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Tim Fullerlove
Tim Fullerlove
Tim is a partner in our Tax & Trusts team and works in both our Salisbury and London offices. Tim advises both UK-based and international individuals on the management of their wealth and personal affairs, with a particular focus on tax and estate planning.  He also works with lawyers, trustees and trust companies in a wide range of foreign jurisdictions on behalf of their clients.  Tim also specialises in advising on tax issues that arise in the course of litigation, in particular trust and estate disputes.
Peter Bourke MRICS
Peter Bourke MRICS
Peter is the firm's senior partner and part of the  Property & Commercial Litigation team.  Peter deals predominantly with agricultural rural property issues including freehold disputes and landlord and tenant problems. His freehold work mostly relates to adverse possession and rights of way. The landlord and tenant matters cover commercial, residential and agricultural property. His particular specialist area is agriculture with AHA succession tenancy disputes being a key element of his work. He deals with the issues faced by farmers, landlords and tenants. He advises many farming businesses on partnership problems. He usually finds a pragmatic solution for the benefit of his clients. As a qualified Chartered Surveyor, Peter has a detailed understanding of the problems facing both landlords and tenants.
Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards
Anthony heads up the firm's Employment Team and is also the firm's Client Service and Complaints Partner. His instructions from employers cover a wide range of sectors, including commercial, charitable and educational organisations, as well as private landed estates. He also advises senior managers/executives throughout their careers, from recruitment to exits. He has been a regular speaker at various seminars (including Wilsons' Agrilaw event and Salisbury Big Business presentation) and has been instructed by clients to provide training/coaching to management level staff.
Peter Jeffreys
Peter Jeffreys
Peter Jeffreys is a partner in the charity legacy team.  Peter specialises in charity legacy administration and the resolution of problem estates for charities.  He also acts for charities in Court of Protection cases. Peter has a special interest in dealing with cases of probate fraud for charities. Peter's background in private client work means he is uniquely well placed to advise charities and individuals on complex and problematic will cases. His combination of practical experience, and a sensitive and diplomatic approach, is much in demand. Peter chairs and speaks at our hugely successful seminar for charity legacy officers, which takes place in London annually in March, and was also a popular speaker at the firm's seminar for military charities in London.
Jane Lonergan
Jane Lonergan
Jane Lonergan is a partner and head of the Property Team.  She specialises in commercial property with a particular emphasis on charity land transactions, and also deals with large and/or complicated land transactions. Jane acts for many of the best known charities in the country, advising on the entire spectrum of property issues affecting charities as well as assisting with complicated charity restructures and charity mergers. In short, Jane helps charities with all matters involving property. Jane is very well known in the field of charity property and contributes regularly to legal publications.  She wrote the chapter on Charity Property for the Solicitor's Journal 'Expert Guide'.  As the subject matter expert, Jane lectures other legal professionals (both solicitors and barristers) on both commercial property and charity property.
Frances Mayne
Frances Mayne
Frances Mayne is a partner and head of the Mental Capacity team. She specialises in capacity, Court of Protection, trusts, powers of attorney, and deals with legal issues relating to clients who are elderly, disabled or vulnerable. She acts as a professional executor, trustee, attorney and Court of Protection deputy. Frances has spoken at seminars for accountancy firms in connection with mental capacity issues, at The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (Hants, Wilts & Dorset) on capacity issues for farmers and businesses, at Wilsons' Agrilaw event, and at the Case Managers Conference.
Dominic Ogden
Dominic Ogden
Dominic is a consultant in the Commercial Property team. He is based in the Salisbury office but spends almost half his time working out of the Wilsons London office. Dominic handles a broad range of commercial property work. He has dealt with numerous complicated and high value transactions, often working closely with our corporate team and other professionals on corporate acquisitions and de-mergers involving large commercial property portfolios. His practice includes dealing with the sale and purchase of commercial buildings and development land, commercial leases (acting for both landlords and tenants), promotion agreements and options and mineral extraction agreements.  He has acted for a wide range of clients from overseas corporate investors, wealthy UK and overseas private investors, well-known national charities, 'top 10' firms of surveyors and accountants, landed estates, breweries and pub companies.
