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Dominic is a partner and heads up the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group.

Dominic is an experienced and pragmatic lawyer with a focus on dispute resolution in intellectual property, media and entertainment, technology and sport. He also advises on regulatory compliance and enforcement in a range of areas including data protection, and marketing and advertising.

Drawing on his dispute resolution experience, Dominic regularly advises on commercial negotiations and drafting, contract termination and renegotiation, and on risk assessment and clearance issues. He is particularly active in the marketing and advertising sector, working with agencies, advertisers, ad networks, and the Alliance of Independent Agencies (formerly the Marketing Agencies Action Group), providing the body’s Legal Advisory and Pitch Protection services.

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Ian Bartlett heads up the trade marks department at Beck Greener. Ian is an expert in trade mark and merchandising law, both in the United Kingdom and internationally, and is a skilled practitioner in the fields of copyright and designs. Alongside his extensive practice at a UK and European level, he consults on the prosecution of intellectual property cases around the world. While much of Ian’s work emanates from large multinational companies and high-street names, he also represents a number of small businesses. As well as working for international publishers, major cosmetics brands, and some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, Ian has clients in fields as diverse as accountancy, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals.

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Phil joined the dispute resolution team in July 2018 as the head of the property disputes team. He was promoted to Partner in May 2021. He manages a growing, and highly respected, team of property litigators with a reputation for good communication, great service and achieving positive results for their clients.

He specialises in resolving disputes relating to sale/purchase and joint venture agreements, dilapidations, break clauses, rights of way, proprietary estoppel, restrictive covenants, construction of leases, service charge disputes, construction disputes, business lease renewals and residential landlord and tenant disputes.

Phil has over ten years of experience in complicated and high value real estate litigation and dispute resolution for both commercial and residential property. His clients are mostly based in London and the Thames Valley.

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Richard is an experienced corporate partner who spends most of his time leading a wide variety of corporate/M&A transactions and helping to manage some of the firm’s most important client relationships. Having also enjoyed spells as head of corporate and as the firm’s managing partner, Richard brings a wealth of practical business experience and advises both major corporate groups and entrepreneurs.

Having trained and worked with a leading City law firm, Richard joined Stevens & Bolton in the late 1980s and became a partner in 1990.

Richard deals with a wide range of corporate, corporate finance and related regulatory work, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, private equity transactions, joint ventures and corporate governance issues. His sector experience includes technology, outsourcing, renewable energy and other projects, and food, catering and hospitality.

A deals man at heart, Richard enjoys getting under the skin of the commercial fundamentals of each transaction and helping clients to achieve their priorities, while working with all deal participants in a positive and collaborative way.

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Louise is the head of the building communities team, having a passion for delivering development that brings major benefit to residents in terms of health, wellbeing, education, employment and the environment.

Specialising in the acquisition and sale of a wide range of affordable housing, she offers considerable insight and experience in delivering new residential schemes, on time and within budget. Louise assists clients in finding solutions to operational issues arising in relation to their housing stock. Her specialist focus is in housing with care, having drafted many bespoke leases to secure viability of complex schemes and is an expert in outright, shared ownership, buy-backs and large scale asset disposals in the later living market.