Addleshaw Goddard

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Partner specialising in all aspects of commercial real estate development and finance, with a particular focis on infrastructure and housing.

Alan is head of the Finance and Projects division in Scotland. He is a banking partner specialising in advising clients on financing in the energy sector, including oilfield services, renewable energy, shipping and related services. Alan acts for a number of major companies and financial institutions in the UK and internationally, with particular experience in MENA and Caspian transactions. Alan was a central figure in the establishment of the firm’s Aberdeen office. He previously led HBJ Gateley's Dubai office.

Specialises in major employment work relating to engagement and termination on behalf of public companies and public company directors. Clients include Amey plc; Aviva plc; BAE Systems plc; Brakes Bros Ltd; British Waterways (now Canal and River Trust); Cable & Wireless plc; Cheviot Asset Management; Diageo plc; ENRC plc; The Giraffe Group LLC; HS1 Limited; J Sainsbury plc; Kurt Geiger Ltd; Monitise Plc; NewSmith Capital Partners LLP; Old Mutual plc; Premier Farnell plc; United Utilities plc; WH Smith plc; and Workspace Group plc.

Alastair is dual qualified for both Scotland and England/Wales and has helped to drive the department’s expansion plans since joining the firm in 2010, with a formidable reputation as a deal maker and strategic adviser. Acting for an impressive list of clients which includes institutional, private and overseas investors, as well as private property companies, Alastair has extensive experience of the real estate market, particularly investment acquisitions and disposals, student accommodation, asset management and development, such as: Acquisition, subsequent asset management, development and break up of several mixed use portfolios, including a predominantly retail portfolio of 42 properties for £120million, and a predominantly industrial and office portfolio of 20 properties for £60million; Acquisition and development of six separate sites for student accommodation, comprising a cumulative total of well over 1000 studios for Hong Kong and Singaporean regulated funds, managed through a UK based FCA regulated private equity investment house; Acquisition and break up of several cross border residential portfolios, including a portfolio of 1,363 properties for £157million from a major UK high street bank, and a portfolio of 511 units across 18 blocks for in excess of £50million; Asset management of several shopping centres on behalf of both a listed UK REIT and a large private property company; The recent acquisitions of various retail, industrial and office properties in Scotland for an institutional fund for a cumulative total of almost £40m; the disposal of a portfolio of 8 retail parks and properties to a UK institution for in excess of £60m; He is valued for his understanding and commercial awareness of the pressures – he is creative and finds a solution rather than a problem.

Partner dealing with leveraged and corporate lending transactions, resturcturing and secured lending. Clients include HSBC Bank Plc, Bank of Ireland, Clydesdale Bank Plc, Lloyds Bank Plc and Inflexion Private Equity Partners.

Amanda leads both the firm's finance and projects division and that division's corporate banking practice. She has more than 20 years' experience as a finance lawyer and advises on a diverse range of corporate banking transactions, with particular emphasis on debt and hedging facilities for corporates. She also has experience of leveraged finance (including public to private transactions and management buy-outs and buy-ins) and real estate finance (comprising the full range of commercial investment properties, portfolios of residential properties and development projects). She regularly advises on facilities in the professional practices, healthcare and education sectors and on funding for financial institutions.

Anaïs focuses her practice on civil and commercial litigation as well as pre-litigation matters. Her practice also covers corporate crime proceedings and compliance-related issues. Additionally, Anaïs advises and represents clients in employment disputes and labour-related criminal litigation. Anaïs completed her legal training at a major international law firm, as well as in the litigation team of an American payment services company, before joining Addleshaw Goddard in July 2021.

Partner specialising in asset finance, project finance, trade finance and structured finance. Publications include ‘Leasing Life’, ‘Manchester Evening News’ (Finance Act 1997), ‘Industry Northwest’ (MBO finance 1998).

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Andrew is a corporate partner, specialising in UK and international mergers and acquisitions and is also Head of our firm wide Retail & Consumer Sector Group. He has been named in the Lawyer's prestigious 'Hot 100' 2016 list for his work in advising retail and consumer clients on their strategic objectives in Europe and also for developing an Africa iPad app, which provides legal guidance on investing in Africa His clients include Britvic, Diageo, Harper Collins, IAG/British Airways, McBride, Royal Mail Group, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Schwan Food Company, Tate & Lyle, Valmont and William Hill. Recent transactions include advising: Associated British Ports on the sale of its interest in Southampton Container Terminal to DP World BA on various matters including its disposal of the BA Connect business to Flybe and the restructuring of the NATS shareholding arrangements Britvic on its acquisition of Brazillian company Empresa Brasilerira de Bebidas e Alimentos (Ebba) Diageo on transactions in various jurisdictions including the sale of Gleneagles, the formation and break up of various interlinked joint ventures with Heineken and Namibia Breweries in Southern Africa, the acquisition of Serengeti Breweries in Tanzania and the acquisition of Meta Abo Brewery in Ethiopia Royal Mail Group on its online store launch on Alibaba's emarketplace and acquisition of the e-courier business Sainsbury's Supermarkets on its Netto JV with Dansk Supermarket and the Mobile by Sainsbury's JV with Vodafone (and various other matters) Schwan's Group on the divestment of its European business (including the Chicago Town pizza brand) to Dr. Oetker  Tate & Lyle on the break up of its pan-European bulk ingredients joint venture with ADM Various listed companies on governance and other projects in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria  He has also recently run in-market training programmes for in-house lawyers across Africa one of which won The Lawyer's 'Best Service Quality Innovation' award 2016 and the other being recognised by the FT Innovation Awards as a key innovation and risk management tool for a major client.

Andrew is a leading corporate lawyer who focusses on working closely with the entrepreneurial owners and management teams of, and investors in, high growth companies. He leads the firm’s food and drink and capital markets teams in Scotland, providing advice on fundraising, growth by acquisition, strategic relationships, contracts, joint ventures and exits. The exits include public and private company mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts and capital markets flotations. Andrew is a highly pro-active business developer with a track record of creating opportunities for clients and intermediaries. Clients comment ‘Andrew Ley is technically brilliant’ and Andrew has a ‘fantastic capacity to grasp the vitally important aspects of the deal and help parties get the very best outcome possible’.

Partner specialising in property litigation. Extensive experience of contentious property matters, including: forfeiture and possession claims (including peaceable re-entry); lease renewals; claims concerning lease covenants (including alienation and use cases); solicitors’ and surveyors’ professional negligence claims; property-related insolvency issues; disrepair and dilapidations claims; disputes concerning the exercise of options to determine; property-related contractual claims; landlord’s remedies against defaulting tenants; joint venture and development disputes.

Andrew is very experienced in general transactional corporate work, including acquisitions, disposals, buyouts and equity investments, and commercial contracts of a wide variety. He also has significant experience advising on intellectual property matters, particularly in the context of deals or commercial contracts, and UK and EU competition law issues. Andrew has a specific interest in assisting high-growth business, often but not exclusively in the technology and food and drink sectors. He has been a key adviser for many years to a global leading provider of wrap platforms for financial and wealth management markets, supporting their national and global growth. Andrew is a Notary Public and Writer to the Signet

Specialises in commercial and corporate work of all types involving the public and private sector, including outsourcing, efficiency initiatives, shared services arrangements, collaborative frameworks, PFI, NHS, LIFT, joint ventures, regeneration and central government initiatives. Particular experience in the health, education, social care, housing, regeneration and transport sectors. He acts for the public sector, the private sector and financial institutions. He has an expertise in public procurement and data protection law.

