Dan Butler > Trowers & Hamlins LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

The team at Trowers & Hamlins LLP, which is led by Dan Butler and Steve Dunseath, is particularly strong in business protection issues, contractual disputes, reputation management and defamation work, public sector and procurement disputes, and group actions relating to property investment schemes. Butler’s broad commercial litigation practice also covers contentious insolvencies, procurement disputes, and group litigation, while Dunseath represents clients in commercial contract disputes, post-termination restrictions and injunctions, and civil fraud claims.

Trowers & Hamlins LLP‘ public sector group covers all aspects of local government projects and advisory work, such as state aid issues, regulatory work, procurements and litigation, as well as regeneration projects, housing developments and public sector infrastructure projects. The Manchester-based team is headed up by real estate expert Suzanne Benson, who specialises in major projects and the development of homeownership products, regularly advising local authorities in relation to affordable housing. Darren Ashworth has vast experience in development projects, in particular regeneration projects, and is recommended for being ‘very experienced and a safe pair of hands’. Litigator Dan Butler is experienced in procurement disputes, advising both bidders and contracting authorities. The group is well-supported by associate Gemma Fairbrother.

Dan Butler has noteworthy experience in acting in contentious corporate and individual insolvency matters,  and leads the Trowers & Hamlins LLP team from Manchester. Simon Banks also focuses on contentious matters, and Adam Berman is an experienced litigator. Seb Lang left the team in December 2023.