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Andrew now heads up the firm's London real estate finance practice, which includes over twenty fee earners within its ranks. The dedicated, close-knit team, which includes fellow partners Andrew Flemming and Jo Solomon, has gone from strength to strength in recent years.Andrew hails from a banking and project finance practice background, and has experience of working on major international transactions involving the financing of gas pipelines, motorways, CCGT power stations and hospitals.Andrew now concentrates on domestic and cross-border real estate finance deals, representing banks, debt funds, borrowers and funds on a wide range of transactions.
The leader of the pension litigation practice, Angela has conducted a number of landmark cases. She has a wide background of litigation in multiple jurisdictions and her claims experience includes confidential information, fraud, insolvency and breach of fiduciary duty. These days her industry focus is almost exclusively on pensions and professional liability. She is one of our lead partners in professional liability and has dealt with substantial claims of all kinds against pensions and other professionals.
An award-winning commercial litigator, Chris handles some of Hogan Lovells' most significant and complex litigation mandates. Chris has substantial experience of co-ordinating major, multi-centre and multi-discipline disputes, which has led to him being acknowledged as 'strategically remarkable.' Chris's work by its very nature is international and he has an unparalleled hands-on track record of managing the largest cross-border matters, often with a fraud-related element.
Praised by clients for his "calm and measured" approach, Christopher Hutton advises clients on all aspects of UK and EU competition law. He represents clients before antitrust authorities in the UK and across Europe, including specialist sectoral regulators
People are often surprised to find out that Claire's a pensions lawyer. She's learned to take that as a compliment. She enjoys working closely with clients to find solutions to their problems and believes that pensions law is much improved by some straight talking and a sense of humour. Claire likes variety and this is reflected in the wide range of clients and matters that she works on. She has developed specialist practices in trustee friendly derivative instruments and the VAT recoverability of pension scheme expenses.
Partner, Head of Investigations, White Collar and Fraud practice
Daniel focuses his practice on corporate transactions, specialising in equity capital markets and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He brings extensive experience in IPOs, secondary fundraisings and private fundraisings and he has significant experience in acting for issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders on London Main Market and AIM transactions and on pre-IPO fundraisings. Daniel also has particular focus on public transactions, including P2Ps, and he has advised numerous companies, private equity houses and financial institutions in the context of these transactions.
Dion has been a real estate partner at Hogan Lovells for 16 years. He likes to stay close to the asset where he can add value to the deal. He likes to break down complexity in a way that can be easily understood. He likes to work with, not against, the deal counterparties to get the deal done pragmatically (and for everybody to come away feeling as if the deal has worked for them all).
After qualifying as a solicitor in 1990, Duncan Buchanan realised he had a passion for pensions, which he has concentrated on since 1992. His wealth of experience is second to none and he has been an asset since he joined us as a partner in 2006.
As co-director of the global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice of Hogan Lovells, Eduardo Ustaran is internationally recognised in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London. Eduardo is also the author of The Future of Privacy (DataGuidance, 2013), a ground-breaking book where he anticipates the key elements that organisations and privacy professionals will need to tackle to comply with the regulatory framework of the future. Eduardo advises some of the world's leading companies on the adoption of global privacy strategies and is closely involved in the development of the new EU data protection framework.
Head of the London Employment practice, Elizabeth has over 30 years' experience advising clients on employment law issues on a national and international basis. She is known as a lawyer who dispenses 'commercial, solutions-orientated advice' and who 'always gets the job done'. With her strategic approach and experience, Elizabeth helps clients to navigate their way through sensitive Board and senior executive issues, complex corporate transactions and challenging employment aspects of regulatory and other investigations. On the contentious side of her practice, Elizabeth defends international corporations in employment disputes in the Employment Tribunal and High Court.
With over 30 years experience, Emily has built a reputation for delivering innovative ideas and solutions to Fintech companies and other established players. She has extensive experience in law, regulation, payment schemes and other infrastructure that apply to the fast moving payments, consumer finance, merchant acquiring and banking industries. Emily is working increasingly on projects where technology is disrupting the traditional relationships between banks and their customers, increasing competition and creating new products (e.g. robo-advice) and where the blockchain will drive further change, not just to crypto-currencies.
Clients benefit from Georgy Kalashnikov's experience in leading cross-border strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and joint venture projects. He has acted on strategic M&A and joint venture projects in real estate, oil and gas, metals and mining, aviation, and other industry sectors in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. He has substantial experience in advising companies on corporate structuring of debt/equity portfolios (business and private assets).
