Leading Midlands Law firm Sydney Mitchell is Top Tier in the Legal 500 once again. It has been a superb year for the firm which also won the Birmingham Law Society Law firm of the year for 2014.
The firm has obtained recommendations in Corporate and Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Debt Recovery, Insolvency and Corporate Recovery, Employment, Clinical Negligence both claimant and defendant, Personal Injury, Family, Personal tax, trusts and probate, Health, and Commercial Property.
In particular the firm has been identified in Tier 1 for Contentious Wills and Probate and it has also seen its family team mentioned in Tier 2 with Karen Moores, Head of Family and Mauro Vinti mentioned for their work. In addition, the firm has been ranked Tier 2 for Personal Tax Trusts & Probate with lawyers Tracy Creed and Sue Capstick getting a personal mention.
Div Singh, Senior Partner, Sydney Mitchell commented: “We have received some great comments in the Legal 500 including, “Punching well above its weight; One of the strongest and busiest commercial litigation teams in Birmingham; sensible and commercially astute; commands high respect locally and very effective in international matters”.
Mr Singh added, “We have some formidable lawyers and legal teams within our firm who do some outstanding work and can compete with the best. They should all feel very proud that their hard work continues to be recognised by the Legal 500”.
Karen Moores, Head of the Family Law team, commented “The team has been described as ‘friendly yet utterly professional'. We are delighted by the comments as we pride ourselves on providing clear, pragmatic advice of the highest quality whilst remaining approachable. We see these as key qualities in helping clients who are experiencing a family separation.”
The joint heads of the Dispute Resolution team, Dean Parnell and Kam Majevadia were particularly pleased with the Legal 500 comments about their department which confirmed that their team was “one of the strongest and busiest commercial litigation teams in Birmingham” and “punched well above its weight” and once again the team finds itself in the same tier as many of the national law firms.
Leading Midlands Law firm Sydney Mitchell is ranked in 13 Legal 500 categories and has won Birmingham Law Firm of the Year 4 times in the last 7 years.
The Legal 500 Series, now in its 26th year, is widely acknowledged as the world’s largest legal referral guide. More than 250,000 corporate counsel have been surveyed and interviewed globally in the past 12 months. The Legal 500 is an independent guide, and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit.
To see all recommendations for Sydney Mitchell in the Legal 500, please click here or continue reading below.
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SYDNEY MITCHELL LLP
WEST MIDLANDS
TOP-TIER RECOMMENDATIONS
- West Midlands: Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
RECOMMENDATIONS
- West Midlands: Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- West Midlands: Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- West Midlands: Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- West Midlands: Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- West Midlands: Human resources > Employment
- West Midlands: Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- West Midlands: Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- West Midlands: Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- West Midlands: Private client > Family: Birmingham
- West Midlands: Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- West Midlands: Public sector > Health
- West Midlands: Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
WEST MIDLANDS: CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
Within Corporate and commercial: Birmingham, tier 6
Sydney Mitchell LLP’s ‘very good' practice acts for a broad range of multinational clients, including Taikisha and Sertec. John Irving and Fahmida Ismail are recommended.
WEST MIDLANDS: DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Within Commercial litigation: Birmingham, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a third tier firm,
‘Punching well above its weight', Sydney Mitchell LLP has ‘one of the strongest and busiest commercial litigation teams in Birmingham'. It is active in disputes in the financial services sector, with recent work including a multimillion-pound dispute over the alleged mis-selling of swap derivatives. Dean Parnell is ‘sensible and commercially astute', and ‘commands high respect locally'. Kamal Majevadia is ‘very effective in international matters'.
Within Debt recovery Debt recovery
WEST MIDLANDS: FINANCE
Within Insolvency and corporate recovery, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a third tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP acts for the full spectrum of parties in high-value insolvencies, with a particular focus on insolvency practitioners. West Bromwich Building Society, Grant Thornton and AIB Group are all clients. Kamal Majevadia and Leanne Schneider-Rose are recommended.
WEST MIDLANDS: HUMAN RESOURCES
Within Employment Employment
WEST MIDLANDS: INSURANCE
Within Clinical negligence: claimant, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a third tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP’s team includes Jonathan Simpson, senior litigation manager Mike Sutton and solicitor Andrew Aitchison. It is experienced in claims relating to surgical errors, and particularly in cosmetic surgery cases.
Within Clinical negligence: defendant Clinical negligence: defendant
Sydney Mitchell LLP’s Jonathan Simpson is ‘an impressive lawyer', and senior litigation practitioner Mike Sutton is ‘very professional and personable'.
WEST MIDLANDS: PRIVATE CLIENT
Within Contentious trusts and probate, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a first tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP’s contentious trusts and probate practice is led by Kamal Majevadia, who is an expert in estates which include cross-border assets. Tracy Creed and associates Sue Capstick and Richard Cooper also work in this area.
Within Family: Birmingham, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a second tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP has handled some highly complex cases involving cross-border and children law elements. The team is‘friendly yet utterly professional'. Mauro Vinti attracts particular praise, and specialises in the area of relationship breakdown.Karen Moores handles matrimonial finance matters and is experienced in matters involving substantial assets, pensions and children law issues.
Within Personal tax, trusts and probate, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a second tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP’s lawyers are ‘extremely professional but also very personable'. Associate Sue Capstick is ‘conscientious and painstaking'. Head of private client Tracy Creed also attracts praise from clients.
WEST MIDLANDS: PUBLIC SECTOR
Within Health, Sydney Mitchell LLP is a third tier firm,
Sydney Mitchell LLP advises health centres and GP practices, led by Fahmida Ismail.
WEST MIDLANDS: REAL ESTATE
Within Commercial property: Birmingham Commercial property: Birmingham
FURTHER INFORMATION ON SYDNEY MITCHELL LLP
Please choose from this list to view details of what we say about Sydney Mitchell LLP in other jurisdictions.
WEST MIDLANDS
Offices in Birmingham, Shirley, and Sheldon
Corporate and commercial : Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation: Birmingham
Dispute resolution : Debt recovery
Finance : Insolvency and corporate recovery
Insurance : Clinical negligence: claimant
Insurance : Clinical negligence: defendant
Insurance : Personal injury: claimant
Private client : Contentious trusts and probate
Private client : Family: Birmingham
About the Legal 500 Series
The Legal 500 Series, now in its 27th year, is widely acknowledged as the
world’s largest legal referral guide. More than 250,000 corporate counsel are surveyed and interviewed globally each year.
The Legal 500 is an independent guide, and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit. It is the only guide to truly reflect the needs of corporate counsel by focusing on the strength in depth of the teams (practice and associates) rather than simply list individual partners.
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