Partner, corporate division based in Manchester. Andrew specialises in M&A (both public and private), private equity and joint ventures. He has acted for companies, private equity houses, individuals and partnerships on a range of domestic and cross border acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and other transactions. Andrew has particular expertise in private equity transactions. He advises private equity houses on new investments, managing their portfolio companies during the life of those investments and on helping them to achieve successful exits. Andrew also acts opposite private equity houses – advising sellers and management teams during new investments and in supporting them throughout the life of their business. This gives Andrew, and his clients, the benefit of experience of dealing with private equity investors from all angles and an insight into what really does, and should, matter for each interested party. Andrew won the prestigious Young Lawyer award at the North West Young Professionals Awards in 2010 and was shortlisted for Young Professional of the Year. Recent highlights include acting for: Living Bridge on its £54m acquisition of Sykes Cottages; the shareholders and management of Travel Counsellors on their investment from Equistone; NorthEdge Capital on its £66m acquisition of Accrol Papers; Inflexion Private Equity on a number of acquisitions including CTC Aviation and Natural Products; Lloyds Development Capital on a number of acquisitions and disposals including WRG and ATP; Phoenix Private Equity on its acquisition of Key Retirement Solutions; Co-operative Group on: the £620m disposal of its pharmacy business to the Bestway Group, its liability management exercise, including the disposal of assets to Co-operative Bank p.l.c., its £1.6bn acquisition of the Somerfield supermarket chain and subsequent store disposal programme of in excess of 150 grocery stores in a challenging time frame, its joint venture with Thomas Cook group; Peel Media on its £500m joint venture with Legal & General for MediaCityUK; Moneysupermarket.com on its acquisition of Financial Services Net, OnTrees and on two joint ventures; Thermo Fisher Scientific on its acquisitions of Raymond A. Lamb, Sterilin Limited and the sale of Electorthermal Limited; Capita on their acquisitions of DLA Direct, Pathway, Turner MacFarlane Green and Reliance Task Management.

Andrew is a real estate partner with a broad range of experience and expertise in all aspects of real estate but with a particular focus on the sale and purchase of significant investment property and large scale portfolios, investment and property management and acting for national occupiers throughout a range of sectors. Andrew leads large property teams for several of our major institutional and corporate occupier clients and on corporate transactions with a substantial property element. Acting for and leading a client team for Travelodge Hotels Limited in relation to its rapid expansion plans in the budget hotels sector for nearly ten years; leading a team of 32 lawyers acting for British Land in relation to a sale of a 50% share in the Meadowhall Shopping Centre (a deal valuing the complex at £1.53bn).

Partner specialising in corporate and commercial work including alliances, outsourcing, distribution agency and affinity agreements, with a particular focus on transport and consumer goods sectors.

Andrew heads up the London construction team and regularly leads cross-disciplinary teams on substantial development finance and project finance deals. He advises clients from the public sector, to developers, retailers, financiers, contractors, members of the professional team and mixed consortia on the drafting, negotiation and approval of the full suite of development agreements, project documents, construction contracts, major projects contracts, and partnering projects. Andrew also advises on methods of procurement, standardisation and contractor incentivisation schemes and takes particular pride in trying to broker solutions to alleviate entrenched negotiations. Andrew has particular expertise in acting for PPP’s, joint venture partners and developers especially in relation to education, housing and regeneration, offices and retail, investment portfolios and health. Andrew heads up the Student Accommodation sector and is one of the lead partners for the firm’s sector focus on industrials. He is the client relationship partner for Volkswagen, Pramerica, ULiving, Rocket Investments, Mount Anvil, McLaren and the University Partnership Programme. He also advises Associated British Foods on all of their construction-related activity worldwide and (amongst others) Travelodge, Sainsbury’s, Diageo, Fulcrum Infrastructure, Barclays, Britvic, RBS, Nationwide and Lloyds Bank on their construction-related activity.

Over 20 years’ experience of advising on public and private M&A, capital markets, joint ventures, complex reorganisations and private equity and investment transactions across a number of sectors. He has particular expertise in the energy and natural resources sectors, including in transactions involving Africa. Recent experience includes advising SSE on the sale of a 25% interest in Beatrice Offshore Windfarm and related joint venture arrangments, advising Seven Energy on various acquisitions and fundraisings, including the US$255m equity investment in it by IFC, the IFC ALAC Fund and Temasek, advising Cairn Energy on its recommended takeover of Nautical Petroleum, and advising Xylem Inc on various M&A transactions.

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Anna has over 25 years experience acting for a broad range of corporate clients from small technology start-ups to large listed plcs across a broad range of sectors. These include biotech, software and other technologies, energy, infrastructure and real estate, financial service and leisure. Anna undertakes a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, equity funding for businesses, joint ventures, reorganisations and reconstructions. She has particular expertise and has a long track record of successfully floating companies on AIM and the Main Market, secondary fundraisings on market as well as takeovers and schemes of arrangements to take companies private again.Her pragmatic, solutions driven advice is highly valued by clients. Anna is noted by Chambers as "renowned for her work in the infrastructure and technology sectors. She advises several prominent clients in the technology sector on a range of corporate matters".

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Anna-Christina has worked as a lawyer since 2001. She has developed a pragmatic employment law practice with a strong financial focus. She advises major groups, SMEs, financial institutions and investment funds on their strategic operations (mergers, disposals, takeovers, LBOs, etc.) in terms of employment law audit and due diligence, management of HR integration processes (review of collective status, working hours, etc.) and implementation of management packages alongside corporate teams. She is also involved in restructuring projects (downsizing, PSE, carve-outs, etc.) or the implementation of alternative scenarios (RCC, APLD, PDV, GPEC, etc.). Anna-Christina also assists her clients with remuneration issues and the implementation of schemes such as value-sharing bonuses, employee savings plans and employee share ownership. Anna-Christina also advises on matters relating to individual employment relations (discrimination and equal treatment, contractual termination, redundancies, settlements, foreign secondments, etc.) and litigation arising from URSSAF inspections and collective disputes.

Anne is a Partner and head of Contentious Construction in Scotland. She specialises in construction and engineering disputes, with considerable experience in a number of sectors including PFI/PPP, energy, utility infrastructure, education, retail, health and safety, and disputes arising from waste management. She also has a contentious shipping practice, covering the full spectrum of disputes in the sector. Anne is experienced in the full range of dispute resolution forums, including mediation, adjudication, expert determination and court action. She is an accredited specialist in construction law with the Law Society of Scotland and dual-qualified in Scotland and England and Wales. She is also a solicitor advocate.

Antoine Martin advises on all aspects of corporate / M&A matters. He specializes in advising on share and asset acquisitions and disposals, corporate reorganizations and cross-borders transactions. These transactions often focus strongly on complex carve outs or distressed asset transactions, involving as such negotiations with French State Agencies and local authorities. He also focuses his practice on private equity transactions (acting for institutional investors, managers and portfolio companies). His business background has further developed his naturally pragmatic, business-focused approach. With over 30 years' experience in the M&A sector, he has advised a number of international industrial groups on their strategic development activities in France and abroad. He has acted for domestic and international clients operating in the following industries: aerospace and defence, agriculture, food & drink, automotive, retail, biotech and high-tech, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and miscellaneous services.