As a partner in our Real Estate Group, Gill McGreevy is acknowledged as a leading individual, with extensive experience across the spectrum in her field. She is known as a straight talker with a no-nonsense approach. Her practice spans all aspects of commercial real estate, with particular knowledge of and skills in development and regeneration projects, retail and leisure asset management and strategy and property investment.
Ivan Shiu is a Hogan Lovells partner who focuses his practice on general commercial litigation and the developing area of competition litigation in the UK. Although drawn from a wide range of industry sectors and regions, Ivan's clients tend to have two things in common. First, they are on one or other side of an actual or potential dispute. Ivan has extensive experience of helping clients to navigate what can be complex, trying and unfamiliar territory, always conscious that the best solution for a client might be out of Court. Secondly, they are usually international clients. Ivan speaks Spanish, French and Cantonese and regularly works with and for clients in those languages, either because a dispute is before the English Courts or because they are considering their rights in foreign jurisdictions. Ivan has experience of co-ordinating proceedings in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands, Spain and Hong Kong.
James is one of the few lawyers who can genuinely call themselves an indirect real estate professional. His early career focused on direct real estate, allowing James to gain a wealth of expertise in, and understanding of, investment, disposal, development and letting transactions across the real estate spectrum. Over the last 15 years, James has taken that experience into the indirect real estate sector, in the acquisition and disposal of corporate real estate holding vehicles, structuring UK and pan-European real estate joint ventures, advising on fund structurings, restructurings, investments and exits.James' experience includes advising on a wide range of UK, European and global investment vehicles including limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, trusts, corporate structures and listed vehicles.
Jeremy Brittenden, a partner in Hogan Lovells’ Infrastructure, Energy, Resources, and Projects Practice Group, based in London, is also Head of the North Africa practice. He is a project development lawyer with more than 18 years of experience in major, complex, infrastructure projects. Jeremy works with government and private sector entities to develop, restructure, or divest large infrastructure assets. He also represents the partners, financiers, and contractors of such entities. Jeremy has managed numerous high profile PPP/PFI projects in the UK and internationally, and has extensive experience drafting and negotiating concession agreements, supply chain agreements, finance, and security documents, off-take agreements, and all other ancillary contracts. He has focused in particular on energy, government accommodation, waste, and transport.
 Jeremy Pickles is a partner in our Investment Funds team and acts for a broad range of clients from supranational development finance institutions and pension schemes to investment banks and investment managers. He acts across a wide range of asset classes including reinsurance, credit/debt, hedge funds, infrastructure, private equity, real estate, and UCITS. His versatile practice gives him the edge in coming up with creative solutions for his clients.
A highly regarded figure in the financial services sector, John has vast experience advising clients on complex reorganisations and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and debt portfolio sales.His clients include financial institutions, banks, asset managers, investment firms, funds, private equity and other financial services firms.John is a senior corporate and M&A partner in our London office.
John has been practising transactional real estate law at Hogan Lovells for nearly 20 years. John has acted for a number of clients, whether investors, developers or occupiers, for many years. He trained at the firm and was made a partner in 2009. He deals with all types of real estate transactions for all types of clients. This includes institutional investment, landlord and tenant, sales, purchases and portfolio management, and property development. John has particular knowledge in outsourcing and leasehold liability deals and also advises on indirect property investments.
As a partner, John Tillman advises clients on major commercial disputes, focusing particularly on cases involving financial transactions and insolvency/distressed situations. He also regularly advises on fraud and asset recovery exercises, from investigations through to litigation and enforcement. The majority of John's cases have an international element, and he regularly advises on disputes involving multiple jurisdictions where cross-border co-ordination is critical.
John is a highly experienced IT lawyer with a market leading reputation in the financial services sector. His main focus is advising financial institutions on their strategic IT projects and he supports his clients in implementing innovative digital and technology solutions whilst managing legal and regulatory risk.John has a reputation as a lawyer in the FinTech area and has been heavily involved with leading edge developments.John has been actively involved in developing industry-wide solutions for electronic data exchange issues. He worked on both the Origo Legal Framework and TISA Exchange, which was established to facilitate the electronic re-registration of assets and portfolios between platforms.
Jon Chertkow works with banks, lenders, payment innovators and retailers to keep on top of regulatory change affecting the banking and payments industry. Using industry and regulatory knowledge built up over more than 12 years working in this sector, Jon helps clients launch new products, establish new operations, carry out compliance audits of their existing business and engage with regulators and customers. Jon also brings his regulatory and industry knowledge to assist clients in entering into strategic outsourcing agreements and M&A activity, including loan portfolio acquisitions and disposals, Part VII banking transfers and card co-branding arrangements.
