HCR Hewitsons

Adam Finch

I head up the Cheltenham Dispute Resolution team, which includes over 33 in the team. I specialise in Corporate Disputes such as shareholder, franchise and contractual issues. I lead on finance and financial services disputes and fraud, including injunctive relief and acting as supervising solicitor.

Alan Taylor

Senior Tax & Trust Manager

Alex Taylor

Partner, Joint Head of Private Client Team.

Alexandra Svennevik

Senior Solicitor.

Alexandra Francis

Senior Solicitor.

Alexandra Messham

Senior Solicitor. Alexandra has experience in leasehold and freehold transactions, including preparing and negotiating ancillary lease documents and deeds.

Alexia Simon

Trust Manager, Alexia deals with the administration of Trusts, ensuring tax compliance and dealing with the preparation of Trust tax returns and annual accounts.

Ally Taft

Medical Accident Group

Andrew Walker

Partner, Head of Real Estate Disputes.

Andrew Cave

Partner, Real Estate Disputes.

Andrew Caldicott

Partner, Head of Hereford Family Law

Anne-Sophie Reynolds

Associate

Arpinder Dhillon

Arpinder is Head of the Wales & West Corporate Team, Head of the Wye Valley Office and a Corporate Partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Arpinder has advised her clients for over 20 years on a wide variety of corporate matters. Arpinder acts for businesses of all shapes and sizes across a broad range of sectors and she focuses primarily on corporate transactional work, both in the UK and abroad. As well as acquisitions and disposals, Arpinder is experienced in corporate restructures and management buyouts. Alongside Arpinder's corporate role, she heads up HCR’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) team. EDI at HCR is about building on and nurturing HCR’s existing talent, and diversifying and widening our talent pool. Wye Valley office head, Arpinder Dhillon, maintains a strong focus on high-value transactions for clients spanning the worlds of IT infrastructure, legal compliance, manufacturing and financial services.

Barbara Judkins

Solicitor

Becky Woodcock

Senior Associate

Ben Moorhead

Ben is a Partner in the London office and works on Company & Commercial, Sport, Private Wealth, Charities and Trust matters.

Ben Thomas

Bernadette O"Reilly

Partner

Bernadette O'Reilly

Partner, head of Private Client team in Cambridge. Succession and capital tax planning, trusts.

Bill Thatcher

Specialist in commercial work with emphasis on intellectual property (including in particular research and development and technology transfer); IT and e-commerce.

Bradley Armorgie

Associate

Carly Moore-Martin

Restructuring and Insolvency Team

Carolyn Bagley

Partner in private wealth department in Milton Keynes and Northampton, specialising in trusts, tax planning, wills, probates and powers of attorney. Carolyn advises individuals (including business owners) and trustees. She has extensive experience of: tax planning (particularly using trusts and wills); trust creation and management; probate and intestacy administration (including business property, foreign assets and heritage property); mitigating tax (including through successful non-domicile claims and equitable/constructive trust claims); deeds of variation of wills; and powers of attorney. She has also dealt with protection issues, including applications for statutory wills and gifts/variations to be made on behalf of incapacitated clients. She has presented seminars on inheritance tax and wills, held live BBC radio phone-ins and answered questions for both local and national newspapers. Her client experience covers a broad range from plc company directors, a leading firm of wealth managers, other solicitors, non-domiciled and non-residents, to the ubiquitous grandmother. Publication of note: STEP Journal, August 2011. Carolyn also works from the firm’s Northampton office.

Carolynn Davies

Senior Associate

Catherine Ball

Partner in private wealth department in Northampton, specialising in wills, probates, tax planning and trusts.

Ceri Riddell

Real Estate (Commercial Property)

Charles Hewitson

Consultant

Charlotte Bull

Solicitor

Charlotte Thornton-Smith

Charlotte is a Partner within the corporate department at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and the Head of the Worcester and Central England Offices at HCR. With almost 20 years’ experience in the corporate legal arena, Charlotte is committed to delivering the best possible service to her clients and giving commercial and pragmatic advice. Charlotte has a wealth of experience in advising clients in connection with M&A transactions, investments and group reorganisations with a particular specialism in acting for clients across the health and social care sector.

