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Alex is a Partner in our London litigation group with extensive experience of domestic and international cases. In the past five years he has conducted cases across seven jurisdictions with over US $9bn in contention. With a focus on pursuing or defending assets in complex civil fraud situations, Alex has pursued his clients’ interests in the UK, BVI, Cayman, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Gibraltar, France, Spain and multiple U.S. states. He has multi-case driven expertise in crypto asset litigation. Alex has acted for energy majors, technology companies, African mineral resource investors, international law firms and individuals with enterprise-level disputes.

Alison Patten-Hall

Alison is head of Blake Morgan’s Commercial and Charities teams. She is a partner specialising in commercial and complex high value projects. She has a great deal of experience of working with clients in the health and care sector, but also acting for large corporates on commercial projects

Alison Wood

Alison is a Senior Associate in the Professional Regulatory team, with a wide range of experience across the healthcare and accountancy sectors. Alison has a broad area of expertise with a focus on professional discipline and advising professionals and professional regulators regarding fitness to practise and related investigations. She regularly acts for healthcare regulators and also advises accountants in respect of investigations undertaken by regulators such as the ICAEW and the ACCA. She also has extensive experience representing healthcare providers in a range of matters, including criminal and safeguarding investigations, dealing with enforcement action by regulatory bodies such as CQC and Ofsted, and representing providers at inquests and in the Court of Protection. Alison also has experience undertaking due diligence for sale and acquisitions of care facilities and advising providers on corporate matters, including registration with regulatory bodies and general contractual matters.

Angela Mildenhall

Angela is an experienced solicitor having qualified at a large City firm before practising and qualifying in Sydney, Australia (both in private practice and as in house counsel for a private equity firm with several large FMCG brands). Angela advises institutional investors and occupiers with a particular emphasis on landlord and tenant work for corporate occupiers and a growing specialism in transactional telecoms work. Angela advises on complex lease acquisitions for brands such as CGI Technology, IWG, and DX Group. She oversees and manages acquisitions, sales and landlord and tenant work for Sorbon Estates and Angela has also acted for the Canary Wharf Group on its retail leasing across the estate and for boutique fitness brand, Third Space.

Antonia Dowgray

Antonia has practiced for over 20 years, and is dual qualified in New Zealand and the UK. Antonia has worked on professional disciplinary cases for the majority of key health care regulators including the General Medical Council (GMC), the General Dental Council (GDC), the General Optical Council (GOC), (then) General Social Care Council (GSCC), and the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Antonia has prepared numerous professional conduct cases for professional regulators including complex, multifaceted cases involving dishonesty, health and misconduct matters. Antonia has also provided legal advice to regulatory bodies on the interpretation of statutory provisions and rules, and has advised on High Court appeals from decisions of first instance committees.

Bradley Albuery

Bradley is the Head of Professional Regulation and a partner in our Regulatory Group which advises public and private sector organisations and individuals on investigations, compliance, reviews, prosecutions and risk management.

Bruce Potter

Bruce advises both private and public organisations on all aspects of commercial, corporate policy and governance advice. Bruce deals with corporate work, especially spin outs, acquisitions and disposals and management buy-outs as well as extensive advisory work on business recovery and insolvency across receivership, administrations and complex partnership and public and treaty body insolvency and transfers. Bruce also deals with commercial work, especially in IT and information security, developing new legal models and mixed legal/advisory/educational approaches to new legal risks. Bruce supports organisational development and governance development across health and social care often working with multi-disciplinary teams from other professional disciplines. The hallmark of his advice has been the combination of legal excellence with commercial acumen to deliver effective practical solutions for clients.

Catherine Morgan

Family Law solicitor and a Resolution accredited specialist, Catherine advises clients in divorce/civil partnership proceedings, financial remedy negotiations and in private law Children Act matters, as well as Cohabitants’ disputes and in drafting Deeds of Cohabitation and Pre-Nuptial/Post-Nuptial Agreements. Catherine often advises clients in cases with complex elements and in 2019 was named by eprivateclient as one of the Top 35 under 35 professionals in the private client sector.

Chris Potts

Chris leads the Commercial Litigation team in the Thames Valley and London. He handles complex commercial and corporate disputes, often in multiple jurisdictions. His practice includes substantial fraud/breach of duty claims.

Clare Strickland

Partner.

