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Baines Wilson Solicitors’ ‘excellent’ team is jointly headed by ‘driving force in the business’ John Wilson and Andrew Hill. Hill has ‘impressive experience and attention to detail’, and recently advised French-based company Onet on the acquisition of the entire issued shared capital of Bradtec Deacon Technologies.

In 2011 the ‘first-class’ team at Burnetts advised on various academy conversions, and experienced practice head John Noctor also advised Askham Bryan College on its acquisition of Newton Rigg Campus. Vaughan Jones is ‘an excellent commercial lawyer with broad experience’.

Timothy Sykes leads at Cartmell Shepherd, and advises both owner-managed businesses and national organisations.

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