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Sarah Allan

Sarah Allan

A partner in the London office, Sarah is the head of the yacht team and works within the wider marine, trade and aviation group. She specialises in all yacht-related matters and advises owners, managers and yards on contracts relevant to superyacht operations, including sale and purchase transactions, re-fit, yacht charters and management agreements. Her expertise in this area has in part derived from her passion for sailing, as both an accomplished sailor and yacht master who has competed at international sailing events and worked on yachts. Sarah has particular expertise in yacht and superyacht litigation, including contractual disputes and insurance claims, and has handled significant yacht casualties, including total losses. She has also developed a practice in advising on matters relating to sailing regattas and racing incidents and rules related matters. She acts alongside the firm’s personal injury team in the event of more serious injury. With a background in shipping law, and having worked for an International Group P&I club, Sarah also frequently handles insurance claims and coverage disputes. She works closely with colleagues in the employment team to advise on regulatory issues, including crew issues arising in connection with the Maritime Labour Convention.
Tom Amlot

Tom Amlot

Tom is a partner in the family team in London. With more than 20 years’ experience in all aspects of family law, he has a strong track record in complex litigation, as well as expertise in the cross-over between conventional family work and cases involving invasion of privacy. He represents many international clients and acts in cases involving children, including international relocations, and some of the most complicated litigation passing through the courts. He is an accredited mediator and a collaborative lawyer and also sits as a private financial dispute resolution judge. He is active and well respected in the International Academy of Family Lawyers and has been appointed membership officer of the family law committee of the International Bar Association. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences.
Amanda Andrews

Amanda Andrews

Amanda is a partner in the family team and a member of Penningtons Manches Cooper’s private wealth group. She offers a depth of resource for clients and brings more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of family law, but especially complex children matters and high finance including offshore trusts, complicated property aspects and corporate structures. She also regularly negotiates complex pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Amanda is a trained mediator who strongly believes in resolution without recourse to court proceedings wherever possible. She approaches all her cases with the same pragmatic and empathetic approach, seeking to find sensible and fair solutions at the earliest opportunity be it in relation to children or the financial aspects of relationship breakdown.
Adele Ashton

Adele Ashton

Adele is a defamation and privacy specialist with over 15 years of experience. She advises both claimants and defendants in relation to defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, data protection and reputation management. She also regularly provides guidance in relation to forthcoming publications. Her clients have included private individuals, companies, charities, high profile figures and sportspeople.  Recent work highlights include: successfully settling privacy claims for a number of 56 Dean Street patients following the disclosure of information by the sexual health clinic; acting for three individuals in misuse of private information claims arising out of Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments by journalists to police officers and other public officials; acting for PC Toby Rowland in his high profile libel claim against Andrew Mitchell MP in relation to what became known as ‘Plebgate’; representing leading businessman Peter Cruddas in his libel action against The Sunday Times; acting for defendants Carmarthenshire County Council and its chief executive in a libel claim brought by a blogger and a successful counterclaim by the chief executive against the blogger.
Binder Bansel

Binder Bansel

Binder is a partner in the employment team. He joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2017 from another leading City law firm where he was a partner for over 16 years. He advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment and partnership matters and is recognised, in particular, for his expertise in complex discrimination claims, class actions, collective labour and trade union law. Binder is experienced in all forms of employment litigation, both in the High Court and tribunals, as well as discrimination (in employment and partnership), regulatory issues and industrial action injunctions. He works for a wide range of staff associations and their members and, in addition, acts for senior employees and partners, frequently in relation to discrimination claims. Recognised as a leader in his field by a number of legal directories, Binder has been described as ‘extremely knowledgeable’; ‘excellent in his dealing with members and highly regarded for his expertise in discrimination and industrial action claims’; ‘knows his law and gets good results for his clients’; and ‘one of the very best employment lawyers in the UK. His ability to spot the key issues in a case is unrivalled and his legal analysis is always spot on. He is a modest but brilliant lawyer’. He is a past treasurer of the Employment Lawyers Association and is a frequent speaker within the profession and to clients. He is a regular media commentator on employment issues.
Chris Bates

Chris Bates

Chris is a partner in the construction advisory and dispute resolution team in London, specialising in construction and related insurance disputes. He focuses on handling high value and technically complex disputes, such as those in relation to post completion defects, professional negligence, payment claims, delay and prolongation, and termination issues. He is experienced in disputes arising from large-scale civil infrastructure schemes across all major sectors, as well as commercial building projects. He also regularly advises on construction insurance coverage matters, including undertaking complicated coverage investigations and disputes. Chris also specialises in building safety issues, acting for developers, owners, contractors, professionals, and insurers on a range of cladding and other fire safety related disputes. He has been consulted by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities over the practical impact of the changes introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022. He is experienced in all forms of dispute resolution used in the construction industry, including multi-party TCC litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation. He also regularly advises clients in the background on live projects to mitigate or avoid escalation into formal disputes.  
Michaela Britton

Michaela Britton

Michaela is a partner in the corporate team in London advising on a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, management buyouts, company re-organisations, fundraising, refinancing, acquisition finance, investment agreements, shareholders’ agreements, shareholder relations and corporate governance. She acts for a variety of clients from entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs to high-net worth individuals, family owned and managed businesses, family offices and large multi-nationals. A significant part of her work has an international element and she regularly advises non-UK based clients, with a particular focus on Europe, US, Middle East and Asia.
Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Partner in the commercial dispute resolution team advising on a wide variety of financial services and complex commercial disputes as well as on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and civil fraud claims. He has conducted group litigation for shareholder and investor claimants, and acted in international arbitrations and litigation in a number of high profile cases. His clients include funds, bondholders, investors and investor groups, banks and other financial institutions, high net worth individuals and corporates. Recent claims have involved contracts for difference (CfD), financial spread betting and exchange traded funds (ETF). He is also a solicitor advocate.
Adam Carling

Adam Carling

Adam is a partner in the corporate team in London. He advises on transactions on the equity capital markets as well as public and private M&A. His main sectors of focus are energy, technology and real estate. His clients include some of the leading mid-market investment banks in London; he also acts for listed (Main Market and AIM) and private companies. The deals he works on often have a cross-border element. He has extensive experience of pan-European M&A and regularly advises North American clients on acquisitions and financings. He has advised on a number of public M&A transactions, including takeover offers and schemes of arrangement. He led the team which advised AIM-listed Rotala plc on its take-private transaction, which won the ‘Deal of the Year (£10 – 50m)’ category at the Insider Midlands Dealmakers Awards 2024.
Elizabeth Carson

