Moorcrofts LLP

Lindsey Abbott

Lindsey is an experienced employment solicitor, specialising in representing employers in discrimination and unfair dismissal claims. She also has experience in liaising and negotiating directly with opposing legal teams and via ACAS, to achieve settlement on a range of cases from public interest disclosure claims to race discrimination claims, as well as negotiating the terms of Settlement Agreements for clients. Aside from contentious areas of employment law, Lindsey also provides HR advice on day to day employment law issues, transfer of undertakings (TUPE) and employment related liabilities, as well as drafting bespoke documentation including contracts and handbooks. She is renowned for her pragmatic and practical approach and has experience in a range of industries, including media, healthcare, maintenance and restaurants. Lindsey regularly delivers HR seminars on new legislation, case law updates and hot topics for HR managers as well as writing for client newsletters and publications.

Asif Ali

Asif is a Corporate Solicitor at Moorcrofts, specialising in corporate and transactional work. He advises and supports clients on a range of matters including corporate reorganisations and restructures, mergers and acquisitions, share schemes, corporate governance and due diligence, as well as general corporate matters. Asif works closely with clients and the wider corporate team to provide practical and commercially focused advice.

Julia Ferguson

Julia has over 15 years’ experience in commercial property law. She specialises in business landlord and tenant transactions with particular expertise acting for corporate occupiers of owner managed businesses on leasehold acquisitions and disposals of business premises both locally and nationally, including offices, industrial and retail units. She also advises developers and tenants negotiating pre-let agreements as well as working with regional landlords on their property portfolios, negotiating leases, renewals, dealing with consent applications and providing general advice on property management issues. She also deals with freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, conditional contracts, option agreements, overage and pre-emption agreements as well as providing support to the corporate department on company and asset sales and acquisitions and restructuring.

Danil Galushko

Danil is a corporate lawyer at Moorcrofts LLP and assists clients on various corporate transactions including company acquisitions and disposals, corporate reorganisations, and employee share schemes.

Usha Guness

Usha is a dual qualified Barrister from Mauritius and a Solicitor in England and Wales with private practice and in-house experience. She specialises in commercial and technology law. Other specialisms include telecoms regulatory affairs and compliance.

Ben Habershon

Ben is a Corporate Partner with extensive experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, shareholder matters and corporate governance, often in an international context. For much of his career, he has focused on cross-border corporate and commercial work, advising UK businesses, multinational companies on their UK interests and inward investment into the UK, and overseas ultra-high-net-worth families on their UK business affairs.

Joe Hughes

Joe is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Finance & Management and was formerly the Finance Director at BrookStreet des Roches LLP Solicitors, leading the firm’s Finance and Administration team. Following the sale of his previous firm he has joined Moorcrofts as Practice Manager to head up the administration function before becoming Partner. He is an experienced COFA, MLRO, and Legal Accountant with a wealth of financial skills in LLP Accounts and Tax.

Teri Hunter

Teri specialises in corporate law, with a particular focus on transactional work including sales, acquisitions, management buy outs and investments. She has experience of acting for purchasers and investors as well as vendors and companies and has good experience of cross border transactions including those which have had elements to consider in the US, France, Germany, Australia, France Hong Kong and Jersey. She also has experience of AIM listings. She advises on all types of corporate restructuring including capital reductions, share repurchases, hive ups and demergers, as well as corporate compliance and principal agreements such as shareholders agreements, partnership agreements and LLP member’s agreements. She also advises on company share schemes including HMRC approved schemes such as EMI, CSOP SIPs and EBTs. She also drafts more bespoke arrangements such as phantom schemes and flowering or part paid share arrangements. She is commercially focused and has a good knowledge of the financial and tax aspects of all types of corporate transactions. Teri was named ‘Most Influential Woman in Corporate Transactions Law 2018 – UK’ in Acquisition International’s Global Excellence Awards. Notable transactions include advising listed US group on multi-billion dollar UK restructuring, $80million sale of Hong Kong tech company, £10million sale of London based fashion and photographic business, £10.8 million purchase of engineering firm, MBO of recruitment firm from construction giant MACE, complex restructuring and partial exit for international creative production company, Flexion Mobile Plc on the company’s re-registration as a public company and its listing on the NASDAQ First North market, the sale of award winning betting and gaming digital solutions company Grand Parade Limited to strategic buyer William Hill PLC, for £13.6 million, the £6 million sale of Teamultra to Computacenter (UK) Limited, , the sale of notable branded slushy drinks company to Vimto, multiple fundraising rounds for energy company GnERGY, , the demerger of a South East based nursing and respite care provider, the sale of legal software provider Peapod, and the £18 million sale of aerospace, military, telecommunications software provider Varisys Limited.

