Thrings LLP

Thrings’ focus on enabling growth and success for its clients, contacts and staff stems from its outstanding track record to provide exceptional legal advice and foster collaborative long-term relationships with a one-firm approach across its seven offices in London, Bristol, Bath, Swindon, Hampshire and the Wye Valley.

Thrings’ highly experienced and industry-renowned agriculture team has been providing specialist advice to those involved in farming and rural affairs for decades. The team has strong connections throughout the agriculture sector across the whole of the UK and is proud to be on the NFU legal panel in more counties than any other firm, as well as providing free legal advice to readers of Farmers Weekly readers through its Business Clinic feature. The team acts for landed estates that are household names and has a track record of winning large-scale agricultural litigation cases in the fields of farm partnership, ownership and inheritance disputes, tenancy disputes and rural planning. This team has also been instrumental in forcing the Government to change agricultural laws.

Within the banking and finance sector, the firm’s lawyers advise established and challenger banks, as well as institutional investors. They are adept at working with specialists across the firm creating a multidisciplined approach which is especially valuable in streamlining the due diligence process for investors.

Thrings’ reputation as a leading commercial law firm has been achieved, in part, as a result of providing legal and strategic advice to SMEs, corporates and multinationals, including Coty, Santander, HSBC, Lovehoney, MAN Truck & Bus Company and TrueSpeed. Thrings’ Growth Hub works alongside these and family-owned businesses of all sizes to ensure maximum future growth and success.

Thrings has been immersed in the strategic land and real estate development sector for many years, working with landowners, land developers and promoters, as well as specialist planning, environment and construction teams. Thrings’ team of residential property development, commercial development and strategic land experts regularly act for all sides, meaning clients receive value and clarity at every stage of the development process, from site acquisition to delivery and disposal.

In line with its strategy of guiding clients safely through complicated decisions that preserve their business interests, Thrings has built up a strong private client offering. The private client team includes succession and tax specialists with a commercial background, meaning the complex needs of business clients as well as individuals continue to be well provided for. Clients value this fully integrated, cross-discipline approach, rather than the more traditional separation of commercial and private client affairs.

Managing Partner: Simon Holdsworth

Senior Partner: Jonathan Payne

Number of UK partners: 52

Number of other UK fee-earners: 120

Key contacts:

Agriculture: Duncan Sigournay

Agriculture Litigation: Russell Reeves and Robert James

Banking & Finance: Mike Tomlin

Business Growth: Ramona Derbyshire

Clean Energy: Natalia Sokolov

Commercial: Kate Westbrook

Construction: Natalia Sokolov

Contentious Probate: Emily Prout

Corporate: John Davies and Elaine Meyrick

Commercial Litigation: Alastair Govier

Development of Land: Rosalyn Trotman

Dispute Resolution: Ramona Derbyshire and Alastair Govier

Employment: Kerrie Hunt

Family: Matthew Kellow and Sally Pike

Insolvency: Mark Cullingford

Intellectual Property: Megan Jefferies

Planning and Environment: Rosalyn Trotman and Fred Quartermain

Private Client/Succession & Tax: Samantha Doherty and Ben Coulson

Real Estate: Ben Jones, Robert Barnes and Alex Pinhey

Real Estate Litigation: Michael Tatters

Residential property: Alice Altounyan and Jayne Kemsley