Jonathan Davey
Addleshaw GoddardBoasting a client portfolio featuring both high-street banks and major multinational manufacturing conglomerates, Addleshaw Goddard is able to provide an ‘excellent breadth’ of legal counsel due to its near-unrivalled depth of bench. The firm is active in drafting complex commercial contracts for joint ventures in a range of industries, including the automotive and financial sectors, and constructing bespoke arrangements for household retail names, such as its work creating ASDA’s first ever customer loyalty scheme. Furthermore, the firm has been involved in formulating a multitude of sponsorship, outsourcing and supply agreements, alongside acting on IT management services and payment systems. Team head Michael Lowry remains a key advisor to banks and retailers for their IT and data needs, while Damon Rosamond-Lanzetta is praised for his ’impressive ability to find solutions for clients’, with considerable experience instructing financial actors on operational and service agreements. Jonathan Davey continues to take the lead on matters in the retail and consumer sector, advising on business-critical supply arrangements and facility restructurings, and is regularly supported by the ‘standout’ managing associate Harriet Powell who has also been active in real estate contractual work. Claire Edwards joined from Pinsent Masons LLP in May 2022, furthering strengthening the firm’s data protection and security offering.
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‘Very helpful, knowledgeable and flexible.’
‘Great people to work with. Professional and approachable.'
‘They take the time to create strong individual relationships. They respond well to feedback and input.'
‘Excellent all round team with good commercial awareness balancing legal expertise in the tech/commercial area. Good customer care and awareness of the need to keep to budgets and deliver work that adds real value.’
‘The team were highly capable, personable and dealt with at times fairly intemperately-toned challenges with grace and diplomacy. They did a first class job.’
‘Damon Rosamond-Lanzetta was excellent. He had a detailed understanding of the complicated brief that straddled many legal areas e.g. finance and regulatory, commercial, competition, corporate and employment. He and his corporate colleagues worked very hard over many months, keeping on top of the twists and turns of the high profile project.'
‘There is an excellent breadth and depth in the team. I am always able to catch up with someone, as required, who can help with a particular query or issue. We worked with the team on a matter which required considerable bespoke drafting to set out a completely new set of obligations which work alongside the existing contractual framework used by the industry.’
‘Damon Rosamond-Lanzetta has an impressive ability to imagine, think through and find solutions for multiple scenarios for his clients.’
Key clients
- Volkswagen AG
- Barclays Bank UK plc
- SBC UK Bank plc
- Lloyds Banking Group plc
- Nationwide Building Society
- NatWest Group
- Northern Bank Limited
- Santander UK plc
- TSB Bank plc
- Virgin Money
- Bank of Ireland (UK)
- Siemens plc
- MedAccess Guarantee Limited
- ASDA Stores Limited
- J. Carter Sporting Club Limited T/A Castore
- Monument Bank Limited
- Kynetec UK Limited
- Alderley Park Limited
- NFU Mutual Insurance Society Limited
Work highlights
- Advising Volkswagen (VW) on its global joint venture with Ford Motor Company (Ford). We are the main legal advisers to Volkswagen in relation to the alliance. VW and Ford are collaborating in relation to the development, manufacture, and supply of a range of commercial vans, pickup trucks and other vehicles.
- Advised ASDA on the creation, launch and roll out of its first customer loyalty rewards scheme.
- Advised Siemens on an outsourcing agreement for managed learning services, including the procurement of training, development of bespoke training as required, and use of Siemens' internal booking system to book training and the management of all of those activities.
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