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Heading up RPC's Tax Investigations and Disputes team, Adam Craggs has over 30 years' experience in the contentious tax and white collar crime field. An accredited mediator, Adam advises on a wide range of contentious tax issues (direct and indirect taxes), including HMRC enquiries and litigation before the Tax Tribunals and Higher Courts, and financial crime investigations. During his career, he spent 16 years in the Solicitor's Office at HMRC, where he provided legal advice and assistance on a large number of high-profile civil and criminal cases.

Adam Forster

Specialising in commercial dispute resolution and international arbitration, Adam Forster's practice encompasses all aspects of domestic and international trade, commerce and finance. Adam advises on proceedings in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the London Court of International Arbitration, on a range of matters including financial services, shareholder and partnership disputes and insolvency. Adam acts on behalf of clients, typically institutional investors, in matters involving international banks and also acts for a range of corporate clients, together with high net-worth individuals.

Alan Williams

Alan is a Partner specialising in banking and commercial disputes, including claims against global investment banks. His work often involves complex cross-border issues, sometimes arising from fraud. Alan is experienced at resolving high value disputes in the English Courts, via international arbitration, and through mediation. He is skilled at advocating for his clients' interests in settlement negotiations, as well as in the litigation and arbitration process. Alan's clients include hedge funds, large multi-national corporates, professional services firms, private equity houses, online brokers, liquidators of insolvent companies, high-net-worth individuals, shareholders and joint venture partners, and sovereign nations. He has a particular interest in disputes emanating from Africa, co-operating closely with local lawyers in African jurisdictions.

Alan Stone

Alan is a Partner, Head of Construction and co-head of Clients & Markets (Insurance) at RPC. Alan is a specialist construction and engineering lawyer who acts for both insurers and construction industry professionals including architects, engineers, surveyors, main contractors, sub-contractors, and sub-consultants. His specialities include construction disputes, professional negligence, insurance disputes, litigation, adjudication, arbitration, mediation, and dispute resolution, together with advisory work.

Alex Wilson

Partner Alex Wilson is a highly experienced media lawyer and litigator, dealing with a broad spectrum of media and communications claims and issues. Alex is an expert in defamation, misuse of private information, breach of confidence, data protection and similar actions. He has a vast range of experience and acts for a wide variety of media organisations and individuals including newspapers, publishers, streamers, broadcasters, magazines, online media companies and media insurers. Alex has represented clients in cases before the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has experience taking cases to trial as well as disposing of them at an earlier stage, by way of interim applications or by negotiating favourable settlements. He also provides pre-publication advice to clients and is regularly instructed to respond to pre-publication legal threats (including injunctions).

Alex Vakil

Alex is an experienced litigator and solicitor-advocate with a particular focus on media, reputation and data related matters. Alex advises clients including media organisations, broadcasters, online platforms, publishers, journalists, insurers and other household name clients on a broad range of contentious matters. His media work includes providing urgent pre and post publication advice to national titles and defending libel, privacy and other related claims. Alex recently led the legal team in a seven-week trial in the Mirror Newspapers Hacking Litigation, which included a claim brought by the Duke of Sussex. He also acted for the Financial Times in defending a libel claim brought by ENRC. Alex advises clients on contentious data matters including subject access requests and claims arising from data breach incidents.

Alex Almaguer

A (re)insurance lawyer, Alex Almaguer helps clients with coverage disputes relating to both the London and Ibero-American markets. Having on-the-ground experience in both the London Market and Latin America, Alex understands the markets and how they interact with each other. This insight allows him to implement solutions and strategies which match the complexities and nuances of both sides. Also, with experience as a claims specialist, Alex understands, first-hand, the commercial drivers of (re)insurers when handling claims. Alex has managed several multi-million dollar refinery, power plant, mining, power line, rail, and other construction and engineering claims involving administrative, commercial, criminal proceedings, and subrogation actions in many countries across Latin America. He has also advised London and overseas (re)insurers on (re)insurance claims and policy coverage, including surety and housing bonds policies, D&O;, crime, product liability, K&R;, and terrorism.

Alexandra Anderson

Alexandra is an insurance lawyer with particular expertise in both construction and surveyors’ claims. On the construction side, she acts predominantly for architects and engineers and has been involved in many complex and high-value disputes involving projects in the UK and worldwide, in litigation, adjudication and arbitration. Alexandra also has a wealth of experience in acting for surveyors, both via their insurers and upon direct instructions. She has been involved in advising on and defending a wide variety of claims, arising from all aspects of the typical surveying practice, from survey and valuation to property management. She acts for many of the largest UK practices and has led the successful defence of a number of valuation claims which now help define the law in this area, including K/S Lincoln and others v CB Richard Ellis Hotels Ltd and Titan v Colliers. She also works with the RICS on various risk management and education issues and has been involved in the drafting of a number of RICS Standards and guidance notes, including the Home Survey Standard, the Residential Retrofit Standard and the guidance for the valuation of properties with cladding.

Alys Jones

Alys is an experienced litigator who specialises in defending claims against a range of professionals. Her clients include professional firms, particularly accountants and auditors, insolvency practitioners, tax professionals, solicitors and barristers, and their professional indemnity insurers. She also advises professionals on regulatory and disciplinary issues and has experience of dealing with regulators including the ICAEW, IPA, and the FRC.

Andrew Roper

Andrew Roper leads the RPC Property Recovery Team in Bristol. Having specialised in property recoveries for over 15 years, Andrew has extensive experience of the UK Property Insured Market. Andrew advises on subrogated recoveries across the full range of first- and third-party property policies including Commercial and Residential Property Owners, High Net Worth, Contractors All Risk, Jewellers Block, Contractors Public Liability. Andrew has track record of providing concise and commercial advice in order to drive claims to a successful conclusion as quickly as possible.

Andrew McMillan

Andrew is a highly experienced corporate lawyer specialising in M&A and data governance within the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. He has over twenty years' experience representing a range of domestic and international trade players and financial investors on high profile corporate transactions and strategic advisory work.

Arash Rajai

Arash is a construction and engineering Partner in RPC's Real Estate and Construction team. He typically advises on the preparation of construction documentation, and acts for developers, project owners, lenders, contractors, and consultants. Arash has advised his developer clients on some of the largest real estate development projects in London and has a versatile skillset across various sectors having worked in the UK, UAE, and Qatar, in addition to gaining significant in-house experience at a leading UK engineering company.

Ben Roberts

Ben leads the transactional tax team and is a partner in the RPC Corporate group. He is an expert in all manner of corporate tax matters, and regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. His specialities include stamp duty, stamp duty land tax, VAT, share schemes, W&I insurance, and tax liability insurance. Ben acts for a wide range of clients, including companies of all sizes, W&I insurers, and high-net-worth individuals, who he advises on the UK tax treatment of their investments.

Ben Mark

Ben is a Partner in RPC's Intellectual Property and Technology group and advises on all aspects of intellectual property protection and enforcement, with a focus on trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs and confidential information. Ben works with clients across a wide range of industries, including food and drink, media, retail, online/e-commerce, financial services and insurance.

Ben Gold

Partner Ben Gold specialises in defending claims against Directors and Officers, Financial Institutions and Insurance Brokers and other Insurance Intermediaries, and providing coverage advice to Insurers in relation to D&O, FI and E&O risks Ben is as an excellent technical lawyer, who prides himself on providing clear, commercial and strategic advice.

Ben Goodier

Ben is a highly experienced defence lawyer who typically defends insurers and construction professionals, as well as defending claims against brokers, directors, and solicitors. He specialises in professional indemnity cases and has acted on claims with a range of value from a few thousand to tens of millions of pounds. He has also developed a specialism in defending construction professionals who are the subject of regulatory investigations by the RICS, the ARB or RIBA. Ben speaks regularly on professional indemnity and D&O issues in the insurance market.

Ben Hillman

Legal Director Ben is a litigator with particular expertise in property-related disputes. He has been involved in many complex and high-value matters in the UK, as well as many with an international aspect. He has acted on all sides of a typical property litigation practice including business leases, developments, dilapidations, vacant possession strategies and property-related insolvency. Ben also has significant experience in other areas of litigation which complement his practice, including general commercial litigation, fraud, anti-money laundering work (particularly in property) and privacy and information. Ben has experience acting for public limited companies, global brands and well-known private individuals including politicians, celebrities and sports people.

Caroline Tuck

Caroline is a Partner within RPC's Intellectual Property and Technology team. She is a skilled and commercially focussed litigator with particular expertise in the IT/technology sector, with extensive High Court experience and an excellent track record of achieving positive outcomes for clients in and out of court. Her practice includes commercial and corporate disputes as well as advising on large-scale distressed IT and technology transformation projects.