Daniel Scognamiglio

Daniel leads our travel team based in Southampton. He is a specialist in multi-jurisdictional disputes, travel insurance litigation and tour operator liability and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Attorney at Law (non practising) New York. He has a particular specialism in handling travel insurance and foreign personal injury matters, advising insurers and the public as a result of accidents that have happened abroad; dealing with general insurance litigation and commercial disputes with an international or multi-jurisdictional element. Daniel also advises travel agents and tour operators as to the Package Travel Regulations, ATOL and CAA.

David Miles

David has acted as a Privy Council agent since 1993. He has conducted many cases from most of the Privy Council jurisdictions. In his capacity as a Privy Council agent, David conducts a wide variety of cases including professional negligence, clinical negligence, personal injury, company and commercial, probate and construction.

Elisabeth Bell

Elisabeth is a Partner in our Reading office, specialising in the fields of IT, data protection and commercial contracts. Elisabeth is a versatile commercial lawyer, having extensive practical experience drafting, negotiating and advising on legal issues arising in connection with a wide range of commercial projects for private, public and third sectors. She has particular experience advising on IT and data protection issues, as well as extensive commercial experience in the health sectors. Drawing on secondments to a number of international companies, and the Commercial Directorate at the Department of Health, she has advised on significant outsourcing and procurement projects as well as a wide range of commercial business as usual contracts including software licensing; supply arrangements for goods and services; distribution and agency arrangements and public sector procurement projects. advises on IP issues for a range of public and private sector organisations.

Elizabeth Carr

Chief operating officer of Blake Morgan. Previously managing parther at Morgan Cole, Elizabeth was head of the firm’s general insurance, health and regulatory practice. Elizabeth specialises in employers’ and public liability, product liability, motor liability, and professional indemnity claims and has published articles on personal injury and procedural matters.

Gemma Spiceley

Gemma specialises in private company acquisitions and disposals, helping businesses to grow through acquisition, with particular experience in retail, healthcare and childcare sectors. Her main practice area is corporate transactions, which includes: Buying and selling shares in companies Buying and selling businesses and assets whether from or to companies, partnerships or sole traders; disposals and acquisitions Reorganising corporate, group and other business structures, including partnership agreements and shareholders’ agreements Advising generally on corporate administration

Hollie Jones

Hollie is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate team within the Built Environment division based Hollie deals with all aspects of commercial property work with a particular focus on portfolio management for both landlords and corporate occupiers in the retail and leisure sectors as well as industrial, marine and office occupier clients. She also has extensive experience in dealing with acquisitions and disposals of commercial freehold and leasehold properties and general property management issues.

James Greig

James is head of the Wills, probate, tax and trusts team based in the Thames Valley. He specialises in trusts and high end probate and inheritance tax planning.James main areas of expertise are: Wills, probate and powers of attorney, Section 11 IHTA Maintenance Trusts, the creation, administration, restructuring and termination of Trusts, Will structuring and planning for business owners and Inheritance Tax planning.

James Davies

James is an experienced family lawyer who often acts in cases of high net value or complexity. He represents all parties experiencing relationship breakdown. James is a Partner and the Family Law Team Leader in our Thames Valley offices. James has specialised in family law since qualification in 2002 and practises primarily in the fields of divorce and financial matters consequent upon divorce. These have often included issues of variation, pension sharing (including armed forces pensions), maintenance and capitalisation and enforcement of such orders. His cases are frequently of significant value. He additionally acts in cases of unmarried families and is adept at dealing with cohabitation disputes including under TOLATA and Schedule 1 Children Act. He also acts in disputes regarding children and their arrangements, including those of complexity or with international issues such as permission to relocate the children’s home or abduction. James acts for all individuals including the owners of owner-managed businesses, company directors, senior executives, members of the professions, those in niche industries and on occasion he has acted for the Official Solicitor.

Jane Biddlecombe

Jane has over 20 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of employment law in a variety of sectors. She is also a business immigration specialist. Jane advises on a wide range of employment issues including disciplinary issues and dismissals; performance management; absence management and capability issues; handling grievances; discrimination; redundancies and business re-organisations; post-termination restrictions; employment issues relating to acquisitions and disposals including TUPE; drafting employment contracts and policies/procedures; settlement agreements, including Director exits; and Employment Tribunal claims, including representation at hearings. Jane also specialises in all aspects of business immigration law including obtaining a sponsor licence to employ Skilled Workers in the UK and advising on compliance with sponsor duties. She advises clients on obtaining Certificates of Sponsorship and visas for employees including Skilled Worker visas, Global Business Mobility visas (intra-group transfers of senior or specialist workers), Temporary Worker visas and Business Visitor visas. Jane advises a variety of businesses ranging from large international companies to small and medium sized companies in both the private and public sectors.

