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Adrian Slater
Adrian Slater
Partner. Adrian qualified as a Solicitor in 1998 and joined Nelsons as a Partner in May 2024. Adrian advises on contentious insolvency matters and commercial debt collection, supporting insolvency practitioners, businesses and individuals, with a particular focus on investigating the reasons for a company’s failure and identifying any potential claims that can be pursued through the Courts for the benefit of the company’s creditors. This includes investigating the conduct of directors, antecedent transactions, frauds such as Ponzi and pyramid schemes, and tracing assets in multiple jurisdictions. Adrian is also experienced in trust and property issues arising in the context of bankruptcy, investigating the extent of the bankrupt’s interest in a property, and realising that interest for the benefit of the bankrupt’s creditors. Adrian also updates a chapter in Tolley’s Insolvency Law Service entitled “Official Receiver: Personal”.
Alice Rees
Alice Rees
Partner and head of corporate services. Alice has a wealth of experience advising clients on a variety of acquisitions and disposals (both shares and assets) and joint ventures in a number of sectors. Alice has a particular specialism dealing with Nelsons’ company clients’ share scheme and reorganisation work including option arrangements, employee share schemes, shareholders’ agreements and articles of association and also documents relating to shareholder protection arrangements including single and double cross option arrangements. Alice has also worked with a number of charity clients providing corporate governance advice.
Chris Huntingford
Chris Huntingford
Partner. Chris heads up the residential property team at Nelsons, specialising in house sales and purchased. He has been advising on residential conveyancing matters since 2005. Chris specialises in acting for HNW individuals and professional portfolio landlords in both sales and acquisitions of all types of residential properties. Chris is experienced in advising clients in connection with lease extensions for residential property as well as leasehold enfranchisement. His areas of expertise include residential freehold and leasehold sales and purchases; re-mortgages; transfer of equity; right to buy purchases; shared ownership properties; new build property; deeds of grant (rights of way, rights of services, etc); residential lease extensions; adverse possession registrations; prescriptive easement registrations; buy to let and house in multiple occupation (HMO) acqusitions; and limited company owned residential property.
Daniel Brumpton
Daniel Brumpton
Partner. Daniel specialises in professional negligence claims against solicitors and barristers, surveyors, financial advisers, accountants and insurance brokers amongst others. This includes mishandled litigation, tax advice, commercial property transactions, mergers and acquisitions, pension disputes, financial litigation including hedging claims and financial product mis-selling, professional indemnity disputes, professional fee disputes, complaints and regulatory matters. Daniel regularly delivers seminars to clients and intermediaries on all areas of professional negligence.
Emma Davies
Emma Davies
Partner. Emma specialises in family law cases and advises on divorce and financial settlements which involve complex issues and substantial assets. Working closely with our personal injury team, Emma provides specialist advice on family matters to clients who have suffered a head or brain injury. She also advises on pre and post nuptial agreements and separation agreements along with private law Children Act disputes. Emma is a qualified collaborative practitioner. Her areas of experience include matrimonial law including divorce; financial remedy; civil partnership dissolution; collaborative law; pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements; separation agreements; parental responsbility; child arrangements; and prohibited steps orders and specific issue orders.
Gayle Rowley
Gayle Rowley
Partner, Solicitor & Mediator. Gayle qualified as a Solicitor in 1997 and worked in Nelsons' Family Law team from 2001 to 2013, and then re-joined in December 2020. Gayle specialises in family law, advising and mediating in relation to divorce and separation cases, often involving complex financial settlements. Gayle also advises on private children law matters and applications (parental responsibility, specific issue orders and prohibited steps orders), including the resolution of children arrangements, civil partnership dissolution, pre and post-nuptial agreements, separation agreements and cohabitation agreements.
James Coningsby
James Coningsby
Partner. James specialises in all types of commercial property law matters, including development projects and acquisitions and disposals. James' caseload consists, in the main, of complex development work mostly for private sector clients but also for lenders and clients in the social housing sector. James has gained considerable experience in creative residential, retail and mixed-use development projects in cities across the country. He acts as lead lawyer and so provides a single point of contact giving access to the range of services Nelsons offer. He also deals with high value acquisitions and disposals; sales and leaseback transactions; securitisations; options and promotion agreements. Areas of practice include retail property; voluntary sector property; commercial and residential development; secured lending; business leases; investment property; planning and environment.
