with responsibility for ensuring that strategy is implemented by the various departments and business services teams.
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James works in the serious injury team specialising in supporting clients who have suffered injuries of maximum severity as a result of negligence. His clients are children and adults who have suffered severe injury including spinal cord injuries, severe head injuries and serious orthopaedic injuries. He also represents the families of individuals who have died. James works on many multi-million pound claims, and has particular expertise in personal injury, catastrophic injuries, severe burns and orthopaedic injury claims. he also has expertise in fatal accident claims including coroners’ inquests. James has extensive experience in representing clients in high value and complex cases and has specialist experience in cases where accidents have occurred at sea meaning there are complex jurisdictional issues. He regularly represents clients at court hearings himself. He has also developed relationships with leading barristers whom he can call on when needed. He works closely with the partners of the firm, in particular senior partner, Damian Horan.
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Jeremy is an experienced and dynamic company lawyer delivering strategic legal solutions to his clients to help them achieve their commercial objectives. His clients are companies requiring legal expertise to help them with a wide range of acquisitions, disposals and fundraisings. Jeremy also helps his clients with shareholders’ agreements, general company law, insolvency matters, partnerships and LLPs, and financial services matters. He combines a thorough knowledge of the law with common sense and commercial acumen. He is passionate about helping his clients find solutions to their problems.
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Partner and head of family department dealing in all aspects of family law, but principally ancillary relief and private Children Act cases; also collaborative law practitioner.
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Julian is a partner specialising in purchasing and managing commercial investment property portfolios and leisure properties. He also has experience in the sale and purchase of large agricultural estates and development of land including overage arrangements and options. He works with a wide range of commercial property clients across a range of sectors. His clients look to him to provide them with straight-talking advice that helps them make the best commercial decisions. Julian does this by first ensuring that he understands exactly what his clients want to achieve, and then working with them to create the right legal strategy for their business.
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Lee is a highly experienced partner working in property. He specialises in supporting clients with all aspects of land development and secured lending work. Lee's clients are developers (national, regional and local) and funders (clearing bank and specialist). He provides solutions for whatever issues they face. Clients value his commercial approach and the pragmatic solutions that he creates when dealing with the most complex arrangements. Lee carries out a full range of real estate work on behalf of clients. He has particular experience in the area of securing development funding for both borrower and lender clients. Typical deal sizes that he acts on tend to range in value from £2m – £50m. Lee qualified as a solicitor in 1996 and joined Moore Blatch in 2016 as a partner. He has specialised in real estate since qualification and has for the past 20 years worked in and around Southampton.
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Luc is a partner in the commercial property team. He provides businesses and private individuals with commercial property advice. His clients typically include lenders, high street and specialist/mezzanine, landowners, local and national house builders and investors. He also acts for well-known businesses in the transport, logistics and marine sectors. In addition, Luc advises clients on property issues arising out of formal insolvencies and business turnarounds. As well as working with insolvency practitioners, his experience within the insolvency sector allows him to offer other clients sound commercial advice if they are acquiring property from liquidators, administrators, or trustees in bankruptcy. Luc provides clients with outstanding technical knowledge combined with a pragmatic approach, ensuring that all his clients receive an unparalleled and bespoke service that exceeds their expectations.
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Matthew is an experienced serious injury solicitor who specialises in accessing rehabilitation for people who have suffered major trauma. He also represents at inquest those who have been bereaved. His clients are those who have, through no fault of their own, suffered brain injury, spinal cord injury, limb loss, complex fractures or bereavement either in the UK or abroad. On their behalf, he claims compensation from the party at fault. An important part of this process is to secure payments as quickly as possible (interim payments) to support rehabilitation. Many of Matthew's clients are people who have suffered major brain or spinal cord injuries, and the families of fatal incident victims.
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Maya is a partner in the firm’s medical negligence team, helping clients with complex claims resulting from substandard healthcare and medical practices. As a medical negligence specialist, her clients are those who have sustained orthopaedic, gynaecological, obstetric or brain injuries, often with life changing or catastrophic results. She also has a particular interest in handling cases of cauda equina syndrome. Her clients are often concerned initially about the complexity of the claims process, so she makes sure she guides them through the legal maze and gives them the clarity they need to feel reassured and confident. Maya is approachable and open with her clients and takes the time to get to know them and understand their concerns. She knows that the legal process can be daunting, so she makes it a priority to put clients at ease and let them know that they are in the best possible hands.
