Rachael Barber
IP & Disputes Partner
Deloitte Legal
England
Lawyers
Claire Bell
Partner, Head of Pensions Law
Marian Bloodworth
Employment Law Partner
James Brodie
James is a lawyer and partner within Deloitte Legal’s UK Real Estate business. He leads the Living Sector group, acting for all manner of land promotion, investment and development clients.
James has worked with many of the of the UK’s leading housebuilders and is a specialist in structuring complex site acquisitions, partnership delivery models and collaboration arrangements. With almost 15 years’ real estate experience James also has a broad commercial development background, having been involved in many mix-use developments and high-class city centre office schemes.
Craig Conte
Lead Partner for Legal Operate.
Work undertaken:
\tCreated the shared service centres in India, Poland, Guatemala and Brazil for Capgemini Legal and & Commercial functions
\tCreated the outsourced centres of excellence in Brazil and India for global consumer goods company
\tCreated new contracting target operating model for global coffee and retail company
\tImplemented CLM technology for numerous entities, including those in consumer goods, healthcare & finance
\tCreated post-award contract & commercial functions for a number entities – including in finance and consumer goods – across North America & Europe
Vicky Cooper
Technology Disputes Partner
Work undertaken:
\tRenegotiation of a £multi-billion global IT services outsourcing contract acting for a global IT services provider against a global bank and settlement of a number of associated long running disputes
\tPartial termination of a £multi-million business process outsourcing agreement for a global bank as a result of force majeure (coronavirus)
\tExpert determination of a contractual interpretation point in relation to a data centre services contract
\tRenegotiation of a £multi-million end-user services contract for a global IT services provider against a central government department
\tArbitration of a £1 billion IT dispute leading to a successful judgment in favour of our client
Kathryn Dooks
Employment Law Partner
Cavan Fabris
Lead Partner for data protection & privacy, cybersecurity and telecoms at Deloitte Legal.
Cavan more than 25 years of industry, government and legal experience. Cavan oversees the delivery of pragmatic, business-focused legal solutions across all aspects of privacy compliance, from interpretation of new laws through to the implementation of compliance programmes, enabling data transfers and dealing with data breaches or enforcement actions by authorities.
Cavan combines his legal expertise in these areas with the technical knowledge from Deloitte’s specialist cyber risk practice, as well as more broadly across the firm’s extensive multidisciplinary network.
Vaq Farooq
Vaqas Farooq is the Head of Real Estate Legal at Deloitte Legal, to which he brings in-depth knowledge and insight through almost two decades of experience advising developers, occupiers, local authorities and investors on schemes across the UK.
Recent projects he has led include:
\tthe acquisition, development and pre-letting of Allied London’s No. 1 Spinningfields Development in Manchester over the four year period, a joint venture with Manchester City Council culminating in the sale to Schroder Real Estate for £200 million;
\tadvising an FTSE 250 leisure company on the management and optimisation of its estate since 2000;
\tacting on a range of major commercial portfolio acquisitions and disposals;
\tpioneering a number of innovative approaches in the Build to Rent sector where he advised on deals valued at £1.2 billion; and
\tworking with a number of local authorities in relation to several regeneration projects particularly in town centres. He also advises on the strategic elements of such projects from conception to procurement options to ultimate completion.
Vaq is well-known in the legal market for his commercial approach and driving innovation into structures to help unlock viability and streamline developments and investment trading. A strong leader, he has successfully built and motivated new teams and helped open up new markets.
In the 2019 Legal 500, Vaqas Farooq was commended for his “knowledge, drive and contacts” and Chambers UK described him as “a specialist in development matters, who acts on many of the largest urban regeneration projects across the UK and represents a number of regional and national developers”.
Paul Gidman
Paul is a highly respected and experienced real estate development lawyer who acts for a large number of developer and investor clients on a wide range of matters including site assembly, acquisitions and disposals, forward funding agreements, conditional contracts and the full range of asset management work.
Paul has a particular specialism in strategic land work, acting for both landowners and promoters on the promotion of large scale strategic sites for residential and/or commercial developments, including advising on the negotiation of planning promotion agreements, option agreements, and multi-party collaboration and equalisation agreements.
