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Nick’s practice covers three areas, commercial contracts, commercial disputes and insolvency work.

The commercial work Nick undertakes includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts (particularly warehousing and distribution contracts), shareholder agreements, partnership agreements and agency agreements.

He deals with a variety of commercial disputes including shareholder disputes, partnership disputes and disputes in the logistics sector. Through the firm’s connections with the UK Warehousing Association Nick has considerable experience of resolving disputes involving liens and situations where customers of warehouse keepers have become insolvent. In addition he has handled numerous professional negligence claims including against accountants, solicitors, architects and financial advisers.

Nick’s approach to disputes is to first understand his client’s objectives and plan a strategy to achieve them. He is a firm believer that dispute resolution is about much more than Court procedures, but is about finding cost effective solutions to the problems clients face.

In his insolvency practice Nick acts for insolvency practitioners, directors of insolvent companies and individuals and companies with financial difficulties. He advises on claims to recoup assets in bankruptcies and corporate insolvencies (acting for both insolvency practitioners pursuing such claims and individuals resisting them, though not at the same time!) and on the procedures available to assist companies and individuals with financial problems, particularly IVA’s and CVA’s.

Nick has lived most of his life in Chester, attending Christleton High School before reading Jurisprudence (Law) at Wadham College, Oxford. He still lives in Chester with his wife and is passionate about the City. To this end Nick volunteers on the Publicity Committee of Chester Civic Trust.

Nick’s interests outside work include football (he is a season ticket holder at Manchester United), English literature and modern art (both the appreciation of and producing it) and was formerly a director of the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno, Wales’ foremost contemporary art gallery.