Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Adrian Mayer

Adrian is a corporate transactional lawyer and specialises in advising on private equity investments and corporate finance work. He advises a broad range of corporate and M&A transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, re-capitalisations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, venture capital and private equity transactions (including management buyouts), acting for investors, corporates and management teams. His work is both domestic and international. Adrian advises a range of financial institutions including international private equity fund manager and banks, and also family owned businesses, large and medium sized corporates (both public and private) and individuals. He has a proven track record of working with multi-national clients undertaking complex cross-border transactions and acting on numerous projects in multiple jurisdictions. Adrian is particularly active in Africa and is very experienced in advising clients on transactions in that region across a number of industry groups and sectors, including real estate and construction, agribusiness, financial services, energy and natural resources and retail and leisure. He is an active participant in a number of African focussed bodies, including the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and a frequent traveller to the region. Adrian is an Alumni of London Business School, having completed its Corporate Finance Programme.

Ben Moore

Ben advises a broad range of individual and corporate clients in relation to a wide range of commercial disputes. Ben has experience of the following: Disputes involving breach of contract, misrepresentation, breach of warranty, directors’ and officers’ duties, product recall, professional negligence and all aspects of debt recovery and enforcement. Advising on insurance coverage disputes Advising a bank in defending claims by a customer relating to the repossession and sale of secured assets resulting in a favourable settlement for his client. Acted on a breach of contract, breach of trust and fraudulent concealment claim issued for in excess of £6 million. Advising a bank on the enforcement of a loan facility and charge against a property involving cross-jurisdictional issues resulting in successful enforcement and recovery by the institution. Ben’s clients operate across a range of sectors including banking, retail, technology and food services. Ben is described as “a very good lawyer and perceptive when formulating strategy” in Legal 500.

Christopher Page

Senior Partner

Claudine Morgan

Legal Director

Daniel Moore

Senior Associate

Edward Robinson

Legal Director

Henry Fea

Henry is a private client lawyer with a broad range of experience, gained from working in both the UK and Geneva. His domestic work includes advising on tax and succession planning, the establishment and operation of trusts and charities, landed estates, heritage property, UK wills, probate and the administration of estates. Internationally he advises on tax and trust matters and he has particular expertise in advising on becoming, and ceasing to be, UK resident, the establishment and operation of offshore trusts, and ownership structures for UK property. He has extensive experience of advising on regularising tax affairs in the UK and abroad, particularly through the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility and the UK/Swiss Agreement. Henry’s clients include UK-domiciled and non-UK-domiciled individuals, families, trustees, foundations, foreign lawyers, banks, private companies and trust companies, and he regularly works alongside other professionals. While in Geneva, Henry was actively involved in the committee of the Geneva branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and he is a regular commentator on legal developments affecting private clients.

Ian Brothwood

Ian has a wide range of experience in the real estate sector acting for corporates, institutions and individuals covering investment, development, real estate finance and occupiers. Ian heads up the Charles Russell Speechlys Strategic Land Team dealing with land promotion, options, collaboration agreements and development finance in relation to sites of up to 2500 homes acting for both landowners and developers. Ian has been consistently ranked in Chambers and in Legal 500 as a leading individual and described by clients as "superb" and someone who "gets things done" providing " very good and considered advice on complex matters" and highlights his "good technical knowledge". The team is described by clients in Legal 500 2020 as providing "a city quality service" and "the clients benefit from the felling of intimacy of a smaller firm but has the depth and experience of a much larger one" with "good availability and exceptional performance " highlighted. Experience: acting on various residential developments in Birmingham and Leicester comprising schemes of between 60 and 120 apartments some involving part funding arrangements by the buyer; acting for several SIPP Providers including Morgan Lloyd and Barnett Waddingham on their commercial property portfolios providing advice on acquisitions and disposals and property management; acting for landowners on the disposal of land for development by land promotion and option of significant schemes comprising more than 2500 houses including setting up ownership structures such as pool trusts, dealing with agricultural tenants and complex s 106 agreements; advising family owned property companies on both commercial and residential portfolios dealing with acquisitions and disposals from £500K to £20 million and property management from lease renewals to the construction and letting of new warehouses with rents up to £1 million pa.

Izzie Beddard

Associate

Jonathan Morley

Jonathan is a corporate finance lawyer advising clients on a wide range of transactions. He has particular experience in mergers and acquisitions (public and private), private equity investments and exits, angel investments, capital markets work, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations. Jonathan also provides general advice on company law matters. He advises businesses in a wide range of sectors, including technology, healthcare and retail. Experience: advising Battery Ventures on the disposal of Vero Software to Hexagon; advising Animatrix on the £10.5m reverse takeover of Premaitha Health by ViaLogy PLC; advising founding shareholders on the sale of a medical traceability solutions business; advising a multinational IT solutions business on various restructuring projects.

Julia Cox

Julia is a personal tax and trust lawyer with considerable experience in a broad range of private client matters involving all aspects of estate and succession planning. She is experienced in cross-border Will work for clients. She has a range of trust and charity law experience, including acting in a number of matters involving the Charity Commission. Julia's clients include UK and international individuals, their families and trustees. Julia regularly acts for UK entrepreneurs, business owners and high net worth individuals, as well as non-UK domiciliaries. She has acted for many corporate and individual trustees, both UK and non-UK resident, as well as other private client service providers. Julia has greatly enjoyed forming client relationships that have lasted from one decade to the next and across generations, with a focus on protecting family wealth in the long term. Her recent work includes advising a family on the passing of assets to the next generation while ensuring that proper provision and control are retained for the current generation and trust reorganisations to put particular assets in the control of certain beneficiaries, all tax efficiently.

Manoj Vaghela

Partner

Naomi Nettleton

Partner

Nigel Morton

Partner

Penelope Byatt

Associate

Rebecca Steer

Rebecca Steer is the founder of Steer & Co. She acts for business individuals, SME’s and multinational clients. Rebecca specialises in intellectual property, information technology and media and has been recognised as a legal expert in all three areas for a number of years. Recent work includes advising artificial intelligence technology company Graphcore, on all aspects of its business; advising XMOS on its semi-conductor products designed for voice recognition devices; advising on a series of high value digital and data projects.

Richard Norton

Richard specialises in corporate finance and banking, both for public and private companies. He has detailed knowledge of the listing rules, the AIM rules and the takeover code.

Sara Wilson

Legal Director

Syma Spanjers

Senior Associate

Tabitha Collett

Senior Associate

Tristram van Lawick

Partner