Memery Crystal

Andrew Titmas is a Partner in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and banking and has been a partner at Memery Crystal since 2003. Andrew believes his key responsibility is to execute transactions for clients in an efficient, commercial and cost-effective manner, using his experience, pragmatism and team leadership skills. Andrew says the most satisfying thing about the job is when a client comes to think of Memery Crystal as part of their team.

Andy Hughes

Andy is a Senior Associate in the Corporate team. He specialises in private company mergers and acquisitions and regularly advises across a range of corporate matters including private equity transactions, corporate re-organisations, joint ventures and other company law matters.

Bob Cordran

Bob Cordran is a Partner at Memery Crystal and Head of the Employment team. Bob is a highly experienced employment lawyer who advises on the full range of employment issues, with particular experience in providing employment advice in the context of corporate and other commercial transactions. He also advises employers on employment law issues including contractual documentation, policies and procedures, dismissals, redundancy processes, restrictive covenants, protection of confidential information and GDPR matters as well as representing employers in employment litigation.

Carl Rohsler

Carl Rohsler is a Partner and Head of the Commercial, IP and Technology (CIPT) team at Memery Crystal. Carl specialises in intellectual property (IP) work and is well-known for his expertise in the field of gambling law. Carl’s practice covers the full range of IP work, including patents, trade marks and designs, copyright and confidential information. Although working on both contentious and non-contentious matters, he is best known for his work as a litigator, having been involved in a number of leading IP cases in the last 25 years. He became a Solicitor Advocate (Civil) in 2001. Carl is also known as one of the UK’s leading experts on gambling law, having acted for many of the leading gambling operations in the UK and across the world. He has advised leading names such as 888.com, Caesars Interactive, Gala Coral, The Health Lottery Limited and Gaming Realms plc, as well as advising governments and regulators on gambling policy. He is the author / editor of several leading academic works in his field including: - The Statute Guide to the Gambling Act 2005 (Sweet & Maxwell 2005) - The Statute Guide to the National Lottery Act 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell 2006) - Licensing Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell 2008) - General editor of The Gambling Law Review 2015-2022 Carl also has considerable experience in advertising and marketing regulation, data protection, e-commerce and labelling and packaging law. He is an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, France.

Chris Pulham

Chris is a Partner in the Commercial, IP & Technology (CIPT) team at Memery Crystal. Chris has a life-long interest in technology. After qualifying as a solicitor in 2000, Chris initially advised specialist businesses developing telemetry and related technology for the motor racing sector, and a range of software developers and tech entrepreneurs, both established providers and early-stage dotcom startups. Chris’s experience covers the full range of non-contentious commercial and IP work and has consistently had technology as the focus. Chris led the tech, data and IP function at Rosenblatt providing advice across all sectors, until the acquisition of Memery Crystal in 2021, when he joined their larger Commercial, Intellectual Property and Technology team. Since joining the firm in 2005, Chris has enjoyed adapting to new and emerging technologies and to work with his clients to find practical solutions. Chris is determined to keep sight of his client’s priorities and to ensure their commercial objectives are met within the preferred legal framework. Chris’ experience has followed the evolution of major digital sectors and the growth of data protection and digital trade regulation – in particular the development of customer insight, data enrichment and digital advertising. Currently, much of Chris’s focus in the crypto and DeFi space, including advising clients considering establishing a new exchange, chain, marketplace, or platform or considering investing in a digital or cryptographic asset or project. Chris is a key/founding member of the firm’s New Tech Working Group, a member of the Society for Computers and the Law (SCL). Chris focuses on the following areas: Advising developers and customers on platform, SaaS, development, and licensing arrangements, plus their supporting SLAs, customer dependencies and policies. Negotiation of traditional technology and system procurement projects, including tv broadcasting infrastructure. Joint ventures and collaborative projects. Advising project founders on the optimal corporate and contractual structure, asset ownership and core contracts for Web 3.0, crypto and blockchain-based businesses. DeFi projects, NFTs, smart contracts, Metaverse and in-world contracts; marketplace and platform terms and conditions, and token-linked terms and conditions. Data protection compliance (including UK GDPR, DPA 2018, PECR), appointing data processors, advising on anonymisation requirements and reidentification risk, and international transfers of personal data.