Catherine Percy

Catherine is an experienced insurance partner and commercial dispute resolution expert who specialises in litigation, arbitration and mediation. She has expertise in property insurance coverage and adjustment disputes, casualty claims, competition litigation and damages claims involving the pharmaceutical sector in the UK. Catherine frequently acts for global insurers and reinsurers, UK health service providers, policyholders, captives, and commercial entities.

Cecilia Everett

Cecilia Everett is a construction and coverage litigation specialist. Cecilia specialises in high-value and complex insurance litigation, including coverage disputes and the defence of negligence claims against all classes of construction professionals and surveyors. She has acted for contract administrators, engineers, architects, surveyors and LPA Receivers, and has pursued subrogated recoveries from sub-consultants and sub-contractors. She has a breadth of experience in litigation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication proceedings.

Charles Buckworth

Charles leads RPC's Fintech practice and is an experienced non-contentious technology and outsourcing partner within RPC's commercial, technology and outsourcing group. He is an expert in commercial contracts and tech-related transactions, focusing on large, complex, and/or strategic transactions for his clients. His focus is across multiple sectors, and he is an acknowledged expert in matters relating to tech and financial services. His clients include tech companies, insurers, brokers, payment schemes, payment institutions, other financial services firms and corporates of all sizes. He is a member of techUK’s financial services working group.

Charlotte Henschen

Charlotte specialises in high-value and complex commercial litigation, and has extensive trial experience in the High Court and appellate courts. Typically, she acts for major corporates, hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, liquidators and administrators, investors, professional services firms, banks, and high-net-worth individuals. Her particular focus is on investment banking disputes, capital markets, investment and fund management disputes, and she routinely acts against the major investment banks. In 2021, she was recognised by Legal Week as one of the “best 25 UK women in law under 40”.

Chris Ross

Chris is a highly experienced litigator specialising in competition litigation, commercial and banking disputes. He has represented parties both bringing and defending competition law disputes and has extensive experience of acting in collective actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He has particular expertise in group actions and litigation funding arrangements. He has acted for clients across a variety of matters including shareholder disputes, matters related to complex derivatives and other structured products. His clients include high net worth individuals, company directors and sophisticated institutional investors. He is a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience.

Chris Brierley

A Partner in RPC's Corporate team, Chris advises clients on strategic corporate matters and transactions in the UK and internationally. Chris' practice covers private M&A, private equity, investments in unlisted companies and joint ventures. With almost 20 years' experience as a corporate lawyer, Chris has a wide practice covering multiple industries including particular expertise in financial services, insurance and technology

Christian Charlesworth

Christian is an insurance lawyer who typically acts for insurers and large corporates. He specialises in subrogation across a broad range of claims relating to property & construction, casualty, financial lines, and travel.

Ciara Cullen

An IP and technology litigation specialist, Partner Ciara Cullen is dual qualified in England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland and has acted in several international disputes. Having acted in several disputes before the English and Irish Courts, the UK IPO, the ICC and CIETAC, Ciara's practice also has a significant international element and sees her advising clients on multi-jurisdictional disputes across the full range of IP rights including trade marks / passing off, copyright, patents, design rights, breach of confidential information and IP licence disputes. On the non-contentious side, Ciara supports clients on brand protection and counterfeit issues, IP projects and licensing, sponsorship/endorsement arrangements, franchising and commercial contracts. She also provides specialist advice on IP and technology acquisitions and disposals. Clients range from luxury goods, retail and food to FMCG, technology, media, life sciences, insurance and financial services. Ciara has been published in several leading journals including Managing IP, e-Commerce Law and Policy, SCL, LexisNexis and ILO and regularly speaks at client and industry conferences.

Claire Revell

Claire’s speciality is insurance litigation. She defends lawyers in professional negligence claims including defence, coverage, and regulatory, in addition to advising professional indemnity insurers on matters relating to policy coverage. Claire’s caseload includes many high-value and complex claims as well as more straightforward matters.

Connor Cahalane

Connor is a partner who advises listed and pre-IPO companies on M&A, equity fund raising and corporate governance. Connor has experience in representing public companies on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and AIM, as well as private companies, shareholders, investment funds and financial institutions on UK and cross-border matters.

Dan Wyatt

Partner Dan Wyatt is an experienced commercial litigator with particular expertise in complex, high value and international civil and cyber fraud, digital assets, financial services, and shareholder/partnership disputes. Dan advises on proceedings in the English High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, as well as on arbitration proceedings.

Daniel Hemming

Daniel is a partner in RPC's commercial disputes practice in London, with a particular focus on the financial services sector. He specialises in financial services litigation, including in relation to derivative products, ISDA and GMRA disputes and the close-out of complex financial transactions. Daniel is also an expert in complex commercial disputes - including contractual and shareholder or company disputes, claims defence, and regulation for accountancy firms.

Daniel Guilfoyle

Daniel is a Partner in the Cyber and Tech team at RPC. His specialisms include cyber breach response, claims against technology professional, and data subject litigation. Daniel also has experience of dealing with claims against a variety of insured professionals, including construction professionals, solicitors, accountants and brokers. Daniel also advises Insurers on policy coverage matters.

David Wallis

David is a partner and Head of private equity at RPC. He has particular expertise in private equity, M&A, both domestic and cross-border, and joint ventures.

David Allison

David’s practice covers all types of claims and complaints against financial professionals, including civil litigation, FOS complaints, and FCA past business reviews. He typically acts for insurance companies and their insureds, usually financial services companies such as financial advisors, accountants, pensions transfer specialists, and brokers. He also acts for financial institutions – particularly wealth managers and asset managers – and trustees. David has extensive experience of advising both insurers and insureds in respect of regulatory past business reviews, including under s.166 of FSMA.

David Cran

David is a Partner and Head of IP and Tech at RPC. Experienced and commercially focussed, he works closely with clients to resolve their IP, technology and commercial issues and has significant experience in both disputes and transactions. David advises on all areas of intellectual property, confidential information, IT/software and commercial issues. His work covers a wide range of industry sectors, including retail, financial services, insurance, IT/telecoms, media/digital media, energy, manufacturing and life sciences. David frequently advises on international matters, particularly involving the US, Europe and the Far East, including coordinating multi-jurisdictional disputes and deals.

Davina Given

Partner Davina Given takes on the most complex commercial and financial disputes for clients. She advises multinational corporates and financial institutions on a range of disputes, including claims arising out of financial structures such as hedge fund linked notes and syndicated loans, as well as breaches of warranty and professional negligence. In addition, she has extensive experience of national and international internal, regulatory and criminal investigations in relation to money laundering, bribery, sanctions, smuggling and compliance with financial regulation. Davina also has an interest in art-related disputes.

Dorothy Flower

One of the leading medical malpractice lawyers in the UK, Partner Dorothy Flower heads up RPC's Medical/Life Sciences team. Dorothy's practice is far reaching. She regularly defends private sector organisations and individuals in clinical negligence cases, acts for manufacturers and suppliers of medical devices and pharmaceuticals involved in product liability claims, and defends CROs involved in injury claims in connection with clinical trials. She also represents properly interested persons at inquests, often in connection with potential litigation. The regulatory side to her practice sees Dorothy assisting individuals investigated by the General Medical Council, Health and Care Professions Council and other regulatory bodies. She also advises organisations on Care Quality Commission regulation. For insurers, she regular advises on policy coverage and helps to draft policy wordings.

Edward Colville

Ed is a Partner in our Banking and Finance team, and has wide experience in all areas of banking, finance, and investment-related work. He typically acts for corporate clients as well as high net worth individuals entering into finance or investment agreements. Ed has several clients in the insurance industry, who he advises on the finance aspects of corporate insurance matters. He also has significant experience of real estate and development finance transactions.

Elizabeth Alibhai

Elizabeth is a Partner and the head of RPC's real estate team, specialising in investment, corporate occupier, retail, and development work. Her clients include investors, corporates, funds and developers. She has acted on market-leading transactions across a wide range of industry sectors including offices, retail, industrial and hotels. Elizabeth was named a “Standout Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters.

Emily McGregor

Partner. Emily is a Partner in RPC's corporate team, focussed on delivering pragmatic and commercial advice. Emily is a specialised in transactional liability / W&I insurance. Emily has additional expertise in a range of corporate advisory matters, including corporate governance and complex restructurings.

Emma Wherry

Senior Associate. Emma Wherry is an insurance lawyer within the professional risks team. She specialises in disputes involving construction professionals and surveyors.

