About

Trethowans is a UK Top 150 Law Firm and has been named as one of The Times Best Law Firms in 2023 and 2022. Trethowans represents international and national household brand names, owner-managed businesses, banks, insurers and major regional employers across the UK. When acting for individuals, Trethowans represents entrepreneurs, families, high net worth individuals, land-owners, property developers and Trustees.

Find out more at www.trethowans.com

Types of work undertaken

Agriculture & Rural Property: A team of agricultural law specialists advising farmers and other rural land owners on managing their business, family affairs, succession planning and other related country issues. Marcus Thorpe is the lead contact.

Banking & Finance: The team represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers on all aspects of finance and related security arrangements. Steve Cole is the lead contact.

Charities and Not For Profit Enterprises: Trethowans acts for a number of charitable organisations providing them with a wider range of services including commercial property, commercial contracts, employment and corporate advice. Kirsteen Hook is the lead contact.

Commercial Property: The team handles all aspects of property portfolio work across a range of sectors throughout the UK, and is nationally recognised for its pension property work. Paul Longman is the lead contact.

Corporate & Commercial: A leading regional practice with extensive experience in relation to all types of corporate transactional work and commercial agreements. Nick Gent is the lead contact.

Data Protection: Our specialist data protection solicitors offer a complete data protection service including advising on data subject access requests, data protection projects, privacy impact assessments, data protection audits, data breaches, drafting privacy notices, data processor agreements and data sharing protocols, staff training, drafting and reviewing commercial contracts in relation (whether solely or partly) to processing of data. Sarah Wheadon is the lead contact.

Employment: Advises international, national and regional employers on all aspects of employment law including TUPE, restrictive covenants and discrimination. Kathryn Evans is the lead contact.

Family: Handle a breadth of issues including divorce, separation, cohabitation and children with particular expertise in high net worth financial provision and with cases involving farms and businesses. Emma Wilders-Pratt is the lead contact.

Insurance Litigation: We are a team of experienced litigation lawyers and in addition we have a niche expertise and understanding of the insurance sector. Our team of solicitors specialise in all areas of insurance litigation ranging from small value claims right up to £multi-million cases. We act for major European and UK insurers and brokers as well as businesses and individuals. Kelvin Farmaner is the lead contact.

Intellectual Property: Our intellectual property experts handle all elements of IP including trademarks, passing off, copyright, designs (both registered and unregistered), confidential information and patents. The team deals with both IP disputes and commercial IP. Laura Trapnell is the lead contact.

Litigation & Commercial Recoveries: The team specialises in company and commercial issues, general commercial recoveries, construction/ building, property and professional negligence disputes as well as health and safety and regulatory compliance. Karl Cameron is the lead contact.

Personal Injury: The personal injury team’s solicitors specialise in catastrophic head and spinal injury cases, accidents at work, road traffic accidents, military claims, accidents abroad, clinical negligence, and asbestos disease cases. Its lawyers recover over £10 million in compensation for its clients each year. John Hall is the lead contact.

Private Client: The firm has a specialism in private wealth and works with high net worth individuals both onshore and offshore. The team offers superb client service and is made of individuals who have expert knowledge which they can communicate in an easy to understand fashion to clients. The team also includes a chartered accountant. The team includes those who are STEP qualified, SFE qualified and ACTAPS qualified. Mihiri Gajraj is the lead contact.

Residential Property: One of the largest teams of property solicitors in the South, with expertise covering all aspects of property law. Halina Mitchell is the lead contact.

Restructuring & Insolvency: Considerable experience of complex restructuring and bankruptcy work including re-structuring of professional partnerships and businesses. Acting for banks, corporate debtors, company directors and insolvency practitioners. Melia Hirst is the lead contact.

Memberships

  • Solicitors Regulation Authority
  • Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Solicitors
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
  • Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL)
  • The Society for Computers and Law

Staffing Figures

  • 47 Number of UK partners
  • 89 Number of other UK fee-earners
  • 263 Total staff