Neil Mercer

Solicitor

Neil is a member of an expanding team in the Business Services Department, specialising in all aspects of Company Law and Commercial Property.

Clients have commended that Neil is friendly, patient and a ‘good listener’. He makes every effort to provide excellent client service and support. His effectiveness is evident in client satisfaction and retention.

Skills & Expertise

Neil advises clients on: buying and selling companies/businesses; commercial letting and leases; landlord-tenant relations; rent reviews and recovery; and terms and conditions of business and other commercial agreements. He is also helping to develop the firm’s expertise in Agricultural Law.

His clients have included both sellers and purchasers, and landlords and tenants across a wide variety of sectors, such as hotels, public houses, high street shops, cafes and restaurants, and agricultural land and premises. His experience ranges from small shops to properties valued at several million pounds that have raised issues of varying degrees of legal complexity (not necessarily related to the size of the property or business).

He acts for clients based locally in Hertfordshire, London and throughout the UK. He also has a number of clients based abroad and has extensive dealings with offshore companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Neil Mercer
Contact details:
Location:St Albans
T: 01727 735665 (DDI)
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Office address:
Ivy House
107 St Peter's Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 3EW

T: 01727 837161
F: 01727 830506

Background & Qualifications

Neil was born in Canada and brought up in Leeds. He studied Natural Sciences at the University of Durham, majoring in Archaeology, Mathematics, and Earth Sciences.

He then studied the law conversion course and joined Turner & Debenhams (now Debenhams Ottaway) in 2007 as a trainee solicitor. He qualified with the firm in 2009.

He received the Marcus Goodman Prize awarded by Hertfordshire Law Society for the highest mark achieved by a trainee solicitor in the legal practice course. In 2011 he obtained a Masters in Law (LLM) (with distinction).