Commercial Services Team

John Wearing
heads the Business Law department. John has attracted an extensive portfolio of high quality commercial clients. He has particular expertise in the fields of community and health care, the commercial aspects of charitable activity and he has a special interest in ecclesiastical law. His work is effectively split between mainstream company commercial and public sector. The sphere of his advice ranges from getting the formula for starting up a business right to drafting a variety of commercial contracts. He also has expertise in corporate finance matters as well as copyright and intellectual property. Please contact John on +44 (0)121 212 7402 or email john.wearing@anthonycollins.com

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Andrew Lancaster
heads the Dispute Resolution department. He has been involved in a very substantial shareholders dispute on behalf of a major clothing retailer and has acted on behalf of a major retail chain in a fraud investigation in pursuit of funds. He is an accredited mediator for Cedr and is able to offer clients a range of mediation services. He is also an expert in Construction Law and advises numerous clients operating in the social housing sector, including advice on procurement, adjudication and arbitration. Please contact Andrew on +44 (0)121 212 7421 or email andrew.lancaster@anthonycollins.com

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Gregor Moss
heads the Commercial Property department and has wide experience of all aspects of commercial property, particularly investments, developments, secured lending and licensed premises. He continues to attract high profile work through his excellent links with both large commercial enterprises and the public sector. He is commended by clients for his unique ability to articulate clear business messages to them through the often complex haze of commercial property law. He has recently been involved in major property refinancing work for a housing association, as well as a number of regeneration schemes throughout the country. Please contact Gregor on +44 (0)121 212 7465 or email greg.moss@anthonycollins.com

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Stephen Dalling
heads the Employment team and has almost 20 years experience in advising both employers and employees on employment law and practice. He is attracting a number of high profile clients, particularly in the not-for- profit sector, advising a wide range of organisations upon employment contracts, personnel policies and procedures including equal opportunities policies, staff restructuring, transfer of undertakings, capability and conduct issues and staff grievances. . He represents clients before employment tribunals in actions concerning dismissal, redundancy and unlawful discrimination. He is a regular seminar speaker on personnel issues. Please contact Stephen on +44 (0)121 212 7429 or email stephen.dalling@anthonycollins.com

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Nick Carter
specialises in Commercial Dispute Resolution with a particular emphasis on professional negligence, banking and insolvency. He is on the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors' panel for claimants wishing to make claims against solicitors and has had several major successes recently, notably a £250,000 settlement and a £350,000 award following a five day trial in actions against solicitors he is very well regarded in his fields. Please contact Nick on +44 (0)121 212 7440 or email nick.carter@anthonycollins.com

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Deborah Shaw
has over 15 years' experience in licensing law and is one of the West Midlands leading licensing lawyers. Deborah practices exclusively in the area of liquor, betting, gaming, theatre and late night entertainment licences. Deborah represented Raymond Blanc in the opening of his acclaimed restaurant, Le Petit Blanc, in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. Clients also include Birmingham Hippodrome and Thinktank at Millennium Point. Deborah is engaged as a licensing specialist by a number of firms of solicitors in relation to acquisitions of leisure related businesses. Deborah appears as advocate in Magistrates' Courts and before local authorities in obtaining new liquor and entertainment licences for bars, restaurants and night clubs, with a very high success rate, particularly in Birmingham. She has also acted for trade objectors in Birmingham and elsewhere. Her interests include mountaineering, fell walking, films, theatre and travel when time and family permit. Please contact Deborah on +44 (0)121 212 7435 or email deborah.shaw@anthonycollins.com

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Simon Hogan
has over 19 years experience working in commercial property. Working as an acquisition solicitor he has regularly dealt with multi million pound transactions or in collaboration with other developers development sites for eight figure sums. He also has expertise in dealing with site assemblies and strategic land projects. Recent property transactions have involved the residential developments at St David Hospital, Cardiff and at East Glamorgan and the Isis docklands flats development project in Cardiff. Other major residential developments have included those at Groundwell West, Downend Bristol, Portbury Park Portishead, Langstone, Cefyn Hendy, Keynsham, Newport and Davigdor Road Brighton as well as smaller residential developments in connection with the provision of affordable housing for Registered Social Landlords include sites at Bognor Regis, Trowbridge and Bristol. Other work in which Simon has recently been involved has been in connection with the Enterprise Centre and other major residential sites in Bradford as well as being responsible for the property aspects relating to a major residential care home transaction throughout the UK and other significant development agreements. Please contact Simon on +44 (0)121 212 7489 or email simon.hogan@anthonycollins.com

