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Agustín Del Río
Principal Associate of Deloitte Legal Spain - Corporate and M&A practice
Aida Hamur
Attorney-at-law at Legal Partners Law Firm, in cooperation with Deloitte Legal
Alain-Laurent Verbeke
Alain-Laurent is a Partner in the Greenille Private Client team. Alain-Laurent specialises in estate planning, family property law (relational property law, inheritance law, wills and donations), family dynamics and governance. His work involves facilitating next gen and family wealth processes as well as negotiation, mediation and arbitration of family business, inheritance and divorce conflicts and disputes.
Aleksandre Megrelishvili
Aleksandre is a Lawyer Assistant at Deloitte Georgia. His key areas of focus are corporate, M&A and contract law matters.
Alexander Baert
Alexander is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution Team. He advises national and international companies on all aspects of customs and global trade law.
Bart Verdickt
Bart is a Director in the Greenille Private Clients team at Deloitte Legal. He focusses on the wealth planning of the private client practice, with an in-depth cross-border knowledge of gift and estate taxes as well as private international law. He has advised several high net worth individuals on their national and international wealth planning, including in- and outbound advisory.
Benoit Feron
Benoît is Partner in Deloitte Legal's Corporate and M&A team of lawyers. His work focuses on M&A, corporate law and capital markets and includes financial regulatory and litigation files.
Brian Leonard
Partner in the international Tax practice of Deloitte Legal
Carla Barreto
Head of Life Sciences & Health Care Industry area  
Caroline Costermans
Caroline is a Partner in the Greenille Private Client team and focuses on private wealth structuring, in particular when international aspects come into play.
Cavan Fabris
Lead Partner for data protection & privacy, cybersecurity and telecoms at Deloitte Legal. Cavan more than 25 years of industry, government and legal experience. Cavan oversees the delivery of pragmatic, business-focused legal solutions across all aspects of privacy compliance, from interpretation of new laws through to the implementation of compliance programmes, enabling data transfers and dealing with data breaches or enforcement actions by authorities. Cavan combines his legal expertise in these areas with the technical knowledge from Deloitte’s specialist cyber risk practice, as well as more broadly across the firm’s extensive multidisciplinary network.
Charles Claisse
Charles has extensive experience of domestic and international (including UK/US) mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and mid-market private equity transactions, with in depth experience in TMT and healthcare. Charles's clients range from FTSE and Fortune 500 companies to funds and fast growth businesses.
Charlotte Brannstrom
Charlotte is an Associate at Deloitte Legal Services in Sweden and assists both public and private international companies with matters regarding corporate law, M&A, labor law and other legal questions associated to restructuring businesses on the Swedish market. 
Christoph Michiels
Christoph is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A department. His work is focused on corporate and financial law, M&A, private equity/venture capital and capital market transactions, areas on which he has written a number of publications.
Clare Jenkinson
Financial Regulation Partner. Clare is a partner within Deloitte Legal, who specialises in financial services regulation and regulatory technology (RegTech) law. She has over 15 years’ experience of providing strategic and commercial advice to financial services firms, ranging from large international banks, broker-dealer businesses and new market entrants. Clare advises on regulatory matters arising from ongoing business, business or market change, or changes in regulation.  Areas of advice include digital assets and digitalisation of financial services; securities and derivatives regulation; investment research; market structure and transparency; regulatory reporting; market abuse; investor protection; the regulatory perimeter and related licensing and financial promotion requirements; cross-border business requirements; systems and controls. Clare excels in leading the legal and regulatory aspects of significant regulatory change and advocacy projects such as EU MAR, EU MiFID II, Brexit and CRD VI, and whilst at HSBC was the chair of AFME’s Investment Research Working Group.  She is recognised for her ability to advise business leaders with clear product understanding and commercially-focussed risk assessments. Prior to joining HSBC, Clare has been seconded from law firms to a number of financial services firms including banks, broker-dealers and asset managers.
