Nicola Foulston (“Nicky”) has one of the sharpest minds in the business. In 1990, at the age of 22, she served as CEO of the Brands Hatch Leisure Group (“Brands Hatch”) when the business was valued at £6m. Having made transformational changes to the company’s operations and financial management over the next 6 years, she floated the group in 1996 and sold it three years later to Interpublic, the US marketing giant for over $195m, at a time when Brands Hatch was then the largest organiser and promoter of motorsport in Europe. She was subsequently named Veuve Cliquot “Business Woman of the Year” in 1996 and she remains the award’s youngest ever recipient at the age of 29.

She subsequently ran a family office with private equity investments in the USA and Europe. In 2014, she was appointed as a Board Member of the Government’s Industrial Development Advisory Board (IDAB), an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, to help government boost growth in business.

Nicky was appointed CEO of Rosenblatt, a City law firm, in September 2016 and in that role, has taken over the commercial management of the firm, transforming it in readiness for a listing on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, which took place on 8 May 2018 at a valuation of £70m+. Prior to that, she had been a client of the firm for over 30 years.

She has a deep understanding of operational restructuring, improving business performance, best outcome identification and implementation and balance sheet de-leveraging often working with multiple stakeholders at all levels of a company’s capital structure. She has a reputation in the City for reliability, trustworthiness and delivering on time.

Robert has over 20 years’ experience with international businesses and has worked extensively with public funds, private equity and venture capital investors. His recent roles include interim CFO at Tantalum Corp and CLA Limited, as well as permanent roles at Ubisense PLC and Immedia Broadcasting plc.

Jon Lovitt joined Rosenblatt in 2005, having previously worked in boutique city corporate finance law firms.

He has acted on a number of high value transactions across a number of industry sectors  for many institutional, corporate and individual clients in areas such as: mergers and acquisitions; private equity fundraisings; initial public offerings; secondary issues; City Code takeovers; venture capital investments; joint ventures and partnership matters, and shareholder-related issues. Jon has also advised funders, vendors and management in relation to management buy-outs and buy-ins.

Jon acted as lead Partner in the acquisition and subsequent IPO by RBG Holdings plc (formerly known as Rosenblatt Group plc) of the business of Rosenblatt Solicitors.

Clients, both corporate and individual, and fellow legal professionals turn to Rosenblatt’s Dispute Resolution team for incisive action on contentious commercial issues. The team has acquired an outstanding international reputation for its success in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and for its skill in smoothing the path to a positive outcome.

Anthony Field trained at Rosenblatt, becoming a partner in 2008 in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Department. Anthony has extensive experience of commercial disputes, company/shareholder disputes, banking disputes (including mis-selling of interest rate swap products) and negligence claims (including professional negligence). Anthony also has extensive experience in property and landlord/tenant disputes, including breach of covenants, forfeiture, withholding consent, lease renewals and dilapidations.

Anthony regularly advises on issues of insolvency and acts on behalf of office holders in relation to their appointments (both out of court and by court application) and advising on various matters arising out of the insolvency, including increasing the insolvent estate, the validity of creditors’ claims, disclaimers of leases and directors’ conduct.

Recent work includes:

• Acting for Stobart Group in all aspects of its dispute with Andrew Tinkler, including advising the Company in relation to a hostile general meeting and attempt to remove the Chairman, advising on the termination and removal of an errant executive director and leading the litigation which culminated in an expedited trial to determine liability.  The court found that the Defendant had been lawfully dismissed and removed as a director, in a judgment which considered the responsibilities of directors in their interactions with the board and with shareholders. Stobart Group Ltd v Tinkler [2019] EWHC 258 (Comm).
• Acting for Richard Desmond in his claims against Credit Suisse International and GLG Partners LP in relation to the mis-selling of a Total Return Swap and advice in relation to its unwind.
• Advising Express Newspapers in relation to the Leveson Inquiry.
• Advising The Health Lottery in relation to the judicial review brought by Camelot ([2012] EWHC 2391 (Admin)).
• Acting against a leading bank in relation to the mis-selling of an interest rate swap, which resulted in a multi-million pound settlement shortly before trial.
• Acting for a shareholder of a joint venture company claiming unfair prejudice ([2008] EWHC 2810 (Ch), [2009] EWHC 1362 (Ch) and [2010] EWHC 3334 (Ch)).
• Advising a bank in relation to enforcement of its security against certain of its customers within the Dawnay Day group.
• Acting for an outgoing tenant and successfully negotiating a substantial reduction to the landlord’s dilapidations claim.
• Acting for a group of investors in an Enterprise Zone Scheme in relation to a claim against their financial advisers.
• Acting for administrators in opposing an application to remove them from office and subsequent applications dealing with the conduct of the administration.
• Obtaining summary judgement for Seymour Pierce Limited in a claim against the owners of Birmingham City FC ([2010] EWHC 676 (QB)).
• Obtaining summary judgement for a private equity company against its main investor who unilaterally decided not to comply with any future calls for investment funds ([2010] EWHC 2841 (QB)).