His recent experience includes:-
\tadvising Anwyl Homes on the acquisition and development of their residential development and strategic land sites, for example the acquisition of a 20 acre site at Handforth, Cheshire for 217 new homes from a promoter and family trust;
\tadvising two family trusts in relation to the exchange of contracts, conditional on planning, with a large national housebuilder in relation to two large strategic sites totalling circa 90 acres for residential development in East Halewood, Merseyside, which will provide circa 700-800 much needed homes for that area
\tacting on behalf of various landowners and promoters (over 30 different sites/locations) up and down the country on planning promotion, option and collaboration/equalisation agreements and the subsequent sale of those sites to national housebuilders where planning permission is obtained, including sites in Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Essex, for example acting for 4 landowners on a planning promotion and collaboration agreement with a major national promoter on a large strategic residential/commercial development in Yorkshire for over 800 homes, new industrial/commercial units and associated infrastructure.
\tadvising the Developer on Project Jennifer, the £150 million regeneration of the Great Homer Street/Scotland Road area of Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council, anchored by a new Sainsbury’s supermarket and petrol station, a new 80,000 sq ft District Centre, a new 2 storey McDonalds restaurant, a new home for the famous “Greatie” Market, together with significant improvements to local roads, open space and infrastructure
\tadvising the Developer on the development of Leigh Sports Village in partnership with Wigan Borough Council, the £80m multi-use sports, retail, leisure and housing development in Leigh including disposal of land for residential development, construction of a new 12,000 capacity sports stadium, swimming pool and athletics track/facilities for the Council, development of a new college and hotel and the forward funded development and letting of a new 65,000 sq ft Morrisons supermarket and PFS
\tadvising a large North West property development and investment company in relation to the acquisition, development and management of its national office, leisure and industrial property portfolio, including complex joint venture, asset management and funding arrangements, for example on the acquisition funding, management, redevelopment, letting and ultimate disposal of a portfolio of 9 multi-tenanted industrial sites.
Luke Golding
Commercial & Technology Director
Robert Griffiths
Disputes Partner
Work undertaken:
\tActing for a medical devices distributor in obtaining a freezing injunction against a rogue member of the LLP.
\tActing for an IT supplier in a claim for repudiatory breach of a contract to provide software for the management of offenders and probation services.
\tActing for a leading provider of healthcare staff in claims for breach of contract, breach of confidence and data privacy claims against former employees and their new employer. Obtaining interim injunctions to restrain the defendants prior to successful settlement.
\tActing for a client in the Defence sector in relation to claims against a departing executive who was to become CEO of a major defence competitor. Settlement reached with employee and competitor protected a $4bn customer relationship.
\tActing for a significant minority shareholder in a claim for breach of a SPA and unfair prejudice in relation to the sale of shares in a motorsport media business. Successfully reaching a multi-million-pound settlement.
\tSuccessfully defending a $70m ICC Arbitration claim relating to the installation of TV studios in the Middle East under a joint venture agreement.
Jeremy Harris
IP and Disputes Partner.
Jeremy advises clients on all aspects of the protection and exploitation of intellectual property and related rights. He has acted for clients in substantial intellectual property disputes, including High Court proceedings involving trade mark infringement, passing off, copyright and database right infringement and breach of confidence. In addition, he acts for clients in technology and software licence disputes. Jeremy also advises on IP transactions, including IP acquisitions/disposals, IP licensing deals, joint ventures, the IP aspects of group restructurings and corporate transactions. In addition, Jeremy provides the full range of IP discovery, strategy and IP value management services. Jeremy has a focus on technology related IP issues, in particular in relation to software and data. He has specific expertise in software copyright issues, software copying disputes, software over-deployment and open source software. In addition, Jeremy regularly advises on rights in data, data use clearance and data licensing disputes.
Rachel Hossack
Head of Corporate Reorganisations (UK) and Partner
Work undertaken:
\tRachel has advised clients on large global re-organisations, corporate migrations, legal entity rationalisations and corporate simplifications, pre-merger structuring and post-merger integrations, and intra-group financing structures.
\tShe works with companies (private and public, limited and unlimited, and guarantee), as well as partnerships (limited, general and limited liability).
Clare Jenkinson
Financial Regulation Partner.
Clare is a partner within Deloitte Legal, who specialises in financial services regulation and regulatory technology (RegTech) law. She has over 15 years’ experience of providing strategic and commercial advice to financial services firms, ranging from large international banks, broker-dealer businesses and new market entrants.
