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Gateley’s experience includes high-value and complex cases, often involving intricately planned frauds with cross-border aspects. James Baird leads the team in providing legal advice and strategic guidance to prominent clients in the asset finance and leasing sector. Melanie Chell has moved to Shoosmiths.

Shoosmiths’ substantial banking litigation group provides bespoke advice to the finance sector on dispute resolution, finance recoveries, regulatory and compliance matters, and volume recoveries. Jim Taylor heads up the unsecured lending and recoveries unit, handling litigation arising under consumer credit legislation. Waine Mannix focuses on remedies for secured lending loss. Clients consistently praise the team’s ‘top service levels’.

Flint Bishop LLP is ‘proactive, responsive, cost effective, and flexible, and obtains good results’, providing ‘a good blend of “black letter law” advice balanced against commercial practicalities/business reality’. Clients include pub company Marston’s, a number of credit unions, and new gain LexisNexis.

Nelsons Solicitors Limited provides a ‘ten-out-of-ten service’ to clients requiring business to business debt recovery expertise. The ‘very professional’, eight-strong team pursues cases overseas, and is noted for its ‘above-average success rate in collection’.

Roythornes LLP advises blue-chip, utility and factoring companies, large multinationals, and accountancy firms, and has recently launched a pre-legal collections service.

Smith Partnership ‘provides an exceptional service’, reflected in new client gains such as Cadbury and its retention of prestigious existing clients for volume recoveries. Andrew Hambleton is ‘exemplary and thorough’.

‘Very professional outfit’ Wilkin Chapman counts household utilities suppliers, local authorities, debt collection agencies and insolvency practitioners among its clients. Chris Grocock and Matthew Dix are ‘experts in their fields’, and head up the five-division debt recovery group.

Actons is noted for its personalised service, and attracted work from a Beijing client for B2B recovery in addition to existing instructions from private schools, accountants and insolvency practitioners.

Hewitsons LLP offers a tailored, technologically supported service to a range of corporate and institutional clients.

Shakespeares handles recovery work for businesses and landlords locally, and was strengthened by the arrival of Marie Evans from Roythornes LLP.

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