Chris Mackie

Head of the London Corporate Recovery & Insolvency

Christopher Nuttall

Head of Pensions

Christopher Finch

Partner

Claire Howard-Amos

Partner

Clare Colacicchi

Consultant

Clare Martin

Partner and Head of our Residential Property team with expertise of all aspects of Residential Property.

Clare Emery

Clare is a partner within the corporate department and heads up the Dental Team sitting within the Health and Social Care team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Clare has been working within the dental sector for over 15 years, and as one of only a small number of NASDAL accredited lawyers within the United Kingdom, she is nationally recognised for my expertise in advising dentists. Clare's primary focus is on assisting dentists to achieve their potential, whether through buying, selling or restructuring their practices. Clare's in-depth knowledge of the NHS and CQC frameworks within which practices operate allows her to provide specialist support to clients where issues arise with their regulators. Clare is often called upon to speak at dental conferences and seminars to share her knowledge of the dental sector.

Colin Jones

Managing Partner. Legal specialisation in construction and procurement law. Clients include: Marshalls Airport, Kings College, Trinity Hall College, Gonville & Caius College, European Molecular Biology Institute. Adviser to the British Institute of Interior Design and the Association of Consultant Architects. Acts for contractors, professionals, developer clients, manufacturers of construction products; providing advice in regard to contentious and non contentious matters. Member of Cambridge CleanTech, sits on the Procurement Reform Group of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Adviser to the Sports and Play Construction Association. Council member of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry and a member of the Cambridge Interact Club of property and construction professionals. Governor of St Mary’s School, Cambridge. Practice areas: construction – contentious; Construction – non-contentious.

Colin Jaque

Partner

David King

Partner (National Deputy Head of Private Client Team) and Head of Private Client Team in Cardiff

David Browne

Partner specialising in corporate acquisitions and disposals, banking and non-contentious insolvency. In charge of the firm’s owner-managed business group and a member of the firm’s banking and finance group.

David Beynon

David Beynon is an experienced practitioner and has an established profile as a commercial, technology and intellectual property lawyer. David’s varied commercial practice includes advising on supply chain transactions and strategic outsourcing projects across a range of industries. His work also involves technology, e-commerce and the internet, including advising on software development, licensing and complex outsourcing solutions. David has a strong and established profile as a transactional intellectual property lawyer and frequently advises clients, across a number of sectors, on the existence, ownership, protection and exploitation of their intellectual property rights. Whilst David’s practice extends across a range of industries a significant part of his work involves MedTech, life sciences, healthcare and the creative industries and he has worked closely with several high-profile clients in those sectors. For example, in the past year, he has been advising Bio-Diagnostics Limited and Prima Dental Manufacturing Limited, on several strategically important projects. Such clients are frequently pioneers in their fields and, as such, have a high and demanding requirement for ongoing commercial and intellectual property advice. In addition, David’s practice also extends across other creative, development and technology focused industries. By way of illustration, David continues to work closely with Tessitura Network, Inc., a leading US based, global provider of innovative relationship management and ticketing platforms designed specifically for the arts, culture and entertainment sectors. David’s experience in private practice has been supplemented by time spent in industry on secondment (with payment services provider allpay Limited, telecoms giant EE Limited and student accommodation specialists Unite Group plc), which enables him to better understand his clients’ overreaching commercial objectives and deliver his legal advice in a commercially focused and pragmatic way.

David Wells

Partner in the Real Estate Team advising on a full range of non-contentious commercial real estate matters including sales and acquisitions, leasehold work and development work.

David James

Partner

Deanne Hamilton

Senior Associate.

Denise Wilkinson

Partner dealing with agricultural and rural businesses and advising land-owning charities. Dealing with rural owners on acquisitions and disposals, all aspects of tenancy work and restructuring in relation to tax planning and trusts. Advising rural property owners on renewable enerrgy projects and options/leases for energy generation by solar, wind, AD and water. Dealing with acquisition of property and documentation in relation to management and development of sites by land-owning charities including joint ventures.

