Richard Butts

Imogen Holland and her colleagues Richard Butts and Clare French are permanently available to our queries. Often working into the twilight hours to ensure that we as their client are satisfied and on track. Their approach is aligned with ours and the relationships that have formed over the years ensure that an in-depth understanding of our requirements are considered at every juncture.

The team is excellent technically, very approachable and comes up with commercial solutions. They take a pragmatic approach in order to get a deal done. In particular, Imogen Holland and Richard Butts are exceptional examples of this.

He is on the ball, knows our business very well, and it's a very positive experience to work with him.

The “very effective and communicative” Richard Butts has in-depth experience of capital markets transactions.

He is praised by sources because he is 'extremely responsive and turns things around very quickly. He is unflappable and remains calm and professional'.

He's very knowledgeable and detail-oriented, and always at the end of the telephone to offer advice when we need it.

Richard Butts is often called upon to advise public companies. Commentators appreciate that he possesses 'a rare combination of intense attention to detail, deep legal experience and an engaging character'.

Richard led a moderately complex private investment round that required a number of legal instruments, short timeframes, multi-tranche investment delivery and international investors. His experience, diligence and competence were clear to see; but I was particularly pleased with the pragmatic and commercial approach he took to the various issues along the way. As a former lawyer, it is fair to say that I have a particularly high expectation of the quality of legal services. At all stages of this process I have been suitably impressed and feel confident that our company commercial matters are in safe hands with Richard and his team. As a direct result of Richard’s excellent handling of this matter we have issued instructions on a range of additional matters and look forward to continuing to work closely with your Newcastle team across all of the companies in which I hold an interest.

As ever, the team [at Ward Hadaway that worked on Project Tiger] provided a first class service throughout and Richard, in particular, was an invaluable member of our deal team. There were a number of instances during this process which presented significant challenges that might well have derailed the deal. In each instance Richard helped us to steer a clear path through the numerous obstacles with very practical legal counsel and skilful negotiation