Hewitsons
Solicitors Company Information
About
The Hewitsons Solicitors Company
Hewitsons Solicitors is a leading law firm with a national and international
reputation across the spectrum of legal specialisms.
The
firm is committed to providing excellent quality of service, which
is backed up by unsurpassed internal monitoring procedures to ensure
client matters are dealt with by its specialist teams of lawyers
professionally to time and to budget.
Hewitsons’
strategic locations in Cambridge and Northampton together with a
specialised office in Saffron Walden provide the benefit of maximum
cost-effectiveness, while its legal expertise and professional approach
is of the quality expected from a City of London law practice. Its
size, resource and range of specialist expertise, combined with
a commercially-minded and innovative approach, ensure that the practice
can fully assist its clients whatever their legal requirements may
be.
Hewitsons has extensive corporate and commercial law experience,
with noted expertise in such areas as commercial property, employment,
commercial litigation, technology, planning and environment, property
funding and development.
The
practice also has a substantial private client section which provides
specialised advice on tax planning, trusts, probate, charities,
family law, and a large agricultural team serving both the farming
industry and landed estates.
Particular specialised areas for which Hewitsons is noted include:
Corporate
finance
Informed advice is provided to clients ranging from start-up businesses
needing venture capital backing to multi-national public companies.
The firm's lawyers are experienced in all legal aspects involved
in acquisitions and disposals, share schemes and in raising finance
from UK and US sources.
Technology
Where the firm combines expertise in all areas from computer technology
to entertainment, media and Internet law, for a client base extending
across Europe and North America. The Technology Group’s services
include advising on patents, design rights, trade marks and other
intellectual property issues. The firm combines expertise in all
areas from computer technology to entertainment, media and Internet
law, for a client base extending across Europe and North America.
The firm’s services include advising on patents, design rights,
trade marks and other intellectual property issues.
Bioscience
and pharmaceuticals
Hewitsons acts for academic and research institutions, as well as
new and long-established companies, on matters involving research
and licensing, joint ventures and other collaborations.
Commercial
Property
The firm advises on all matters within the sector, including portfolio
management, property acquisition and disposal, funding and joint
ventures and all property issues.
Development
Expertise includes all aspects of property and construction law,
including infrastructure requirements, funding such as PFIs and
joint ventures, planning and environmental issues.
Employment
law
The team advises on all contentious and non-contentious matters,
including collective labour law matters, executive terminations,
unfair dismissal, sex, race and disability discrimination and enforcement
of post termination restrictions.
Agriculture
The firm’s lawyers act for farmers and agricultural estate
owners in areas such as the acquisition and disposal of land, planning
and diversification, environmental matters, subsidies, tax planning,
tenancies, and establishing partnerships and farming companies.
Tax
and trusts
Providing tax advice in areas such as estate planning, private company
shareholdings, offshore trusts, domicile and residence, heritage
property, life policies and pensions.
Charities
Advising individuals about establishing private charities and the
tax relief available on charitable gifts; the firm also has extensive
experience of acting for substantial service-providing and grant-making
charities in their dealings with the Charity Commission and all
areas where they need legal assistance.
Family
The specialist team advises on pre-marital agreements and all matters
to do with separation and family breakdown, including financial
and property settlements, the division of both family and business
assets, cohabitation issues and disputes relating to the residence,
maintenance and education of children.
Dispute
Resolution
The Hewitsons team’s wide expertise includes, in particular,
commercial and contractual disputes, professional negligence (across
various professions), insolvency, partnership disputes, shareholder
disputes, product liability and defamation.
Transport
The firm’s transport team is experienced in defending goods
vehicle operators and drivers for tachograph and drivers’ hours
offences and offences relating to the condition of vehicles; representing
operators at public enquiries; advising on clandestine entrants,
issues relating to fuel and systems to comply with undertakings
on the operator’s licence.
The
firm is a founder member of LawExchange International, an independent
association of legal practices.
LawExchange
International now has member firms throughout Europe, North America,
Asia, South America and Australia, providing their clients with
pertinent legal knowledge within each respective national jurisdiction.
Cambridge
Shakespeare House
42 Newmarket Road
Cambridge
CB5 8EP
Northampton
7 Spencer Parade
Northampton
NN1 5AB
Saffron Walden
53 High Street
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 1AR
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