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Mea is a solicitor in the community care and public law team. They help the most vulnerable in our society – the elderly, disabled and children. Her clients often need support in accessing and understanding NHS and social care services to ensure they have all the support and assistance necessary either at home or in a residential care environment to maximise their quality of life in coping with the aftermath of an accident, disability or illness. When necessary, Mea helps clients challenge decisions made by bodies such as NHS and social services through internal complaints procedures, appeals, and, where necessary, court action. Taking time to understand the difficulties her clients face, she offers clients clear and practical advice in order to obtain the best possible outcome on their behalf. She also works alongside the personal injury and medical negligence teams providing advice and assistance in relation to the use of attorneys, deputies and/or personal injury trusts.
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Naomi advises HR, in house counsel and senior management within organisations on employment law matters as well individuals themselves. For Naomi's business clients she performs a general advisory role. Her clients know that they can call on her at any time to assist with issues that arise, including matters such as redundancies and restructurings, disciplinaries and grievances and defending employment tribunal litigation. She understands the importance of being contactable and responsive. Her clients operate in sectors where they may have to rapidly address breaches of confidentiality and restrictive covenants that present a commercial risk to the business and she has the experience and support of a great team to deal with these situations. Naomi also provides employees with the clear and pragmatic employment law advice they require. She advises on contracts and service agreements at the commencement of employment and on settlement packages upon termination. She can advise you on your rights and the associated risks and costs if you think you have been treated unlawfully. Then if you require she will provide you with robust representation in litigation. Naomi has a proven track record of reaching a successful outcome for her clients.
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Rebecca helps clients with issues that may arise or have arisen in corporate and private insolvency situations. Her clients include insolvency practitioners, company directors and individuals at various stages of an insolvency process. She provides them with practical solutions in order to secure the best possible outcome in the most cost-effective way. Rebecca pursues all types of antecedent transactions on behalf of clients. She also advises on various applications including: Presenting or defending a petition Interim orders Emergency injunctive applications Administration applications Applications for validation Claims Asset recovery
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When people have been let down by professional and trusted advisors, they will inevitably be nervous about who to trust, and will likely need support to understand what their options are and how best to go forward. Rob finds a solution to help his clients manage and resolve their claims, enabling them to make informed decisions along the way and move on with the things in life that matter. Rob helps a wide variety of clients from major financial institutions to SME businesses and individuals who have been let down by professionals they trusted. People who come to him have often had sleepless nights about their own or their businesses financial security. He provides a path through to the best possible outcome in the quickest possible time helping his clients focus on the important things in life rather than legal complications.
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Thomas is a partner specialising in advising TMT businesses in respect of corporate finance and corporate structures. His expertise also extends to complex reorganisations and restructurings having completed a number of high value reorganisations and restructurings in the last 36 months, some of which included loan capitalisations, buyback of shares out of profits and capital, issue of loan notes, as well as members voluntary liquidations. Thomas has also advised on numerous employee incentive arrangements ranging from the former Employee Shareholder Schemes to Enterprise Management Incentives. A number of the schemes have been assisted with clients’ exit arrangements. On the transactional side, he has worked on some of Moore Blatch’s highest value and most complex transactions, values ranging from £3m to over £100m. Some of the transactions are amongst the largest completed by any independent law firms across the south of England.
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Vicky is a partner in the firm’s medical negligence team, specialising in supporting clients who have complex, high-value claims due to negligence in medicine and surgery. She has a specialist interest in neo-natal deaths/injury, spinal cord injury, diabetic claims, orthopaedic claims and sight loss claims. Vicky provides clients with guidance, support and reassurance during what can be a very challenging time. It is important that clients know how the law can help them get appropriate compensation to secure their future and ensure that lessons are learned. With over 30 years as a practising solicitor, Vicky's clients have the reassurance of knowing that she fully utilises all her legal skills and considerable experience to help them achieve the best possible outcome. She works closely with clients at all stages of the process, and makes sure they understand what is involved and how the claim is being pursued. As a partner, clients can expect her to be involved in all aspects of the work and to be available to answer their questions and concerns. Vicky also has extensive experience as an advocate representing families at inquests in both medical negligence claims and after trauma accidents. She has been involved in high profile inquests dealing with systemic failings by Health Trusts and Ambulance Trusts in providing care for women during labour and delivery. She has also been featured in the media (both press and broadcasts including the BBC).