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Alexander Dlouhy
Alexander Dlouhy
Alexander is a Partner in the Cologne office and heads the Energy & Utilities group in the German offices of Osborne Clarke. He advises national and international companies and investors on M&A transactions, restructurings and joint ventures with a special focus on the energy sector. He also advises power and gas sector companies on power-plant, infrastructure and storage projects, both in the area of conventional power production and renewable energies. Alexander also advises on regulatory aspects and energy supply agreements.
Andrea Schmoll
Andrea Schmoll
Dr. Andrea Schmoll is a partner in our IP team. She advises national and international clients on all matters of intellectual property law with a particular focus on the commercialisation of IP rights. Andrea has longstanding experience in advising and representing national and international clients on technology transfer, in particular as regards the in- and out-licensing of IP Rights as well as research and development collaborations and antitrust issues. Among her further areas of expertise are trademark and unfair competition law. A special focus of her activity is the field of employee invention law. She has extensive experience with the IP-aspects of M&A transactions.
Andrea Pinto
Andrea Pinto
Andrea Pinto has worked for leading global law firms and finance institutions, acquiring a solid and international expertise that enables him to lead complex and cross-border transactions. He is Head of the Italian Financial Services sector. His legal experience spans the breadth of the finance and restructuring & insolvency sectors. Andrea assists both lending institutions and borrowers in real estate finance, project finance, acquisition finance and restructuring matters. He represents banks, financial institutions and corporate clients in very high value and sophisticated commercial and industrial debt restructuring transactions. He also assists clients in turnaround transactions and in the preparation, negotiation, and implementation of corporate and debt restructuring plans. He has gained significant experience in restructuring structured finance debt (e.g. CMBS, REF, leverage financings). Prior to joining Osborne Clarke, Andrea practised as a partner at a global US firm and spent one year on secondment at the international lending department of Barclays Bank PLC in London.
Annabel Lehnen
Annabel Lehnen
Annabel is experienced in individual and collective employment law, ranging from initial advice through to trial stages. She provides advice to a variety of professional groups and individuals, creating employment contracts, in relation to protection from unfair dismissal, collective dismissal, TUPE issues, as well as works closures and negotiation with members of works councils. Additionally, she advises on takeovers and a variety of wage-related issues. As a German Rechtsanwältin, who has also studied Spanish law extensively, she is perfectly suited to advise companies undertaking cross-jurisdictional work, as well as on domestic matters. She is the author of many employment law articles, which have been published in various magazines and newspapers. Further to this, Annabel works closely with a number of TV and press journalists, aiding them with their programme content relating to employment issues.
Anne-Laure Laroussinie
Anne-Laure Laroussinie
Anne-Laure specializes in corporate law and M&A. Anne-Laure intervenes in particular in the context of M&A operations (acquisitions and disposals of French or international companies and assets), whether on domestic, cross-border or multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions. In addition to her in-depth technical skills, she has developed over the years an extensive experience in the management of teams set up in the interest of clients and in-house lawyers regardless of their country, their culture and their specialities. Anne-Laure intervenes mainly in the Transport & Automotive sector, the Aeronautics sector, the Retail sector and the Digital sector. Her demanding management and structured approach to cases is a welcome complement to her legal expertise.  
Antonio Fugaldi
Antonio Fugaldi
Antonio assists clients across a wide range of banking and restructuring matters, having acquired key experience on complex international transactions. He is a member of the Italian Financial Services team and Banking & Finance department. Antonio advises financial institutions, industrial, financial and real estate companies groups in relation to domestic and cross-border financing transactions. He has a particular focus on real estate finance, acquisition finance, leveraged finance, and project finance transactions, as well as restructurings of the financial indebtedness (including by way of reorganisation plans, debt restructuring agreements and compositions with creditors). In addition, he has advised international and domestic banks in the context of structured finance transactions, with particular focus on securitisation transactions. Antonio's experience has developed with his career: from being an associate in a U.K. magic circle law firm, to a senior associate in a U.S. law firm where he worked on some of the most complex restructurings, leverage finance and financing transactions.
Claudio Grisanti
Claudio Grisanti
Claudio specialises in tax law and offers extensive experience in all areas of taxation, with a specific focus on the field of M&A Insurance. He is part of the Italian tax team. He regularly advises Italian and foreign clients on the structuring of M&A, private equity, financing, restructuring and real estate transactions, as well as on the design of complex financial instruments and on the establishment of European and Italian fund structures. Claudio represents clients in tax audits, settlements and appeals and is skilled in drafting and negotiating rulings and APAs. He is a member of the IFA and is regularly invited as lecturer in post-graduate courses and conferences. He is also admitted to practice before the highest Italian and EU courts.
