Marriott Harrison LLP

Partner whose practice focusses on private equity-backed transactions, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital, joint venture and corporate group restructuring transactions. Andrew acts for private equity houses, venture capital investors, portfolio compaines, management teams, early stage companies, entrepreneurs and corporates. He represents clients in a variety of industry sectors, including technology, healthcare and industrials.

Andrew Timoney

Andrew is an experienced real estate solicitor, specialising in advising property traders, high-net-worth individuals and lenders on strategic investment, leasing, development and funding transactions. With deep expertise in navigating complex deals and maximizing value in the competitive London market, Andrew provides bespoke, commercially -focused solutions that align with clients’ goals. Whether structuring intricate leases or optimizing investment portfolios, Andrew always aims to provide efficiency, clarity, and successful outcomes in every transaction. He has significant experience advising investors and developers in the hotel and warehouse/logistics sectors on their long-term strategic investments into regionally and nationally important schemes anchored by blue chip and household name occupiers.

Ben Devons

Ben is a partner who is highly experienced in advising on both domestic and international corporate transactions, particularly on M&A and fundraisings. He regularly acts for individuals and private and public institutions, including private equity and venture capital houses. Ben has aide range of sector experience, including: technology; commercial property; film and television; energy; retail; food and drink; and manufacturing. He has acted on transactions ranging from £100k to £100m in value.

Bob Mecrate-Butcher

A partner and Head of the Employment team, Bob's principal focus is advising major employer clients on all aspects of UK employment law, working closely with them to mitigate employment law risk whilst achieving their commercial objectives. Whilst Bob has particular experience of advising banks and other financial institutions, he advises clients in all sectors. Bob has particular experience of defending major red flag employment law claims, advising on restructure and redundancy programmes, senior executive and employee exits of all types, drafting and enforcement of restrictive covenants, all types of TUPE transfer and devising and delivering programmes of training to mitigate employment law risk.

Brett Israel

Brett has extensive experience acting for a range of insolvency practitioners, banks and other stakeholders on distressed corporate situations. He has worked on some of the most high-profile UK corporate collapses in the past 25 years including BCCI, MCC (Robert Maxwell), Facia, Parmalat, Nortel, Jessops, Lehman and MF Global. He also has a long-standing banking practice, rountinely advising banks and customers on varied debt finance assignments from the plain 'vanilla' through to more specialist fields including asset-based lending, trade finance and real estate finance.

Chris Mooney

Partner and head of the Commercial team, Chris leads a team of specialist commercial lawyers across commercial contracts, intellectual property, IT and data privacy. His key focus is on commercial contracts and data protection work. Chris assists clients with the drafting and negotiation of complex contracts including tech contracts, outsourcing contracts, distribution contracts, agency contracts and franchising contracts.

Daisy Divoká

Daisy is a private M&A lawyer with a specialised focus on representing founders, owner-managers and management teams in mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and related corporate restructures She has particularly extensive experience in private equity-backed transactions. Daisy supports UK and international businesses, management teams and entrepreneurs through complex M&A scenarios. Her deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by management teams allows her to deliver practical and effective solutions that drive successful outcomes, especially in roll-over/reinvestment situations.

Daniel Jacob

Daniel is Marriott Harrison's Managing Partner and an experienced business lawyer who deals with all aspects of corporate work, including private company acquisitions and disposals, fundraisings, joint ventures, reorganisations and advising on directors’ responsibilities. Daniel has significant experience with clients in the leisure, hospitality and technology sectors and acts for a variety of own managed businesses in industries across the board.

David Bettis

A partner in the Corporate team at Marriott Harrison, David's practice has a particular focus on M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions. He regularly advise clients on sales, acquisitions and both early and late stage investments in a variety of sectors. David also provides general corporate advice to clients and works closely with shareholders and directors to assist them with the collaboration, reorganisation and structuring matters that companies and their stakeholders often encounter throughout a company’s life cycle.

David Strong

A partner and Head of Venture Capital in Marriott Harrison's Corporate team, David specialises in venture capital transactions, and also advises clients on a range of M&A and corporate matters. His clients include early-stage and fast-growth companies, along with some of the leading European specialist technology funds, who he regularly advises in relation to UK investments.

David Baverstock

A partner in the Corporate team at Marriott Harrison, David's focus and experience is fully M&A. He is adept in strategic and pragmatic management, direction of teams, and commercial understanding necessary to deliver successful M&A transactions. David always delivers and is renowned for his approachable calm attitude.

Eesheta Shah

With over 20 years of experience in commercial contracts, technology law and intellectual property law, Eesheta works with a range of companies and industries as a Partner in the Commercial team. Companies from start-ups and SMEs to large national and multinationals in the technology, e-commerce, leisure, and retail sectors go to Eesheta for strategic solutions to protect and exploit their intellectual property. She creates and implements IP and brand protection strategies, filing and prosecuting UK and international trademarks, and enforcing IP rights. In addition, she drafts and negotiates complex IP and IT-related commercial agreements, including patent expertise, licenses, master service agreements, software licenses, and software development agreements. Eesheta works closely with clients, getting to know their business and understanding their short-term needs and future plans, helping her provide pragmatic and effective advice, and ultimately achieving positive outcomes.

