Bethany is a Partner in the Insurance and Regulatory team. She deals with all aspects of personal injury law, acting for UK and European insurers, businesses and individuals, including high value and complex cases. Bethany’s work predominantly involves defending motor claims, however, she also handles employers’ liability and public liability claims for domestic insurers. She has been appointed to the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel.
Ferhat is the Partner who established the highly successful Defendant Personal InjuryDepartment at Pitmans. He is known amongst his clients for his tenacious approachto cases and for being exceptionally proactive in representing his clients’ interests. Hehas over 20 years experience in insurance, advising on all aspects of insuranceincluding road traffic, catastrophic claims, as well as employers liability and publicliability claim. Ferhat is also known for advising insurers in relation to claims arising in numerous foreign jurisdictions. Specialist interests include: defendantinsurance, automotive sector. Noted reportables cases include: Arnesen v Heffey CA[2002] (liability apportionment successfully appealed); Jimaale v London Buses Ltd[2000] (defendent's right to fair trial under European Convention of Humans Rights(Article 6)).
Since qualifying as a Solicitor in 1991, Gavin has specialised in personal injury and clinical negligence cases and brings experience, knowledge and enthusiasm to his work. Having first joined Trethowans in 1997 and rejoined (after a brief spell away) in 2003, he became a Partner in 2007. Gavin specialises in a wide variety of complex employers’ liability cases and clinical negligence claims, but particularly catastrophic injury cases including brain injury, spinal injury, amputee cases and Claimants suffering multiple fractures. He has a reputation as somebody who will go the extra mile and fight the hard fight on behalf of his clients. A large proportion of Gavin's cases are referred to him by solicitors from other firms, which is testament to his knowledge and expertise. Gavin is committed to ensuring maximum compensation and the best rehabilitation possible for his clients, to ensure a good quality of life. Gavin has been appointed by the Court of Protection to act as a Professional Deputy to manage the property and financial affairs of vulnerable adults.
As a Partner in the Family team based in Southampton, Grant has over 30 years' experience dealing with all aspects of family law. This includes divorce and dissolution, private law children matters (to include complex children proceedings and removal from jurisdiction cases), financial cases (to include advising medium to high network clients, cases with trust and taxation elements, business and farming interests, police and armed forces cases, pensions and foreign assets), pre-nuptial and pre-civil partnership agreements, separation agreements, co-habitation agreements and disputes. Grant qualified as a collaborative lawyer in 2007 and as an all issues family mediator in 2010. Grant actively promotes alternate forms of dispute resolution, though he is a capable advocate with wide experience in conducting children and financial remedy proceedings. Grant is an active member of Resolution, a national body of family law professionals committed to dealing with matters in a sensitive, constructive and cost effective way, sitting on the national committee as Vice Chair and is due to become Chair in 2023 and Hampshire's regional committee. Grant also is an active member of the Hampshire Family Legal Solutions Group.
Jamie is a partner in the Corporate team at Trethowans, specialising in acquisitions and disposals, with particular experience in the builders and timber merchants sector. He also acts for companies and individuals in relation to shareholder, LLP and partnership agreements. Jamie has been an integral member of the corporate team since he joined the firm in 2015, dealing with complex large-scale transactions, often with international elements involved. Notable work highlights Advising on the English law aspects of a $1.4bn international deal, linked to a listing on NYSE, the largest transaction the firm has been involved in in February 2022. Advising on the English law aspects of the $265m sale of Nutrawise Health & Beauty Corporation to Canadian listed entity Jamieson Wellness in May 2022. Advising on the sale of Wantage Builders Merchants to Grant and Stone in May 2022; Advising on the sale of Exall Jones Timber and Builders’ Merchants to Huws Gray Group in September 2021. Advising on the sale Skylark Golf & Country Club to Time GB Group in May 2021. Acting for Mark Allen Group on its acquisition of a portfolio from Elsevier Limited, the fifth acquisition for MAG. Advising on the sale of Milford Building Supplies to Huws Gray Group in September 2020.
