The widely esteemed practitioners at CMS form a ‘first-class team packed with talented individuals at all levels of seniority’. The ’lean, efficient, and highly professional outfit’ has particular TMT expertise, notably advising IBM UK and Microsoft Corporation. ‘Dynamic, charismatic and brilliant’ Ben Trust leads the team, along with Steven Corney. ‘Heavyweight commercial litigation partner’ David Bridge routinely handles complex M&A and shareholder disputes, with ’strong litigator with good judgement’ Kenny Henderson playing a important role in the team. Also of note is ‘highly experienced master strategist’ Guy Pendell, ’pragmatic and strategically astute’ Jeremy Marsh.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘A first-class team packed with talented individuals at all levels of seniority that blend together well to operate as effective teams, delivering good outcomes for clients.’
‘Tim Sales is a stellar partner. He has a first class legal brain, commercial common sense and great instincts. Tom Sandeman is a very experienced senior associate and partner in waiting.’
Key clients
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Petropavlovsk
Work highlights
- Advising Jaguar Land Rover on an ongoing basis in relation to consumer emissions class action litigation.
- Acted for IBM in this high profile technology dispute involving the agile software development and implementation of an insurance solution for CIS. The case involved IT and delay experts, including analysis of source code, as well as highly specialised fact evidence. The case also dealt with novel issues of contract law, resulting in a hearing in the Court of Appeal on issues of construction of certain limitations of liability.