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Matt Lewy
Matt Lewy
Matt is a partner in the firm's London corporate team with a focus on energy and natural resources. He has wide experience advising on M&A and investment work, and on joint venture and equity arrangements for projects and project financings. This covers renewable energy (including offshore and onshore wind, solar, biomass, energy from waste and electric vehicles), infrastructure, conventional energy and the energy services sector. Matt is co-lead of the firm's carbon capture and hydrogen group. Matt began his career at a London based City firm, working alongside clients and transactions in the wider infrastructure, renewable energy and private equity sectors. He then worked in the London office of an energy focused US firm, focusing on larger international projects and cross border transactions, including with developing markets. Matt has spent time working in both the US and Russia.  Matt also has experience working with mid-market and large cap clients in the TMT sector.
Patrick Wooddisse
Patrick Wooddisse
Patrick helps clients with tax planning, intergenerational succession, and the establishment and operation of complex trusts. Much of his work is international and he specialises in UK/US tax planning. Patrick has a broad client base that includes individuals, financial institutions and trust companies. He has advised leading UK banks on trust law issues, as well as international trust companies in the Channel Islands and Switzerland on succession planning, trust disputes, precedents and standard documentation. He also works with clients in Africa and the Indian diaspora. In his private client practice, Patrick advises wealthy UK and non-UK residents on property, trust, tax, estate and succession planning. He has particular expertise in working with entrepreneurs and farming families. He also advises on the creation and administration of charities. Patrick believes that good legal advice is based on listening carefully to clients and understanding what they want to achieve and why. Effective solutions then come through a combination of common sense, lateral thinking and legal excellence. They then need to be explained clearly and concisely, with decisive conclusions.
Peter Rudd-Clarke
Peter Rudd-Clarke
Peter specialises in helping businesses navigate regulatory challenges and liability risks, particularly in the life sciences, healthcare and consumer products sectors. Peter advises a range of businesses including medical device companies, software producers, service providers and manufacturers of lifestyle products. His regulatory experience includes advising on the regulation of medical devices and consumer products, as well as CE/UKCA marking, clinical trials, regulatory investigations and ongoing compliance matters. The litigation and risk management side to Peter’s practice involves defending manufacturers of complex products against liability claims, often across multiple jurisdictions.
Rob Hayes
Rob Hayes
Rob is a partner in Osborne Clarke's corporate practice and has a particular focus on venture capital work, acting for high growth technology companies and institutional investors on refinancing transactions and company exits. Rob also works with clients in the private equity sector, where he has experience of acting on buyouts, buy-and-build consolidator projects and related exits. Many of Rob's clients operate in the life sciences and tech, media and communications sectors, where the technology has been developed at some of the world's leading research institutions based in the UK. Rob has worked on the legal drafting committee for the BVCA's early stage model documents. He co-leads OC Ventures, the firm's dedicated resource centre for the ventures ecosystem. Rob is head of Osborne Clarke's Thames Valley office.   Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/rob-hayes/
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Rob is an Associate Director in the Osborne Clarke corporate tax practice, with experience advising on UK and cross-border tax issues. Rob works with a range of clients from private equity funds and large multi-national businesses to start-ups and individuals, across a broad range of industries and sectors. His practice covers transactional matters as well as standalone tax advisory. He has particular expertise advising on private equity transactions, management buy-outs and equity arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, group structuring and reorganisations, finance transactions and other corporate and commercial transactions.
Robert Guthrie
Robert Guthrie
Rob is a Partner in Osborne Clarke’s Intellectual Property team. He advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property clearance, protection, enforcement and dispute resolution, including trade mark prosecution and the management of global trade mark portfolios. Rob's UK litigation experience ranges from pharmaceutical patent litigation through to high profile trade mark disputes – such as the successful defence of Sky’s Now TV from a passing off claim brought by the operators of a Now TV in Hong Kong; a case which went all the way to the UK’s Supreme Court. Many of Rob's clients operate in fast-moving technology-driven industries – including the interactive entertainment, digital content, fintech and life sciences sectors.