Aster is a partner in Addleshaw Goddard’s professional practices group, described as ‘pre-eminent in terms of overall experience and depth of resource’ by the ‘Legal 500’. Aster advises professional practices on governance, structuring, partner and risk management issues, with a particular emphasis on international structuring matters. He also advises on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and LLP conversions (both from general partnerships and limited companies). In addition, he works with businesses in the financial services sector, including hedge funds and private equity houses on partnership and the use of LLPs and partnerships.

Aymar Claret de Fleurieu is a Managing Associate in our International Arbitration Practice, based in Paris, France. He acts as counsel in arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and institutional. His practice includes both investor-State and commercial arbitration, with a particular focus on the energy, construction, competition & distribution and post-M&A sectors. He also acts in post-arbitration proceedings (annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards) before French courts. Aymar is a lawyer at the New York and Paris bars. Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, he practiced for six years in one of France’s largest international law firms and worked as an assistant to Professor Jennifer Hillman at Georgetown University. Clients describe Aymar “as organized, efficient and always on the top of his cases.” (Legal 500 EMEA - 2023).

Baudouin's practice focuses on corporate law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border) and private equity transactions. He also advises on a range of commercial matters, in particular the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts in the aerospace, defence and nuclear sectors.

Corporate partner, with a particular focus on advising clients in the financial services sector. Experience includes advising on a wide range of corporate and strategic transactions including UK and cross-border mergers, disposals and acquisitions (including acquisitions under the UK Banking Act 2009), joint ventures, intra-group restructurings and advising the boards of companies, building societies, mutuals and other entities on directors’ duties and a wide variety of constitutional, corporate governance, regulatory and strategic matters and projects. Closely monitors regulatory developments and advises clients on compliance and the strategic importance of regulatory change. Clients include banks, building societies, mutuals, asset managers and stock exchanges, amongst others.

Ben is a litigation and dispute resolution partner specialising in finance litigation and fraud. Ben's experience involves all aspects of finance litigation including bringing claims for financial services clients and defending claims against those clients. These claims include enforcement and recovery actions, defending mis-selling claims, disputes regarding appointment of LPA Receivers, injunctive actions, fraud claims and dealing with complaints, including those made to the Financial Ombudsman Service. Ben acts for many clients in both the asset finance and asset based lending sectors. Ben also acts for commercial real estate and mortgage lenders, principally in professional negligence claims against solicitors and valuers and in contested possession claims. Ben has a particular specialisation in dealing with fraud claims and asset recovery, both in the financial services sector and for commercial organisations. This often involves taking urgent action to obtain freezing injunctions and search orders.  Ben is a board director of the Yorkshire and Humber Fraud Forum, a not for profit company that brings together the private and public sectors to fight and reduce financial crime.  Ben is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Ben often acts for leasing clients on Aviation and Marine matters. He typically advises clients on the enforcement of aircraft mortgages, repossession proceedings to obtain delivery up of Aircraft, in actions against third parties who have alleged liens and in associated guarantee claims. In respect of Marine Ben often acts for clients in relation to obtaining the arrest of ships in overseas jurisdictions and in Admiralty matters. Ben was seconded for 6 months to Nationwide Building Society in the role of Senior Counsel in Dispute Resolution.   Ben principally advised the Commercial Division of Nationwide in respect of their high value and complex disputes arising out of their commercial lending. Ben advises clients on issues of Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery and Corruption. Ben is Addleshaw Goddard's Anti-Bribery and Corruption Officer and is a Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

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Bill is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution/litigation team. He specialises in heavyweight disputes. He has particular expertise in the management and resolution of procurement challenges, major IT project disputes, claims arising from the sale and purchase of businesses, contract terminations and the resolution of large scale business-critical supply/JV disputes. Bill has over 20 years’ experience in litigation and arbitration, together with all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including expert determination, negotiation and mediation. He acts for national and international clients and has considerable experience of advising both private and public bodies in a range of sectors, including health, transport, utilities, retail and technology. Examples of Bill’s recent experience include: acting for a wide variety of contracting authorities and utilities, as well as bidder clients on procurement challenges and achieving successful outcomes, by way of negotiation, strike out/summary judgment and swift partial re-run; advising ‘behind the scenes’ on highly sensitive procurement issues; assisting IT suppliers and customer organisations on resolving large scale disputes with IT outsourcing, changes in specification/scope, project delivery delays and performance failures, using escalated dispute resolution processes, negotiation, mediation, expert determination, arbitration and court proceedings; advising private and public sector organisations on complex and/or critical issues, including the management, renegotiation, default and termination of major contractual relationships; resolving high value completion account and warranty claims; dealing with several high profile judicial reviews in a number of sectors.

Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Blandine has been an associate with K&L Gates (6 years). Blandine is a managing associate in our Paris office, who acts for French and international clients on a wide range of real estate matters, including real estate investment, transactions and acquisitions, leases, construction and property development, and real estate disputes.

Partner dealing with investment fund and development work, landlord and tenant, and shopping centres; currently involved in a number of city centre regeneration schemes.

Caoilfhionn is a partner in the Dispute Resolution group. Caoilfhionn has extensive experience in both Commercial and High Court litigation and in particular in advising on financial services litigation such as the misselling of complex financial instruments and multi-jurisdictional funds related litigation. She also has expertise in professional negligence and recovery proceedings. She also advises on both the implementation and defence of insurance proceedings. Caoilfhionn has significant experience advising a number of major international retailers, as tenants, in relation to landlord and tenant disputes to include disputes with regard to alterations to the premises, the failure of the landlord to comply with obligations under Agreements for Lease, the negotiation of rent reductions and the defence of recovery of rent proceedings.  

Carrie is dual-qualified in Scotland, England and Wales, with specialisms including hotel and pub acquisitions and disposals, retail leasing and asset management for UK-wide national retailer clients, portfolio acquisitions and disposals for clients. She is also steadily growing her niche practice acting and advising on SIPP acquisitions and disposals for a number of prominent SIPP providers. She also specialises in property tax and advises in relation to both LBTT and SDLT.

Partner specialising in all aspects of pensions advisory and transactional work, advising trustees and sponsoring employer (companies and LLPs). Advisory experience includes interpretation, consolidations, establishing schemes and new benefit sections, scheme mergers and sectionalisation, and investment documentation, as well as day to day issues including compliance in particular with the Finance Act, Pensions Act and date protection. Transactional experience includes corporate reorganisations, LLP conversions and share sales including advising on negotiations with trustees over funding implications and seeking Pensions Regulator clearance.

Catherine advises regulated businesses, developers and investors on the disposal, development, pre-letting and funding of a range of asset classes including regulated operational assets, logistics, offices and student accommodation.  Catherine co-leads (with Jonathan Powling) the Logistics Sub-sector group at Addleshaw Goddard, which published the market leading 'How Soon is Now?' logisitcs report - gathering the views of leading investors, developers, occupiers and operators and setings out policy recommendations on how the logistics sector should respond to the current challenges and opportunities.Catherine also advises landlords and corporate occupiers on a range of landlord and tenant matters, leading teams to cost effectively manage property interests balancing the interests of landlord and occupier to ensure that institutional requirements are met whilst facilitating the occupiers' day to day business

Catriona provides specialist corporate and banking advice to many of the major banks in the UK and a variety of corporate borrowers. She has a particular focus on the shipping, energy and offshore supply chain sectors. Based in the Aberdeen office Catriona maintains a strong practice handling major transactions in the onshore – and offshore renewables, offshore supply chain and shipping sectors. Her finance experience includes specialist ship finance, conventional and Islamic financing structures and bond issues, and she deals regularly with ship and energy finance transactions across multiple jurisdictions and time zones. Catriona recently acted for a UK leader in a major port refinancing and redevelopment and acted for a UK leader in a financing of an onshore windfarm development.