Felicity Strong

Felicity Strong is a Partner in the Construction team. Felicity specialises in defending high value, complex construction claims and in advising on policy coverage. She defends claims against all classes of construction professional, with a particular focus on architects, engineers and surveyors. Felicity is experienced in all forms of dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation.

Finella Fogarty

Finella is a partner and Head of Restructuring and Insolvency at RPC. Finella specialises in advising banks, insolvency practitioners, funds, corporates and all stakeholders of insolvencies on both contentious and non-contentious restructuring, formal insolvency and turnaround situations. She represents office holders, lenders or distressed companies in business rescue and corporate turnarounds. With over 18 years' experience, Finella has a broad range of experience advising on a number of complex and high profile domestic and multi-jurisdictional matters including trading administrations, bankruptcy and receiverships to fraud and syndicated restructures.

Fiona Hahlo

Fiona handles a broad range of complex, catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims, coverage, and health and safety investigations and prosecutions. She acts for both insurers and insureds – often corporate entities, but sometimes individuals too. Fiona’s clients’ interests are wide ranging, and include constructions, sports, leisure, travel & tourism, retail, waste & recycling, equine and many others.

Gavin Reese

A specialist in General Liability, Product Liability and Health & Safety, Partner Gavin Reese has been advising insurers and corporate clients for over 30 years. He heads up RPC's Regulatory team. Gavin advises regularly on policy coverage and deals with a broad range of liability and product claims, including stress and catastrophic injury claims. He regularly advises companies and individuals facing Health & Safety investigations and prosecutions, often following a major event and is frequently instructed in connection with sensitive cases involving fatalities. Gavin has significant experience acting on issues relating to Corporate/Gross Negligence Manslaughter as well as the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. He has represented clients at interviews under caution and has advised on investigations and prosecutions by the Health & Safety Executive, Police, Environment Agency, and local authorities. The product side of his practice includes advice on the Consumer Protection Act 1987, European regulation, and product liability cases including those involving machinery, food, consumer and safety products.

Genevieve Isherwood

Genevieve Isherwood defends medical malpractice and product liability claims for clients, including those which involve medical products. Genevieve has wide-ranging experience acting for insurers and insureds on medical negligence and life sciences claims. She has experience in both significant, high-value, high-profile insurance litigation and in smaller value claims. This has included claims involving clinical trials, medical products, addiction and vaccination issues. Alongside litigation, Genevieve handles healthcare regulatory matters, including professional conduct proceedings and inquests. Genevieve also provides discrete advice to clients in the life sciences arena, including on the setting up and provision of a telemedicine service. She gained valuable understanding of the insurance market working in-house in the claims handling department of a Lloyd's approved Managing General Agency providing underwriting solutions to the health industry. Prior to entering the legal profession Genevieve worked part-time as a healthcare assistant in a mental health hospital, so she has a unique insight into the challenges faced by medical and life sciences insureds.

George Smith

George specialises in defending claims against financial professionals, including accountants, independent financial advisors, brokers, auditors, insolvency practitioners and pensions professionals. He has extensive experience in defending negligence claims in the senior courts, as well as advising insurers on policy coverage issues in relation to professional indemnity and pension trustee liability policies.

Georgia Davis

Georgia is a Legal Director in RPC's IP & Technology group and advises on contentious and non-contentious matters. She has particular specialism in disputes relating to both intellectual property (including trade marks, passing off, designs and copyright) and information technology. Has acted in reported cases including: Champagne Louis Roederer v J Garcia Carrion (trade mark infringement); Leofelis v Lonsdale (inquiry as to damages); Sir Robert McAlpine v Alfred McAlpine plc (passing off).

Geraldine Elliott

Partner Geraldine Elliott leads RPC's Commercial Litigation Group and has over 25 years' experience resolving disputes for clients. Advising clients in the financial and professional services, retail, media, industrial and manufacturing sectors, Geraldine's expertise covers a range of contractual disputes with particular focus on warranty claims and other post M&A issues, shareholder and joint venture disputes, and asset and financial recovery. Geraldine frequently supports businesses in protecting their core interests by obtaining urgent injunctions to prevent team moves and the loss of confidential or other business critical information. Geraldine is a regular commentator in this arena.

Graham Reid

Partner Graham Reid is an expert on professional negligence claims against lawyers, professional ethics and regulation, investigations by regulators, insurance coverage for lawyers’ professional insurance, risk management, and the governance of professional firms. He typically acts on behalf of lawyers, law firms, insurers of law firms, and other kinds of professional services businesses such as accountants, litigation funders, and providers of claims management services.

Harry Smith

Harry is a Senior Associate in RPC's Tax Disputes team. He advises clients on disputes across the spectrum of direct and indirect taxes. Harry advises corporate and individual clients on a wide range of contentious tax issues - from managing enquiries and information notices, through to hearings in the Tax Tribunals and higher courts. He has particular experience in advising in relation to main purpose disputes and applications for judicial review, and on international tax issues including double taxation disputes. Harry has previously worked in HMRC's Solicitor's Office (in a litigation team), and in the corporate tax department of an international law firm where he had a mixed contentious and advisory/transactional practice. He brings this broad practical experience to bear in advising clients on their engagement with HMRC. He also has experience advising in relation to broader regulatory matters, including charity regulation and the UK's anti-financial crime / anti-money laundering regime, and forms part of the firm's sanctions group.

Helen Armstrong

Helen is an experienced litigator specialising in resolution of complex technology and commercial disputes. She has advised and acted for clients on a wide range of disputes in the High Court, with a particular focus on outsourcing and public sector technology disputes. Helen has a wealth of experience handling complex, multi-party and multi-jurisdictional disputes both in and out of court. Helen’s practice focuses on technology and outsourcing disputes across a range of both public and private sectors, from government digitalisation projects to national internet infrastructure disputes and investment trading platform disputes. Helen recognises the unique difficulties that these sorts of disputes give rise to and the importance of working closely with clients at an early stage to strengthen their position during on-going commercial relationships and avoid litigation wherever possible. She is, however, experienced in strategically commencing and defending proceedings in all of the key divisions of the High Court in London - including the Technology & Construction, Commercial and Chancery Courts. Helen also acts for clients in respect of breach of confidential information, including obtaining emergency injunctive relief where necessary.

Hettie Homewood

A Senior Associate in RPC's Commercial, Technology & Outsourcing team, Hettie advises clients in a variety of sectors, including household brands, retailers, tech businesses, and creative and media agencies. Hettie has worked within a wide range of industry sectors with a particular focus on consumer facing businesses and e-commerce. She brings a unique perspective to her practice, having worked extensively both in private practice and in-house, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels. Putting her clients' individual desired outcomes at the heart of her approach to drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial matters, Hettie is able to cut through the legalese to deliver targeted and pragmatic legal solutions.

Jake Hardy

Jake is primarily a banking and financial services litigator, with a wide range of experience across that sector derived from over 20 years of practice in the sphere. He has a long track record of leading large-scale complex and high value cases. He has a particular interest in claims arising from complex trades, transactions and products. Jake also has significant experience in fraud and asset recovery, public/administrative law, IT and procurement and general commercial disputes.

James Channo

James is a specialist in corporate and business law, with a particular focus on AIM and main market listings, IPOs, secondary offerings, cross-border mergers & acquisitions, and joint ventures. He works for both private and listed companies, representing clients in a diverse range of sectors including financial services, pharma, tech, mining, and oil & gas, and is fluent in Spanish.

James Mee

James Mee is an award-winning corporate lawyer whose practice spans multiple jurisdictions and sectors. He created and led RPC's Corporate Insurance and Financial Services business, and in recent years has focused on private equity transactions in insurance and other sectors. James' practice covers private equity and M&A transactions of all types across a range of sectors, as well as insurance specific transactions such as Part VIIs, MGAs and the full range of Lloyd's arrangements including syndicate start-ups, special purpose arrangements, RITCs and funds at Lloyd's. James is the Co-Chair of Link, the insurance market-wide network for LGBT professionals and allies; sat on the board of RPC Tyche [from 30 May 2020, RPC Consulting became RPC Tyche LLP]; and is a trustee of the English National Ballet School.

James Miller

Elected to the role in January 2017, James Miller is RPC's Managing Partner. The architect of our growth strategy, James has been at RPC for 29 years having joined as a Trainee in 1995. He made Partner in 2003. James is dual-qualified in England & Wales and Hong Kong.

