Introducing Our Newly Qualified Solicitors
Amelia Chivers and Bradley Ramsay have qualified as solicitors at Machins, marking a key milestone in their careers and strengthening our legal teams.
Jon Alvarez
Company Commercial
Jon is a partner in our Company Commercial Team. He is also a finance partner and compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA).
Contact Information
TestimonialsJohn Alvarez and Max lesser were our main contacts who made a great team to handle our complex project, leaving no stone unturned and examined in detail to ensure a positive outcome. Throughout the process they were very communicative and always on hand to discuss proceedings. Throughout the process they remained totally professional whilst developing a good rapport with out team.Legal 500 2024We were recommended to Machins by our accountants. We used their services for the sale of our business. They acted very professionally with great attention to detail.Jon Alvarez is easy to work with. He takes a commercial approach to contracts and gets the job done painlessly.Legal 500 2022
John Alvarez and Max lesser were our main contacts who made a great team to handle our complex project, leaving no stone unturned and examined in detail to ensure a positive outcome. Throughout the process they were very communicative and always on hand to discuss proceedings. Throughout the process they remained totally professional whilst developing a good rapport with out team.
Legal 500 2024
We were recommended to Machins by our accountants. We used their services for the sale of our business. They acted very professionally with great attention to detail.
Jon Alvarez is easy to work with. He takes a commercial approach to contracts and gets the job done painlessly.
Legal 500 2022
About Jon
Jon joined Machins in 1996 as a trainee solicitor, qualifying as a solicitor in 1998 and becoming a partner in 2004.
Approach to work
Jon’s approach is to try and work as closely as he can with clients with the aim of being seen as their in-house legal advisor.
Jon regularly advises a large portfolio of clients including high net worth individuals and their associated businesses and investments. He specialises in corporate and commercial law with particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions and disposals, corporate insolvency, solvent reconstruction and distressed sales, corporate governance, corporate finance, private equity investment and IT related contracts.
“As the firm’s finance partner I have developed a detailed understanding of how accounts work and use this in my legal work for clients as it adds an extra dimension to the legal advice that I’m able to provide.”
Specialist practice areas- Mergers and acquisitions
- Distressed sales and purchases (including acting on behalf of liquidators, administrators and receivers)
- Corporate governance
- Commercial property (acting for banks, landlords, tenants, sellers and buyers)
Latest news by Jon Alvarez
Engineers can’t use ‘overarching contract’ defence to limit liability
A firm of engineers have been told they cannot use an ‘overarching contract’ defence to limit their liability for deficient work in a dispute with a homeowner. The issue arose after the homeowner, Mr Elton, hired Buxton Associates (Consulting Engineers) Ltd to carry out engineering consultancy work. He was dissatisfied with the work and his
UK importer entitled to compensation over supply of Covid masks
A UK importer has won its claim for compensation in a dispute with a Belgian company over the supply of Covid face masks. The case involved Local Boy’z Ltd, which agreed numerous contracts with Malu NV for two types of face mask, the KN95 masks and the Type IIR masks. Both products were manufactured in
Contract entitled restaurant manager to be director and shareholder
The High Court has ruled that a restaurant manager was entitled to be a director and shareholder of a new business he had set up with a married couple. He was also entitled to payments as specified in a contract agreed by both sides. The manager had run a restaurant from premises which were held
Father granted access to business records in family dispute
A father has been granted access to information concerning the family businesses of which he was a director. The issue arose because he was in dispute with his son and daughter-in-law, who were also directors. The family business comprised of companies that operated residential care homes. The father and mother established and ran it on
Finance consultants entitled to their €855,000 commission
A finance consultancy was entitled to €855,000 commission for its part in acquiring investment money for a large property development. That was the decision of the Court of Appeal in a case involving EMFC Loan Syndications and The Resort Group. The Group had engaged EMFC to assist it to raise financing of up to €130
Financial services directors disqualified for trading while insolvent
Two financial services directors have been disqualified for continuing to trade and take money from clients while their company was insolvent. Paul Rossi was a director of Independent Derivative Traders Ltd. The company traded as ‘Futex’ and provided access to a financial markets trading platform for sub-contracted independent traders. He was joined in the management