Profile
Based in Bournemouth on the UK's South Coast, Lester Aldridge provides a straightforward approach to our legal services provision. Clients of LA rely on our knowledge and experience to give them the advice which has made LA a key regional player. Underpinning LA’s success has been the recruitment of outstanding lawyers, who complement our existing teams and are expanding our highly successful niche practice areas.
Practice Overview
Asset Finance
- Asset Finance/Motor Finance
- Consumer Credit
- Fraud
- Company disputes
- Recoveries
Banking Litigation
- Business and commercial banking issues
- Enforcement strategies, particularly the enforcement of corporate and personal guarantees and security realisation with enforcement of charges over residential and commercial properties, life policies, deposits, shares and livestock comprising the mainstay of the litigation work. An example of regular defended work includes disputes over matters such as interest rates, undue influence, overriding interests and fraud.
- Conduct of LPA receiverships
- Recovery of unsecured facilities and shortfalls
- Enforcement of corporate and personal guarantees
- Professional negligence claims
- Fraud investigations in the context of mortgages, discounting facilities and insolvencies, including litigation to adjust fraudulent transactions and recover assets that have been wrongly removed
- Actions to adjust fraudulent transactions and actions against delinquent directors
Buying and Selling Property
- Sale and Purchase of Property
- Home Information Packs
- Re-mortgage
- Transfers between joint owners
- Property Gifts
- Granting rights
Care & Care homes
Charities (Commercial)
- Charitable trust deeds
- Application for registration to the Charity Commission
- Formation of incorporated and unincorporated charities
- Creation, administration and variation of charitable trusts
- Drafting and review of contracts and partnership arrangements
- Charity Commission compliance
- Regulation by statutory authorities
- Corporate governance and trustee remuneration
- Tax issues
- Mergers and de-mergers
- Employment matters
- Trading subsidiaries and funding issues
- Acquisition, disposal, letting and development of property
- Litigation, including legacy disputes, dealing with problem executors, contentious trust and probate issues
- Administration of estates of varying size and complexity
- Charity Commission investigations and reviews
Charities (Private)
- Charitable trust deeds
- Application for registration to the Charity Commission
- Formation of incorporated and unincorporated charities
- Creation, administration and variation of charitable trusts
- Drafting and review of contracts and partnership arrangements
- Charity Commission compliance
- Regulation by statutory authorities
- Corporate governance and trustee remuneration
- Tax issues
- Mergers and de-mergers
- Employment matters
- Trading subsidiaries and funding issues
- Acquisition, disposal, letting and development of property
- Litigation, including legacy disputes, dealing with problem executors, contentious trust and probate issues
- Administration of estates of varying size and complexity
- Charity Commission investigations and reviews
Construction
- Contentious
- Non-Contentious
Corporate and Commercial
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Commercial Agreements
- EU Competition
- Partnerships
- Shareholder Disputes
Debt Recovery (LA Fast Track)
- Telecoms and utilities
- Credit insurance
- Banking
- Finance, HP and leasing (recovery of assets and further liability claims)
- Local authorities and housing associations
- Newspaper publishing, advertising and the media
- Construction and aggregates industry
- The waste and recycling industry
Dispute Resolution
- Contract disputes
- Competition law
- Intellectual property disputes
- Property litigation
- Construction disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Insurance-related claims
- Professional negligence
- Health and safety law
- Marine related matters
- Product liability
- Emergency injunctive relief
- Information technology and data protection matters
Employment (Commercial)
- Drafting
-Service agreements
-Consultants’ agreements
-Claims to the employment tribunal
Advising on
-Compromise agreements for departing employees
-Redundancy
-Disciplinary action
-Grievance procedures
-Unfair dismissal (including constructive unfair dismissal)
-Post-termination restrictions
-Discrimination and harassment
-Wages claims
-Immigration and work permits
Representing you in
-Any UK employment tribunal
-ACAS or other mediation
-High Court cases (including injunctions)
-Appeals to the EAT and other appeal courts
Negotiating
-Termination deals
-Settlements of tribunal claims
Employment (Private Client)
Drafting
-Service agreements
-Consultants' agreements
-Claims to the employment tribunal
Advising on
-Compromise agreements for departing employees
-Redundancy
-Disciplinary action
-Grievance procedures
-Unfair dismissal (including constructive unfair dismissal)
-Post-termination restrictions
-Discrimination and harassment
-Wages claims
-Immigration and work permits
Representing you in
-Any UK employment tribunal
-ACAS or other mediation
-High Court cases (including injunctions)
-Appeals to the EAT and other appeal courts
Negotiating
-Termination deals
-Settlements of tribunal claims
Family
-Divorce
-Financial orders on divorce
-Separation arrangements
-Disputes involving children
-Cohabitation, prenuptial and civil partnership agreements
-Pension and business issues
-Disagreements between unmarried (including same sex) partners about children and money
-Mediation
-Collaborative law
-Same sex couples
-Fertility
Fast Track Property
Fertility
Insolvency & Business Recovery
- Investigations
- Receiverships
- Liquidations
- Administrations
Intellectual Property
- Protecting and registering IP rights
- Licensing and assignment of IP, including IP issues in wider corporate deals
- IP infringement claims, including emergency injunctive remedies
- Disputes over ownership, licensing and misuse of IP rights
- Media disputes, including defamation
- Trade mark and design registrations (UK and EC)
- Funding technology companies (angels, VCs, banks, etc)
- Domain name disputes and other online issues (including e-commerce)
- Publishing agreements
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Competition aspects of IP
- Agency/supervision services for search orders at Southampton docks
International (Private Client)
- Probate Services
- Overseas Probate Service
- Offshore Trusts
LA Marine
- Shipping & Trade
- Yachts
Medical Practices
- Practice agreements
- Partners joining or leaving
- Partnership disputes
- Property acquisition and development
- Healthcare regulations
- Personal tax and succession planning
- Staffing issues
- Medical practice audit of partnership documents
Personal Injury
Planning and Environment
Projects and PFI
Property Litigation
- All aspects of enforcement including rent recovery, service charge arrears, injunctive relief, enforcement and nuisance covenants, possession and forfeiture
- Dilapidations issues
- Lease renewal applications pursuant to the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
- Rent reviews
- Leasehold Valuation Tribunal work eg challenges to the reasonableness of service charges
- All property litigation including trespass, nuisance claims, specific performance, easements and boundary disputes.
Real Estate
- Buying and selling freehold and leasehold properties
- Negotiating new leases on behalf of the occupier
- Acting for businesses in subletting space no longer required by them
- Advising on and implementing property management decisions
Same Sex Couples
Tax Trusts and Wills
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