
HCR Law
England
Lawyers

Inger Anson
Inger is a Corporate Partner who heads the HCR Cambridge office and the Corporate team located there.
Inger is engrained in the Cambridge legal market with over 23 years’ experience. She known for my expertise in the early stage funding arena and is a ‘go to’ lawyer for investee companies and investors alike.
Inger acts for all types of businesses and individuals involved in the early stage and growth markets advising on all elements of early stage and follow on investments, predominantly in the technology sector. She also advises her clients on all aspects of M&A work, restructuring and certain elements of public company work, including admissions to AIM.
Inger supported Origin Capital on its investment in Unum Aircraft Seating and also Carbon 13 on the recent investment by True Ventures and others. She also supported the shareholders of Grove Pet Food shareholders in the multimillion-pound sale of the company to Cranswick Country Foods.
Catherine Ball
Partner in private wealth department in Northampton, specialising in wills, probates, tax planning and trusts.
Sarah Baron
Senior Solicitor

Wayne Beynon
Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution Team

Simon Biggin
Partner dealing with commercial litigation, professional negligence and insolvency.
Sue Birnage
Associate

David Browne
Partner specialising in corporate acquisitions and disposals, banking and non-contentious insolvency. In charge of the firm’s owner-managed business group and a member of the firm’s banking and finance group.
Phillipa Bruce-Kerr
Partner, Head of Team
Frank Brumby
Frank Brumby is a leading specialist in restructuring and insolvency, with more than 25 years’ experience advising on both corporate and personal insolvency matters.
He acts for a wide range of clients – including lenders, insolvency practitioners, directors, partners and individuals – providing clear, commercial advice across all aspects of financial distress. His work covers everything from pre-pack administrations and winding-up petitions to bankruptcy, recovery actions and complex insolvency litigation.
Partner at HCR Law and Head of Norwich Office.

Derek Callanan
Partner.

Robert Capper
Robert is a commercial partner with over 25 years’ experience known for his expertise within the manufacturing sector including advanced manufacturing. With a specialism in partnership work, Robert acts for professional partnerships and individual partners. He also has particular experience in acting for doctors’ practices.
Robert works with businesses of all sizes and nature, ranging from SMEs to multi-national corporations and also professional partnerships. He is contract specialist and advise on all aspects of commercial deals, especially strategy, providing real practical solutions to enable businesses to focus on what they do best without having to worry about the legal issues.
Robert also provides industry expertise by speaking at and also chairing various external and internal conferences and seminars. As well as his commercial work, Robert sits on as an advisory board member at Worcester University’s Business School.

Marc Carter
Partner in commercial property business unit specialising in development and investment work, including development agreements, finance agreements, forward purchase agreements, forward funding agreements, agreements for lease, conditional contracts, options, equity sharing leases, investment acquisitions and disposals and commercial leases. Clients include the Stepnell group of companies, the Jelmac group of companies, The Midcounties Co-Operative Ltd, Kenmare Estates Ltd, Perrys Motor Sales Ltd, City & County Investments (Scotland) Ltd, Natwest/RBS, Greensand Trust, Church UK Retail Ltd, Crockett & Jones Ltd, Cheaneys Shoes Ltd.
Mark Carter

Andrew Cave
Partner, Real Estate Disputes.

Kate Church
Senior Solicitor

Adam Cotterill
Senior Associate
Recognised as a Rising Star and Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500 for six consecutive years: 2019-2024.
Elizabeth Davies
Partner specialising in tax and estate planning, wills, trusts and probate.

Helen Deady
Senior Solicitor

Stephanie Dennis

Arpinder Dhillon
Arpinder is Head of the Wales & West Corporate Team, Head of the Wye Valley Office and a Corporate Partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys.
Arpinder has advised her clients for over 20 years on a wide variety of corporate matters.
Arpinder acts for businesses of all shapes and sizes across a broad range of sectors and she focuses primarily on corporate transactional work, both in the UK and abroad. As well as acquisitions and disposals, Arpinder is experienced in corporate restructures and management buyouts.
Alongside Arpinder's corporate role, she heads up HCR’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) team. EDI at HCR is about building on and nurturing HCR’s existing talent, and diversifying and widening our talent pool.
Wye Valley office head, Arpinder Dhillon, maintains a strong focus on high-value transactions for clients spanning the worlds of IT infrastructure, legal compliance, manufacturing and financial services.

