38 LAW SOUTH EAST – THE LEGAL 500
Boyes Turner: 'Knowledgeable and approachable'
Corporate & commercial
Boyes Turner continues to act for Creston, with commercial and technology team head Mark Blunden recently advising the company on social media and marketing strategies. On the corporate side, group head Robert Rice advised Guardian News & Media on the sale of Kable Direct to Progressive Digital Media; and Rachel Fitzpatrick acted for Trader Publishing on its acquisition of shares in Deltapoint Associates. Bill Gornall- King is a key contact for commercial IP and IT-related work.
recovery team, which has expertise advising clients in recruitment, IT, property management and accounting, among other areas.
Banking & finance
In 2012, the ‘very knowledgeable’ and ‘value- for-money’ team handled mid-market banking work for HSBC, Santander, Handelsbanken, Barclays and RBS. It is also active for the Bank of Ireland, particularly in the property and healthcare sectors. Its ‘good team’ is led by the ‘approachable’ Phil Smith.
business immigration and workplace mediation, and acts for Ericsson, Historic Royal Palaces and Panasonic. Michael Farrier and associate Nick Snowden are ‘excellent’. David Blomfield left the firm to form niche employment practice Draper Lang LLP in July 2012.
Associate Ruth Meyer ‘cares passionately about her clients’ welfare’.
Commercial property
Highlights for Boyes Turner’s ‘exemplary’ team, headed by Nick Carter, included advising Barratt Homes on the £2.2 million sale of a listed building. Carter is ‘very well versed in property law’. Also recommended are Derek Ching, Mark Appleton and Peter Daniel, along with associates Robert Daniel and Rachel Duncan.
IT & telecomms
Led by Mark Blunden, the three-partner team is increasingly active advising on convergent technology supply, procurement matters and joint ventures within the sector. Clients include ZBD, Dun & Bradstreet, Panasonic, and Creston. Bill Gornall- King is recommended.
Intellectual property Barry Stanton Clinical negligence Phil Smith Robert Rice Commercial litigation
Boyes Turner has strong property and IP capabilities, the latter headed by Sarah Hadland. Highly recommended associate Stephen Baker handles contentious IP and IT claims, and also professional negligence work. Team head Mike Robinson and senior solicitor Rowan Turrall, who leads the construction disputes team, are noted for their ability to ‘distil a problem down to the fundamental issues’.
Debt recovery Ally Tow leads the debt
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Insolvency & corporate recovery
The insolvency team delivers ‘practical advice’ and a ‘very competitively priced’ service. It is acting for Pentax in substantial retention of title claims against Jessops in the context of the latter’s insolvency in early 2013. Practice head Phil Smith and associate Kathryn James are ‘strongly recommended’.
Employment
The three-partner team is headed by Barry Stanton and includes Helen Goss and Michael Farrier. It is active across the full range of issues, including major HR projects,
Boyes Turner is a ‘cut above’, and fields a ‘team of superb clinical negligence solicitors’. Adrian Desmond and Susan Brown have a ‘wealth of experience’.
Personal injury
The firm has a ‘proactive, switched-on and commercially astute’ team, with the personal injury practice led by ‘tough negotiator’ Kim Smerdon, and the industrial disease side headed up by Linda Fletcher, under whom the team has built a reputation as a ‘national “go-to”’ choice for asbestos- induced disease cases.
Personal tax, trusts & probate
Led by Caroline Wallis, the team has a strong reputation in Court of Protection work for clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries.
Sarah Hadland’s team represents clients across the IT, media, publishing, medical devices, biotechnology, electronics, fashion and television sectors. In 2012 it acted for Lipsy in design right and copyright infringement proceedings against six defendants in the Patents County Court.
Media & entertainment
Mark Blunden leads the three-partner team. In 2012, the firm attracted an increased flow of instructions relating to social media platform content publication, management and monitoring.
Caroline Wallis THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – OCTOBER 2013
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