Trethowans LLP

Adam Scott

Adam is a Partner and private client Solicitor with over 10 years experience in the profession. He heads up Trethowans’ private client practice in Dorset. Adam regularly provides complex personal tax planning advice to high net worth individuals, including entrepreneurs. His work often involves input from the firm’s trust and tax, commercial, company and employment teams. He provides planning advice to business owners and agricultural clients to ensure a smooth transition of their businesses and estates to future generations.

Amanda Inch

Amanda qualified as a solicitor in 1992 having previously qualified as a legal executive. She specialises in agricultural and commercial property matters and particularly enjoys involved and complicated transactions. Amanda’s past experience includes the sale and purchase of farms and estates, solar farm leases, option agreements and promotion agreements in respect of potential development land, and acting for farming partnerships on dissolution transferring the landholding into separate ownerships.

Andrew Mercer

Partner

Chris Whiteley

Chris is a Senior Partner in the Accidents & Injuries team at Trethowans. Chris undertakes work specialising in catastrophic head and spinal injury cases, as well as birth related injuries of maximum severity. He has been accredited by the Law Society as a member of their specialist personal injury and clinical negligence panels. Chris has also been appointed by the Court of Protection to act as a professional deputy to manage the property and financial affairs of vulnerable adults, and also sits as a Deputy District Judge in London. Chris was Managing Partner of Trethowans from April 2015 to March 2021.

Clare Carter

Partner & Head of Clinical Negligence

Emma Wilders-Pratt

Emma is well known in the field of family law having been in practice for over 20 years. Emma specialises in all aspects of family law and relationship breakdown, including divorce, financial relief, private law children cases and pre and post nuptial settlements. Emma’s client base are usually individuals from net worth families. She has particular expertise in dealing with cases involving substantial and complex business assets, inherited wealth, farming assets, Trusts and Armed Forces pensions. Emma also has a wealth of experience acting for clients involved in issues relating to children, including applications for removal from the jurisdiction, the future living arrangements for the children and acting for grandparents. Emma’s approach is bespoke for each client based on their needs and objectives. As a member of Resolution and a trained collaborative family lawyer, Emma seeks to provide an alternative to litigation for her clients if appropriate and steers her clients towards workable solutions. Emma is described in the Legal 500 as, “a tough litigator and does all she can to achieve the best outcomes for clients.’ And “ highly knowledgeable but also pragmatic” and “stands out above the rest in Hampshire and Wiltshire.’ Emma works hard to help her clients leave the marriage with their dignity intact and feeling that they have retained control of the process and developed a positive post separation parenting relationship with their former spouse.

Gareth Yeoman

Gareth is a consultant in the Commercial Property team in Poole. His specialisms include all aspects of land acquisition for both commercial and residential plot sales. This includes business parks and industrial estates where units are to let on commercial leases. Gareth works closely with his developer clients, advising them on the terms of the purchase, the setting up of the site, and the subsequent sale/leasing of the units. He also advises those clients involved in both the granting and taking of commercial leases. Other areas of specialism include the purchase and sale of commercial investment properties.

Garry Treagust

Garry is a Partner in the Commercial Property Group dealing with transactional work and advises a number of the firm’s leading clients, with a pension property and investment bias.

James Kidner

James is a Partner and head of the Dorset Commercial Property team at Trethowans, based within the Bournemouth office. James has been described as a highly engaged, motivated, and pragmatic lawyer James has extensive experience of helping a wide variety of clients in relation to their commercial property work, including pension funds, regional SME property developers, HNW individuals, Landlords, and Investors. His work ranges from advising on straight forward property work through to drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex sale and purchase agreements and funding arrangements.

James Braund

James is a Partner in Trethowans’ Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team, leading the team in the Poole and Bournemouth offices. James specialises in complex and catastrophic cases. James often acts for clients who have suffered life changing injuries, including brain injuries and severe spinal injuries. He uses his knowledge and experience to ensure that clients get the best possible outcome from their claim, often with a rehabilitation focus. James also specialises in clinical negligence claims and has experience dealing with birth injury cases, instances of delay in diagnosis, claims involving incorrect / sub standard treatment and issues involving consent. In addition, he has experience in pursuing personal injury claims involving cross border and jurisdictional issues, bringing claims to the English courts for injuries suffered other countries. James has obtained successful outcomes in a wide variety of cases including claims and compensation for accidents at work, road traffic accidents, product liability incidents, public liability accidents and medical negligence cases, often on a no win no fee basis.

Jenni Wicheard

Jenni is a Partner and head of the Commercial Property team in Salisbury. She is a highly experienced lawyer with a particular specialism in SIPP and SSAS pension property work, having acted as panel solicitor for a large number of national pension providers over the past 12 years. Jenni’s work includes advising professional trustees and pension scheme members on investment acquisitions and disposals, in-specie transfers and connected party transactions. She also regularly deals with Landlord and Tenant matters, including leases, licences and other property management work.

Kimberley Davies

Kimberley is a Partner working in the Family Team, she specialises in all aspects of family law. Kimberley helps clients with all aspects of family law, including divorce and dissolution, children law matters (including complex contact disputes and allegations of harm), financial cases (including cases where there are family businesses, substantial pension assets and inherited wealth), pre-nuptial agreements, separation agreements and cohabitation agreements. Kimberley is always keen to explore non-Court routes to resolving any dispute to try and achieve a fair outcome for her clients in the most efficient and dignified way.  But,  if Court proceedings are necessary, she is known for fighting her client’s case with passion and tenacity.

Laura Trapnell

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

Marcus Thorpe

Partner

Mark Osgood

Mark is a Partner, supporting the Commercial Litigation team and the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He has more than 25 years’ experience advising on a wide range of disputes, acting for major UK and international corporates, private companies, insolvency practitioners and individuals. Mark has significant experience in pursuing claims in professional negligence, and has successfully managed claims against solicitors, surveyors, architects, accountants, insurance brokers and others in the financial sector. Mark has a deep knowledge of all matters covered by insolvency legislation and company law, and he advises companies, individuals, creditors, debtors, lenders, borrowers, and all other insolvency stakeholders and professionals on contentious issues.

Mark Nixon

Partner

Robert Bajaj

Robert is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation Department dealing with Commercial Insolvency and Property based disputes.

Steve Cole

After qualifying in 2002 Steve worked at FieldFisher for seven years in their commercial finance team. In 2009 Steve took up a leading advocacy position for a US Foundation involved in marine conservation. Steve relocated to the South Coast in 2013 and became a partner at Blake Morgan tasked with running their South Coast banking and finance team. He joined Trethowans in 2021 and now heads the banking and finance team. Steve was awarded Lawyer of the Year at the South Coast Deal Awards in 2017 (and has consistently been shortlisted for the award ever since). This is in recognition of his specialist expertise in banking and finance work and the quality of legal advice he has provided on a number of high profile and complex deals in the region.