Derek Callanan

Derek is a partner within the corporate department with over 20 year’s experience. Derek has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of Corporate and Company Law matters, advising individuals and corporate clients, both locally, nationally and internationally on realising the maximum potential value/return from their business by buying, merging, re-structuring or selling their business/company through share or asset purchases and/or sales with multi-jurisdictional experience. Derek also advises on creating corporate joint ventures and or partnerships with specific expertise and interest in dealing with construction companies both private/plc and property developers/land owners; Derek has a specialist knowledge of the automotive sector and specifically advising a large Global Motor Manufacturing Group. He is also passionate about the Equine Law sector and the horse racing industry. Derek has also worked with clients across the globe advising American, Canadian, Spanish, Japanese, Irish and French based corporates on their corporate group interests within the United Kingdom.

Dominic Hopkins

Partner, commercial litigation and ADR with a particular emphasis on cross-border disputes and recoveries, civil aspects of commercial fraud; insolvency; professional negligence; corporate governance and directors’ duties and liabilities advice; IT disputes. Member of the technology and insolvency and corporate recovery groups.

Edward Wheen

Partner

Elizabeth Swinburn

Partner, Cambridge employment team. Advises employers and individuals on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law.

Elizabeth Herbert

Senior Solicitor

Elizabeth Davies

Partner specialising in tax and estate planning, wills, trusts and probate.

Emily Pumfrey

Partner

Emma Bowman

Senior Solicitor

Emma Swann

Partner, Head of Academies.

Eric Wardle

Chartered Accountant / Head of Trust Managemement

Fern Lovell

Agriculture & Estates / Real Estate

Fiona Hayles

Frank Brumby

Partner

Gareth Williams

Agriculture & Estates

Gemma Dudley

Legal Director

Gemma Hill

Associate.

Graeme Sampson

Partner dealing with a wide range of real estate matters. Graeme is highly experienced in complex mixed use development work including site assembly, promotion, joint ventures and collaboration agreements, pre lets, funding and disposals. He is also involved in general property matters including funding and portfolio work.

Hauke Harrack

Senior Solicitor

Helen Mutucumarana

Partner- Commercial Real Estate

Helen Deady

Senior Solicitor

Helen Higginbotham FCG

Helen is a Legal Director within HCR's Corporate Team. Helen heads up the BRICS team and is a qualified chartered company secretary.

Inger Anson

Inger is a Corporate Partner who heads the HCR Cambridge office and the Corporate team located there. Inger is engrained in the Cambridge legal market with over 23 years’ experience. She known for my expertise in the early stage funding arena and is a ‘go to’ lawyer for investee companies and investors alike. Inger acts for all types of businesses and individuals involved in the early stage and growth markets advising on all elements of early stage and follow on investments, predominantly in the technology sector. She also advises her clients on all aspects of M&A work, restructuring and certain elements of public company work, including admissions to AIM. Inger supported Origin Capital on its investment in Unum Aircraft Seating and also Carbon 13 on the recent investment by True Ventures and others. She also supported the shareholders of Grove Pet Food shareholders in the multimillion-pound sale of the company to Cranswick Country Foods.

James Osborne

Partner

James Morgan

James is a tax partner in the London office. James has a broad corporate, finance and structuring tax practice, with a particular focus on the taxation of financial institutions, debt funds and alternative credit funds.

James Frankland

Legal Director

James Lawrence

Partner in corporate department specialising in equity markets and mergers and acquisitions; venture, start-up and development capital, particularly in biotech and technology sector; corporate and banking finance and reconstructions; and employee share option schemes. Practice areas: flotations (small and mid-cap); corporate finance; M&A.

James Simnett

Chartered Legal Executive. James deals with both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and regularly acts for office holders in claims for possession and sale, setting aside antecedent transactions and challenges to office holders' remuneration.

James Grigg

Partner, Head of Family Team.

Jane Stebbings

Associate

Jason Morris

Partner and Head of Debt Recovery

Jenny Raymond

Partner in the dispute resolution team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys acting for PLCs, large multinationals, SMEs, partnerships and directors/shareholders across a wide variety of industries. Particular areas of focus include financial services, banking and insurance disputes, breaches of restrictive covenants, professional negligence & contractual disputes, and director/shareholder disputes.

