Victoria Leigh > Squire Patton Boggs > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Squire Patton Boggs‘s commercial disputes team acts on intricate national and international disputes with an extensive global reach. The Manchester-based team focuses largely on the manufacturing, tech, retail, recruitment, and financial services sectors. ‘Exceptional partner’ Victoria Leigh is the head of the team, handling general commercial litigation along with pensions and data protection-related litigation. ‘Excellent and experienced commercial litigator’ Lee Norman joined the team in December 2022 from DWF.

The pensions team at Squire Patton Boggs has a number of key specialisms including de-risking solutions, buy-ins, buy-outs, corporate deal support and scheme consolidations. David Griffiths  leads the practice out of Manchester with expertise in defined benefits, defined contributions, unfunded and small self-administered schemes. Victoria Leigh is well-versed in disputes and acts for employers, trustees and advisors on regulatory matters.

Squire Patton Boggs‘ pensions litigation practice is experienced in dealing with trustees, employers, and scheme members, and is adept at assisting large schemes such as the Jaguar Land Rover Pension Scheme and Thames Water Pension Trustees Limited. The team is led by Manchester-based practitioner Victoria Leigh, who is recommended for her work in public sector pensions. Other work the practice carries out includes risk management; regulatory proceedings, an area in which Jason Blakey is recommended; contentious issues at the juncture of pensions and tax; professional negligence cases; and construction and rectification issues. The practice has noteworthy abilities handling small, self-administered schemes.