Chambers is top ranked in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 for partnership work.

Philip Jones QC is described by Legal 500 as “one of the leading silks for partnership disputes” and John Machell as “the undoubted first choice for all things partnership and LLP, particularly for big firms”. Other members of chambers recommended by the directories in this area are Frank Hinks QC, Elizabeth Jones QC, Beverly-Ann Rogers, David Blayney and Jennifer Haywood.

Members of chambers’ experience includes both contentious and non-contentious work, involving general partnerships, limited partnerships and LLPs, in a number of contexts eg professional service firms, investment vehicles, family partnerships and property partnerships. Clients include major firms of solicitors and accountants. On the non-contentious side, members have experience of mergers, demergers, LLP conversions and revision of partnership agreements. Contentious experience includes litigation and arbitration across the full spectrum of partnership disputes, in particular expulsions, team moves and restrictive covenants. Much of the work is highly confidential, hence the relatively few cases reported or mentioned on the website.

The Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (3rd edition 2009, Bloomsbury Professional) by John Whittaker and John Machell is established as the leading work on LLPs for practitioners and the courts and John Machell, Jennifer Haywood and James Mather have recently published an LLP Legislation Handbook (2010, Bloomsbury Professional).

Recent seminar topics include “How Limited is Your Liability? LLPs in Hard Times”; good faith and fiduciary duties; restrictive covenants.

To see what the legal directories have to say about us in this practice area, please click on the directories link to the left.