Clare advises on regulatory matters arising from ongoing business, business or market change, or changes in regulation. Areas of advice include digital assets and digitalisation of financial services; securities and derivatives regulation; investment research; market structure and transparency; regulatory reporting; market abuse; investor protection; the regulatory perimeter and related licensing and financial promotion requirements; cross-border business requirements; systems and controls.
Clare excels in leading the legal and regulatory aspects of significant regulatory change and advocacy projects such as EU MAR, EU MiFID II, Brexit and CRD VI, and whilst at HSBC was the chair of AFME’s Investment Research Working Group. She is recognised for her ability to advise business leaders with clear product understanding and commercially-focussed risk assessments.
Prior to joining HSBC, Clare has been seconded from law firms to a number of financial services firms including banks, broker-dealers and asset managers.
Andrew Lilley
Employment Law Partner
Jurga McCluskey
Jurga McCluskey is a leading immigration lawyer. Having joined Deloitte LLP in 2015 as Partner and Head of UK Immigration, Jurga also leads Deloitte’s European immigration practice and is part of the wider immigration global leadership team and Deloitte's UK GES executive. She is an award winning immigration expert with some 20 years’ experience in her field and deals with all immigration matters including highly complex corporate and personal immigration matters.
In 2021, Jurga was recognised as one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Women in the professional services industry. She is contributing editor for Legal500’s first ever Corporate Immigration Guide.
In 2019, she was appointed as Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Worldwide ERC and in 2022, Jurga was invited to attend the International Migration Review Forum at the United Nations, where she represented WERC and the Business Community on the need for more flexible migration across borders.
Jurga leads Deloitte's Global Government Relations team and is regularly called on to provide expert guidance on immigration matters. Jurga also sits on the Home Office Employer Advisory Group and advises the Home Office on the post Brexit Immigration System.
Daniel Monaghan
Daniel is a real estate lawyer with a broad range of experience in all aspects of real estate law. He acts for both developer and investor clients on a variety matters, including investment/development acquisitions and disposals, funding agreements, conditional contracts, options and asset management.
Matters on which Daniel has recently advised:
\tacting for a developer on the forward funding disposal of a key logistics development in Leeds;
• acquisitions and disposals of properties to a value in excess of £100 million in the last 12 months for offshore investors;
• acting for Allied London on the development of St John’s in Manchester, including the £110 million arts and cultural centre known as the factory and two 36 storey PRS buildings;
• acting for the developer on the pre-let of 230,000 sq ft of office space to be constructed in Manchester City Centre to an international e-commerce occupier;
• development of city centre student accommodation sites throughout the UK; and
• acting for a leading international mobile logistics company on the letting of their European HQ in London.
Wayne Nash
Wayne specialises in finding solutions to client’s real estate challenges and problems across a number of different sectors and is recognised as a leading individual in the north west. With over 20 years’ experience, Wayne handles all aspects of commercial property risk, strategic advisory and disputes, acting for some of the UK’s largest property developers, investors and occupiers.
Wayne is best known for the innovative solutions he produces in dealing with development constraints (rights to light, contractual and development disputes, rights of way and access rights) and was highly commended at the FT Innovative Lawyers (Europe) Awards 2019 for his expertise in this area.
Wayne also has a keen interest in complex landlord and tenant disputes and has considerable experience of high value complicated dilapidations claims; helping clients to navigate a commercial and cost-effective path to a successful resolution.
Notable work highlights include:
\tnumerous rights of light risk analysis and solutions on some of the largest development schemes in the UK; with a specific emphasis on high rise towers within the PRS and Student sectors;
\tadvising a JV consortium in respect of an option dispute for a significant regeneration scheme in the north;
\tproviding strategic advice to a major UK property investor regarding complex tenant break conditions in order to prevent early exit from a lease; and
\tacting for a substantial property occupier in the leisure sector regarding lease-end liabilities and the successful defence to the entirety of a significant dilapidations claim.
He joined Deloitte Legal from Shoosmiths in 2022.
Paul O'Hare
Paul is a partner in Deloitte Legal’s Contracts practice, and is the global technology law lead for Deloitte Legal.
Lisa On-Iam
UK Real Estate Partner
David Williams
Partner, Deloitte Legal UK