Cloe Barnils
Partner of the Corporate and M&A practice at Deloitte Legal
Craig Conte
Lead Partner for Legal Operate. Work undertaken: Created the shared service centres in India, Poland, Guatemala and Brazil for Capgemini Legal and & Commercial functions​ Created the outsourced centres of excellence in Brazil and India for global consumer goods company​ Created new contracting target operating model for global coffee and retail company​ Implemented CLM technology for numerous entities, including those in consumer goods, healthcare & finance​ Created post-award contract & commercial functions for a number entities – including in finance and consumer goods – across North America & Europe​
Daniel Monaghan
Daniel is a real estate lawyer with a broad range of experience in all aspects of real estate law. He acts for both developer and investor clients on a variety matters, including investment/development acquisitions and disposals, funding agreements, conditional contracts, options and asset management. Matters on which Daniel has recently advised: acting for a developer on the forward funding disposal of a key logistics development in Leeds; • acquisitions and disposals of properties to a value in excess of £100 million in the last 12 months for offshore investors; • acting for Allied London on the development of St John’s in Manchester, including the £110 million arts and cultural centre known as the factory and two 36 storey PRS buildings; • acting for the developer on the pre-let of 230,000 sq ft of office space to be constructed in Manchester City Centre to an international e-commerce occupier; • development of city centre student accommodation sites throughout the UK; and • acting for a leading international mobile logistics company on the letting of their European HQ in London.
Danny Stas
Danny is head of the tax advisory practice. He is a tax lawyer specialised in VAT, in particular with respect to real estate and financial transactions, as well as eco taxes and contributions. As partner, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for Belgian clients in the private and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. In the real estate industry, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for clients in the private (e.g. real estate developers, REITs, hospitals, senior housing, etc.) and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. Besides the specific VAT topics (e.g. reduced VAT rates, VAT exemptions), he has also good knowledge of alternative financing of real estate and transfer duties.
David Roelens
David Roelens is head of the Corporate and M&A and Finance practice. David’s practice focuses on cross-border and domestic M&A and private equity transactions, real estate transactions, debt and equity capital markets and corporate law. He also advises clients in relation to general commercial law, insolvency and restructuring issues.
Dirk Hänisch
Dirk is a German attorney at law and Legal Partner in the service line Corporate/M&A. Main fields of his expertise are cross-border and national M&A transactions as well as corporate restructurings and the entire field of corporate law. He has considerable experience in structuring, preparing and implementing sales of companies and businesses as well as joint ventures. test
Dominique Vanherck
Dominique is a member of Deloitte Legal's Public law, regulatory & permits team. She is a sustainability expert with a particular focus on the energy sector. She advises clients on all climate and energy law related matters including subsidies, permits, concessions and contracts. Furthermore, she has extensive experience with large infrastructure projects, and in that respect advises public and private sector clients on construction law, PPP, DBFM(O) contracts, EPC contracts and public procurement. As an affiliate researcher at the KU Leuven’s Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, she writes several scientific contributions per year and regularly speaks at energy law conferences. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Environmental and Energy Law Journal.
Dulce María Miranda
Partner of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law practice of Deloitte legal in Spain
Eduardo Villellas
Partner of the Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice of Deloitte Legal.
Emmanuel Leroux
Emmanuel is a Senior Director in the Corporate and M&A department. He focuses on general corporate law advisory, family businesses, capital markets transactions, M&A, and corporate litigation. He also has a particular expertise in corporate governance.
Eric von Frenckell
Eric is a Partner in the tax advisory team. He focuses on international tax and is among others active in the pharmaceutical industry. He also regularly advises large groups based in the United States or France. Eric assists multinational groups through Business Model Optimisations and International Strategic Tax Reviews.
Felix Skala
Partner | Leiter Wettbewerbsrecht ,Kartell-, Vergabe- und Beihilferecht
Filip Smet
Filip is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution team within Deloitte Legal, focusing on direct tax risk management and litigation. Filip assists taxpayers during audits, negotiations and litigation with the tax administration concerning income taxes and private wealth structuring. Furthermore he has a special focus on the G&PS sector, acting regularly on all questions concerning the specific tax regime for the sector.
Frank Vanbiervliet
Frank is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution team. He specialises in multi-jurisdictional tax planning and tax litigation. He also provides tax advisory services relating to mergers & acquisitions, VAT and other indirect and local taxes, transfer pricing, pensions and benefits, international and local corporate restructuring for holding and real estate companies.
Frederik Swennen
Frederik is member of the Greenille Private Client team at Deloitte Legal. He specialises in national and international family law, private international law and art law. Frederik’s work involves family governance and family proceedings, as well as planning of private art collections, in collaboration with the public sector.
Giorgi Tavartkiladze
Giorgi is a Director of Tax and Legal Department at Deloitte Georgia. He has over nineteen years of experience with Deloitte in providing professional services to local and international clients.
