Anthony Gold

Managing Partner: David Marshall

Number of Partners: 32

Assistant Solicitors: 37

Other Fee-earners: 28

CONTACTS

Clinical Negligence: Jock Mackenzie, Ali Malsher, Jenny Kennedy

Commercial Disputes/Employment: David Wedgwood, Clifford Tibber

Commercial Property: Andrew Weir, Stephen Whittaker

Contentious Probate: David Wedgwood, Beth Holden

Corporate & Commercial: David Marshall, David Wedgwood, Clifford Tibber, Beth Holden

Court of Protection: David Wedgwood, Alexandra Knipe, Grainne Feeney, Donovan Lindsay

Employment: Aneil Balgobin, Joy Drummond, Inbar Rabinovitz

Family Law/Mediation/Collaborative Law: Kim Beatson, David Emmerson, Sarah Hughes, Fiona Lyon

Housing/Public Law: Andrew Brookes, Timothy Waitt, Giles Peaker, Sara Stephens

Leasehold Services: Ian Mitchell

Personal Injury: David Marshall, Jenny Kennedy, Jackie Spinks, Sana Bibi, Ian Peters, Adam Dyl, Amanda Hopkins

Property Dispute Resolution: Andrew Brookes, Timothy Waitt, Giles Peaker

Residential Property: Stephen Whitaker, Andrew Weir

Trusts & Estates: Anna Sibbald, Grainne Feeney, Umar Shaikh

THE FIRM Anthony Gold is a multi-specialist firm based in London with a national reputation. It has a large specialist social housing team taking on complex litigation involving the rights of social housing tenants and leaseholders. One partner co-drafted the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 and the firm well-known for its work on housing conditions.

The practice’s injury and medical claims team handles multi-track matters including catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury; orthopaedic and amputation claims; psychiatric injury, cerebral palsy and brain injury cases, and other high-value and complex cases. They won ‘Catastrophic Injury Team of the Year’ at the 2019 Personal Injury Awards.

Anthony Gold also has strong private client services, including one of the most highly regarded mediation and collaborative family law services.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK

Company & Commercial: an understanding of commercial objectives and trading methods is an integral part of the team’s service. It deals in the acquisition and disposal of companies and unincorporated businesses and general commercial contracts and has a growing specialism in complex intellectual property issues.

Civil Dispute Resolution: the team has expertise in recovery of losses arising from fraud and negligence as well as actions around the ownership and recovery of property.

Commercial Dispute Resolution: the team deals with English and international contractual disputes. It also has a thriving professional negligence practice.

Contentious Probate: with active members of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Lawyers, the firm has expertise in disputes involving the validity of wills and breaches of trust. The team has a considerable reputation in dealing with complex multi-party Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 cases.

Court of Protection: the team is regularly instructed where there are intra-family disputes involving the finances of persons lacking capacity. It also has experience in complex welfare and deprivation of liberty cases. The team is on the approved panel list for many London boroughs. It also manages funds at a proportionate rate. The team has expertise in establishing complex care plans and state funding issues.

Employment: the team has a strong contentious and non-contentious practice. It advises on best employment practices and deals with disputes. It has considerable experience in advising high-net-worth employees on dismissal and discrimination as well as negotiating service and settlement agreements.

Family: the dedicated and well-recognised team, led by Kim Beatson, offers expertise in all areas of family law with emphasis on children and finance, and has wide experience in international relocation. Well-known for pioneering alternatives to litigation, the team operates one of the most highly regarded mediation and collaborative law services in London. The firm has expertise in advising gay and lesbian clients on cohabitation agreements, civil partnerships and relationship breakdown.

Clinical Negligence: one of the most highly recognised and notable teams in the sector, with two partners on the AvMA specialist clinical negligence panel and four who are members of the Law Society Clinical Negligence panel. Particular expertise in claims involving private medical practice, cerebral palsy and brain, spinal cord, orthopaedic and psychiatric injuries.

Personal Injury: recognised as one of the UK’s most outstanding teams, and leaders in their field, they are renowned for their thorough approach and outstanding results. The team has particular expertise in catastrophic brain and spinal cord injury claims.

Housing: with a number of leading specialists, the team deals with all housing matters with a particular emphasis on housing conditions.

Public Law: the team is renowned for challenging the decisions of local authority housing departments, as well as all other aspects of local authority and other public body decision making, particularly decisions relating to social welfare.

Property Dispute Resolution: particular specialism in advising residential landlords and letting agents on tenancy and regulatory matters. Expertise in acting for commercial litigation landlords and tenants.

Leasehold Services: highly experienced in leasehold reform work and involved in a number of 1967 Act, 1987 Act and 1993 Act type enfranchisement cases at the Property Tribunal. Particular emphasis on collective enfranchisement and block management.

Property: the team was one of the first to secure membership to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme, and has a strong practice in property transactional work, including commercial leases, property development, financial and investment work, and conveyancing.

Wills, Trusts, Tax & Probate: the team specialises in tax planning and deals with the administration of estates and trusts.