Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Sobashni De Silva

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Sobashni is a director in the litigation department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She litigates across a broad range of areas including professional negligence, banking disputes, builders’ disputes, defamation, contractual disputes, civil fraud, misrepresentation claims, and international cross-border litigation. Sobashni has over ten years’ experience dealing with high-net-worth clients that include individuals, PLCs, SMEs, pharmaceutical companies, homecare companies and unincorporated associations. Her areas of expertise encompass contract and tort actions and a wide range of disputes including: corporate and company disputes; shareholder disputes; partnership disputes; debt recovery claims; and cross-border litigation. Sobashni handles commercial matters as well as professional negligence, defamation and selected employment disputes. She has obtained formidable success through strategy and technical awareness with considerable experience in settling claims using alternative dispute resolution through negotiations, mediation and conciliation. Sobashni has extensive experience in the High Court and the County Courts litigating numerous matters. She recently advised a client on a complex £300m High Court litigation involving international law.She encourages ADR throughout proceedings and regularly settles claims through extensive negotiations, mediation, and conciliation.

Leading individuals

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Philip Roberts

Clarke Willmott LLP

Phil is a Chartered Legal Executive and Partner with the firm specialising in defended, high profile and complex debt recovery litigation and insolvency actions for both individuals and commercial entities. His sector expertise includes working with managing agents, utility companies, commercial businesses, insurance companies, government bodies, local authorities and independent schools.

Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson

Wedlake Bell LLP

Charles is widely known for gas and electricity supply dispute resolution and advisory work and oversees a specialist team of experienced solicitors. He has over 20 years’ experience acting for suppliers including a majority of the Big Five. With deep industry knowledge Charles advises on late billing, shipperless supplies, multi-tenanted sites, split supplies, off-site metering, vacant and squatter sites, erroneous transfers, supplies to insolvent entities, mis-selling and broker disputes, fraudulent COTs, datalogger / SMART meter failures, late meter installations, meter accuracy disputes, disputed disconnections, multiplier errors, mis-estimation and industry charge challenges. He acts on disputed warrant applications and has obtained multi million pound recoveries for commodity theft. Charles’ team is experienced in working with suppliers in countering fraud including phoenixism, ‘creditor avoidance’ and commodity theft.