Peter Manford > Aaron & Partners LLP > Shrewsbury, England > Lawyer Profile

Peter Manford

01743 443043 peter.manford@aaronandpartners.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate & Commercial Law

Position

Partner

Career

Peter has many years’ experience advising companies and educational institutions on the contracts and legal arrangements they need in place to position them well to carry on with trading and business activity on the best obtainable terms and with their risks appropriately managed.

Prior to joining Aaron & Partners, and having studied and qualified as a solicitor in a large London firm, Peter obtained an MBA from INSEAD in France and then joined Eversheds where he was a partner for many years. Subsequently, he joined his largest client as Commercial Director, giving him the invaluable opportunity to experience matters from the client perspective before returning to private practice some years ago.

As a fluent French and German speaker, comfortable conducting meetings in those languages, Peter has worked with his clients internationally assisting them in numerous jurisdictions including France, Germany, Italy, Spain the US, India, Indonesia and Hong Kong working alongside and managing locally qualified lawyers where appropriate.

Peter believes that commercial drivers and objectives always come first and that, as important as they are, law, contracts and documents are a long way second.  He sees his role as helping the client achieve their objectives to the greatest extent possible and do so as rapidly and smoothly as possible.

Peter specialises in information technology and communications contracts.  He also has a particular interest and worked for many years for clients in the logistics and supply chain sector.

Peter also works for numerous franchise clients having been the first lawyer in the country to obtain a qualified franchise professional accreditation from the British Franchise Association where he has been an affiliate member for many years.

As current chair of the board of Warwickshire College Group which is one of the larger further education colleges in the UK, Peter also has considerable experience in the education sector having has advised numerous schools, colleges and universities in relation to contractual, spin out and joint venture arrangements over the years.

Languages

French & German