Trethowans LLP

Name: Trethowans LLP

Website: www.trethowans.com

Telephone number: 0800 2800 421

Managing Partner: Mike Watson

Senior Partner: Chris Whiteley

Number of Partners: 51

Number of other fee earners: 104

Total Headcount: 275

Firm Overview

Trethowans is a UK Top 150 Law Firm and has been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Law Firms. It represents international and national household brand names, owner-managed businesses, banks, insurers and major regional employers across the UK. When acting for individuals, Trethowans represents entrepreneurs, families, high net worth individuals, land-owners, property developers and trustees.

Main Areas of Practice

Agriculture & Rural Property: A team of agricultural law specialists advising farmers and other rural land owners on managing their business, family affairs, succession planning and other related country issues.

Banking & Finance: The team represents institutional lenders and corporate borrowers on all aspects of finance and related security arrangements.

Charities and Not For Profit Enterprises: Trethowans acts for a number of charitable organisations providing them with a wider range of services including commercial property, commercial contracts, employment and corporate advice.

Commercial Property: The team handles all aspects of property portfolio work across a range of sectors throughout the UK, and is nationally recognised for its pension property work.

Commercial & IT: Our specialist commercial contracts team has extensive experience of helping a wide variety of clients in relation to their commercial contracts, from FTSE listed companies to SMEs. Our work ranges from advising on simple terms and conditions through to drafting and negotiating complex, business critical outsourcing agreements.

Data Protection: The firm's specialist data protection solicitors offer a complete data protection service including advising on data subject access requests, data protection projects, privacy impact assessments, data protection audits, data breaches, drafting privacy notices, data processor agreements and data sharing protocols, staff training, drafting and reviewing commercial contracts in relation (whether solely or partly) to processing of data.

Employment: Advises international, national and regional employers on all aspects of employment law including TUPE, restrictive covenants and discrimination.

Family: Handle a breadth of issues including divorce, separation, cohabitation and children with particular expertise in high net worth financial provision and with cases involving farms and businesses.

Insurance Litigation: The firm has a team of experienced litigation lawyers and in addition it has a niche expertise and understanding of the insurance sector. Its team of solicitors specialise in all areas of insurance litigation ranging from small value claims right up to £multi-million cases. It acts for major European and UK insurers and brokers as well as businesses and individuals.

Litigation & Commercial Recoveries: The team specialises in company and commercial issues, general commercial recoveries, construction/ building, property and professional negligence disputes as well as health and safety and regulatory compliance.

Personal Injury: The personal injury team’s solicitors specialise in catastrophic head and spinal injury cases, accidents at work, road traffic accidents, military claims, accidents abroad, clinical negligence, and asbestos disease cases. Its lawyers recover over £10 million in compensation for its clients each year.

Private Client: The firm has a specialism in private wealth and works with high net worth individuals both onshore and offshore. The team offers superb client service and is made of individuals who have expert knowledge which they can communicate in an easy to understand fashion to clients. The team also includes a chartered accountant. The team includes those who are STEP qualified, SFE qualified and ACTAPS qualified.

Residential Property: One of the largest teams of property solicitors in the South, with expertise covering all aspects of property law including city and countryside acquisitions and disposals, and complex property financing. Recognised as a national leader outside of London for high value residential work.

Restructuring & Insolvency: Considerable experience of complex restructuring and bankruptcy work including re-structuring of professional partnerships and businesses. Acting for banks, corporate debtors, company directors and insolvency practitioners.

Practice Areas

• Agriculture & Rural Property: Marcus Thorpe
• Banking & Finance: Steve Cole
• Charities: Kirsteen Hook
• Clinical Negligence: Clare Carter
• Commercial Property: Paul Longman and Jenni Wicheard
• Corporate & Commercial: Nick Gent
• Commercial Recoveries: Elizabeth Ryall
• Employment: Kathryn Evans
• Family: Emma Wilders-Pratt
• Health & Safety/Regulatory: Sarah Wheadon
• Insurance Litigation: Kelvin Farmaner
• Intellectual Property: Laura Trapnell
• Litigation: Karl Cameron
• Occupational Disease: John Hall
• Personal Injury: John Hall
• Private Client: Mihiri Gajraj
• Residential Property: Halina Mitchell, Mark Daniels, Lucy Spollin
• Restructuring & Insolvency: Melia Hirst
• Technology: Julian Hamblin

Offices

• Bournemouth
• Poole
• Salisbury
• Southampton
• Winchester
• London