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Clarion

Clarion

England - Yorkshire • Dispute resolution

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Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire

Clarion’s dispute practice is ‘highly available and responsive’, with a focus on technology-related dispute resolution, complex shareholder and partnership disputes, and multi-million pound supply chain contract disputes. The practice is skilled at handling litigation in the food and drink, sport, and education sectors, and is well versed at handling international mandates. Simon Young leads the practice, with vast experience advising on supply chain issues, professional negligence claims, and motor racing disputes. David Williams has experience in international litigation, and complementary expertise in arbitration and mediation proceedings, while Dominic Higham routinely advises government and private sector clients, particularly on IT and outsourcing disputes. Roger Hutton is also noted.
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Phone
0113 222 3206
Email
[email protected]
Profile
clarionsolicitors.com

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Work Department
Commercial dispute resolution.
Position

Partner and head of commercial dispute resolution. Simon is a highly rated litigator having advised on many high-value commercial disputes, including those involving commercial contracts, shareholders, partnerships, professional negligence, landlord and tenant, development disputes, civil fraud and compulsory purchase order claims. Acted for The FA Premier League and 14 Premier League clubs in the case of FAPL and Others v Panini (UK) Ltd, which became the precedent for incidental inclusion of an artwork in a picture.

Career

Trained Hammonds; qualified 1994; partner Clarion 2002.

Memberships
Property Litigation Association; Professional Negligence Lawyers Association.
Education

Rossall School; Leeds University; Leeds Metropolitan University (1991: Law Society Finals).

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘My experience is the team are highly available and responsive. They showed high technical expertise and were clearly highly experienced. They were highly collaborative, it feels like we are all one team.’

    ‘The team are meticulous in making sure they understand my business. They go out of there way to understand our sector, understand what is important to me and the business - and because of that, advice is incredibly commercial and tailored to getting outcomes which are good for business.’

    ‘Dominic Higham drives the team in making sure they all understand what makes our business work, what 'great' looks like for us, and how they can help outside of just the matter or issue in hand. Having a law firm and a client matter partner that is both a trusted legal adviser, but also a trusted business adviser, is absolutely a stand out characteristic.’

    'The Clarion team provide an efficient level of service, very customer focused and with a particular ability to assimilate complex nuanced legal matters specific to our organisation.'

Key clients

  • Intersystems Sports Direct Continental AG Fraser Group Evri / Hermes Parcels Redcentric plc English Football League LNT Group Caddick Group Plc The Shard SBFM RN Restaurant Group York City Football Club Ltd Vanguard Healthcare Solutions Zenith Group Best Western Hotels UK Brook Taverner Ltd Fulcrum Plc Pricecheck Toiletries RSPCA Seat Unique Darlington Arena FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Swinton Estate

Work highlights

Acting for the Continental Group defending a multi-million pound claim by an electric vehicle manufacturer for alleged loss of sales and profits said to result from Continental’s supply of EV parts and specialist engineering consultancy services to the EV company.