Daniel Stein
Daniel Stein
Daniel is part of the firm's commercial group. His work includes providing advice on a wide range of aspects of German and European competition and trade law. Specialising in matters of distribution law, Daniel drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, advises clients in their international business relations and represents them in contentious proceedings. He also has extensive experience of advising on competition (antitrust) issues arising out of contractual and unilateral business practices. His clients include a variety of major and mid-sized corporations in Germany and abroad.
Enrico Fabrizi
Enrico Fabrizi
Enrico is an internationally recognised expert in Italian and European competition law. A former official of the Italian Antitrust Authority, he advised Italian and foreign clients on a number of matters resulting in leading precedents. He is the Head of the Italian Competition, Antitrust & Trade team, the Italian member of the International Council of Osborne Clarke, and the Head of the Osborne Clarke office in Rome. His legal experience covers the entire spectrum of antitrust activities, from merger control to cartel investigations and proceedings for abuse of dominance. Enrico represents companies, active in several economic sectors, before the European Commission and the Italian Antitrust Authority in the context of investigation proceedings for cartels, other restrictive practices and abuse of dominance, as well as in relation to the lodging of complaints and merger control filings. He assists clients in the appeals of the decisions of the EU Commission before the EU Courts (General Court and Court of Justice) and of those of the national Authority before the Italian administrative Courts. He also represents clients in civil law proceedings relating to antitrust infringements (actions for damages and nullity of contracts or contract clauses). Enrico has significant expertise in designing and implementing specific compliance programmes, performing competition law audits and conducting training activities. He also developed extensive experience in the field of unfair commercial practices and misleading advertising. He has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners Europe, regularly speaks at leading industry conferences and is a frequent contributor to publications on antitrust matters. He received a Master’s Degree (LLM) from the University College of London. Enrico is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Courts.
Federica Greggio
Federica Greggio
Federica has, from the outset, played a fundamental role in Osborne Clarke: firstly, in setting up the firm’s banking practice and now, alongside her work as a lawyer, as the firm’s inclusion and diversity champion. She is a member of the Italian Financial Services team. Her main focus is corporate banking, an area in which she specialised after having accrued over a decade of experience in company law advising corporates.  She has acquired significant expertise, advising banks and businesses both in times of market expansion and financial crisis. Federica advises major financial institutions, in relation to structured finance transactions: acquisition financing, real estate financing, and project financing with a particular focus on renewable energy. She also advises on debt restructuring. Before joining Osborne Clarke, Federica worked for almost ten years in one of the leading international ‘magic circle’ firms.
Federico Banti
Federico Banti
Federico has accrued wide-ranging experience advising businesses in dispute resolution both in and out of court and before arbitration tribunals; his practice mainly relates to international disputes. He is the Head of the Italian Dispute Resolution team and a member of the International Arbitration Group of Osborne Clarke, which handles international multi-jurisdictional arbitration proceedings. His legal expertise includes all types of corporate and commercial disputes with a particular focus on those involving foreign parties. Federico always dedicates special attention to the procedural strategy. Federico advises on corporate matters predominantly in relation to disputes involving shareholders, corporate management and supervisory bodies. He has considerable experience in disputes relates to restructuring and insolvency procedures. He also has niche experience in litigation related to financial intermediaries and insurance matters, and with reference to the role of fiduciaries. Federico has considerable experience in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations (under the International Court of Arbitration (ICC), London Court of Arbitration (LCA) and Milan Chamber of Arbitration (CAM) rules) also acting as an arbitrator. He is a key member of the Italian focus group on third party litigation funding, a practice that is only just taking its first steps within the Italian market but which offers great potential for the firm’s litigation and arbitration clients. Federico is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
Federico M Ferrara
Federico M Ferrara
Federico Ferrara has over 25 years’ experience in Intellectual Property law, acquired working alongside leading companies in a wide number of sectors and with a particular focus on media and entertainment. Federico is the Head of the Italian Intellectual Property team. His practice covers IP rights, strategies, policies, and disputes. He assists key operators in the Tech, Media and Comms, Tourism, Life Sciences and Retail sectors. Federico has accrued niche expertise in the areas of audio-visual works, publishing and music law. Breaches of third-party Intellectual Property are also frequently connected with issues of unfair competition, an area in which Federico has built up significant experience. In matters of industrial property, he has acted on cases involving counterfeiting, exhaustion of rights (parallel imports), licensing and passing off. His practice involves both contentious and non-contentious matters and he has accrued an in-depth knowledge of time-sensitive procedures such as interim injunctions, search orders, and seizures. Federico also has considerable experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer, advising on JVs and M&A transactions, in which Intellectual Property constituted a key element of the corporate assets. He advises on compliance issues relating to advertising, consumer and e-commerce law, as well as in the relevant proceedings before the Italian Advertising Standards Authority and the Italian Competition Authority.
