Business and Property

No5 Barristers' Chambers are leaders in heavyweight and complex dispute resolution. We have over 50 barristers practising in specialist fields in Business and Property issues and offer appropriate counsel for all matters. We are regularly recognised by Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for the excellent service that our barristers provide.

Expertise

The specialist teams provide a high-quality full service in domestic and international dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration and other forms of ADR. Please see the links beneath for details of work undertaken and to view individual profiles, please select "view our barristers".

Specialist Areas

Recommendations

No5 Barristers’ Chambers is respected for the broad chancery expertise it offers to clients and instructing solicitors. An interviewee notes: "It is my go-to set in the Midlands, with good depth and breadth." Members of the chambers regularly assist clients with both commercial and traditional chancery cases, including contentious and non-contentious trusts, property law and insolvency matters.
Chambers UK 2021

No5 Barristers' Chambers houses a strong Chancery team, praised by clients for its 'good strength in depth of counsel and very efficient and reliable clerking'.
Legal 500 2021

No5 Barristers' Chambers is a well-respected Midlands set which continues to act in a variety of probate, trusts and wills matters, as well as real estate and commercial disputes. Members are able to handle everything from Inheritance Act claims to complex insolvency cases. "The barristers are all approachable and down to earth for clients," says one instructing solicitor, who adds: "You don't feel intimidated around them."
Chambers UK 2020

No5 Barristers' Chambers houses 'counsel of the highest calibre' across the full spectrum of insolvency, banking, commercial and chancery matters.
Legal 500 2020 

"They provide excellent service - they have super competent barristers who are very approachable and clerks who do a sterling job. The clerks make you feel like the most important client they have and can't do enough for you. The service is quality and the barristers are quality. The whole operation is very slick and it's a very well-oiled machine." "The friendly nature of the clerks is one of the reasons that I continue to use them; they make life much easier when you're instructing a barrister."
Chambers UK 2019

No5 Barristers' Chambers is ‘a very strong set’ for commercial, banking and insolvency, and Chancery matters; the team’s expertise covers high-value contested probate and Inheritance Act cases, proprietary estoppel matters and partnership, contractual, and company shareholder disputes, to name a few. 
Legal 500 2019

A well-established Midlands set, No5 Barristers' Chambers boasts a broad chancery practice and a number of well-regarded practitioners. The set has expertise in company, partnership, insolvency and property law as well as contentious and non-contentious trusts and estates. "The success rate I've had from No5 is excellent" remarks a source.
Chambers UK 2018

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