James Wickes

Partner James Wickes is the Head of RPC's Professional and Financial Risks team in London. He advises insurers and reinsurers on complex coverage matters or disputes, especially those involving financial institutions, management liability/D&O, professional indemnity and crime / fidelity insurance. He is a recognised expert in advising on transactional liability / M&A insurance, in particular on W&I, tax, and contingent liability insurance claims. James has significant experience defending claims against directors and officers and a wide variety of financial institutions and financial services firms, including investment, asset, and fund managers, IFAs, wealth managers, currency exchanges, corporate services providers, tax advisers, collateral managers and nominated advisers. Prior to joining RPC, James worked in-house in a global commodities trading firm in Hong Kong, which developed his knowledge and understanding of complex financial products, many of which have been the subject of claims in the financial lines market in recent times.

Jeremy Drew

Partner Jeremy Drew holds a senior leadership role heading up RPC's Commercial division, which spans TMT, Commercial & Financial Disputes, and Corporate. He has over 20 years' experience and is one of the market leading experts in his field. Jeremy has extensive experience in matters concerning the retail and sports sectors, IP and technology. He advises on the full range of disputes, advisory and transactions. Much of his practice has an international flavour, including worldwide transactions, leading international litigation and complex European arbitrations.

Jeremy Cunningham

Jeremy is a leading partner within the corporate department. He is seasoned corporate M&A and private equity partner with a particular focus and reputation in the business services, tech & media, financial services and retail sectors. On the sell-side, working alongside market leading corporate finance advisers, Jeremy advises founders and management teams from start to finish of the sale process mainly in the business services and tech sectors, including on any shareholder and equity roll-over arrangements. Jeremy has particular expertise in structuring auction deals with W&I insurance having established the W&I practice at RPC. Jeremy regularly trains corporate finance advisers on this topic. On the buy-side, Jeremy typically acts for major corporates, financial investors (both VC and private equity), family offices, insurance companies and financial institutions on all their acquisition requirements, across the business services, tech & media and retail sectors.

Jon Bartley

Partner Jon Bartley specialises in digital technology and e-commerce, data protection, cybersecurity and consumer law. Jon has 20 years' experience as a commercial contracts lawyer. He helps clients manage their legal risk whilst still achieving key business objectives. Advising domestic and international clients, including well-known consumer brands, Jon acts on a wide range of commercial contracts, including supply of goods and services, reseller and distribution, and licence agreements. He specialises in technology and digital business contracts, including SaaS, IaaS and other cloud solutions, software development and licence agreements, and data analytics projects. Jon also assists clients on regulatory matters including data protection and cybersecurity issues (data security breaches, data analytics and marketing, data transfers and GDPR readiness), cybersecurity, e-commerce regulation and consumer law. Jon is a thought leader in the area of data protection. He is Chair of the Data Law Committee of the City of London Law Society and in 2021 was a contributing author to a key report on legal mechanisms for data stewardship.

Jon Ely

Jon is a Partner in our real estate team. Acting for real estate occupiers, investors, developers and funders, he handles work across asset types including retail, office, leisure, food and drink, logistics, and mixed-use portfolios. Jon assists with strategic acquisitions and disposals, and handles all types of commercial lease work, including advising on re-gearing and other portfolio management requirements. A large part of his practice is handling high-value corporate lettings, often in London.

Jonathan Charwat

Jonathan Charwat is a corporate, commercial and regulatory partner in RPC's Corporate Insurance & Financial Services team. Jonathan's primary focus is in the insurance and financial services market. His commercial experience includes a wide range of insurance distribution arrangements and agreements as well as reinsurance and other commercial agreements. From a regulatory perspective, Jonathan advises clients on insurance product distribution and governance including intermediary remuneration arrangements, internal governance and regulatory compliance, insurer-intermediary distribution structures, customer facing and product documentation, and developments in insurance regulation. Jonathan has also acted on a number of M&A transactions for both the insurance and corporate market including Lloyd's specific arrangements and a scheme of arrangement. Jonathan also has a good deal of in-house experience having undertaken secondments at Arch Insurance, Marsh and Swiss Re Life Capital. Prior to joining RPC, he also worked for two years in-house in a corporate governance and commercial contracts role for Volex plc working out of London and China.

Jonathan Cary

Jonathan is an experienced disputes partner with particular expertise in banking and financial services and complex matters involving fraud and international asset recovery. He also has significant experience (including from secondments at two investment banks prior to joining RPC) in conducting internal and regulatory investigations and related enforcement actions (including from secondments at two investment banks prior to joining RPC).

Jonathan Wyles

Legal Director specialising in claims against professionals – legal, financial and construction.

Jonathan Wood

Jonathan Wood has deep rooted experience supporting clients in a wide number of jurisdictions in arbitration proceedings and cross border litigation. He Chairs RPC's International Arbitration practice. Jonathan specialises in international arbitration and dispute resolution relating to international trade (including Bilateral Investment Treaty claims), joint venture and shareholder disputes, project and energy claims, credit and political risk insurance, reinsurance, cultural property and specie, banking and trade finance, fraud and asset tracing, public and private international law. He has handled numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitrations as counsel, and related court proceedings, and has sat as arbitrator in many cases. Jonathan is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also former Chairman of the International Bar Association's International Sales Committee and is currently a member of the advisory board of the European Regional Forum. Jonathan has been an adviser and litigation counsel to the British Government's Export Credits Guarantee Department ( UKEF) for over 25 years.

Joshua Charalambous

Josh is a Partner in our sports, commercial and IP groups and advises on contentious and non-contentious issues in the sports, esports, interactive entertainment (video games), media (film, TV, music, podcasts and news), retail and consumer and technology sectors. He is a specialist in sports regulatory, governance, safeguarding and disciplinary matters, and commercial contracts (sponsorship, retail supply chain, media rights acquisition and distribution, licensing and other BAU agreements). Josh advises on the full range of IP rights and has significant disputes experience before the UK Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, IPEC, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Arbitration for Sport, national sports regulatory/disciplinary forum, and national and international arbitration bodies. He provides support on corporate deals in the sports sector, involving IP rights and licensing, and advises insurers (and, where applicable, their insureds) on pursuit, defence, coverage, monitoring and policy wording issues involving sports, IP, media and entertainment claims.

Karen Hendy

Karen is a leading lawyer in the M&A market and head of RPC's Corporate practice. Regularly acting for listed and privately owned companies, Karen supports clients undertaking a broad range of corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, and public company/equity capital markets work. Karen also provides advice on corporate law and governance issues and has advised on multiple purchases of businesses out of administration. Much of Karen's work is international, and she is a leading corporate adviser in the retail and technology sectors. Listed in The Lawyer Hot 100 2018, transactions Karen has led on have been shortlisted for a number of awards. Karen is a champion for equality in the workplace. On top of her stellar transactional record and being one of the only female heads of corporate in the City, Karen is a vocal advocate for balanced businesses. Karen is frequently sought out for commentary on M&A and the retail market.

Kate Hill

Kate is a highly experienced insurance and reinsurance litigator. She is a specialist in brokers’ errors and omissions claims and has extensive experience in defending professional negligence claims against various leading international insurance brokers, including claims involving multi-million-pound property damage and business interruption losses. Kate has acted for brokers, insurers and reinsurers in high value and high profile coverage and commercial disputes across a range of complex product lines, including aviation and D&O liability.

Katharine Cusack

Katharine Cusack specialises in defending professional negligence claims against construction and property professionals, including architects, surveyors/valuers, engineers, contractors and agents. She acts in relation to a wide range of property-related disputes for some of the leading global property/construction companies and their insurers. She advises on a range of matters, from straightforward, low value claims to complex, large, multi-party disputes. She is an expert in claims against surveyors and advises insurance professionals, surveyors and the RICS on these issues. After a secondment with a major London market insurer, Katharine understands the insurance market well and regularly provides market training on claims and coverage matters.

Keith Mathieson

An expert in defamation and privacy law, Partner Keith Mathieson has been defending the media for over 20 years and leads RPC's media team. Keith defends clients involved in libel, privacy and similar claims. Regularly instructed by Associated Newspapers Limited (Mail, Mail on Sunday and Mail Online), Mirror Group, News UK (The Sun, Times and Sunday Times) and the Financial Times, he also acts for numerous other UK and international publishers and for a number of media liability insurers. Keith has had a prominent role in press regulation, including acting for Associated Newspapers throughout the Leveson Inquiry. He is currently representing Mirror Group in the long-running litigation arising out of phone hacking at its three titles. He has particular experience of contentious costs matters in media cases.

