Tyr

Managing Partner: Dean Jowett

Number of partners: 14

Number of assistant solicitors: 15

Other fee-earners: 6

Contacts:

Commercial Litigation

Contact: Alistair Kennedy

Tel: 0113 512 1096

Email: [email protected]

Commercial Property

Contact: Dean Jowett

Tel: 0113 512 1091

Email: [email protected]

Regulatory

Contact: Lyn Dario

Tel: 0113 512 1043

Email: [email protected]

Employment

Contact: Matthew Yates

Tel: 0113 512 6908

Email: [email protected]

Areas of Practice:

Administrative & Public

Arbitration

Banking Litigation

Civil Fraud

Competition Litigation

Contentious Tax

Corporate

Data Protection & Information Law

Defamation & Reputation Management

Employment

Litigation

Partnership Litigation

Professional Negligence

Real Estate

Real Estate Finance

Real Estate Litigation

Regulatory

Retail

The Firm Tyr is a boutique commercial law firm which ensures that all its partners and senior fee earners have backgrounds in leading national and international practices and experience in dealing with complex commercial issues. With an office in the heart of Leeds’ business district, Tyr offers the expertise provided by leading law firms, but with a personal touch and a focus on providing consistently excellent service.

Tyr is recognised for the quality of its lawyers and its teamwork within the firm, and also working in close partnership with clients. It seeks to be innovative and progressive in its culture and approach. Clients of the firm will find that they receive energetic and accessible service and that they are offered pragmatic commercial advice and the best solutions.

Principle Areas of Work

Commercial Litigation: Tyr's Commercial Litigation team is led by partners Alistair Kennedy and Matthew Fidler. The team is made up of experienced lawyers who have worked for some of the UK’s leading litigation practices and their experience and quality enables them to provide clients with excellent service. The team typically works on complex commercial disputes that have the potential to transform their client’s business. They have particular expertise in dealing with disputes arising out of corporate transactions, shareholder disputes and director misfeasance as well as acting on competition damages actions and matters involving professional negligence and fraud. They also act on complex disputes in the financial services, accountancy and IT sectors, matters that progress by way of arbitration, and have a depth of knowledge in challenging the decisions of a range of different public bodies by way of judicial review.

Commercial Property: Tyr's Commercial Property team is led by the firm’s Managing Partner Dean Jowett who has over 15 years’ experience in the sector and spent most of that time working in leading commercial property practices in national law firms. The team’s work covers all aspects of commercial property with a particular specialism in residential and commercial development work. Clients receive a responsive and commercially minded service with the team working in partnership with them and adding value in all areas.

Regulatory: Tyr’s Regulatory team is led by partner Lyn Dario. Lyn has over 25 years’ experience, is highly regarded in the market and is able to assist with a wide range of regulatory matters including environmental compliance, CPO inquiries, judicial reviews and planning appeals, health and safety, and other business compliance matters.

Employment: Tyr’s Employment team is led by partner Matthew Yates. Matthew has substantial experience in all aspects of employment law and provides solutions and advice on a range of employment matters, including business restructuring, TUPE and collective consultation, restrictive covenants, managing trade union relations, business acquisitions and disposals, defending all types of Employment Tribunal claims and advising on executive severance (for both companies and individuals).

Recruitment: Tyr is committed to investing in recruiting the highest quality specialist lawyers. During the past year, Partners Lyn Dario (Regulatory) and Matthew Yates (Employment), and Senior Associates Marcus Watson (Commercial Property) and Rebecca Birkby (Commercial Litigation) have joined the firm from leading national and international practices.

Languages: French, German.