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Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP Offices

Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP
3 COACH HOUSE YARD
HAMPSTEAD HIGH STREET
LONDON
NW3 1QF
England
Visit website 020 7431 1912 020 7794 7485

Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings

Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market Tier 6

With ‘the expertise to go head to head with the very biggest firms', Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP's compact, four-member team acts for SMEs and HNW individuals in contractual, shareholder, partnership,  joint venture, and banking and finance-related disputes. It is also experienced in classic and supercar litigation, along with corporate control-related matters, insolvency litigation, and cross-border work. Elected as senior partner in April 2024, practice head Mark Summerfield is ‘an outstanding commercial litigator’.

Practice head(s):

Mark Summerfield

Testimonials

‘The high level of communication and the advice received are first class.’

‘The way in which costs are presented, both in advance and when invoiced, make them very easy to understand and process accordingly.’

‘Immediate knowledge and understanding of cases. The advice given is extremely helpful.’

‘A small and focused team where the client is not lost within a larger team, and where the work is handled by experienced and senior individuals.’

‘Outstanding value for money and they have the expertise to go head to head with the very biggest firms.’

‘Mark Summerfield is a safe pair of hands. Pragmatic and cool as a cucumber, even when under pressure. His instincts (based upon his vast experience) are always right.’

‘Mark Summerfield is an experienced litigation partner who attends to the mandate himself, and is readily contactable and available.’

‘Mark Summerfield is an outstanding commercial litigator with a great sense of how to get the client the outcome it wants.’

Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP > Firm Profile

Based in Hampstead, Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP continues to enjoy a strong reputation in all of its practice areas.

The firm: The practice was founded by Sir Harry Solomon in the 1970s.

The reputation of the practice extends well beyond its north London base and clients include listed and international companies, as well as smaller businesses and individuals.

The firm offers a truly personal service to all of its clients. It prides itself on being highly commercial and forward-thinking. Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP is the London member of Balms Group International and receives work on a regular basis from around the world.

Types of work undertaken: The commercial property team deals on a regular basis with high-value and complex transactions. The team’s work includes investment, development and dealing with commercial leases for both landlords and tenants. The team has particular expertise in dealing with portfolio sales and purchases and secured lending, and advises regularly on landlord and tenant legislation, joint ventures and housing association matters.

The corporate team advises on all aspects of company and commercial law, from the acquisition or start-up of a company right through to disposal.

Litigation services include handling the full range of commercial disputes in a wide variety of tribunals. The firm has particular expertise in property litigation, contractual disputes, privacy and media work, and insolvency-related disputes as well as a growing classic and supercar litigation practice. The firm offers mediation services and one of the partners is a CEDR panel mediator.

Private clients have the benefit of a well-established wills and probate practice and a strong residential property team.

The firm’s employment and immigration practice is able to advise on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment and immigration work.

The firm has a commitment to pro bono work and undertakes a substantial amount of work for many charities on a pro bono basis.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Senior partner Raymond Taylor [email protected] 020 7317 8685
Commercial property Declan O'Brien [email protected] 020 7317 8678
Corporate services Raymond Taylor [email protected] 020 7317 8685
Litigation Mark Summerfield [email protected] 020 7317 8681
Wills and probate Karen O'Brien [email protected] 020 7317 8686
Residential property Barry Shaw [email protected] 020 7317 8679
Employment and immigration Tessa Fry [email protected] 020 7317 8698
Pro bono Gary Phillips [email protected] 020 7317 8680

Lawyer Profiles

Photo Name Position Profile
Scott Atkinson photo Scott Atkinson Partner. Dealing with commercial and residential property, acquisitions, sales, development, commercial leases… View Profile
Ari Bloom photo Ari Bloom Partner in property department specialising in commercial property and retail investments, including… View Profile
Tessa Fry photo Tessa Fry Partner – Employment and business immigration View Profile
Rupert Goldmeier photo Rupert Goldmeier Partner – Property department. Rupert acts on a wide variety of commercial… View Profile
Jeremy Harris photo Jeremy Harris Partner. Main area of work is property litigation, mostly for commercial landlords… View Profile
Colin Nahon photo Colin Nahon Partner – corporate transactions, commercial contracts and secured lending. View Profile
Declan O’Brien photo Declan O’Brien Heads up the commercial property team (with Barry Shaw). Specialises in all… View Profile
Karen O’Brien photo Karen O’Brien Partner specialising in residential conveyancing and wills and probate. View Profile
Gary Phillips photo Gary Phillips Partner specialising in commercial property, acting for many high-net-worth individuals who invest… View Profile
Barry Shaw photo Barry Shaw Partner specialising in commercial and residential property matters. View Profile
Mark Summerfield photo Mark Summerfield Head of litigation and dispute resolution team. General commercial litigator but wide… View Profile
Raymond Taylor photo Raymond Taylor Senior partner and head of corporate. View Profile
Lucy Townsend photo Lucy Townsend Partner in the private client and residential property team. Lucy specialises in… View Profile
xanthoula christodoulou photo Miss xanthoula christodoulou Partner at Solomon Taylor & Shaw Real Estate Team View Profile

Staff Figures

Number of UK partners : 13
Number of other UK fee-earners : 12

Memberships

ALEP (Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners)
BGI (Balms Group International - Independent Law Firms)

Other

Equal opportunities and diversity : Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. The Firm recognises and embraces the benefits that derive from a diverse workforce. It makes good business sense for the Firm to ensure that its most important resource, its staff, is treated in a fair, valued and respectful way. The Firm is committed to eliminating discrimination and providing equal treatment in all practices, policies and procedures in all areas of employment and recruitment, regardless of race, nationality, colour, ethnicity or national origins, sex, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or paternity, religion or belief, age, disability or political persuasion.