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Our solicitors in Manchester

Welcome to Clarke Willmott, Manchester

We are a leading UK law firm offering a full legal service to businesses and private individuals.

We pride ourselves on our straight talking approach, expertise and consistently excellent service.

In 2018 following continued success and growth in Manchester we moved to new offices in the City Centre which reinforces the firm’s commitment to the City of Manchester which is fast becoming a leading centre outside London for professional services.

We are committed, determined and enthusiastic people who enjoy working together to deliver pragmatic, strategic and timely legal advice for our clients. Many of our partners are listed as ‘Recommended Lawyer’ or ‘Leading Individual’ in their field in the Legal 500, a directory that provides comprehensive worldwide coverage on recommended law firms, lawyers, attorneys, advocates, solicitors and barristers.

Clarke Willmott LLP has an ‘extremely knowledgeable and efficient team that is commercially and legally smart and tactically astute’. Legal 500 2019

Clients say: “The team is very good. They are fast, efficient and knowledgeable, as well as providing a value-for-money service.” Chambers 2019

Please get in touch to discuss how our expert solicitors can help you or your business in whatever challenge you may be facing. We would be delighted to talk to you about your business, your ambitions, what matters to you, and how we can help you to succeed.

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Our services and legal expertise in Manchester

Our talented teams provide expert advice across the full range of legal services through a range of industry sectors.

We will help you start your business, protect it, grow it, exploit it and we will work alongside you and your teams to face any challenges head on, every step of the way.

In Manchester we are proud of our private client offering, we are unique in being able to offer family and private client services alongside our commercial expertise. We have done this for over 100 years specialising in helping our clients and their families to organise their affairs and finances to provide financial security and enhanced quality of life in the future.

Our Manchester offering is based on the quality of our people. Above all we are proud to act for our clients.

How to find our Manchester office

New postal address

We are now using a centralised post system which means fewer of our offices will be receiving post. This latest change is all part of our ongoing commitment to reducing our impact on the environment as well as better efficiencies. Can you please send any post for the Manchester office to:

CW Central Post Hub
Burlington House,
Botleigh Grange Business Park,
Hedge End,
Southampton,
SO30 2AF

Visit us: 55 Spring Gardens, Manchester, M2 2BY

Telephone: 0161 638 3000 | Fax: 0345 209 2547

Write to us: Burlington House, Botleigh Grange Business Park, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 2AF

DX: 49665 Southampton 2

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Our Manchester partners

Stephen Jarman

Partner

Manchester
Stephen provides advice and assistance to business owners and management teams covering the full gamut of corporate and commercial sectors using the 30 years of experience that he has clocked up since qualification.
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Philip Roberts

Partner and Head of Debt Recovery

Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Taunton
Phil is a Chartered Legal Executive and Partner in Clarke Willmott’s Debt Recovery team specialising in defended debt recovery litigation and insolvency actions.
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Paul Davies

Partner

Manchester
Paul is a Partner and head of the private capital team in Clarke Willmott’s Manchester office. Paul specialises in estate planning, Wills, & trusts for clients with complex family and finance arrangements.
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Neil Baker

Partner

Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester
At Clarke Willmott LLP, we were devastated to learn that our friend and colleague Partner Neil Baker passed away on Monday 12th of March 2024.  Neil, who joined the firm in 1999, was widely respected and recognised as one of the country’s leading planning lawyers.
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Louise Rogers

Partner

Manchester
Louise is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s Manchester Employment team and provides employers/HR professionals and senior executives with strategic advice and support in relation to all aspects of employment law.
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Louise Goodwin

Partner

Manchester
Advises companies and their owners/office holders, entrepreneurs and other individuals in respect of all private and commercial disputes encompassing injunctive proceedings and all forms of alternative dispute resolution.
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Lindsay Felstead

Partner

Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Southampton and Taunton
Lindsay is Head of our Housing Management team and jointly leads our Social Housing sector team. Lindsay was called to the Bar in 2000 and subsequently admitted as a Solicitor in 2005.
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John Flint

Partner

Manchester
John Flint is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s commercial & private client litigation team specialising in director, shareholder and partnership disputes.
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Ed Foulkes

Partner, National Head of Corporate team

Manchester
Ed is a ‘pragmatic and practical’ corporate lawyer dealing primarily with mergers and acquisitions. He has specialisms in the financial services, fintech and professional advisory sectors.
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Our work in the community

We care about how we do business and the wider community that surrounds us, our clients and our families.

Local Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) leadership teams across our seven national offices oversee our firm wide efforts in the local community. We are keen to encourage all of our employees to think about how they might use the skills they develop in their professional careers to give back to their local community and this is reflected in our strategy.

Currently our Manchester office charity is St Ann’s Hospice. We are working hard with St Ann’s not only to raise funds but to supply volunteers for projects run by St Ann’s. At Christmas time we provided volunteers to assist with At Ann’s Christmas shop. In March 2019 our expert private client lawyers were writing wills for St Ann’s in their Will Week.

Read more about our approach to CSR.

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