Mike Parker
Mike Parker
Mike has been the firm's Managing Partner since November 2014 and has overall responsibility for the business.  He works closely with the other members of the management team to ensure that clients receive a consistently high standard of service and that our lawyers and other staff are properly supported.  His leadership style is founded on the principle that great teamwork is the key to success. Mike's specialism is litigation and dispute resolution and he advises individuals as well as businesses on a wide range of issues.  He has particular expertise in property cases concerning title, boundaries and rights of way.  Mike’s practice also covers professional negligence and high value company/commercial disputes including breach of contract, share sales and injunctions.  He is recommended by The Legal 500 2016 for commercial litigation. Mike has been listed in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2023. This respected annual list from leading legal magazine The Lawyer celebrates pioneering and creative lawyers across the entire profession in the UK. The Lawyer says: "Wilsons managing partner Mike Parker is a pragmatic law firm leader whose mantra is “control the controllables”. In other words, while the market continues to be buffeted by global economic headwinds and turmoil, Parker sees his role as making sure the individuals and teams at his Salisbury stalwart firm are as motivated, engaged and inspired as possible."
Sue Russell
Sue Russell
Sue is a Partner in the Property team.  Sue's focus is predominantly in relation to estates, farms and rural land. She advises individuals, trustees and institutional landowners on matters relating to the management of their rural property holdings, including sales, purchases,  landlord and tenant issues, agricultural tenancies and sporting rights. She also assists with planning and development work including the preparation of Promotion Agreements, Options and Overage deeds in order to bring land forward for development. Sue also has extensive experience in renewable energy projects including solar farms, battery storage and payments for environmental services/ sustainability with the aim of maximising rent and royalties for the landowner.
Jonathan Stephens
Jonathan Stephens
Jonathan is a partner in the Tax & Trusts team, and has an unusual breadth of experience in strategic planning for clients with private and commercial interests. Jonathan is an expert on structuring for farms and landed estates, particularly in relation to partnerships, trusts and alternative arrangements. On the corporate side, he often advises business owners on succession, options and incentives, and capital tax planning. Jonathan acts as trustee for a number of substantial trusts involved in development land, farming interests and commercial businesses. Jonathan is the author of a series of practice notes on the Practical Law Company website on the law and practice relating to farm partnerships, and he has had a series of articles published in Farmers Weekly on forming partnerships, bringing in new partners, and ending a partnership. Jonathan is a frequent speaker on the subject of structuring and planning for farms and estates, and regularly provides seminars for accountants and surveyors.
Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
Ben is a partner in the Property & Commercial Litigation team.  He deals predominantly with property disputes and his clients are landowning individuals and companies and charities. Ben's recent cases include disputes relating to easements (including rights of way), boundary disputes, adverse possession, development and building, restrictive covenants, professional negligence, and both residential and commercial landlord and tenant. With experience of mediations, arbitrations, adjudications and court hearings Ben will utilise the most appropriate procedure to resolve a dispute and he is also often asked to advise as to how to prevent disputes arising in the first place.
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte is a partner in our Will & Trust Disputes team.  Charlotte advises on contentious trust and probate and legacy administration problems, including Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims, will validity, construction of wills, problems with executors and trustees, proprietary estoppel and the Non-Contentious Probate Rules. Charlotte also deals with ex gratia claims, lost wills, joint bank accounts and lifetime gifts. She regularly advises on proceedings in the Court of Protection including statutory will applications (where the court makes a will for a person who does not have the mental capacity to make his own) and has a special interest in this area. She is committed to resolving disputes in a sensitive and tactful way, being mindful that they can be extremely difficult emotionally as well as financially.
Belinda Watson
Belinda Watson
Belinda Watson is a partner in the Farms & Estates team of our private client department.  She specialises in providing strategic advice on all areas of wealth preservation and succession planning, typically to the owners of landed estates, large farms, family businesses and heritage chattels and properties. This involves advising on wills and trusts, lifetime giving, partnerships and the application of inheritance tax exemptions and reliefs (such as agricultural or business property, heritage property and maintenance funds).  Belinda represents clients from a wide geographical area across the country including the south coast, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Shropshire.
Torsten White
Torsten White
Torsten White is a partner in our Tax & Trusts team. He advises on all aspects of trust law, wills, powers of attorney and capital taxation, and specialises in advising individuals, trustees and partnerships on succession and capital tax planning in relation to farms and landed estates. Torsten advises a number of owners of homes, land and chattels of national heritage quality on aspects of conditional exemption and setting up and administering maintenance funds. He acts for clients in respect of offers of both land and chattels in lieu of inheritance tax.
Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert is a private client lawyer in our Tax & Trusts team. His work is primarily planning with trusts and wills, with the tax effects of planning options an important consideration. His clients are mostly individuals, trustees, and executors.  He also acts for companies and partnerships on trust and tax matters with a 'private client' element. Part of Rupert's work has a foreign dimension, whether it is acting for a UK based client who owns assets outside the UK, an international client with UK assets, or in some cases, international clients with trusts but no personal connection to the UK.  He also acts for clients who are planning to come to the UK on a regular basis and want to ensure they are UK tax compliant.