Jon is a Partner and head of the Commercial Contracts team at Trethowans, based within the Southampton office. Jon has extensive experience of helping a wide variety of clients in relation to their commercial contracts, from FTSE 100 companies to SMEs. His work ranges from advising on simple terms and conditions through to drafting and negotiating complex, business critical supply and outsourcing agreements. He has particular experience of contracts relating to supply chain and procurement, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, advertising and marketing, outsourcing of services and the appointment of agents, distributors, franchisees and concessionaires.
Julian is a highly skilled technology lawyer, having been involved with technology law since 1998. He was the UK technology sector head at an international law firm until January 2020 when he joined Trethowans. Julian’s main areas of practice are in information technology and e-commerce, including the development and licensing of software, outsourcing, online and cloud services. Julian also advises on data protection issues, usually relating to the use and transfer of customer data in IT implementations, and on intellectual property rights, particularly in the context of open source software and website/software development.
Karl is Partner and Head of Trethowans' Commercial Litigation department. Dealing primarily with complex matters, Karl's own practice focusses on disputes arising from property, construction projects and financial services, with particular emphasis on professional negligence. As a litigator, Karl has extensive experience of High Court and County Court litigation, together with various Alternative Dispute Resolution forums.
Kathryn is a Partner and Head of Employment Law at Trethowans. Kathryn offers a length and breadth of experience that makes her a formidable opponent. She has strong technical capability in all areas of employment law including tribunal strategy, TUPE and discrimination. Kathryn acts predominantly for corporates to provide strategic management of difficult employees. From grievances to misconduct and ill-health to performance issues, Kathryn helps her clients get where they want to be. Kathryn is direct and down-to-earth. Kathryn describes herself as a practical troubleshooter. She helps her clients identify key issues and then prepares a workable strategy to address them. Kathryn is hard working, intelligent and relentless. Her clients regularly comment on the overwhelming feeling of support they received from Kathryn during tricky times. Kathryn also has experience at the sharp end, having represented her clients in the county court, the magistrates court and the Employment Tribunal. This gives Kathryn an edge over most employment lawyers in dealing with Tribunal matters.
Laura is a partner in our corporate team. She is a highly experienced Intellectual Property and Information Technology lawyer. She has worked in specialist law firms in this sector for over 25 years and has been leading commercial IP and technology teams locally for the last ten years. She brings particular expertise in trademark law and leads our in-house trademark filing practice. Laura is highly regarded for her extensive expertise in a broad range of IP matters, including IP disputes, trademark portfolios, and brand protection. She is cited as a “fearsome litigator and no-nonsense negotiator
Lucy is a Partner and head of the firm’s Corporate team. She is a highly experienced corporate finance lawyer advising buyers, sellers and funders on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins and joint ventures. Lucy also acts for companies or individuals in relation to associated corporate matters such as shareholder, partnership and LLP agreements, share options and other constitutional matters. Her clients range from SMEs and owner managed businesses to international group companies.
Richard is a partner in the Commercial Litigation team in Southampton. He is a highly experienced commercial litigator with over 30 years of experience handling cases of substantial value for a wide variety of clients, from public listed companies to owner managed businesses. Richard's most high profile case was Johnson v Gore Wood, a case which went to the House of Lords and is still the leading authority on abuse of process concerning claims brought by related parties. Richard's other reported cases include Youlton v Charles Russell, a £4 million professional negligence claim which involved a 6 day trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice (and in which judgment was given in our client’s favour) and Kingsway Hall Hotel Limited v Red Sky IT (Hounslow) Limited, a ten day trial over defective software, which again was successfully decided in our client’s favour. He has considerable experience in a wide variety of areas including professional negligence, intellectual property (mainly copyright and trade mark infringement) and defamation.
Robert is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation Department dealing with Commercial Insolvency and Property based disputes.