Elizabeth Carson

Partner with experience in all aspects of family law, and particularly in cases with an international dimension. She often advises clients on complex financial disputes where there are assets in multiple jurisdictions, including offshore trusts. She also represents parents in disputes concerning children, involving issues such as how much time the children should spend with their parents, their health and education, as well as where they should live. She has extensive experience in cases involving the international relocation of children.She works closely with colleagues in the private wealth sector to advise high net worth individuals on all aspects of wealth protection, including cohabitation and nuptial agreements, and financial provision for children.
Anthea Christie

Anthea Christie

Anthea is a partner in the employment team in London. She advises on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, and has particular expertise in discrimination, whistleblowing claims, regulatory issues, large group claims and test litigation. Dealing with tribunal, county court, High Court and appellate litigation, she represents clients from a wide range of industry sectors. She regularly assists staff associations and trade unions on all aspects of employment law, including regulatory issues and internal policies and procedures. She also provides advice to their members.
Jeremy Clarke-Williams

Jeremy Clarke-Williams

Jeremy is head of the reputation management team specialising in defamation, privacy, data protection, confidentiality and harassment.Acted for PC Toby Rowland in his successful libel action against Andrew Mitchell MP (the ‘Plebgate’ case); for Peter Cruddas, CEO of CMC Markets and former Treasurer of the Conservative Party in his successful libel action against the Sunday Times and two of its journalists; for Carmarthenshire County Council in its successful defence of a libel action brought by Jacqueline Thompson and in the successful counterclaim for libel damages by its Chief Executive, Mark James; and for Robert Murat in successful libel claims against the Sun on Sunday, Daily Mail, Express and Daily Star. Has advised the Police Federation, the NASUWT and the League Managers’ Association and their members on defamation and privacy matters for many years. Publications of note: ‘A Practical Guide to Libel and Slander’ (with Lorna Skinner) (2003 – Butterworths/Lexis Nexis); defamation contributor to ‘Civil Court Service’ (published annually by Lexis Nexis)
Rhys Clift

Rhys Clift

Rhys is a partner in the London office and a member of the shipping team. He has over 35 years’ experience in commercial litigation and arbitration, specialising in a wide range of insurance and reinsurance (marine and non-marine), in maritime casualties, such as groundings, explosions, fires and structural failures, as well as piracy, kidnap and ransom, political violence and offshore construction. Rhys has a particular interest in crisis management and cyber hazard. He is an active commercial mediator at SeaMediation.com and a listed Distinguished Neutral at CPR in New York. Rhys is the author of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mediation in England and Wales, the second edition, published in 2019, and the principal architect and co-author of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Practice, published by the Institute of Insurance of London in 2011.
Martin Codd

Martin Codd

Partner with more than 30 years’ experience specialising in commercial and residential property in prime central London primarily for high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Main specialisation is in investment (both residential and commercial) and enfranchisement of flats and houses within London. Acts for various private limited property companies and investors, particularly property traders. Also advises on SDLT as well as complicated enfranchisement claims and landlord and tenant matters for both landlords and tenants.
Warren Collins

Warren Collins

Warren is a leading personal injury practitioner with more than 30 years’ experience of handling catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims arising from UK and overseas accidents. He is involved in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation throughout the world and has conducted claims across Europe, Asia, the Far East, Australia, USA and the Caribbean. Warren has received multiple awards in recognition of his work including from UKABIF for inspiration in brain injury, the Spinal Injuries Association’s Excellence in Legal Care Award, and Eclipse Proclaim's ‘Claimant Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year’ and Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year.
Paul Crane

Paul Crane

Paul is a partner in the shipping team and has a ‘dry’ maritime practice, consisting predominantly of P&I and defence matters. He receives instructions from owners, charterers and cargo interests together with their respective insurers. His experience covers a full range of maritime and insurance disputes, involving arbitration, mediation and commercial litigation at the highest appellate level. He has a significant track record in dealing with disputes involving bills of lading and other contracts of carriage, as well as charterparty recoveries. He has also developed particular expertise in handling containerised cargo claims and liquid cargo contamination claims comprising complex technical issues.
James d’Aquino

James d’Aquino

James is a partner in the private client team in the London office advising on a broad range of domestic and international issues. He acts for high net worth individuals, families, trustees, banks and entrepreneurs on wills, trusts, and succession planning. He also advises on UK and international tax issues, owner-managed business succession planning, administration of estates and powers of attorney. He has extensive experience in advising clients on regularising their UK tax affairs, particularly in relation to the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility and the application of the Swiss-UK Tax Cooperation Agreement. James features in the Eprivateclient 'Top 35 Under 35' list 2015 for young private client practitioners. He has had several articles published in well-regarded private client journals including the Trusts and Estates Law Journal and Private Client Practitioner.
Phillip D’Costa

Phillip D’Costa

Phillip is a commercial disputes partner, head of the IT and IP disputes team and co-head of the India group at Penningtons Manches Cooper. He has over 20 years’ experience of complex, high value commercial litigation and arbitration, often with a cross-border element, and regularly advises on commercial, technology, financial services and civil fraud disputes, as well as enforcement and asset recovery.   Phillip has acted on a number of board and shareholder, banking and IT disputes and represents a range of private sector clients. He assists businesses and individuals with insolvency and regulatory compliance issues, and has a particular interest in contentious and transactional work involving India, having acted on several English law disputes involving Indian parties. 
Ruby Dinsmore

Ruby Dinsmore

Ruby is a partner in the employment team based in London. Her clients include top-tier senior executives, chairpersons, founders, managing directors, risk and compliance directors, and other C-suite executives of multinational companies. She has 15 years of experience and is commended by clients for her empathy, pragmatism, and tough negotiation skills. Focusing on acting for senior executives and partners, many of whom are based in the financial, tech and professional services sectors, she advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment, partnership and boardroom disputes and negotiations and is recognised, in particular, for her expertise in contractual negotiations and complex exit settlement negotiations and settlements, particularly for regulated individuals, and multifaceted whistleblowing and discrimination claims. She is skilled at protecting her client’s long-term interests whilst achieving high-value settlement agreements and, where appropriate, progressing her client’s cases in the employment tribunal and High Court. In addition to her senior executive practice, Ruby has a significant track record in advising, litigating, and negotiating pay and award disputes, non-financial misconduct, and discrimination cases. With a strong interest in issues facing women at work, Ruby regularly represents clients in sex, pregnancy and maternity discrimination matters, equal pay disputes, and sexual harassment claims, as well as advising individuals with mental health conditions in relation to disability discrimination and reasonable adjustment disputes. She is adept at supporting her clients through raising their grievances, navigating misconduct accusations, and challenging allegations of poor performance. A regular print and broadcast media contributor on employment law issues, Ruby has established herself as a thought leader and sought-after spokesperson. She has been interviewed by Sky News, BBC, ITV, LBC and 5Live and has appeared on the BBC’s Politics Show to discuss issues facing working mothers. She has also contributed to print articles in the Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Times, and other newspapers and magazines.
John Doherty

