Jonathan Warner-Reed

Position: Director

Jonathan has been a director and member at Lupton Fawcett LLP since 2009. He graduated in Law at Preston University and then proceeded to gain his Masters in Corporate Manslaughter at Leeds University, before qualifying as a solicitor.

He is listed as an expert in licensing in the Legal 500 directory. In the recent edition he is recommended for:

“his local hotel, pubs and club work”.

and, in the Good Lawyer Guide 2010 as, “outstanding – highly recommended”.

Jonathan advises on:

commercial disputes (including share and asset sale agreements, loans and security, commercial fraud and associated freezing and search injunctions, ADR and financial services)
company and insolvency law (including contractual disputes, shareholders’ disputes, directors’ duties, directors’ disqualification and corporate insolvency/rescue)
professional negligence work (mainly accountants, barristers, solicitors, surveyors and related fields)
trusts and real property (including boundary disputes, dilapidations, partnership disputes, probate disputes, property disputes and equitable remedies)
and has particular expertise in the construction, manufacturing, property and retail sectors.

Over the last eleven years Jonathan has handled many significant disputes. A few of these cases include:

Lawtex v Mothercare, Mercantile Court, purported termination of contract for non-compliance with specification and civil fraud;
Bateson v Stephen-sons, Construction and Technology Court, purported breach of JCT contract and civil fraud;
Nabb v Nabb, property trust dispute;
WTJ v Bates, dispute arising out of director’s termination agreement and director’s loan account;
TNT v Somerfield, Mercantile Court, claim for damages and loss of profit; and
Plowman v Duckitt, Duckitt, Knowles and Rimmer, Chancery, breach of directors fiduciary duties.

“I appreciate that I could have been considerably worse off had you not managed to negotiate the amount you did from Boots”

(Baroness Gillian Dunbar);

"Now that this case has settled I wanted to tell you how well I thought you have done it. In the face of considerable obduracy from the other side, you never allowed your professionalism to slip. You kept the clients on board which, considering the cultural differences between here and the States, is impressive, not least because Stuart was so ill. You held your nerve when the other side were offering less than they ultimately settled for, and improved the offer by over 25% in doing so. I thought you framed your correspondence particularly well and you kept everyone in the loop and ensured that attention was focused. Your instructions were concise and to the point and everything happened on time, for which I am grateful”

(Simon Myerson QC);

“I am sure you are delighted with the settlement. I feel sure it will have a lot to do with your high level of professionalism throughout. I hope your clients are happy with the outcome. I have to say I have always been very impressed with your skills"

(Jon Bush);

“Thank you as usual for your clear guidance about options. You’ve done a great job for me twice now, and while I always hope never to need your services again, I will have no hesitation in instructing you again if I need to or indeed recommending you to others”

(Julia Goodfellow-Smith);

“Jonathan it was a pleasure to work with you last week and I am grateful to you and to Counsel for your input throughout the day”

(Patrick Walker).

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