Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : Thames Valley
Band 3
About
Provided by Field Seymour Parkes
Highlights of our commercial litigation practice include:-
1. High calibre lawyers
- We are a highly experienced team. 5 out of 8 lawyers have 10 years plus PQE. Two are ex-City. One partner was previously London head of department for a UK Top 15 law firm.
- Partners are consistently ranked in the legal directories.
2. Quality of work and clients
- Last 12 months has seen us involved in 14 cases with a value of £1 million plus (of which 9 were £3 million plus) which reflects the quality of our practice.
- Wide variety of corporate/commercial clients.
- We have a particular focus on the automotive sector and food and drink (where we have particular expertise in Groceries Code disputes).
3. Innovation
- Only firm in the Thames Valley to use decision trees. Using this, we are able to represent possible litigation outcomes in diagram form and assess percentage changes of values of claims.
- Transparency and flexibility on costs (menu of options such as fixed price guide, CFAs etc.).
Chambers Review
Field Seymour Parkes has a solid litigation practice handling domestic and cross-border mandates for companies and individuals. The team has strong expertise across the spectrum of contract disputes, professional negligence claims, and investment and finance-related litigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Field Seymour Parkes have a very strong team with strong legal skills. They have very experienced, intelligent, excellent lawyers, providing a great service. I rate them highly."
"We have used Field Seymour Parkes for many years. The lawyers instil real confidence with their knowledge and are quick to get to the heart of any situation."
"They have substantial experience in handling complex international commercial cases and can always assemble a team with the appropriate areas of expertise and experience to handle the dispute."
"I received excellent support on a complex IT contract dispute with the team being extremely responsive."
"Field Seymour Parkes have a very strong team with strong legal skills. They have very experienced, intelligent, excellent lawyers, providing a great service. I rate them highly."
"We have used Field Seymour Parkes for many years. The lawyers instil real confidence with their knowledge and are quick to get to the heart of any situation."
"They have substantial experience in handling complex international commercial cases and can always assemble a team with the appropriate areas of expertise and experience to handle the dispute."
"I received excellent support on a complex IT contract dispute with the team being extremely responsive."
Notable Practitioners
Bill Dixon demonstrates great depth of experience in commercial litigation, regularly acting on contract and shareholder disputes, as well as professional negligence cases. He is also often retained by clients for his multi-jurisdictional expertise.
"I work mostly with Bill Dixon and his client service is excellent; he's very fast and I cannot find any fault with him. He has excellent commerciality as well."
"Bill Dixon is an expert adviser and litigator. He has considerable experience advising on complex cases involving novel points of law, has good tactical awareness and provides clear advice."
"Bill is very experienced and has been in the market for a very long time; he's extremely impressive."
Tom Maple advises clients on contract, professional negligence and shareholder disputes, with particular experience in the automotivesector.
"Tom Maple is a very thoughtful and intelligent lawyer that just gives very sensible commercial advice."
"He's highly knowledgeable, very responsive and quick to get to the crux of any situation. He's excellent at discussing a case, taking instruction and providing updates."
"Tom Maple has considerable experience, good tactical awareness and is easy to work with."
"Tom is a great strategic thinker and helped us to successfully navigate a commercial dispute."
"He's a very astute commercial lawyer and is also very personable."