Nick Hatchett > Pinney Talfourd LLP > Brentwood, England > Lawyer Profile
Pinney Talfourd LLP Offices
NEW NORTH HOUSE
78 Ongar Road
BRENTWOOD
CM15 9BB
England
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Nick Hatchett
Work Department
Commercial Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Nick has over 30 years’ experience of dealing with litigation and dispute resolution.
Nick has spent a significant part of his legal career working in the City, including at Top 200 and Legal 500 recognised law firm Bristows, where he worked in the Commercial Litigation Team. Nick was then Head of Litigation at a leading Essex-based practice.
Nick joined Pinney Talfourd in May 2018 and became a partner in 2019.
Nick is the head of the Commercial Litigation team at the firm, and deals with a variety of business and private clients in cases involving disputes and litigation in the commercial sector.
Nick has extensive experience of mediation to settle claims at an early stage, and also of taking cases through to trial including the steps necessary to get to that stage.
He has a number of well-known clients in the banking, finance and insolvency sectors, and connections with some of the best-known litigation funders for situations where funding a potential claim might be important. He instructs some of the best-known chambers and counsel in their fields.
Nick is a leading and highly experienced lawyer in his chosen field. He deals with both complex and high-value cases.
Key dates:
Senior Litigation Manager at Bristows 1991
Head of Litigation at Bevan Kidwell 2011
Head of Litigation at Wortley Byers 2014
Senior Associate at Pinney Talfourd LLP 2018
Memberships
Member of CILEX (Chartered Institute of Legal Executives)
Member of The Commercial Litigation Association
Education
Nick initially studied law at the University of Westminster 1987.
Personal
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
(Leading individuals)Pinney Talfourd LLP‘s areas of expertise include contract disputes, professional negligence claims, insolvency issues, director and shareholder disputes, and financial services litigation and construction disputes. Known for his ‘wealth of experience’, Nick Hatchett leads the commercial litigation department from the firm’s Brentwood office, and has advised several European banks over the last decade, most notably the Bank of Cyprus.
South East > Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
With five offices in Essex and additional facilities in London and Leigh-on-Sea, the varied workload of Pinney Talfourd LLP‘s debt recovery team includes debt collection in the banking and finance, construction, credit control, insolvency and retail sectors. Brentwood-based team head Nick Hatchett is praised for his ability to ‘achieve business-oriented results’, and has been sought out by a number of European banks, such as Bank of Cyprus and Astro Bank.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals South East > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
- Commercial litigation: Essex South East > Dispute resolution
- Debt recovery South East > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Employment > Employment: Essex
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Essex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Essex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate