Contact Us
Victory House, 24 Elmsway, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 2AE.
Tel: 0845 453 4882 | Fax: 0161 439 4207
Email: info@mounteney.com
Our Ethos
Jonathan Mounteney Solicitors is a professional legal practice founded to provide a simple, inexpensive, quality legal service. Our object is to fulfil client’s requests in a way that meets their needs and exceeds their expectations:
- Every client receives personal service from our principal, Jonathan Mounteney.
- Our legal work is of the highest quality, at least equivalent to that of the large regional law firms where Jonathan formerly served.
- All our dealings are personal, friendly, and faultlessly courteous and concise.
- We cause no unnecessary delays in the progress of client’s interests; we notify clients immediately of any delays that occur, with a complete explanation and suggested remediation strategy.
- We never issue an account without first discussing and agreeing it with our client.
Jonathan Mounteney is:
- a highly qualified solicitor who has worked his whole professional life in quality legal environments
- a family man with young children, who is married to Sarah, a teacher
- a business man with years of experience running his own financial services firm
- a Christian who worships in the Baptist tradition - ministering to young people and (through Trusteeship of Manchester City Mission) with wider outreach and relief work
Work Types
Jonathan Mounteney Solicitors offers a complete solicitor service. Jonathan is particularly well-experienced in “in-house” legal engagements, able to advise commercial entities at board-level appropriately from experience.
Our specialisms:
- Drafting and negotiating IT arrangements, especially for computer systems, software and communications / telephony
- Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, especially for sales, supply, and for facilities arrangements such as cleaning, catering, security, and porterage
- Litigation across the legal spectrum from small claims to heavy commercial disputes – especially cases of a difficult nature, e.g. where existing advisors may have prejudiced resolution
- Total legal advice for logistical projects
- Intellectual property matters – trade marks, copyright and patents - including registration services
- Company Secretarial services
- Corporate transactions (buying and selling businesses)
We also offer:
- Incorporation of businesses
- Debt-collection services
- Will writing
- Property legal advice
- Conveyancing
- Financial Services compliance advice
Fees
Jonathan Mounteney Solicitors deliberately distinguish our commercial arrangements from the traditional. Working to a fixed-fee wherever possible we offer clients comfort against the greatest fear in the law – uncontrolled costs. We also embrace the principle of commercial risk-sharing in our fees, wherever appropriate.
We expect to be available at your premises, without additional charge, whenever required, and always to respond within hours.
Our fees are generally ½ - ¼ of those charged by city-centre legal firms, for advisors with no greater specific experience than ours.
- Hourly rates will normally be around £100
- Fixed fees for typical transactions:
- Up to £1000 debt collection: £100
- Conveying a small property: £295
- Company Incorporation: £90
- Annual Company Secretary fee: £100
We normally offer project-specific payment terms (i.e. payment only once the whole job is successfully completed). We never issue an account without first discussing and agreeing it with our client.
Facilities Available To Clients
- Oaths, declarations and witnessing
- High capacity scanning
- Copying (including colour)
- Faxing
- Large meeting rooms
- Printing, binding, franking and posting
- Video and photography
- Document storage
- Server facilities
Experience
Jonathan Mounteney has offered legal services on his own account since April 2005.
We would be pleased to arrange appropriate references on request.
Jonathan has extensive experience of handling high-value arrangements (£2M - £50M), as well as regular practice in mid-range deals (£100k - £2M).
- First Class degree in Physics (1990) King’s College, London
- Master’s Degree in Electronics (1991) Northumbria University
- Post-graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (1996) Bristol University
Jonathan qualified as a solicitor in 1994 with the largest firm on Tyneside, Dickinson Dees Solicitors. After moving to Manchester in 1995 Jonathan worked for Hammonds Solicitors, before moving in-house with Sony Group in 1996. Returning to Manchester in 1998 Jonathan was in charge of Commercial Contracting for Co-operative Financial Services, before moving to head the Manchester IT Unit of Pinsent Masons Solicitors in 2003.
- Associate of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
- Member of the Institute of Physics
- Associate of the British Computer Society
- Interests include computers, writing poetry, and drawing.
Contact Us
Victory House, 24 Elmsway, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 2AE.
Tel: 0845 453 4882 | Fax: 0161 439 4207
Email: info@mounteney.com
Jonathan Mounteney Solicitors is a trading style of South Manchester Solicitors Limited
Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority