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Client Testimonials

CLIENT: Lendinvest
COMPANY/FIRM: Lendinvest
TESTIMONIAL: The Real Estate Finance team at Seddons has adapted to our changing needs as our business has grown from strength to strength. We always know we can rely on them for their commercial approach to getting deals done quickly and effectively. They are a friendly team and a pleasure to work with and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.

CLIENT: Mark Posniak, Managing Director
COMPANY/FIRM: Octane Capital
TESTIMONIAL: We have been really impressed by how quickly the Real Estate Finance team at Seddons have become one of our trusted advisers. Their knowledge and pragmatic approach to getting transactions completed makes a refreshing change and we have nothing but praise for the way they respond to our exacting needs and take care of everything.

CLIENT: Nic Potter, Director
COMPANY/FIRM: Commercial Acceptances Limited
TESTIMONIAL: As our trusted adviser for over 20 years, the Real Estate Finance team at Seddons understands our business and our culture and know exactly what needs to be done to facilitate our deals and ensure we have good security while working to tight deadlines. They often exceed our expectations with their speed of response and partner-led service.

CLIENT: Octopus Property
COMPANY/FIRM: Octopus Property
TESTIMONIAL: Having worked with the Real Estate Finance team at Seddons for a number of years, our confidence in them continues to grow. We are constantly impressed with their ability to assist in getting transactions completed swiftly and with the greatest care. A pleasure to work with, we see them as an extension of our own team.

CLIENT: Dorian Nineberg, Director
COMPANY/FIRM: FBSE Finance Ltd
TESTIMONIAL: Adam and his Real Estate Finance team at Seddons have acted for us for a number of years. They understand the nature of our business and we trust them to come up with creative solutions to ensure that our deals are completed quickly without compromising our security. They are always available and on hand to give commercial and pragmatic advice.

CLIENT: Guy Pink, Former CEO and Executive Head of HR
COMPANY/FIRM: Addaction
TESTIMONIAL: I have worked with Helen for many years and her team at Seddons have been instrumental in supporting the HR directorate at Addaction with advice that as you would expect, is legally compliant but also immensely practical. Helen has a real grasp of our organisation’s culture and the context in which decisions are taken. Her advice has enabled us to successfully resolve complex ER issues without recourse to tribunal and has saved us significantly both in financial terms but also in staff time. She is used extensively by the HR team to support their decision making and she is now simply part of the team, in a way that we couldn’t imagine how we managed without her.

CLIENT: Lisa Mack, Director of People
COMPANY/FIRM: Tate Enterprises and Tate Catering
TESTIMONIAL: I have worked with Helen for a number of years and have consistently enjoyed exemplary service from everyone in the employment team at Seddons. Helen always responds quickly to my queries and provides excellent advice with simple and practical solutions. I have complete confidence in Helen; I am constantly impressed by her efficiency, attention to detail and quality of work. Helen and the team are a pleasure to work with, providing outstanding support and I look forward to continuing working together in the future.”

CLIENT: Paul Woolf, CEO
COMPANY/FIRM: Strongroom Limited and Kings Theatre Trust Limited
TESTIMONIAL: We found ourselves in a very awkward HR situation. Helen stepped in immediately with very clear and robust advice. She was meticulous throughout the process drafting complex letters with great care and thought. On top of that Helen was very supportive of us through what was a difficult situation for us personally and business wise.

Notable Cases

1. Seddons has advised Maslow Global Limited, a leading provider of real estate development finance, and its management team on the sale by the management team of a significant minority interest to Arrow Global Limited, a leading European investor and alternative asset manager in credit and real estate.
2. Seddons has acted in the defence of a substantial claim (£50 million plus) and freezing injunction commenced by a large body of claimants
3. Seddons has acted for the Claimants in a dispute over a multi-million property portfolio involving allegations of dishonesty, negligence and breach of director’s duties agreeing heads of terms for a substantial settlement.
4. Seddons has acted for the sole beneficiary of a deceased testator with a circa £3 million estate whose relatives (those entitled on an intestacy) asserted undue influence on the part of our client in the preparation of the will. The case settled at a hard-fought mediation with our client retaining the lion’s share of the estate.
5. Seddons has acted for the defendant (a Liechtenstein Anstalt) whose founder, the claimant’s elder son, faced proceedings by his father, through his mother as the litigation friend, to set aside the transfer to the Anstalt of some £2.5 million of London property based on incapacity and undue influence. Our client was prepared to return the properties subject to their being protected from his younger brother who, our client alleged, was controlling the proceedings for his own financial benefit. This necessitated an application to remove the claimant’s litigation friend and replace her with an independent one. The application failed at first instance but succeeded on appeal. The underlying proceedings immediately settled.