Managing Partner Emma ShippSenior Partner David SprecherThe Firm Founded in 1984, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP provides fast, pro-active and pragmatic advice over a broad range of commercial legal work.
Principal Areas of Work
Commercial Litigation: Work includes banking litigation, defamation, intellectual property matters, professional negligence, service contracts, disputes involving employment agencies and recruitment consultants, and property-related actions.
Commercial Property: Work includes acquisition and disposal of business premises, investment and development sites, commercial lease transactions, secured lending. A wide client base includes financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, property developers, dealers and high net worth individuals.
Corporate Advice: The Company/Commercial Group handles all forms of acquisitions disposals and joint ventures including complex reconstructions. Work includes mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, MBIs, AIM listings, private equity and corporate finance, setting up LLPs, shareholder and partnership agreements, banking and security documents and advice on a wide range of commercial matters.
Employment: Collective restructures/redundancies, drafting and changing terms and conditions of employment; TUPE advice; tribunal and High Court representation; industrial relations disputes; claims for breach of contract, restrictive covenants; advising construction business regarding NAECI issues, implementation of bonus and share option schemes.
Intellectual Property: The firm advises on all contractual, registration and brand protection issues and has particular expertise in the IT and theatre/arts sectors.
IT/E-Commerce: The group provides advice in relation to on-line and off-line transactions to IT suppliers, users, ISPs and website designers and has advised on high profile domain name disputes, a topic on which the group has written a book.
Property Litigation: A leading specialist in this area, the group represents some of the leading players in the leisure sector. The team advises on and assists with all property litigation, including landlord and tenant cases, forfeitures, rent review arbitrations, rights of light/rights of way, enforcement and construction of lease covenants, nuisance claims, planning/judicial review and European competition law.
Recruitment Agencies: The group represents many agencies and provides standard documentation which complies with the 2003 Conduct Regulations.
Restructuring & Insolvency: A leader in this field, the group's main focus is advising insolvency practitioners on their work in relation to administrations, liquidations, bankruptcies and voluntary arrangements. Corporate restructuring, turnaround and directors' disqualification are also areas of expertise.
Services To Lenders: This group has been active in the lending market for over 10 years and has a high level of expertise in mortgage possession and related work, acting for some of the larger banks, building societies and sub-prime lenders.