Litigation
UK Guide 2025 : Yorkshire
Band 2
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Provided by Freeths LLP
The Yorkshire Dispute Resolution team continues to grow revenue and headcount. During the 2020/21 financial year, the team maintained its average annual growth rate of over 10% (average over 5 year period). This growth is again set to continue with the recruitment that both offices have made, despite the challenges presented by Covid-19 and national lockdowns throughout 2021.
The team was pleased to improve its ranking in Chambers and Partners to Band 3 and to maintain its Legal 500 ranking for both Leeds (Tier 3) and Sheffield (Tier 2).
The Yorkshire-wide team now comprises 10 qualified lawyers, plus 4 other legal assistants/trainee solicitors. These numbers comprise pure commercial litigation lawyers, and exclude real estate litigation, insurance litigation, corporate defence, contentious trusts and probate and construction litigation lawyers who form part of the wider Leeds office disputes group.
The team continues to attract high quality, complex and specialist work, including:
- Technology disputes
- Group actions
- Competition litigation
- International arbitration and cross-border disputes
- Aviation industry disputes
- Shareholder, partnership and trust disputes
- Professional negligence claims
- Pensions disputes
- Banking, financial services and PFI disputes
- Procurement and other public sector disputes
Chambers Review
Freeths has a notable team assisting with a variety of commercial disputes, including litigation relating to shareholder and commercial disagreements, trust disputes, as well as IT-related disputes. It acts for a varied client roster including companies in professional services, hospitality and retail.
Work Highlights
- Freeths acted in a group action for 400 claimants against Post Office in regards to a government-funded compensation scheme.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The advice Freeths offer is always commercial, prompt and concise."
"Their commerciality, pragmatism, responsiveness, proactivity and communication are all superb."
"The depth and breadth of their team is strong. There is a good deal of skill, knowledge and experience within the team."
"The advice Freeths offer is always commercial, prompt and concise."
"Their commerciality, pragmatism, responsiveness, proactivity and communication are all superb."
"The depth and breadth of their team is strong. There is a good deal of skill, knowledge and experience within the team."
Notable Practitioners
James Berry is head of dispute resolution at Freeths in Sheffield. He is well-regarded for his commercial disputes practice and acts on a variety of matters, including shareholder disputes and breach of contract claims.
"James is very competent and has a good, careful approach to matters."
"He is a huge asset to us and is very knowledgeable and professional."