Filippo Palmieri
Filippo Palmieri
Filippo assists Italian and international clients, including listed companies, in particular in domestic and cross-border acquisitions as well as in mergers, demergers, joint ventures and complex corporate reorganisations. He operates in all major market sectors, with a strategic focus on the packaging industry (where he advises numerous market players) as well as the energy and media industries. A PhD in Comparative Private Law and EU Private Law, Filippo has also always been involved in the academic field. He was a researcher at the Centro di Documentazione Europea 'Altiero Spinelli'. He collaborates with the University of Macerata as an adjunct lecturer for courses on Comparative Private Law and European Union Law, including Energy Law. He is the author of numerous publications on corporate and comparative private law issues, as well as a monograph on corporate structures in the world of Anglo-Saxon law firms. Expertise
Filippo Canepa
Filippo Canepa
For over 20 years Filippo’s work in the field of insolvency has been driven by one overarching objective: to preserve business continuity of clients across a wide range of industry sectors. He is the Head of the Italian Restructuring and Insolvency team. His practice focuses on debt restructuring, advising both in and out of court, through a wide selection of procedures. Filippo assists important names in a broad number of industry sectors: manufacturing, commerce, publishing, real estate, energy, fashion, logistics/distribution and automotive, contributing to the restructuring and reorganisation of key business entities, with a keen eye on small and medium sized enterprises. He also advises in and out of court on general corporate and commercial matters.
Gereon Abendroth
Gereon Abendroth
Gereon is a Partner in the Osborne Clarke Technology Team and advises clients in the energy and utilities sector on commercial and civil law issues. He provides legal consulting in the area of renewables and energy innovation technology. He supports renewable energy projects in Germany and abroad and takes on the legal project management for clients. Gereon has special expertise in drafting procurement and supply agreements as well as EPC and operation and maintenance contracts in the renewable energy sector. His clients include investors, component manufacturers, and EPC providers.
Gianluigi Marino
Gianluigi Marino
Gianluigi represents a leading voice in the ambit of digital transformation – supporting both traditional businesses now facing the process of digitalisation, and the more disruptive models driving the change. He is the Head of Digitalisation in Italy, Head of the Italian Tech, Media and Comms team and Data Protection practice. His legal experience includes privacy, intellectual property and technology law, both contentious and non-contentious. Gianluigi assists clients through the digital transformation of business processes and the mitigation of risks associated with information security and information management. He advises some of the major international companies on legal issues relating to privacy and personal data processing, information technology, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, wearable technology, CRM, eHealth and telemedicine, as well as the "right to be forgotten". Furthermore, he has gained substantial experience in drafting and reviewing personal data protection compliance programmes and in providing assistance during and following Data Protection Authority raids. Gianluigi also advises on media regulatory issues, platform regulation, e-commerce, producer guarantees and consumer rights, misleading advertising, prize promotions, commercial contracts, outsourcing, information technology, internet service providers’ liability, copyright and counterfeiting issues.
Giorgio Lezzi
Giorgio Lezzi
Giorgio represents a reference point in the Italian infrastructure services sector, also thanks to his expertise in all areas of public and administrative law. Giorgio is Head of the Italian Infrastructure Services team and Public Law team. His legal expertise spans administrative law, public procurement, public services law, and local entities law. He assists public entities, public bodies and companies involved in the management of local public services, infrastructures, urban regeneration and in the preparation of tender notices concerning the assignment of concessions and public contracts (even in project finance or other public-private partnerships),and has acquired a recognized expertise with reference to public procurements (work, supply and service contracts). Giorgio provides judicial protection and assistance in proceedings before both administrative Courts, assisting in particular public entities and private operators involved or taking part in tenders, and before ordinary Courts, with reference to judgments arising from the execution of public contracts. In addition, Giorgio has accrued solid experience in the public utilities sector: public lighting, gas distribution, district heating, waste management and water management. He is frequently a lecturer or speaker at conferences, seminars and training masters and is the author of numerous publications. Giorgio is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
Giovanni Penzo
Giovanni Penzo
Giovanni is an expert in corporate and commercial law, advising Italian and foreign clients, and in particular public-owned companies (multi-utilities), focusing on the energy and waste & water sectors. Giovanni is a member of the Italian Energy & Utilities team and heads the focus area group dedicated to Waste & Water. His legal expertise focuses on the wide range of corporate and commercial practices, covering both transactional and advisory work. He assists Italian and foreign clients operating in the energy sector on domestic and cross-border M&A as well as joint ventures, extraordinary finance, and general commercial matters. He has a consolidated experience in dispute resolution, both at litigation and arbitration, specifically with regards to the rules related to disputes in the Environment and Waste & Water sectors. He has a consolidated experience in dispute resolution, both at litigation and arbitration, as well as in the specific rules relating to disputes in the Environment and Waste & Water industries. Giovanni has developed expertise in advising publicly owned companies (multi-utilities), listed and otherwise, mainly operating in the Waste & Water sectors and has an in-depth understanding of the management and administrative issues applying to these companies, and of the relevant issues relating to the liability of directors in publicly owned companies. He has advised not only on a variety of M&A transactions involving companies owning waste disposal and recovery plants (landfill site and waste-to-energy plants), but also advises companies in the sector on issues including corporate governance.