John Doherty

John is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution department, specialising in product liability, EU competition, regulation and judicial review. Important cases John has advised on include a challenge to the constitutionality of an EU Directive concerning tobacco advertising, which was litigated successfully before the House of Lords and European Court of Justice. Advice and assistance is regularly provided to multinational consumer products manufacturers and distributors on product safety issues (including recalls) and compliance with product labelling and advertising requirements. He has particular experience working with companies from the Americas region.
Nick Donnelly

Nick Donnelly

Nick is a partner in the shipping group in the London office and a key member of the emergency response team. His clients include salvors, shipowners, charterers, P&I clubs, hull and property insurers. He specialises in advising on and handling claims relating to marine casualties, collisions, salvage, towage, wreck removal, cargo damage, machinery breakdowns and general average. This includes advising on contractual matters. Nick also has experience of criminal offences at sea matters and regulatory investigations, including Police, MCA and MAIB, following accidents, fatalities and breaches of the collision regulations. He has investigated casualties in the UK, Europe, Africa and South Asia. Prior to becoming a solicitor, Nick worked as crew in the yachting industry and still races regularly. This insider industry knowledge well qualifies him to advise on yachting claims, including racing rule disputes, collisions, product defects, and marina and yard liabilities.
Rustam Dubash

Rustam Dubash

Rustam is a consultant in Penningtons Manches Cooper's commercial dispute resolution team and the India group. He has over 35 years of commercial dispute resolution experience and during this period has been involved in high-value UK and cross-border litigation, including banking litigation and international arbitration as well as mediations resulting in early resolution of disputes. He also advises clients on pre-action strategy, again with the aim of resolving disputes early on. Rustam continues to represent several well known Indian corporates, banks, high-net-worth individuals and their families.
Rebecca Dziobon

Rebecca Dziobon

Rebecca is an associate director and specialist family lawyer with 10 years of experience working with international and domestic clients in London and the South East. She has particular expertise advising on financial issues including pensions, trusts and businesses. As a knowledge lawyer for the family department at Penningtons Manches Cooper, having changed her focus from advising individuals to supporting a legal team, she writes precedents, organises training and seminars, encourages and facilitates the sharing of knowledge and improves processes and systems.  An experienced author of legal materials and articles, Rebecca has worked as a freelance professional support lawyer for LexisNexis. She has also written articles for New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Family Law Journal, Resolution’s The Review and Pensions World. 
Hazar El-Chamaa

Hazar El-Chamaa

Hazar is an immigration partner, known for her pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to solving her client’s immigration problems. She advises on the full spectrum of immigration routes, on citizenship, the EU Settlement Scheme and sponsor compliance. Her role as Chair of Trustees of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) means that she often liaises with senior UKVI officials raising policy and operational issues on behalf of the sector. She heads the firm’s private wealth immigration offering, working alongside colleagues to provide a full-service covering tax, family and real estate to those looking to relocate to the UK with their families. Hazar is recognised for her expertise in the education sector, built over 14 years. She advises on all aspects of compliance, risk management, and restructuring. Her clients include universities, independent schools and large private education providers. She is experienced in providing global immigration solutions to large multinational organisations from a wide range of sectors including retail, sports, entertainment and technology. Fluent in Arabic, she has contacts throughout the Middle East, in particular the UAE, and regularly visits the region. Hazar is a frequent speaker on immigration law.
Penny Evans

Penny Evans

Penny leads Penningtons Manches Cooper’s immigration audit, training and compliance work. She has been practising UK immigration since 2003 and worked as a registered migration agent in Australia before this. She specialises in assisting clients in improving their processes to minimise compliance breaches and finding practical solutions to immigration issues. Penny has extensive experience assisting both corporate and education clients, who appreciate her down to earth style. Her expertise includes leading immigration audits for universities and corporate clients, and providing training on areas such as prevention of illegal working, Skilled Worker and student sponsorship. Penny is a frequent speaker on immigration law and compliance and is often called upon to provide immigration risk assessments to institutions’ internal audit committees.
Alexander Fox

Alexander Fox

Alex is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution group with particular expertise within the areas of technology, IP and media and insolvency. He advises on a variety of significant commercial disputes, including arbitrations, financial services, complex technology/healthcare disputes, regulatory issues, public/procurement and substantial national, and cross-border claims. Notable recent cases include the following: advising on the reported case of Jordan Grand Prix Ltd v Tiger Telematics Inc; R v Cockburn; advising Grant Thornton on the administration of Aquarius Limited; advising on the effect of the collapse of the split capital trust market and SWAPS claims.
Amy Fox

Amy Fox

Amy is a partner in the family team. She has experience in all aspects of the legal issues arising from relationship breakdown including the financial consequences of separation, arrangements for the care of children and obtaining financial relief after overseas proceedings. She has particular expertise in complex financial disputes, often with an international element. Amy has written a number of articles for New Law Journal and she drafted Penningtons Manches Cooper’s response to the government consultation on the reform of the legal requirements for divorce.
Tristan Hallam

Tristan Hallam

Tristan is a partner in the personal injury team, based in the London office. He advises on all types of maximum severity personal injury work including road traffic and aviation accidents, employers’ and public liability claims and high value spinal, head and amputation injury claims. He has a special interest in marine accident work and a long track record of litigating in the Admiralty Court. With many years’ experience of acting for both private clients and a range of associations, Tristan has represented the Police Federation on numerous occasions, in particular acting for officers at risk under the Winsor reforms and where injuries prevent them from returning to front line or non-adjusted duties.
James Hallas

James Hallas

James is a partner in the projects, development and construction team and co-chair of the firm’s ESG/sustainability sector group. He specialises in non-contentious work. As well as expertise across the full spectrum of construction and development, James has particular knowledge of the renewable energy, sustainability, housing and accommodation and care sectors. He works with clients to achieve commercial, real world outcomes and is experienced in negotiating both standard forms of contract including the JCT, FIDIC, NEC and RIBA suites of documents and bespoke agreements. James is also experienced in drafting and negotiating complex engineering contracts linked to infrastructure and energy generation. James has acted on large-scale, mixed commercial and residential, hotel, university and student accommodation schemes as well as hospital projects and care schemes.
James Harrison

