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Andrew has extensive international corporate and corporate finance experience gained as a senior in-house lawyer with 3i plc and GKN plc as well as in private practice. He handles company sales, purchases, joint ventures, MBOs, MBIs and other types of venture capital transaction. In addition to his legal skills, Andrew holds an MBA degree. Andrew is known for his ability to steer complex transactions to a successful conclusion with a mixture of technical skill, tact and good humour.

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Paul has wide experience of all aspects of litigation concerning land or interests in land. He regularly advises retailers, developers and investors in property on diverse topics including: security of tenure, applications for landlord's consents, dilapidations claims, break notices, contractual disputes and rent reviews, as well as the enforcement of lease covenants. Paul regularly assists with arrears recovery and the effect of insolvency.

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Martyn specialises in all aspects of property dispute resolution with an emphasis for acting for property developers and investors and corporate occupiers, and has a sound grasp of the commercial issues. He has considerable expertise in large scale dilapidations claims and pre-acquisition advice, which have often involved the recovery of substantial damages in respect of landmark buildings in Central London. Martyn's expertise also extends to landlord and tenant, lease renewals, consent to assignment, rent recovery, overage disputes, property related professional negligence claims, boundary disputes, easements, service charge disputes and restrictive covenants. He is an experienced ADR accredited mediator undertaking property related disputes.

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Jonathan has a wide commercial property experience, acting for retailers, bankers, investors and developers. Jonathan advises on conditional acquisition agreements, options and all aspects of retail development. He is also a secured lending and landlord and tenant specialist

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Tony deals with all types of commercial matters for both private companies and partnerships. His areas of expertise include private company acquisitions and disposals, joint venture and shareholders agreements, corporate financing and restructuring. Tony has also dealt with a number of shareholder actions and he has also acted in the setting up of off shore trusts and the establishment of companies in the USA and Europe. Tony has a particular interest in the Care Home and Healthcare sectors.

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Stephanie is based in our Birmingham office and specialises in insolvency, restructuring and property repossessions. Acting mainly for insolvency practitioners, banks and creditors, Stephanie regularly advises on corporate insolvency transactions including pre-pack administrations, antecedent transactions within both bankruptcy and corporate insolvency proceedings, property receiverships and high value bankruptcy estates.
Drawing on her bankruptcy and property recovery expertise, Stephanie heads up the Matrimonial Homes Unit which specialises in the possession and sale of property for bankruptcy estates and for mortgagees. In particular, the Matrimonial Homes Unit prides itself on being able to provide an expedient, practical and price competitive service to insolvency practitioner and mortgagee clients with the aim of extracting the maximum value from properties, even when they have marginal equity.

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Iain acts in a wide range of commercial property matters. His experience includes commercial sales and purchases, commercial leases (acting for both Landlords and Tenants), dealing with the property aspects of a variety of corporate transactions and advising a number of high street lenders in secured lending matters. Iain's current workload includes acting for a large national supermarket chain advising on a number of their site acquisitions and disposals nationwide.

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John has worked in private practice for a number of years and has advised on matters ranging from large scale business transfers and reorganisations as well as tribunal litigation. He has an interest in trade union issues including recognition and strike action and provides pragmatic advice on this complex topic to employers. He has also worked for Rentokil Initial Services dealing with contract services (such as cleaning, security and management services) so also has experience of being a client of private practice lawyers.
John has extensive experience of performing Tribunal advocacy and has led seminars and training days on employment law.

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Owen is head of our firm-wide Commercial and Private Client Litigation team. He deals with a wide variety of general commercial and corporate litigation with an emphasis on IT related disputes and shareholder disputes. He also deals with more general contractual disputes, judicial reviews, trust related matters, defamation matters and has a significant costs practice. Owen is a Solicitor Advocate and as such has appeared in all levels of the court system including the House of Lords.

He was named as The Lawyer's Assistant Solicitor of the Year in 1999.

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Claire is a client focused litigator and advises private individuals as well as executors and trustees on all areas of private client litigation including contentious probate and professional negligence. She advises on the validity of wills and whether a family member is entitled to a share of the estate despite being excluded from the Will. She also assists clients in bringing professional negligence claims for negligent drafting of wills and incompetent administrations of estates. She also has experience in removing executors and attorneys for misconduct. Claire is thorough and tenacious and has proved to be a successful negotiator and competent advocate. She has extensive experience in both settling disputes outside of the court room and taking cases all the way through the legal process to the final court hearing. She is very aware of and sensitive to the stress clients' often experience in these claims and helps focus on achieving, wherever possible, the most cost-effective resolution.

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Having studied Law with Sociology, Dionne qualified in June 2007 following the completion of her training contract with Hammonds. Dionne has gained a broad range of experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment issues including Employment Tribunal litigation, polices and procedures, advising on day-to-day employment issues, service contracts and disciplinary and grievance issues.