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Ruth Grinbergs
joined the Commercial Property Department of Anthony Collins Solicitors in March 2003, having previously been a partner with the London firm of Howard Kennedy. For Ruth, this was a return to her Midland origins, as she grew up near Walsall and qualified as a solicitor with the National Coal Board in Stoke on Trent. Having spent some time working as an in-house lawyer in the energy industry (including an involvement in the Sizewell B nuclear power station inquiry), she moved into private practice with the City firm of Norton Rose and has considerable experience in a wide range of commercial property work. In particular, she does work for a number of restaurateurs, including a plc with several hundred restaurants around the country. She was one of the founding members of the UK Environmental Law Association of which she was, for a number of years, its treasurer. Please contact Ruth on +44 (0)121 212 7470 or email ruth.grinbergs@anthonycollins.com

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Hilary Harrison
is head of the commercial property dispute team. Hilary has extensive experience in acting for both landlords and commercial tenants in complex commercial property disputes. Her areas of expertise include rent and service charge recoveries, rent review proceedings, dilapidation claims, enforcement of covenants, boundary disputes and eviction of squatters and trespassers. Hilary has experience of resolving disputes through County Court and High Court proceedings as well as arbitration and formal mediation. Hilary is a member of the Property Litigation Association. Please contact Hilary on +44 (0)121 212 7440 or email hilary.harrison@anthonycollins.com

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Private Client Team

Ian McQuay
joined the practice in 1981. He is a senior partner and concentrates on Family Law, especially divorce and related areas such as financial provision and children. He is a member of the Law Society's Family Law Panel. Please contact Ian on +44 (0)121 212 7416 or email ian.mcquay@anthonycollins.com

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Tony Hall
heads the personal injury and clinical negligence department. Having previous experience of acting for Health Authority defendants, he acts for claimants in all aspects of medical and personal injury litigation but especially obstetric, GP, cancer misdiagnosis, orthopaedic and brain damage claims. He is a member of the Law Society Medical Negligence Panel, a referral panel solicitor for Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (AVMA), the Law Society Personal Injury Panel, the Medical Negligence Special Interest Group of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, the Clinical Negligence Specialist Member of Legal Aid Board Committee and a member of the Birmingham Medico-Legal Society. He was one of the first specialist solicitors to mediate successfully a clinical negligence claim to a conclusion resulting in an award of compensation, costs and a formal apology. Tony has excellent technical legal knowledge and often will take on and win cases which others consider too risky. He is renowned for his excellent client care manner, quickly gaining the trust of clients. Please contact Tony on +44 (0)121 212 7476 or email tony.hall@anthonycollins.com

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Elizabeth Wyatt
specialises in law relating to the family including divorce and financial provision particularly where there are substantial assets and income. She also advises the mentally ill and their families. She is a member of the Law Society's Family Law and Mental Health Panels as well as a regional committee member of the Solicitors Family Law Association. Please contact Elizabeth on +44 (0)121 212 7417 or email elizabeth.wyatt@anthonycollins.com

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Alan Bean
joined Anthony Collins Solicitors in 2000; he has over 27 years post qualification experience of working as a lawyer in private practice, 18 as a solicitor and nine as a barrister. He is a public law specialist in the area of law as it relates to children, and has very extensive advocacy experience at all levels including personal conduct of lengthy hearings in the High Court, both as a solicitor and barrister. He was legal advisor to Barnardos Midlands Adoption panel for some years before transferring to the Bar. He has been a member of the Law Society's Children Panel since 1985, and is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children and the Solicitors Family Law Association. He is a trustee of a regional post-adoption service and is the convenor of the Birmingham Childcare Lawyers Group. Please contact Alan on +44 (0)121 212 7411 or email alan.bean@anthonycollins.com

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Transformation Team

Romaine Thompson
is a senior partner and heads the Charity Law department. She provides specialist legal services to numerous charities and churches throughout the UK. Her department advises charities on all legal aspects of their activities such as formation and registration, compliance with Charity Commission requirements, restructuring, fundraising, trustee training, advice on employment law, copyright and property management issues. Romaine is a member of the Charity Law Association and the Ecclesiastical Law Society. She has written articles for professional journals and regularly lectures on charity law issues. Please contact Romaine on +44 (0)121 212 7401 or email romaine.thompson@anthonycollins.com

