All staff at a Home Counties firm have been made redundant after the business was placed into administration. Lennons Solicitors closed last week with the appointment of administrators from insolvency specialist Quantuma.
The firm operated from three offices in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, employing 37 people, and reported a turnover of £3.4m as recently as 2023. Quantuma said the firm had experienced difficulties more recently and had to cease trading after being unable to secure professional indemnity insurance.
Sean Bucknall, managing director at Quantuma, said: 'It is deeply regrettable that Lennons has been forced to cease trading, due to a series of difficult circumstances. This was a sad ending for an established law firm. Following a period of marketing, we have managed to safely transfer all of the firm’s live files in accordance with clients’ instructions to multiple parties including Read Cooper Limited t/a BWK Solicitors and Nexa Law Limited, ensuring that all client interests remain protected and that there is a managed and organised wind-down of the firm.’
Samantha Palmer, partner at Child & Child, has advised the joint administrators in respect of all regulatory matters and has subsequently been appointed as client protective solicitor manager. She will oversee all regulatory matters including the transfer of client files and client monies to the acquiring firms.
Lennons was founded in 1983 and its head office was in Chesham. The firm was an active member of its local community, sponsoring both Chesham United Football Club and Hemel Storm basketball team. The practice had commercial, property, wills, probate and life planning, family law, dispute resolution and employment law departments.
Managing director Andrew King is a panel member of the Football Association’s national case panel, sitting on disciplinary panels for serious cases covering all grassroots football across the men’s and women’s game, and youth football.
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