The team at Clarion has expertise in shareholder, technology-related disputes, judicial review, and multi-million pound contract and supply chain disputes. International disputes are another mainstay of the practice, courtesy of ‘best friend’ relationships with overseas law firms. Simon Young, founding partner of the firm, is the head of the team, with vast experience advising and international clients. ’Commercial, efficient and astute’ David Williams is a name to note. Legal director Kayleigh Fantoni handles high-value claims, leading the firm's financial litigation offering.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Clarion is an excellent firm. Clients particularly like their relaxed and informal approach, but also the excellent legal advice and commercial approach to everything they do. They do very high value cases but always keep costs in mind. And have a great team atmosphere which makes clients feel comfortable and always receiving top work product. David Williams and Aby Milner are particularly excellent.’

  • ‘David Williams is highly experienced, an excellent lawyer, very laid back but also commercial, efficient and astute.’

  • ‘Good clear and concise advice. The Clarion team take time to listen to what you wish to achieve and then build the legal strategy and approach around this.’

  • ‘Dominic Higham is approachable and takes time to understand the business. This sets him apart from competitors who merely want to 'earn the fees'. Dominic has taken the time to understand our company's solutions and even visited one of our customer sites to see our facilities in operation. This enables him to understand our issues through the lens of our strategic objectives.’

Key clients

  • Intersystems
  • Sports Direct
  • Continental AG and Dunlop Oil and Marine
  • Fraser Group
  • Evri/Hermes Parcels
  • Redcentric plc
  • LNT Group
  • Caddick Group Plc
  • The Shard
  • SBFM
  • RN Restaurant Group
  • Troy Food Salads Ltd
  • Vanguard Healthcare Solutions

Work highlights

  • Advising the Continental AG on issues arising under various contracts to deliver sub-sea hoses and related service for $multi-billion liquid natural gas projects off the coasts of Western Australia, Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Lawyers

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Clarion
Partner and head of commercial dispute resolution. Simon is a highly rated litigator having advised on many high-value commercial disputes, including those involving commercial contracts, shareholders, partnerships, professional negligence, landlord and tenant, development disputes, civil fraud and compulsory purchase order claims. Acted for The FA Premier League and 14 Premier League clubs in the case of FAPL and Others v Panini (UK) Ltd, which became the precedent for incidental inclusion of an artwork in a picture.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Simon Young

Other key lawyers

David Williams, Aby Milner, Dominic Higham, Kayleigh Fantoni