Giuliano Lanzavecchia
Giuliano Lanzavecchia
Giuliano is a key point of reference in M&A and Private Equity transactions, thanks to his comprehensive experience advising leading companies and multinationals. He is a member of the Corporate team in Italy and his legal expertise lies in extraordinary M&A and Private Equity transactions. Giuliano assists multinationals, companies, private equity funds and national and international businessmen in the ambit of extraordinary transactions: acquisitions and sales of companies and branches of business, mergers, buy-outs, investments, joint ventures. He also provides general company and commercial legal advice. He has developed consolidated experience in turnarounds, company and debt restructuring, and the management of a wide range of insolvency procedures (arrangements with creditors and other procedures ex art. 182 bis and 67 Insolvency Law). Giuliano is appreciated for his competence and ability to identify and evaluate the technical aspects as well as for his pragmatic approach, oriented to identifying the best solution for the conclusion of the transaction.
Jens Kleinert
Jens Kleinert
Jens practises as a lawyer and a certified tax lawyer, advising clients on all issues dealing with national and international tax law, in particular on the development of tax-optimised structures and the implementation thereof. This also comprises the development and application of capital market products, especially by using investment funds. He has broad experience in advising on complex restructurings and cross-border transactions. His focus is particularly on business succession and estate planning, as well as tax opinions. His clients are national and international enterprises, banks in particular, and high net worth individuals.
Joachim Breithaupt
Joachim Breithaupt
Joachim specialises in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and succession, and advises on venture capital deals and management buyouts. He also has wide experience of cross-border tax issues and the development of closed-end funds. In addition, he assists in developing tax-optimised structures for SMEs and entrepreneurs. As legal adviser of the Association of Mercedes-Benz car dealers in Germany, Joachim has very broad knowledge of the automotive sector. Together with members of the commercial team in Cologne, he advises several car dealers and dealer associations on the new block exemption for the distribution and servicing of motor vehicles in the European Union. He also advises on mergers and the restructuring of car dealers and car dealer groups.
Jürgen Ehrlichmann
Jürgen Ehrlichmann
Jürgen is the Head of the Real Estate & Infrastructure team. His wide-ranging experience includes advising real estate and commercial enterprises as well as banking organisations on developing long-term strategies. He is specialised in commercial tenancy law and strategic optimisation of operating and energy costs, and collaborates with companies focused in these areas. With about twenty years' experience, Jürgen is considered by his clients to bring a commercial approach to the table, working with them and the other side to achieve the required result both swiftly and efficiently.
Konstantin Ewald
Konstantin Ewald
Konstantin Ewald is a Partner and Head of Digital Business at Osborne Clarke, Germany. He advises leaders in the digital media and software industry throughout Europe and the US on all matters of digital media and IT law as well as IP/technology-related transactions. Konstantin's practice focuses on advising on technology related matters with a particular emphasis on SaaS and PaaS cloud deployment models, complex software implementation and licensing projects, distribution agreements and white labelling strategies that safeguard IP. He is a specialist in E- and M-commerce law, as well as data protection issues. A large part of his practice is working with clients in the digital media/video game/mobile sector. Konstantin regularly acts for major computer and mobile games developers and publishers as well as other rights owners who are licensing rights for use in interactive software products. He regularly counsels clients during the product development phase, providing advice about how to design games/apps and other digital media products to avoid claims for infringement and to comply with privacy and youth protection regulations.
Marcus Sacré
Marcus Sacré
Marcus is an adviser and litigator, specialising in intellectual property and competition. He has wide-ranging experience in media and advertising, as well as patent and trade-mark litigation, including injunctive proceedings. Based on his thorough technical knowledge, he acts for domestic and international organisations in major product liability cases, including litigation. Marcus represents the association of German automotive spare part dealers (GVA) as its general legal counsel. This includes lobbying on national and European competition legislation issues.
