Powells offer the full range of legal services. Click on a service area heading below to find out more about the department and which member of the team to contact.

Company & Business

• Company & partnership formations
• Joint ventures
• Sales acquisitions & mergers
• Share buy packs
• Shareholder rights & agreements
• Internet & website agreements
• Consumer credit & finance leasing

Commercial Property

• Purchase & sale
• Industrial parks
• Business leases
• Rent reviews and renewals
• Planning applications & appeals
• Mortgages and other security
• Options & conditional contracts
• Stamp duty & VAT

Agricultural Property

• Purchase & sale
• Single farm payment
• Farm business tenancies

Houses & Flats

• Moving home (buying & selling)
• Site acquisition & development
• Multiple purchases & sub sales

Licensing

• Pubs & nightclubs
• Sporting & social clubs
• Sex shops & establishments
• Personal & Premises licences
• Gaming machine permits
• Licensing Committee representation

Employment

• Contracts & policies
• Redundancy & restructuring
• Discipline & dismissals
• Compromise agreements
• Tribunal claims

Crime

• Animal welfare & other private prosecutions
• Road traffic
• 24 hour defence service
• Court & police station duty solicitors

Family

• Divorce & separation
• Financial & property disputes
• Children – residence & contact disputes
• Representation of children
• Civil partnerships
• Care proceedings

Wills, Tax & Trusts

• Will drafting
• Advance directives (“Living Wills”)
• Lasting powers of attorney - welfare and financial
• Tax & estate planning
• Trusts & settlements
• Probate
• Estates administration
• Affairs administration
• Specific advice for the elderly
• Deputyships & Court of Protection

Civil Disputes & Litigations

• Commercial mortgage reposessions
• Land Tribunal claims
• Mobile home & caravan parks
• Party Wall Act claims
• Complex land & property cases
• Landlord & tenant disputes
• Professional negligence claims
• Building arbitration & adjudication
• ADR & mediation
• Contract disputes
• Debt recovery
• Sale of goods & hire purchase
• Disputed wills & estates
• Bankruptcy
• Company insolvencies