Giorgi Khurodze
Giorgi is the Head of Deloitte Legal. His practice focuses on corporate, M&A, communications and contract law matters.
Hana Gawlasová
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Hana Gawlasová is a partner and head of the digital (formerly TMT) law practice group at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of information technology and telecommunications law. She has significant experience with regulatory and compliance advisory work in the TMT sector (telecommunications, media, technology), as well as transactional work. She advised a British telecommunications operator on the acquisition of a Czech and Romanian mobile operator, a consortium of investors on the financing of a Czech infrastructure operator and a Slovak investment group on the launch of a unique telecommunications operator providing fixed and mobile services within one technology and one network. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she led a regional TMT team at a British law firm, which focused on coordinated advice to foreign and Czech investors in the TMT sector in the CEE region. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she founded a practice called People & Technology, which primarily deals with legal advice in areas where a human element (humanware) is decisive, such as advice in the field of copyright, privacy, personal data protection, compliance programmes for employees and internal investigations involving employees, suppliers and customers.
Haris Jašarević
Attorney-at-law at Legal Partners Law Firm, in cooperation with Deloitte Legal
Helene Casman
Hélène is a member of the Greenille Private Client team within Deloitte Legal - Lawyers. She specialises in family property law, marriage contracts, gifts, wills and inheritance law.
Herkus Gabartas
Advocate, Associate Partner, Energy & Infrastructure Practice Leader in Lithuania
Hirokazu Ina
Hirokazu is a partner of finance practice at Deloitte Legal, Japan. Before joining Deloitte, he has worked at US and Japan leading law firms. After qualified in 1996, he has been involved in both domestic and cross-border finance transactions, financial institutions regulatory issues, real estate transactions, project development, M&A, corporate restructuring, derivatives, and related disputes.
Hiroshi Naito
Partner of DT Legal Japan; Head of Commercial Law Team Mr. Naito provides services for global companies both in corporate and commercial law areas. As to the corporate law area, Hiroshi assists foreign clients to commence, develop, reorganize or shut down business in Japan. He also assists Japanese companies to enter into foreign markets. With respect to commercial law area, Mr. Naito provides compliance advice in antitrust law, white collar crime, Data protection, Intellectual property law. He also has experiences of disputes before courts or international arbitral institutions.
Irene Reoyo Serrano
Senior Manager at the International Corporate Tax Services Department of Deliotte Legal.
James Brodie
James is a lawyer and partner within Deloitte Legal’s UK Real Estate business. He leads the Living Sector group, acting for all manner of land promotion, investment and development clients. James has worked with many of the of the UK’s leading housebuilders and is a specialist in structuring complex site acquisitions, partnership delivery models and collaboration arrangements. With almost 15 years’ real estate experience James also has a broad commercial development background, having been involved in many mix-use developments and high-class city centre office schemes.
Jan Procházka
Jan Procházka is a Partner and head of the Banking & Finance department and Employment department at Deloitte Legal. In Banking & Finance he focuses on providing legal advice to banks, insurance companies and other financial market entities on regulatory requirements, including the regulatory aspects of transformations, restructurings and acquisitions. Recently, Jan was leading projects that included: acquiring a qualifying stake in an insurance company and the merger of insurance companies (including representation before the Czech National Bank, as the regulator); mergers of banks; revision of the complete set of documentation for a leasing company; implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive for an independent insurance intermediary; design of innovative insurance products covering IoT; and review of regulatory issues and set-up of a bitcoin mining pool. In the area of Employment and benefits Jan focuses on both the standard employment-law agenda and the area of flexibility, innovative benefits and cross-border assignment of employees. Recently, Jan has led projects consisting in the recruitment of employees by a foreign bank entering the Czech market, including resolving issues of applicable law, taxation and setting up the day-to-day HR operation (e.g., preparing internal regulations and securing the necessary applications and registrations); or a project consisting of preparation of a new design of relations with members of the statutory body, including the preparation of contracts covering the transition from employment relationships and the setting up of internal approval and liability processes for a major developer. Jan also manages the knowledge management agenda at the law firm. Under his leadership, the actively built culture of knowledge sharing contributes to the stable, accessible and sustainable development of the team as a whole and its individual members. The basis is case law and legislative monitoring and analysis, which is directly reflected in the quality of legal advice. The client work also benefits from access to other Czech and foreign information sources and a sophisticated training system. Jan does not forget about innovation and technology in knowledge management either. He seeks and explores the possibilities of their application and promotes a positive attitude of the team towards them.