Jasmin Taylor

Jasmin is a corporate law specialist, advising clients on various corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and group restructurings. Jasmin deals with a broad range of corporate matters, including acquisitions, disposals, shareholder agreements and restructuring together with general corporate advisory work for a wide variety of clients. Jasmin acts for owner-managed businesses, SMEs and larger corporates across various sectors. She also assists individual shareholders and directors.

Jonathan Sleep

Jonathan is a Senior Associate in the Succession and Tax team in our Southampton Office. Jonathan's main areas of expertise includes dealing with and advising on: The administration of high value estates, including for business owners and farmers Advising on inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning Preparation of Wills, bespoke to his client’s individual requirements Lasting Powers of Attorney Creation of Trusts

Kath Shimmin

Kath is a Partner in the Banking & Finance Team. She has over 25 years’ experience in the finance sector, covering a huge range of client and transaction types.

Katherine Ettridge

Katherine is a Senior Associate who works alongside a strong team handling a varied caseload encompassing all types of travel claims in multiple jurisdictions. Katherine join the Travel team in September 2015. Prior to that Katherine qualified as a Solicitor in September 2015 having done seats in Succession and Tax, Clinical Negligence and Family Law. She also spent 6 months on secondment with the General Dental Council.

Kathryn Woodward

Kathryn is a Senior Associate solicitor and Notary Public, who specialises in Wills, inheritance tax planning and high net worth estates. Kathryn advises and prepares Deeds of Variation. Inheritance tax planning post death. She is a member of the Solicitors for the Elderly and specialising in elderly client matters, to include preparation of lasting powers of attorney and applications to the Court of Protection. She is the Secretary for the Thames Valley Branch of STEP and also acts for the trustees of a local Charity on a pro-bono basis.

Katie James

Katie is an experienced insolvency lawyer, and partner, aiming to maximise recoveries for her clients, whether through sales of assets or by way of litigation. For the past 11 years, Katie has worked in all areas of insolvency, including formal processes such as administration, liquidation, receivership and bankruptcy as well as in less formal distressed situations. Katie has particular expertise in dealing with distressed care homes as well as hotels and complex group structures.

Laura Sherratt

Laura is a Senior Associate in our Commercial Services team based in the Thames Valley, with a particular focus on advising charities. Laura advises clients on a range of commercial, governance and regulatory issues including charitable incorporation, registration and dissolution, charitable mergers and acquisitions, academy conversions and transfers, grants, sponsorship and collaboration agreements, and working with the Charity Commission, the DfE and other regulators in the sector. Laura regularly advises charities, public bodies, academies and schools, social enterprises, registered societies and other not-for-profit organisations.

Madeleine Mould

Madeleine is a Senior Associate in our Employment Law team, she advises on a wide range of issues, both contentious and non-contentious. Madeleine works with a wide range of private and public sector employer clients of varying sizes. Advising on contentious and non-contentious matters, from the defence and/or settlement of employment tribunal claims, to managing internal employee relations processes, drafting employment contracts and company policies and providing advice on day-to-day employment law enquiries, Madeleine tailors her advice to reflect the commercial and relational context of the issue in hand. Madeleine has a strong commercial background, having completed seats in Blake Morgan’s Corporate and Banking, Commercial, Employment and Commercial Property teams during her training contract.

Manoj Styche-patel

Head of corporate department. Partner specialising in corporate finance work including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, management buy-outs and buy-ins; also advises on partnership matters.

Max Craft

Max is a consultant in our employment team. He has specialised in advising in employment law matters for over 20 years.Recognised as a leader in his field by Chambers, Max heads a team which advises clients on all aspects of employment and pensions law. He has built a national reputation for his work in this field. He still practices as an advocate and has represented the firm’s clients before employment tribunals and the EAT. He has also advised extensively on the transfer of undertaking of regulations, outsourcing issues and education. He remains actively involved in community affairs in Portsmouth where he has lived for 37 years. Max has managed and successfully represented clients in some of the Employment group’s most complex and demanding cases before the employment tribunals, including a number of high profile cases involving the Transfer of Undertaking Regulations (TUPE).