Louise Moore is a highly esteemed practitioner in regulatory matters as well as on transactional work. Louise Moore heads up the Hogan Lovells Environment (International) practice. In addition, she is widely recognized as a leading lawyer on environmental, social, and health and safety issues, both in the context of corporate, finance and real estate transactions and energy and infrastructure projects, as well as standalone regulatory and strategic contentious and non-contentious matters.
As a partner in our Financial Services Disputes team, Louise Lamb focuses her practice on helping banks and other financial institutions to avoid or resolve complex litigation quickly and cost-effectively. She also frequently helps banks to conduct internal investigations and advises them on how to navigate their way through regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Louise has acted for a wide range of financial institutions both in the UK and abroad, and has handled disputes and investigations across the retail banking, wealth management, trade finance and investment banking sectors.
Mark has over 20 years' experience advising on complex and high-profile competition/antitrust issues. He focuses on obtaining competition clearances for M&A transactions and joint ventures, and representing clients in cartel, monopoly, and market investigations. He is equally at home advising on UK, EU and multi-jurisdictional matters.
Since 1998, Markus has concentrated on public international law. Markus combines experience in public international law at the highest level of government with many years of experience in advising and representing states, international organisations and businesses in private practice. He focuses on international investment law and acts in arbitrations under ICSID, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules and in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He also advises investors on structuring investments worldwide.
Mathew is one of the UK's leading authorities in property litigation. Working with investors, occupiers and a range of other stakeholders, Mathew takes a commercial approach to resolving property disputes: get the facts straight and the law right, know what your strengths are, what you really need and what you can live without, and devise a strategy to suit. He helps clients to think laterally and find creative solutions to even the most intractable property disputes.
Matthew Bullen focuses on pensions and trusts litigation. He has considerable experience in handling large and complex disputes, both domestic and multi-jurisdictional, as well as conducting investigations on matters that raise regulatory issues or which may result in litigation. His cases frequently involve insolvency or public law elements. In recent years he has worked particularly intensively on moral hazard regulatory actions, both for targets of regulatory action and trustees.
As a partner in our financial services team, Michael Thomas has spent his career advising all types of financial institutions on a wide range of matters. The core of Michael's practice is the provision of financial services regulatory advice. Michael advises firms on how financial services regulation will apply to them from their initial set-up, to their on-going business, and in relation to key events such as corporate transactions or outsourcing arrangements. In addition to regulatory advice, Michael advises financial institutions on commercial transactions, such as major outsourcing arrangements and distribution deals.
Mike Matheou sees issues affecting projects from the perspective of all key parties and rapidly cuts through those matters to reach robust solutions favorable to all, relying on his deep experience acting for private sector bidders and financiers, as well as governmental and other procuring authorities.
Nathan is a partner in our international arbitration group, acting for large multinationals in complex and high-value international arbitrations and cross-border disputes. He has extensive experience in African related disputes and is an active member of the firm's cross-practice Africa group. Nathan also has experience in other emerging markets including Asia, India, Russia and the CIS.Nathan has higher rights of audience in the English courts and regularly appears as an advocate in international arbitrations. He also advises clients on risk management and strategies to avoid or resolve disputes at an early stage.
With over 25 years' experience helping clients resolve their most difficult disputes, Neil has a commercial, hands-on approach to his cases and always thinks strategically about how best to bring a case to a successful conclusion. He gets as much satisfaction from helping clients prevent disputes arising and is often asked to advise on pre-action issues. Neil handles a wide range of financial services disputes as well as corporate and commercial disputes, often involving multiple parties and across jurisdictions.
Nick Holman co-leads our Investment Funds Group and is proud that he has spent his entire professional career at the firm. Nick has extensive experience across a broad range of alternative investment funds, and advises both fund managers and institutional investors. He is also recognized widely for his work on the launches of infrastructure, private equity and credit/debt funds.Nick is very focused on ensuring that both he and his team provide thoughtful advice that is tailored for each situation. He is immersed in the funds industry, advising fund associations in both the US and UK on a range of business-critical matters. He is often asked to impart his detailed knowledge and experience by speaking at key industry conferences and seminars, both nationally and globally.
