Irini Newby (Director)
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“Simcocks’ team has built
well in recent years and offers very high standards of service. Irini Newby leads the group with a pragmatic, hands-on approach which has attracted many of the top and middle-tier UK law firms and some blue-chip corporates. The team draws on the expertise of directors Ita McArdle, Phil Games and David Spencer, as well as two very experienced associates, Adam Kelly and Norman Teare. The firm acted for Flybe in the major BA Connect acquisition.”
2007 Legal 500
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“Simcocks Advocates’ very approachable Irini Newby heads the firm’s commercial and commercial property departments. She gives consistently sound and helpful advice and heads a team able to offer advice on property transactions under both English and Manx law. She runs the efficient and knowledgeable employment practice, which has been increasingly involved in industrial tribunal cases.”
2009 Legal 500
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“Simcocks Advocates receives the ultimate accolade when clients say ‘we frequently instruct it above UK firms, as service and knowledge is superior’. Irini Newby ‘explains the complexities of the law in plain English’, and has been active in numerous termination cases.”
2010 Chambers and Partners
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“Simcocks Advocates offers ‘sensible commercial advice’ with ‘care taken to explain the finer points’, and group head Irini Newby is recommended as ‘positive and conscientious’. In line with market trends, the firm handled a high volume of property-related restructurings and refinancings in 2009.”
2010 Chambers and Partners
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“Simcocks Advocates offers ‘sensible commercial advice’ with ‘care taken to explain the finer points’, and group head Irini Newby is recommended as ‘positive and conscientious’. In line with market trends, the firm handled a high volume of property-related restructurings and refinancings in 2009.”
2010 Legal 500
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“Simcocks Advocates saw an increase in deals with a cross-border element in 2009, particularly deals related to Asia. Other highlights included advising a BVI holding company on a 30m refinancing package. Irini Newby heads a ‘responsive’ team that includes ‘technically strong’ associate Peter Chemaly.”
2010 Legal 500
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“Irini Newby responded in a timely manner, anticipated potential issues and left me with a feeling of confidence.”
2010 Chambers and Partners
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“Irini Newby is ‘pragmatic and commercial - she aims to get deals done.”
2008 Legal 500
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In Brief:
Admitted 2003 Isle of Man; 1998 England and Wales. Irini heads the corporate and commercial, commercial property and employment departments of the practice. She has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, disposal of business undertakings, amalgamation and reconstruction of companies, corporate finance transactions and advises directors and corporate service providers on matters of Manx company law. She puts together and leads teams who help companies exploit their opportunities by offering realistic and reliable solutions. Previously she worked at the Ontario Human Rights Commission and Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester. She speaks Greek and Macedonian.Education:
University of Toronto (BA(Hons) 1986; University of Birmingham (MBA - 1989); Metropolitan University of Manchester (CPE and LPC - 1996).Membership:
Isle of Man Law Society, Law Society of England and Wales.
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