Michael Ward

Michael is based in the Blake Morgan Reading office, a senior real estate lawyer dealing with all aspects of commercial landlord and tenant work with an ongoing specialism in the development and healthcare fields. Michael has expertise in dealing with all areas of commercial real estate including the development, sale, purchase and letting of commercial premises. He is experienced in acquiring and selling development sites, negotiating development and promotion agreements as well as dealing with secured lending and heading up the Real Estate Finance Practice in the Thames Valley. He has a particular expertise in acting on healthcare developments for both the developer, care homes and medical practices including surgery relocation, developments, leasing and building schemes including specialist property leasing arrangements relevant to NHS funding.

Michael Colledge

Michael is a Partner and senior member of the Commercial Litigation team in Southampton. He assists clients in resolving complex contractual and commercial disputes. In addition, Michael acts for clients in claims against professionals in all areas. Michael’s main area of practice is related to a wide variety of commercial litigation and professional negligence. Most of Michael’s work involves significant claims in the High Court with cases also in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Michael has developed particular expertise in negligence, insurance law, regulatory law and intellectual property disputes. Michael acts for a broad range of clients from individuals to corporate clients including listed companies and well-known brands. Professional negligence Michael is experienced in advising clients on a wide range of professional negligence issues, cases of note include: Conducting a claim in relation to an accountant’s failure to advise on a number of complex partnership taxation issues. Acting in relation to a claim against a top 50 firm of accountant in relation to advice given relating to the computation of group company basic corporation tax banding. The claim included losses over a period of 15 years. In addition, to claims against accountancy firms Michael has acted on substantial claims against property agents including a negligence claim in excess of £50m in relation to the mismanagement by a leading firm of property agents in relation to a substantial flagship property in the centre of London. Michael has also acted on numerous claims against solicitors ranging from conveyancing issues including restrictive covenants and planning issues to issues relating to company commercial matters and contractual drafting. General commercial litigation Michael has a broad range of litigation experience in all courts including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. His litigation case load varies from without notice injunctions to protect client assets to long-running cases involving complex facts and legal argument. Cases of note include: Acting for the SRA in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court case of AIG v Woodman [2017] UKSC 18. This is the leading case in respect of aggregation in Solicitors’ Professional Indemnity Insurance. Acting in Godiva Mortgages v Travelers Insurance Company and others [2011] EWHC 3687 (Comm) involving a successful application by the Law Society in both its representational capacity and regulatory capacity to intervene into proceedings. This case was listed as one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2014.

Michelle Davenport

Michelle takes a solutions orientated approach to advising clients in buying and selling businesses and in respect of their other corporate and company law requirements. Michelle advises clients on a range of corporate matters, notably exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures. Michelle provides commercial and pragmatic advice on a range of corporate and commercial issues. Michelle acts for owner-managers and decision makers of companies particularly in the Tech, retail, hotels and leisure industries.

Mike Wilson, Managing Partner

Mike is the managing partner at Blake Morgan. Mike specialises in all aspects of employment law, including restrictive covenants, commercial agents regulations and disqualification of directors. He has particular expertise in employment tribunal work and high court litigation, where he undertakes his own advocacy. His work also focuses on the social housing, retail and education sectors in relation to employment. Mike is recognised by Chambers and Partners as a key individual with ‘particular expertise in the social housing and retail sectors’. (‘Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession’ 2012).

Niall Brook

Risk partner.

Nicola Diggle

Nicola leads the Blake Morgan Privy Council appeals team and is a Consultant in our London litigation group. Formerly a partner at Blake Morgan and general commercial litigator for UK and international cases, she now specialises in appeals to the Privy Council. Nicola has over 10 years of experience assisting overseas attorneys and their clients with appeals to the Privy Council in London from Permission to Appeal stage through to hearings and costs. Main areas of practice Nicola’s main area of practice is now acting as a Privy Council agent to assist overseas attorneys and clients with appeals to the Privy Council in London from foreign jurisdictions. Nicola has been practicing as a Privy Council agent since 2012. She has acted in Privy Council appeals from multiple Privy Council jurisdictions including the BVI, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Anguilla, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Mauritius. Nicola is also highly recommended as a commercial disputes lawyer with over 20 years’ experience and specialist expertise in: Commercial contract claims IT and Software disputes Director and shareholder disputes Warranty claims Commercial mediation Schemes of Arrangement