Jaroslava Kračúnová
Jaroslava Kračúnová is a Partner and head of the Business Integrity team at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 15 years of experience in corporate law with focus corporate governance, management liability, white collar crime, corporate criminal liability, criminal law compliance and compliance management systems, anti-bribery, anti-fraud, and anti-corruption prevention, whistleblowing and data privacy.   As part of her Business Integrity practice, Jaroslava leads teams during forensic investigations in major Czech and European companies. She has advised clients on subsequent legal steps to be taken in disputes and criminal investigations. She further leveraged the experience gained in investigations and used the identified gaps in processes during investigation projects to build efficient compliance management systems for clients.    In majority of data privacy compliance matters she focused on complex GDPR implementation projects and related privacy matters. She was also a member of the Working Group on the Preparation of the Adaptation Act to the GDPR and she of the Working Group on the Implementation of the NIS 1 Directive into Czech legislation.   
Jasmijn Verraes
Jasmijn is a Director in the Commercial team of lawyers at Deloitte Legal. She specialises in general commercial law, commercial litigation and has developed a special focus on contract law.
Jenny Friberg
Director, Deloitte Tax & Legal, Sweden. Jenny has a long and solid experience of advising clients in all aspects of Swedish corporate & commercial law, including real estate transactions. Furthermore, Jenny have significant, in-depth expertise in corporate taxation, focusing on the regulations on the so called closely held companies (Sw: fåmansföretagsreglerna). Jenny's clients include Swedish and international corporations and institutions. Deloittes tax & legal teams are part of a multinational network that provides legal advice in all major business areas. This helps us cover the range of issues that may arise in a single corporate transaction. For more information on Deloitte Legal, visit www.deloittelegal.com.
Jeremy Harris
IP and Disputes Partner. Jeremy advises clients on all aspects of the protection and exploitation of intellectual property and related rights. He has acted for clients in substantial intellectual property disputes, including High Court proceedings involving trade mark infringement, passing off, copyright and database right infringement and breach of confidence. In addition, he acts for clients in technology and software licence disputes. Jeremy also advises on IP transactions, including IP acquisitions/disposals, IP licensing deals, joint ventures, the IP aspects of group restructurings and corporate transactions. In addition, Jeremy provides the full range of IP discovery, strategy and IP value management services. Jeremy has a focus on technology related IP issues, in particular in relation to software and data. He has specific expertise in software copyright issues, software copying disputes, software over-deployment and open source software. In addition, Jeremy regularly advises on rights in data, data use clearance and data licensing disputes.
Jiřina Procházková
Jiřina Procházková is a Partner and a leader of the Tax Litigation department at Deloitte Legal in Prague. Jiřina is a specialist in tax administration, tax law and state aid regulation. She has extensive experience in representing clients in tax audits and subsequent administrative and judicial proceedings, especially in the area of VAT frauds, R&D tax deductions and grants and incentives. In her practice, Jiřina seeks to offer innovative procedural strategies that incorporate the individual needs of a client and up-to-date case law of the Czech administrative courts and the CJEU. She has led many successful disputes before the highest Czech courts. Jiřina also stands behind the development of a technology app for the prevention of involvement in tax fraud. Jiřina is regularly recommended in Legal 500 and among the Top 100 Women of the Czech-Slovak Legal Profession and she was rewarded as the Best Litigation Lawyer in the Tax Advisor & Tax firm of the Year. She is also active as a pro bono lawyer and is responsible for the cooperation of Deloitte Legal with Pro Bono Alliance.
Joaquim Heirman
Joaquim is a Director at Deloitte Legal, specialising in all VAT matters. He has over 10 years of experience in advisory services including guiding companies through administrative and court procedures.
Johan Mikaelsson
Head of Deloitte Legal, Sweden, Johan Mikaelsson advises on all aspects of corporate, M&A and labor law. He advises Swedish and multinational clients on all aspects of Swedish corporate and labor law as well as in connection with national and international restructurings and M&A transactions and post-closing issues. For more information on Deloitte Legal, visit www.deloittelegal.com.
Johan Speecke
Johan is a partner in the Tax Dispute Resolution team and is a specialist in (criminal) tax litigation, advising companies and individuals, not only during the administrative process of the litigation (advice on tax challenges to final assessments, negotiations with both local and central tax administration, individual rulings, claims against assessments, notices, etc...) but also before tax courts at Belgian (Court of first instance, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court) and European level.
