It is our people who make the difference. We recruit highly capable staff from prominent London and provincial practices, which means you benefit from a level of experience and expertise normally associated with large City firms.
Bill leads the corporate team in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, sales/purchases of businesses, private equity, and corporate finance and structure.
An executive with 20 years’ experience. Lesley specialises in debt recovery for all types of client.
Chris handles the full range of commercial property law, including landlord and tenant issues, acquisitions, disposals and development. He is listed in the Legal 500.
A member of The Employment Lawyers Association, Natalie advises and guides clients through the minefield of employment law. She advises on issues such as unfair dismissal, breach of contract, and represents clients at employment tribunals.
Linda is an executive working closely with Bill Annan. She has over 15 years experience of dealing with commercial property transactions.
A solicitor with over 30 years’ experience in many areas. Jonathan is an accredited mediator and a member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel.
As Head of Dispute Resolution Jonathan is involved almost exclusively in all kinds of commercial disputes of every size for companies in and around the Thames Valley.
James has been a partner since 1982. He specialises in all aspects of employment law including redundancies, wrongful and unfair dismissal claims, sex and race discrimination, and drafting contracts of employment.
Dennis has been with the firm for 42 years formerly as Senior Partner and now as a working consultant. He has extensive experience handling a wide range of company and commercial activities. Dennis’ clients range from charities through to commercial property developers, and his knowledge of the local business community and environment is unrivalled.
Has extensive experience of land development on behalf of both developers and land owners and a wide range of business lease transactions.
John is managing Partner with a wide experience of planning law and related areas including enforcement and lawful use issues.
Caroline represents farmers and agricultural partnerships in relation to farm sales and purchases, drawing up farm partnership agreements, agricultural tenancies and other agricultural-property related issues. She also deals with the sale and purchase of land in the vicinity of residential properties.
Caroline acts for many medical and other professional practices on a variety of partnership matters. She also advises on shareholding structure for owner-managed companies as well as on a range of corporate, shareholder, subscription, employee share options and business sales and acquisitions.
An Inland Revenue Officer before qualifying as a solicitor and Partner in charge of our tax planning department, Peter advises on personal capital tax planning issues in corporate transactions including sales of owner managed businesses, shareholder agreements and the structuring of private businesses generally.
Tris joined us in 2002 from a West End firm where he specialised in new media and other commercial work and was in-house counsel for a major telecommunications company. With over 9 years experience as a company/commercial lawyer he now advises clients on a range of commercial matters.
Rosalind joined the firm’s commercial property department in August 2007 after completing her training with a large regional firm. Rosalind advises on a variety of commercial property matters such as freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, option and overage agreements and landlord and tenant issues.
Tim specialises in commercial property of all types, including the sale or purchase of farms and agricultural land or general agricultural estate management.
Tim specialises in commercial property, freehold and leasehold business premises, residential land development opportunities and agricultural estate management.