James Harrison

James is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution team. He is an experienced commercial litigator dealing with corporate dispute resolution, whether by formal court/arbitration proceedings or alternative dispute resolution. He has a particular specialism in director and shareholder disputes, often involving a restructuring element. He also works on a wide range of other disputes including banking, breach of warranty and general contractual issues, spread over broad industry sectors including property, general retail and banking. As a result of his role as chair of the Multilaw Young Lawyers Group, he spends considerable time on international matters.
Andrew Haywood

Andrew Haywood

Partner specialising in both contentious and non contentious employment law issues. He has particular experience in the areas of age discrimination and the enforcement of post-termination restrictions. His corporate practice is drawn from a number of sectors including media, retail and financial services where he advises on day-to-day and post-employment issues. Andrew also acts for several household names in the technology sector. He has specialist expertise in the sports and entertainment industry and heads up the firm’s sports and entertainment sector group. He has been instructed by sports clubs, agents and professionals on a variety of matters including disciplinary and contractual disputes. On the individual side, he advises many senior executives and non-UK domiciled high net worth individuals.
Louise High

Louise High

Louise is an associate director working across aviation, marine and insurance matters, based in the London office. She specialises in reinsurance and insurance litigation and commercial disputes as well as contentious and non-contentious matters working primarily on complex, high value and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Louise acts for insurers and reinsurers as well as financial institutions in the UK and European market. Her main area of expertise is within the aviation and aerospace industry acting on coverage disputes, maintenance agreements and leasing agreements. She regularly deals with matters including foreign jurisdictions, foreign law, policy disputes and contractual disputes. She has experience of litigation stretching from county courts to the Court of Appeal and has managed high value arbitrations in London with elements of domestic and international law. Louise has also acted for a large multinational corporation in the criminal courts in relation to the Dangerous Goods Regulations and carriage by air.
Charlotte Hill

Charlotte Hill

Charlotte is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution team and an experienced commercial litigator. She advises on a broad range of complex, high-value cross-border disputes across a number of commercial and business sectors, including financial services (having previously been on secondment at a large institutional bank), company disputes, corporate insolvency and civil fraud. She has specialist expertise in digital assets where she advises clients about cryptocurrencies, NFTs and blockchain disputes, and she successfully acted in one of the very few contested cryptocurrency disputes. In 2023, Charlotte won the esteemed title of ‘Woman of the Year – FinTech/Crypto Innovation – UK’ at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards, for the impact of her work in the sector. She sits on the Law Society Council on behalf of civil litigators (non-personal injury) and is also the chair of EMEA for Multilaw's Young Lawyers Group.
Alison Hills

Alison Hills

Alison Hills is the head of the pensions team at Penningtons Manches Cooper. Alison has a broad range of pensions experience and provides her clients with well-reasoned, practical advice, having taken into account the relevant technical complexities and important reputational, commercial and personal factors. She is based in London but also works out of the Guildford and Basingstoke offices. Advising on all aspects of pensions law, her clients range from individuals and small self-administered schemes to trustees and sponsoring employers of large defined benefit multi-employer schemes with assets in excess of £350 million. Alison is well versed in advising overseas clients who may be less familiar with their UK pension obligations. Areas of particular specialism include advising on governance, pensions aspects of corporate restructurings/transactions including employer scheme-exits, section 75 debts, implementing flexible apportionment arrangements, member disputes, maladministration claims, implementing scheme benefit structure changes (including closure to accrual), liability management exercises such as pension increase exchange and enhanced transfer exercises, auto-enrolment compliance and salary sacrifice implementation. She is an associate of the Pensions Management Institute and a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers’ Education and Seminars Committee.
Nick Humphreys

Nick Humphreys

Nick is a partner in the London office specialising in both contentious and non-contentious employment work. He has particular expertise in the international aspects of employment law, industrial relations law and in the employment aspects of sport – particularly professional football. He advises on a wide range of HR problems, policies and strategy including the management of large-scale business re-organisations. His client base includes airlines, telecommunications companies, insurers, commercial marine sector businesses, yacht sector clients, as well as senior executive clients and clients in the employment aspects of sport. Nick provides a full range of advice for his clients which includes document reviews; general employment; employment litigation in the High Court and employment tribunal; industrial relations law advice for employers; the employment law aspects of company sales and business transfers; private international law aspects of employment law; and aviation and maritime employment law. He is the author of Trade Union Law and Collective Employment Rights (Jordan); an editor of the Sweet & Maxwell Employment Law Encyclopedia; and a contributor to Tolley’s Employment Law Service and Tolley’s Health and Safety Handbook. He is recognised by The Legal 500 as being ‘hugely experienced’ and ‘great to have in your corner’.
Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson

Partner in the real estate division in London. His practice encompasses contentious and non-contentious planning and infrastructure matters, including public inquiries, judicial reviews, High Court challenges, planning obligations, the Community Infrastructure Levy, and compulsory purchase orders.Acting for developers of all sizes, listed housebuilders, landowners, owners and occupiers, local authorities and other public bodies, he has particular expertise in large-scale strategic development projects, most of which comprise a significant amount of residential development. Regularly instructed on highways and other infrastructure schemes required to facilitate development and on land use issues, including environmental and ecological issues.
Darryl Kennard

Darryl Kennard

Darryl is a partner in the marine, trade and energy team in the London office and a key member of the emergency response team. He is one of the few shipping lawyers who specialise in both ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ work from collisions, salvage, groundings, total losses, fires and piracy through to charterparty disputes and claims arising under bills of lading. Based in Norway for one year and in Singapore for five years, Darryl receives instructions from salvors, container lines, dry bulk and tanker owners as well as charterers, traders, P&I clubs and other insurers.
Sarah Kenshall

Sarah Kenshall

Sarah is a partner in the commercial, IP and IT team, based in the London office. She has a particular focus on technology law combined with an expert knowledge of intellectual property and the full range of legislation surrounding data, networks and systems. Additionally, she has an in-depth understanding of the financial regulatory framework within which fintechs operate. Acting for both tech sector clients, from SMEs to multinationals, and clients procuring technology, Sarah works with public sector and quasi-governmental bodies on critical policy and regulatory projects, particularly linked to the establishment of technology infrastructures to support AI and machine learning. She has recently been engaged to advise on a number of data infrastructure projects establishing governance structures for sharing data, whether commercialising data through marketplaces, sharing data through hubs or ‘pooling’ data for analytics.
Tammy Knox

