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Blandy & Blandy LLP ‘Excellent and welcoming’


Corporate & commercial


At Blandy & Blandy LLP, Jonathan Williamson recently advised Ecrebo on its £13.2 million investment from Sir Keith Mills, Joseph Schull and Octopus Investments and, in conjunction with practice head David Few, assisted the shareholders of Box Technologies with the company’s sale to Flytech Technology.


Licensing


The licensing team is primarily based in the Reading office and services clients in the sport, entertainment and hospitality sectors.


Commercial litigation


Blandy & Blandy excels in contractual, contested probate, property, insolvency, debt recovery and professional negligence cases under the leadership of department head and joint managing partner Philip D’Arcy.


Insolvency & corporate recovery


The firm is ‘excellent for insolvency litigation’ with an ‘overall good service, decent knowledge and good response times’.


Employment


Blandy & Blandy is ‘excellent’ in discrimination claims and was active in filing disability and race claims against employers on behalf of employees.


Charities and not-for-profit


The firm provides ‘a welcoming and friendly service’ and ‘good value for money’.


Contentious trusts & probate Blandy & Blandy has ‘a practical but rigorous approach which gets results at a proportionate cost’.


Personal tax, trusts and probate


The advice provided is ‘always excellent and practical’.


Education The firm provides ‘an excellent service’ and ‘gives the client great confidence in its capabilities’, and the team ‘has a good understanding of the needs of educational institutions’.


Commercial property


Development, secured lending and transactional work are where the ‘strong team’ shines.


Environment


The ‘commercially minded’ team is ‘well known in the region’ and is ‘particularly strong on environmental issues that intersect with planning law’.


Planning


The team works closely with its environmental law department, providing ‘prompt, clear and precise advice’ on the full spectrum of planning permission matters, including complex and controversial schemes and negotiations with planning authorities.


Property litigation


The ‘excellent, responsive and bright’ team handles the full range of property and planning litigation, including judicial review work and commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters.


Intellectual property


Blandy & Blandy’s Joanne Frears ‘brings an extremely high level of professionalism, clarity and structure’ to technology, biotech and creative-sector mandates, covering patent infringements as well as the protection and exploitation of IP rights.


Advising on £250million of development land deals in a year.


As Reading continues to grow & evolve, so do we.


Reading | Henley-on-Thames | London


BLANDY & BLANDY sol ic i tors


www.blandy.co.uk


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