James Johnson
James Johnson
James is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team advising on commercial matters for a wide variety of clients. James' work includes private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, investments and fundraisings, shareholder agreements, LLP and partnership arrangements and commercial contracts. He has extensive experience in a number of commercial sectors including consumer goods, motor vehicles, construction and aggregates extraction and also advises a number of professional partnerships.
Fiona Campbell-White
Fiona Campbell-White
Fiona is a partner in the Will & Trusts Disputes team. Fiona specialises in advising on disputes involving legacies (covering the entire range of probate claims, claims for the rectification of wills and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975) and disputes arising during the course of the administration of trusts and estates. Fiona enjoys resolving the deadlock that can occur in the administration of estates, either as the executors have fallen out with one another, or because the executors have fallen out with the beneficiaries of the estate. She has particular experience in acting for charities, having first advised them in the 1990s on a wide variety of general contentious matters (from governance issues to contract/tort disputes), with her more recent focus being on legacy and probate administration disputes.
Jon Ashbridge
Jon Ashbridge
Jon is a partner in our Property team and head of Residential Conveyancing. Jon advises, in conjunction with a firm wide team of relevant specialists, a broad range of private and business clients on their finance and banking requirements, particularly regarding their varied real estate interests, as well as having extensive experience of prime residential, amenity, leisure and strategic land and property acquisitions, disposals, investment and development. He has a particular interest in clients seeking investment, innovation, diversification and development opportunities across a wide sector.
Debbie Ashenhurst
Debbie Ashenhurst
Debbie is the head of Wilsons' Education team and a partner in our Dispute Resolution team.  She also leads our data protection and reputation management practices. Dispute resolution Debbie has a broad commercial litigation practice which includes handling a wide range of contractual, commercial and corporate disputes.  She has particular expertise in reputation management including defamation, privacy, confidentiality, data protection and harassment law. Her practice also focuses on information law and she regularly advises clients on compliance with data protection and marketing laws.  She has advised businesses, charities and schools on GDPR compliance, responding to subject access and similar requests and bringing or defending claims for breach of confidence, breach of data protection laws, misuse of private information, removal of online material and harassment. Education Debbie's focus is on providing practical and technically excellent advice to schools and parents on education-related matters including the legal and practical aspects of admissions, behaviour and discipline, exclusions and removals, complaints and appeals, SEND and discrimination claims, governance, commercial and contractual issues and safeguarding. She also has experience of drafting and reviewing school contractual, policy and other documents.  Her background in dispute resolution, data protection and reputation management is particularly useful when advising clients on contentious matters, information sharing, data protection compliance, subject access and Freedom of Information Act requests and dealing with negative content on traditional or social media. Debbie's advice is informed by attention to the underlying law and a determination to deliver the best result for her clients at a reasonable cost and within a timescale that recognises the fast-paced reality of school life.
Christopher Bull
Christopher Bull
Christopher is a dual qualified solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser. He has a broad range of experience as a Tax & Trusts specialist providing both domestic and offshore tax planning for clients.  He works with lottery winners, business owners, and other high net worth individuals to provide Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and lifetime and post-death tax planning.  He typically advises UK and offshore trustees, non-domiciliaries and non-resident individuals with links to the UK.
Mark Cook
Mark Cook
Mark is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team.  Mark's work includes private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations, investments and fundraisings, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, LLP and partnership arrangements and company and contract law issues. He has experience of AIM and main market listing and fundraising work and has advised on all aspects of the public company regulatory framework. Mark has worked on a number of cross-border transaction and has extensive experience in a range of sectors including food & drink, health and social care, manufacturing, technology and consumer goods.
Michael Ellis
Michael Ellis
Mike is a partner in our Property & Commercial Litigation team. Mike specialises both in contentious property and commercial disputes. His property practice is broad and varied but he has a particular interest in disputes concerning commercial property. These range from contested 1954 Act lease renewals, dilapidations/diminution in value claims (specifically commercial lease dilapidations), forfeiture claims and service charge disputes. Whether the instructions relate to residential or commercial property, Mike is regularly instructed to advise in connection with possession claims, disputes involving breaches of covenant and easement disputes, as well as all types of landlord and tenant disputes. Additionally, Mike frequently handles residential leasehold enfranchisement claims and claims relating to the right to manage. He advises on all stages of proceedings, including in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and in disputes proceeding in the Property Tribunals. Mike's commercial practice includes claims for breach of contract, restrictive covenant disputes and claims involving professional negligence. Mike is also regularly instructed by clients to recover debts, and he advises on all stages of enforcement of judgments.