Cécile focuses her practice in the fields of national and international conflict resolution, including litigation, alternative dispute resolution and corporate investigations and compliance. She regularly advises on general business and commercial matters. Cécile regularly takes part in industry events as a speaker, including the AFJE (The French association of the in-house lawyers in France) webinar "Internal investigation: a new paradigma" with a large focus on labour's aspects.

Celia advises clients doing business in France on all aspects of French employment law. Celia provides French and international clients with labour law advice related to corporate reorganizations and downsizing, plant closures or redeployment of industrial sites, business outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions. She also represents her clients before national courts (labour, civil, appeal courts) in complex litigations against employee representative bodies, unions, labour administration, and employees. Her activity is mainly focused on labour issues arising out of corporate transactions (such as mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, LBOs), for listed and non-listed companies. labour law advice in connection with M&A/ LBOs transactions (e.g. due diligence, guidance on information and consultation procedure of the works council, review of put option agreements/ MoU, review of Share/Assets purchase agreements, transfer of employment contracts, etc.). I also assist other departments (e.g. Tax, Anti-trust, Restructuring, etc.) on transversal issues (e.g. management packages, stock options/ RSU agreements, permanent establishment issues, information and consultation procedure regarding anti-trust, etc.); reorganizations and downsizing (redundancy plans); negotiation of C-level employees’ termination; assistance to clients on day-to-day employment law issues (e.g. hiring and termination issues, executive and employee compensation, union and works council negotiations, discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, business transfers, professional elections, etc.); assistance on collective matters (professional elections, negotiation of company-wide agreements, etc.).

Corporate partner, specialising in mergers and acquisitions (public and private), securities offerings, joint ventures and other mainstream corporate finance work.

Partner specialising in all forms of property litigation including dilapidations, lease renewals, rent review, professional negligence, insolvency and issue arising from the development of land such as easements, restrictive covenants and rights of light.

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Charles is an associate in the Public Law Department. He advises and represents private operators (investors, industrial companies, major players in the construction industry, etc.) and public-sector entities (publicly-owned companies, etc.) in a wide range of sectors (water and wastewater, waste treatment, transport, energy, construction, IT and defence). His skills cover all areas of public law in both advisory and litigation, specifically in public procurement law.

Charles has significant and recognised expertise in banking and finance and is mainly involved in acquisition finance, leveraged finance and syndicated finance transactions, as well as real estate finance, bond issues and private placements. He advises a wide range of French and international clients, including financial institutions, investment funds and companies. Charles was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2017 and is fluent in French and English.

Partner in the real estate group whose practice covers a broad range of real estate sectors in which Chris acts for developers, funders, investors and corporate occupiers but with a particular focus on real estate finance and property development work. Over the past year Chris’ key transactions have included acting for Hub Residential on the forward sales and funding of the ‘Hoola’ development at Tidal Basin Road in the Royal Docks, London E16 with a gross development value of in excess £150m; acting for Lloyds Bank plc in connection with its new revolving credit facility secured against Countryside Properties (UK) Limited; acting for Lloyds Bank plc on its new offices at 125 London Wall and TSB Bank plc on its new southwest HQ at Keypoint, Bristol.

Specialises in domestic and international M&A transactions and reorganisations for both public and private companies with a particular focus on both the financial services, telecoms and retail and consumer sectors. Chris s main clients include RBS, Diageo, AIG, Kajima and British American Tobacco. Jointly responsible for leading Addleshaw Goddard s Africa initiative with specific responsibility for East Africa.

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Partner specialising in general corporate lending, leveraged finance, restructurings and real estate finance: clients include HSBC Bank plc, Barclays Bank PLC, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Lloyds TSB Bank plc and Clydesdale Bank/Yorkshire Bank.

Commercial Disputes partner. Leads the Reputation & Information Protection team, specialising in reputation crisis management, defamation, privacy, confidentiality, data protection disputes, and in the protection of rights and reputation online.  Also advises on commercial litigation, particularly in hedge fund sector.

David leads the corporate team in Scotland and is also a central figure in the development of the firm’s new Aberdeen office. He has significant experience in corporate and banking work, including M&A, investment, corporate finance and acquisition finance. David has a broad range of clients, including banks, private companies, equity investors and SMEs, and has particular expertise in the oil and gas sector, particularly advising service companies. Prior to joining the firm, David worked as in-house counsel at BP in Aberdeen. He continues to work in a quasi-general counsel role with a number of the firm’s key clients. David is noted by Chambers to be "extremely impressive; calm and relaxed and very knowledgeable".

David is a corporate and commercial lawyer based in the firm’s Edinburgh office. David is recognised in the Scottish legal market as a go-to corporate lawyer in the digital / technology sectors. David is immersed in the technology (particularly fintech) world both locally in Scotland and across the UK. His practice advises established digital businesses such as FNZ, up and coming or fast growing technology businesses, investors into digital and fintech businesses and blue chip financial services organisations investing into digital businesses or the procurement of their technology.

Partner advising sponsors, owners and funders in relation to PPP projects across many sectors from education and highways to health and energy. Also advises infrastructure asset funds on sales, acquisitions and operational matters.

David specialises in corporate and commercial law, particularly corporate finance, acquisitions and disposals, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts and private equity deals. He has experience of a wide range of industry sectors, including metals, real estate, manufacturing, sports, energy, IT and outsourcing. Having worked in-house for over 18 years as director and group company secretary for Murray International Holdings, David also has a good understanding of other areas of legal practice, including employment and real estate, and provides ‘real life’ business expertise to clients.

David is a partner in the Firm's Energy and Infrastructure practice, specializing in domestic and international renewable energy projects. David has a wealth of experience in the infrastructure and energy sectors advising both developers and funders on large-scale infrastructure and power projects during his time at Dentons, Linklaters, Shearman & Sterling and Barclays Capital (where he was a director in the Energy & Utilities team). He specializes in the renewables and alternative energy sector with particular expertise in the wind, solar, hydro and biomass sectors. As the co-chair of the Dentons Energy Transition group, he has an excellent understanding of the importance of decarbonization programs to both public and private sector clients and is also involved with a number of clients in their COP26 initiatives. David has most recently worked for: a large multinational on the development of its hybrid PPA projects incorporating conventional, solar and battery power; and a host of investment funds, developers and utilities on a series of renewable M&A transactions for both consented and operational projects in the UK. In addition to his expertise in energy, he also advises the UK government on large-scale infrastructure and procurement programs.

David is Head of IP/IT & Data Protection in Ireland. He advises a broad range of clients on all issues connected with protection and commercialisation of IP, technology and software arrangements, and data protection and privacy matters. In the area of IP, David’s expertise covers trade marks, passing off and branding, copyright, design rights, patents, confidential information, trade secrets and know how. In the field of IT, David has significant expertise on all aspects of e-commerce, internet law and software and technology matters. He regularly advises on issues including software development and licensing, SaaS arrangements, computer services and managed services agreements, IT integration projects, website terms, e-commerce arrangements, and maintenance, support and SLAs for IT systems. David assists clients in the areas of data protection (GDPR) compliance and privacy. His advices cover matters including preparation and review of appropriate privacy notices, notification of security breaches to the DPC, assistance with Regulatory investigations; data processing arrangements, data transfer agreements and compliance with subject access requests. David frequently presents to clients on key issues in data protection law. David is a Registered Trade Mark Agent, a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the European Community Trademark Association (ECTA).