David Sachs

David Sachs is a Partner in the Banking & Finance team at Memery Crystal. Specialising in corporate financings and acquisition and event-driven finance, David has considerable experience in acting for lenders, borrowers, US and UK private equity sponsors, and financial advisers in relation to leveraged management buy-outs, public-to-private takeovers, real estate and development financing, and debt refinancings.

Emily Farrow

Emily Farrow is a Legal Director in the Real Estate Private Client team. Emily has experience dealing with high value residential transactions working towards strict deadlines and acting for a wide range of clients including high net worth individuals as well as companies, banks and developers.

Fayruz Cahill

Fayruz Cahill is a Legal Director in the Real Estate Private Client team. Her practice focuses on residential real estate in the prime and super prime London markets. She has a wide ranging client base including high net worth individuals and their companies, banks, developers and overseas investors. She is adept in dealing with complex clients and challenging transactions and deadlines on a daily basis. She also advises on commercial property transactions, including acting for high profile clients in the retail sector. She is known for being commercially minded, responsive and firmly focused on client objectives.

Helen Abel

Helen Abel joined Memery Crystal in 2017 as a Director in the Real Estate team. Helen has experience in a broad range of work including acquisitions and disposals (for institutions, high net worth individuals, property companies and developer clients), development, property finance as well as landlord and tenant work.

John Aynsley

John Aynsley is a Partner and Group Head of Real Estate at Memery Crystal. John specialises in the acquisition, disposal, development, regeneration, financing, and management of high-value assets in commercial real estate, John acts for clients ranging from international real estate funds and listed house builders to private investors.

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Laura Brown

Laura Brown is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team specialising in Real Estate Finance. She has a wealth of experience acting for leading lenders, on a senior and mezzanine basis, in relation to commercial and residential property development and investment, refinances, and property portfolio financing arrangements. Laura advises on funding across a wide range of asset classes, including residential development, student accommodation, hotels and other leisure facilities, offices, business parks, shopping centres and retail parks.

Leigh Sayliss

Leigh Sayliss is a Partner and Head of the Tax team at Memery Crystal. He is a versatile Tax Partner and Chartered Tax Advisor with wide experience in property, corporate and employment taxes in particular. Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, Leigh spent 20 years as a professional engineer and his background in industry helps him bring a commercial understanding to the transactions with which he is involved. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a Chartered Engineer. Leigh is the editor of the land-related sections of “Monroe and Nock on the law of Stamp Duties”. He is Chair of the CIOT Property Taxes Committee and a member of HMRC working groups in relation to Stamp Duty Land Tax and construction matters.

Lesley Gregory

Lesley Gregory is Chair and a Partner in our Corporate team at Memery Crystal As one of the few female chair at a UK law firm, Lesley Gregory has led Memery Crystal through several strong financial years, worked to expand the firm’s international offering and encourage an internal culture focused on diversity and core values – all while maintaining her top-rated corporate practice. She specialises in capital markets work including flotations and secondary capital raisings. She is a non-exec director of Aquis Exchange PLC (the growth market stock exchange). She acts for companies, nominated advisers and brokers and has acted for both UK and international companies from the US, Canada, South Africa and Australia including Petra Diamonds Limited and Gaming Realms Plc. Lesley also advises growth companies on alternative forms of raising finance, including retail corporate bonds for companies and clubs from Hotel Chocolat to the Jockey Club. In addition, she advises on acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies as well as on cross-border transactions. Lesley enjoys the challenges of working with entrepreneurs and growth companies and has previously acted as a non-executive director or special advisor to both public and private companies. Lesley has been a champion of the firm’s core values programme initiated in 2007, supporting policies and procedures to reinforce the firm’s emphasis on client care, professional development and a supportive workplace. Through her initiative, Memery Crystal became the first law firm to launch a Payroll Giving Scheme with Giveall, a HMRC approved platform enabling employees to donate to any UK charity through their salary on a monthly basis, commission free.