Tammy Knox

Tammy is a partner in the London office, specialising in all areas of family law, particularly those with an international element. She is often sought out to advise HNWs on complex international child abduction and relocation disputes, and is equally skilled at dealing with financial issues arising from separation, Family Law Act applications and disputes regarding child arrangements. She has a strong practice in drafting pre and post marital agreements. Tammy can be instructed by teenage children who wish their voices to be heard in family law proceedings. She is a Resolution trained mediator and is committed to helping her clients resolve matters outside of court whenever possible.
Joel Kordan

Joel Kordan

Partner in the real estate team with a broad range of commercial and residential experience. He has particular expertise in acting for family offices on a range of investment and development matters.He also has extensive knowledge of the automotive, rail and retail sectors, having advised on a number of landmark transactions for multinationals and public sector organisations alike. Examples include acting for a major auto manufacturer on its largest dealership in Europe and for the financial services division of one of the world’s leading automotive companies on its award winning UK headquarters. Joel also sits on the board of the British Motor Museum.His work covers new builds in the private rented sector, regeneration projects, shopping centres, hotels and leisure properties, car dealerships, offices and warehouses.
Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee

Partner in the contentious private client team advising individuals on a broad range of contentious and non contentious private client matters. Her contentious practice includes trust and estate litigation, disputed wills, breach of trust claims, administration disputes, professional negligence and Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims.Her non-contentious practice encompasses complex probate issues, powers of attorney, residential property ownership and general issues relating to personal affairs.
James Mackay

James Mackay

James is an associate director in the real estate investors team in the London office. He has wide-ranging experience in real estate development and investment work in both the commercial and residential sectors, having acted for both family offices and landed estates, through to prominent investment institutions and developers. James also has extensive experience of acting for the public sector, having previously spent a number of years working for and advising numerous social housing providers on a mix of project types, including outright development, s106 purchases, commercial lettings and disposals and dealing with energy centre infrastructure and leasing. His main focus is on institutional investment work, together with commercial and residential development for private and public sector developers.
Louis Manches

Louis Manches

Consultant working with property companies and entrepreneurs, institutions, developers, retailers and other occupiers. Advising on high level strategy and key negotiations, leading the legal team on substantial transactions, disputes and joint ventures. Recent work includes establishing and negotiating joint venture for redevelopment of major London station; advising developer on novel mixed use development in joint venture with leading Housing Association; advising blue chip retailers on strategic property matters; advising Irish developers and retailers on assembly and financing of their London portfolios; restructuring joint venture owning iconic London building; negotiating buy out of minority interests in high profile property company; acting for developers in disputes with funds over final profit payments; acting for owners of major business park on its funding and expansion.
Paul Mander

Paul Mander

Paul is head of the firm’s 40-lawyer employment team. He advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment and partnership matters and is recognised, in particular, for his expertise in restrictive covenant and injunction issues. Paul is experienced in all forms of employment litigation, both in the High Court and tribunals, as well as boardroom disputes, discrimination (in employment and partnership), TUPE matters and outsourcings. He works for a wide range of private sector employers, from a major fast food retailer to financial institutions and also acts for senior employees, including partners, founders and FTSE C-suite executives.
Richard Marshall

Richard Marshall

Richard is an experienced commercial litigator who deals in a wide range of contentious and dispute resolution work as well as commercial arbitrations. He is also an accredited mediation advocate and a member of the Commercial Litigation Association. Within his broad-based practice he specialises in commercial, corporate and property related disputes, professional negligence and matters arising from the international wealth sector. He also works closely with the family, private client and employment teams and is an expert in conflicts of law and jurisdiction issues, particularly with regard to the US. Through a combination of both strategic and legal advice, Richard plays an integral role in his clients’ businesses. Much of his work has an international and offshore element and he often manages multi-jurisdictional disputes. He is well regarded by his peers for his keen understanding of trial work on both sides of the Atlantic and is a leading partner in the firm's North America group. Richard has a wealth of experience in international and domestic arbitration and has published widely on these topics. He is often consulted by leading national newspapers for his comments on topical international law matters.
Matthew Martin

Matthew Martin

Matthew is a partner, and global head of the corporate team. He provides cross border corporate and finance expertise to a wide range of quoted and unquoted mid cap companies. In addition to acquisitions and disposals, AIM listings and fund raising, Matthew advises on acquisition finance, restructuring and refinancing work, acting for both clients and lenders. He has developed expertise in accelerated sale processes and also specialises in asset realisation in the fields of corporate recovery and insolvency. Matthew is co-head of the firm's fashion, luxury and lifestyle sector group with a number of well-known brands in his client portfolio. Through the fashion, luxury and lifestyle sector, he is able to make a valuable contribution to the firm's digital technology expertise, particularly where it overlaps with the retail world. He is also a core member of the firm’s North American group, reflective of his cross border practice.
Alex McIntosh

Alex McIntosh

Alex is a partner in the London office and a member of the firm’s shipping and international trade teams. He advises on disputes arising under charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding and restructuring contracts, as well as wet work, including casualties and LOFs. He is also experienced in trade, including letters of credit, sale and purchase contracts, factoring, debt collection, insurance (both marine and non-marine), coverage advice, facility agreements, transactional documentation and policy wordings. Alex's clients include shipowners, insurers, P&I clubs, charterers, traders, manufacturers and logistics providers. He has run court proceedings and arbitrations in many jurisdictions and has obtained and challenged arrests, injunctions and security measures worldwide. Alex lectures extensively on many legal and practical aspects of trade and shipping including charterparties, procurement and arbitration. He is the course director of the Lloyds Maritime Academy Certificate in Charterparties Distance Learning Course.
Claire McNamara

Claire McNamara

Claire is a partner in the firm’s best practice group and a member of the strategy board. As director of knowledge and learning, she is responsible for developing and driving the firm's knowledge management strategy and leading a highly regarded team of knowledge lawyers, knowledge and information professionals and technologists. She guides the learning and development team in delivering and supporting the firm’s training and continuing development programmes. Claire qualified as a construction litigation lawyer in 1999. She has acted for clients across the industry in a broad range of engineering, construction and commercial disputes. successfully concluding cases through negotiated settlements and where necessary at trial including to the Supreme Court. Having established and led knowledge functions at her previous firms, she joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2023. With over 15 years of knowledge management experience, her focus is on using knowledge, technology and project management expertise, to ‘makes things better’ - better for clients, better for the business and better for employees. One of Claire’s main drivers for her and the team is to identify opportunities for the firm to collaborate with clients, to help them deliver their own strategic goals. As a keen supporter of Penningtons Manches Cooper’s ambition to be regarded as the most human law firm and a qualified Mental Health First Aider, Claire works closely with colleagues on the delivery of the firm’s inclusion agenda. She is a qualified solicitor advocate and change management registered practitioner. She is a member of several key networks and committees supporting KM and innovation in the legal industry as well as a regular speaker at KM events and contributes to their advisory boards.
George Mingay

