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BHW Solicitors Offices
1 Smith Way
Grove Park
ENDERBY
LE19 1SX
England
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BHW Solicitors > The Legal 500 Rankings
Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands Tier 1
Focusing primarily on the aerospace, private equity, manufacturing and insurance industries, BHW Solicitors' 'commercially minded and pragmatic' team advises clients on M&A, corporate restructuring, secured lending and commercial contracts. Ed Nurse is frequently engaged by companies selling or buying shares in high value transactions. He recently advised Gardner Aerospace Holdings on its sale to Shaanxi Ligeance Mineral Resources for $326m. Driven by partner Stephen McElhone's wealth of experience, the team also assists clients with submitting IPOs on the AIM and NEX exchanges. 'Thorough and helpful' Alex Clifton is very active in a wide range of corporate transactions and often provides key support to Nurse.
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Testimonials
‘The BHW commercial team is as good as any team in a big city firm which is unusual in the region.’
‘BHW are an excellent legal choice for UK company owners and have become our go-to recommendation for high quality corporate and M&A services.’
‘The team always have the best interests of their clients at heart, they are excellent communicators and always contactable.’
‘Highly professional, sound advice, straight talking yet down to earth and approachable.’
‘Alex Clifton always keeps in touch, always wants to know what’s going on in our business and is always on hand to offer speedy advice and bounce things off.’
‘Alex Clifton and Ed Nurse are a pleasure to work with and I would not hesitate to work with them again should the opportunity arise.’
‘Alex Clifton is my go-to corporate and commercial specialist. He is straight talking and clear in his advice yet has the ability to tackle difficult topics in a sensitive manner.’
Key clients
Correlation Investments Limited
Lavendon Group Limited
Gardner Group Limited
Oadby Plastics Limited
BPX Group Limited
NatWest Bank Plc
Nationwide Platforms Limited
Money Thing Capital Limited
Animal Friends Insurance Services Limited
HSBC Bank Plc
Qualvis Print and Packaging Limited
Cast Alum
Deichmann-Shoes UK Limited
Savage Marine Ltd
Home Pro Insurance Limited
Creative Software Solutions (Europe) Limited
Verdon Timber Group Limited
Marks Electrical Limited
Notts Sport Limited
UK Airsoft Limited
Blauberg UK Limited
Staircraft Group Limited
Eclipse Group Solutions Limited
Evergreens (UK) Limited
BTE Plant Sales Limited
Delta Global Source Holdings Limited
Solutions Diverse Ltd
Sturrock and Robson Limited
Red Sands Insurance Company (Europe) Limited
Clifton Packaging Group Limited
AutoProtect Group Limited
SIL-MID Limited
Reach Engineering & Diving Services Ltd (REDS)
Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands Tier 2
BHW Solicitors' Leicester team is particularly active in mandates connected with the leisure, retail and logistics industries. It primarily advises clients on land acquisitions, property investments, private pension schemes and secured lending transactions. The 'excellent' Beverley Merrell frequently advises developers on freehold and leasehold projects. Ian Sanders primarily advises clients engaged in construction projects on all aspects of planning and development. Eleanor Rattay's broad expertise spans secured lending, refinancing and development work.
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Testimonials
‘BHW Solicitors have provided great support to us in often challenging and time-sensitive matters.’
‘Eleanor Rattay is very approachable and accessible and understands our business needs.’
Key clients
Alijyso Limited
Bamfords Trust
Boolers
BPX Group Limited
Cambridge and Counties Limited
DHL Parcel UK Limited
Fischer Future Heat UK Limited
Folk 2 Folk
Gardner Aerospace Limited
HSBC Bank plc
Jelson Limited
Jordan Developments Limited
Lavendon Group plc
Limetree Living Limited
Mark’s Electrical Limited
Mattioli Woods plc
Morningside Holdings Limited
Next Holdings Limited
Oadby Plastics Limited
Obstrat Limited
Ratcliffe Farms Limited
Roca Limited
Staircraft Limited
Svenska Handelsbanken plc
T – Systems Limited
Verdon Timber Group Limited
IT and telecoms Tier 3
BHW Solicitors regularly handles significant software infrastructure projects. In addition, the firm also regularly advises on mergers, acquisitions, restructures and refinancings of software and IT companies. Practice head Matt Worsnop has a strong background in software development. The team is praised for its 'sensible and pragmatic' approach.
