About BLM. Clear concise advice

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1 About BLM Clear cocise advice

2 Cliet praise: "excellece i overall claims strategy, techical capability, iovatio, market awareess ad market ifluece." Berrymas Lace Mawer LLP "stads out for its depth of experiece, cosistecy i talet, ability, ad quality of service." blm-law.com Berrymas Lace Mawer is a tradig ame of Berrymas Lace Mawer LLP, a limited liability partership registered i Eglad uder umber OC340981, which is authorised ad regulated by the Solicitors Regulatio Authority ad accredited to quality stadards ISO 9001 ad Lexcel. The registered office is at Kig s House, 42 Kig Street West, Machester M3 2NU where a list of members is available for ispectio. I Irelad, Berrymas Lace Mawer is a law firm regulated by the Law Society of Irelad. It is affiliated to Berrymas Lace Mawer LLP ad the parters of Berrymas Lace Mawer are all parters of Berrymas Lace Mawer LLP.

3 blm-law.com About the firm Deliverig clear cocise advice Berrymas Lace Mawer LLP (BLM) is a leadig dispute resolutio law firm specialisig i the liability ad isurace sectors. We advise cliets o a broad spectrum of legal issues across a rage of idustries icludig costructio ad property, healthcare, leisure, educatio ad public sector, retail, trasport ad logistics, maufacturig ad the Lodo Market. We also have extesive experiece of advisig cliets i relatio to corporate liabilities such as regulatory issues, employmet, eviromet, reputatio maagemet, itellectual property ad commercial litigatio (see Expertise page 2). BLM offers a truly atioal presece ad uified partership i Birmigham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dubli, Leeds, Liverpool, Lodo, Machester ad Southampto. With over 1,300 people, we are able to offer geuie stregth i depth combied with a real focus o cliet service. I additio to receivig a excellet legal service, of icreasig importace to our cliets is that we keep them iformed of policy, regulatory ad legislative cosultatios ad assist them i participatig i the debate o reform proposals. We take a early ad proactive approach which meas we ca work closely with cliets so they uderstad the likely outcomes ad impacts o their busiesses ad ca pla accordigly. The firm s commitmet ad determiatio has led to its descriptio i idepedet legal directories ad cliet surveys as a firm that has its figer o the pulse of the market. 1 Berrymas Lace Mawer

4 Our visio Our visio is to be recogised as the most progressive legal firm that: leads the field i all aspects of our practice uderstads what drives our cliets busiess delivers practical legal advice that makes our cliets more competitive. We value People workig i partership. Practical experiece. Etrepreeurial solutios. Actig with itegrity. Commuicatig effectively. Developig the law. Expertise Over a cetury of quality, diligece ad techical excellece has esured that our firm ca cotiue to build a strog reputatio with cliets ad establish a flourishig disputeresolutio practice oe of the largest i the UK ad amog the top two workig i isurace law accordig to Post Magazie s Defedat Law Firm rakigs. We provide a rage of services i additio to isurace which are grouped ito a portfolio for each of the followig market sectors: Costructio & property. Corporate risks. Healthcare. Isurace & idemity. Leisure. Public sector. Retail. Techology, media & telecoms Trasport. 2 Berrymas Lace Mawer

