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Peter Garry

Consultant Solicitor

England & Wales

020 3319 3700

peter.garry@keystonelaw.co.uk

Peter has over 35 years of experience helping clients pursue complex commercial disputes. During the past 20 years he has developed a specialist practice resolving disputes within partnerships, LLPs and private limited companies. Peter also advises on the drafting of partnership, LLP and shareholder agreements and other partnership, LLP and company issues and transactions.

Expertise

Peter advises on all aspects of partnerships and LLPs, including structuring, member exits, conversions, dissolutions, and disputes. He works across sectors, particularly in property investment, development, and professional practices.

Experience

  • Providing advice to partners and LLP members on a wide range of partnership and LLP issues arising in a number of different business sectors, including property investment, care homes, City investment management, farming, and retail.
  • Advising on and drafting professional practice partnership and LLP agreements.
  • Assisting in the LLP conversion of a leading regional solicitors’ practice.
  • Advising salaried and fixed share partners on avoiding liability for the debts of their insolvent solicitors’ practice.
  • Advised a member of a leading accountancy practice LLP on the terms of his exit.
  • Advised salaried partners on the terms of their exit from a solicitors’ practice.
  • Advised solicitors on setting up an LLP and acquiring assets and goodwill from the administrator of an insolvent law firm.
  • Advised a City bond dealer LLP on restructuring and capital issues.
  • Acted for the executor of a deceased partner of a family care home partnership concerning the failure of the surviving partner to account for the value of the deceased partner’s share of the value of the care home business and property.

Peter acts for shareholders and directors in drafting shareholders’ agreements, resolving disputes, enforcing rights, and advising on exits, with particular focus on owner-managed businesses, property ventures, and professional services companies.

Experience

  • Advised a surveyor director/shareholder in a series of connected chartered surveyor companies on his rights vis-à-vis other director/shareholders and in connection with a series of proposed board resolutions.
  • Advised a shareholder in a property investment company on his rights under the articles of association, a shareholders’ agreement and the general law and in relation to the terms of his exit from the company.
  • Advising on unfair prejudice, minority shareholder oppression and other boardroom and shareholder dispute issues.
  • Advised the director/shareholders of a valuable franchise operation company on a dispute with their co-director/shareholders.
  • Advising partners on discrimination, harassment, bullying, and bad faith.

Peter specialises in advising professional practices on partnership and LLP matters, governance, restructurings, succession planning, and disputes. He acts for solicitors, accountants, surveyors, and property professionals at all stages of practice life.

Experience

  • Acting for individual partners or groups of partners in relation to disputes arising between them on the dissolution of their professional firms (solicitors, accountants, surveyors, doctors, architects etc).
  • Advising partners of City law firms on proposed de-equitisation and/or exit terms.
  • Advised a leading accountancy practice as to the conduct of one of its members.
  • Acted for a leading bank in a series of claims against partners of a dissolved solicitors’ practice.
  • Advising professional practices (notably solicitors, surveyors and GP practices) on the expulsion of partners or members for fraud and/or other misconduct.
  • Advising proposed salaried, fixed share and equity partners on the terms offered to them on joining professional firms.

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

Recognition

Recognised by Chambers UK for Partnerships: Contentious 2021–2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Partnerships 2020–2025

Recognised by Best Lawyers (UK) for Partnerships 2009–2025

Recognised by Business Today as a Top 10 UK Contentious Lawyer in Partnership Law 2023

Recognised by the Legal 500 for Partnerships 2018

Acknowledged by Chambers 2025 for having a great depth of experience advising clients in the legal and financial services sectors on complex partnership negotiations and disputes.

“His knowledge of the law is exceptional and he quickly grasps matters outside his normal area of expertise.”

Chambers UK 2025