Kevin Modiri
Kevin Modiri
Partner. Kevin's areas of expertise include, contentious probate and Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims; disputes relating to the administration of trusts and estates; Insolvency litigation, including, preference/transaction at an undervalue claims and other types of claim on behalf of liquidators/trustees in bankruptcy; bankruptcy; director disqualification proceedings; professional negligence claims against all types of professionals including solicitors, accountants and surveyors. Breach of data protection claims; general commercial and civil litigation, such as, shareholder and partnership disputes; contract claims financial irregularity claims such as breaches of the Consumer Credit Act/mis-selling of financial products and guarantee disputes.
Laura Kearsley
Laura Kearsley
Partner and head of employment and education. Laura has a strong reputation in all aspects of employment law and has particular experience of developing HR support services for businesses. She has advised on employment law matters since qualifying as a solicitor in 2005. Her areas of expertise include employment tribunal litigation; hearing advocacy; discipline and grievance issues; unfair and constructive unfair dismissal claims; restructuring, redundancy and transfer of undertakings issues; all forms of discrimination including disability, race, sex and religion; employment contracts, handbooks and policies; settlement agreements and industrial relations issues. Laura was The Lawyer Assistant Solicitor of the year 2011, Birmingham Law Society Assistant/Associate Solicitor of the Year 2010, and won the Women on their Way: Woman in Law award in 2009.
Lucy Wilton
Lucy Wilton
Partner. Lucy qualified as a Solicitor in 2007 and joined Nelsons in March 2022 as a Partner. Lucy specialises in all areas of medical negligence cases and advises and represents people involved in inquests. The cases that she advises on involve the whole range of NHS trusts, private doctors and other healthcare professionals and the claims that could arise from errors or failings in any form of medical treatment. Since qualifying, Lucy has helped clients to obtain substantial compensation in cases involving birth-related injuries, delayed diagnosis of cancer, surgical errors and in circumstances where their loved ones have tragically passed away as a result of negligence.
Nadia Faki
Nadia Faki
Partner & Solicitor. Nadia qualified as a Solicitor in 2009 and joined Nelsons in May 2017. She has specialised in Wills and Probate matters, including Will drafting and Inheritance Tax, since 2007. Nadia's areas of expertise include Wills; Inheritance Tax planning; administration of estates; grants of Probate; grants of Letters of Administration; Powers of Attorney; administration of affairs; Trust creation and administration; declarations of Trust; residential care fee planning/protection of assets; and Surrogacy Wills.
Peter Nicholson
Peter Nicholson
Partner. Peter qualified as a Solicitor in 2012 and joined Nelsons'  Employment Law team in 2018. He has specialised in employment law matters since qualification, advising businesses and individuals on a wide range of issues, including unfair and constructive unfair dismissal claims; discipline and grievance issues; all forms of discrimination including disability, race, sex and religion; settlement agreements; employment contracts, handbooks and policies; restructuring, redundancy and transfer of undertakings issues; and employment tribunal litigation.
Simon Waterfield
Simon Waterfield
Partner. Simon has extensive expertise in property disputes; rights of way claims; landlord and tenant disputes; and commercial disputes. His areas of expertise include: - Property disputes (boundary disputes, adverse possession, restrictive covenants, emergency injunctions; planning issues and appeals, squatters' claims); - Rights of way claims (access and easement disputes, enforcement of rights of way, advising and representing clients at public rights of way enquiries); - Landlord and tenant disputes (rent arrears claims for commercial and residential landlords, forfeiture and relief from forfeiture claims, distraint and dilapidations claims, commercial lease renewals); - Commercial disputes. Simon is Editor on the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) website.
Trevor Scott
Trevor Scott
Partner & Licensed Conveyancer. Trevor has been practising land law and advising on residential conveyancing matters since 2002. Trevor's areas of expertise include all aspects of freehold and leasehold sales and purchases; limited company property investments/portfolio transfers; buy to let and House in Multiple Occupation (HMO); lease extensions; unregistered property; adverse possession; transfers of part and plot sales; new build purchases; help to buy equity scheme; remortgages; transfers of equity; matrimonial conveyancing; right to buy, shared ownership and social housing schemes; equity release and life time mortgages; severance of tenancy; declarations of trust; probate/deputy dispositions of land; auction sale preparation; pre-auction purchase advice; private lending security; lender only representation; creation and registration/discharge of third-party interests in land; general title investigations; independent legal advice; ID1 forms; appointed commissioner for oaths.
Zoe Till
Zoe Till
Partner, Chartered Financial Planner & head of investment management. Zoe’s areas of expertise include providing bespoke advice for Personal Injury, Court of Protection deputies and attorneys, alongside holistic financial planning for private clients and business owners. Zoe also specialises in Personal Injury Trust investment; pensions and retirement planning, investment advice for individuals and trustee clients, investment fund research and analysis, Inheritance Tax planning, life insurance advice; and cash flow modelling.