George Mingay

George is a partner in the international trade and commodities group in the London office. He is an expert in the resolution of disputes within the commodities sector relating to oil and gas, metals and mining, soft commodities and trade finance. His expertise extends to the resolution of disputes in the English courts and under international arbitration rules – including those of the ICC, UNCITRAL and the LCIA – and trade arbitration rules – including those of FOSFA, GAFTA, the RSA and SAL. He also advises clients on non-contentious, regulatory and compliance issues. George has advised national oil companies, international trading companies and other clients across the supply chain on disputes arising from drilling rig and FPSO contracts, sale and purchase agreements, and commercial and agency contracts. He frequently deals with non-payment, breach of warranty claims, quality and condition issues and many other contentious matters. George spent six months seconded to the in-house legal department of Shell International in London. He regularly presents internationally at industry events on commodities, the law of the sea, oil and gas, and arbitration generally. He has served on numerous occasions as an honorary legal adviser at the Royal Courts of Justice CAB on a pro bono basis.
Ryan Myint

Ryan Myint

Partner in the private client team specialising in international wealth structuring, trusts and succession planning. Advises entrepreneurs, business owners, fund managers, property developers, international families, offshore trust companies and private banks on a range of private client matters. His practice includes ultra-high net worth Asian clients from Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as UK resident non-domiciled clients, some of whom have UK-US tax issues.
David Niven

David Niven

David is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution group, specialising in high value, multi-party professional negligence actions against solicitors and other professionals. A leading UK lawyer for group actions, including in claims against solicitors for mis-sold properties, he has an established media profile, client following, and reputation for getting results. David is acting for hundreds of clients in numerous group action claims against solicitors and architects following high-profile unsuccessful off plan property investment schemes with substantial losses. He has recently acted for over 130 claimants in multi-million-pound proceedings which were the subject of an important application to the Court of Appeal (headed by Master of the Rolls, Vos LJ). The appeal concerns the fundamentally important procedure in this field of law of using a single claim form to encapsulate multiple claims, as disputed by the defendant solicitors/appellant. This matter went to the Court of Appeal where the judge ruled in favour of class action claims in a single claim form. David’s team has also acted for a group in cutting-edge High Court proceedings involving a £20 million insurance coverage claim against AIG, which settled recently on confidential terms shortly prior to the November trial.
Seb Orton

Seb Orton

Partner in the corporate team in London with extensive experience advising both private and public companies and financial institutions. His work covers a range of corporate issues with a particular focus on IPOs, secondary fund-raisings, M&A, including public company takeovers, and assisting listed companies on corporate governance and their continuing obligations.Has wide cross-sector experience and has recently acted on a full range of issuer-side transactions from a FTSE250 Main Market IPO for a financial institution to a variety of smaller Main Market and AIM transactions in the retail and health and care sectors.
Mona Patel

Mona Patel

Mona advises on UK and cross-border acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, management buy-outs/buy-ins, restructurings and mergers, as well as representing stakeholders in sophisticated acquisitions, group restructurings and complex joint venture shareholder arrangements with particular expertise in the marine, trade and energy sectors. Whilst Mona has a predominant focus on investment, M&A and other corporate transactions, she also has an extensive commercial practice assisting clients across various sectors with their commercial contracts, including distribution arrangements, complex and bespoke supply agreements, logistics outsourcing agreements, technology and intellectual property contracts, licensing and collaboration. Mona has worked for clients in several different business and industry sectors including shipping, energy, trade, insurance, software, technology, ecommerce, telecommunications and media. She acts for insurers and other financial institutions, and shipping, transportation, technology, oil and gas companies, in a number of market segments and jurisdictions.
Teja Picton-Howell

Teja Picton-Howell

Teja is a senior consultant in Penningtons Manches Cooper's corporate team and head of financial services regulatory. He specialises in UK, EU and international law in financial services regulation; investment, mergers and acquisitions; banking and capital markets; investment and shareholder disputes and international sanctions. Much of Teja’s work has an international dimension. This includes guiding UK companies expanding overseas, or overseas companies investing into or entering the UK market. He has over 30 years’ experience helping businesses, including private groups, financial institutions and investments funds, to successfully acquire, sell and invest in businesses worldwide. As a member of Penningtons Manches Cooper’s India group, Teja has helped many Indian companies enter the UK through acquisitions or establishment. He also has substantial experience working on transactions throughout Europe and in the Gulf. He is instructed to give specialised legal opinions on English company law and practice, including as expert evidence for use in litigation before courts outside the UK. He is a non-executive director of the fast-expanding Levi Roots/Reggae Reggae Group.
Alex Prew

Alex Prew

Alex is a partner in the real estate team in London. He specialises in real estate acquisitions and disposals, leases and asset management, and development projects. He also advises on the real estate aspects of financing transactions and corporate acquisitions. He acts for a broad range of clients including private and institutional investors, family offices, corporate occupiers and developers. Alex is regularly engaged by corporate occupiers to advise on their office headquarter requirements and assists FTSE 100 companies, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, law firms and recruitment companies.
David Raine

David Raine

David is a senior partner at Penningtons Manches Cooper who has undertaken leading management roles within the firm over the past 25 years. Appointed managing partner in 2008, he became chief executive in 2013 following the high profile merger of Penningtons and Manches and held this position until October 2022 when he passed the reins to new chief executive Helen Drayton after a six month transition period. Widely respected for his calm and inclusive approach, he continues to support Helen and the leadership team, helping the firm shape and develop its strategy both in the UK and globally. He maintains a strong involvement with the firm’s sustainability agenda as it pursues long-term systemic change and works towards reaching net zero. Prior to taking on the chief executive role, David’s legal experience included a couple of decades as a tort lawyer specialising in clinical negligence, an area in which the firm is regarded as a front-runner, as well as overseeing tortious and contractual claims arising from accidents abroad.
Kamran Rehman

Kamran Rehman

Kamran is head of the commercial dispute resolution team. He advises clients on a wide variety of commercial, financial and property-related disputes as well as on professional negligence actions. Primarily, his work is focused in the banking, finance and real estate sectors, and clients include banks, other financial institutions and real estate funds. Since 2009, Kamran has successfully acted for a large number of banking and finance sector clients in professional negligence actions, predominantly against valuers and solicitors.
Tony Riches

