Claire Ankers
Associate, Property Department
Main practice areas:
Undertakes all aspects of commercial property work including development, property finance, landlord and tenant and secured lending. Has a particular interest in investment work, and regularly acts for a wide range of investors and end users of all types of commercial property.
Laura Clatworthy
Associate, Litigation Department
Main practice areas:
Commercial/Corporate dispute resolutions and litigation including breach of contract, sales or goods, breach of warranty, agency & distribution agreements, mediation.
Matthew Dumbrell
Assistant, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia.
Louise Eldridge
Assistant, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
General corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate banking and finance and company / commercial work.
Neil Fleeson
Consultant, Litigation Department
Main practice areas:
Commercial litigation, covering a wide range of general commercial and employment disputes, with particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance litigation. Experienced in international business disputes.
Piers Francis
Assistant, Property Department
Main practice areas:
Commercial property work; all aspects of non-contentious commercial property matters and specialising in landlord and tenant advice. Piers acts for a range of private and institutional clients and lenders on commercial and retail leases, land sales and acquisitions and provides property support to corporate transactions.
Eile Gibson
Associate, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
All areas of corporate taxation including M&A, AIM floatations, reorganisation and restructuring, employment-related tax (including termination disputes), employee incentive schemes, VAT, Stamp Duty/SDRT and property-related tax including SDLT.
Melanie Greer-Walker
Assistant, Property Department
Main practice areas:
Undertakes mainstream commercial property matters for a broad range of property companies, developers and investors. Work includes the acquisition, disposal and letting of all types of commercial and industrial property. Provides property advices to corporate clients in their purchase and sale of a wide variety of businesses.
Elizabeth Larkins
Assistant, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
Mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures, MBO's and general corporate transactions and advice.
Jonathan Lea
Assistant, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
Corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, re-organisations and company/commercial work.
Andrea London
Associate, Head of Employment Department
Main practice areas:
Contentious and non-contentious employment law including in particular; unfair dismissal, breach of contract, age/sex/disability discrimination, Employment Tribunal claims and all aspects of corporate support/TUPE, consultancy and service agreements.
Jane Mayfield
Associate, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
General corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, flotations, corporate re-organisations and company /commercial work.
Rima Mehay
Assistant, Employment Department
Main practice areas:
General employment law including advising in respect of unfair dismissal, redundancy, TUPE, directors' service agreements, consultancy agreements, executive terminations and compromise agreements.
Jonathan Metliss
Consultant, Corporate Department
Main practice areas:
Takeovers, M&A, financing, real estate. Represents Israeli and South African corporations investing and raising finance in the UK privately and on the public markets.
Hilary Pennington-Mellor
Consultant, Family Law
Main practice areas:
Family Department - financial aspects of divorce and separation - private law arrangements for children - interjurisdictional family law issues - cohabitation agreements and separation - pre-nuptial financial and other considerations - inheritance disputes - testamentary planning. All planning of privately funded family law.
Peter Price
Assistant, Financial Services Department
Main practice areas:
Financial services including corporate transactions, constitution and setting up of firms, product design, investment schemes and funds, distribution, risk transfer, outsourcing and regulatory advice from authorisation to enforcement.
Chris Pulham
Associate, IP & IT Department
Main practice areas:
General corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and company/commercial work. Intellectual property work, including licensing of technology, software, copyright and trademarks.
Alastair Tidball
Assistant, Property Department
Main practice areas:
Commercial property transactions including drafting and negotiating agreements, leases, licences, assignments, surrenders, deeds of variations and transfers, advising in relation to landlord and tenant matters; providing property support to corporate transactions.
Simon Walton
Assistant, Litigation Department
Main practice areas:
All aspects of commercial litigation, property litigation and insolvency.