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Hayley Brady
Hayley Brady
Hayley advises on media and entertainment, consumer and digital commercial, transactional and regulatory matters. Hayley heads our media and digital practice, in London, and assists clients on global strategic and innovative arrangements.  Hayley has spent time in industry on secondment at Sky, acted as quasi-in house counsel at FilmFlex Movies for a number of years and undertook mini secondments at OSN in Dubai. Her practice is split into two: (i) advising both media companies and those in other sectors on media and entertainment matters including significant content licensing, partnering, joint ventures, regulation and marketing, sponsorship and advertising; and (ii) advising growing digital companies on partnering and product/geographical expansion and traditional companies on moves to new digital platforms.
David Coulling
David Coulling
David is a Partner in Technology, Sourcing and Digital practice in the UK. David is a transactions lawyer who focusses on the technology and telecommunications sectors.  David advises tech and telecoms corporates and investors on a wide range of transactions, including joint ventures and acquisitions, technology development and adoption projects, major systems and networks projects, business transformation projects, technology licensing, data licensing and complex commercial arrangements. David particularly enjoys transactions which aim to harness the transformational powers of technology in other sectors.  With this in mind, he works closely with our clients in other sectors to help structure and implement their technology-driven strategies. Recognised by the UK directories, David has a leading technology and telecoms practice. David holds a first class MSC in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and was a Theodore Scholar at Balliol College.  He enjoys the increasing overlap between technology-enabled businesses and his passion for science fiction.
Grant Murtagh
Grant Murtagh
Grant is a corporate lawyer who focuses on the insurance sector. Grant works on M&A and other corporate transactions (including Part VII transfers), and has extensive experience of large and complex (re)insurance transactions. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the regulatory regime that applies to (re)insurers and (re)insurance brokers. In addition, he is a member of the firm’s fintech group, and has worked with companies looking to develop businesses in that sector. He is qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor (non-practising) with the Irish Tax Institute, and is an affiliate member of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland. Prior to joining the firm, Grant worked with a leading Irish law firm. Prior to that, he was an in-house lawyer working in the European headquarters of a leading American financial institution.
James Palmer
James Palmer
James is a senior corporate and governance lawyer who was the Chair and Senior Partner of our firm. He is one of the UK's leading M&A, capital markets and corporate lawyers, with deep experience of corporate governance and regulation, including financial regulation. He is frequently involved in helping clients in situations where they face significant and unusual challenges. These include hostile takeovers, board and governance disputes, regulatory and other investigations, business crises, interactions with governments or government bodies, significant liability or solvency exposures, as well as significant transactions. He is also recognised as a leading authority in relation to both Brexit and foreign direct investment regulation. James is a General Editor of and contributor to Butterworth's Takeovers: Law and Practice, and has also contributed to other leading reference works on takeovers and corporate law, including Buckley on the Companies Acts and Hannigan and Prentice's Guide to the Companies Act 2006. He was Chair and Senior Partner of the firm from 2015 to 2021. James joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 1986, becoming a partner in 1994. He was a member of the firm's governing Partnership Council from 2002-2006. He led the firm's global equity capital markets practice from 2005-2010 and was the firm's Global Head of Corporate from 2010-2012.
Nick Pantlin
Nick Pantlin
Nick heads our TMT, Digital & Sourcing practice in the UK and is Global Co-Head of our Technology Sector Group Nick specialises in advising private and public sector clients on UK and multi-jurisdictional technology procurement, digital and business transformation, outsourcing, IT service provision, major systems implementation, communications, software development, licensing, cloud, e-commerce, cyber security,  data protection, data commercialisation and complex commercial projects. Nick advises extensively on the use and adoption of technologies such as blockchain/DLT, AI, machine learning and automation. His expertise extends across multiple industry sectors.
Jeremy Purton
Jeremy Purton
Jeremy is a senior commercial lawyer who specialises in tech transactions and complex sourcing projects. Ranked in Legal 500 each year since 2021 as a Rising Star for both IT & Telecoms and TMT Industry Focus, Jeremy works closely with clients on long-term technology-enabled transformation programmes.  He is experienced in dealing with complex legacy systems transitions, finding practical ways through distressed sourcing projects, and helping organisations to implement digital solutions that enable them to benefit from advances in technology.
Caroline Rae
Caroline Rae
Caroline is a partner in our corporate team focused on cross border public and private M&A. Caroline advises leading corporates and financial institutions on private acquisitions and disposals, recommended and hostile public company takeovers, joint ventures and equity capital raisings. Caroline works with clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the financial services. She has worked on a range of matters in the Fintech sector. Caroline also works with a number of our listed company clients on corporate governance and  board advisory matters, listed company regulation and compliance. Caroline topped the UK M&A lawyer rankings by deal value in 2021, Mergerlinks. Caroline has been recognised in The Lawyer's 2019 Hot 100 for "her legal prowess in major public takeovers".
Marina Reason
Marina Reason
Marina focuses on advising banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of financial regulation. Marina has been active in the regulatory industry for a decade and a half and has established relationships with most of the large banking institutions and asset managers. Marina regularly works with the industry through trade associations including AFME, the AGC, UK Finance, FMLC, PIMFA, Digital Pound Foundation and others on hot topics of the day, including most recently on Consumer Duty and the UK the FMI Digital Sandbox for blockchain tokenisation.
Gareth Sykes
Gareth Sykes
Gareth is a Partner and UK Head of Corporate Governance Advisory Practice, helping listed and private companies navigate the increasingly challenging corporate law and governance framework. He leads the firm’s Corporate Governance Advisory Team, advising clients on a range of governance and compliance issues. His experience includes advising on corporate reporting requirements, the UK Corporate Governance Code, continuing obligations under the Listing Rules and Market Abuse Regulation, shareholder meetings and directors' duties. Gareth is a member of the FRC's inaugural Stakeholder Insights Group, the only lawyer to be appointed to this group which reflects his experience and status in this area. Gareth speaks and writes widely on corporate governance matters and is regularly approached by leading governance bodies to speak or write on governance issues. He organises, and speaks at, the firm’s Annual Update for Listed Companies seminar, the market-leading corporate governance event for FTSE general counsel and companies secretaries.
Tim West
Tim West
Tim focuses on investment funds work and has been involved in numerous fund launches, secondary capital raisings and fund reconstructions, primarily in relation to closed ended investment vehicles (across multiple asset classes and including structured and alternative investment products) where he has led in relation to some of the largest and most complex and innovative structures both in the UK and globally. His practice also includes regulatory and similar own account work for asset managers and their funds.