Kelly Thomson

Kelly advises on complex international and national employment matters, with particular focus on outsourcing, restructuring and the people aspects of organisational change. She works alongside clients' HR and Legal teams in developing and implementing strategies for the recruitment, retention and motivation of employees. She has a focus on 'employee engagement' and is passionate about issues of diversity and inclusion. Kelly develops and provides training and seminars for clients' HR, legal and business teams and co-delivers RPC's regular seminars and roundtables on a variety of topics. She is a frequent contributor to practitioner and academic publications.

Keziah Mastin

Keziah is an Associate in RPC's Tax Disputes, Financial Crime and Regulatory team. She is an experienced litigator and has acted for a broad range of clients in disputes involving both direct and indirect taxes. Keziah advises corporate and individual clients on a broad spectrum of contentious tax issues including both direct and indirect tax matters. She has advised HNW individuals, large regulated and listed companies and SMEs. She has experience handling complex and cross-border tax investigations and litigation before both the First-tier and Upper Tax Tribunals and courts, including the Court of Appeal. Keziah has in-depth knowledge of customs enquiries, investigations and policy matters. She has particular expertise in the complexities of rules of origin and the Union Customs Code, as well as issues which arise post-Brexit, including the Northern Ireland Protocol. Keziah has acted in challenges on public law grounds by way of Judicial Review. Prior to joining RPC, Keziah worked in HMRC's Solicitor's Office gaining a varied experience across both litigation and policy advisory teams and is therefore well placed to anticipate and navigate clients through interactions with HMRC.

Kirstie Pike

Kirstie Pike is an insurance litigator who specialises in professional negligence claims. She has defended numerous professionals, including surveyors and educational establishments, but has particular expertise in claims against solicitors and insurance brokers. Kirstie has successfully defended a number of claims at trial, but is also a keen negotiator and a frequent user of mediation. She regularly advises on policy coverage.

Kirtan Prasad

Associate. Kirtan is a commercial disputes lawyer with a focus on international arbitration. Kirtan is an experienced commercial and financial disputes lawyer, who specialises in international arbitration and multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has been recognised as a Future Leader in Arbitration by Who's Who Legal for four years running: 2018 – 2021. She is also noted in The Legal 500. Kirtan has acted for sovereigns, financial institutions, hedge funds, energy companies, car manufacturers and hotel operators. She has experience of commercial litigation and a range of arbitral rules, including the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCMA, DIAC and ICSID Rules. Her work has spanned both civil and common law jurisdictions, such as Japan, India, England, Indonesia, the UAE and the Netherlands. She has a particular interest in disputes with an Asian dimension. Before joining RPC, Kirtan worked at the Singapore and London offices of an international law firm. She is qualified to practice in Singapore, New York State and England & Wales.

Laura Stocks

Laura is a professional indemnity defence lawyer who specialises in acting for Top 100 law firms in complex, high-value disputes, together with other professionals such as accountants and insurance brokers. She also advises insurers on coverage issues. Laura has defended law firms in a all aspects of private practice, including corporate, commercial property and development transactions, offshore trusts and tax, probate, family, employment, and lost litigation.

Lucy Dyson

Lucy is a specialist in insurance and reinsurance law. She frequently advises on complex, multi-jurisdictional liability exposures including public, products and pollution liability, and product recalls. She routinely advises insurers on policy coverage issues under multinational and master programmes, excess liability, and Bermuda Form policies. Her practice particularly involves advising on losses in the energy, mining, manufacturing, infrastructure and hospitality sectors. This includes high severity events (explosions, spillages, fires), catastrophic injuries/fatalities, product liability and long tail exposures, including occupational illness and pollution. Beyond the UK and Europe, Lucy has significant experience advising on claims in Latin America, the Caribbean, the USA, and Africa. In addition, she advises on policy wordings issues and product recall matters (including consumer goods, food and beverage and pharmaceutical).

Lucy Kerr

Lucy Kerr is part of the Regulatory Group and advises clients on contentious financial services regulatory matters, as well as commercial disputes. Lucy has extensive experience of defending financial services firms in relation to regulatory enforcement actions, as well as acting for clients in relation to wider banking and private equity disputes.

Mamata Dutta

Mamata is a Partner in our General Liability and Medical team. Her work covers complex personal injury cases involving fatalities, catastrophic injuries, product liability claims, policy coverage, and incidents involving health & safety or environmental regulations. She represents a wide range of clients from sole traders to large corporates, including those who are being investigated by various enforcement authorities including the police, the Health & Safety Executive, local authorities, Trading Standards and fire authorities. Mamata also advises clients on a range of product liability matters, including liability claims and issues surrounding product recall.

Mark Crichard

As a market leading technology and outsourcing lawyer, Mark Crichard can help both customers and suppliers on any technology related matter, whether big or small. Specialising in non-contentious technology matters (including telecoms) and all forms of outsourcing, Mark has over 20 years' experience advising a range of technology suppliers and customers on systems development/procurement, software licensing and distribution, cloud computing and open source issues. On the outsourcing front, Mark advises on all types of projects including the outsourcing of IT infrastructure, AD/AM, network and data centre services, F&A, HR, FM, healthcare services and other business processes. Mark also advises clients on establishing shared service operations, joint ventures and public private partnerships. His clients include service providers, technology suppliers, insurers and other financial institutions, retailers, airlines and healthcare providers.

Matthew Griffith

With a wealth of experience gained over more than 20 years, Partner Matthew Griffith is a corporate, commercial and regulatory lawyer who focuses on the insurance and financial services sectors. Matthew supports clients on a broad range of transactional, commercial and regulatory matters. He is an independently recognised leader in the insurance market and advises clients on acquisitions, disposals, business transfers (including Part VII transfers), reinsurance transactions, product distribution arrangements, commercial contracts, restructuring projects, corporate governance and regulatory matters.

Matthew Jones

Matt specialises in high-value UK and cross-border patent disputes, is an expert in patent litigation, and has nearly twenty years of experience as an IP lawyer, including significant work on FRAND licensing disputes. Matt acts for clients in many technology sectors including pharma/biotech, telecommunications, computer science, consumer electronics, and mechanical devices.

Matthew Watson

Matt is a Partner at RPC and works extensively with our insurer clients. He specialises in dealing with claims against directors and officers, and provides coverage advice to insurers in relation to D&O and management liability risks. On top of Matt's defence work, he also advises on coverage and (monitoring) with many instructions having an international element. Matt also advises on claims against financial professionals, and has extensive experience dealing with regulatory matters before the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Matthew Evans

Of Counsel. Matthew has a broad practice within RPC's commercial disputes department, with a particular focus on banking and financial services disputes. Matthew acts on complex commercial litigation matters for corporates and financial institutions, most often with international dimensions. He regularly acts on matters appearing in the English High Court and Court of Appeal, including matters appearing in the UK Financial List. Matthew also has experience acting alongside US and MEA counsel on a wide range of litigation and advisory matters, often where relief is sought from the English Courts in support of foreign proceedings.

Melanie Musgrave

Of Counsel. With experience advising clients across a variety of industries, Melanie Musgrave specialises in UK and EU competition law issues. Merger control, compliance, commercial arrangements and investigations by the competition regulators, including dawn raids are just some of the matters Melanie supports clients on. Melanie advises clients on all aspects of merger control from the structuring of the corporate deal, providing a worldwide analysis of merger filing requirements where appropriate, through to project managing multi-jurisdictional filings and drafting notifications to the UK and EU competition authorities. She also assists clients in responding to information requests about third party mergers. She works with clients on the competition aspects of their commercial arrangements and practices, and on their individual compliance programmes and requirements. Melanie helps clients deal with cartel and other antitrust investigations by the UK and EU competition authorities, including advising on potential follow on damages claims. She also acts for clients in connection with market investigations and sector enquiries.

Michelle Sloane

Michelle Sloane is a Partner specialising in the resolution of tax disputes and financial crime. She advises both corporates and individuals on complex tax enquiries, tax assessments and criminal investigations. Michelle has particular expertise in relation to VAT, and customs and excise duty disputes. Michelle has in-depth experience of high value appeals at all levels including before the Tax Tribunals, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Court of Justice of the European Union. Her expertise includes Judicial Review proceedings scrutinising HMRC’s conduct. She also advises those facing HMRC criminal investigations, allegations of participating in missing trader intra-community fraud and assists clients manage urgent issues such as HMRC "dawn raids". Before moving to the UK in 2006, Michelle worked for the New Zealand government as a tax investigator and legal adviser to the tax investigations team where she gained valuable insight into the decision making process of revenue authorities.

Mike Newham

Mike is a solicitor advocate with extensive experience advising insurers on coverage issues arising under a wide range of policies, including D&O, FI, crime and civil liability, investment management, trustee liability, and PI. His practice focuses on advising London market non-marine insurers on complex coverage issues. He also has significant experience of defending claims and regulatory investigations against professionals.