Tony Riches

Tony is a partner in the London shipping team. He provides legal and practical advice to ship owners, charterers, salvors, P&I clubs and property insurers about marine casualties, charterparty disputes, salvage, general average, limitation and cargo claims. Drawing on his experience as both a former mariner and a lawyer, Tony routinely analyses navigational and ship-damage incidents, including groundings, fires, collisions, dock damage, towage incidents, ice damage, stowage failures and mooring incidents, and advises on legal liabilities arising from them. He assists both owners and contractors in negotiating wreck removal agreements, drafts standard-form and bespoke contracts, and supports clients in finding solutions when problems arise during wreck removal projects. Tony has particular expertise in advising on complex casualty situations, and regularly conducts casualty investigations, including interviewing witnesses, processing VDR data, obtaining documentary evidence and assisting owners and crew onboard in the aftermath of collisions and groundings. He is also experienced in Admiralty and Commercial High Court proceedings and London arbitration - including LOF salvage arbitration - and has an extensive track record in cases involving multi-jurisdictional proceedings.
Gillian Rivers

Gillian Rivers

Partner. Gillian advises on all areas of domestic and international family law and has an extensive international practice. Gillian is the immediate past Chair to the Family Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and has been an officer since 2007. She is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). She is on the editorial board of the College of Law. She is also a member of the LNTV Legal Expert Panel. She was a recommended member of the Citywealth Leaders’ List in 2015 and also rated as a Super Lawyer in the same year. Gillian has a bias towards the financial aspects of relationship breakdown and regularly deals with highly complex, high-net-worth financial claims. She is also very experienced in private law children disputes and financial applications by a single parent on behalf of a child. She is experienced in private law children disputes, having acted in a number of important reported cases, including Re Y (A Child) (Private Law: Interim Change of Residence) [2014] EWHC 1068 (Fam). She was also involved in the ‘Cinderella Law’ campaign, which resulted in it becoming part of Statute in the Serious Crime Act 2015. Gillian is a respected author and has written for publications such as the ‘Law Society Gazette’ and co-authored on ‘Clarke, Hall and Morrison on Children’. She is often quoted in print media and has broadcast on national radio. She is the co-chair of the IBA Human Trafficking Task Force and is coordinating training in England and Wales to all police forces and the judiciary. She is also an invited member of the Santa Marta Group which has as its aim combatting human trafficking. Gillian’s work with the IBA and Santa Marta Group is carried out on a strictly pro bono basis. She is a panel advisor to Kevin Hyland OBE, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. In 2016, Gillian was given Freedom of the City of London and became a Liveryman in The City of London Solicitors' Company.
Ben Robinson

Ben Robinson

Ben is a partner in the real estate litigation team and leads the team’s fire safety practice. He works closely with institutional landlords, investment funds and social housing providers in relation to policy level guidance on fire safety strategy across their portfolios, and provides ongoing advice in relation to the Government’s Non-ACM Building Safety Fund. Ben offers holistic landlord and tenant advice regarding the effective management of their portfolios, including on development disputes, breaches of covenant, forfeiture and the recovery of arrears. His expertise also extends to providing comprehensive advice on complex residential property issues including rent and service charge disputes (most recently the Supreme Court case of Aviva v Williams), enfranchisement claims, party wall disputes, boundary disputes and adverse possession claims. Ben also specialises in property-related professional negligence claims and vacant possession strategies for large-scale development sites. He has spoken at a number of events, such as the National Housing Federation’s annual ‘Leaseholder and Tenant Service Charges’ conference, and the Asset Management Conference (Housing Quality Network), where he leads peer-to-peer discussions on service charges and fire safety works, discussing apportioning and charging for fire safety improvements. Separately, he regularly contributes to articles on the issue (including a fire safety podcast for the leading real estate publication, Estates Gazette), together with seminars and bespoke training sessions for clients and other property professionals.
Mark Sachs

Mark Sachs

Mark has a broad practice in shipping, commodity and commercial litigation. He has conducted arbitrations in London, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Stockholm either as counsel or lead partner. He also has considerable wet shipping experience having handled all types of casualties. He has litigated shipbuilding, construction and mining disputes. A fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker, Mark studied in China and is adept at working with Chinese evidence, both oral and written. He was one of the first foreign maritime lawyers to work in China in the late 1980s.  In London arbitration he was the lead partner in a significant arbitration arising out of a cancellation dispute involving the vessel Atalanta. This has generated consequential High Court litigation in Westwood Shipping Lines and Weyerhaeuser NR Company v Universal Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH [2012].
Pat Saini

Pat Saini

Pat is an immigration partner who advises corporate and education sector clients, including the board of various universities and large private sector clients on risk management, sponsor compliance matters, partnership arrangements and the immigration aspects of business restructuring. Pat often liaises with senior UKVI officials on behalf of clients. She also has experience of challenging UKVI decisions to suspend, revoke or other UKVI action against sponsors. Her specialist areas of work also include immigration services for private individuals, many of whom are applying for Tier 1 investor and entrepreneur visas. She has a wealth of experience in dealing with human rights cases, appeals, judicial reviews and Court of Appeal matters. Her clients are spread across the firm’s education, charities, retail, sports and entertainment and technology sectors.
Mark Sellers

Mark Sellers

Partner in the social housing team specialising in acting for registered providers on their acquisitions by way of outright purchase, conditional agreements, option agreements, golden brick agreements and associated development agreements.Additionally, Mark advises registered providers on all aspects of home ownership sales including shared ownership, market sales, help to buy, right to buy and lease extensions. He provides guidance on the management of housing stock including stock transfers, deeds relating to rights of light, party wall issues, loft conversions, assured shorthold tenancies and assignments of leasehold properties.Mark also acts for private clients and companies on a range of transactions.
James Severn

James Severn

James is a partner in the London commercial dispute resolution team. He has a broad commercial litigation and dispute resolution practice with a particular focus on shipping, insurance, and personal injury and fatality claims. His clients include ship owners, marine insurers, cruise and ferry operators, and oil companies. James has particular expertise in investigations by the MCA, MAIB and HSE following accidents and collisions and regularly advises on injuries and death at sea or on offshore installations. He has extensive experience in the offshore and energy sectors and regularly acts for shipowners and their insurers in disputes arising from the operation of vessels in and around wind farms and other offshore installations. He advises on the contracts frequently used in the offshore/energy markets with a particular focus on BIMCO contracts. James also advises on salvage and wreck removal. James’ sports practice focuses on football. He advises players, clubs and intermediaries on transfers, image rights, contract negotiations and disciplinary issues at a club and Football Association (FA) level. He also has significant experience of FIFA and CAS claims and advises on the regulatory requirements of the English FA.
Patrick Slomski

