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Star Legal
7 Royal Crescent
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL50 3DF
England

Star Legal offers a wide range of both business and personal legal services provided by its experienced lawyers. The firm was established in 2011 and now has fifteen offices throughout the South West and Wales. Clients include those local to the South West and Wales, UK national clients and international clients.

The firm: Star Legal’s head office is based in Bristol but its lawyers are able to work flexibly and remotely to provide the best service for the firm’s diverse client base.

The practice is built around highly experienced and knowledgeable lawyers making intelligent use of technology. Star Legal’s ethos is to offer a competitively priced personal service provided by experts in their fields.

The team advises across all the practice’s commercial practice areas, from providing general corporate and commercial advice for clients’ UK subsidiaries to carrying out mergers and acquisitions of UK targets and advising on employment issues and commercial disputes.

Star Legal also provides regulatory and compliance advice to help its international clients manage their overseas entities.

The firm has contacts in many jurisdictions, but in particular has contacts, experience and market knowledge in Italy and Japan. For clients based outside the UK and with interests in the UK, the firm is able to assist with and offer advice on UK-based transactions and disputes. Equally, the lawyers are able to assist UK-based companies with transactions outside the UK by using their knowledge and network of contacts.

The firm also transacts a large amount of legal work for its substantial private client base (conveyancing, trusts and probate, and matrimonial) and disputes relating to private trust and probate issues. It is also able to advise in relation to both individual and corporate criminal and regulatory liability, with particular experience in relation to complex and serious crimes and regulatory matters.

Types of work undertaken: The firm undertakes work most notably in the following areas: commercial, consumer, corporate, dispute resolution, elderly and infirm clients, employment, family, personal injury, property and wills, probate and trusts, and crime.

Other offices: Abergavenny, Aldridge, Bradley Stoke (Bristol), Cheltenham, Chepstow, Clevedon, Clifton (Bristol) Fishponds (Bristol), Haverfordwest, Malvern, Nailsea, Portishead, Thornbury, Tiverton, Swansea, Swindon, Walsall, Westbury on Trym (Bristol), Wokingham.

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Joint managing directors Philip Hands
Joint managing directors Ian Foster
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Victoria Draper photo Victoria Draper Victoria, a Senior Licensed Conveyancer, has worked in Cheltenham for the majority…
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