Womble Bond Dickinson UK LLP

Managing Partner: Paul Stewart

UK Chair: Alexander Dickinson

Legal Counsel: Louise Norman

Number of partners: 134

Number of other fee-earners: 543

International Offices: 29 (US)

Womble Bond Dickinson is a full-service international law firm with a point of view like no other, formed in 2017 following the combination of UK firm Bond Dickinson and US firm Womble Carlyle. With a team of over 1,300 lawyers across 37 offices in the UK and US, WBD goes beyond traditional legal services. Our diverse array of experts, including technology specialists, project managers, accountants, tax advisers and people with rich histories in business, non-profits, private client work and government are all at client's fingertips.

Deeply embedded in key UK markets, connected to the global Lex Mundi network spanning 125 countries, and advising businesses from leading FTSE 350 companies to charities and local authorities across five core business groups, our clients are always able to call on the local knowledge, technical skills, and diverse viewpoints you need to tackle your most critical challenges at home and around the world.

Womble Bond Dickinson operates across five core business groups and works with clients across eight key sectors.

Banking, Restructuring, and Finance

Key Contact – Andy Stirk

With a team including 13 partners across offices including Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including consumer credit regulation and finance, creditors’ rights and directors’ duties, distressed assets and secondary debt trading, financial crime prevention, financial regulation and compliance, healthcare finance, insolvency and bankruptcy, lending, mortgage, and payments regulation, project finance, real estate finance, and securities issues.

Commercial

Key Contact – Paula Bartlett

With a team including 15 partners across all eight UK offices, the team supports clients on matters including artificial intelligence, eCommerce, media law, district heat networks, energy services agreements, hydrogen production and distribution schemes, chemicals, commercial contracts and law, franchising and concessions, manufacturing, retail, supply chain management, IP strategies and disputes, life sciences, healthcare, IP portfolio management, private finance initiatives (PFI), procurement law, and schools, academies, higher education, and universities.

Corporate Tax and Finance

Key Contact – Ben Butler

With a team including 19 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including corporate governance, corporate restructuring and reorganisations, tax, due diligence, employee benefits and ownership trusts, investment funds, joint venture and shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and LLPs, private equity and seed funding, share schemes, and venture and growth capital.

Pensions

Key Contact – Martin Poore

With a team including 4 partners across offices including Bristol, London, and Newcastle, the team supports clients on matters including buy-in/buy-out and other risk transfers, clearance applications, industry-wide pension arrangements, legislative and regulatory compliance, master trust transfers and scheme consolidation, pension aspects of sales, outsourcing, acquisitions, and restructuring, pension disputes, scheme documentation, amendments, governance, mergers, and third sector pensions.

Commercial Disputes and Regulatory

Key Contact – Richard Collins

With a team including 11 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including advertising and marketing regulation, anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition cases, banking and finance litigation, business disputes, class actions, debt recovery, eDiscovery, fiduciary duties, fraud and misrepresentation, health and safety, inquests, judicial review, procurement litigation, trading standards, and transport disputes.

Construction and Engineering

Key Contact – Simon Rowland

With a team including 5 partners across offices including Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including residential, social housing, and mixed use schemes, commercial, retail, and leisure properties, major capital and infrastructure projects, historic buildings, building safety and remediation, Construction Act/Scheme advice, risk management and disputes avoidance during projects, and insolvency support.

Employment

Key Contact – Jon Hales

With a team including 7 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including advice on HR issues, business immigration, contracts for employment, policies, and procedures, employment benefit plans and solutions, employment disputes and litigation, executive recruitment and termination, outsourcing, restructuring and redundancy, settlement agreements, trade union recognition and industrial action, whistleblowing, and working time.

Insurance Disputes

Key Contact – Sushma MacGeoch

With a team including 7 partners across offices including Bristol, London, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including art and speciality insurance, casualty litigation, commercial and insurance recoveries, cyber risk, disputes in Scottish courts, directors and officers insurance, insurance coverage, property recoveries, and professional risk disputes.