Oliver Sowton

A specialist in real estate, Olly is Head of the Property Services Group. He has vast experience in corporate occupier and asset management, as well as the retail and leisure sectors. His main practice areas include the sale, purchase and asset management of commercial property. He and his team undertake the full complement of landlord and tenant services, including lease renewal management. He has experience in delivering new store roll-out programmes, in particular working with the firm’s Construction team in delivering commercial development documentation for new-build projects. He also deals with the environmental aspects of real estate and has particular expertise in dealing with contaminated land. Oliver’s career began with advising owners of farms and landed estates and, as a result of this, he brings to Commercial Development an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the relevant legal issues. Olly has experience of working with a wide variety of clients including private individuals, companies and public sector bodies, whose real estate needs vary in type and portfolio size. He is the operational partner for a number of the firm’s key clients who operate in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Asset management: Olly spends a great deal of his time working on the communication between the different portfolio stakeholders, so that asset management programmes can be put in place, appropriately resourced and implemented. Energy and climate change: he acts for landowners, advising on and documenting the delivery of solar farm projects. Retail, leisure and hospitality: with his team, Olly advises clients in this sector from both the owner and operator perspectives. Public sector: he acts for a number of public sector clients dealing with their asset management requirements, including the implementation of property rationalisation strategies.

Paula Shea

Paula has over 20 years’ experience. She is a Solicitor, Partner and is Head of the South Coast Succession and Tax Team. Paula is well liked by her clients and is known for her practical and sensitive approach. She thrives on the technically challenging, unusual and interesting cases and creates innovative solutions to tricky problems. In addition to entrepreneurs and those with significant business interests, Paula acts for a number of well known sports and media clients in connection with wills, probate, and tax-related matters. Paula is particularly skilled in advising elderly clients and assisting families with vulnerable children. Paula believes in a holistic approach, working with other advisers and those within her team and the firm to deliver the best outcome for their clients.

Penny Rinta-Suksi

Penny is a commercial partner and an OxLEP non executive director, for whom she chairs two Sub Groups (Enterprise Zones and Funded Projects Programme). She leads Blake Morgan’s Local Government England team with over 20 years’ experience in advising private sector clients, funders, public sector and third sector on major projects and commercial contracts specialising in leisure, housing, energy , utilities, and blue-light. Penny excels at outsourcing, public private partnering and joint ventures.

Rajiv Joshi

Rajiv has experience in a variety of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Rajiv is a supervisor of Employment Tribunal work amongst other matters. Rajiv’s work includes unfair dismissal, discrimination, jurisdictional matters and the employment aspects of corporate transactions. He also drafts and advises on directors’ service agreements, employment contracts, staff handbooks and settlement agreements.

Richard Wade

Richard heads Blake Morgan’s Construction group. Specialising in construction law, Richard’s practice combines both non-contentious work and dispute resolution. He advises on procurement strategies, construction disputes (litigation, arbitration, adjudication and ADR), contract drafting and negotiation for stand-alone and complex property agreements. He also gives advice on the drafting and preparation of development agreements, building contracts, professional appointments and all related documentation. His clients include a wide range of developers, funders, contractors and professional designers and suppliers, as well as special purpose vehicles, for projects across a variety of sectors (including commercial, retail, leisure, housing and not-for-profit organisations such as schools, colleges and trusts).

Ron Burgess

Ron is Head of Employment, Pensions and Immigration group. He provides advice to trustees, corporate clients, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders in the pensions industry on a wide range of matters that involve pension schemes. Ron has wide ranging experience in providing pension-related advice on the implications of corporate restructurings, financing and re-financing, general corporate activities and conduct, insolvencies, mergers, benefit changes, pension scheme redesigns and mergers, pension scheme amendments, closures and winding-up and advice in respect of the Pensions Regulator and Pension Protection Fund.

Rupert Graham-Evans

Rupert is a Partner in our pensions team and re-joined Blake Morgan in 2015 from Penningtons Manches LLP. With over 14 years’ experience of pensions law, Rupert advises employers, trustees, intermediaries and individuals in relation to the legal aspects of UK based pension and life assurance arrangements.