Nicholas leads the 'excellent, top-notch' competition litigation practice in London. His extensive experience litigating before the High Court and the Competition Appeals Tribunal enables him to represent clients in a wide range of industries, from financial and industrial to transport and technology. Nicholas is a commercial litigator and a recognized leader in the fields of Antitrust and Competition Litigation, Pensions litigation and Professional liability litigation. His depth of experience gives Nicholas a true understanding of client's issues.
When it comes to getting complex real estate deals closed, clients look to Nick. His clients rely on his team player approach and ability to translate legal documents into straightforward commercial arrangements focused on goals not legal niceties.Nick brings a wealth of knowledge in investment, disposal, development, letting and joint venture transactions. Whether the property is a major mixed use development (or redevelopment), offices, retail, offshore energy asset, in the private rented sector or otherwise Nick is able to deliver commercially focused strategic advice.Nick has first rate knowledge and experience from across the sector. He works with a stellar collection of clients - from international institutional investors and banks to major property developers and listed companies.
Paul is a partner in Hogan Lovells' top ranked UK commercial law practice. With extensive experience across a variety of industries he advises clients both domestically and internationally on the matters that are important to delivering products and services to their customers. Having spent time in-house, Paul understands the need to navigate in a timely and pragmatic way the challenges faced by business by working with senior management, project teams and in-house legal advisors to deliver creative, practical and business friendly solutions that achieve your goals.
Paul Randall heads our Employee Share Incentives practice. He brings nearly 30 years of City experience. Over this time, he has advised numerous UK and overseas companies, listed and unlisted, on the corporate, tax and regulatory aspects of the design, implementation and operation of domestic and multi-national employee share plans, employee benefit trusts and executive remuneration. He has also advised in the context of many corporate transactions, including IPOs, takeovers, reverse takeovers, buyouts and general M&A.
Innovative, insightful and practical, honed by 25 years + diverse experience. Whether helping clients broker multi-party deals, navigate the intersection of business and government or find the right business structure, Peter distils what really matters and uses creative solutions where necessary. Peter has a particular interest in managing change and in setting legal issues or transactions in the wider context, understanding the perspectives of multiple parties and how they are relevant to delivering success. He has delivered many projects in technology and media solving complex issues concerning software, rights and data. He understands the particular sensitivities of the public sector whether expressed through regulation or direct state involvement in deals. He knows how important it is not to see a supply chain or distribution network as a series of separate transactions but as a series of interdependent relationships from the source to the ultimate consumer.
Rachel is Head of Financial Services Regulation at Hogan Lovells, advising banks, insurers, asset managers and clearing houses and exchanges.She has been recognized as a leading individual in her field by industry commentators and legal directories for nearly two decades. Her vast experience at the heart of the sector allows her to make instinctive judgements in tackling structural and regulatory issues.Rachel is known for being tenacious in defending her clients' interests, attracting widespread admiration as a formidable negotiator.
Rebecca Wales is an experienced commercial litigator who has acted in some of the most complex and high value international disputes recently before the English Courts. She has been involved in several ground breaking interim applications, broadening the scope of freezing orders and pushing the boundaries of injunctions. Rebecca has significant experience of applications for pre-emptive and interlocutory relief, including freezing orders, search orders, third party disclosure orders and orders for cross-examination and committal. She was also involved in obtaining the largest receivership order ever granted by the English court.
As a partner in the Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team, Richard Tyler's main focus is on International oil & gas and LNG Projects, but he is also active in Energy Financings, acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, energy and commodities trading, power projects and energy regulation. He led the award winning Hogan Lovells team which acted for the Shah Deniz Consortium as Project Counsel on the US$ 45bn Shah Deniz 2 and Southern Gas Corridor Projects. He has received praise from client for his commercial and industry knowledge, his 'hands on' approach to getting projects and transactions completed and his team's ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Richard Welfare focuses on regulatory compliance work within the Commercial Law practice area. Richard works with manufacturing companies to ensure that they comply with legislation and regulatory frameworks, including requirements governing product composition, labeling, packaging and claims, rules relating to advertising and marketing campaigns and other key considerations when launching a product in the EU/UK. Richard has helped clients resolve issues with UK enforcement authorities, including Trading Standards, the ASA (Advertising), MHRA (Medical Devices) and the FSA (Food).
Delay, cost and defects are perennial issues that haunt all engineering and construction projects, but Roberta Downey's focus is on helping clients develop practical and commercial strategies to manage (or at least mitigate) these traditional risks in an evolving market against a background of challenges from new technology and procurement approaches.
