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Lamport Bassitt: ’Highly respected’ team offering good value


Corporate & commercial


Lamport Bassitt’s highlights included advising Plant Fix on its sale to LNB Group, and acting for Premium Crops in a series of transactions, including a share-for-share exchange transaction and a share buyback. Experienced team head Sean Kelly remains highly respected in the market.


Licensing


Jonathan Gray leads the team, which advises clients including Beer and Bottle, Bar Ceno and Champagne Charleys.


Commercial litigation Lamport Bassitt’s team, led


by the well-respected Rick Munro, represented Aerostar Maintenance International in a longstanding claim for breach of fiduciary duty, which included arguments on quantum before the Court of Appeal. With strong insolvency and construction experience, the team also includes Neil Stewart and two associates.


Insolvency & corporate recovery


The firm delivers ’excellent service’ and ’good value’. The practice is led by the ’efficient’ Rick Munro, supported by the ’approachable’ and ’knowledgeable’ Neil Stewart. It attracted a number of instructions from accountancy


Rick Munro


firm Chantrey Vellacott DFK in 2012.


Employment


Jonathan Gray leads the team, and is well regarded for his work for trade unions and employees,


Moore Blatch: Highly-rated and a formidable force


Corporate & commercial


Moore Blatch LLP acted for clients such as Framefair and Haystack Dryers, advising the latter on an investment by NVM Private Equity. The team, headed by the highly- rated Roger Bailey, has significant automotive insurance expertise, as well as commercial IP and IT capabilities. Peter Jeffery is also recommended.


Commercial litigation


Moore Blatch recently acted in high-value disputes for clients such as Churchill Retirement and Commercial First Mortgages. Team head Paul Whitaker is supported by Claire Haverfield and Mark Osgood, who are both noted for their professional negligence expertise.


Health & safety


Managing partner David Thompson leads the team and has experience prosecuting cases for the HSE and also defending companies and individuals in prosecutions by the police and regulatory authorities.


Clinical negligence Mark Osgood www.businessmag.co.uk


Timothy Spring heads the five-partner team at Moore Blatch Resolve LLP, which has experience in claims involving psychiatric illness, cerebral palsy, infectious diseases of the brain,


Personal tax, trusts & probate


The sizeable team includes associate Kelly Greig, a Court of Protection expert noted for her ’invaluable depth of


and neurosurgery. Paula Nash joined the firm in 2012.


Personal injury


Moore Blatch Resolve has ’second- to-none’ experience, and produces ’excellent work’. Damian Horan has ’experience of litigation at every level’, and Ciaran McCabe, who was promoted to the partnership in 2012, ’punches well above his weight’ and is ’one to watch’.


Family


Team head Debra Emery and solicitor Katy Barber are ’both very focused – and if litigation occurs, they are a formidable force’.


Commercial property


Moore Blatch is ’top of the tree for land development work’, and acts for a number of regional and national housebuilders, including Barratt Homes and Churchill Retirement. The highly regarded Martin Duck ’works to tight deadlines and thrives under pressure’, and Charles Cantoni and Stephen Ball are also recommended.


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – OCTOBER 2013 Roger Bailey


knowledge and advice’. John Hatchard, Carla Brown and Joyce Bradbeer are the other key contacts.


especially at tribunal. Clients include Unite.


Personal injury


Lamport Bassitt provides a ’very good level of service’, mainly handling industrial accident and disease claims for trade union and individual clients. Gareth Wheeler’s team includes Peter Hilditch, who is ’very sensible and helpful’, and Lynn Webb, who is also recommended.


Commercial property


The team, headed by the highly experienced John Newton, has recent experience across residential development, acquisitions for leisure clients, and major property disposals. Nick Todd is a key contact.


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