David has specialised in employment law for more than 17 years and is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in this field. He is also a solicitor advocate with extended rights of audience in the Court of Session and Supreme Court. David practices in all areas of employment law, including conducting appearances in the Employment Tribunal and EAT throughout the United Kingdom. David predominantly advises employers, dealing with the full range of employment law issues including unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, senior executive exits and redundancy, and has many years’ experience advising on employment law issues in the oil and gas industry in particular. David works across our offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. David has a particular interest in workplace mediation and is a certified mediator. He has undertaken mediation in commercial and employment law disputes and has also conducted judicial mediation in the Employment Tribunal. Having a particular interest in training and development, David was senior tutor in employment law at Aberdeen University in the post graduate Diploma in legal practice from 2013 – 2017 and undertakes many training courses for clients on all aspects of employment law, HR practice and procedure, mediation skills and management skills.

David advises investment funds and family offices in their small to mid cap transactions, in a wide range of sectors (industry, health services, etc.). He also advises managers in LBOs and fundraising. He also has a recognised know-how acquired in restructuring distressed LBOs.

David represents companies and executives in the context of French or international government or regulatory investigations, including money laundering, corruption, misappropriation of corporate assets and tax fraud. David is one of the first lawyers in France to have provided training in preparation for police custody in real conditions for managers. He also distinguished himself as a lawyer for civil parties in cases of terrorist attacks (Rue des Rosiers attack, Rue Copernic attack). He teaches at the Panthéon Sorbonne University Business Ethics and Compliance Master’s Degree, and is regularly invited to participate in conferences in France and abroad, for Universities, professional organisations (AFJE, CIAN) and international or national public bodies (OECD, ENM - French School for Judges). David is also in charge of the criminal business law seminar at Master 2 – Droit des affaires (Nanterre University). He has been recognized by Best Lawyer in Criminal Defense in France in the 2021 edition, ranked “Excellent” for White-collar crime & compliance by Décideurs Leaders League in 2020, and selected by Legal 500 for White-collar crime in 2019.

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David is a Dispute Resolution Partner and head of the Immigration Group (Ireland). He is recognised nationally and internationally as one of Ireland’s foremost immigration law specialists. His expertise in commercial litigation encompasses environmental law, anti-trust, business tort litigation, corporate law and shareholder actions, IP and IT litigation. He has worked extensively with leisure, life science and shipping companies and also financial institutions. David’s team blends creativity and business pragmatism to solve their clients’ Irish immigration and mobility challenges. With efficient case management and a depth of knowledge, David’s team assist clients with inbound Irish immigration issues including employment permits, entry visas and business travel.

Deborah is Head of the Corporate team in Ireland. She has over 20 years experience advising on all aspects of corporate and commercial law, M&As to PPPs, commercial agreements and corporate governance matters. Deborah specialises in mergers and acquisitions and has advised on many corporate restructurings, private equity investments and joint venture arrangements. She also advises boards of directors on Directors Compliance Policies and provides guidance on the appropriate corporate governance approach and culture on boards of directors

Dorine has experience in advising private equity funds and multinational groups on the tax structuring of M&A deals including LBOs and capital market transactions. Dorine's practice also focuses on the general reorganisation work for corporate groups, including tax and VAT issues. Dorine also represents taxpayers in tax disputes. Dorine joined the firm in 2023 after an initial experience in an international firm.

Doug Smith is a Partner and head of the Firm's Corporate Restructuring Group. He has a broad range of experience in the area of commercial law and specialist knowledge of corporate restructuring law and insolvency law. He represents companies in financial difficulty, creditors of companies in financial difficulty, insolvency/restructuring office holders and the executives of companies in financial difficulty. He is involved in most of the significant Irish restructuring and insolvency cases in one capacity or another. He has also been involved in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies.

Ed is a recognised leading commercial shipping lawyer and head of the firm’s shipping group. Ed has acted in the sale or purchase and registration of more than 200 vessels, and is a recognised expert in dual registration of ships in the Caspian Sea. With an international practice acting for ship owners, builders and banks, Ed has led negotiations and completions in over 20 countries. His experience covers the full range of transactional and commercial needs of clients in the shipping, offshore renewable energy, and oil & gas sectors. He specialises in the sale, purchase and registration of ships, in particular offshore vessels; commercial agreements, time charters and tender negotiations for major projects; ship building contracts and complex bareboat lease structures. "Ed Watt continues to operate on an almost bewildering international scale" Scotsman Legal Review

Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Edouard has been a partner with K&L Gates (9 years), Simmons & Simmons (5 years) and an associate at Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) (4 years) where he headed their real estate group after spending 8 years with major French law firms Edouard Vitry, a partner in the firm’s Paris office, has more than 30 years of experience in real estate. He advises on all commercial real estate matters, with a particular focus on investment, finance, construction, real estate development and commercial leases. He has experience in all types of real estate work including due diligence, sale and purchase process, securitisation, drafting and negotiating contracts and leases, property disputes and ADR Edouard acts for international and French clients including real estate funds, asset managers, developers, banks, builders, real estate companies, landlords, occupiers and insurance companies

Eileen is a Partner in Corporate Law and head of the firm’s Capital Markets Law division and Financial Services Regulatory groups. She specialises in company law, dealing in particular with financial regulation issues. Eileen is also very involved in the area of Corporate Governance and Directors liability, having established EFC’s directors’ advice team and publishing a number of relevant articles and contributing to publications on corporate governance.

Tax partner in the London office of Addleshaw Goddard who advises on the tax aspects of a wide range of structuring and transaction work but has particular experience advising financial services, institutional real estate and professional practices. Leads the tax practice in relation to the firm’s financial sector focus. Specialises in fund formation, partnership and corporate tax planning, particularly the tax aspects of corporate finance, restructuring, joint ventures and public and private mergers and acquisitions.

Elisabeth Marrache is leading the IP/IT and data protection practice at Addleshaw Goddard France. She has an expertise in intellectual property, new technologies and personal data and advises on complex transactions in digital law (IT contracts, outsourcing operations, internet law) as well as in personal data and intellectual property law. Elisabeth benefits from a wide range of French and international clients and advises companies and start-ups in the healthcare, telecoms, IT, financial institutions, and e-commerce sectors. Elisabeth is also part of different international committees such as the International Trade mark Association (INTA) or the Trademark and Design Law Practitioners Association (APRAM) and regularly speaks at conferences (AIM Marseille / La Tribune) and training programs on matters relating to new technologies and personal data. In France, she is co-leading the Addleshaw Goddard accelerator programme for young startups “AG ELEVATE”, advising on IP/IT and data protection matters. And she is involved in some Pro Bono work for several startups belonging to 42 Startup-Up Club (Ecole 42). Member of the Paris Bar since 2005, with more than eight years of experience in the TMT departments of major Anglo-Saxon law firms, she holds a post-graduate degree (DEA) in communication law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Corporate partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP in London.

