Field Seymour Parkes: ‘Hardworking and highly recommended’
Corporate & commercial
Field Seymour Parkes LLP’s strong local credentials were demonstrated when it advised the management team of Guardian Media Group Property Services, backed by Reading-based Lloyds Development Capital, on local issues relating to its MBO of the group. The team added significant technology venture capital expertise in 2013 with the hire of Barry Maytum, formerly of nabarro. Mary Pears and senior partner Ian Wood-Smith are key contacts, and team head Penelope Garden is ‘very impressive – completely on top of any issue that arises’.
Corporate tax
Field Seymour Parkes provides advice on all areas of corporate tax, including VAT and stamp duty. Department head Philippa Roles specialises in UK and cross-border
taxation, including property tax matters.
Licensing
The firm’s head of regulatory and licensing Tim Child is ‘hardworking’ and ‘highly recommended’; his handling of cases is ‘first class’ and he has ‘excellent judgement’. Highlights for the team included advising Reading FC on the relaxation of alcohol licensing restrictions in the executive boxes at the Madejski Stadium.
Commercial litigation
The team attracts praise for its ‘excellent strength in depth’, and is led by the ‘practical and exceptionally clever’ Bill Dixon. Dixon’s track record includes acting in the Maxwell and Equitable Life cases, and in 2013 he remained active in high-value, complex disputes, often of a cross-border nature. Joe Lott leads on property
Debt recovery
Field Seymour Parkes acts for clients in the professional services, financial services and education sectors. Joe Lott is recommended.
Employment
The firm has been advising a major client in relation to an HMRC investigation into its designation of self-employed contractors. Team head Jacqueline McDermott, Rachel Tozer and Philippa Roles, an expert in tax-effective employee remuneration, are the main contacts.
Charities and not-for-profit
Sue Vandersteen specialises in constitutional, governance, and structuring matters for charities.
Personal tax, trusts & probate
Sue Vandersteen’s team includes specialist trust manager Christine Moulden. It has been acting in several multi-million-pound matters, including advising on a £20 million agricultural estate with associated capital gains tax and property division elements. Rob Crowther was promoted to partner in April 2014.
Commercial property
Marcus Francis leads the four- partner team at Field Seymour Parkes, whose recent highlights include advising Sackville Properties on the disposal of a £9m single-let investment building. James Burgess, Michael Higgin and Dean Bickford are the other main contacts.
disputes, and the firm recently recruited associate Tom Maple, who specialises in automotive matters.
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The firm’s ‘client care is second to none’. Team head Sue Baker has ‘a professional and caring style’, and Michelle Mann is ‘a supreme tactician’. Senior associate James Davies ‘combines encyclopaedic knowledge of the law with real tenacity’.
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