Longmores Solicitors LLP

About Longmores

Longmores has provided trusted legal advice to private, commercial and property clients since 1819.

The firm's values and approach remain unchanged and their mission is to be the leading firm of choice in the region for clients and colleagues who value trusted relationships, deep expertise, and a culture of integrity, collaboration and excellence.

Today, senior partners Richard Gvero and Richard Horwood lead the firm with their focus on sustainable growth, workplace culture and operational excellence.  Technology, artificial intelligence, the firm's Client Promise and Responsible Business strategy are at the centre of many new plans. 

Advice and services

From advice for businesses and employers, on property matters across commercial and residential, to divorce and family matters, inheritance or moving house, they have an expert you can trust to put your interests first.

Commercial Property: all aspects of commercial property transactions including acquisition and disposal of business premises, property development agreements, promotion and option agreements (including overage), business leases and landlord and tenant advice.  The team has a specialism in dealing with rural land transactions.

Company  Commercial: acting for corporate and commercial clients across numerous industry sectors. The firm’s expertise includes business sales and purchases; mergers and acquisitions; company formations and reorganisations; joint ventures; shareholder agreements; share buybacks; share option schemes; commercial contracts; software licensing, IT service and outsourcing agreements; intellectual property; partnerships and LLP agreements.

Dispute Resolution: most aspects of commercial litigation such as director, partner or shareholder disputes (and some private litigation) are undertaken. The team has higher courts advocacy expertise and includes a mediator and an arbitrator. Specialist knowledge of insolvency matters, search orders and other emergency remedies is offered. The team has significant expertise in matters involving the recruitment industry.

Employment: the specialist team deals with all aspects of employment law, contentious and non-contentious, and provides comprehensive support for owner managed businesses and HR departments. It also specialises in post-termination restrictions and TUPE. The team has developed a niche in the recruitment and education sectors.

Family: advising clients on divorce and separation, financial settlements, pre and post nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, dissolution of civil partnerships, protective injunctions and child related disputes.  The team work with other solicitors within the firm on issues such as tax, trusts and company law and have access to a network of experts outside the legal field.  The solicitors are members of Resolution.

Inheritance Disputes: they help trustees, executors, administrators, beneficiaries, charities and organisations find fair solutions to inheritance disputes. They defend claims made against a trust or estate, handle problematic co-trustees and co-executors, challenge wills, make inheritance claims and act for charities and organisations who are owed money from an estate. Typically they seek to resolve claims through sensible negotiation or mediation, turning to litigation only as a last resort.

Private Client: acting for individuals, including those with business and agricultural interests, providing advice on inheritance tax planning, wills, trusts and powers of attorney as well as the administration of estates and charitable giving.  Within the team are solicitors specialising in issues affecting older and vulnerable people such as Court of Protection matters, care funding decisions, issues around capacity and Lifetime Trusts. All the solicitors are full members of STEP (Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners).

Property Litigation: across-the-board property law expertise with a depth and breadth of knowledge that few other firms can match. Advising on commercial, residential and rural property, the team also has a particular speciality in residential block management. Typical clients include management companies, managing agents, commercial landlords and tenants, investors, developers and rural landowners.

Residential Property: specialist residential property solicitors with broad experience dealing with all kinds of properties, ranging from listed buildings to new builds.  The team helps clients with buying and selling homes, remortgages, holiday and buy-to-let investments, disputes, shared ownership and transfer of equity.

Rural Land: acting for clients including estate owners, farmers, owner-occupiers, high net-worth individuals, investors and businesses.  The team advises on a range of rural land matters including freehold acquisitions and disposals, option and pre-emption agreements, overage clauses, commercial leases, sale and purchase of farm land, and the purchase of unregistered land.