Partner in the litigation Group. Specialises in all aspects of intellectual property litigation including trade marks, passing off, copyrights and related rights, designs, patents and confidential information. Also has substantial experience in contractual disputes relating to IP, principally around licensing and distribution disputes (both litigation and arbitration). Has also advised clients on trade mark portfolio management including advising on clearance searches, where to register, registrability, costs and procedure.

Emmanuelle Lecornu-Mercier focuses her practice on labour and employment law, and data protection. She advises clients with day-to-day HR issues. Her practice includes assisting companies with employment agreements, dismissals and mutually agreed termination procedures, employee representation, working time and employee litigation. She assists clients on company reorganizations and redundancy plans, as well as on the employment aspects of corporate transactions (due diligence; information and consultation with works councils; etc.). Emmanuelle Lecornu-Mercier also advises on data protection and compliance issues. She assists clients with getting compliant with the GDPR and French data protection legislation (drafting of privacy notices, privacy policies, data register, data processing agreements). She assists with data breach notifications and advises on the data protection aspects of commercial agreements and M&A transactions. Her practice also includes assisting clients with the implementation of their whistleblowing scheme.

Partner, real estate. Specialist area real estate finance and development. Recent real estate finance transactions include: financing of acquisition (circa £130m) of 10 Queen Street Place, occupied by SJ Berwin; financing of multi-site transaction for mixed-use development (hotels, restaurants, cinema and residential uses) in Leicester Square; refinance/restructure of facilities in excess of £100m for multi-use development in Canary Wharf; funding of ground-rent portfolios on facilities of circa £300m. Recent development work includes acting on the site assembly of landmark sites in West London and Vauxhall for mixed-use developments. Co-author ‘Property Derivatives: Practical Derivatives A Transactional Approach’ (Globe Publishing).

Eoghan is a Partner and Head of the firm’s EU, Competition & Procurement group. He provides advice on all aspects of Irish and EU competition law, including merger control, abuse of a dominant position, anti-competitive agreements, cartel investigations and dawn raids and EU state aid law. Eoghan also advises in relation to public procurement law, telecoms law and regulatory law.

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Euan is a partner in the Infrastructure team with 23 years' experience and specializes in large infrastructure and project finance transactions such as PFI, NPD, hub, BSF and LIFT. As a dual-qualified lawyer, Euan has worked on projects throughout the UK. Euan has a particular focus in the area of secondary market PFI/PPP transactions and is recognized as a market-leading figure in this area, advising large UK investment funds and a range of other significant market players. In addition, Euan provides strategic advice to equity investors and directors on dozens of operational projects (from a client book of more than 60 operational projects). Clients include Aviva, Dalmore Capital, Semperian, Sir Robert McAlpine, AMP Capital (Irish infrastructure fund), Morgan Sindall Investments, 3i Infrastructure and Network Rail.

  Fabrice Bouquier assists French and international clients with their strategic projects: joint ventures, shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements (franchising, licensing, etc.), build-ups, carve-outs, outsourcing, ESG/RSE strategy (decarbonisation of the value chain, duty of care). He also coordinates the firm's various departments involved in these cross-functional projects (real estate, finance, IP/IT/Data, employment law, competition, etc.). Fabrice also has extensive experience of advising Chinese industrial groups in various European jurisdictions. He is trained in and committed to ESG issues, notably through the Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Certificate at Berkeley Law School (Nov 2020), the Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy at Harvard Business School (Dec 2020), and the Cambridge University Certificate in Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions (2021)

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Francis is Partner within the Real Estate group. Frances acts for a number of Irish and international clients in relation to the acquisition and disposal of commercial properties. In addition, Frances advises both institutional landlord clients and retail, office and warehousing tenants in relation to negotiating lease documents, as well as advising clients in relation to all aspects of landlord and tenant law. She works closely with the firm’s Corporate and Finance teams advising on property aspects of corporate transactions and property secured lending. Frances also provides property advices to the firm’s Restructuring team in the context of insolvency solutions for our clients.

With more than 20 years’ experience, François advises clients on labour issues and employment law. He represents and advises international clients in the frame of the implementation of redundancy schemes, dismissals, and negotiates with unions and the French labour authorities.

François-Xavier Mirza has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2014. His practice includes representing French and international companies in civil, commercial or arbitral proceedings (ICC, CCJA-OHADA, CAIP). He also assists clients in connection with compliance-related issues. François-Xavier has spent a number of years abroad, including in Monaco, the USA, and Italy. He has a first-hand understanding of the corporate world, having gained in-house experience in international companies in New York City at GLG, the world’s largest membership network for one-on-one professional learning, and in Paris at Louis Vuitton Malletier, one of the world’s leading luxury brands. On September 23 2021, François-Xavier participated with his colleagues from the Fall Alliance in the Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) in the frame of a conference on the following topic "Francophone Africa & International arbitration".

Over 20 years’ experience advising insolvency practitioners, clearing banks, financial institutions and other stake holders in relation to all aspects of under-performing or distressed corporates. Regularly advises in connection with turn around and restructuring assignments, both in and outside of formal insolvency processes. Fraser's recent experience includes advising in the following sectors: haulage and logistics, construction, waste and recycling, hotels and healthcare. Key clients include RBS/NatWest (to whom he was seconded in 2006), Santander and HSBC.

Gabriela is an associate in the commercial disputes team. Her practice focuses on assisting and representing clients before civil and commercials courts on all commercial issues. She also assists companies facing insolvency issues. Prior to joining the Paris Bar, she was an attorney at the Lyon Bar and practised in a law firm specialised in commercial issues and insolvency proceedings.

Gabrielle is practising at the Paris Bar for three years, in intellectual property and digital law, advice and litigation. In particular, she advises French and international companies on cybersecurity, personal data protection and e-commerce. Her litigation experience also covers trademarks, copyright and unfair competition before the French and European courts, particularly in the fashion, clothing, alcoholic beverages and construction equipment sectors. Gabrielle is also a guest lecturer at the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and a trainer at the Digital School of Paris. As a student, she studied International Business Law (Master 2) at the University of Aix-Marseille, whilst studying for the DJCE, and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Strasbourg (CEIPI, the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies). Gabrielle also studied for a year in Dublin, Ireland (Erasmus, L3).

Garrett is a Corporate Partner. Garrett’s applies his corporate and commercial experience across a range of clients and sectors including automotive, integrated IT solutions, offshore exploration and retail.  However his specialisation concentrates on non-contentious insurance supervision and regulation including the  authorisation of insurance entities, the provision of cross-border services, compliance obligations, governance, new product development, policy wording and intermediary arrangements. He has advised domestic and international insurance companies and intermediaries on the sale, purchase and/or absorption of businesses and the consolidation and restructuring of their existing operations. His insurance client base includes various life and non-life insurers, reinsurers and different types of intermediaries.  More recently, he has assisted clients bringing new products to market and/or using new, sometimes branded, distribution channels. The impact of recently enhanced consumer protection for insurance products has also resulted in a steady stream of instructions.

Partner in the corporate division, based in the Leeds office. Specialises in M&A, for a mixture of private and public companies, and private equity transactions, acting for both private equity houses and management teams.

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Gavin has over 20 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and specialises in leading domestic and international buy side and sell side M&A transactions and effecting corporate restructurings and reorganisations, offering a business focused, solutions based, approach. In addition, he has a number of clients to whom he provides general advice on a wide range of commercial contracts (such as supply, distribution and warehousing), shareholder agreements and joint ventures. Gavin also advises these clients from time to time on commercial contract disputes, termination negotiations and integration matters. He also has significant expertise in corporate governance issues and provides compliance advice to client directors.