Liam Bell

Liam Bell is a Partner in the Real Estate Litigation team at Memery Crystal Liam acts for landlords, tenants and freehold owners on all aspects of: rent and service charge disputes lease forfeiture claims for breach of covenant boundary disputes enforcing terms in property contracts He advises frequently on statutory lease renewals and terminations, providing strategic advice for managing tenant exits and for protecting clients’ interests generally. Liam also acts extensively on insolvency matters, dealing with both individual bankruptcy and company insolvency as an extension to his core expertise in property litigation.

Louisa Hartley

Louisa joined sister brand Rosenblatt as a paralegal in 2015 and qualified as a solicitor in September 2020. Louisa’s experience with the Real Estate team includes assisting the team in acting for various impact investors on multi-million pound rolling programmes of portfolio acquisitions of residential multi let properties to be leased to charities who specialise in rehousing ex offender, ex-military personal, the homeless and other vulnerable groups to be sub-sold and held by a fund to ensure the continued and long term use of the properties for social housing purposes. Louisa’s experience also includes acting on various lettings of petrol filling stations for a roadside retail operator and acting on lettings of numerous retail, industrial and office sites for a listed house builder.

Lucie Burniston

Lucie is a Partner in the Corporate team. She specialises in acquisitions and disposals of private companies and advising on fundraisings by growth companies. She also advises on a range of other company law matters including the structuring of new companies, corporate re-organisations and joint ventures across a variety of sectors.

Matthew Hind

Matthew Hind is a Partner in the Real Estate team at Memery Crystal. He specialises in general commercial real estate with a mixture of investment, development, finance, occupier, and management work. Matt also has considerable experience dealing with distressed real estate on behalf of banks and insolvency practitioners

Matthew Lindsay

Matthew Lindsay is a Partner and Joint Head of the Banking and Finance team at Memery Crystal. Matthew has been a Partner at Memery Crystal since April 2015. His practice revolves around real estate finance (senior and mezzanine) and international private capital with particular emphasis on creating and preserving wealth for his clients through strategic investment, acquisition and astute asset management. Matthew is a member of R3 (the association of business recovery professionals) and the Insolvency Lawyers Association and regularly speaks to finance professionals on all elements of real estate finance in Europe and the US. Matthew’s day job is to ensure that his clients can operate as effectively and swiftly as their desires command whilst ensuring that they are fully protected against the uncertainties and changing nature of the market place. He works on projects for clients including, Allied Commercial Exporters, Z Hotels Group, Beckman Group, Hillview Capital, SIAHAF, Auriens, Westbourne Group and ENRA.

Natalie Georgiou

Natalie is a Legal Director in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal. She advises across a broad range of corporate transactions including private company mergers and acquisitions (buy and sell side), private equity transactions including management buy-out and buy-ins and joint venture and shareholder structures and arrangements, as well as providing a full range of general corporate legal advice. Natalie’s experience includes acting for companies, entrepreneurs, private equity investors and management teams on a broad range of corporate transactions.

Nick Heap

Nick Heap is a Partner in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal.

Nick Alfillé

Nick Alfillé is a Partner and Head of the Corporate team at Memery Crystal He specialises in M&A for both private and public companies, private equity, joint ventures and corporate restructuring. In particular, he has considerable experience in cross-border M&A acting for both UK and international clients. He regularly acts for clients in the financial services, leisure, property and chemical sectors. Having taken a break from law to run his own business, Nick understands what is important for clients and brings a commercial approach to transactions.

