DMH Stallard LLP‘s team services over a broad spectrum of industries such as travel, charity, sustainability, media, waste, and manufacturing. The firm fields an experienced team able to assist clients with commercial agreements, supply chain management, procurement processes and developing effective routes to the market. The practice was bolstered by the arrival of Kate Partridge and Chris Gleeson, who are both experienced in M&A, asset transfers and refinancing mandates. Helen Mead, who is ’exceptionally honest’, continues to play a key role within the team.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The DMH team are very friendly, efficient and knowledgeable, and work together in an interactive way to deliver an excellent legal support service. The team engages well with the in-house legal and M&A teams to provide a thorough and efficient delivery of our M&A transactions. Support is always available to a high standard on other workstreams such as employment and property.’

  • ‘Helen Mead is exceptionally honest and pragmatic. I was treated with respect throughout by her team and had a successful outcome. This must be a first when dealing with law firms!’

  • ‘The firm has very capable individuals across a variety of disciplines, therefore providing a high quality full service law firm.’

  • ‘I find the team at DMH has broad knowledge which can be useful if dealing with both larger and smaller deals. They also seem to work well together as a tight team without reliance on any individuals.’

  • ‘I've found them quite flexible, sensible and easy going but at the same time professional and tough when needed’

  • ‘Absolute attention to detail in all the areas I've experienced of DMH and the seemingly endless in-house resources to cover off many areas of law.’

Key clients

  • Martin Randall Travel
  • CP Cases
  • Venus Wine & Spirit Merchants
  • NexGen Tree Shelters
  • Raw Cut Ventures
  • JS Air Curtains
  • Sowga
  • St. Barnabas
  • Canon UK
  • Roja Parfums
  • Aspen Pumps
  • Mondra Global

Work highlights

Acted for Aspen Pumps Ltd as an outsourced in-house legal function for all business-as-usual legal matters, supporting mainly on commercial contracts, intellectual property, technology and employment issues.
Acted on the sale of CP Cases in the UK, with its US subsidiary, to Swedish conglomerate/ investment business Lagercrantz (acquiring an 87% stake in the business).
Acted for the selling shareholders of Venus Wine and Spirit Merchants PLC on the sale of the entire issued share capital to Booker Limited (part of the Tesco Group).

Lawyers

Leading partners

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Practice head

Jonathan Grant; John Yates

Other key lawyers

Helen Mead; Danos Athanasi; Mark Diamond; Kate Partridge; Josie Appleyard; Chris Gleeson; Debbie Venn; Callum Kirk