Nadia Tymkiw

Nadia is an experienced media lawyer dealing with a wide array of content-related disputes and pre-publication matters. She specialises in libel, privacy, and data protection law, and in online safety, broadcast, and data regulation. Nadia advises a broad spectrum of national newspapers, broadcasters and streaming platforms, production companies, online platforms, NGOs, book publishers and media insurers on the defence of litigation and other matters relating to freedom of expression. She has acted in cases before the High Court, Court of Appeal, Information Rights Tribunal and in Coronial Inquests. Nadia has particular expertise advising on complex, novel and developing areas of law, including online intermediary liability issues and online safety and in advising broadcasters and production companies on media law and regulation. Between 2019 – 2023, she spent over 18 months seconded to a national broadcaster advising on legal and regulatory risk in high profile documentaries and other programming. She also represents individuals and NGOs facing abusive "SLAPP" litigation and has written for legal publications on SLAPP issues.

Naomi Vary

Naomi Vary is a Partner specialising in resolving political risk and trade credit disputes. Naomi is a leading lawyer in the field of political risk, trade credit, political violence and stand-alone terrorism insurance. She advises London and overseas insurers and reinsurers on a wide range of matters, predominantly involving coverage disputes, but also relating to wordings advice and recovery actions following claims. In addition to her specialist area, she has experience in claims involving most major classes of loss, including contingency and bloodstock. Naomi has worked on political risk and trade credit cases originating from numerous jurisdictions. Her experience includes working on political risk cases involving claims for expropriation, embargo, licence cancellation and selective discrimination, and trade credit claims involving commodity trading and bank lending, often with an element of fraud.

Neil Brown

Neil is an experienced corporate partner who specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate advisory, and his work also includes Part VII transfers and Lloyd’s third-party syndicate management transactions. His focus is largely on corporate deals within the insurance, technology, sport and retail sectors and his clients include professional services firms, sports businesses, and global insurance and reinsurance companies. Prior to joining RPC, Neil worked for Freshfields for eight years advising on high-value transactions for financial institutions.

Neville Byford

Neville Byford is a highly respected commercial litigator with over 35 years' experience in all aspects of civil fraud. Recognised as a leader in his field, Neville has built a formidable reputation. His practice spans high-profile cases involving major frauds and complex international disputes, starting off representing John De Lorean and progressing onto acting for the liquidators of Arrows Limited, Sheikh Khaled Al Sabah (the only successful Kuwaiti defendant in the Grupo Torres litigation) and, more recently acting for Mr Amouzegar in the successful jurisdiction challenge in the PIFSS litigation. With an equally impressive track record in the field of trusts, Neville has secured judgments in significant cases such as the BPL claims against the Mekni family, and a decade-long involvement in a Guernsey Trust fraud dispute which involved litigation in Guernsey, Luxembourg, Italy, England and the US. Both disputes are ongoing. Neville has significant experience of litigating in the United States, having represented numerous US-based clients, and as a result, has extensive contacts in the jurisdiction. He has also taken depositions in the UK for US proceedings, obtained recognition of English judgments in the US and vice versa, and continues to regularly visit his American clients, many of whom Neville has worked with for many years. Throughout the course of his career, Neville has also carved out a niche in representing showjumpers, most notably acting for Ben Maher MBE (who recently won his third Olympic Gold medal) in various disputes which received significant media interest.

Nick Bird

Nick is a Partner and one of the leading lawyers for liability and conduct claims against professionals and is particularly well known for his work on complex and high value claims.

Nigel Wilson

Nigel is a senior lawyer, Of Counsel, specialising in IT, technology projects, outsourcing, complex commercial services contracts and procurement support. He has gained a wealth of experience, acting for both suppliers and customers (both private and public sector) and has worked in a number of jurisdictions.

Nigel Collins

Nigel is a Partner and Head of RPC's Japan desk. Nigel is a senior corporate lawyer with deep knowledge and experience of Japan and Japanese business. He typically acts for individuals, start-ups, partnerships, and private and listed companies. Nigel specialises in advising Japanese corporates on outbound, cross-border transactions into the UK and Europe, ensuring a smooth transition by helping them bridge the cultural and commercial gap. He is fluent in Japanese and maintains a wide network of contacts in both the UK and Japan, including running the Japan GC Network on LinkedIn.

Oliver Bray

Oliver is Senior Partner at RPC and a recognised specialist in commercial law. He has over 25 years' experience with particular expertise in commercial contracts, advertising and marketing, regulatory investigations/proceedings, data protection, consumer, intellectual property and digital. He is ranked in the Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" and "Top Ranked" by Chambers and Partners for both commercial and advertising/marketing. He works with some of the world's highest profile brands and digital platforms, providing advice on all aspects their commercial operations and consumer engagement. He is the co-editor of the leading text book ‘Advertising Law and Regulation’ (Bloomsbury Professional). He is Chairman of the City of London Law Society Commercial Law Committee, a member of the Ad Law Group and an editorial board member of Digital Business Lawyer and Entertainment Law Review. He was awarded "Best Client Partner" at the 2016 British Legal Awards and is recognised by Acritas for outstanding client service.

Patrick Brodie

Partner and Head of RPC's Employment, engagement and equality practice, Patrick Brodie is often called in to help resolve complex workforce issues. Typical instructions for Patrick involve advising on domestic and European integration, outsourcing and restructuring projects. In the UK market he acts across both the public and private sectors. Patrick has built a reputation for helping organisations design and implement inclusion and diversity strategies. Specialising in financial services regulation, whistleblowing and corporate governance, Patrick edits the whistleblowing chapter for Tolley's and is the updating author for Xpert HR's guide on TUPE. On the litigation side, Patrick has worked on cases which have been taken to the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He was a winner of The Lawyer's Employment Team of the Year award. Patrick's work has also been shortlisted on two previous occasions for Commercial and, also, Employment Team of the Year Awards by Legal Week and the Lawyer.

Paul Bagon

Paul is a specialist in all aspects of international and domestic restructurings, special situations, investments, and recapitalisations. He acts for a wide variety of clients including investors, funds, lenders, sponsors, debtors, creditors, boards of directors, and restructuring professionals. Paul often speaks on industry and professional panels and webinars, has lectured at the UCL LLM and is the author of numerous articles and publications. He is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association, the R3 Association of Business Recovery Professionals, and INSOL International.

Paul Joukador

Paul Joukador is a leading Partner in commercial, outsourcing and technology matters who delivers pragmatic and strategic legal advice to complex matters in order to meet clients' commercial goals. Paul supports a broad range of businesses – including many well-known brands – in their daily operations and also when undertaking transformational projects. Paul is able to guide clients in the development of new products or services in the UK and globally, navigating complex supply chain challenges, entering into strategic alliances, establishing new routes to market and harnessing technologies to increase competitiveness or efficiencies. Paul is highly experienced in helping manage change within organisations whether it is through delivering technology solutions or establishing new relationships with suppliers, networks or customers. He provides creative and workable solutions for complex legal questions and understands that a successful transaction is one that must strike the right balance in managing risk while achieving our client's commercial objectives.

Peter Mansfield

Peter is an insurance lawyer who specialises in dispute resolution and insurance coverage. He typically acts for professional indemnity insurers, with a particular focus on solicitors, surveyors, and construction professionals.

Rachael Healey

Rachael specialises in resolving professional indemnity and financial services disputes. She frequently defends claims against financial professionals, including wealth managers, IFA networks, accountants, insolvency practitioners, actuaries, and trustees. She also specialises in claims against pension professionals such as lawyers, trustees, investment managers, and pension administrators. Rachael has experience dealing with various disciplinary and regulatory matters including before the ACCA and ICAEW, the Pension Ombudsman and the Financial Ombudsman Service. She also has experience of managing s.166 and past business reviews.

Rathi Thiagamoorthy

Rathi is a Partner and Solicitor Advocate in the IP and Tech Litigation practice in RPC's London office. Rathi is a highly experienced general commercial litigator who has acted on a broad variety of high-value, multifaceted, cross-border litigation matters for national and international clients. Rathi specialises in competition litigation and has extensive experience of assisting clients in all areas of UK and EU competition law, including collective claims or class actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (acting for parties bringing and defending competition law claims), merger clearances, distribution and supply chain issues, dawn raids, leniency applications, dominance issues and cartel investigations. Rathi also has an interest involving technology more widely and has acted extensively in litigation involving cyber attacks and supplier issues, many of which have involved coordinating action across multiple jurisdictions.