JOANNE WHITEHEAD

Joanne is a Legal Director in the Real Estate department with considerable real estate transactional experience including portfolio acquisition and disposals, residential and mixed use developments, Landlord and Tenant matters, estate management work, property investment and related finance matters.

Julian Bishop

Partner

Justin Mason

Partner, Head of Real Estate, Cardiff

Kate Grant

Family Law

Kate Church

Senior Solicitor

Katherine Hague

Legal Director

Katie Wall

Associate

Kelly Wardell

Senior Associate

Kerri Woodrow

Kerri is a Partner in the Private Wealth team, based in the Northampton office.

Kevin Fletcher

Head of commercial/technology unit in Northampton; main areas of work: commercial contracts, intellectual property, IT/e-commerce, competition law, data protection, partnerships.

Laurence Evans

Partner

Lewis Djemal

Partner, Head of Real Estate, Thames Valley

Lynne Adams

Legal Director & Head of Immigration

Marc Carter

Partner in commercial property business unit specialising in development and investment work, including development agreements, finance agreements, forward purchase agreements, forward funding agreements, agreements for lease, conditional contracts, options, equity sharing leases, investment acquisitions and disposals and commercial leases. Clients include the Stepnell group of companies, the Jelmac group of companies, The Midcounties Co-Operative Ltd, Kenmare Estates Ltd, Perrys Motor Sales Ltd, City & County Investments (Scotland) Ltd, Natwest/RBS, Greensand Trust, Church UK Retail Ltd, Crockett & Jones Ltd, Cheaneys Shoes Ltd.

Maria Hearne

Senior Solicitor

Mark Elmslie

Head of the firm’s contentious intellectual property group; specialises in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including patents, designs, trade marks, passing off and branding, copyright, confidential information actions, and domain name disputes; represents clients across a range of industries, including fashion, packaging, computer games, medical technology, novelty toys and products, agriculture, household and garden products, and retail. He also acts, or has acted for, a number of patent and trade mark attorneys in defending claims of professional negligence. He has represented clients in substantial intellectual property cases both here and in Australia, including multinational litigation involving dual proceedings in the UK and US; represented defendants in the ‘One in a Million’ domain name litigation.

Mark Carter

Michael Russell

Associate

Morgan West

Partner.

Natalie Minott

Real Estate Dispute Resolution

Neil Harpham

Heads Hewitsons’ banking and finance group. Partner in corporate department, based in Northampton and Milton Keynes, dealing with a wide range of company law; specialising in the acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses, group reorganisations, joint ventures, banking and security and other related corporate finance matters. Neil also works from the firm’s Milton Keynes office. Practice areas: banking.

Nicholas Narraway

Consultant

Nick Rodriguez

Family Law

Nicola McNeely

Partner and Head of Technology Sector

Patricia Kempson

Partner in Real Estate department, Northampton and Milton Keynes, specialising in all aspects of commercial property including landlord and tenant, disposals and acquisitions, funding and options. Patricia works from the firm’s Northampton and Milton Keynes offices.

Paul Grundy

Legal Director.

Phillipa Mary Bruce-Kerr

Partner, Head of Team

Rachael Reeves

Partner

Rachel Sims

Rachel is a Legal Director and Head of the Real Estate Litigation team.

Rachel Roberts

Partner Head of Employment, Cheltenham

Rachel Parkin

Education (Employment) Partner

Rachel Turner

Head of HCR's Thames Valley Corporate Team Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2020 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Business Magazine Deal Awards Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2021 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards Corporate Law Firm of the Year 2022 - Thames Valley Insider Dealmaker Awards

Rachel Hawkins

Senior Solicitor. Rachel advises clients on a wide range of Private Wealth matters including Wills, Inheritance Tax and Succession Planning, the administration of Estates and Powers of Attorney and Court of Protections matters.

Rebecca Quinn

Rebecca Quinn is a Partner in the Cambridge Commercial team.