Robert Horne
Robert Horne
Rob has almost 30 years' experience in identifying, managing, avoiding and resolving disputes in the construction and related industries. He regularly acts on high profile projects across many different jurisdictions from the UK to Australia and is particularly well known for his innovative approaches to risk management, complex delay and disruption claims and the NEC form of contract. Rob frequently leads multi-disciplinary teams managing risks and resolving disputes on the highest profile projects both in the UK and internationally. He has worked with a full range of clients including private individuals, local and central government authorities, contractors and professionals. He has worked extensively on a wide variety of infrastructure projects including roads, railways and airports and is particularly well known for managing and resolving long term dispute whether and PFI/PPP style contract or long term operation and maintenance contracts. However, he also has extensive experience is residential development and light industrial from cladding and fire stopping to adequacy of foundations and roof mounted solar panels. In the Energy and Utilities sector he has worked on coal fired power stations, oil and gas pipelines, on shore and off shore oil and a full range of renewable and green energy projects. Robert Horne is noted for his proficiency in disputes relating to PFI projects and energy developments, as well as residential and mixed-use schemes. He is equally adept at handling domestic disputes and proceedings relating to assets in the Middle East. Rob is highly innovative; not just in finding novel and unique solutions to problems and disputes in individual projects but also in managing their impact on a wider business across reputation or portfolio wide impact. He has developed a number of unique and bespoke risk management tools to simplify board level decision making while increasing transparency and ease of access to relevant materials. Rob has written extensively, and over a long period, about the development of technology to assist the construction process (e.g. article on use of drones in 2015). He carries his interest in technology into the work he manages for his clients, utilising on-line platforms and solutions wherever possible and adopting data analytics to support risk management.
Robert Wood
Robert Wood
Rob is a Partner in Osborne Clarke's corporate practice and advises investors, management teams and companies on all aspects of the private equity market, focusing on venture and growth capital transactions, private equity buyouts, buy-and-build projects and exits. He has particular expertise in advising on complex transactions involving investor syndicates. Much of Rob’s work focuses on the Tech, Media and Comms sector, particularly on high-growth companies trying to bring the latest technology to market. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/robert-wood/
Rupa Lakha
Rupa has extensive experience of both contentious and non-contentious areas of construction law. She has advised on the drafting and negotiation of building contracts and consultants’ appointments and now specialises in dispute resolution, acting regularly for developers, consultants, sub-contractors and consultants in various forms of dispute resolution including mediation, adjudication and litigation.Rupa's recent clients have included RBS, P&O, The Greater London Authority, The Goldsmiths’ Company, Dover Harbour Board, Dorchester Collection, Derwent London Plc, Permasteelisa and Bouygues.Rupa has been ranked in The Legal 500 2017 ‘Next Generation Lawyers’ category for Construction: contentious and non-contentious.
Samuel Marriott
Samuel Marriott
Sam is an Associate Director in Osborne Clarke's Incentives team and advises on a wide range of advisory and transactional employee incentive and share plan matters. Sam advises clients on the design and implementation of both HMRC tax-advantaged and bespoke incentive arrangements, with a particular focus on VC backed startups. Sam also advises clients on the share incentive aspects of domestic and international corporate transactions, including equity funding rounds, M&A, Private Equity and IPOs.  
Sara Valentine
Sara Valentine
Sara leads the corporate team in the Thames Valley office. She specialises in a broad range of corporate transactions, including UK and cross border deals. Sara handles mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, investments and other general corporate advice. Sara acts for a number of the leading companies in the Thames Valley. She advises Xerox on acquisitions, which has included the acquisitions of Spur Information Systems, Newfield Technology, CVG Limited and Wireless Data Services. Sara also acts for Solera/Audatex and for Xeretec on UK/cross border acquisitions and other corporate advice.