Maria Grazia Medici
Maria Grazia Medici
In a legal career spanning more than 20 years, Maria Grazia has become a trusted point of reference for those multinational companies in the Life Sciences & Healthcare and Real Estate development sectors that intend to locate their business in Italy. She is Head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare team in Italy and as Osborne Clarke’s Italian specialist in each of these sectors, she heads up an experienced team that counsels a multinational client base. Her practice also focuses on real estate and leisure. Her specialism in life sciences and pharmaceuticals draws on technical acumen acquired while working with the industry, and it’s this practical knowledge that means her clients receive razor-sharp insight and guidance daily. The advice she provides covers the many complex areas, including litigation, facing the sector, such as: the production and sale of pharmaceutical products, active ingredients, medical devices, and food supplements; regulatory procedures for the granting of market authorisation, pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products; and representing clients before the regulatory agencies and in proceedings before the administrative courts. Maria Grazia also counsels Italian and international companies in the development, construction, and operation of real-estate complexes to be used for office, sanitary, retail and leisure use. At the same time, she has built over two decades’ experience assisting clients in the cinema sector, including advising on cinema advertising. She received her J.D. cum laude from the Sapienza University of Rome and she is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
Matt Lewy
Matt Lewy
Matt is a partner in the firm's London corporate team with a focus on energy and natural resources. He has wide experience advising on M&A and investment work, and on joint venture and equity arrangements for projects and project financings. This covers renewable energy (including offshore and onshore wind, solar, biomass, energy from waste and electric vehicles), infrastructure, conventional energy and the energy services sector. Matt is co-lead of the firm's carbon capture and hydrogen group. Matt began his career at a London based City firm, working alongside clients and transactions in the wider infrastructure, renewable energy and private equity sectors. He then worked in the London office of an energy focused US firm, focusing on larger international projects and cross border transactions, including with developing markets. Matt has spent time working in both the US and Russia.  Matt also has experience working with mid-market and large cap clients in the TMT sector.
Nunzia Melaccio
Nunzia Melaccio
Nunzia has practised financial services and banking law since 2000 and heads the Banking&Finance Regulatory department in Italy. She specialises in fund formation, asset management, investment services and the activity of financial intermediaries both on a local and cross-border basis. She has also a deep knowledge of legal and regulatory developments affecting lending platforms, payments and crypto – currencies industries. She operates with a particular focus on cross-border issues within the European Union and to and from the UK and Switzerland. She holds administration and auditing positions with financial intermediaries, banks and listed companies and is a speaker at training courses and conferences relating to her professional activities. She was the founder of the Milan – Lugano Chapter of the “100WomenInFinance” association.
Patrick Wooddisse
Patrick Wooddisse
Patrick helps clients with tax planning, intergenerational succession, and the establishment and operation of complex trusts. Much of his work is international and he specialises in UK/US tax planning. Patrick has a broad client base that includes individuals, financial institutions and trust companies. He has advised leading UK banks on trust law issues, as well as international trust companies in the Channel Islands and Switzerland on succession planning, trust disputes, precedents and standard documentation. He also works with clients in Africa and the Indian diaspora. In his private client practice, Patrick advises wealthy UK and non-UK residents on property, trust, tax, estate and succession planning. He has particular expertise in working with entrepreneurs and farming families. He also advises on the creation and administration of charities. Patrick believes that good legal advice is based on listening carefully to clients and understanding what they want to achieve and why. Effective solutions then come through a combination of common sense, lateral thinking and legal excellence. They then need to be explained clearly and concisely, with decisive conclusions.
Peter Rudd-Clarke
Peter Rudd-Clarke
Peter specialises in helping businesses navigate regulatory challenges and liability risks, particularly in the life sciences, healthcare and consumer products sectors. Peter advises a range of businesses including medical device companies, software producers, service providers and manufacturers of lifestyle products. His regulatory experience includes advising on the regulation of medical devices and consumer products, as well as CE/UKCA marking, clinical trials, regulatory investigations and ongoing compliance matters. The litigation and risk management side to Peter’s practice involves defending manufacturers of complex products against liability claims, often across multiple jurisdictions.
Pietro Scianna
Pietro Scianna
Pietro has in-depth and diverse experience in all areas of labour law: from ordinary personnel management to labour law aspects of extraordinary operations, labour relations and litigation. He advises national and international clients on individual and collective dismissals, international secondments, contracts (relating to subordinate and autonomous labour relations), outsourcing processes, corporate transactions and corporate restructuring and reorganisation. He also advises on agency contracts, negotiations with top management and the regulation of the positions of top managers involved in extraordinary transactions. He participated in the study programme established by the Center for American and International Law (CAIL) in Dallas, Texas (U.S.) and is a member of the association "Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani" (AGI) and of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Ralf Schlößer
Ralf is Head of Tax and also a member of the corporate team in Germany. He has advised on a large number of acquisitions, including the restructuring of companies on a national and international level. He is legal counsel for a large number of companies, in particular mid-sized enterprises with headquarters both in Germany and overseas, which he advises on corporate and tax issues. Additionally, he has broad experience in criminal tax law, capital gains in particular. He has more than ten years' experience in the automotive sector, in particular with car dealers and their relationships with manufacturers and importers. Ralf has been legal adviser of the Association of Mercedes-Benz car dealers (VVMB) for many years. His deep understanding of the automotive sector, together with his broad experience in tax and corporate law, has made him the adviser on a large number of M&A deals, as well as on the restructuring of companies in this sector.
