JMW Solicitors LLP‘s Manchester-based team is well-equipped to advise its diverse client roster on the processes surrounding the high-value administration of companies. The practice is home to ’tenacious and terrifyingly efficient’ litigator Simon Gerrard. James Williams is experienced in acting for challenger lenders and insolvency practitioners in property insolvencies. Practice head Gavin Jones is well-regarded for his ‘wealth of experience’, routinely handling bankruptcy matters.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘JMW have really top quality and experienced solicitors covering a range of specialisms that give hands-on advice and are commercial in their outlook. ’

  • ‘Gavin Jones and his team in Manchester are excellent both with their technical knowledge and wide experience of all manner of difficult litigation and insolvency situations. They are approachable and innovative.’

  • ‘Simon Gerrard is a tenacious and terrifyingly efficient operator. The move to JMW and ability to build his team further has only complemented his already impressive offering. I have no doubt in recommending his services to anyone and hold his ability in the insolvency law in the highest regard.’

  • ‘James Williams showed an in-depth knowledge of fractional development schemes and comes up with innovative solutions.'

  • 'Gavin Jones is exceptionally technically talented and is a great leader of the team.’
  • 'Gavin Jones has a wealth of experience and is safe and reassuring pair of hands; James Williams is simply a brilliant lawyer with a great mind and fantastic wit - a growing force in the Northwest market.'

  • 'Sam Baines is as impressive a young lawyer as I've come across in a long time.'

  • ‘Gavin Jones is accessible and always keen to support with excellent technical knowledge demonstrating a depth of experience across a wide range of scenarios.'

Key clients

  • Castle Trust Capital PLC
  • Tosca Debt Capital
  • Begbies Traynor
  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • Quantuma LLP
  • Moorfields Advisory LLP
  • Geoffrey Martin PKF
  • FRP Advisory LLP
  • Avison Young
  • Interpath Advisory
  • EY Parthenon (Ernst and Young LLP)
  • Assetz Capital Trust Company Limited
  • Manolete Partners PLC
  • Azets
  • Hampshire Trust Bank PLC
  • Metro Bank PLC
  • Bibby Financial Services Limited
  • BDO LLP
  • Xeinadin Corporate Recovery Limited
  • Anderson Brookes Insolvency Practitioners Limited
  • Path Business Recovery Limited
  • Inquesta Limited
  • Asertis Limited
  • CG Recovery Limited

Work highlights

  • Acted for RSM as Administrators of Infarm – Indoor Urban Farming GMBH in relation to its £44m sale of global intellectual property rights.
  • Acting for Interpath Advisory as joint administrators in connection with administration of Tufnells Parcels Express Limited.
  • Acting for Kroll as administrators of Polaris Medical services Limited , private ambulance provider to NHS and film sets.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Gavin Jones

Other key lawyers

Julie Agnew, James Williams, Simon Gerrard, Sam Baines