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Partner in the Real Estate Team. She handles a wide range of property work.
Partner in the Construction & Infrastructure Team. Clare is a project finance specialist with skills that cover both banking documentation and commercial contracts.
Partner in the Family Team, based in the Exeter office. She has over 20 years of experience in divorce and financial settlements.
Partner in the Trusts and Estates Team. John is Head of our Charities Group and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the STEP Charities Special Interest Group.
Melissa is partner, and a highly experienced specialist insolvency lawyer. Her practise includes advising a range a stakeholders of both private individuals to large corporate entities. She advises all classes of stakeholders both before and during insolvency processes, as well as advising solvent structures in corporate consolidation, restructuring and managed exits. Her clients include local and national firms of insolvency practitioners, funders, acquisitive competitors, management teams and individual directors. She is recognised by her peers and clients as being very able, highly experienced, efficient and commercial. Her recent practice includes to directors and stakeholders of entities trading in the face of financial distress; advice on the grant and enforcement of finance, the security and conducting security reviews (including guarantees); the negotiation of the sale and purchase of distressed businesses in the context of a formal insolvency process (accelerated M&A, and sales by administrators) and the restructuring/consolidation of group/companies.. Recent examples of sector specific experience include IT and technology, retail, restaurants and leisure industry, construction, property management and distribution. She can be found working closely alongside management teams of businesses facing cash flow pressures, and advising and assisting with debt negotiation, forbearance and restructuring before formal insolvency. She regularly advises creditors improving their security position, formal insolvency processes, including the making appointments of insolvency practitioners, as well as advising on technical insolvency issues, investigation, asset recovery, and claims arising within insolvency processes. Some specific examples include advice to businesses regarding defined benefit pension deficits, advising receivers in the context of a disputed appointed, advancing, and defending claims against company directors to recover preference/loans/unlawful dividends and disguised remuneration schemes.
Partner and Head of the Trusts and Estates Team specialising in acting for and advising landed estates and agricultural clients.
Partner in the Property Litigation Team. Rob regularly acts on high-value real estate disputes, especially dilapidations, partnership disputes and injunction claims.
Ruth is a Senior Associate in the Commercial team specialising in Public Sector procurement.
Partner and Head of the Employment Team specialising in all aspects of employment law.
Partner and Head of the Real Estate Team. Tim specialises in all aspects of the development of commercial and residential property.