TWM Solicitors LLP

Business Law

Consultant in Business Law

Handling a broad range of corporate finance and commercial work, including sales and purchases of companies and businesses, joint ventures and partnerships, restructurings, agency and distribution agreements, advertising and marketing, competition law, share schemes, intellectual property/IT work and tax advice.

Recognised by Legal Business as a leading expert in both E-Commerce and Franchising. Listed as a notable practitioner in Corporate/M&A in the 2012 Chambers Global Directory, being named as a "Foreign Expert" for the UK and as an "Expert Based Abroad" for France and Germany.

Clients have included a very large range of businesses, from large publicly listed companies (UK and overseas) to individual entrepreneurs, in many different business sectors, including retail, travel and leisure, IT, healthcare, financial and professional services, advertising, media, music and publishing.  Having represented seven national motor dealer councils, as well as a large number of individual dealerships (ranging from sole traders to public listed groups), has gained a strong reputation in the automotive sector and, over the past 12 years, has also developed a particular connection with French clients seeking to do business in or with the UK.

Trained at Allison & Humphreys (London EC2); qualified 1979; Rubinstein Callingham, (Grays Inn)/Manches (merged 1994) 1979-2005; partner 1983; Chartered Tax Advisor 1986; partner Browne Jacobson 2005-2009; partner TWM Solicitors LLP 2009 to 2021; Consultant 2021 to date.

French, German.

Advisory Council of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain; British-German Jurists Association (Hon. Secretary); Chartered Institute of Taxation; International Bar Association; Society for Computers and the Law; The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation.

St Clement Danes Grammar School, London W12; University of Leicester.