Karin Sernbo
Karin work as a consultant at Deloitte’s Legal Services and is advising both private and public international companies regarding all aspects of Swedish corporate, M&A and employment law. Her main work involves, inter alia, M&A, reorganizations and restructuring, cross-border transactions and setup of foreign establishments in Sweden. Furthermore, Karin is specialized within the field of employment law and assists clients with employment related matters such as employment agreements, pensions schemes, termination, reorganizations etc.
Klaus Heeke
Partner | Service Line Leader Employment law & benefits
Kristof Maresceau
Kristof is a Director mainly specialising in (cross-border) corporate law. He advises both individual persons as well as companies on various aspects of corporate and commercial law. He mainly focuses on advising clients with regard to national and international corporate transactions, such as mid market acquisitions and divestitures (M&A), the setting up of joint ventures, advice on corporate governance and general corporate law issues.
Lara Trawinski
Lara is a Director in Deloitte Legal's Corporate and M&A team of lawyers.
Lisa Bastholm
Head of Data Protection Desk Deloitte Legal Sweden Assistant Manager
Luc De Broe
Luc is Of Counsel in the Tax Dispute Resolution and Tax Advisory teams of lawyers within Deloitte Legal. He is a leading expert in Belgian and international tax.
Luca Failla
Luca Failla is the Founding and Managing Partner of Failla&Partners. His practice focuses on providing assistance to national and international businesses in all areas of Italian employment and labor law – including providing counsel on Italian employment litigation, executive contract negotiations, directors and officer’s liability, competition protection, personnel reduction, corporate reorganizations, outsourcing, trade union negotiations, privacy, employment contracts, dismissals, pension schemes … and more recently workforce management when businesses are faced with unforeseen periods of distress – such as will the recent pandemic and threat of an energy crisis. Of note, over the past 15 years Luca successfully managed many of the most sensitive and complicated employment and labor matters in favor of Italian and Multinational companies. A number of these set new legal precedents and were also extensively covered in the national press. Luca is regularly recognized - at both the national and international levels - for his Italian Employment Law practice.  Some of his most recent accolades include: Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  | TopLegal Awards 2022 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year   |  LegalCommunity Labour Awards 2022 Italian Employment Law – Hall of Fame  |  Legal 500 EMEA 2022 Italian Employment Law – Thought Leaders  |  Who’s Who Legal 2022 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  |   LegalCommunity Labour Awards 2021 Italian Employment Law  |  Milano Finanza Legal Awards 2020 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  |  TopLegal Awards 2019 Italian Labor Professional of the Year - Restructuring  |  LegalCommunity Labor Awards 2019
Ludvík Juřička
Ludvík Juřička specialises in mergers and acquisitions, real estate and construction law, corporate law with a focus on corporate management and advising family businesses on the protection, preservation and management of assets using mainly family foundations and trusts. In the M&A area, he has participated in a number of transactions (both on the sell and the buy side) mainly in the sectors of iron and steel industry, construction, engineering, chemical industry, but also insurance, spa and private equity. In real estate and construction law, he provides comprehensive legal advisory, including, in particular, due diligence as part of real estate acquisitions, transaction and supplier contractual documentation, advice on the selection of suppliers and obtaining relevant public permits. Ludvík has extensive experience in creating family holding structures using endowment and trust funds as a tool for preserving family assets for future generations, including setting the rules for the management of these funds. Prior to joining Deloitte Legal, he worked for 12 years as a managing associate of a law firm cooperating with leading foreign audit firms and for 10 years as a partner at Havel & Partners where he was co-responsible for the management of branches in Brno and Ostrava.
Marc Van tieghem
Marc is a Partner in the Corporate and Finance department. He has a broad practice, advising clients on domestic and cross-border M&A and real estate transactions, corporate reorganisations and corporate disputes. In addition to his wide experience in a variety of industries and sectors, Marc’s practice has a particular focus on the public sector, including public enterprise and public private partnerships.
Marek Gizicki
Partner, Head of Litigation and Arbitration department
Maresceau Maresceau
Kristof is a lawyer mainly specialising in (cross-border) corporate law. He advises both individual persons as well as companies on various aspects of corporate and commercial law. He mainly focuses on advising clients with regard to national and international corporate transactions, such as mid market acquisitions and divestitures (M&A), the setting up of joint ventures, advice on corporate governance and general corporate law issues. In addition to his work as director within Deloitte Legal - Lawyers, Kristof is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Ghent. He regularly publishes articles on (Belgian and European) corporate and insolvency law for which he has been awarded with the triennial international Pierre Coppens prize for law (2014-2017) and the TPR-prize (Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht) (2015). Kristof Maresceau acted as an expert appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice and was actively involved in the drafting of the new Belgian Companies Code.