Frances Spooner

A partner in Marriott Harrison’s Corporate team, Frances advises clients in a range of sectors on corporate and corporate finance matters including venture capital, venture debt, private equity, M&A and a wide range of other corporate matters. Frances has also worked with tech start-ups and growth companies and is actively developing a growing practice in this area through her involvement with initiatives such as Sie, an organisation which seeks to drive more capital towards female founders.

Graham Halliday

Graham is a partner in Marriott Harrison's Venture Capital team. With a sharp interest and understanding of technology-led business growth and evolution, Graham delivers the commercial guidance that both venture capital investors and investee companies seek on acquisition and exit.

Hugh Gardner

Hugh specialises in finance particularly debt (senior and mezzanine), private equity and M&A. He is the author of ‘Buying and Selling Private Companies’ in ‘CBI Corporate Finance Handbook’ (1st and 2nd editions).

Ian Morris

With extensive experience in all aspects of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, Ian advises companies, investors, boards, and management teams through periods of growth, transformation, and change. Specialising in leveraged buyouts, he advises private equity backed businesses from early stage through to buy, build and exit. Ian's clients include UK, and global businesses and entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Leigh-Hunt

A partner and Head of Corporate at Marriott Harrison, Jonathan has a focus on private equity, M&A and venture capital. Jonathan acts not only for private equity/venture houses and other funders but also for management teams, owners and investee companies on a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals and general corporate matters.

Josh Little

Josh has over 12 years of experience advising clients on the protection and enforcement of their IP rights. As Partner, his practice covers commercial requirements, copyright and design advice and enforcement, as well as passing off. He advises on IP licensing, exploitation and commercialisation and dispute resolution. This includes worldwide trademark clearance, filing, and prosecution. In contentious registry proceedings, including bringing and defending trademark opposition, invalidity, and revocation actions, Josh regularly represent clients and can advise on matters in territories worldwide. Historically he has advised clients in a variety of industries, with expertise in the gaming and technology sectors, as well as publishing, retail, fashion, food and beverage, healthcare and education. His strong commercial acumen enables him to get to the heart of clients' business objectives quickly and translate this into a tailored legal service.

Katerina Heal

Partner and head of Tax at Marriott Harrison, Katerina's corporate tax practice covers all aspects of UK and international taxation in areas that include UK and cross-border M&A, venture capital, private equity and general corporate transactions, business start-ups and group restructurings and reorganisations. Katerina also advises on venture capital companies and individual investors on UK tax reliefs, such as EIS, SEIS, business investment disposal relief, investor’s relief as well as on various employment tax matters such as share schemes and IR35. Her experience also focuses on providing tax advice to UK companies and multinational groups on their UK and international establishment and operations.

Mark Lavers

A partner and Head of Property team at Marriott Harrison. Mark's focus is commercial property, acting for a wide range of developers, investors, lenders and owner-occupiers across a variety of sectors, including retail and healthcare. Mark has a great deal of experience and expertise in lettings, particularly offices and also in acting for tenants. He has acted for many insurers and professional firms on their head office leases. Mark also acts for landlords.

Rima Mehay

Rima is a partner and specialist employment lawyer with over 15 years’ experience covering a wide range of employment issues. This includes contentious and non-contentious employment law matters such as executive terminations, complex severance packages, restructurings, business protection strategies, unfair dismissal, discrimination, partnership disputes, whistleblowing claims and contract issues. Rima's clients are generally companies with whom she has built long and successful relationships and senior executives seeking advice on all aspects of the employment relationship. Whilst her practice is broad, she has a particular specialism and interest in business protection cases involving team moves and restrictive covenants having advised on a number of cases over the years including one of the leading cases in this area (Tullett Prebon Plc & Ors v BGC Brokers LP & Ors).

Simon Charles

Simon is a partner, with a capital markets focus, AIM and FSMA regulation, company law and corporate finance.

Simon de Broise

Partner in the Dispute Resolution team. Simon represents clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, and commonly on disputes which are international in nature. He advises clients on disputes across all sectors and has extensive experience in the fintech, banking, aviation and asset finance markets. Simon regularly advises on corporate disputes and contentious insolvency matters, and has acted for and against companies, shareholders, financial institutions, funds and other intermediaries. He is also frequently instructed by start-ups in the fintech, crypto and digital media sectors, where he advises on disputes and assist businesses by identifying potential litigation risks and working with them on strategies to mitigate these risks before a conflict emerges. Cases that Simon works on often involve issues of fraud, and he has a great deal of experience seeking urgent remedies on behalf of clients to trace, preserve and recover valuable assets before they can be dissipated.

Stephen Whittaker

Partner with a key focus on real estate finance acting for banks and funds in relation to developments, single asset and portfolio investment transactions and bridging finance. Stephen also acts for developers and investors as well as property end users. His clients include professional practices, housebuilders, retailers and restaurants as well as a golf course operator.

Tamar Halevy

A partner, and head of the dispute resolution team at Marriott Harrison, Tamar specialises in complex and high value commercial disputes, both litigation and arbitration. She acts in commercial disputes of all kinds including director and shareholder disputes, breach of contract, breach of trust, fraud and professional negligence as well as commercial aspects arising from matrimonial proceedings. Tamar also acts for corporate and individual shareholders/directors, high net worth individuals, corporate trustees, professional services firms, media and marketing services companies, technology companies, retailers, partnerships and others.

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