Natasha Grande
Natasha Grande
Natasha joined Wilsons in June 2023 and is a partner and head of our Family team.  Natasha advises on all areas of family law, specialising in financial remedies and private children work. She negotiates pre and post nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and separation agreements. She also deals with a range of protective injunctions (occupation and non-molestation orders). She advises on the full range of private law proceedings, including child contact and living arrangements, and relocation. Natasha has a particular expertise in cases that have complex jurisdictional and financial aspects. She has a particular interest in cases with an American element. Natasha gives clear and pragmatic advice. She is committed to achieving the best result for her clients out of court,  but is an experienced litigator if required. Natasha is respected in the family law market. She was featured as a rising star in the 2023 Spears Index, recommended in the Spears 2024 Index for professionals working in family law. She was also a judge for the British Family Law Awards. She is a regular contributor to legal journals and commentator in the media on family law.
Jenifer Martindale
Jenifer Martindale
Jenifer is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Team as well as being a member of the Education Team. Jenifer acts for: businesses (from SMEs to large companies), individuals, landed estates, schools and charities.  She provides her clients with expert advice and excellent client service.  Jenifer believes it is important to build a strong rapport with her clients to understand their needs and objectives.  Her advice and recommendations are tailored to meet those needs and objectives, highlighting the risks and cost benefit of each particular step and stage of dispute resolution. Dispute resolution Jenifer has a wide-ranging litigation practice with particular emphasis on commercial disputes but also with expertise in contested property matters. She acts for both claimants and defendants dealing with disputes from initial correspondence through to court proceedings both in the County Court and High Court.  Jenifer has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Jenifer has particular expertise in commercial contractual disputes including breach of contract, defective products, contract termination and debt recovery (including enforcement of judgments). She also has experience of acting in disputes concerning director/shareholder issues, LLP/partnership disputes, employment post-termination restrictive covenants, professional negligence, defamation, and construction contracts (including adjudication). In addition to her commercial litigation practice, Jenifer undertakes property litigation work specialising in disputes between property co-owners, rights of way/boundary disputes and town/village green applications. Education Jenifer provides advice and clarification on the operation of the Parent School Contract and other admission documents and has expertise in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and its applicability to the Parent School Contract.  She regularly acts for schools on fees recovery matters including FILON disputes and is increasingly involved in advising on general education matters.  She also has experience of dealing with parental complaints (often linked to fees debts). Jenifer regularly contributes to school publications with a particular focus on maximising fees recovery and avoiding bad debts.
Salim Patel
Salim Patel
Salim is a Partner in the Farms, Estates & Landowner Development team.  He joined Wilsons in November 2021 and specialises in non-contentious agricultural and rural land and property matters.  Salim acts for a wide variety of landowners including landed estates, charities, farmers, family farming companies, partnerships and private individuals. His practice includes dealing with the sale and purchase of strategic land for development (including advising on overage arrangements, options, promotion, landowner collaboration and hybrid agreements), the sale and purchase of farms, estates and rural land and acting for landlords and tenants with agricultural tenancy matters. Salim specialises in a range of other matters including renewable energy projects, the grant of commercial leases of rural property for diversification purposes and the grant of easements for utility, other strategic purposes and farm business tenancies. He is particularly interested in the management of natural capital and the challenges and opportunities faced by owners of rural property in this arena.  Salim has experience of acting for wildlife charities in connection with the purchase of land for nature reserves and for other clients exploring the opportunities presented by new schemes for environmental land management and bio-diversity net gain and also the potential use of conservation covenants.
Sian Scanlon
Sian Scanlon
Sian is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team.  Sian's practice includes private company M&A, business acquisitions and disposals, investments & fundraisings, private equity transactions, joint ventures, reorganisations, shareholders' agreements, LLPs and partnerships, corporate governance and advisory matters and commercial contracts across a range of sectors including manufacturing, software, life sciences, professional services and technology.  Sian's extensive experience in advising both owner managers in selling their companies and buyers on the acquisition trail means she has a strong pedigree in helping business and individuals make the most of their opportunities and she has a pragmatic, focused and accessible style.  In addition, Sian has particular experience in advising professional service LLPs and partnerships on their partnership agreements and member governance.
Kate Stockdale
Kate Stockdale
Kate is a Partner in the Residential Property department. She works on a range of property transactions including sales and purchases as well as new build purchases, sales by auction, first registrations, lease extensions, new leases and re-mortgages. Kate has undertaken work for a wide range of clients, including charities, companies with their buy-to-let portfolios, executors, first time buyers and more vulnerable clients (such as those represented under a power of attorney or a Court of Protection Order and those selling their properties to move into sheltered housing or care homes). Kate also works closely with the private client department within Wilsons to assist them with property matters connected with tax planning.