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Stephen Belling
specialises in Community Regeneration work. He concentrates on the law needed to improve social housing and communities for local residents, in particular Local Government Law and the European dimension of housing. He leads projects on several stock transfers of local authority housing to RSLs and on other redevelopments and regeneration projects. Stephen has recently returned to the firm after two years secondment to the Kings Norton 3 Estates New Deal for the Communities Project as Programme Manager. Please contact Stephen on +44 (0)121 212 7445 or email stephen.belling@anthonycollins.com.

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Mark Cook
advises principally upon service delivery, strategic procurements, facilities management and the private finance initiative. He is widely regarded as one of the most innovative lawyers in his specialist fields and is a contributor to the Butterworths Best Value Manual. He has had considerable involvement with EC public procurement, UK tendering legislation and Best Value. He is married with 2 children and his leisure interests include world music, real ale, football and walking. Please contact Mark on +44 (0)121 212 7472 or email mark.cook@anthonycollins.com

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Simon Ramshaw
is a Partner in the Constitutional and Charities Department which provides a wide range of legal services to over 100 charity clients. He has extensive experience in a number of different legal disciplines including corporate and commercial law, reconstructions and pensions. Simon has an enviable reputation for innovation. By way of example he was at the forefront of developing one of the UK's first pre-need financial plans, a project involving extensive negotiations with Help the Aged, one of the plan's sponsors. In addition to his expertise as a lawyer, Simon has extensive experience acting as a professional trustee. This gives him a unique insight into the practical issues and challenges facing trustees in carrying out their duties. Simon is a regular public speaker and in addition has designed and delivered a number of innovative, tailor-made Trustee training courses. Please contact Simon on +44 (0)121 212 7431 or email simon.ramshaw@anthonycollins.com

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Peter Hubbard
leads the housing management team, providing specialist advice to registered social landlords, local authorities and other social housing organisations. He advises on landlord and tenant law and regulatory guidance issued by the Housing Corporation. Peter drafts all types of occupancy agreements and provides specialist advice on housing stock transfers, service charges and rent reviews. He also regularly leads training sessions on housing management issues. Peter is married and enjoys playing hockey and walking. Please contact Peter on +44 (0)121 212 7456 or email peter.hubbard@anthonycollins.com

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Helen Tucker
heads up our housing litigation and training services advising on the whole spectrum of housing management problems that can lead to litigation. Helen leads a large team litigating for social landlords across the country. Helen has particular experience in complex anti-social behaviour cases, and has been involved in several leading Court of Appeal cases on the Human Rights Act, the effect of stock transfer and disability discrimination as well as group actions for ASBOs and for possession. She provides in depth practical training for clients on many litigation issues, including anti-social behaviour, starter tenancies and general housing management subjects and also drafts and reviews all housing management policies and procedures. Please contact Helen on 0121 212 7459 or email helen.tucker@anthonycollins.com

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Jonathan Cox
joined the firm in 1997. He has advised some of the largest housing associations in the country on property and management matters including dealing with multi tenure estates, drafting tenancy agreements, procedures and policies. He has lectured and published articles on many different aspects of housing law, and has recently written a guide for the National Housing Federation (shortly to be published). Jonathan has a wide interest in the Housing field, as evidenced in his Post-Graduate Diploma in Housing Studies. Please contact Jonathan on +44 (0)121 212 7453 or email jonathan.cox@anthonycollins.com

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Andrew Millross
specialises in working for registered social landlords and local authorities. He has a detailed knowledge and understanding of vires, constitutional and governance issues affecting local authorities, registered social landlords, public sector bodies, charities and voluntary bodies working with them. He also deals with non-contentious construction and procurement issues for local authorities, new deal for communities clients, registered social landlords and private clients. Andrew has recently completed a number of public private partnership joint venture projects involving local authorities, health authorities and registered social landlords. He is also advising on a number of housing private finance initiative projects. Andrew has responded on behalf of the firm on a number of ODPM, Housing Corporation and Charity Commission consultations. He has written articles and spoken at conferences on the EU procurement rules and on local authority externalisation projects. Please contact Andrew on +44 (0)121 212 7473 or email andrew.millross@anthonycollins.com

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