On 20 March 2018, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published a consultation paper on Corporate Governance and Insolvency. The purpose of the consultation is to seek...
In times of high property prices and increased Stamp Duty Land Tax, more and more property owners (both occupiers and investors alike) are considering basement extensions. Whilst these can be...
We act for banks, building societies, bridging lenders, other secured lenders and third party servicers in bringing and defending claims. Often lenders incur considerable losses following the repossession and sale...
Professional advice is part and parcel of business life. It is also increasingly important in our personal lives. Whether you are providing that advice or taking it, there will inevitably...
Before negotiations can start about how finances should be shared between a divorcing couple, disclosure needs to be provided by both parties to establish what the finances are. This is...
Purchaser demand for pharmacy businesses appears to remain high despite recent government funding cuts in the sector. We have received a number of enquiries in the first quarter of 2018 from...
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Our private equity litigation team has extensive experience of working with private investment funds (including private equity, venture capital and real estate funds) to resolve their disputes quickly and discreetly....
In Redbourn Group Limited v Fairgate Developments Ltd [2018] EWHC 658 (TCC), Mr Andrew Bartlett QC has held that a claim for loss of a chance, amounting to up to £1.5m, failed in...
Stephanie joined Debenhams Ottaway in 2016 and is a legal assistant in the private client team. Stephanie works closely with Susan Glenholme, assisting Susan with looking after her clients. The sensitive...
A client inherited £2million from her mother’s estate. In order to save inheritance tax, we prepared a deed of variation of her mother’s Will. This varied her mother’s Will to...
We advised a married couple who had a second property that was being rented out. We explained the ways of gifting to them so that they were able to gift...
We dealt with the administration of an estate for a young mother with children under 18. The husband did not make a Will and as his estate was over £250,000,...
The deceased died intestate (without a Will, leaving her two children as the only persons entitled to her estate. She was living in a care home and died owing the...
We acted on behalf of the executors in the estate that comprised of a complex arrangement of assets including share portfolios, eight pensions and a substantial holding in unlisted stocks...
We helped two siblings who were appointed executors in their mother’s Will. Following a family dispute another sibling refused to act as executor. She moved into the mother’s property, refused to...
We advised three children whose father had passed away, leaving a £6million estate. The father was an accountant who ran his own business. We liaised with an accountant to obtain...
We are working with wealthy clients who have complex estate planning needs and multiple trusts structure, including a large charitable trust and significant SIPPs (self-invested personal pensions). We provide ongoing...
We helped a married couple who have a son and an autistic daughter. The daughter is under 18 but they were unsure what her needs would be as she grew...
