What our clients say

• Tim Field and Tracey Dickens recognise that all clients are important and that their reputation depends upon this. They both provide quality advice in a timely manner, which provides confidence in them. Legal 500, 2023

• Many thanks for your advice and assistance. It helped enormously in making what I thought might be a complex process both simple and straightforward, not to mention swift!

• I have worked with Tracey Dickens and Tim Field who have both exhibited the qualities that get the job done. My main work has been with Tim and I have put clients to him because he represented them well.Legal 500

• Birkett Long helped us with the sale of one business and establishing another. We particularly enjoyed working with Tim Field and his team. We had complete trust in his legal understanding. His advice was clear and pragmatic. What is more he responded quickly and was willing to pick up the phone to explain issues. Thank you so much.

  Ben Kent - Kent Blaxill Properties Limited.

• Tracey Dickens proved tough in negotiations with our purchaser in representing our interests and would often come up with innovative solutions to help with any impasses. Tim Field involved himself closely in our business and kept the Directors on track in a complex transaction, he was available 24/7 and remained calm throughout the process. The fact the agreed sale price for the business was the original offer price is testimony to the efforts of Tracey and Tim.Legal 500

• Thanks for all your help Tim and your efficiency throughout - really appreciated your expert advice and clarity around the charity situation.

• The team is a pleasure to work with. They are responsive, competent, well-organised and deliver their services efficiently.Client testimonial from the Legal 500

• Efficient, knowledgeable and approachable. Appreciated the thorough and complete advice. -Legal 500 2024

• Your support through some key developments and milestones for the charity has been invaluable. We very much appreciate the clarity and focus you brought to the challenges we faced.Limbless Association

• I recently used Tim for changes to a shareholder agreement we have in place. Tim was extremely efficient providing answers & solutions to all our questions in simple terms that everyone could understand. He was also responsive to any questions we asked, replying to emails in a timely manner and at a price that was very competitive to other quotes we received. I would highly recommend him.

• Tracey Dickens and her team are outstanding. They are knowledgeable, responsive and above all, pragmatic which is just what we need from our legal advisers.Client testimonial from the Legal 500

• Thank-you for your work on all aspects of developing the new Articles, you made a complex subject easy to navigate and were consistently responsive and clearly an expert in these matters, it was great to work with you. - Caroline Taylor, Essex Community Foundation

• Professional, timely, on hand when I required and very pleasant to deal with, I found Tim Field to be very much on the ball and was a great help with the growth of my business.Mr Robert Poole

• Tim Field and the team at Birkett Long accurately assessed what was needed in order to successfully complete the sale and confidently guided us through the process, always acting in our best interests. Tim and the support staff were always available by phone or email to deal with any queries that arose and dealt with them in a friendly and accommodating manner.

• Tim provided clear advice on what were some complicated contract clauses. Moreover, he understood our concerns, the mitigations and our preference to find a workable solution which would allow us to continue dealing with the service provider.Mr Ian Saul, Navigator Terminals

• They are without doubt the most efficient and professional firm of solicitors we have ever dealt with.

• Tim has a great ability to listen carefully, to analyse critically, and most significantly, to ask the kind of penetrating relevant questions which encourage and enable one, as the client, to see and understand the subject from a variety of angles. This results in a much better comprehension of and appreciation for the legal advice provided.Legal 500

• The team at Birkett Long has the required depth to be able to support transactions of all sizes and has the ability to turn around work to deadlines. Their collaboration with other advisers on the clients team provides confidence in their ability to be great team players and support the client at a stressful times. Legal 500, 2023

• The firm is incredibly professional, modern, forward thinking and caring. Induction was well organised and done in a way that made sure the training was not too overwhelming. Everyone here is very friendly and has gone out of their way to make me feel very welcome and included as part of the team.

• Thank you for all of your dedicated hard work to see this through with us. We appreciate you!

• The work you've done was brilliant, I would say 10 out of 10. I will certainly be in touch should we have further legal requirements.

• With your much valued advice and guidance we navigated our way through the Due Diligence process and can not thank you enough for your indefatigable patience and advice which helped us complete this daunting task. We have used Birkett Long for many years for all our business and personal legal requirements and have always received excellent advice and a first class service.

• We needed some help to look at what was required to form a Community Interest Company on behalf of service users. Tim Field was fantastic taking time to explain the legal implications in a way that were easy to understand and enabled the charity to make the relevant recommendations to our commissioners. Tim also provided different options for us to consider and explore that would not only fulfil the brief but give us a more practical and beneficial way forwardAnna Trudgian, Operations Director, Open Road

• Many thanks for your help in what was a very difficult set of circumstances Tim.

• A really strong, very approachable and cohesive team of hardworking commercial solicitors, with good legal knowledge. Fully focused on the needs of the client, taking the time to look beyond the legal issues and considering what the practical implications are for our business. The team provides clear and specific communication and has an agile can-do outlook. Extremely impressed by their work and commitment. - Legal 500 2024

• From my perspective the service from your firm was excellent - instructive and supportive to our company in a significant deal for us with many unchartered aspects...I felt that the service provided was at its best once Tim took over the project. We highly valued the realistic commercial advice and concise, best-friendly guidance that you provided for us.Mr M Jones