Patrick Slomski

Patrick is a partner in the firm’s aviation and aerospace team and is based in the London office. His practice is both contentious and non-contentious, including insurance coverage disputes, complex claims, and leasing and maintenance disputes. He has a very high profile in the aviation and aerospace sectors internationally, with experience in aviation catastrophes, insurance coverage (aircraft and space systems), products, major commercial disputes, reinsurance disputes, subrogation. He is a former examiner for the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Sara Stephens

Sara Stephens

Sara is a partner in the real estate litigation team. She works with institutional landlords, investment funds and social housing landlords providing advice on building and estate asset management, building safety and service charges. Sara also has extensive experience of advising on a variety of other property disputes, including disrepair, possession and nuisance claims, as well as complex multi-party claims. She regularly writes for various industry journals and has had articles published in RICS Property Journal, Journal of Housing Law, Solicitors Journal and Legal Action Magazine. She has provided training for CLT and the Housing Law Practitioners Association, together with seminars and bespoke training sessions for clients and other property professionals. Sara is co-chair of the Law Society’s Housing Law Committee.
James Stewart

James Stewart

Described as a ‘guru of international family law’, James Stewart is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and general editor of the definitive publication on comparative international family law, Family Law: A Global Guide (the ‘Blue Book’). James shines in difficult, often international, cases that need strategic vision, diligent execution and a motivated, able team. With a focus on complex family disputes, marital agreements and cases with an international dimension, including claims for financial relief following overseas divorces (Part III), James has become the family lawyer of choice for family offices, trustees and others who find themselves embroiled in complex English divorce and family proceedings. A leading QC describes James as ‘undoubtedly one of the leaders in family law globally’. In September 2020, James was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Ulster University and also serves on the Consultation Board for Practical Law – Family. James continues to chair the annual Legal Dinner in aid of the leading peacebuilding charity, Co-operation Ireland. Dual-qualified in England & Wales and Northern Ireland, James is also a family arbitrator and a collaborative family lawyer.
Peter Stockill

Peter Stockill

Peter is a partner in the Construction and Infrastructure team in London, specialising in construction and related insurance disputes. Recognised by The Legal 500 as 'an energetic and effective litigator', he is highly experienced in resolving disputes arising on building, infrastructure and other engineering projects. He regularly advises employers, contractors, subcontractors, professionals and insurers on claims and dispute avoidance during projects and represents clients in litigation, arbitration, adjudication, expert determination and mediation. Peter has particular expertise in the use of adjudication to resolve disputes over interim applications, final accounts, variations, delay and other issues. Peter’s expertise in adjudication led to his client obtaining: the first ever stay of court proceedings for a final determination pending compliance with adjudication decisions in Anglo Swiss Holdings Ltd & Ors v Packman Lucas Ltd [2009] EWHC 3212 (TCC); a rare injunction preventing further adjudications pending compliance with earlier decisions in Mentmore Towers Ltd & Ors v Packman Lucas Ltd [2010] EWHC 457 (TCC); and an order for sale of two valuable properties to enforce adjudication decisions in Packman Lucas Ltd v Mentmore Towers Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 1037 (TCC). Peter also acted for the successful party in Bloomberg LP v Malling Pre-Cast Ltd [2015] EWHC 2858 (TCC) relating to the interpretation of a collateral warranty and Bloomberg LP v Sandberg and others [2016] EWHC 488 (TCC) relating to cost budgeting.   Peter advises clients on live projects, including on change and termination and on managing the consequences of major events such as fire or escape of water and following the discovery of defects post completion, dealing with the initial consequences and investigations through to any ensuing dispute. He is currently advising several clients on fire safety issues in relation to cladding. Peter also advises clients on insurance coverage.
John Strange

John Strange

John is a consultant in the marine, trade and energy team, and is based in the London office. He has in-depth experience of a range of maritime problems, particularly those affecting the cruise and ferry industries, superyachts and marine leisure, and the offshore industry. A member of the firm’s 24/7 global response team, John regularly advises shipowners, P&I clubs and underwriters on issues involving collision, salvage and insurance disputes. He also advises clients in respect of marine personal injury and fatality incidents, for which he is regarded as a market leader. With the increase in criminal sanctions in recent years, John has developed a particular expertise in guiding clients through investigations by the MAIB and HSE and in defending prosecutions by the MCA Enforcement Unit and the police. He holds the Diplôme Supérieur de Droit et de Français des Affaires, and is admitted to the Paris Bar.
Chris Syder

Chris Syder

Chris is a partner in the employment team in London, with more than 25 years’ experience as a UK employment law specialist. His practice covers all aspects of English employment law, ranging from HR advisory to cross border compliance, trade union and employee relations issues, collective redundancies/restructuring, restrictive covenants, and whistleblowing. Chris also advises on employment tribunal claims, handling senior level grievances/disciplinaries and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) regulatory issues. As one of our North America group lead partners, his role includes working regularly with US and Canadian clients. A CEDR accredited mediator, Chris has a keen interest in employment and commercial mediation. From 2011 to 2017, Chris was the CBI’s governing body representative for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a specialised agency in the United Nations. Consequently, he fully understands the ILO’s supervisory system and the challenges faced by unionised businesses, especially those that are alleged to have breached ILO freedom of association and collective bargaining conventions. He has been named in the UK Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers’ Index, which acknowledges individuals from all business sectors who are raising awareness of modern slavery and labour exploitation. Since 2019, he has collaborated with the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors (APSCA) by sitting on their disciplinary panels to determine cases of breaches of APSCA’s code of professional standards. Chris was previously head of employment at a London-based international law firm.
Meghan Vozila

Meghan Vozila

Meghan is an immigration partner who advises on all aspects of immigration law. She has built up expertise particularly in complex immigration and nationality matters, and provides in-depth advice to a range of clients, from start-ups and SMEs to international household name brands. She is also recognised for her work with HNW and UHNW individuals, particularly in the creative and digital technology sectors and works regularly alongside colleagues in the private wealth department to provide tax, family real-estate and other services to the firm's international clients. A dual US/UK national, Meghan is very active in the firm's North America group, providing full service trans-Atlantic advice to businesses, individuals and families.
Anna Worwood

Anna Worwood

Anna is the head of the family law department, and specialises in matrimonial, financial and children cases. She has extensive experience in cases of a complex nature (including those with international aspects) and a particular interest in international relocation cases. She represented the father in Re C [2003] 1 FLR 1066, the mother in Re D [2006] Fam Law 1006 and the father in Re C (International Relocation) [2015] EWCA 1305. Anna was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2016. She is a trained collaborative lawyer.