Banbury

Practice Areas:Lucy has over 30 years’ experience in Private Client matters, advising on all aspects of estate administration, wealth preservation and tax and succession planning, often with an international element. She works with landowners, farmers, families, trustees and family offices on how to navigate the complexities of family wealth. Clients value her personable and collaborative style and is known for advice that is practicable and pragmatic.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Private Client
Education: Cambridge University; College of Law, London
Member: Legal 500 Leading Partner 2025, Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, The Association of Lifetime Lawyers, Solicitors for the Elderly
Phone: +44-1295-204000

Practice Areas: Patrick has considerable experience in Family Law matters, particularly national and international divorce and separation issues, and has worked on a number of high-value and property-related matters including agricultural holdings and estates. Patrick strives to resolve disputes without court intervention, although he has conducted a broad variety of matters over recent years, both in and out of court.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Family
Member: Legal 500 Recommend Lawyer 2025, Family Mediator, Resolution Accredited
Phone: +44-1295-204153

Practice Areas:Hitendra has over 30 years’ experience and expertise in Corporate and Commercial law. His specialisms include mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, restructuring organisations, joint venture arrangements, venture capital investments, shareholder agreements, limited liability partnerships as well as a range of commercial contracts, security documentation and terms and conditions of business.

Languages: Gujarati, English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Corporate & Commercial
Education: University of Lancaster; College of Law, Chester
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025
Phone: +44-1295-204108

Practice Areas: Emma is an experienced Commercial Property solicitor, advising on a range of commercial property transactions, including freehold and leasehold acquisitions and Landlord and Tenant matters. Highly regarded by her clients and the firm, she is described as providing technically sound and professional advice with a friendly manner.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Commercial Property
Phone: +44-1295-204111

Practice Areas: Philomena has extensive experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. She has been involved in successfully fighting a number of claims, including complex discrimination claims, unfair dismissal and agency workers regulations claims. She acts for a range of clients from national corporate companies to individuals. Her particular expertise is supporting clients within the transport, food and drink, hospitality and leisure industry sectors.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Employment
Education: University of Leicester (LLB 2.1); De Montfort University (LPC distinction)
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, Employment Lawyers Association
Phone: +44-1295-204147

Practice Areas: Richard is an experienced Litigation Specialist, advising clients on a broad range of Credit Management Collections challenges, ranging from Credit Policies, collections strategies through to pre-legal, legal and insolvency solutions. Richard has over 30 years’ experience in the collections arena with mainly B2B clients with medium to high volumes portfolios of debt. He has gained exceptional expertise in some more of the unusual or complex areas such as national and international debt, asset recovery and retention of title.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Debt Recovery
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, Chartered Institute of Credit Management
Phone: +44-1295-204087

Practice Areas: Andrew has a wide range of commercial property experience particularly in relation to commercial development work and acting for corporate occupiers. Andrew’s work highlights include the acquisition, development and letting of sites on behalf of a major car dealership business for use as motor retail showrooms, acting for an educational establishment in connection with the construction and subsequent lease of new college and student accommodation buildings, the acquisition by a utility company of land as part of a £22m infrastructure project, taking security for an institutional lender over various significant farming estates.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Commercial Property
Education: Newcastle University, College of Law

Practice Areas: Guy leads the Residential Property, Country Homes and Agriculture teams at SE-Solicitors. He advises clients on a broad range of property transactions particularly in relation to high value complex transactions. With over 25 years’ experience, Guy is particularly skilled in a wide variety of unusual and complex transactions including farm sales, advising on existing and new tenancies.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Residential Property & Agriculture
Education: University of Reading, College of Law
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, Agricultural Law Association
Phone: +44-1295-204122

Practice Areas: Liliana has considerable experience in Private Client matters, advising clients on all aspects or Private Client law. Her clients include high net worth individuals, business owners and farmers. She has a particular interest in the administration of complex, taxable estates. She is dedicated to providing the best service that she can, and strives to mitigate inheritance tax and capital gains tax where possible for her clients, often thinking unconventionally in order to do so.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Private Client
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, Solicitors for the Elderly
Phone: +44-1295-204144

Practice Areas: Petra is an experienced Dispute Resolution and specialist Insolvency Solicitor, with over 20 years post qualification experience. Whilst she has particular expertise in dealing with insolvency related matters and disputes concerning wills & trusts and the co-ownership of property, she also deals with a wide variety of commercial disputes. Petra acts for a wide range of clients, ranging from large national corporates to owner managed businesses, private individuals and insolvency practitioners.

Languages: English, Dutch
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
Education: Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and De Montfort University
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025
Phone: +44-1295-204159

Practice Areas: Tom has a wide range of Private Client experience, with his primary areas of expertise being Wills, Trusts, Personal Taxation, Powers of Attorney and Administration of Estates. He specialises in particular in estates with a cross-border element. Tom advises on Court of Protection matters including Lasting Powers of Attorney, Deputyship and Statutory Wills. Tom also advises on contentious matters such as disputes over validity of wills and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975.

Languages: English
Office: SE-Solicitors – Banbury
Work Department: Private Client
Member: Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
Phone: +44-1295-204092