Glovers Solicitors LLP acts for clients across a variety of sectors, including banking, retail, and hospitality. In the hospitality space, the firm is frequently engaged by pub companies, bar operators, and leisure operators. Practice co-head Paul Dench is noted for his work on landlord and tenant matters and is a key point of contact for the firm’s hospitality and leisure sector clients. Co-head Kenny Friday covers a broad range of matters, ranging from landlord and tenant disputes to those arising out of property development.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Key clients
- Zizzi Restaurants Limited
- Coco di Mama Limited
- Prezzo Trading Limited
- Nando’s Chickenland Limited
- Wagamama Limited
- McMullen & Sons Limited
- Everyman Media Limited
- Oaxaca Limited (t/a Wahaca)
- Dishoom Limited
- Flat Iron Steak Limited
- Bayley & Sage Limited
- Biscuiteers Limited
Work highlights
Advising several leading restaurant and leisure activity operators including ASK Italian, Zizzi, Prezzo, Coco di Mama, Superbowl UK, Everyman Cinema, Farmer J, Dishoom, Nando’s, Wagamama and Franco Manca across a diverse range of property matters affecting their extensive estate portfolios.
Advises several lenders and numerous insolvency practitioners regarding a vast array of property-related matters, including the enforcement of mortgages and other security, professional negligence disputes and insolvency options.
Acted for Superbowl UK to conclude a dispute with its landlord (a private equity backed owner of a shopping centre scheme) that arose from the terms of a deed in settlement of the statutory arbitration process under the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022.
Practice head
Kenny Friday; Paul Dench