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Lucy England
Work Department
Travel
Position
Partner
Lucy advises businesses across the aviation and travel industries on the myriad of commercial and regulatory issues they encounter. She has worked for over a decade with established airlines, OTAs (online travel agents), travel companies, aerospace and defence businesses, aircraft manufacturers – and the technology businesses looking to disrupt them. She advises on strategic, transformational projects right the way through to business-as-usual issues.
Lucy’s experience covers package travel regulation, aviation regulation, outsourcing and technology projects, traveltech, SaaS, agency and franchise arrangements, business start-ups and scale-ups, online sales, supply chain and logistics, ground handling, MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) agreements, airport agreements and most other types of sale or supply contracts, from design and development through to operation, maintenance and disposal.
Lucy has a wealth of experience in Government contracting, across aviation and defence, technology and the healthtech sector. She also has a specialist interest in unmanned aviation and space as these industries continue to grow.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Transport > Aviation
(Next Generation Partners) (Firms to watch)Fox Williams LLP‘s aviation practice has continued to grow under the leadership of Lucy England, assisting technology and service providers to airlines and airports with regulatory and contractual matters.
London > Transport > Travel
(Next Generation Partners)The commercial and regulatory team at Fox Williams LLP, renowned for its ‘deep knowledge of the travel industry’, is well-known for its experience handling high-profile disputes for renowned clients in the industry, namely large travel companies. A key example of such work is its representing On The Beach in the High Court in a dispute against RyanAir regarding passenger refunds. Its workload is frequently of the multi-millions in value and cross-border in nature; it has developed a particular focus advising on compliance with UK and EU travel regulations and assisting businesses therein launching onto the EU market. Tech, travel and aviation expert Lucy England frequently handles such work. Noted as ‘the go-to lawyer for travel regulatory disputes’, Rhys Griffiths
is at the helm of the practice. The team was notably bolstered in May 2023 with the arrival of the former head of Deloitte LLP‘s travel team Farina Azam. ‘Great talent’ Phyllis Acheampong is a senior associate to note at the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Transport > Aviation
- Next Generation Partners London > Transport > Travel
- Travel London > Transport
- Firms to watch London > Transport > Aviation
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Transport > Aviation
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Transport > Travel
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Employment > Senior executives
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Immigration
- Transport > Aviation
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital