Simon Thomas > The Wilkes Partnership > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile

The Wilkes Partnership
41 CHURCH STREET
BIRMINGHAM
B3 2RT
England

Work Department

Commercial Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Career

Simon is a Partner in the firms Commercial Dispute Resolution team, who has in excess of 20 years of experience helping clients to resolve and prevent a wide range of business and contract disputes. 

His approach is to identify his clients’ objectives at an early stage, and give straight-forward, plain English advice on how to achieve them. A tenacious litigator when need be, but with extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution options such as mediation, adjudication and arbitration when appropriate.

Simon also guides clients through a diverse range of disputes such as the sale of goods, supply chain issues, services contracts and disputed contract terms across a wide variety of sectors such as IT, automotive, wholesale and retail.  Simon also regularly advises the firms construction clients which include some of the UK’s largest distributors of building materials.

Memberships

Birmingham Law Society Civil Litigation Committee

Lawyer Rankings

West Midlands > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham

The Wilkes Partnership‘s main focus is on business-to-business disputes such as manufacturing claims, sale of goods matters, and construction disputes; The team also handles shareholder and director disputes. Practice head Simon Thomas has notable expertise in sale of goods, supply of services and business-to-business supply chain disputes; while Gavin Evans has a broad commercial litigation practice where he routinely advises on complex director and shareholder matters.