Fiona Campbell-White
Fiona Campbell-White
Fiona is a partner in the Will & Trusts Disputes team. Fiona specialises in advising on disputes involving legacies (covering the entire range of probate claims, claims for the rectification of wills and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975) and disputes arising during the course of the administration of trusts and estates. Fiona enjoys resolving the deadlock that can occur in the administration of estates, either as the executors have fallen out with one another, or because the executors have fallen out with the beneficiaries of the estate. She has particular experience in acting for charities, having first advised them in the 1990s on a wide variety of general contentious matters (from governance issues to contract/tort disputes), with her more recent focus being on legacy and probate administration disputes.
Dominic Ogden
Dominic Ogden
Dominic is a consultant in the Commercial Property team. He is based in the Salisbury office but spends almost half his time working out of the Wilsons London office. Dominic handles a broad range of commercial property work. He has dealt with numerous complicated and high value transactions, often working closely with our corporate team and other professionals on corporate acquisitions and de-mergers involving large commercial property portfolios. His practice includes dealing with the sale and purchase of commercial buildings and development land, commercial leases (acting for both landlords and tenants), promotion agreements and options and mineral extraction agreements.  He has acted for a wide range of clients from overseas corporate investors, wealthy UK and overseas private investors, well-known national charities, 'top 10' firms of surveyors and accountants, landed estates, breweries and pub companies.
James Johnson
James Johnson
James is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team advising on commercial matters for a wide variety of clients. James' work includes private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, investments and fundraisings, shareholder agreements, LLP and partnership arrangements and commercial contracts. He has extensive experience in a number of commercial sectors including consumer goods, motor vehicles, construction and aggregates extraction and also advises a number of professional partnerships.
Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert Wilkinson
Rupert is a private client lawyer in our Tax & Trusts team. His work is primarily planning with trusts and wills, with the tax effects of planning options an important consideration. His clients are mostly individuals, trustees, and executors.  He also acts for companies and partnerships on trust and tax matters with a 'private client' element. Part of Rupert's work has a foreign dimension, whether it is acting for a UK based client who owns assets outside the UK, an international client with UK assets, or in some cases, international clients with trusts but no personal connection to the UK.  He also acts for clients who are planning to come to the UK on a regular basis and want to ensure they are UK tax compliant.
Tim Fullerlove
Tim Fullerlove
Tim is a partner in our Tax & Trusts team and works in both our Salisbury and London offices. Tim advises both UK-based and international individuals on the management of their wealth and personal affairs, with a particular focus on tax and estate planning.  He also works with lawyers, trustees and trust companies in a wide range of foreign jurisdictions on behalf of their clients.  Tim also specialises in advising on tax issues that arise in the course of litigation, in particular trust and estate disputes.
Torsten White
Torsten White
Torsten White is a partner in our Tax & Trusts team. He advises on all aspects of trust law, wills, powers of attorney and capital taxation, and specialises in advising individuals, trustees and partnerships on succession and capital tax planning in relation to farms and landed estates. Torsten advises a number of owners of homes, land and chattels of national heritage quality on aspects of conditional exemption and setting up and administering maintenance funds. He acts for clients in respect of offers of both land and chattels in lieu of inheritance tax.
Belinda Watson
Belinda Watson
Belinda Watson is a partner in the Farms & Estates team of our private client department.  She specialises in providing strategic advice on all areas of wealth preservation and succession planning, typically to the owners of landed estates, large farms, family businesses and heritage chattels and properties. This involves advising on wills and trusts, lifetime giving, partnerships and the application of inheritance tax exemptions and reliefs (such as agricultural or business property, heritage property and maintenance funds).  Belinda represents clients from a wide geographical area across the country including the south coast, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Shropshire.
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte is a partner in our Will & Trust Disputes team.  Charlotte advises on contentious trust and probate and legacy administration problems, including Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims, will validity, construction of wills, problems with executors and trustees, proprietary estoppel and the Non-Contentious Probate Rules. Charlotte also deals with ex gratia claims, lost wills, joint bank accounts and lifetime gifts. She regularly advises on proceedings in the Court of Protection including statutory will applications (where the court makes a will for a person who does not have the mental capacity to make his own) and has a special interest in this area. She is committed to resolving disputes in a sensitive and tactful way, being mindful that they can be extremely difficult emotionally as well as financially.
Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
Ben is a partner in the Property & Commercial Litigation team.  He deals predominantly with property disputes and his clients are landowning individuals and companies and charities. Ben's recent cases include disputes relating to easements (including rights of way), boundary disputes, adverse possession, development and building, restrictive covenants, professional negligence, and both residential and commercial landlord and tenant. With experience of mediations, arbitrations, adjudications and court hearings Ben will utilise the most appropriate procedure to resolve a dispute and he is also often asked to advise as to how to prevent disputes arising in the first place.