Rebecca Wong

Partner

Reshma Raja

Reshma is a Partner and General Counsel at RPC and has accountability for and oversight of risk and compliance across the firm. Within her role, she advises the Managing Partner and Partnership Executive team about the legal and regulatory implications of the firm's major decisions, strategies and transactions. She sits on the Board and the firm's Executive Committee. With over 15 years' experience in law firm regulation, compliance and risk management, she has a demonstrated history of working on a broad spectrum of compliance, risk and ethics programmes impacting the legal services industry internationally and in the UK.

Rhian Howell

Partner Rhian Howell is a leading professional negligence expert with significant experience dealing with claims against lawyers and construction professionals. She also handles disciplinary and regulatory matters on behalf of professionals and has a particular reputation for dealing with fraud and dishonest assistance claims against solicitors. Rhian regularly provides training to clients on risk management, legal updates, as well as best practice when handing claims.

Richard Breavington

Richard is a Partner and Head of RPC's Cyber & Tech Insurance team. Richard and his team specialise in cyber breach incidents, and act for many clients dealing with these issues, including technology sector clients and cyber and technology insurers. Richard is an expert in data breach response, technology claims, cyber insurance, data-related claims, and technology errors and omissions insurance.

Robert Morris

Robert is a highly experienced insurance lawyer who specialises in complex insurance coverage dispute resolution work across a variety of classes of business, including first party loss and liability policies. Robert is also an expert in dealing with claims and contentious regulatory proceedings against accountants, financial professionals of all kinds and insurance brokers. In addition to civil claims, Robert has many years' experience dealing with disciplinary and regulatory matters, including those relating to the Financial Conduct Authority, The Pensions Ombudsman, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has particular expertise in dealing with complaints before the Financial Ombudsman Service and experience of challenging the scope of its jurisdiction.

Rupert Boswall

Rupert’s specialities are complex, high-value commercial disputes, investigations, and international arbitration. He works in a wide variety of sectors including finance, technology, infrastructure, natural resources, wealth management, and offshore. Rupert is also widely known for his work in the fine art world. From May 2014 to June 2020 Rupert served two terms as the RPC's Senior Partner, a non-executive chairman role.

Rupert Cowper-Coles

Partner Rupert Cowper-Coles is an experienced litigator specialising in media and data disputes. Rupert defends a wide range of publishers and data controllers, including media organisations, online platforms, broadcasters, NGOs, book publishers, freelance journalists and charities. He is an expert in defamation, data protection and privacy law as well as other media and information rights, including malicious falsehood, harassment and freedom of information. He is well-versed in advising clients both pre and post publication and, where disputes cannot be resolved consensually, representing their interests before regulators and the courts. Rupert has experience in litigating complex and developing areas of law, including interim non-disclosure injunctions, foreign jurisdiction issues, intermediary and website host liability, and the exercise of GDPR data rights.

Sam Tate

Sam is a Partner, co-head of Middle East and Head of White-Collar Crime and Compliance at RPC. Sam is an expert in financial crime proceedings, investigations, and practical crime-prevention programs. He has extensive practical experience of complicated cross-border investigations and works extensively with nation states, state-owned enterprises, multinationals, private equity, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

Sarah Mountain

Sarah is a Partner in RPC's IP and Technology team and specialises in contentious and advisory matters. Sarah acts for a broad range of clients, often in the tech, media and retail sectors, on everything from strategic litigation to day-to-day brand protection matters. Her particular focus is on trademarks, copyright, passing off, designs and confidential information. She routinely supports clients on technology and commercial matters too. Sarah has a wealth of litigation experience, having acted on large scale disputes with both a UK and international focus.

Scott Ashby

Scott Ashby is a Partner and expert in professional liability, regulation and insurance of solicitors and accountants. Scott has a wealth of experience in defending a wide variety of claims and regulatory complaints against lawyers and accountants. He has acted for major national and international firms including a number of Top 200 UK law firms and small and medium sized professional services businesses and sole practitioners. Scott's experience spans defending multi-million-pound claims in the High Court and the Court of Appeal to lower value County Court proceedings as well as complaints to Ombudsman services such as the Legal Ombudsman. He is experienced in all forms of ADR, including mediation. Scott frequently advises on regulatory and compliance matters and has defended professional clients subject to interventions, investigations and formal disciplinary proceedings brought by their regulators including the SRA and the ICAEW. Scott is an expert in professional indemnity insurance and is frequently instructed to advise on policy coverage disputes.

Shai Wade

Shai Wade is a Partner and Head of International Arbitration at RPC. Shai serves as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations arising under rules of the major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID and others. He is the co-author of the leading textbook on LCIA arbitration. Shai has particularly strong expertise in cases arising from the upstream oil and gas and energy sectors as well as in joint-venture, shareholder and partnership disputes and cases involving IT, telecoms, construction, infrastructure, mining and international sale of goods disputes. Shai has represented clients from every continent around the world in disputes concerning a variety of national laws. He is an expert in international investment law regularly advising clients on their rights under international treaties.

Sian Morgan

Sian is a Partner in our Medical and Life Sciences team. She acts on behalf of healthcare organisations, care homes and healthcare professionals. Sian is a specialist in defending medical malpractice claims as well as representing clients in inquests, CQC prosecutions and fitness to practise proceedings.

Simon Laird

Simon is Global Head of Insurance at RPC, sits on the board and leads RPC's Balanced Task Force that leads on firmwide I&D initiatives. He is an expert in advising on onshore and offshore commercial disputes and works for a wide variety of clients in the insurance sector.

Simon Hart

Simon's litigation practice has seen him guide clients through a number of complex financial markets disputes, often acting against the largest investment banks. He has acted in claims involving derivatives, structured products, and hedging arrangements. He regularly advises on disputes arising out of loan facilities, commercial agreements and financial restructurings, as well as fraud and asset recovery. He has acted for a wide variety of clients including funds, high net worth investors, financial institutions and insolvency office holders.

Simy Khanna

Simy Khanna is a Partner in RPC's Professional Indemnity team. She specialises in professional negligence and coverage advice involving a range of professions. She has particular experience of dealing with claims against firms of solicitors, including a number of the Top 50 firms, arising from all aspects of private practice, including corporate and commercial transactions, real estate, and litigation. Simy also advises on coverage issues, including situations where there is a suspicion of fraud. She was involved with Zurich Professional Ltd v Karims, a leading case on solicitors' fraud, and Wellesley v Withers LLP, a well-known case relating to issues on causation. Simy spent one year on secondment in the Professional Indemnity team at QBE Insurance (Europe) Limited, dealing with claims against professions and related coverage issues.

Sukh Ahark

Sukh co-heads RPC's India Practice and is a very experienced banking and finance lawyer with a wide range of clients including domestic and international corporates, high-net-worth individuals, banks, lenders, and financial institutions. He is often involved in real estate finance work with both investment grade and development funding. Sukh’s practice also acts on acquisition and leverage finance transactions, and general corporate funding and refinancing work.

Suzan Kurdi

Of Counsel. A highly versatile lawyer with experience of a broad range of commercial disputes, Suzan has worked in the Middle East, Asia and South America. Originally qualified as a barrister, Suzan is a dispute resolution specialist with additional experience working in-house at a Japanese trading house in Tokyo, and at a major bank in London. Prior to joining RPC, Suzan worked at international law firms in London, Dubai and Tokyo. During a sabbatical from private practice, Suzan lived in Argentina where she taught law on the University of London's external LLB programme and ran workshops for Argentine lawyers. Fluent in Arabic, French, Spanish and an advanced Japanese speaker, Suzan is an excellent communicator and has extensive experience explaining complicated legal concepts to non-native English speakers.

Tamsin Hyland

Tamsin leads RPC's insurance wordings team, assisting insurer clients with the development of their products, policy wordings, and associated literature. The team routinely collaborate with colleagues from across the firm (including the corporate, commercial, and regulatory insurance teams in relation to wider regulatory matters of insurance distribution) and handles instructions across all major insurance classes. Tamsin is routinely instructed on reviews of individual products, suites, library consolidation projects and thematic reviews as well as new and novel product design and drafting across mono-line and combined products for SME/mid-market through to global and multi-national master programmes with jurisdictional intricacies. She has a wealth of experience working with start-ups, but also works with established MGAs, London market syndicates, global and multi-national (re)insurers in the UK and internationally. As such, Tamsin is widely recognised as one of the market’s leading technical experts in the drafting of insurance wordings.

