Mills & Reeve LLP

Commercial real estate lawyer, with a focus on development projects for all sectors.  Andrea’s clients include institutional investors, non-departmental public bodies, charities, corporates and property developers.

Principal Associate Expertise: Advising on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown, commonly on complex cases involving business assets, farms, trusts and pensions Emotive and technically complex children work including those including domestic abuse, substance misuse and relocation I am also a Consultant for Safe Lives providing training to solicitors, barristers and mediators on the impact of domestic abuse

Partner in the Private Client team, specialising in advising business owners, entrepreneurs and high net worth families in relation to their estate and succession planning. Particular focus on Family Investment Companies.

Partner

Neil rejoined Mills & Reeve in 2010 and became a partner in 2011. He heads up the Leeds part of the firm’s insurance disputes group which has undergone a rapid rate of expansion over the last three years. Neil specialises in defending professional negligence claims on behalf of insurers and their insureds. He acts for a wide range of professionals including lawyers and professionals in the construction industry. Over the past year, he has acted in connection with a number of high profile, multi-million pound claims. He has extensive experience of claims involving fraud and of both making and defending applications for injunctions (including asset freezing and search and seizure orders).

Senior Paralegal

Work includes advising a wide range of individuals with complex financial and personal arrangements in relation to divorce; preparing pre-marital contracts; and advising trustees and beneficiaries as to the implications for them of divorce. Has extensive experience acting for a wide range of individuals in relation to the issues that arise on divorce and family breakdown. Acts for an equal number of husbands and wives. Clients or their spouses are usually either successful business people or professional people. Philip is able to represent clients in traditional court-based proceedings and is also an experienced Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator.

Rachel has over 25 years’ experience in family and matrimonial law, supporting families on a range of issues, across Yorkshire and the UK. Rachel has a particular focus on the financial aspects of family law, advising clients on the protection of their wealth and the impact of separation and divorce on businesses, pensions and other client assets. She also deals with issues around childcare arrangements. Working closely with our Corporate and wider Private Wealth teams, Rachel’s clients range from directors and shareholders of businesses or their spouses, to the multi-generational private clients seeking to protect wealth as it passes down their family lines. Rachel is a member of Resolution, an accredited mediator, collaborative law practitioner and is accredited as an advanced member of the Law Society Family Law Panel.

Partner specialising in real estate and head of real estate team in Leeds.