SE-Solicitors

The firm: SE- Solicitors is a leading law firm in the heart of England. Our relationship driven lawyers work with individuals and businesses to provide a full range of high-quality legal services across our specialist practice areas, with a particular focus on complex, multidimensional interests and private wealth, property, and commercial matters.

Working at our client’s side, we empower them with smart advice and pragmatic solutions to meet demanding challenges, achieve positive outcomes and realise success – in life and business.

Built around the belief that strong relationships really do matter, we pride
ourselves on a uniquely personal service that supports clients to feel
secure and protected, to embrace change, to grow and to thrive,
whenever they need us.

With more than 140 people working across our three offices in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, we serve regional, national, and international clients.

SE-Solicitors continues to make investments in its people, technology, processes and premises to ensure that the firm delivers the best possible legal expertise and service to all of its clients.

Types of work undertaken
Commercial property: The experienced team conducts high-quality work, focusing on service and value. Their high quality expertise and insights  includes strategic land acquisitions, commercial developments, residential developments, commercial investments and portfolios, landlord and tenant and non-contentious construction.

Agriculture: The agriculture team provide farmers, landowners and rural businesses with high quality legal expertise from land sales and purchases, commercial development of land and farming partnership structures, leasing and regulatory compliance and disputes to succession planning and protecting family's wealth.

Residential property and country homes: The specialist residential conveyancing team is a busy and growing property department, accredited by The Law Society’s conveyancing quality scheme. They provide expertise in every kind of property transaction from modest homes and new builds, to high value country estates. They are known for their meticulous and distinctly personal service.

Debt recovery:  Our Top tier practice, as ranked by The Legal 500 UK in the South East, is recognised as a national leader of debt recovery solutions across a range of industries. The team acts for a wide variety of businesses in the UK and abroad, from financial institutions to multinationals, sole traders and local authorities. The department provides a seamless service from pre-legal collections to contested debt recovery, as well as credit management advice, training and strategic guidance.

Corporate and commercial: The partnership led solicitors provide high quality expertise in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, and have developed a particular specialist offering in the drafting and negotiation of high-value commercial contracts and other strategically important trading agreements on behalf of clients.  Our solicitors are experienced in mergers and acquisitions; MBOs; MBIs; joint ventures; share option schemes; corporate reorganisations; intellectual property; and shareholder agreements and disputes. Clients include entrepreneurs, founders, management teams, institutional and high-net-worth investors, as well as SMEs, large UK and international corporations.

Private capital: Our specialist private client solicitors have an enviable reputation for all aspects of private client law, including administration of estates and obtaining probate, trust planning, disputes, will writing, powers of attorney and court of protection matters.  Working with high net worth individuals, the team also provide strategic advice covering wealth planning, establishing trusts, managing estates with complex assets and navigating the rules, exceptions and reliefs associated with inheritance tax planning.

Dispute resolution: The dispute solicitors provide comprehensive dispute resolution expertise for a whole range of clients, from private individuals, local, national or corporate PLC or SME clients. Our core and varied dispute services include commercial , property and land, residential property, disputed wills and estates, insolvency, professional negligence, construction, property recoveries and banking and finance.

Family: Our renowned family solicitors delivers the very best legal support for a wide range of family matters with specialist experience in high-value financial cases . These services include a range of divorce solutions, child arrangements, divorce coaching, domestic abuse, nuptial and cohabitation agreements, grandparents rights in addition to mediation and collaborative Law.

Employment: The solicitors have an excellent record of advocacy success in tribunals, and offers high-level services including advice, in connection with: corporate immigration, corporate restructuring, data protection, day  to day HR issues,  TUPE transfers, disciplinary and grievances, dismissals, restrictive covenants, settlement agreements and whistle blowing.

Other offices: Linden House (Banbury), Gilmarde House (Banbury), Brackley, and Bicester.