law – the legal 500
Penningtons Manches ‘Comprehensive expertise’
Corporate & commercial
Penningtons Manches LLP’s recent workload includes high-profile venture capital and spin-out transactions.
Commercial litigation
Rachael Barber combines ‘fantastic commercial acumen with being a ruthless litigator’ in design, trademark and copyright litigation.
Banking & finance
The firm acts primarily on the borrower side for clients in the healthcare, real estate, leisure and technology sectors, where the team advises on major project financing and transactional activity.
Employment
Penningtons Manches is experienced in the education, life sciences and technology sectors, counting Merton College, Oxford Nanopore Technologies and IVI UK as clients.
In Surrey, the firm attracts praise for its ‘breadth of experience and knowledge of employment law and strategy’.
Immigration
The ‘pragmatic and responsive’ group provides ‘a comprehensive level of expertise, a consistent quality of support’ and ‘prompt and thorough responses with just the right level of detail’.
Pensions
The ‘friendly, incisive and dependable’ Maria Riccio is particularly recommended for defined benefit plan matters and acts for trustees, employers and intermediaries, ‘demonstrating a deftness of touch when dealing with clients’.
Clinical negligence; Claimant
The ‘efficient and responsive’ clinical negligence department consists of ‘excellent lawyers who carefully consider and analyse
Herrington Carmichael LLP ‘Value for money’
Corporate & commercial
Herrington Carmichael LLP’s lawyers are ‘as sharp with legal knowledge as they are with client care’.
Employment
The firm is ‘fantastic value for money’ and has brought a high-profile claim against the defunct firm King & Wood
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Mallesons on behalf of over 200 employees, who allege that the firm failed to enter into a consultation process before making redundancies.
Family
Herrington Carmichael is ‘faultless in every area’ and impresses with its ‘strong and united team’, which routinely acts for high- net-worth individuals.
Personal tax, trusts & probate
Practice head Anthony Tahourdin has a ‘broad depth of knowledge’ and advises on setting up charitable trusts, capital gains tax issues and various other matters.
Inheritance tax planning, asset management and estate administration are all mainstays of the private client practice.
their cases’, representing clients with birth or neonatal brain injuries, amputation, cauda equina, product liability, delayed cancer diagnosis, cosmetic surgery, infection and fatal injury claims.
Personal injury: claimant
The clinical negligence team in Guildford ‘has a deep expertise and understanding of high-value and catastrophic personal injury cases’ in the fields of road traffic accidents, fatal claims as well as employers’ and public liability.
Charities and not-for-profit
The ‘approachable and knowledgeable’ team has ‘established its excellence in the not-for-profit sector’ and ‘has attracted strong support from a number of important national charities’.
Family
Matrimonial lawyers do not come much better’ than practice co-head Jane Mitchell at Penningtons Manches, where she is widely considered to be the go-to person for financial cases and disputes regarding child arrangement orders, often involving international elements.
In Surrey the firm fields ‘a highly-effective family department which has great expertise, attention to detail and looks after its clients like royalty’.
Personal tax, trusts & probate
Providing advice that is ‘clear, sound and easy to understand’, Penningtons Manches’ expertise spans estate administration, tax planning, asset protection, Court of Protection work, contentious probate and trustee matters.
Education
The firm is noted for its expertise in the higher education sector, advising a broad mix of universities and alternative providers on employment matters, commercial
law, institutional issues and disciplinary procedures.
Commercial property
The firm focuses on the education, retail, life sciences, care home and energy sectors, counting White Stuff and Somerville College as clients.
In Surrey, the firm fields a ‘very competent real estate team’ that attracts praise for its ‘prompt and professional’ service.
Environment
Penningtons Manches focuses on the waste management, contaminated land and habitat protection sectors, and regularly advises on European environmental law alongside developing UK policy.
Property litigation
The ‘pragmatic and helpful’ team provides ‘very clear guidance on the legal principles involved in each case, including how the dispute might develop, what evidence would strengthen the case and the likelihood of succeeding with objections’.
Social housing
Highlights included acting for Southern Housing Association on a number of sales at its Bow River scheme, a project comprised of 86 apartments sold by way of shared ownership.
IT & telecoms
Penningtons Manches is recommended for handling technology transactions and cross- border, hi-tech manufacturing agreements, among other matters.
Intellectual property
The team builds a ‘long-lasting, trusting and successful cooperation’ with its clients, which include Jimmy Choo, Vaccitech and IKEA.
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