Geldards LLP handles high-profile, complex and multi-party disputes, including matters with multi-jurisdictional elements. The team continues to act for clients in the financial services sector and is increasingly active in disputes relating to IT contracts, distressed technology projects and restrictive covenant enforcement. It represents large corporates across sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences and sport. Paul Hopkins leads the team, with expertise in high-value commercial disputes, alongside Jonathan Griffiths, who focuses on public sector litigation, and Michael Evans, who specialises in commercial disputes and insolvency matters.
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Key clients
- The Welsh Ministers
- Breacon Beacons National Park Authority
- Snowdonia National Park Authority
- Natural Resources Wales
- Warrington Borough Council
- Propel Finance plc
- 7 Steel UK
- Resource Limited and related companies
- Jardine Norton Capital A Limited
- Newport Transport Limited
Work highlights
Advising the Welsh Ministers in a multi-million, cross jurisdictional competition claim against Servier Laboratories.
Acted for Bannau Brycheiniog in successfully defending the applicant’s third judicial review in both the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal.
Act for the Wales Air Ambulance Charitable Trust.
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Practice head
Paul Hopkins
Other key lawyers
Michael Evans; Jonathan Griffiths; Rhys Thompson