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Freeths LLP Offices
Spires House
5700 Oxford Business Park South
OXFORD
OX4 2RW
England
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Simon Hobbs
Work Department
Commercial litigation.
Position
Partner in charge of commercial litigation and restructuring/insolvency in Milton Keynes. Rated in both disciplines in both The Legal 500 and Chambers. On the insolvency front, Simon is a ‘highly rated’ expert on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency matters, with some 18 years’ experience. On the Commercial Litigation front, he is described by clients as ‘hard working’ with a ‘quietly confident style’. He deals with heavyweight contractual claims for major commercial clients and local SMEs, franchising, shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims and IP matters. Simon prides himself on building up trusted advisor status with his clients.
Career
Qualified 1997, Bond Dickinson LLP; associate, Burges Salmon LLP; partner, IBB Solicitors; partner, Freeths LLP 2010 to date.
Memberships
Past president of Middlesex Law Society (2010); ADR Group Accredited Mediator (2009).
Education
Cheltenham College; Royal Holloway, University of London (1993 BA (Hons)); Nottingham Law School.
Leisure
Playing football and cricket, politics and political history, military history and wet and muddy walks in the countryside.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
Freeths LLP acts on regional and nationwide dispute resolution mandates, with the ‘experienced’ team attracting praise for going the ‘extra mile’ and ‘looking for ways in which they can add value for the client’. Simon Hobbs leads the Milton Keynes-based outfit with vast experience ranging from contract, shareholder, fraud and professional negligence to energy, insolvency and IP litigation. Managing associate Tom Holden advises key clients in the hospitality and leisure sector.
South East > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Freeths LLP remains known for its particular expertise in the national drinks and hospitality sector, garnering praise for providing ‘first class legal advice alongside a deep understanding of needs and objectives as a business’. Simon Hobbs leads the team out of Milton Keynes and advises key clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx South East > Dispute resolution
- Insolvency and corporate recovery South East > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40