María Guinot Barona
Partner, Head of the Regulatory, Compliance and Public Law practice at Deloitte Legal.
Mathieu Ex
Mathieu has been a tax partner in the Greenille Private Client team since 2011 and has been head of the team since 2017.
Maximillien van de Werve
Maximilien is head partner of the Real estate practice. His practice covers cross-border and Belgian and/or Luxembourg real estate acquisitions, disposals, sale and leasebacks, development and construction projects, joint ventures, reorganisations and litigations.
Nancy Muyshondt
Nancy is a Director in Deloitte Legal's Tax Advisory team of lawyers. She focusses on VAT consulting and VAT litigation cases, with a special emphasis on VAT and indirect tax aspects of real estate transactions and on VAT consulting for the public and non profit sector. 
Nino Goshkheteliani
Nino is a Lawyer Assistant at Deloitte Georgia. She has over three years of professional work experience rendering legal services to local and international clients. Her practice focuses on corporate, M&A and contract law matters.
Paul O'Hare
Paul is a partner in Deloitte Legal’s Contracts practice, and is the global technology law lead for Deloitte Legal.
Paul Gidman
Paul is a highly respected and experienced real estate development lawyer who acts for a large number of developer and investor clients on a wide range of matters including site assembly, acquisitions and disposals, forward funding agreements, conditional contracts and the full range of asset management work. Paul has a particular specialism in strategic land work, acting for both landowners and promoters on the promotion of large scale strategic sites for residential and/or commercial developments, including advising on the negotiation of planning promotion agreements, option agreements, and multi-party collaboration and equalisation agreements. His recent experience includes:- advising Anwyl Homes on the acquisition and development of their residential development and strategic land sites, for example the acquisition of a 20 acre site at Handforth, Cheshire for 217 new homes from a promoter and family trust; advising two family trusts in relation to the exchange of contracts, conditional on planning, with a large national housebuilder in relation to two large strategic sites totalling circa 90 acres for residential development in East Halewood, Merseyside, which will provide circa 700-800 much needed homes for that area acting on behalf of various landowners and promoters (over 30 different sites/locations) up and down the country on planning promotion, option and collaboration/equalisation agreements and the subsequent sale of those sites to national housebuilders where planning permission is obtained, including sites in Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire and Essex, for example acting for 4 landowners on a planning promotion and collaboration agreement with a major national promoter on a large strategic residential/commercial development in Yorkshire for over 800 homes, new industrial/commercial units and associated infrastructure. advising the Developer on Project Jennifer, the £150 million regeneration of the Great Homer Street/Scotland Road area of Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council, anchored by a new Sainsbury’s supermarket and petrol station, a new 80,000 sq ft District Centre, a new 2 storey McDonalds restaurant, a new home for the famous “Greatie” Market, together with significant improvements to local roads, open space and infrastructure advising the Developer on the development of Leigh Sports Village in partnership with Wigan Borough Council, the £80m multi-use sports, retail, leisure and housing development in Leigh including disposal of land for residential development, construction of a new 12,000 capacity sports stadium, swimming pool and athletics track/facilities for the Council, development of a new college and hotel and the forward funded development and letting of a new 65,000 sq ft Morrisons supermarket and PFS advising a large North West property development and investment company in relation to the acquisition, development and management of its national office, leisure and industrial property portfolio, including complex joint venture, asset management and funding arrangements, for example on the acquisition funding, management, redevelopment, letting and ultimate disposal of a portfolio of 9 multi-tenanted industrial sites.
Petr Suchý
Petr Suchý is a Partner at Deloitte Legal in Prague. He is head of the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Deloitte Legal and participates in the leadership of the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He started his professional career in 1997 and has been with Deloitte since 2003. He specialises in corporate law, especially in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. He lectures on Mergers & Acquisitions at the faculties of law at Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University in Brno. Within the Deloitte Legal global network of law firms, Petr is a member of the Deloitte Legal EMEA Corporate / M&A Executive Committee and leader of the Deloitte Legal Central Europe M&A Expert Group.