Roger is a partner in our Commercial and Retail Banking team, with particular experience in payments, consumer credit and mortgage regulation. He works with a broad cross-section of banks (both international and local, established and challenger), specialist lenders and payment service providers and infrastructure providersRoger works with these clients and with the key industry bodies to help with the development and implementation of new law and regulation. He also advises on the ongoing impact for all aspects of our clients' businesses, such as licensing and prudential requirements, product design, alliances like distribution and outsourcing arrangements, and transfers of portfolios or businesses.
For fifteen years, Rupert has navigated complex HMRC discussions and tax litigation for corporates, individuals and pension funds, and is the Leader of our Tax Disputes team in the UK and Europe. Beyond navigation, Rupert provides technical knowledge in areas many group tax functions have not needed to develop themselves: taxpayer rights and HMRC powers, tax statutory interpretation, tax public law, tax-related evidence and procedure. His commercial approach has made him a valuable extension to in-house tax teams on a wide-range of projects.
Rupert Sydenham has advised on legal issues arising from construction projects for over 20 years. He brings a wealth of experience in helping clients ensure projects are put and stay on track and, where disputes are unavoidable, in the conduct of formal and informal dispute resolution proceedings. His experience derives from projects in many different sectors and jurisdictions, including from a 10 year period between 1998 and 2008 in which he was based in the firm's Hong Kong office. In addition, Rupert runs a procurement disputes practice. He has represented clients in several of the highest profile procurement cases reported in England over the past few years.
A partner in our London office, Ruth Grant focuses on dispute resolution work in the fields of product liability and professional liability/negligence. Ruth has a broad litigation background based on over 30 years experience handling disputes for a variety of commercial clients in the High Court in London and working with US lawyers in proceedings in the US for UK clients. With extensive involvement of over 15 years in tobacco-related litigation in the UK, the US and in a number of British Commonwealth jurisdictions, Ruth has a wealth of knowledge on managing complex cross-border litigation and the evidential issues that can arise.
Sahira Khwaja works with her clients to protect some of their key assets - their brands and underlying IP rights. She helps her clients obtain, protect and commercialize these assets so that they are of the most benefit and use to her clients' businesses. Sahira leads our brands practice in London and is the co-head of the firm's Fashion & Luxury Brands group. Many of Sahira's clients are in the consumer and TMT sectors, and she has a keen knowledge and understanding of the underlying commercial drivers for those businesses. Her aim is to give her clients commercially pragmatic advice that fits the demands of the sectors and markets in which they operate. She has helped her clients to register new IP rights for new brands and products, has assisted them in stopping their competitors from misusing their IP and in licensing and franchising them to take advantage of new business opportunities.
For nearly 20 years, Sarah has been practising IP law in the London office. As a partner her focus is on the protection of confidential information and patent law but she has experience of most areas of intellectual property law. Her clients range from large pharmaceutical and medical device companies to manufacturing businesses as well as start-ups. Sarah is experienced in litigation and negotiating commercial intellectual property agreements. Her practice is diverse: from recovering confidential information using search orders to carrying out intellectual property audits. The common thread of her work is anything technical. Before studying law, Sarah took a degree in physics. This technical background helps her to get to grips quickly with the underlying technology in patent cases and the complexities of software licensing, amongst other things.
Tarek is a dual Libyan/New York qualified lawyer with a broad practice that covers general corporate and commercial matters (foreign direct investment, joint ventures, restructurings), project development, finance and dispute resolution. He works principally in the sovereign wealth, energy, infrastructure and telecommunications sectors, with a geographic focus mainly on Libya and North Africa, but also on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa more generally.
Tim is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group. He provides corporate and regulatory advice to insurance industry clients including mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, joint ventures and authorisations. He joined Hogan Lovells in 1994 and became a partner in 2003. He is a regular speaker on insurance business transfers and Solvency II.
Tom is a leading partner in the firm's London corporate practice. He combines commercial acumen with transaction efficiency to ensure the best possible outcome for his clients. He has experience across a wide variety of work including public and private M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, private equity and equity capital markets. Whilst Tom is a generalist M&A practitioner, he regularly acts for clients in the Life Sciences and TMT sectors. Much of Tom's work has a cross-border or international focus. Whilst Tom is based in London, he has also practiced in both Dubai and Hong Kong.
As a partner in our London Real Estate Group, Victoria Sutcliffe deals with a wide variety of commercial real estate work and brings extensive experience to institutional investment, property portfolio management, large and high profile lettings and pre-lettings, sales, purchases and development funding projects, as well as co-ownership structures.