Lewis Djemal
Partner, Head of Real Estate, Thames Valley

Louise Drew
Partner

Gemma Dudley
Legal Director

Clare Emery
Clare is a partner within the corporate department and heads up the Dental Team sitting within the Health and Social Care team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys.
Clare has been working within the dental sector for over 15 years, and as one of only a small number of NASDAL accredited lawyers within the United Kingdom, she is nationally recognised for my expertise in advising dentists.
Clare's primary focus is on assisting dentists to achieve their potential, whether through buying, selling or restructuring their practices. Clare's in-depth knowledge of the NHS and CQC frameworks within which practices operate allows her to provide specialist support to clients where issues arise with their regulators.
Clare is often called upon to speak at dental conferences and seminars to share her knowledge of the dental sector.

Laurence Evans
Partner

Victoria Fellows
Partner - Head of Birmingham Family
Adam Finch
I head up the Cheltenham Dispute Resolution team, which includes over 33 in the team. I specialise in Corporate Disputes such as shareholder, franchise and contractual issues. I lead on finance and financial services disputes and fraud, including injunctive relief and acting as supervising solicitor.

Christopher Finch
Partner

Alexandra Francis
Senior Solicitor.

James Frankland
Legal Director

Sardeep Gill
Solicitor
Daniel Goodall

Kate Grant
James Grigg
Partner, Head of Family Team.

Paul Grundy
Partner.

Katherine Hague
Legal Director

Deanne Hamilton
Senior Associate.

Neil Harpham
Heads Hewitsons’ banking and finance group. Partner in corporate department, based in Northampton and Milton Keynes, dealing with a wide range of company law; specialising in the acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses, group reorganisations, joint ventures, banking and security and other related corporate finance matters. Neil also works from the firm’s Milton Keynes office. Practice areas: banking.

Hauke Harrack
Senior Solicitor

Elizabeth Herbert
Senior Solicitor

Helen Higginbotham FCG
Helen is a Legal Director within HCR's Corporate Team. Helen heads up the BRICS team and is a qualified chartered company secretary.

Gemma Hill
Associate.

Dominic Hopkins
Partner, commercial litigation and ADR with a particular emphasis on cross-border disputes and recoveries, civil aspects of commercial fraud; insolvency; professional negligence; corporate governance and directors’ duties and liabilities advice; IT disputes. Member of the technology and insolvency and corporate recovery groups.

Claire Howard-Amos
Partner

David James
Partner

Colin Jaque
Partner

Colin Jones
Partner, Head of Construction and Engineering. Legal specialisation in construction and procurement law. Clients include: Marshalls Airport, Kings College, Trinity Hall College, Gonville & Caius College, European Molecular Biology Institute. Adviser to the British Institute of Interior Design and the Association of Consultant Architects. Acts for contractors, professionals, developer clients, manufacturers of construction products; providing advice in regard to contentious and non contentious matters. Member of Cambridge CleanTech, sits on the Procurement Reform Group of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Adviser to the Sports and Play Construction Association. Council member of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry and a member of the Cambridge Interact Club of property and construction professionals. Governor of St Mary’s School, Cambridge. Practice areas: construction – contentious; Construction – non-contentious.
Rowena Kay

Patricia Kempson
Partner in Real Estate department, Northampton and Milton Keynes, specialising in all aspects of commercial property including landlord and tenant, disposals and acquisitions, funding and options. Patricia works from the firm’s Northampton and Milton Keynes offices.
David King
Partner (National Deputy Head of Private Client Team) and Head of Private Client Team in Cardiff

Richard Knight
Consultant.

Valerie Lambert
Partner in Cambridge employment team. Acts for employer and employee clients specialising in post-termination restrictive covenants.

James Lawrence
Partner in corporate department specialising in equity markets and mergers and acquisitions; venture, start-up and development capital, particularly in biotech and technology sector; corporate and banking finance and reconstructions; and employee share option schemes. Practice areas: flotations (small and mid-cap); corporate finance; M&A.

Rebecca Leask
Rebecca is a corporate partner specialising in the health and social care legal arena. Rebecca is the Head of HCR’s Health and Social Care sector and Birmingham office.

Fern Lovell

Chris Mackie
Head of the London Corporate Recovery & Insolvency

Natalie Minott

Beverley Morris
Partner and Head of Family Law (London)

Stewart Morrison
Legal Director.