5 What we do by sector Costructio & property Our specialist teams deal with a rage of issues from the iitial cotracts coverig costructio or refurbishmet, to the occupatio of a built structure. Costructio remais a dagerous busiess, ad our group calls o expertise from colleagues to hadle health ad safety, persoal ijury, recovery ad policy iterpretatio issues. As the pressure grows to build more houses may o browfield sites evirometal cosideratios are icreasigly importat. The property isurace ad recovery team works with property ad all-risks isurers o issues of policy iterpretatio ad recovery. Claims vary from multi-millio-poud cases to much smaller disputes, ad the team delivers cost-effective results by choosig the best dispute-resolutio techique whether it be adjudicatio, arbitratio, egotiatio or litigatio. Corporate risks Busiesses face a wide rage of risks that threate people, property, operatios ad commercial activities. The threat of fiacial istability is the tip of the iceberg. Other risks iclude those posed by accidets, claims or damage to brad ad reputatio. BLM legal risk solutios offers cost-effective liability risk maagemet services to the private ad public sector. 3 Berrymas Lace Mawer Our team has the expertise, experiece ad a prove track record of deliverig bespoke solutios to compaies seekig to reduce their legal ad fiacial risks. We work with orgaisatios to cotrol ad reduce liability exposures typically foud i cotract risks, product liabilities ad recall, employmet risks, safety, health ad evirometal scrutiy ad our flagship claims defesibility. We uderstad markets ad sectors ad the regulatory forces at work i our cliets busiess areas. We work with our customers to put them i the best positio possible to maage regulatio ad also where ecessary to make represetatios to idustry bodies, regulators ad govermet policymakers. Every orgaisatio is lookig to substatially reduce the costs associated with risk ad that s where we ca help. Mitigatig risk is our specialism. Healthcare Chambers & Parters describes our departmet as beig appreciated by cliets for its thorough ad diliget approach to cases, demostratig its willigess to get to grips with issues ad its provisio of clear ad helpful advice. Our breadth of experiece is reflected by the diverse rage of cliets which icludes cliical egligece idemifiers, Royal Colleges, complemetary medicie practitioers, private hospitals ad cliics ad their isurers.

6 The team defeds healthcare professioals facig cliical egligece claims across all practice areas. O the discipliary side we represet healthcare professioals before Primary Care Trusts ad the Family Health Service Appeal Authority, Geeral Medical Coucil, Geeral Detal Coucil, Health Professios Coucil, Geeral Optical Coucil, psychotherapy ad cousellig regulators ad complemetary healthcare regulators. Isurace & idemity We have a well-established reputatio withi the isurace sector. Our isurace specialists are regularly called upo to advise cliets i relatio to policy draftig, scope of coverage ad idemity issues, icludig issues of o-disclosure, misrepresetatio ad fraud. Our professioal idemity team is described i Chambers & Parters as havig a strog reputatio i the professioal idemity area. Expertise covers the widest possible selectio of professios, goig beyod the traditioal core of solicitors ad accoutats to iclude barristers, surveyors, egieerig professioals, isurace brokers ad estate agets. What makes us uique is the breadth of expertise: we combie a geuiely atioal ad iteratioal capability with breadth ad depth of experiece. Cliets iclude all the major isurers, Lloyd s sydicates, brokers, loss adjusters ad other isurace itermediaries. We are icreasigly workig with large self-isured eterprises 4 Berrymas Lace Mawer (FTSE 100 compaies ad govermet departmets). They come to us for a market-leadig service that has expertise, iovatio ad awareess of commercial realities as its corerstoes. Leisure Whilst icreasig its domiace of the UK ecoomy, this service sector has also attracted icreased levels of litigatio. Claims ca be broadly categorised ito idustrial ijuries, food safety issues, public liability, robberies ad accidets ivolvig leisure equipmet. We work for may orgaisatios i both the public ad private sectors icludig childre s theme parks, iteratioal hotel chais, local authority leisure cetres, atioal caterig suppliers, public houses ad restaurat chais. Public sector The public sector attracts its fair share of claims from those seekig redress from providers of educatio, social services, social housig, policig ad a host of other services. Perhaps too much has to be take from operatioal budgets to meet the icreasig cost of settlig claims. Give the broad rage of potetial claims, the public sector will have to factor i settlemets as a sigificat expediture item i all future budget plaig.