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Testimonials
‘Sensible and pragmatic in terms of both advice and fees.’
‘Matt Worsnop is excellent on tech matters.’
‘Trust, consistency and value.’
Key clients
Lavendon Group / Loxam
Nationwide Platforms Limited
Eclipse Group Solutions Limited
DealTrak Ltd
Vehicle Vision Limited
Atomic Multimedia Consultants Limited
City Computing Limited
Davis Ground IT Services Limited
G Siddons Limited t/a Bikercomm
Loupe Testware Ltd
Switch Networks Ltd
Boolers
BHW Solicitors > Firm Profile
BHW Solicitors is a specialist commercial law firm in Leicester which provides advice to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes. In addition to its core commercial services, the firm specialises in several industry sectors including aerospace, automotive, agriculture, renewable energy, information technology, plant hire, retail, pension fund property transactions, secured lending and estate agency M&A.
The firm: BHW was established in 2003 and has grown to become a major regional player in respect of its following and the complexity, value and importance of the work it undertakes.
BHW’s clients range from owner-managed businesses to some of the UK’s best-known companies and organisations.
The firm operates leading systems to guarantee the highest levels of quality and maintains the Lexcel Legal Practice Quality Mark. In 2015 BHW achieved a perfect result on audit against the latest Lexcel standard (v6).
Despite the fact that BHW is a comparatively young firm, its regional impact should not be underestimated. In terms of the firm’s client following and the complexity, value and importance of the work it undertakes it is the equal of any firm in the East Midlands.
Types of work undertaken
Corporate and commercial: the department handles a full range of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures and company and commercial matters, and has sector-specific specialisms, including aerospace, plant hire, secured lending and estate agency M&A.
Commercial property: BHW’s commercial property department advises on all aspects of freehold and leasehold property for its business clients. The department has sector-specific specialisms, including agriculture, retail, pension fund property transactions and secured lending.
IT and telecoms: BHW advises on procurement and tendering protocols for IT projects; software development agreements; configuration and implementation agreements; software licences; software maintenance agreements; hosting agreements; website terms of business and e-commerce facilities.
Dispute resolution: BHW’s dispute resolution department handles all forms of commercial litigation, dispute resolution and mediation. The department also specialises in contentious probate and has one of only a handful of ACTAPS members in the East Midlands (Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists).
Employment: BHW deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, acting principally on behalf of employers.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Managing partner | Nick Bridle | ||
| Corporate/commercial | Ed Nurse | ||
| Commercial property/real estate | Bev Merrell | ||
| Employment Law | Amanda Badley | ||
| Dispute Resolution | Paul Davis | ||
| Corporate/commercial | Stephen McElhone | ||
| Commercial property/real estate | Ian Sanders | ||
| Commercial property/real estate | Eleanor Rattay | ||
| Corporate/commercial | Alex Clifton |
Lawyer Profiles
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Miss Amanda Badley | Employment Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Nick Bridle | Managing Partner | View Profile |
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Alex Clifton | Corporate and Commercial Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Paul Davis | Dispute Resolution Partner | View Profile |
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Stephen McElhone | Corporate and Commercial Partner | View Profile |
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Mrs Beverley Merrell | Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Ed Nurse | Partner | View Profile |
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Eleanor Rattay | Commercial Property Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Ian Sanders | Commercial Property Partner | View Profile |
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Mr Matt Worsnop | Partner | View Profile |