Tom Murphy-Kirkhope
Partner.
Steven Murray
Head of Contentious IP

Helen Mutucumarana
Partner- Commercial Real Estate

Christopher Nuttall
Head of Pensions

Bernadette O'Reilly
Partner, head of Private Client team in Cambridge. Succession and capital tax planning, trusts.
James Osborne
Partner
Rachel Parkin
Education (Employment) Partner
Sam Payne
Head of Restructuring at HCR

Rosie Phillips
Associate

Emily Pumfrey
Partner

Rebecca Quinn
Rebecca Quinn is a Partner in the Cambridge Commercial team.
Jenny Raymond
Partner in the dispute resolution team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys acting for PLCs, large multinationals, SMEs, partnerships and directors/shareholders across a wide variety of industries. Particular areas of focus include financial services, banking and insurance disputes, breaches of restrictive covenants, professional negligence & contractual disputes, and director/shareholder disputes.

Rachael Reeves
Partner

Anne-Sophie Reynolds
Associate

Robert Rice
Partner, Corporate Team
Ceri Riddell
Rachel Roberts
Partner
Head of Employment, Cheltenham

Nick Rodriguez
Michael Russell
Associate

James Simnett
Chartered Legal Executive. James deals with both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and regularly acts for office holders in claims for possession and sale, setting aside antecedent transactions and challenges to office holders' remuneration.

Alexia Simon
Trust Manager, Alexia deals with the administration of Trusts, ensuring tax compliance and dealing with the preparation of Trust tax returns and annual accounts.

Jane Stebbings
Associate

Alexandra Svennevik
Senior Solicitor.

Elizabeth Swinburn
Partner, Cambridge employment team. Advises employers and individuals on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law.

Ally Taft

Alan Taylor
Senior Tax & Trust Manager

Alex Taylor
Partner, Joint Head of Private Client Team.

Bill Thatcher
Specialist in commercial work with emphasis on intellectual property (including in particular research and development and technology transfer); IT and e-commerce.
Ben Thomas
Steve Thomas
Partner.

Charlotte Thornton-Smith
Charlotte is a Partner within the corporate department at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and the Head of the Worcester and Central England Offices at HCR.
With almost 20 years’ experience in the corporate legal arena, Charlotte is committed to delivering the best possible service to her clients and giving commercial and pragmatic advice.
Charlotte has a wealth of experience in advising clients in connection with M&A transactions, investments and group reorganisations with a particular specialism in acting for clients across the health and social care sector.

Ben Ticehurst
Partner

Rachel Turner
Head of HCR's Thames Valley Corporate Team
Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2020 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards
Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards
Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards
Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2022 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards

Andrew Walker
Partner, Head of Real Estate Disputes.

Katie Wall
Associate

Tim Ward
Partner, Head of Corporate Cheltenham.

Kelly Wardell
Senior Associate
Morgan West
Partner.

Richard Wilkey
Richard is a partner and Head of the Corporate Team at HCR both in London and the UK which was ranked 1st in the UK by Experian’s UK and Republic of Ireland M&A report.
Richard has over 23 years of experience of offering clients pragmatic advice on large and complex corporate transactions and international deals.
Richard also heads up HCR’s private equity offering, this is his primary focus and specialism.
Richard has particular expertise in institutional equity investments, management buyouts, secondary buy-outs, development capital transactions and management roles.

Denise Wilkinson
Partner dealing with agricultural and rural businesses and advising land-owning charities. Dealing with rural owners on acquisitions and disposals, all aspects of tenancy work and restructuring in relation to tax planning and trusts. Advising rural property owners on renewable enerrgy projects and options/leases for energy generation by solar, wind, AD and water. Dealing with acquisition of property and documentation in relation to management and development of sites by land-owning charities including joint ventures.

Gareth Williams

Tom Williams
Legal Director (Solicitor), Tom Williams advises clients on a broad range of commercial litigation claims, with particular focus on:
Supply of goods and services disputes
Disputes arising out of business and share sales, including in relation completion accounts disputes and warranty claims
Enforcement of restrictive covenants against employees and sellers of businesses.
Tom is a member of the firm’s Healthcare specialist sector. He acts for clients within the Care, Dental and Veterinary sector in relation to corporate and commercial (non-clinical) disputes, where his understanding of the practical and commercial aspects of his clients’ businesses in these sectors allow him to offer focused commercial advice.

Becky Woodcock
Senior Associate

Kerri Woodrow
Kerri is a Partner in the Private Wealth team, based in the Northampton office.