Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : Thames Valley
Band 3
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Freeths is a strong regional firm with a noteworthy track record of handling corporate and commercial disputes. The group's areas of experience include breach of contract and shareholder litigation. The firm advises a mixture of corporates, local subsidiaries of international businesses and high net worth individuals.
Work Highlights
- Freeths defended Dawsongroup in a EUR12 million product defect-related contractual dispute brought against them by Last Bus.
Strengths
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"Freeths' team is very commercially astute and has demonstrated good knowledge of the business as well as the legal requirements."
"Freeths has the bench strength to get to the heart of the issue and present simple options for resolution, while providing great client care."
"They were great, showing quick understanding of the matter and gave very good proposals to solutions. The team was also professional and responsive."
"Freeths consistently provides prompt, sound, commercial advice and has a strong grasp on the complexities of the matters at hand. Its lawyers have a lot of industry-specific knowledge."
"The Freeths team was on top of its briefs, good on timings and was properly resourced to deal with cases."
"Freeths' team is very commercially astute and has demonstrated good knowledge of the business as well as the legal requirements."
"Freeths has the bench strength to get to the heart of the issue and present simple options for resolution, while providing great client care."
"They were great, showing quick understanding of the matter and gave very good proposals to solutions. The team was also professional and responsive."
"Freeths consistently provides prompt, sound, commercial advice and has a strong grasp on the complexities of the matters at hand. Its lawyers have a lot of industry-specific knowledge."
"The Freeths team was on top of its briefs, good on timings and was properly resourced to deal with cases."
Notable Practitioners
Caroline Watson is the head of the commercial dispute resolution team in Freeths' Oxford office. She is retained by clients for shareholder and director disputes as well as contractual, fraud and restrictive covenant related litigation.
"She is a great strategist. I have no hesitation praising Caroline and I have referred clients to her when I've been conflicted. She puts the clients first above all."
"Caroline was the consummate professional. We have no doubt that without Caroline we would not have reached a satisfactory conclusion."
"She fights her client's corner tooth and nail."
Simon Hobbs is the head of the dispute resolution team at Freeths' Milton Keynes office. He advises on a wide range of litigation, including contractual disputes, defamation cases and fraud claims.
"Simon Hobbs is a very commercial and practical lawyer."
"He really makes the effort to understand us as a business and he understands the importance of meeting people and seeing what makes us tick. He has his eye on where the case is going too."
"Simon is heavy-hitting in the area and he is well known in the industry."
Paul Brown is a director at Freeths in Oxford. He represents both corporate and private clients and has particular expertise in contract and sales agreement disputes.
"Paul Brown was a very good partner for us with great communication, commerciality and strong knowledge. I have no dissatisfactions with the service and appreciate his commerciality the most."
"He was brilliant - we were very satisfied with his knowledge and the case was quite stressful, but as soon as we spoke with him, he calmed us down because he knew things so well."
"Paul is extremely pragmatic, straightforward, keeps it simple and gets it done."
Ranked Lawyers at
Freeths LLP
Thames Valley