Paul Walsh > Hill Dickinson LLP > Liverpool, England > Lawyer Profile

Hill Dickinson LLP focuses on commercial sports contract work including joint venture and partnering agreements, litigation and dispute resolution for clubs, governing bodies and athletes. Paul Walsh heads the team, specialising in commercial litigation including complex breach of contract claims, privacy breaches and selection disputes between players and clubs. Associate Jon Scally is a key team member, advising across sports related litigation matters.

Under the leadership of the ‘firm and confident‘ Fiona Parry, the team at Hill Dickinson LLP takes on the full gamut of high-value, complex commercial disputes for a varied roster of clients. Alongside shareholder, partnership, and post-M&A disputes, the group also regularly acts in environmental and breach of confidence claims, fraud cases, and freezing injunctions. Multi-jurisdictional work is frequently carried out by the firm. Nina Ferris, who counts third party funding as one of her niche areas of expertise, ‘can be relied on to undertake the largest cases‘. Paul Walsh is also recommended, as is recently arrived senior associate and former barrister Karen Hope, who joined from Hillyer McKeown in January 2022.

Hill Dickinson LLP‘s technology practice is led from the London office by Mark Weston. In the North West the key names key names are Manchester-based commercial, TMT and IP head Mark Fitzgibbon and Liverpool-based commercial litigator Paul Walsh who advises corporate clients on IT, outsourcing, technology and telecoms disputes.