Rebecca Austin

Partner

Rebecca Leask

Rebecca is a corporate partner specialising in the health and social care legal arena. Rebecca is the Head of HCR’s Health and Social Care sector and Birmingham office.

Richard Knight

Consultant.

Richard Wilkey

Richard is a partner and Head of the Corporate Team at HCR both in London and the UK which was ranked 1st in the UK by Experian’s UK and Republic of Ireland M&A report. Richard has over 23 years of experience of offering clients pragmatic advice on large and complex corporate transactions and international deals. Richard also heads up HCR’s private equity offering, this is his primary focus and specialism. Richard has particular expertise in institutional equity investments, management buyouts, secondary buy-outs, development capital transactions and management roles.

Robert Rice

Robert is a Corporate Partner in HCR’s Thames Valley office market with over 25 years’ experience. He has been involved in many transactions providing advice to buyers, sellers, lenders and investors. Robert acts for a wide range of clients from large multi-nationals to entrepreneurial individuals. Robert aims to provide the highest quality legal advice so as to enable our clients to achieve their strategic aims within time and budget and to build lasting and meaningful relationships with them. Specialties: Mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins. Advice to US and other inbound corporates. Setting up corporate structures and on-going practical and commercial corporate legal advice.

Robert Capper

Robert is a commercial partner with over 25 years’ experience known for his expertise within the manufacturing sector including advanced manufacturing. With a specialism in partnership work, Robert acts for professional partnerships and individual partners. He also has particular experience in acting for doctors’ practices. Robert works with businesses of all sizes and nature, ranging from SMEs to multi-national corporations and also professional partnerships. He is contract specialist and advise on all aspects of commercial deals, especially strategy, providing real practical solutions to enable businesses to focus on what they do best without having to worry about the legal issues. Robert also provides industry expertise by speaking at and also chairing various external and internal conferences and seminars. As well as his commercial work, Robert sits on as an advisory board member at Worcester University’s Business School.

Rosalind Andrews

Head of Planning, Highways, & Environmental Law Rosalind leads HCR's national team of planning specialists, advising in relation to a variety of contentious and non-contentious planning matters. She is a contributing author to LexisNexis PSL's planning law guidance, and has contributed to a number of publications, including Planning Magazine, The Planner, Property Law Journal, and the Law Society's book 'Property Development'.

Rowena Kay

Employment and Immigration

Sam Payne

Head of Restructuring at HCR

Sarah Aylward

Senior Solicitor

Sarah Humble

Associate

Sarah Baron

Senior Solicitor

Sardeep Gill

Solicitor

Simon Wain

Partner

Simon Biggin

Partner dealing with commercial litigation, professional negligence and insolvency.

Sophia Jack

Sophia is a Solicitor who advises on non-contentious Real Estate matters, including landlord and tenant, sales and purchases and financing

Stephanie Dennis

Agriculture & Estates

Stephen Cole

Senior Associate

Steve Thomas

Partner.

Steven Murray

Head of Contentious IP

Stewart Morrison

Legal Director.

Sue Birnage

Associate

Sunita Punj

Senior Solicitor

Susanne Hinde

Partner

Tim Ward

Tim is a partner and Head of the Cheltenham Corporate Team at HCR. He is committed to providing support to prospective clients on their strategies and is complimented on his pragmatic no nonsense style. Market commentators state that he is "a very pragmatic and strong operator." Tim works with a wide array of clients regarding succession planning for their businesses, advising on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has a particular specialism in employee ownership trusts (EOT’s) advising clients on how to sell the controlling stake in the company for full market value with potential tax benefits.

Tom Murphy-Kirkhope

Partner.

Tom Williams

Legal Director (Solicitor), Tom Williams advises clients on a broad range of commercial litigation claims, with particular focus on: Supply of goods and services disputes Disputes arising out of business and share sales, including in relation completion accounts disputes and warranty claims Enforcement of restrictive covenants against employees and sellers of businesses. Tom is a member of the firm’s Healthcare specialist sector. He acts for clients within the Care, Dental and Veterinary sector in relation to corporate and commercial (non-clinical) disputes, where his understanding of the practical and commercial aspects of his clients’ businesses in these sectors allow him to offer focused commercial advice.