Ramona Derbyshire > Thrings LLP > Swindon, England > Lawyer Profile
Thrings LLP Offices
6 DRAKES MEADOW
PENNY LANE
SWINDON
SN3 3LL
England
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Ramona Derbyshire
Work Department
Commercial litigation.
Position
Partner heading up the debt and asset recoveries team and the business growth sector and specialising in commercial litigation. Clients include corporate entities, directors, shareholders, institutional clients and clients with motor industry, financial services and insurance-related interests. She has a pragmatic approach to commercial disputes, including using alternative forms of dispute resolution. She takes the lead in client relationships for key commercial clients to include working closely with in-house legal teams and board members.
Career
Trained at Shoosmiths; qualified September 2003; partner in present firm May 2009. Thrings, Swindon assistant solicitor (2003-07); Thrings, Swindon associate solicitor (2007-09), Thrings, Swindon Partner 2009 – present .
Memberships
Dispute Resolution Section, President of the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Law Society; Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce; Professional Negligence Lawyers Association.
Education
Backwell School, Bristol; Southampton University (BSc (Joint Hons) Law & Politics); College of Law, Guildford (Legal Practice Course).
Leisure
Netball for firm and Devizes Club, family. Member of Devizes tennis club.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
(Leading individuals)South West > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
(Leading individuals)Thrings LLP
‘punches above its weight’ and maintains a ‘robust approach’ to financial services litigation, shareholder disputes, professional negligence claims and debt recovery mandates, in addition to trusts litigation. Based in Swindon, ‘superb litigator’ Ramona Derbyshire leads the team and handles shareholder disputes and breach of warranty claims, financial services litigation, claimant and defendant professional negligence claims. Head of the inheritance and trusts disputes group Emily Prout ‘fights the client’s corner whilst having good technical ability and an eye to what is achievable in the circumstances’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals South West > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Leading individuals South West > Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire South West > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol
- Real estate > Planning