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Georges is a French lawyer: admitted at the Paris Bar in 2006. He joined HOCHE Avocats in 2010, having previously practised as a lawyer at ARES-Avocat, Law Firm for 4 years.  As a member of the Commercial Litigation Department, he focuses his practice on the advising and representation of clients before Courts in Commercial and Insolvency issues. He is specialized in Insolvency law (takeover bids, special purpose receiverships, conciliations, judicial reorganization and liquidation proceedings, filing of proofs of claims), whether acting on behalf of the debtor companies, creditors or bidders: drafting of take-over bids / advising client during the process advising and representing clients in distress either in pre-insolvencly proceedings (mandat ad hoc – conciliation) or in insolvency proceedings (reorganization / liquidation proceedings) dealing with Insolvency practitioners drafting of judicial acts (declaration of claims, summonses, judicial requests…) advising and representing clients in cases referring to liabilities within the context of insolvency proceedings advising and representing Insolvency practitioners in judicial proceedings Commercial law and business law (contractual liability, warranty actions, directors’ and officers’ civil liability, shareholders’ disputes, unfair competition: -pre-litigation and litigation representing clients before Mediator / Arbitrator representing clients before French Courts (Civil, Commercial and Criminal Courts) drafting writings (assignation, conclusions, mémoire, dires) drafting summonses and statements of claim negotiating and Drafting commercial contracts advising and Dealing with clients (both French and Foreigners) on legal issues drafting of legal opinions (both in French and in English) negotiating and setting up settlement agreements dealing with judicial experts Commercial leases (negotiation, performance and enforcement of leases, renewal of leases, indemnities for termination/eviction…), whether acting on behalf of the landlords or the tenants

Partner in the commercial department, specialising in intellectual property.  Georgina advises on a broad range of intellectual property matters, with a particular emphasis on agreements relating to the exploitation of IP rights including patent, trade mark and software licensing, research and development arrangements, confidentiality agreements and franchise agreements.  She also has significant experience on IP matters in the context of corporate and finance transactions.

Gerard Coll is a Consultant in the firm's Corporate Department. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, re-structurings, commercial contracts and general corporate law.

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Giles is a partner in the Equity Capital Markets and Public M&A group in London. He is a specialist in advising on securities regulation and on listed company transactions, including takeovers and other stock market regulated M&A transactions (cross-border and domestic), initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, public equity fundraisings and other equity capital markets transactions involving companies listed on the Main Market or AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Giles was seconded for two years to the UK Takeover Panel and is one of a select number of lawyers in the UK with cutting edge experience of takeovers gained both in private practice and at the competent authority for regulating takeovers and mergers in the UK. Whilst in private practice, Giles has advised on over 50 public takeover bids. Example takeover transactions include the recommended takeover offers for Latchways plc, Plethora Solutions Holdings plc, Creston plc and Electric Word plc. He advises listed issuers as well as financial advisers and brokers such as finnCap, Nplus1 Singer, Peel Hunt, Shore Capital & Corporate, Smith Square Partners, Stockdale Securities and VSA Capital.

Partner; experienced in all aspects of corporate transactions involving SMEs and owner-managed businesses in particular; this is complemented by experience in funding and security matters.

Graham is a corporate partner focusing on private equity, M&A and restructuring transactions, both in the UK and internationally. He has a particular focus on the UK financial services sector. He regularly advises both investors and management teams in connection with all stages of the investment cycle together with portfolio management issues. Within the financial services sector, Graham has managed a variety of large and complex transactions, but with a particular focus on private equity investment in financial services sector businesses, bank deleveraging activities (including advising sellers and buyers on the transfer of substantial commercial and retail loan portfolios) and transactions in the wealth management sector. Graham has also undertaken a variety of transactions involving UK hotel assets involving both outsourced management and owner-operated structures and regularly advises a growing pub chain on its estate. In addition, Graham advises banks, sponsors and borrowers in relation to the equity aspects of debt restructuring and debt-for-equity transactions, as well as having a broad experience of corporate transactions generally, including joint ventures, general company and shareholder matters and transactions involving UK and international private and public companies, banks, investors, management teams and intermediaries. Recent work highlights include advising Synova Capital on a variety of investments, advising Rathbone Brothers on the acquisition of Jupiter’s UK fund management business, its investment in the Vision IFA business and its failed merger with Smith & Williamson, advising Lone Star on the disposal of a number of hotels and advising several UK banks on the sale of significant loan portfolios.

Gwenaël Kropfinger has extensive experience in advising private equity funds and multinational groups on the tax structuring of M&A deals including LBOs and capital markets transactions. Gwenaël has been involved in general reorganisation work for corporate groups. Gwenaël also advises on the creation of French and pan-European private equity funds. Before joining AG, Gwenaël was a counsel in high-profile international firms.

Harold is a partner in Addleshaw Goddard's Litigation Division.  Harold specialises in banking and finance litigation, with particular expertise in asset based lending and receivables financing.  Harold also provides advice to a wide range of clients in the finance sector, including members of UK Finance, PE houses, several major UK and foreign clearing banks. As an experienced litigator, Harold advises his clients in relation to all aspects of finance dispute resolution, including claims for and against lenders, fraud claims, asset recovery involving urgent injunctive processes, contractual / commercial disputes, merchant acquiring issues, reviews and enforcement of security as well as contentious insolvency proceedings. Following 10 years at DLA Piper UK LLP, Harold founded and headed up the Manchester office of Shoosmiths LLP in 2009. He joined Addleshaw Goddard LLP in 2017.

Heather heads the social housing and regeneration team in Scotland, and advises on commercial contracts, property, development, funding, regulatory and governance issues. She is immersed in and maintains a strong affiliation and high profile in the sector. Heather combines her significant real estate experience with her deep knowledge of the sector, acting for developers and funders, advising on strategic options, joint venture partnering arrangements, complex acquisitions, and disposals and asset management. She also has experience in the healthcare sector and works closely with the energy team in delivering community energy schemes.

Helena is an IP, IT and commercial expert with over 15 years' experience advising on a range of legal areas such as high profile technology sector investments and acquisitions, high profile public bodies and charities and on strategic data protection issues and more. Helena is also a fully accredited Practitioner in Data Protection, and also has extensive experience in providing support on complex freedom of information matters. Helena supports and advises on international data transfers, service offshoring and subject access requests.

Partner in the real estate group whose practice covers a broad range of real sectors including offices, retail, logistics, hotels and leisure.  Hemal acts for investors, developers, funders and corporate occupiers.  Recent transactions include acting for Slovakian developer HB Reavis on its acquisition of Elizabeth House, Waterloo (which is to be redeveloped into a mixed use scheme comprising 1.4m sq. ft. of offices, residential and retail space); CC Land on its £290m acquisition of Vodafone's Paddington base in London; and University of Greenwich on the acquisition and development of a new school of architecture in the heart of Greenwich.

Hugo is a real estate associate who graduated from Pantheon-Assas University (post-master degree in real estate and construction law) and from ESSEC business school (advanced master in business law and management). He advises French and international clients with a particular focus on real estate investment, asset and property management, leases, development and construction. Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, Hugo worked as an in-house lawyer in the legal department of a French listed real estate company (2 years).