7 Whilst claims ca ever be completely elimiated, they ca be sigificatly reduced by adoptig best practice ad usig experieced lawyers to provide a legal perspective o risk maagemet. Our dedicated group is experieced i hadlig claims brought agaist various departmets of local govermet. We provide a atioal ad local service backed by the collective experiece of workig with cliets i the public sector across the coutry. Retail The team has a wealth of experiece dealig with claims brought agaist busiesses operatig i this sector. The requiremets of the isured ad their isurers go far beyod litigatio ad procedural matters, so as well as legal expertise, our specialists also provide advice o health ad safety issues, risk maagemet, huma resources ad traiig. We develop a dyamic workig relatioship with our cliets (ad their isurers) to esure the smooth ruig of claims ad the best commercial outcome. We work for a broad rage of retail orgaisatios coverig fast-food outlets, major atioal high street chais ad supermarkets. Techology, media & telecoms Commuicatio ad the movemet of electroic iformatio is becomig more widespread ad faster through , mobile techology ad the iteret. The law is movig at a equally rapid pace. As access to iformatio ad the storage ad use of iformatio expads, the dagers of fallig foul of the Data Protectio Act icrease. Our specialists ca advise ot oly o the strict requiremets of the law but also o best practice i the storage ad use of data. I additio to data protectio, the team specialises i the related areas of privacy, defamatio, itellectual property ad freedom of iformatio. Trasport The UK s trasportatio etwork is vast ad diverse. It covers public trasport i the form of the overlad ad udergroud railways, airlies, buses ad coaches, as well as private 5 Berrymas Lace Mawer trasportatio of people ad goods o lad, sea ad air. Strog liks have bee forged with both public ad private trasport operators resultig i extesive experiece i hadlig their claims. Therefore our atioal presece meas that we are ideally placed to offer legal solutios for trasportatio-related issues. Our experieced ad motivated team offers a service that ca equally ad easily deal with idividual claims, class actios or catastrophic accidets. More iformatio We serve each of the sectors by offerig a diverse rage of expertise i the areas below. For further iformatio please visit: or cotact: lida.coppell@blm-law.com or call Lida o:

8 Areas of expertise Abuse claims Adjudicatio Arbitratio ASBOs/ASBIs Catastrophic ijury Claimat services Claims maagemet Cliical egligece Commercial cotracts Commercial litigatio Costructio Coroers iquests Costs Crimial healthcare defece Data protectio Debt recovery Defamatio Educatio Electoral law Employers liability Employmet law Eviromet Fraud Freedom of iformatio Healthcare disputes Housig litigatio Isurace & re-isurace Itellectual property Judicial review Legal risk services Leisure Local authorities Lodo Market Mediatio Motor Occupatioal disease Police/emergecy services Policy developmet Privacy Product liability Product maagemet Professioal disciplie Professioal egligece Property isurace ad recovery Public iquiries Public law Public liability Retail RTA prosecutios Safety, Health & Eviromet Stress, bullyig ad harassmet Trasport 6 Berrymas Lace Mawer

9 Our history The origis of the firm date back to the 18th cetury, whe Joshua Lace gave his ame to a already established law firm i Liverpool. I 1901, Frederic Berryma bega the practice of Berrymas i the City of Lodo ad, i 1946, Arthur Mawer fouded AW Mawer & Co i Machester. From the very begiig the foudig firms were steeped i isurace law practices. This remais true today. BLM is oe of the largest isurace law firms i the coutry with 95% of turover from dispute resolutio ad litigatio relatig to isurace matters. 7 Berrymas Lace Mawer

10 Cotact details for a i-depth discussio o ay of our services Mike Brow - atioal seior parter, mike.brow@blm-law.com or Birmigham Christopher Wiggi, seior parter chris.wiggi@blm-law.com 63 Temple Row Birmigham B2 5LS T F Dubli Joe Wakeford, cotact parter joe.wakeford@blm-law.com Merrio Hall, Strad Road Sadymout Dubli 4, Irelad T +353 (0) F +353 (0) Lodo Gary Alliso, seior parter gary.alliso@blm-law.com Salisbury House Lodo Wall Lodo EC2M 5QN T F Bristol Matthew Harrigto, seior parter matthew.harrigto@blm-law.com Broad Quay House Price Street Bristol BS1 4DJ T F Leeds Christopher Coughli, seior parter chris.coughli@blm-law.com Park Row House Park Row Leeds LS1 5JF T F Machester Joatha Clay, seior parter joatha.clay@blm-law.com Kig s House 42 Kig Street West Machester M3 2NU T F Berrymas Lace Mawer Cardiff Matthew Harrigto, seior parter matthew.harrigto@blm-law.com 23 Neptue Court Vaguard Way Cardiff CF24 5PJ T F Liverpool David Evas, seior parter david.evas@blm-law.com Castle Chambers 43 Castle Street Liverpool L2 9SU T F Southampto Adrew Hibbert, seior parter adrew.hibbert@blm-law.com 2 Charlotte Place Southampto SO14 0TB T F

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