Peter Garry

Partner, Head of partnerships and professional practices
Commercial dispute resolution

t: +44 (0)1892 506343
e: peter.garry@crippslaw.com

Expertise:

Peter advises on a wide range of commercial dispute resolution work. He specialises in partnership and LLP disputes, director/shareholder disputes, the investigation and recovery of assets following fraud or insolvency, and banking disputes. He is a CEDR accredited mediator and takes mediation appointments as well as acting for parties to mediations.

He gained first hand experience in setting up a legal practice when he co-founded The Ralph Garry Partnership (later Ralph Hume Garry), of which he was managing partner.

He is a regular speaker on partnership and LLP law topics.

Career:

Peter trained with Blyth & Robinson in Norwich and qualified in 1981. He has held several partnership positions, including at London firms Sacker & Partners, Payne Hicks Beach and Boodle Hatfield. In 1995 he co-founded The Ralph Garry Partnership (later Ralph Hume Garry) and joined Cripps Harries Hall LLP as a partner in 2001.

Publications:

Peter writes a regular partnership law column for The Law Society’s Gazette and frequently writes for other legal journals.

Liability of salaried partners for Crown debts, Law Society's Gazette, 10 May 2007
Breaking up is hard to do, Law Society's Gazette, 20 July 2006
Valuation and sale of goodwill, Law Society's Gazette, 4 May 2006
Defining LLPs, Law Society's Gazette, 2 March 2006
In a Limited Liability Partnership there is no default duty of good faith, Architect's Journal, 23 February 2006
Getting a hold on partners, Law Society’s Gazette, 1 December 2005
Misappropriation of goodwill from a legal practice, Law Society's Gazette, September 2005
Ownership of a firm's property and business, Law Society's Gazette, July 2005
The Disposition Of Jointly-Owned Partnership Property On Death, A Propos Partnership, June 2005
Members Only, The Lawyer, 8 November 2004
Contributed a chapter on 'Partnership and Professional Practice Disputes' in Sweet & Maxwell's book, 'ADR and Commercial Disputes' published in December 2001

Memberships:

• Association of Partnership Practitioners (Committee member)
• The London Court of International Arbitration European Users' Council