Sadak Miah

Sadak leads our Commercial Recoveries Team and specialises in debt recovery and litigation with a particular focus on the finance sector. As Head of the Commercial Recoveries Team, Sadak advises on all aspects of debt recovery, landlord and tenant possession claims and litigation. Clients range from businesses which might instruct Sadak a few times a year (perhaps on very high value matters) to businesses which send Sadak thousands of cases each year. The work undertaken in the team ranges from multi-party injunction claims to volume debt and possession claims. Sadak’s practice involves a particular focus on the finance sector and his experience in this market has been built on strong relationships with finance companies and debt purchasers. Sadak’s clients include captive motor finance companies (all of which are household names), a number of debt purchasers (mainly purchasers of consumer debt) as well as many businesses in other sectors including IT, retail and utility. The team also has a substantial landlord and tenant possession practice acting for insurers and private landlords.

Sarah Rees

Sarah heads the London Commercial Litigation team. Sarah has broad experience of civil litigation generally, and works on a broad range of general corporate and commercial disputes across all sectors, but predominantly business and finance, retail, leisure and media. She handles predominantly high-value and complex litigation, both national and international. She is often involved in cases with an offshore element, and has first-hand experience of litigation in offshore jurisdictions, notably the British Virgin Islands. In recent years, Sarah is instructed increasingly frequently by clients from FSU and CIS. She receives instructions from individuals based in the UK and overseas, listed and non-listed companies, SMEs and partnerships.

Simon Pestell

Simon is a Legal Director and head of the Property Litigation team in Southampton. Simon has a wide range of experience in all aspects of commercial property and landlord and tenant litigation. Simon’s areas of expertise include rights to light, telecoms, dilapidations, lease renewals and landlord consent applications. Simon has acted for a wide range of clients including commercial and residential developers, national retailers, public and private companies, local authorities and educational establishments.

Stephen Evans

Stephen is a Senior Associate in our Succession & Tax department. Stephen assists clients with the drafting of Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, obtaining grants of representation and administering estates. Stephen works with individuals requiring a Will or a Lasting Power of Attorney. He also assists executors and beneficiaries. Stephen has been involved in reviewing and releasing Wills generated from online interviews on behalf of a major provider of online Wills. This work included raising queries and discussing amendments with customers and answering telephone enquiries about the service.

Susie Dryden

Susie is a very experienced commercial litigator who has advised on a broad range of matters over a number of years. She has been the lead partner on a number of cases involving significant and complex litigation or arbitration, including commercial contract disputes, procurement disputes, IT disputes, engineering disputes, fraud cases and professional negligence claims. In recent years, much of her work has been in the health and I.T. sectors, in which she has specialised. Her expertise in undertaking detailed investigations and in asset recovery cases enhances her regulatory work, where she has acted for many years as Intervention Agent for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) into interventions into solicitors’ firms. Susie is also an accredited mediator, both acting as mediator and representing parties at mediation.

Tania Dosoruth

Tania is a Legal Director and qualified barrister within our Regulatory Group, specialising in professional regulation in the healthcare sector. Tania has extensive experience of preparing and presenting complex and high-profile regulatory cases for healthcare regulators. In addition to this Tania also has experience of preparing and managing complex cases within the field of telecoms regulation. She has expertise in public law having managed and appeared in numerous statutory appeals. Notable reported cases in which Tania has appeared as an advocate include Thorneycroft v NMC [EWHC] 1565, Moyo v NMC [2015] EWHC 3547 and NMC and Daniels [2015] EWCA Civ 225. Having held senior in-house legal positions, Tania also has substantial experience of advising organisations in relation to matters such as the interpretation of legislative provisions and on policy and procedures. Tania predominantly acts for the Health and Care Professions Council and other healthcare regulators.

Timothy Coles

Tim is a Legal Director in the Corporate team in the Thames Valley who has experience of advising on a broad range of corporate transactions. His principal areas of work are private acquisitions and disposals (domestic and cross-border), joint ventures, restructurings, and initial public offerings. Tim advises clients in a number of different sectors but has particular expertise in the tech, healthcare and leisure sectors.

Zoe Wright

Heading up the Property Litigation team across Thames Valley, London and Cardiff providing strategic advice and litigation expertise to real estate clients dealing with land law matters such as restrictive covenants and easements, development agreements, telecommunications law, water law, agricultural law and site clearance issues as well as providing the full gamut of property asset management services including advising on business lease renewals and exits, interim and terminal dilapidations claims, tenant default and insolvency.

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