Rob Hayes
Rob Hayes
Rob is a partner in Osborne Clarke's corporate practice and has a particular focus on venture capital work, acting for high growth technology companies and institutional investors on refinancing transactions and company exits. Rob also works with clients in the private equity sector, where he has experience of acting on buyouts, buy-and-build consolidator projects and related exits. Many of Rob's clients operate in the life sciences and tech, media and communications sectors, where the technology has been developed at some of the world's leading research institutions based in the UK. Rob has worked on the legal drafting committee for the BVCA's early stage model documents. He co-leads OC Ventures, the firm's dedicated resource centre for the ventures ecosystem. Rob is head of Osborne Clarke's Thames Valley office.   Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/rob-hayes/
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Rob is an Associate Director in the Osborne Clarke corporate tax practice, with experience advising on UK and cross-border tax issues. Rob works with a range of clients from private equity funds and large multi-national businesses to start-ups and individuals, across a broad range of industries and sectors. His practice covers transactional matters as well as standalone tax advisory. He has particular expertise advising on private equity transactions, management buy-outs and equity arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, group structuring and reorganisations, finance transactions and other corporate and commercial transactions.
Robert Guthrie
Robert Guthrie
Rob is a Partner in Osborne Clarke’s Intellectual Property team. He advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property clearance, protection, enforcement and dispute resolution, including trade mark prosecution and the management of global trade mark portfolios. Rob's UK litigation experience ranges from pharmaceutical patent litigation through to high profile trade mark disputes – such as the successful defence of Sky’s Now TV from a passing off claim brought by the operators of a Now TV in Hong Kong; a case which went all the way to the UK’s Supreme Court. Many of Rob's clients operate in fast-moving technology-driven industries – including the interactive entertainment, digital content, fintech and life sciences sectors.
Robert Horne
Robert Horne
Rob has almost 30 years' experience in identifying, managing, avoiding and resolving disputes in the construction and related industries. He regularly acts on high profile projects across many different jurisdictions from the UK to Australia and is particularly well known for his innovative approaches to risk management, complex delay and disruption claims and the NEC form of contract. Rob frequently leads multi-disciplinary teams managing risks and resolving disputes on the highest profile projects both in the UK and internationally. He has worked with a full range of clients including private individuals, local and central government authorities, contractors and professionals. He has worked extensively on a wide variety of infrastructure projects including roads, railways and airports and is particularly well known for managing and resolving long term dispute whether and PFI/PPP style contract or long term operation and maintenance contracts. However, he also has extensive experience is residential development and light industrial from cladding and fire stopping to adequacy of foundations and roof mounted solar panels. In the Energy and Utilities sector he has worked on coal fired power stations, oil and gas pipelines, on shore and off shore oil and a full range of renewable and green energy projects. Robert Horne is noted for his proficiency in disputes relating to PFI projects and energy developments, as well as residential and mixed-use schemes. He is equally adept at handling domestic disputes and proceedings relating to assets in the Middle East. Rob is highly innovative; not just in finding novel and unique solutions to problems and disputes in individual projects but also in managing their impact on a wider business across reputation or portfolio wide impact. He has developed a number of unique and bespoke risk management tools to simplify board level decision making while increasing transparency and ease of access to relevant materials. Rob has written extensively, and over a long period, about the development of technology to assist the construction process (e.g. article on use of drones in 2015). He carries his interest in technology into the work he manages for his clients, utilising on-line platforms and solutions wherever possible and adopting data analytics to support risk management.
Robert Wood
Robert Wood
Rob is a Partner in Osborne Clarke's corporate practice and advises investors, management teams and companies on all aspects of the private equity market, focusing on venture and growth capital transactions, private equity buyouts, buy-and-build projects and exits. He has particular expertise in advising on complex transactions involving investor syndicates. Much of Rob’s work focuses on the Tech, Media and Comms sector, particularly on high-growth companies trying to bring the latest technology to market. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/robert-wood/
Rüdiger Bonnmann
Rüdiger Bonnmann
Rüdiger specialises in advising project developers, investors, insurance companies and retail firms, as well as advising the building and construction industry on private and public building and real estate law. He also focuses on project transactions, including due diligence and process guidance in civil proceedings and litigation. He advised accountancy firm Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in property law for more than ten years, particularly in finding business locations.
Rupa Lakha
Rupa has extensive experience of both contentious and non-contentious areas of construction law. She has advised on the drafting and negotiation of building contracts and consultants’ appointments and now specialises in dispute resolution, acting regularly for developers, consultants, sub-contractors and consultants in various forms of dispute resolution including mediation, adjudication and litigation.Rupa's recent clients have included RBS, P&O, The Greater London Authority, The Goldsmiths’ Company, Dover Harbour Board, Dorchester Collection, Derwent London Plc, Permasteelisa and Bouygues.Rupa has been ranked in The Legal 500 2017 ‘Next Generation Lawyers’ category for Construction: contentious and non-contentious.