Nick Davis

Nick Davis is a Senior Partner of Memery Crystal and a Partner in our Corporate department. Nick specialises in corporate finance with expertise in flotations, equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions. Nick advises on public company listings on both the Main Market and AIM and has extensive experience acting for other issuers, NOMAD/brokers and sponsors. Nick heads the firms’ natural resources team and has worked on many of the largest AIM fundraisings in the sector. He is the only lawyer who sits on the AIM advisory group and regularly speaks at seminars and conferences around the world in relation to the London capital markets. Nick also recently led the Memery Crystal team on the NEX listing of medicinal cannabis investment vehicle, Ananda Developments which was the second ever public listing of a cannabis vehicle. He has a personal interest in medicinal cannabis as a Trustee of the charity ‘Olivia’s Vision’, the UK’s leading Uveitis charity raising awareness of the condition from which his daughter, Olivia, suffers. Uveitis like many autoimmune diseases is being targeted for medicinal cannabis research. He has been widely quoted in both TV and print media in respect of the emergence of cannabis as an asset class.

Nickhil Mandora

Nickhil Mandora is a Legal Director in the Private Client Real Estate team specialising in Commercial Real Estate. He acts for a wide variety of clients ranging from retail landlords and tenants, to institutional lenders and property developers. Nickhil has a particular experience in industrial properties acting for both buyers and sellers. He prides himself on his ability to understand a client’s motivations and priorities within a transaction.

Nicola Kravitz

Nicola Kravitz is a Partner and the Head of the Real Estate Private Client team at Memery Crystal. Nicola specialises in commercial and residential properties for high-net-worth individuals and private property companies. Her strategy is to build a team offering a first-class service to her clients on an approachable basis. They take pride in their speed of response and common sense approach. Some of her clients include Sapcote, GFZ Properties, Urbanista Developments and Samba London. Outside of work, Nicola is involved in a charity improving the education of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Richard Evans

Richard Evans is a Partner and Head of the Real Estate Litigation team at Memery Crystal. Richard advises leading UK property companies and retailers such as the Freshwater Group, St. Modwen Properties and the Steinhoff Group as well as tenants, developers and investors of all kinds. His practice focuses on complex property disputes resulting out of the acquisition, development and management of commercial real estate. His experience includes acting for clients in disputes involving breach of covenant, rights of light, easements, construction, judicial review, 1954 Act lease renewals, rent reviews, noise nuisance, applications for consent to assign, trespass and real estate disputes with an insolvency aspect. Richard has appeared in the leading Court of Appeal case on Section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (Wood vs. Waddington) and has a broad range of High Court and Court of Appeal experience dealing with contractual and development disputes including claims for specific performance and injunctive relief. A significant part of Richard’s current practice involves advising both tenants and landlords in contested high value dilapidations disputes.

Robert Bines-Black

Robert Bines-Black is a Partner in the Corporate team at Memery Crystal. He specialises in capital markets transactions, acting for both UK and international companies, with a focus on the health technology and natural resources sectors. Robert has experience of acting on a wide variety of corporate transactions, from public company flotations, takeovers and fundraises to private company sales, acquisitions and reorganisations.

Rumit Nanji

Rumit Nanji is a Partner, and the Joint Head of the Banking and Finance team, specialising in property finance, private M&A, leverage finance and private equity. Being originally from East-Africa, Rumit sits on the firm’s Africa desk and has a particular focus on transactions in the East-Africa region – highlights include acting for Shanta Gold Limited and FBN Bank on certain of their East-Africa focused transactions.

Sam Silverman

Sam Silverman is a Partner in the Real Estate team. He has gained extensive commercial property experience across a wide range of areas including development, pre-lettings, acquisitions and disposals, international project management, joint ventures and landlord and tenant matters. Throughout his career, Sam has acted for major international and domestic clients including developers, funds, corporate occupiers and supermarkets within the office, industrial and retail sectors.

Tristan Wark

Tristan Wark is a Legal Director in our Real Estate Private Client team at Memery Crystal. Tristan has broad experience including acquisitions and disposals, development, lettings and portfolio management, real estate finance and corporate real estate. He acts for a range of clients including property companies, high-net-worth individuals, institutional investors, traditional and alternative lenders, retailers and developers. He has particular experience in landlord and tenant matters (with experience acting for both landlords and tenants), as well as leading cross-practice transactions including negotiating development agreements and subject-to-planning deals.

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