Keystone Law

Andrew Thompson

Andrew is an experienced Australia-qualified solicitor specialising in all aspects of commercial construction law. He advises funders, developers, landowners, contractors, tenants and professionals on the drafting and negotiation of the full range of construction contracts, such as building contracts, consultant appointments, bonds, guarantees, collateral warranties and associated agreements, both standard form and bespoke. Andrew advises on construction projects and developments for a variety of industries such as housing, education, retail, healthcare, hotels and hospitality.

Andrew Gardiner

Andrew is a corporate lawyer who specialises in corporate finance and private equity. He assists private equity firms and corporates with legal advice relating to floating on the Premium Market of the London Stock Exchange and AIM. He also has expertise in dealing with international exchanges such as TISE and TSX.

Jason Roston

Jason is a property lawyer with a focus on residential real estate. His clients include a broad range of domestic and international individuals and family offices together with developers and private banks who he advises on all aspects of buying, managing, financing and selling residential property. Jason also enjoys working alongside many leading agents, brokers and surveyors in high-value and often complex, discreet and time-sensitive transactions.

Joanne Staphnill

Joanne is an expert in insurance law, who regularly defends professionals against negligence claims. She offers a comprehensive service, from medico-legal advice, to pre-litigation advice, to representation in high-profile trials. She has particular experience acting for medical professionals, insurance intermediaries and solicitors. Her expertise also encompasses insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration. Joanne is frequently sought out by insurers for advice on policy coverage and policy drafting. She has notable experience in medical indemnity and legal expenses insurance relating to specialist healthcare professionals, including having drafted a number of policies herself. Joanne is also adept at providing risk management counselling and professional conduct training to clients, as well as training on many aspects of insurance law and coverage.

Samantha Leigh

Samantha specialises in real estate law, particularly within the rural sector. She deals with all types of non-contentious agricultural/landed estate work plus high-value residential property and commercial property. Samantha’s clients include landed estates, lenders, private investors, high-net-worth individuals, landlords, tenants and charities.

Susan Haggard

Susan is an experienced commercial property law specialist with a diverse client portfolio. She acts for private investment companies, commercial landlords and tenants, developers, charities, and HNW individuals and family offices. She advises on all aspects of commercial property investment and on disposals and acquisitions of all types including office and mixed-use buildings, retail parks, leisure, shopping centres and warehousing. Susan acts for retail tenants, including household names, and corporate tenants, including HQ acquisitions for corporate tenants. Additionally, Susan is highly experienced in advising landlords on commercial property leasing and portfolio management, having acted for corporate, institutional and private landlords over many years.Susan also advises on commercial and residential development, including greenfield and brownfield redevelopment and city centre/urban regeneration.

Tracy Sell-Peters

Tracy is an expert in healthcare litigation which comprises claims, regulatory, advisory, criminal, inquest and inquiry work. In terms of her claims expertise, it includes advising on complex and high-value clinical negligence claims spanning the medical specialities. She has done a particularly significant number of brain injury and spinal surgery cases as well as orthopaedic, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, neurology and neurosurgery claims, brought against surgeons and physicians working both in the NHS and in their private capacity. She has vast experience of defending GPs and out-of-hours organisations, as well as care homes, hospital groups and agencies working in these environments. In her regulatory work, Tracy defends doctors, dentists and other healthcare practitioners whose registration is called into question by the General Medical Council (GMC) and other healthcare regulatory bodies (GDC, NMC, GOC, HCPC). Practitioners also turn to Tracy for representation in independent inquiries, including serious untoward incident inquiries and complex inquests, including deaths in custody. Tracy has defended many practitioners in fitness-to-practise hearings before their regulators as well as dealing with appeals arising from those proceedings. Tracy is well regarded when it comes to healthcare litigation and often represents doctors in Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) NHS disciplinary proceedings and private hospital investigations. She has particular expertise in representing practitioners who face proceedings, often consecutively, in numerous different arenas (criminal, inquest, regulatory, disciplinary and claims). Judicial Review challenges are also a specialism of Tracy’s. She advises Medical Royal Colleges and professional bodies. She has been involved in a prominent case for the General Optical Council, including the prosecution of the remitted hearing. She has defended a number of different regulators in PSA and Judicial Review challenges. In addition to the above, Tracy also acts for insurers, defence organisations and private clients and is fluent in both French and English, and speaks German.

Trevor Garrood

Trevor is an expert in all areas of real estate law, and he acts for a diverse range of UK and international clients. Trevor has particular experience in large real estate transactions in the City and West End of London, Canary Wharf and elsewhere in the UK. Internationally he has excellent cross-border experience and has advised on projects across Europe and in Hong Kong. He works with a range of property investors, developers and end users within the offices, retail and industrial sectors. As well as advising on traditional real estate deals, Trevor also advises on the property aspects of corporate transactions. This ranges from advising start-ups to international mergers and acquisitions. Trevor has also worked with many clients in the logistics and transport sectors, such as airports, marine and warehousing/logistics facilities

Will Sander

Will is both a solicitor and UK & European chartered trade mark and design attorney. His practice covers the protection, monitoring and exploitation of IP in the UK, Europe and globally. Will has advised a broad range of clients from SMEs to household names on commercial, corporate and litigation matters covering trade mark law, patent law, design law, copyright law, and the use and protection of confidential information and know-how. Will has a particular interest in trade marks and designs. This includes the management of IP portfolios, availability searching, oppositions, cancellations, invalidity and revocation actions, and infringement matters in the UK, Europe and around the world. Will has dealt with numerous matters in the UK’s Trade Mark Registry, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) and the High Court as well as through the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), including its appeal bodies/courts. In addition, he has handled a broad range of litigious matters spanning the whole IP rights spectrum, as well as managing several cross-border litigious matters throughout Europe, North America, South America and Australasia.