Samuel Marriott
Samuel Marriott
Sam is an Associate Director in Osborne Clarke's Incentives team and advises on a wide range of advisory and transactional employee incentive and share plan matters. Sam advises clients on the design and implementation of both HMRC tax-advantaged and bespoke incentive arrangements, with a particular focus on VC backed startups. Sam also advises clients on the share incentive aspects of domestic and international corporate transactions, including equity funding rounds, M&A, Private Equity and IPOs.  
Sara Valentine
Sara Valentine
Sara leads the corporate team in the Thames Valley office. She specialises in a broad range of corporate transactions, including UK and cross border deals. Sara handles mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, investments and other general corporate advice. Sara acts for a number of the leading companies in the Thames Valley. She advises Xerox on acquisitions, which has included the acquisitions of Spur Information Systems, Newfield Technology, CVG Limited and Wireless Data Services. Sara also acts for Solera/Audatex and for Xeretec on UK/cross border acquisitions and other corporate advice.
Sara Miglioli
Sara Miglioli
In addition to being a transaction lawyer dealing with all corporate and commercial aspects of complex Real Estate deals, Sara also advises on the planning aspects of property projects. She is a member of the Italian Real Estate & Infrastructure team and she has consolidated experience in real estate and construction law, as well as in corporate and commercial matters. She acts for property companies, developers and corporate occupiers on all aspects of real estate law, with a particular emphasis on the industrial and retail sectors. She has developed a particular focus on work for developers, which she combines with her considerable public and administrative law expertise, critical for getting major projects off the ground. She is also active in the renewable energy sector, where she has acted on some very important deals, including the construction of one of the biggest rooftop PV portfolios in Italy. Sara sits on the Board of Directors of Pininfarina S.p.A. – an internationally renowned Italian company in the automotive sector - and is a member of the IBA international construction projects committee. Sara is admitted to appear before the Italian Supreme Court.
Shelley Faulkner
Shelley Faulkner
Shelley acts for and advises UK and international clients on a wide range of private wealth issues. This includes advising on trust creation, taxation and administration, on inheritance tax planning and on the setting up and administration of charitable companies and trusts. Shelley acts in the administration of trusts and estates, including those holding businesses and international assets, and she advises on associated disputes. Shelley acts for and advises international (particularly US) clients on the administration of UK assets held in international estates. She also advises on Wills and lasting powers of attorney; on estate and business succession planning; on asset protection strategies, and on the tax implications of UK residence and domicile. Shelley works as part of Osborne Clarke's UK Private Wealth team, which practises across the London, Bristol and Reading offices. She advises on a wide range of private wealth issues, including: estate and succession planning for business owners; advice on planning in advance of business exits; setting up and administering trusts, and the taxation of trusts; administering estates, often including businesses and international assets; advising UK and international (particularly US) lawyers on the administration of UK estates; estate planning including setting up Wills, and advice on asset protection; deputyships and lasting powers of attorney; setting up and running charitable companies and trusts; and advice on the tax implications of UK residence and domicile. Shelley very much enjoys building long-lasting relationships with clients from a wide variety of different backgrounds, and advising at what are often key points in their lives. Her work can be as diverse as: advising on succession planning for business owners; dealing with the administration of an overseas estate; setting up a charitable foundation; estate planning for a retiring couple; advising a household-name business on trust registration, or setting up a trust as part of tax planning before a business sale.
Simone Monesi
Simone Monesi
Simone has a comprehensive understanding of Urban Dynamics transformations, grounded in his long-standing experience in the real estate sector. His expertise spans multiple areas, including energy, infrastructure, and mergers & acquisitions. He is the Head of Italy's Urban Dynamics and The Built Environment teams. His legal experience is primarily rooted in mergers & acquisition with a particular focus on real estate and infrastructure. Simone provides highly specialised assistance and has a deep understanding of technical, regulatory, and financial issues relevant to energy, infrastructure and real estate projects. He assists long-term investors in all phases of the investment cycle, from the setting-up of the appropriate investment structures, establishment of joint ventures with co-investors, to the acquisition, development, management and sale of assets.
Thomas Schnabel
Thomas Schnabel
Thomas is a Partner in our property team in Cologne. He advises clients on their real estate transactions, asset deals and portfolio transactions, as well as corporate transactions pertaining to property rights. He specialises in contract review and contract design across commercial tenancy law, and represents his clients in all matters relating to real estate law in court proceedings. His clients include project developers, retail companies and investment companies. He provides his clients with specialist knowledge, particularly on renewable energy, fund development, the purchases and sales of wind and solar parks, and major national and international retail companies.
Thomas Funke
Leading our competition practice in Germany, Thomas advises on antitrust litigation, competition compliance, distribution strategies and merger control. Thomas' experience includes cartel damages litigation before the European Court of Justice and the German Supreme Court. As lead counsel in German and EU antitrust investigations, Thomas as part of our smart cities team has represented clients from the automotive, energy, banking and technology sectors. He recently defended a multinational IT company in cartel investigations and secured the German merger clearance for a multibillion life sciences transaction. Having advised on the EU competition framework for the motor vehicle sector for more than a decade, Thomas regularly speaks at international conferences.
