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Coodes Solicitors LLP

Coodes Solicitors, founded in 1747, is one of the longest established leading law firms in the South West region with an extensive network of offices in Cornwall and Devon.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

It has a specialist team of highly skilled and experienced lawyers offering expertise and a wide range of legal services for both business and personal needs. The firm’s areas of work span agriculture, corporate and commercial, employment, residential and commercial property, family, wills, trusts and probate, personal injury, clinical negligence, criminal law, and disputes both commercial and personal. Coodes’ commercial property lawyers provide a range of legal advice including sales and purchases, leases, investments, site assembly and developments offering cost-effective and practical solutions. The team has experience of property transactions of all sizes. As a full-service law firm, it can assist with any other property matters including joint ventures.

AGRICULTURE SPECIALISTS

Coodes employs over 160 lawyers and support staff and provides clients from Penzance in the West to Holsworthy in the East with the benefits of a large firm combined with the personal touch of a local service. Coodes prides itself on being open, honest, and direct and explains complex legal matters in plain English, keeping jargon to a minimum.

The firm celebrates its 275th anniversary this year and this remarkable achievement in its history cements its position in the region and demonstrates its resilience and adaptability. It has an agricultural and rural team trusted by generations of land-owning clients, offering a wealth of legal advice on buying and selling farms, setting up Community Land Trusts, farm tenancies, disputes, diversification, trusts and tax, partnerships, and environmental issues.

EMPLOYMENT, HR, AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTES

This year is also an important time in the transition and future succession of Coodes – it has just expanded its business ownership and has appointed seven new business owners at the firm. For the first time in its history, there are more female partners compared to male and these new promotions increase Coodes’ proportion of female partners to nearly 70 percent. Coodes has played an important role in the key milestones for tens of thousands of families and businesses across the South West. It strives to continue giving exceptional service and it stands for helping people – the core of its business remains the same, its clients are at the heart of everything it does.

Employment law is a complex area and one that is frequently changing. Coodes’ team is here to provide a service not only when things go wrong but promote good HR practice. The department offers a range of legal advice including HR for small businesses, employment contracts, performance management, disciplinaries and dismissals, redundancies and restructuring, discrimination, and representation. And for those occasions when things go wrong with for example commercial contracts or property , our commercial BUSNESS F I AIR BIG BREAKFAST S P ONSOR Coodes disputes lawyers are happy to help. HERE FOR YOU PERSONALLY As well as a whole host of business services, Coodes is proud to provide unrivalled personal legal support. Lawyers for the firm regularly advise and act for clients in relation to wills and probate, family and divorce law, residential property, personal disputes, mental health issues, domestic abuse, criminal law, clinical negligence, and personal injury.

EXCEEDING LOCAL BUSINESS NEEDS

Coodes boasts some of the best corporate and commercial lawyers in the UK, punching above its weight with wideranging expertise, knowledge, and experience in this sector. Coodes has specialists in the renewables, construction, tourism, and rural sectors. Coodes Chairman and Partner Peter Lamble said: “At Coodes, we want to be easy to understand and to know that clients value what we do. Coupled with that, our aspiration is to be a law firm that clients want to come back to time and again and recommend us to others. Giving clients the care they deserve is of the utmost importance to us.

Its team can handle all legal matters and advise businesses of every size including sole traders, partnerships, limited companies, and LLPs. The firm is ranked highly in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners guides and its experts can assist with contract and commercial transactions, disputes, business growth and sales and transfers. The team also acts in all aspects of corporate recovery and insolvency work. “We want clients to trust us and want to be associated with a partnership they can be proud of. A lot has changed in our 275 year history, but one thing has remained the same – the way we serve Cornwall and Devon’s communities. We are still a family firm at heart, and we harness the traditions started in 1747 well into 2022 and beyond. We want to be around for the next 275 years.”