Ramón Bravo
S-Latam Regional Deloitte Legal Leader and Global Leader for Corporate Law
Rik Galle
Rik is a Director in the Corporate and M&A department. He specialises in corporate law, corporate reorganisation, M&A and capital markets. Rik currently heads a Chinese desk within the firm.
Robert Griffiths
Disputes Partner Work undertaken: Acting for a medical devices distributor in obtaining a freezing injunction against a rogue member of the LLP. ​ Acting for an IT supplier in a claim for repudiatory breach of a contract to provide software for the management of offenders and probation services. ​ Acting for a leading provider of healthcare staff in claims for breach of contract, breach of confidence and data privacy claims against former employees and their new employer. Obtaining interim injunctions to restrain the defendants prior to successful settlement.​ Acting for a client in the Defence sector in relation to claims against a departing executive who was to become CEO of a major defence competitor. Settlement reached with employee and competitor protected a $4bn customer relationship. ​ Acting for a significant minority shareholder in a claim for breach of a SPA and unfair prejudice in relation to the sale of shares in a motorsport media business. Successfully reaching a multi-million-pound settlement. ​ Successfully defending a $70m ICC Arbitration claim relating to the installation of TV studios in the Middle East under a joint venture agreement.​
Ryota Sekine
Ryota has been advising global conglomerates covering a broad range of sectors for more than 20 years. He specializes in corporate and M&A transactions (including corporate reorganizations), and had served as Corporate/M&A Partner both for Bingham McCutchen and Anderson Mori & Tomotsune before joining DT Legal Japan.
Sonia Rodrigues
Sónia is an Assistant Manager with experinece within corporate law, contract law, M&A and liquidations. Responsible for the Corporate Secreterial Services of Deloitte Legal Sweden.
Sophie BLÉGENT-DELAPILLE
Sophie Blégent-Delapille, Partner, is Managing Partner of the French Deloitte Tax & Legal Practice.She advises French and European international groups on their growth strategies, business models and international expansion.Based on data analytics and strategic development objectives, her aim is to ensure tax security and competitiveness. Her assistance combines the entire branch of Deloitte expertises, such as IT technology tools specialists, transfer pricing experts, legal specialists and consultants.Furthermore, Sophie has developed a strong expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions, either with investment funds or major companies. She assists her clients on multi-country business units cessions (carve out), acquisitions structures and post-acquisition restructurings in order to ensure an efficient integration of operations.Since 2021, Sophie is the DCE Member Firm Tax & Legal leader (over 20 countries in EMEA).
Susana Burgueño
Partner of the Global Employer Services practice of Deloitte Legal.
Takashi Tanazawa
Takashi Tanazawa is a partner of Labor & Employment practice. He also leads Dispute Resolution Practice. Takashi provides clients with advice on broad labor and employment issues and handles wide range of disputes including labor and employment disputes, contract disputes, tort disputes such as product liability disputes, and consumer disputes. He also provides advice on various types of contracts, examples of which include construction agreements, carriage contracts, EPC agreements.
Therése Gardström
Consultant within company law, contract law, M&A, foundations and non-profit organizations.
Tim Wustenberghs
Tim is partner in the Tax advisory team. His main focus is on corporate international tax, although he is also keen on handling real estate matters and registration duties as well. The tax advisory team headed by Tim has extensive expertise as a general tax advisor for numerous companies thereby assisting them with their (inbound) investments, reorganisations, holding activities and financing structures. They have also considerable experience in handling ruling requests with the Belgian tax administration.
Vaq Farooq
Vaqas Farooq is the Head of Real Estate Legal at Deloitte Legal, to which he brings in-depth knowledge and insight through almost two decades of experience advising developers, occupiers, local authorities and investors on schemes across the UK. Recent projects he has led include: the acquisition, development and pre-letting of Allied London’s No. 1 Spinningfields Development in Manchester over the four year period, a joint venture with Manchester City Council culminating in the sale to Schroder Real Estate for £200 million; advising an FTSE 250 leisure company on the management and optimisation of its estate since 2000; acting on a range of major commercial portfolio acquisitions and disposals; pioneering a number of innovative approaches in the Build to Rent sector where he advised on deals valued at £1.2 billion; and working with a number of local authorities in relation to several regeneration projects particularly in town centres. He also advises on the strategic elements of such projects from conception to procurement options to ultimate completion. Vaq is well-known in the legal market for his commercial approach and driving innovation into structures to help unlock viability and streamline developments and investment trading. A strong leader, he has successfully built and motivated new teams and helped open up new markets. In the 2019 Legal 500, Vaqas Farooq was commended for his “knowledge, drive and contacts” and Chambers UK described him as “a specialist in development matters, who acts on many of the largest urban regeneration projects across the UK and represents a number of regional and national developers”.