Shelley Faulkner
Shelley Faulkner
Shelley acts for and advises UK and international clients on a wide range of private wealth issues. This includes advising on trust creation, taxation and administration, on inheritance tax planning and on the setting up and administration of charitable companies and trusts. Shelley acts in the administration of trusts and estates, including those holding businesses and international assets, and she advises on associated disputes. Shelley acts for and advises international (particularly US) clients on the administration of UK assets held in international estates. She also advises on Wills and lasting powers of attorney; on estate and business succession planning; on asset protection strategies, and on the tax implications of UK residence and domicile. Shelley works as part of Osborne Clarke's UK Private Wealth team, which practises across the London, Bristol and Reading offices. She advises on a wide range of private wealth issues, including: estate and succession planning for business owners; advice on planning in advance of business exits; setting up and administering trusts, and the taxation of trusts; administering estates, often including businesses and international assets; advising UK and international (particularly US) lawyers on the administration of UK estates; estate planning including setting up Wills, and advice on asset protection; deputyships and lasting powers of attorney; setting up and running charitable companies and trusts; and advice on the tax implications of UK residence and domicile. Shelley very much enjoys building long-lasting relationships with clients from a wide variety of different backgrounds, and advising at what are often key points in their lives. Her work can be as diverse as: advising on succession planning for business owners; dealing with the administration of an overseas estate; setting up a charitable foundation; estate planning for a retiring couple; advising a household-name business on trust registration, or setting up a trust as part of tax planning before a business sale.
Tim Simmonds
Tim Simmonds
Tim is a leading Investment Funds partner, with a particular focus on real estate and private equity funds. Tim has been the UK Chief Operating Officer since 2023. Tim advises fund managers, service providers and investors on all aspects of investment funds. He has particular expertise in relation to fund raising and acts for both the public and private sectors. Tim is experienced in raising friends and family money for start-up ventures, through complex joint ventures to widely held, global investment funds. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/tim-simmonds/
Tom Lewis
Tom is a Director in PwC’s International Business Reorganisations legal team, and is based in London in the UK. He has over 13 years’ experience of reorganisation work. Tom specialises in advising multinational clients on complex cross-border reorganisation projects in connection with pre and post M&A activities (including IPOs), group simplification, inbound investment, intra-group financing and more general legal structuring advice, such as legal entity formation, reserves planning and dividend facilitation.Tom began his career at a US law firm (Shearman & Sterling), before moving to KPMG and then PwC. He regularly works alongside tax, accounting and other professionals at PwC to deliver seamless multidisciplinary solutions for our clients.Tom focuses on the PLS sector and his recent experience includes leading the legal implementation of a global pre IPO reorganisation for Eli Lilly, a project that involved PwC providing legal advice in more than 70 countries worldwide.Tom is PwC’s legal representative on the firm’s Japanese Business Network, and regularly advises Japanese headquartered multinational looking to undertake investment and transactions in the UK.In addition to his client facing role, Tom has recently been appointed as the firm’s Trainee Director with responsibility for supervising the Trainee programme, from hiring of graduates to the Trainee experience and qualification process.
Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis
Tom is a commercial litigation Partner with considerable experience of representing major corporates in high-value and complex commercial disputes, corporate investigations and fraud-related matters. He is regularly retained on matters with an international dimension. He is regularly retained by one of the Big  Four Accountancy firms, certain major American Film and TV corporations, one of the pre-eminent fine art auction houses and various major financial services organisations. Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/tom-ellis/
Trevor Crosse
Trevor is an intellectual property lawyer who advises clients on the commercialisation and enforcement of their IP rights, with a particular focus on patent and licensing disputes in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. His primary expertise lies in biopharmaceutical patent and SPC litigation, in which he regularly advises clients in relation to complex technical disputes.Trevor has advised clients on actions in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, as well as in relation to references to the Court of Justice of the European Union. His work routinely involves multi-jurisdictional disputes and he has significant experience co-ordinating global litigation strategies for his clients.Trevor has been recognised as a rising star by Managing Intellectual Property, IP Stars, 2018. Example CasesEli Lilly v Genentech (Anti-IL17A/F antibodies)Chugai Pharmaceutical Co v UCB Pharma (Antibody humanisation protocols)Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics v AbbVie (Humira therapy for Crohn’s disease)Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics v AbbVie (Humira dosing regimen)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin combination therapy)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin formulation)Hospira UK v Genentech (Herceptin dosing regimen)Regeneron Pharmaceuticals v Genentech (VEGF antagonists)MedImmune v Novartis (Phage display)