Tim Simmonds
Tim Simmonds
Tim is a leading Investment Funds partner, with a particular focus on real estate and private equity funds. Tim has been the UK Chief Operating Officer since 2023. Tim advises fund managers, service providers and investors on all aspects of investment funds. He has particular expertise in relation to fund raising and acts for both the public and private sectors. Tim is experienced in raising friends and family money for start-up ventures, through complex joint ventures to widely held, global investment funds. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/tim-simmonds/
Timo Karsten
Timo Karsten
As a member of the Employment department Timo provides legal guidance to national and international companies on collective and individual employment and labour law issues. One of his main focuses is formulating strategies and implementing company reorganisations and restructurings, including the protection of companies' interests in the field of shops' committees and social partnerships. He has particular expertise in designing and negotiating collective agreements, a topic he dealt with in greater detail in his doctoral thesis in regard to wage agreements governed by the law of obligation and non-exempt social partnership agreements. He also has sound experience in international trade law. Due to his good business connections in Northern Europe - Finnish is his second mother language - Timo advises clients from Finland and Scandinavia on their business activities in Germany and on cross-border legal issues.
Tom Lewis
Tom is a Director in PwC’s International Business Reorganisations legal team, and is based in London in the UK. He has over 13 years’ experience of reorganisation work. Tom specialises in advising multinational clients on complex cross-border reorganisation projects in connection with pre and post M&A activities (including IPOs), group simplification, inbound investment, intra-group financing and more general legal structuring advice, such as legal entity formation, reserves planning and dividend facilitation.Tom began his career at a US law firm (Shearman & Sterling), before moving to KPMG and then PwC. He regularly works alongside tax, accounting and other professionals at PwC to deliver seamless multidisciplinary solutions for our clients.Tom focuses on the PLS sector and his recent experience includes leading the legal implementation of a global pre IPO reorganisation for Eli Lilly, a project that involved PwC providing legal advice in more than 70 countries worldwide.Tom is PwC’s legal representative on the firm’s Japanese Business Network, and regularly advises Japanese headquartered multinational looking to undertake investment and transactions in the UK.In addition to his client facing role, Tom has recently been appointed as the firm’s Trainee Director with responsibility for supervising the Trainee programme, from hiring of graduates to the Trainee experience and qualification process.
Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis
Tom is a commercial litigation Partner with considerable experience of representing major corporates in high-value and complex commercial disputes, corporate investigations and fraud-related matters. He is regularly retained on matters with an international dimension. He is regularly retained by one of the Big  Four Accountancy firms, certain major American Film and TV corporations, one of the pre-eminent fine art auction houses and various major financial services organisations. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/tom-ellis/
Trevor Crosse
Trevor is an intellectual property lawyer who advises clients on the commercialisation and enforcement of their IP rights, with a particular focus on patent and licensing disputes in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. His primary expertise lies in biopharmaceutical patent and SPC litigation, in which he regularly advises clients in relation to complex technical disputes.Trevor has advised clients on actions in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, as well as in relation to references to the Court of Justice of the European Union. His work routinely involves multi-jurisdictional disputes and he has significant experience co-ordinating global litigation strategies for his clients.Trevor has been recognised as a rising star by Managing Intellectual Property, IP Stars, 2018. Example CasesEli Lilly v Genentech (Anti-IL17A/F antibodies)Chugai Pharmaceutical Co v UCB Pharma (Antibody humanisation protocols)Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics v AbbVie (Humira therapy for Crohn’s disease)Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics v AbbVie (Humira dosing regimen)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin combination therapy)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin formulation)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin dosing regimen)Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v Genentech (VEGF antagonists)MedImmune v Novartis (Phage display)
Ulrich Bäumer
Ulrich Bäumer
Ulrich Bäumer is a partner in the technology group of Osborne Clarke in Cologne. He advises the clients of the firm mainly in the area information technology and (offshore) outsourcing. He drafts and negotiates complex international IT project (especially offshore outsourcing) contracts and assists the technology clients of the firm in M&A transactions. He also advises in all other aspects of technology, data protection and licensing law. He advised many German and international companies on data centre and R&D centre outsourcings - onshore, nearshore and offshore. Ulrich Bäumer has successfully worked on and finalised 180 + global outsourcing projects in the last 15 years. Clients of the firm recommend him as a lawyer who “gets the deal done”.
Uwe Brosette
Uwe Brosette
Uwe is the head of the German Commercial team. He specialises in developing and improving complex distribution systems. Uwe advises clients from the retail and automotive sector on all aspects of commercial law, especially on trade and competition (antitrust) issues. Among other matters he negotiates dealer and service agreements with manufacturers on behalf of large car dealer associations and advises Tupperware Germany and US-American guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars on the development of their distribution systems.