Legal Team

Tony Morris | Partner

• Nearly 25 years experience
• Joined Chafes in 2007
• Advises clients across a variety of sectors on a broad range of corporate transactions and commercial agreements
• Expertise includes company and business disposals and acquisitions, equity investments, joint ventures, shareholder agreements; drafting and negotiating commercial agreements including distribution, supply and licensing agreements
• Recent transactions include acquisition of a labels company for a seven figure sum, acting for a technology company on raising of equity and loan finance from a Government Technology Fund and acting on disposal of a sizeable minority interest in a large property company

Mike Travis | Partner

• Qualified in 1981
• Over 30 years experience
• Specialises in commercial conveyancing, company commercial and tax planning
• Expertise includes development work, landlord & tenant and commercial mortgages

• Qualified in 1981
• Over 30 years experience
• Specialises in commercial conveyancing, company commercial and tax planning
• Expertise includes development work, landlord &tenant and commercial mortgages

• Over 14 years experience
• Member of Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and The Law Societies Civil Justice Section
• Expertise includes commercial litigation and breach of contract, shareholder/partnership disputes, professional negligence, property litigation, intellectual property disputes and debt recovery.

• Over 9 years experience
• Expertise in commercial and property dispute resolution
• Advises commercial and private clients on issues including landlord/tenant

• Over 5 years experience
• Deals with commercial sales and leases, landlord and tenant, pension investment led transactions, residential property development and plot sales. Residential sales, purchases and remortgages.

Craig O’Hara | Partner

• Over 14 years experience
• Member of Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and The Law Societies Civil Justice Section
• Expertise includes commercial litigation and breach of contract, shareholder/partnership disputes, professional negligence, property litigation, intellectual property disputes and debt recovery.

• Over 9 years experience
• Expertise in commercial and property dispute resolution
• Advises commercial and private clients on issues including landlord/tenant

• Joined Chafes in 2008
• Over 8 years experience
• Specialises in Dispute Resolution including debt recovery, landlord and tenant issues, contentious probate matters, property disputes and negligence claims

• Over 3 years experience
• Specialises in Dispute Resolution including debt recovery, landlord and tenant issues, contentious probate matters, property disputes and negligence claims
• Expertise in school fees recovery

John Perez | Partner and Head of Finance Litigation

• Over 12 years experience
• Dealing exclusively in the finance sector with emphasis on motor finance
• Work extends from early pre termination collections to handling complex high value claims
• Expertise includes consumer credit directive, finance law, regulatory and compliance, recoveries/litigation and consumer credit
• Member of FLA

Julia Williams | Partner

• Over 10 years experience
• Responsible for the development of the departments case management system and reconciliation and reporting of matter information to clients
• Manages a large team dealing with volume instructions from major commercial clients
• Expertise includes commercial collections / recoveries and all methods of enforcement
• Member of FLA
• Honorary secretary of Macclesfield Law Society

• Currently studying for a training contract
• Will qualify in 2012
• Specialises in Finance Litigation
• Member of Manchester Trainee Solicitors Group

• Over 12 years experience
• Specialising in Employment Law issues including unfair and constructive dismissal, all types of discrimination, TUPE and severance agreements
• Acts for both employees and employers
• Specialise in senior executives

• Nearly 20 years experience
• Expertise in residential conveyancing

Victoria Bury | Residential Property Solicitor

• Over 5 years experience
• Expertise in residential conveyancing
• Business development i.e. new contacts and relationship building

Sarah Waddington | Property Lawyer

• Became a property lawyer in 2010
• Over 10 years experience in residential property

Carol Garside | Conveyancing Executive

• Over 17 years experience
• Expertise in residential conveyancing

Robert Brindley | Partner

• Over 12 years experience
• Head of TTE Department
• Member of STEP
• Promoter of Plain English
• Expertise in advising high net worth clients about their inheritance plans.

• Over 8 years experience
• Specialities include will preparation, estate administration, powers of attorney, court of protection work and elderly client services
• A particular interest in issues surrounding mental capacity

• Over 13 years experience
• Considerable experience in residential property work
• Specialises in tax, trusts and estate work with additional expertise in elderly client matters

• Over 8 years experience
• Member of STEP
• Specialities are capital tax planning, advice for high net worth individuals using will trusts, lifetime trusts and other tax efficient arrangements
• Court of Protection work

• Currently studying for a training contract
• Will qualify in 2012
• Specialises in tax, trusts and estate planning
• Student member of STEP
• Member of Manchester Trainee Solicitors Group

• Head of Family Department
• Over 16 years experience
• Collaboratively trained
• Resolution Accredited Specialist
• Secretary of Stockport Law Society
• Secretary of South Manchester and North Cheshire Collaborative POD
• Member of Law Society Family Law Panel
• Expertise includes family law including high net worth divorce cases, Resolution accredited specialist in married financials, private law children, domestic violence.

• Nearly 30 years experience
• Member of Resolution
• Collaboratively trained
• Expertise includes family law, insolvency law and secured lending litigator

• Over 16 years experience
• Resolution Accredited Specialist in children and domestic violence
• All aspects of family law
• Member of Law Society Family Panel

• Over 10 years experience
• Resolution accredited specialist in advanced financial provision and cohabitation
• All aspects of family law

• Over 14 years experience
• Member of Professional Negligence Lawyers Association
• Member of the Law Societies Civil Justice Section
• Expertise includes commercial litigation including breach of contract, shareholder/partnership disputes, professional negligence, property litigation, intellectual property disputes and debt recovery

• Over 9 years experience
• Expertise in commercial and property dispute resolution
• Advises commercial and private clients on issues including landlord/tenant

• Joined Chafes in 2008
• OVer 8 years experience
• Specialises in Dispute Resolution including debt recovery, landlord and tenant issues, contentious probate matters, property disputes and negligence claims

• Over 3 years experience
• Specialises in Dispute Resolution including debt recovery, landlord and tenant issues, contentious probate matters, property disputes and negligence claims

• Over 12 years experience
• Specialising in Employment Law issues including unfair and constructive dismissal, all types of discrimination, TUPE and severance agreements
• Act for both employees and employers
• Specialise in senior executives