Inside their Wynard offices, experts from Tilly Bailey & Irvine ("TBI) meet with businesses from Teesside and beyond to impart their legal wisdom.
One of the North East’s oldest and largest law firms, TBI opened its Wynyard site in 2009 and has since established a strong base in the area.
“We help hundreds of businesses and individuals each year,” said Nigel Broadbent, Partner and Head of Corporate & Commercial.
“Clients utilise our expertise as they need someone they can trust to handle what are often very complex cases.”
TBI has been trusted for almost 200 years.
Founded in 1842, the law firm’s reputation and consistently strong results for an impressive range of clients, has led to the firm expanding into new areas – Wynyard, Stockton, Barnard Castle, Hartlepool and Sunderland – with the latter joining TBI’s portfolio last year as TBI Scanlans, following a merger with the respected Wearside firm.
At the Wynyard office, the range of specialisms covered is extensive.
Lawyers there have in-depth experience in dealing with all manner of commercial matters for clients, including commercial dispute resolution (such as mediation, arbitration and adjudication), commercial property transactions, corporate mergers, acquisitions, disposals, finance and banking, succession planning and governance, commercial contract drafting, Employment Law (for both employers and employees), insolvency and Private Family Law.
“The teams at our Wynyard office are experienced and very capable. Some of the matters we deal with are highvalue, high-stakes cases. Often, they are “mission critical” to our clients’ businesses, particularly for owner-managed businesses. We have a well-established track record of helping our clients to get the outcomes they need,” said Alison Leith, Partner and Head of Commercial Litigation.
“Some of the cases we deal with are very significant. For example, I acted for the owners of 77 new-build houses that had defective foundations in claims against the builder and NHBC.
Our clients won damages of multiple millions of pounds at first instance, and then successfully defeated an appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Heavyweight cases like that require a highly organised team effort. They provide fantastic opportunities for our younger lawyers to learn and develop their skill sets in a supportive and well-resourced environment, and that in turn helps to embed the “trusted advisor” relationships we have with our clients. It is not an accident that many of our clients have worked with us for decades”.
It isn’t just the big money cases that TBI specialise in. Sometimes what is at stake is about more than money, as Head of Private Family Law, Wendy Beacom, can attest, having recently helped a client in successfully opposing a top-up application for child maintenance, a huge result long-term for her client.”
It isn’t just results that make what the Wynyard office does special. There is a real team ethos, and a sense of community.
TBI proudly sponsors many local events in the region, and supports local charities such as Alice House Hospice, The Teesside Charity, Butterwick Hospice, and Age UK.
And that sense of care runs right through everything the team does.
“It’s about being accessible. We sit down with our clients’ face-to face, we take the time to listen and to understand what their needs are, and we remain by their side throughout the legal process.
“What really sets us apart is how collaboratively we work. Departments don’t operate in silos – they work together, and with colleagues across our other offices, to provide an integrated full-service legal offering.”
“That joined-up approach, backed by decades of experience, means clients don’t just get a solicitor – they get a team they can trust.”
Visit www.tbilaw.co.uk/contact/WynyardSolicitors