Jonathan Stephens
Jonathan Stephens
Jonathan is a partner in the Tax & Trusts team, and has an unusual breadth of experience in strategic planning for clients with private and commercial interests. Jonathan is an expert on structuring for farms and landed estates, particularly in relation to partnerships, trusts and alternative arrangements. On the corporate side, he often advises business owners on succession, options and incentives, and capital tax planning. Jonathan acts as trustee for a number of substantial trusts involved in development land, farming interests and commercial businesses. Jonathan is the author of a series of practice notes on the Practical Law Company website on the law and practice relating to farm partnerships, and he has had a series of articles published in Farmers Weekly on forming partnerships, bringing in new partners, and ending a partnership. Jonathan is a frequent speaker on the subject of structuring and planning for farms and estates, and regularly provides seminars for accountants and surveyors.
Sue Russell
Sue Russell
Sue is a Partner in the Property team.  Sue's focus is predominantly in relation to estates, farms and rural land. She advises individuals, trustees and institutional landowners on matters relating to the management of their rural property holdings, including sales, purchases,  landlord and tenant issues, agricultural tenancies and sporting rights. She also assists with planning and development work including the preparation of Promotion Agreements, Options and Overage deeds in order to bring land forward for development. Sue also has extensive experience in renewable energy projects including solar farms, battery storage and payments for environmental services/ sustainability with the aim of maximising rent and royalties for the landowner.
Mike Parker
Mike Parker
Mike has been the firm's Managing Partner since November 2014 and has overall responsibility for the business.  He works closely with the other members of the management team to ensure that clients receive a consistently high standard of service and that our lawyers and other staff are properly supported.  His leadership style is founded on the principle that great teamwork is the key to success. Mike's specialism is litigation and dispute resolution and he advises individuals as well as businesses on a wide range of issues.  He has particular expertise in property cases concerning title, boundaries and rights of way.  Mike’s practice also covers professional negligence and high value company/commercial disputes including breach of contract, share sales and injunctions.  He is recommended by The Legal 500 2016 for commercial litigation. Mike has been listed in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2023. This respected annual list from leading legal magazine The Lawyer celebrates pioneering and creative lawyers across the entire profession in the UK. The Lawyer says: "Wilsons managing partner Mike Parker is a pragmatic law firm leader whose mantra is “control the controllables”. In other words, while the market continues to be buffeted by global economic headwinds and turmoil, Parker sees his role as making sure the individuals and teams at his Salisbury stalwart firm are as motivated, engaged and inspired as possible."
Frances Mayne
Frances Mayne
Frances Mayne is a partner and head of the Mental Capacity team. She specialises in capacity, Court of Protection, trusts, powers of attorney, and deals with legal issues relating to clients who are elderly, disabled or vulnerable. She acts as a professional executor, trustee, attorney and Court of Protection deputy. Frances has spoken at seminars for accountancy firms in connection with mental capacity issues, at The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (Hants, Wilts & Dorset) on capacity issues for farmers and businesses, at Wilsons' Agrilaw event, and at the Case Managers Conference.
Jane Lonergan
Jane Lonergan
Jane Lonergan is a partner and head of the Property Team.  She specialises in commercial property with a particular emphasis on charity land transactions, and also deals with large and/or complicated land transactions. Jane acts for many of the best known charities in the country, advising on the entire spectrum of property issues affecting charities as well as assisting with complicated charity restructures and charity mergers. In short, Jane helps charities with all matters involving property. Jane is very well known in the field of charity property and contributes regularly to legal publications.  She wrote the chapter on Charity Property for the Solicitor's Journal 'Expert Guide'.  As the subject matter expert, Jane lectures other legal professionals (both solicitors and barristers) on both commercial property and charity property.
Peter Jeffreys
Peter Jeffreys
Peter Jeffreys is a partner in the charity legacy team.  Peter specialises in charity legacy administration and the resolution of problem estates for charities.  He also acts for charities in Court of Protection cases. Peter has a special interest in dealing with cases of probate fraud for charities. Peter's background in private client work means he is uniquely well placed to advise charities and individuals on complex and problematic will cases. His combination of practical experience, and a sensitive and diplomatic approach, is much in demand. Peter chairs and speaks at our hugely successful seminar for charity legacy officers, which takes place in London annually in March, and was also a popular speaker at the firm's seminar for military charities in London.
Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards
Anthony heads up the firm's Employment Team and is also the firm's Client Service and Complaints Partner. His instructions from employers cover a wide range of sectors, including commercial, charitable and educational organisations, as well as private landed estates. He also advises senior managers/executives throughout their careers, from recruitment to exits. He has been a regular speaker at various seminars (including Wilsons' Agrilaw event and Salisbury Big Business presentation) and has been instructed by clients to provide training/coaching to management level staff.
Peter Bourke MRICS
Peter Bourke MRICS
Peter is the firm's senior partner and part of the  Property & Commercial Litigation team.  Peter deals predominantly with agricultural rural property issues including freehold disputes and landlord and tenant problems. His freehold work mostly relates to adverse possession and rights of way. The landlord and tenant matters cover commercial, residential and agricultural property. His particular specialist area is agriculture with AHA succession tenancy disputes being a key element of his work. He deals with the issues faced by farmers, landlords and tenants. He advises many farming businesses on partnership problems. He usually finds a pragmatic solution for the benefit of his clients. As a qualified Chartered Surveyor, Peter has a detailed understanding of the problems facing both landlords and tenants.
Jon Ashbridge
Jon Ashbridge
Jon is a partner in our Property team and head of Residential Conveyancing. Jon advises, in conjunction with a firm wide team of relevant specialists, a broad range of private and business clients on their finance and banking requirements, particularly regarding their varied real estate interests, as well as having extensive experience of prime residential, amenity, leisure and strategic land and property acquisitions, disposals, investment and development. He has a particular interest in clients seeking investment, innovation, diversification and development opportunities across a wide sector.
Debbie Ashenhurst
Debbie Ashenhurst
Debbie is the head of Wilsons' Education team and a partner in our Dispute Resolution team.  She also leads our data protection and reputation management practices. Dispute resolution Debbie has a broad commercial litigation practice which includes handling a wide range of contractual, commercial and corporate disputes.  She has particular expertise in reputation management including defamation, privacy, confidentiality, data protection and harassment law. Her practice also focuses on information law and she regularly advises clients on compliance with data protection and marketing laws.  She has advised businesses, charities and schools on GDPR compliance, responding to subject access and similar requests and bringing or defending claims for breach of confidence, breach of data protection laws, misuse of private information, removal of online material and harassment. Education Debbie's focus is on providing practical and technically excellent advice to schools and parents on education-related matters including the legal and practical aspects of admissions, behaviour and discipline, exclusions and removals, complaints and appeals, SEND and discrimination claims, governance, commercial and contractual issues and safeguarding. She also has experience of drafting and reviewing school contractual, policy and other documents.  Her background in dispute resolution, data protection and reputation management is particularly useful when advising clients on contentious matters, information sharing, data protection compliance, subject access and Freedom of Information Act requests and dealing with negative content on traditional or social media. Debbie's advice is informed by attention to the underlying law and a determination to deliver the best result for her clients at a reasonable cost and within a timescale that recognises the fast-paced reality of school life.
Christopher Bull
Christopher Bull
Christopher is a dual qualified solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser. He has a broad range of experience as a Tax & Trusts specialist providing both domestic and offshore tax planning for clients.  He works with lottery winners, business owners, and other high net worth individuals to provide Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and lifetime and post-death tax planning.  He typically advises UK and offshore trustees, non-domiciliaries and non-resident individuals with links to the UK.
Mark Cook
Mark Cook
Mark is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team.  Mark's work includes private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations, investments and fundraisings, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, LLP and partnership arrangements and company and contract law issues. He has experience of AIM and main market listing and fundraising work and has advised on all aspects of the public company regulatory framework. Mark has worked on a number of cross-border transaction and has extensive experience in a range of sectors including food & drink, health and social care, manufacturing, technology and consumer goods.
Michael Ellis
Michael Ellis
Mike is a partner in our Property & Commercial Litigation team. Mike specialises both in contentious property and commercial disputes. His property practice is broad and varied but he has a particular interest in disputes concerning commercial property. These range from contested 1954 Act lease renewals, dilapidations/diminution in value claims (specifically commercial lease dilapidations), forfeiture claims and service charge disputes. Whether the instructions relate to residential or commercial property, Mike is regularly instructed to advise in connection with possession claims, disputes involving breaches of covenant and easement disputes, as well as all types of landlord and tenant disputes. Additionally, Mike frequently handles residential leasehold enfranchisement claims and claims relating to the right to manage. He advises on all stages of proceedings, including in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and in disputes proceeding in the Property Tribunals. Mike's commercial practice includes claims for breach of contract, restrictive covenant disputes and claims involving professional negligence. Mike is also regularly instructed by clients to recover debts, and he advises on all stages of enforcement of judgments.