Property Disputes

Key Contact – James Rees

With a team including 7 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including access to neighbouring land, adverse possession, bankruptcy, debt relief orders, debt respite schemes, business rates, co-ownership issues, development and option agreements, disputes involving sale of land contracts, drafting tenancy agreements, licences, pitch agreements, policies and procedures, injunctions, Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals, local authority enforcement under Housing Health and Safety Rating System, Environmental Protection Act 1990 and other legislation, mineral ownership, property torts, residential asset and tenancy management, restrictive covenants, and Section 20 (Landlord and Tenant Act 1985) consultation.

Agriculture, Farms, and Estates

Key Contact – Simon Kirkup

With a team including 3 partners across offices including Bristol and Newcastle, the team supports clients on matters including advice to landowners on development deals, Agricultural Holdings Act issues, general asset management, landed estates, mineral leases, residential property, and sale, purchase, and letting of rural property and land.

Charities

Key Contact – Emma Moody

With a team including 2 partners across offices including Leeds, London, and Newcastle, the team supports clients on matters including charities, independent schools, not-for-profit organisations, philanthropy, and third sector.

Investments and Pensions

Key Contact – David Dale

With a team working across the London and Newcastle offices, the team supports clients on matters including asset allocation, employee benefits consultancy services, inheritance tax strategies, investment advice for individuals, organisations, trusts, and charities, portfolio management and review services, protection planning, and risk management services.

Private Capital

Key Contact – Neil Long

With a team including 5 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, and Plymouth, the team supports clients on matters including acting as independent administrators and/or trustees, elderly and vulnerable client services, international tax and estate planning, private wealth disputes, probate services, US/UK tax & estate planning, wealth and succession planning for business owners and entrepreneurs, and wills, trust and estate planning.

Tax and Trust Accounting

Key Contact – David Dale

With a team across offices including Bristol, Leeds,and Newcastle, the team supports clients on matters including capital tax planning, cross-border tax matters including residence and domicile, personal tax and accounting advice, compliance, mitigation, and planning, and tax and accounting advice for trustees.

Core Real Estate

Key Contact – Victoria Redman

With a team including 23 partners across all eight UK offices, the team supports clients on matters including agreement for leases, certificates of titles, commercial property, CPO/DCO transactional support, development agreements and purchases, due diligence, energy-related development and infrastructure, forward funding/purchasing, insolvency transactions, leases, options and overage, portfolio purchases, sales, and agreements, real estate finance transactions, sale and purchase agreements, and tenancy summaries.

Planning and Infrastructure

Key Contact – Jon Bower

With a team including 7 partners across offices including Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, and Plymouth, the team supports clients on matters including airports, contaminated land, compulsory purchases, DCOs, enforcement, environmental and general planning, highways, housing, infrastructure, permitted developments, regeneration, rights of way, sustainable development, town and country planning, and waste.

Residential

Key Contact – Tom Willows

With a team including 6 partners across offices including Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton, the team supports clients on matters including agreement for leases, asset and property management agreements, build to rent, certificate of titles, development purchases and agreements, due diligence, enfranchisement, forward funding, housing associations, residential leases, mixed use scheme management and structuring, mortgage rescue, options and overage, property management for tenants and landlords, residential and housing, social housing, and telecoms agreements.

Bristol

Address – 3 Temple Quay, Temple Back East, Bristol, BS1 6DZ

Edinburgh

Address – 2 Semple Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BL

Leeds

Address – 1 Whitehall Riverside, Leeds, LS1 4BN

London

Address – 4 More London Riverside, London, SE1 2AU

Newcastle

Address – Helix, The Spark, Draymans Way, Newcastle, NE4 5DE

Plymouth

Address – Ballard House, West Hoe Road, Plymouth, PL1 3AE

Southampton

Address – Oceana House, 39-49 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1GA

Teesside

Address – Wilton Centre, Lazenby, Redcar, TS10 4RF

Switchboard - 0345 415 0000

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