Sandi Simons > Harbottle & Lewis LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Harbottle & Lewis LLP’s retail group advises its clients on multidisciplinary issues across the fashion, cosmetics, retail, and food and beverage sectors. The team is able to advise on both contentious and non-contentious matters, with litigation and transactional work both making up regular workstreams for the practice. Practice co-head Sandi Simons provides support through her litigation expertise. Fellow co-head Melanie Benson works in the retail space, advising luxury brands, designers, retailers and model agencies on the full range of bricks and mortar property matters.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP is a key port of call for cinema retailers, fast-food chains and hotel groups seeking assistance on corporate and commercial transactions, employment matters, and litigation, as well as privacy and reputation management. The team is led by Tim Parker and Sandi Simons, noted for their expertise in transactions and litigation, respectively.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP‘s ‘really excellent litigation group’ is able to leverage the firm’s specialisms in media, technology and entertainment. The team also acts in retail and finance-related disputes, and routinely represents HNW clients from the firm’s widely respected private capital practice. The commercial litigation department is led by dispute resolution specialist Sandi Simons. Louis Castellani is ‘a very shrewd senior litigator’ and Matthew Leverton regularly handles interim relief applications and trial litigation. Sofie Hoffman is an international contentious trust and probate expert. The practice further includes commercial litigators Georgina Long and Lizzie Williams, who are ‘both very experienced practitioners’.