Tania Williams

Partner. An experienced lawyer advising both customers and suppliers on a broad range of technology-focussed transactions, Tania has a particular focus on complex IT services, procurement, large scale technology projects and outsourcing. Tania's work includes a broad range of IT transactions, such as cloud (such as SaaS, Paas and IaaS), artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, enterprise resourcing planning system implementations and managed services arrangements, software licensing, hosting, and IT support. Tania helps to provide pragmatic commercial solutions for clients in all phases of the transaction. Her involvement extends throughout the procurement process with strategy development, preparation of proposal requests, evaluation of potential vendors, term sheet and contract negotiations, as well as ongoing contract management and deal restructuring.

Tatiana Minaeva

Tatiana is a Partner and Head of Investor-State Arbitration at RPC. Tatiana specialises in international arbitration (both commercial and investor-state) and in cross-border litigation proceedings. She has experience representing international clients in disputes relating to financial services, energy, mining, telecoms, construction, international sale of goods, and technology.

Thom Lumley

Thom is an insurance lawyer specialising in UK Casualty matters. He acts on behalf of insurers, corporates, local authorities, and brokers, supporting them with coverage, legal defence, and operational strategies relating to claims and risk management. Thom’s experience and sector expertise encompasses Leisure & Sport, Retail & Hospitality, and Construction & Manufacturing.

Tim Moynihan

Tim is a partner within RPC's Restructuring and Insolvency team. He has a particular expertise in retail and specialises in retail insolvency, distressed mergers and acquisitions, insolvency litigation, and title-to-goods and tax-related insolvency issues. Tim represents a wide range of clients including insolvency practitioners, distressed companies and their directors, buyers of insolvent businesses, and individuals in financial difficulties.

Tim Bull

Tim is a partner in the Professional and Financial Risks team of RPC's Insurance Group. He specialises in defending solicitors, trustees and insurance brokers against often large, complex claims. He also advises the insurance market on coverage issues and provides strategic advice to the market on disputes based offshore and in other jurisdictions.

Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson is a corporate Partner who can help clients realise their commercial ambitions. With particular expertise in the media and technology sectors, Tim undertakes transactional work and provides business advice including corporate governance.

Tim Shepherd

Tim is a solicitor advocate specialising in the defence of complex claims against professionals, particularly lawyers and accountants. His global clients are professional advisers such as law firms, accountancy and audit firms as well as their professional indemnity insurers. Tim also acts for professionals on regulatory and disciplinary issues by utilising his experience of dealing with a wide range of regulators including the SRA, ICAEW, FRC, FCA and The Pensions Regulator.

Toby Higginson

Toby is an experienced insurance Partner and joint head of RPC's Clients and Markets team. He advises insurers on complex, high-value matters including financial institutions, D&O, and professional indemnity claims. This work often involves parties operating in a number of jurisdictions. Toby also acts for insurers in relation to construction disputes, and acts for construction professionals including design and build contractors, architects, engineers, and surveyors.

Toby Savage

Toby is a dispute resolution and litigation partner based in London. He specialises in insurance and reinsurance with a focus on energy (onshore and offshore), marine, power, mining, property and political risk/violence claims. Toby has significant experience advising energy insurers/reinsurers in respect of claims under construction and operational policies. He also advises insurers/reinsurers on political risk and political violence claims in various jurisdictions. Toby has an in-depth understanding of the practical and commercial aspects affecting the handling of claims and litigation, having spent time on two secondments in the London market.

Toby Lamarque

Toby is a Managing Consultant in RPC's Regulatory and White Collar Crime team, specialising in financial crime investigations and compliance. He regularly works with large, multinational companies to assess and manage their financial crime risks, in sectors including engineering, oil and gas, aerospace, banking, agriculture, hospitality, retail and media. Toby also has extensive experience conducting internal financial crime investigations, including leading interviews, collecting and reviewing large volumes of digital material, drafting reports, identifying areas for remediation and preparing disclosures to prosecutors / regulators when necessary.

Tom Purton

Tom Purton is a Partner, Head of the Commercial, Technology and Outsourcing team and co-lead of the India practice at RPC. He combines over 25 years of experience, business acumen and legal expertise in a broad-based commercial practice. His main focus is on joint ventures, outsourcing and commercial contracts (including supply, franchise, brewing, agency, sponsorship, marketing and distribution agreements). Tom’s core expertise is advising on complex, valuable, innovative and long-term commercial contracts which often underpin the client’s business and revenue. He has extensive experience across multiple sectors including retail, leisure and hospitality, real estate, financial services and business support services. He also uses his commercial expertise to support M&A and other deals on transformation and separation projects.

Tom Hibbert

Tom Hibbert is Global Head of RPC's Commercial Disputes practice and a senior Partner in the firm's Financial Disputes team. He specialises in investment banking litigation with an emphasis on capital markets, fund management related matters and disputes arising from insolvencies and restructurings. Tom has acted in numerous disputes, principally for institutional investors, including numerous banks, hedge funds, asset managers, insolvency professionals, Family Offices, and non-UK banks and corporations.

Tom Green

Tom Green specialises in high value, complex construction disputes. Tom typically defends construction professionals, with a particular emphasis on architects, engineers and design and build contractors. This has included advising on claims in Qatar and Europe, as well as in the UK. Tom is experienced in all forms of dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and ADR. He also advises on various construction insurance products including disputes arising from professional indemnity, single project, latent defect and CAR insurance policies, as well as construction bonds.

Victoria Sherratt

Victoria Sherratt is head of RPC's UK Property Team and is one of the market-leading experts in Property Insurance. Having specialised in property insurance for nearly 20 years, Victoria has extensive experience of the UK Property Market. She advises on the full range of first- and third-party property policies, including Property Owners, Operational PFI, Contractors All Risk and Jewellers Block, dealing with commercial and industrial risks both within the UK and internationally. She has extensive experience advising on policy coverage and adjustment issues, defence of liability claims and subrogated recoveries ranging from jewellery theft to fires in waste processing, recycling and renewable energy plants.

Whitney Simpson

Whitney Simpson is an Of Counsel who specialises in non-contentious consumer finance and payment related matters. Whitney has experience across a wide range of consumer credit and payment related matters including consumer credit regulation and compliance issues, payment services regulation, regulatory support on corporate matters, advising new entrants to the consumer credit and payments market, and drafting of product terms including those relating to credit cards, store cards and personal loans.

Will Beck

Will is an Of Counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency team at RPC. He specialises in advising all stakeholders (including banks, insolvency practitioners, creditors and boards of directors) on all aspects of domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Will has broad experience of advising clients in respect of distressed, turnaround and insolvent situations. Drawing on his previous experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer, Will has advised on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings of distressed companies and worked on substantive commercial disputes which have had an insolvency context. Will has particular expertise in advising on formal insolvency processes and reorganisations and restructurings conducted through schemes of arrangement (including in the insurance industry).

Will Sefton

Will is a Partner and head of RPC's Lawyers Liability and Regulatory group. Will is an expert in professional and financial risk, professional liability, and regulations that affect law firms and lawyers. Will and his team act on behalf of law firms, insurance brokers, company directors, and a wide range of professionals. He also advises liability insurers on policy coverage. He has extensive experience defending claims of all sizes, ranging from multi-million-pound group litigations in the High Court to smaller individual claims under £50,000. In 2012, he became one of the founding Partners of RPC’s Bristol office.

William Hogarth

William is a Partner in RPC’s transactional and regulatory insurance team with over 15 years’ experience advising clients and investors in the life and general insurance market on a full spectrum of transactional, reinsurance, commercial and regulatory matters. William supports insurer, reinsurer, intermediary and investor clients on a range of corporate transactions and has particular expertise assisting clients with reinsurance arrangements, including legacy market transactions. His life insurance experience includes advising insurer and trustee clients on bulk annuity and other longevity risk transactions. He also advises clients on commercial, underwriting and distribution arrangements and has significant experience guiding clients through the myriad of insurance prudential and conduct regulations, as well as Lloyd’s of London-related matters.

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Zoe Mernick-Levene

Zoe has built a cutting-edge practice in collective proceedings, launching the first ‘environmental’ CPO claims at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) against water companies for alleged market abuse. She primarily acts on behalf of consumers, investors, businesses, and other stakeholders in opt-out collective actions within the CAT. Her expertise in all these areas significantly enhances our contentious competition and ESG offerings.

Zoe Eastell

Zoe is a Partner in our insurance group and specialises in contentious construction and coverage disputes. She frequently defends claims against construction professionals including architects, engineers, project managers, surveyors, and design and build contractors. Zoe is an expert in all forms of dispute resolution including litigation, adjudication, mediation, and arbitration. She also regularly advises on complex policy coverage disputes, including disputes arising from professional indemnity and CAR insurance policies, as well as property, latent defects and title insurance policies.

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