Your challenges
Whether you are an owner/breeder, racing manager or corporate/charity, your requirement for legal advice is diverse and you need lawyers who both understand your industry and have the specialist knowledge for the problems you face. Because the bloodstock industry is now an international business, you need lawyers with an international reach to support you and your businesses wherever they may be.
Achieving your ambitions
Whether you need advice on major acquisitions, employment contracts, charitable or legacy issues, financing initiatives, real estate issues, commercial agreements or stem cell research, our specialists have the expertise required.
Utilising our full service capabilities, whether you are a major business or individual involved in or connected to the equine industry, we can help. With a multi-disciplinary team that is able to share sector experience and knowledge, we can ensure that we provide appropriate and joined up solutions to your legal requirements. Our understanding of our clients’ business is fundamental to our success in providing practical and commercial legal advice.
The strength you need
Combined with the full service offering of a top 50 UK law firm, every lawyer in our specialist equine group has experience in equine related transactions, ensuring that the advice we give is commercially relevant and tailored to your needs.
Recent work includes:
- Acting for an offshore owner/breeder on the acquisition of a major stud farm through the purchase of shares in a Panamanian parent company to establish a British base for an equine breeding operation
- Acting for large horse racing stables and bloodstock organisations on their reorganisation, resulting in a substantial reduction in head count. Also advising on a variety of employee related issues including misconduct, capability/poor performance issues, as well as employment disputes and termination of employment
- Acting for Greenwood Ellis & Partners in the negotiation, purchase and development of the Newmarket Equine Hospital, which is now regarded as the leading equine hospital in Europe
- Advising on the finance and start-up of Great Leighs in Essex
- Multi-disciplinary work for well known racing and breeding operations
- A number of property transactions in Newmarket and Lambourn
Lawyers you can trust
Our lawyers are highly rated by the legal directories and clients regard us as ”one of the most professional firms I have come across” where lawyers are “highly skilled but have not lost their human edge” and “value for money is fantastic, especially compared to London-based firms; the quality of their work is at least on a par and often more commercially aware”.