JMW Solicitors LLP

Alejandro Worthington

Partner who deals with corporate and personal insolvency work, contentious and transactional matters, advising insolvency practitioners, directors, lenders and creditors.

Anita Rai

Partner and Head of Employment, London and has over 20 years’ in-depth employment experience. She has particular expertise in managing high level complex or tricky exits, dealing with team moves and associated restrictive covenant disputes and advising companies on clever strategies to minimise employee relations issues, effect a strong culture throughout the business and maximise productivity. 

Cathy Leech

Cathy Leech has been recruited to head the JMW catastrophic injury team specifically on SCI, brain and complex injury claims because of her experience, knowledge and reputation for this area of work and her proven and driven commitment to her clients and the charities supporting them. Cathy has acted personally for well over 50 successful personal injury claims for SCI claimants, and many other catastrophically injured clients and won awards for her expertise. She has been a long-standing supporter of the Spinal Injuries Association and actively fundraises and promotes the charity (and others) seeing the excellent work they do for seriously-injured people and their families. She is also experienced in claims for individuals with traumatic brain Injuries and polytraumas. Several of her cases have made new and ground-breaking law to the benefit of people generally including the case of Woodland v Essex CC [2013] in the Supreme Court identifying a non-delegable duty of care by a school to its pupils, and more recently Colley v MIB [2022] in the Court of Appeal applying EU law to ensure the MIB could not avoid compensating the injured claimant. Cathy has secured compensation for clients in excess of £100M. Awards won by Cathy include: 2013 The Law Society Awards - Solicitor of the Year in Private Practice. 2013 SIA Rebuilding Lives  Awards- Excellence in Legal Care 2018 SIA Rebuilding Lives Award - Fundraiser of the Year 2019 Personal Injury Lawyer Awards - Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year Cathy is identified as a highly-skilled PI lawyer in all the legal directories.

David Wadsworth

Partner with nearly 30 years’ dispute resolution experience in conducting own caseload. Acts on all aspects and full range of commercial and residential property disputes, related professional negligence claims and contentious probate disputes, including complex and high value matters. With other litigation partners, he leads the JMW property litigation, commercial litigation and dispute resolution offering from their London Office.

John Andrews

Partner, specialising in Mergers and acquisitions work for SMEs with particular expertise in healthcare, logistics, financial services, and motor dealerships

Kiran Vasudeva

Partner with 12 years’ private client and Court of Protection experience. Specialise in matters relating to wills, estate planning, probate, trusts including personal injury trusts and vulnerable persons trusts, powers of attorney and the Court of Protection. Acts as professional Trustee, Executor, Attorney and Deputy.

Matthew Wescott

Partner

Michael Rowlands

Partner Family Law Head of Department Children and Money with an emphasis on international work (particularly London, UAE/ Gulf States, Monaco, USA)

Nicola Wainwright

Nicola is a specialist clinical negligence solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in the field. She practices exclusively in clinical negligence. She specialises in cases of serious injury, particularly those arising from brain damage caused by birth injuries resulting in cerebral palsy, infectious diseases, such as meningitis, TB or HSV, and/or neonatal illness. Nicola also has vast experience in cases arising from surgical errors and delays in diagnosis, for example, of ectopic pregnancy, appendicitis and cancer, and fatal cases. In 2018 she achieved one of the highest awards of compensation in England and Wales for a case of its’ type for a 9-year-old-girl who was left with permanent brain damage as a result of the misuse of forceps. Her successful settlements in 2019 include six figure sums of compensation for a man left brain damaged and suffering from epilepsy as a result of negligent sinus surgery and for a lady who suffered permanent spinal injuries. She also successfully concluded a long-running complex case arising from failures in psychiatric care for a client who had been an inpatient in psychiatric units for over 20 years.

Philip Cooper

Partner. Philip specialises in divorce and medium-to-high net worth financial settlements representing homemakers, city professionals, celebrities, entrepreneurs and sports people. His work regularly involves family companies, offshore funds and trusts and he has extensive experience with the international relocation of children. With a strong equine background, Philip has a real interest in farming families and all things involving horses. He is a “go to” for Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements and has negotiated agreements involving significant national and international wealth. Philip also advises non-married clients on family and property issues arising on relationship breakdown and represents non-married parents with “Schedule 1” claims for the benefit of their children.

Philip Partington

Partner and head of JMW’s Intellectual Property team. Philip has a particular specialism in managing intellectual property disputes across the UK and Globally.  In addition, Philip’s areas of expertise include identifying his clients' intellectual property and assisting with securing that intellectual property through strategic registration.

Savio D'Costa

Partner specialising in hotel and leisure, investment and franchising.Savio deals with all aspects of commercial property sales and acquisitions, in particular: Hotels, restaurants and retail . He also advises on landlord and tenant matters including estate management for a number of clients with substantial property holdings.

Tracey Rodford

Partner.    An all-rounder with real commitment, Tracey represents parents resolving complex disputes regarding their children, separating couples unravelling their matrimonial finances and those planning marriage, looking to obtain some certainty if things go wrong.   Tracey has represented high profile clients such as sports personalities, celebrities and international businessmen in complex high net worth and ultra-high net worth court proceedings and has been involved in reported cases such as Alireza v Radwan & Ors (2017) EWCA Civ 1545 Re R (Children) (2016) EWCA Civ 1130 MT v FY [2020] EWFC 48 (17 July 2020)