Natasha Grande
Natasha Grande
Natasha joined Wilsons in June 2023 and is a partner and head of our Family team.  Natasha advises on all areas of family law, specialising in financial remedies and private children work. She negotiates pre and post nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and separation agreements. She also deals with a range of protective injunctions (occupation and non-molestation orders). She advises on the full range of private law proceedings, including child contact and living arrangements, and relocation. Natasha has a particular expertise in cases that have complex jurisdictional and financial aspects. She has a particular interest in cases with an American element. Natasha gives clear and pragmatic advice. She is committed to achieving the best result for her clients out of court,  but is an experienced litigator if required. Natasha is respected in the family law market. She was featured as a rising star in the 2023 Spears Index, recommended in the Spears 2024 Index for professionals working in family law. She was also a judge for the British Family Law Awards. She is a regular contributor to legal journals and commentator in the media on family law.
Jenifer Martindale
Jenifer Martindale
Jenifer is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Team as well as being a member of the Education Team. Jenifer acts for: businesses (from SMEs to large companies), individuals, landed estates, schools and charities.  She provides her clients with expert advice and excellent client service.  Jenifer believes it is important to build a strong rapport with her clients to understand their needs and objectives.  Her advice and recommendations are tailored to meet those needs and objectives, highlighting the risks and cost benefit of each particular step and stage of dispute resolution. Dispute resolution Jenifer has a wide-ranging litigation practice with particular emphasis on commercial disputes but also with expertise in contested property matters. She acts for both claimants and defendants dealing with disputes from initial correspondence through to court proceedings both in the County Court and High Court.  Jenifer has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Jenifer has particular expertise in commercial contractual disputes including breach of contract, defective products, contract termination and debt recovery (including enforcement of judgments). She also has experience of acting in disputes concerning director/shareholder issues, LLP/partnership disputes, employment post-termination restrictive covenants, professional negligence, defamation, and construction contracts (including adjudication). In addition to her commercial litigation practice, Jenifer undertakes property litigation work specialising in disputes between property co-owners, rights of way/boundary disputes and town/village green applications. Education Jenifer provides advice and clarification on the operation of the Parent School Contract and other admission documents and has expertise in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and its applicability to the Parent School Contract.  She regularly acts for schools on fees recovery matters including FILON disputes and is increasingly involved in advising on general education matters.  She also has experience of dealing with parental complaints (often linked to fees debts). Jenifer regularly contributes to school publications with a particular focus on maximising fees recovery and avoiding bad debts.
Salim Patel
Salim Patel
Salim is a Partner in the Farms, Estates & Landowner Development team.  He joined Wilsons in November 2021 and specialises in non-contentious agricultural and rural land and property matters.  Salim acts for a wide variety of landowners including landed estates, charities, farmers, family farming companies, partnerships and private individuals. His practice includes dealing with the sale and purchase of strategic land for development (including advising on overage arrangements, options, promotion, landowner collaboration and hybrid agreements), the sale and purchase of farms, estates and rural land and acting for landlords and tenants with agricultural tenancy matters. Salim specialises in a range of other matters including renewable energy projects, the grant of commercial leases of rural property for diversification purposes and the grant of easements for utility, other strategic purposes and farm business tenancies. He is particularly interested in the management of natural capital and the challenges and opportunities faced by owners of rural property in this arena.  Salim has experience of acting for wildlife charities in connection with the purchase of land for nature reserves and for other clients exploring the opportunities presented by new schemes for environmental land management and bio-diversity net gain and also the potential use of conservation covenants.
Sian Scanlon
Sian Scanlon
Sian is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team.  Sian's practice includes private company M&A, business acquisitions and disposals, investments & fundraisings, private equity transactions, joint ventures, reorganisations, shareholders' agreements, LLPs and partnerships, corporate governance and advisory matters and commercial contracts across a range of sectors including manufacturing, software, life sciences, professional services and technology.  Sian's extensive experience in advising both owner managers in selling their companies and buyers on the acquisition trail means she has a strong pedigree in helping business and individuals make the most of their opportunities and she has a pragmatic, focused and accessible style.  In addition, Sian has particular experience in advising professional service LLPs and partnerships on their partnership agreements and member governance.
Kate Stockdale
Kate Stockdale
Kate is a Partner in the Residential Property department. She works on a range of property transactions including sales and purchases as well as new build purchases, sales by auction, first registrations, lease extensions, new leases and re-mortgages. Kate has undertaken work for a wide range of clients, including charities, companies with their buy-to-let portfolios, executors, first time buyers and more vulnerable clients (such as those represented under a power of attorney or a Court of Protection Order and those selling their properties to move into sheltered housing or care homes). Kate also works closely with the private client department within Wilsons to assist them with property matters connected with tax planning.