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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


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.


Coffin Mew: Outstanding and technically astute Corporate & commercial


Coffin Mew LLP has recently handled work for Tructyre Fleet Management and Hungryhouse. com, and boosted its commercial IP and IT capabilities with the recruitment of Paul Page-Tickell in September 2012. Team head Amanda Brockwell and Nick Gross are the key corporate contacts.


Commercial litigation


Coffin Mew’s ’outstanding’ team is headed by the recommended Tim Gleeson, whose recent highlights include successfully defending a breach of exclusive distribution claim for a life sciences client.


Insolvency & corporate recovery


The firm’s ’technically astute, client-focused and competitively priced’ practice handles a mix of corporate and personal insolvency


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work, and recently advised Kingston Smith and Partners on the administration of Shoon, an operator of 23 shoe retail outlets in England. It also assisted BRI Business Recovery & Insolvency on an estate bankruptcy. Malcolm Niekirk ’provides the right advice quickly’.


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Recent work includes defending unfair dismissal claims and advising on a redundancy programme. Portsmouth-based team head Dorlee Monschau and Southampton-based Darren Tibble are the key contacts.


Family


Coffin Mew’s specialisms span collaborative law, prenuptial agreements and armed forces related work. Senior associate and team head Sally Pike attracts praise from peers, with Chris Upfield another key contact.


Commercial property


Coffin Mew’s ’exceptional’ six- partner group is led by Karen Webb and has impressive expertise in development and pension property investment, as well as the healthcare sector. Southampton team head Victoria Walker is ’fantastic’, and Peter Fellows also attracts praise from clients.


Social housing


In June 2013, Capsticks Solicitors LLP acquired the Southampton- based social housing practice of Coffin Mew, a large and highly rated team of ’specialists’.


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


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