Georgia Knibb

Georgia is a trusted adviser to businesses, investors, and institutions on complex corporate transactions, with particular strength in financial services M&A and strategic property investments. She combines technical precision with a commercial, solutions‑driven mindset, enabling clients to pursue their strategic objectives with clarity and confidence. Before joining Moorcrofts, Georgia spent several years in the highly regarded corporate team at Farrer & Co, where she advised high‑net‑worth individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices, and institutional investors on high‑value and often multi‑layered corporate matters. Her work frequently involved navigating sensitive deal dynamics, complex structuring issues, and regulatory considerations across multiple jurisdictions. Georgia has extensive experience acting for regulated firms and their investors on acquisitions and disposals in the wealth management and broader financial services sectors. In addition to her financial services practice, Georgia advises investors and leading education institutions on property‑related corporate transactions, including joint ventures and strategic acquisitions, with particular expertise in the purpose‑built student accommodation market. Her work spans the full lifecycle of an investment: structuring and negotiating joint venture arrangements, advising on governance and exit strategies, and ensuring transactions align with investors’ long‑term commercial objectives. Georgia also works closely with entrepreneurs and owner‑managed businesses on strategic exits. These transactions often require careful negotiation, discretion, and a collaborative approach. Georgia’s ability to manage complex deal dynamics under tight timelines ensures clients feel supported throughout the process and achieve the best possible outcome.

Brendon Lesar

Brendon is a senior Commercial and Regulatory Lawyer and Registered Foreign Lawyer with over 13 years’ post-qualification experience in South Africa and more than 3 years’ experience advising industry clients in the UK under English law. He specialises in commercial contracts and complex regulatory frameworks, with particular experience in financial services regulation, data protection, and national security and investment controls. Brendon regularly advises both start-ups and established businesses operating in regulated and technology sectors. He has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, including technology, SaaS, outsourcing, and intellectual property agreements.

Sophie Mackenzie

Sophie is a newly qualified solicitor with six years of legal experience in private practice. She specialises in commercial and technology law.

Nazia Malik

Nazia Malik is a dedicated employment solicitor with extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of employment law. She specialises in negotiating settlement agreements, handling unlawful discrimination claims, unfair dismissal cases, and gross misconduct matters. Nazia is skilled in managing cases from the initial issue through to preparation for hearings, ensuring her clients receive clear, practical advice at every stage.

Barry Maytum

Barry has over 30 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer and has worked a substantial amount of that time in the city. With a wealth of experience and expertise, Barry specialises in corporate law, with a particular focus on venture capital and private equity investments, acquisition finance, management buy-outs, mergers & acquisitions, and shareholder agreements. He has extensive experience of acting for large international technology companies, growing companies and venture capital funds, as well as cross-border transactions. He has acted for a number of NASDAQ, NYSE and FTSE 250 multinational clients, a range of UK and US venture capital firms, various owner managed or private equity backed growing businesses; and several start-ups. Over the years’, Barry has developed a keen interest and experience in assisting clients establish and run not for profit businesses and generally working for Third Sector clients.

Will Pearce

Will is a solicitor in the corporate team. He joined Moorcrofts in 2012, after having trained and qualified in 2010 at BPE Solicitors LLP in Cheltenham. He acts on a wide variety of transactions for both individual and corporate clients, based both in the UK and abroad, including public companies (many of which are listed on AIM and similar markets). In particular, Will specialises in company acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations, investments, fundraisings, shareholders agreements and corporate governance matters.

Kate Prentis

Kate undertakes a range of corporate transactional and advisory work. Her transactional work focuses primarily on sales and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations, including share exchanges, hive ups, capital reductions, share repurchases and demergers. She also specialises in advising on corporate governance and compliance matters, including reporting requirements, company secretarial matters, shareholders’ agreements and share schemes.

Tom Robinson

Tom has extensive experience across a broad range of corporate law matters, with a strong focus on acquisitions, as well as reorganisations, investment and finance work. He has assisted clients across multiple sectors on complex, high-value corporate matters. Previous work includes acting on the £150m sale of one of the UK’s leading publishing companies to a private equity buyer, and advising a US-based private equity house on several significant acquisitions in the UK market.

Sannah Tariq

Sannah undertakes a wide range of commercial property work, including freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals and landlord and tenant matters across various industries. She also supports the firm’s Corporate Team on the property aspects of business sales and acquisitions.

Sharan Uppal

Sharan has extensive experience in the area of commercial property law. She specialises in commercial property transactions including: sales, purchases, landlord and tenant work, and corporate refinancing or lending acting for the lender or the borrower. She also has experience in acting for developers acquiring property for development, dealing with the site assembly and plots sales, both freeholder and leasehold and advises on overage agreements, section 106 agreements, land promotion agreements and conditional contracts subject to planning. Sharan also works in conjunction with the corporate team assisting with all property matters in corporate transactions.

Leah Waller

Leah is an experienced employment solicitor, specialising in negotiating Settlement Agreements both from the perspective of the Employer and the Employee. She has extensive expertise in handling unfair dismissal and discrimination claims, with a significant focus on sex discrimination, as well as pregnancy and maternity discrimination. Leah is also the author of BabySteps: A Guide to Maternity Leave and Maternity Pay, published by Law Brief Publishing Ltd.