Vicky Cooper
Technology Disputes Partner Work undertaken: Renegotiation of a £multi-billion global IT services outsourcing contract acting for a global IT services provider against a global bank and settlement of a number of associated long running disputes​ Partial termination of a £multi-million business process outsourcing agreement for a global bank as a result of force majeure (coronavirus)​ Expert determination of a contractual interpretation point in relation to a data centre services contract​ Renegotiation of a £multi-million end-user services contract for a global IT services provider against a central government department ​ Arbitration of a £1 billion IT dispute leading to a successful judgment in favour of our client
Wayne Nash
Wayne specialises in finding solutions to client’s real estate challenges and problems across a number of different sectors and is recognised as a leading individual in the north west. With over 20 years’ experience, Wayne handles all aspects of commercial property risk, strategic advisory and disputes, acting for some of the UK’s largest property developers, investors and occupiers. Wayne is best known for the innovative solutions he produces in dealing with development constraints (rights to light, contractual and development disputes, rights of way and access rights) and was highly commended at the FT Innovative Lawyers (Europe) Awards 2019 for his expertise in this area. Wayne also has a keen interest in complex landlord and tenant disputes and has considerable experience of high value complicated dilapidations claims; helping clients to navigate a commercial and cost-effective path to a successful resolution. Notable work highlights include: numerous rights of light risk analysis and solutions on some of the largest development schemes in the UK; with a specific emphasis on high rise towers within the PRS and Student sectors; advising a JV consortium in respect of an option dispute for a significant regeneration scheme in the north; providing strategic advice to a major UK property investor regarding complex tenant break conditions in order to prevent early exit from a lease; and acting for a substantial property occupier in the leisure sector regarding lease-end liabilities and the successful defence to the entirety of a significant dilapidations claim. He joined Deloitte Legal from Shoosmiths in 2022.
Wim Naudts
Wim Naudts has a clear focus on administrative and regulatory law and is trusted advisor to a wide diversity of public bodies. Wim holds master degrees in Public Administration, European Studies and Law. He started his career in 2005 as a university researcher. In 2009 Wim was admitted to the bar and began to work as a lawyer for an Antwerp boutique law office, specialized in administrative and transport law. Wim worked i.a. on a large scale assignment for the EC’s DG MOVE on cargo handling in ports. In 2013 he joined the department public and regulatory law of Deloitte Legal. From 2012 until 2014 he was also a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven. Wim has solid knowledge of restructuring and public procurement, combining his experience as a lawyer with his insights as master in Public Administration and master in European Studies.
Yannick Van den broeke
Yannick Van den broeke is a Director in Deloitte Legal - Lawyers’ Corporate and M&A practice, also leading Deloitte’s Sports Sector in Belgium. He is an experienced lawyer with a demonstrated history of undertaking M&A and corporate structuring work for Belgian and international clients, with a specific focus on privately owned businesses. His transactional work involves advising clients during the complete process of acquiring or selling businesses (i.e. buy- and sellside due diligence, negotiating with counterparties and drawing up transaction documents). In his corporate structuring practice, Yannick supports clients with the (solvent) reorganisation of their businesses' legal structure through mergers, demergers, contributions, etc. He also advises clients on a wide range of company law matters, such as corporate governance and director's liability. Yannick is considered a trusted advisor to clients in various industries, notwithstanding his specific focus on Private clients and Technology, Media and Telecommunications, which includes Sports business), having strong project management skills and an eye for detail. Yannick regularly lectures and publishes on corporate law related matters.
Yasunobu Tsujihata
Yasunobu Tsujihata specializes in M&A transactions and general corporate cases. He has been engaged in legal due diligence and drafting/negotiation on M&A-related contracts (stock purchase agreement, investment agreement, shareholder agreement, etc.) in acquisition deals, as well as structuring-analysis and drafting of corporate documents in organizational restructuring (merger, stock-for-stock exchange, company-split and business transfer, etc.).
Zlatan Balta
Local legal leader of Legal Partners Law Firm, in cooperation with Deloitte Legal

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