Iain is a senior partner in Dentons' Corporate team and is based in our Glasgow office. He advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, MBOs/MBIs, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He regularly co-ordinates multi-disciplinary teams and manages complex domestic and international projects across a range of sectors.

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Ian leads the Sainsbury’s real estate team nationally and is the lead real estate partner for Threadneedle and Skanska in the Leeds office. General: involved in all aspects of commercial property work including sales and purchases (especially for institutional investors such as Threadneedle and VALAD), complex development projects (including acting for regional developers such as GMI Property Group and Horncastle Group Plc), acting for public bodies (such as The HCA and Leeds City Council) and landlord and tenant work (particularly in the retail sector acting for household names such Sainsbury’s, HOBBS and LEGO). Particular expertise in the food store investment market. Specialism: retail/Sainsbury’s/food store investment/high-value sale and leasebacks – recognised expert. Has developed an outstanding practice acting for Sainsbury’s where he has twice been nominated for their panel lawyer of the year and has recently been recognised as ‘exceptional amongst our panel lawyers’. Sainsbury’s have told Addleshaw Goddard that they routinely instruct Ian on more complex, higher value transactions and that they regard him as the ‘go to’ man for these projects. This is best demonstrated by the way Ian has developed the firm’s role acting for Sainsbury’s Property Investments (SPI). SPI recognise Ian as their principal advisor for sale and leasebacks and one of the leading experts in this niche field. These transactions are strategically important in raising capital for reinvestment and need to be turned around quickly whilst balancing investment value against operational flexibility. Ian’s work in shaping their lease has earned him a reputation for innovation (with one senior SPI executive describing Ian as ‘the most innovative lawyer I have worked with’). Credited by SPI as helping them ‘move forward the industry standard lease, not just for Sainsbury’s, but for the food store industry as a whole’. Other retail clients include HOBBS and LEGO and he is a key member of the firm’s national retail and consumer team.

Dr. Ioana Knoll-Tudor is a partner in the Paris office and member of the International Arbitration Practice. Ioana has over 15 years of experience with arbitral practice and procedure, both in commercial and investment arbitration. She has represented and advised clients in numerous international and domestic arbitrations (both institutional and ad hoc), with a particular focus on the energy, construction, competition & distribution and post-M&A sectors. She also acts in post-arbitration proceedings (annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards) before French courts. She is regarded as a Next Generation Partner in international arbitration by The Legal 500 - International Arbitration (2023). Dr. Knoll-Tudor has an extensive knowledge of the CEE region, having dealt and worked with every Eastern European jurisdiction, and having spent 10 years in the Warsaw and Budapest offices of an international law firm. Ioana regularly seats as arbitrator (chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator) before major arbitral institutions, both international (such as ICC, ICSID and VIAC) and regional (CICA-CCIR, CCIJ), including with States and State-owned parties. She is the first Romanian arbitrator appointed on an ICSID panel (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/30). She also speaks regularly on international arbitration at conferences and seminars, and frequently publishes on topical issues of arbitration and international law. Her book « The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Foreign Investment Law » (Oxford University Press, 2008) is a reference in the field of international arbitration, with a second edition expecting publication by 2024. Ioana is currently the Secretary General of the Paris Arbitration Week and a member of the international board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC). Prior, she was appointed by the ICC as YAF Representative for the period 2019-2021. Ioana also co-founded the Romanian chapter of the Club Espanol de Arbitraje (CEA) in 2019, for which she is acting as vice-president. Ioana is a qualified lawyer in France and Spain. Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, she worked for eight years in one of France’s largest international law firms where she launched and spear-headed the creation of a fully dedicated international arbitration stand-alone practice.

Jacques works with private operators (investors, industrial companies, lenders, etc.) but also regularly works alongside the public sector (State, public companies, etc.) in a wide variety of fields: water and wastewater, waste treatment and recovery, transport, energy, construction and civil engineering, IT, telecommunications and defence. His skills cover all areas of public law, in both advisory and litigation capacities, with particular expertise in public procurement law (concessions, public procurement contracts, agreements for the occupation of public land, partnership contracts). The team also has solid experience of major transport infrastructure projects (motorway, rail and port concessions) and energy projects (offshore wind farm tenders), including their financing. She also works with the firm's other teams on acquisition, financing and restructuring transactions, as well as on regulatory issues. Jacques Dabreteau has twice been ranked (2021 and 2022) by Legal 500 as a next generation partner in public and regulatory law. Public Law and Administrative Contracts: legal adviser of public and private entities in the context of tendering and performance of administrative contracts (PPP, concession contracts, public procurement contracts, leases on publicly-owned lands, etc.) and private law contracts (construction and O&M contracts, services agreements, consortium agreements, sub-contracts, etc.) in various sectors (public works, water distribution and treatment, waste, energy, IT, transport, defence, R&D, etc.), issuance of legal memoranda and pieces of special regulatory advices International projects: lenders’ legal adviser in various PPPs in Belgium (Tram of Liège, etc.), tendering and performance of public procurement contracts in Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, etc.), sponsors’ counsel in the context of performance of a major concession contract in Cyprus, legal adviser in the context of major international arbitration Energy: legal adviser of sponsors and developers in the context of Infra M&A transactions (or refinancing) regarding energy production facilities (onshore wind farms, PV plants, biomass plants, etc.) as well as during the tendering process and financing of major offshore (fixed and floating) wind farms projects Due diligence / Restructuring / Foreign investments control in France: legal adviser of buyers in the context of Infra M&A transactions involving companies holding administrative contracts (defence, street lighting, etc.) and/or having business activities subject to specific regulations (energy, telecoms, etc.); restructuring (hydroelectricity, casinos, etc.); filing of applications before the French Minister of Economy in the context of the foreign investments control regime Dispute and arbitration: advising and representing companies in the context of pre-litigation discussions and disputes before the courts (including arbitration) in connection with administrative contracts and international projects; advising and representing public and private entities in the context of claims lodged against administrative decisions and/or administrative contracts ing international banks: advising on the regulatory aspects and legal documentation in respect of structured finance and derivatives transactions.

Partner in the London office specialising in social and economic infrastructure projects including PPP, PFI and PF2 (she has particular experience avising clients in the rail sector). Has in-depth experience and expertise in complex projects and drafting bespoke documents. Particularly valued by her clients for her commercial outlook and ability to close large and complex projects. Has advised on and led many prestigious PPP transactions across all sectors.

Partner in the pensions team, head of SIPPs and pension products and director of Sovereign Trustees Limited, the firm’s corporate trustee company. Deals in all areas of the department’s work: including scheme advisory and trustee governance, corporate deficits and pension regulator issues, transactions and outsourcings, tax and benefits, pensions litigation, SIPPs and SSASs, auto-enrolment, master-trust and DC schemes.

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James is a banking partner specialising exclusively in advising funders and borrowers on all aspects of real estate finance transactions. He is the firm’s client partner for Santander and leads the firm’s relationship with the Barclays real estate finance team. He has extensive experience of all aspects of real estate finance and has particular expertise in hotel financing transactions. James’ clients include Aareal Bank plc, Allied Irish Bank, Barclays Bank PLC, Santander and Bank of London and The Middle East.

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Well-known nationally as an exceptional real estate finance lawyer. Undertakes a wide range of work in deal size and complexity, acting for lenders on standardised real estate investment products to large bespoke real estate and development finance transactions and restructurings.

Partner; construction and engineering, dispute resolution specialist (adjudication, litigation, mediation and domestic/international arbitration). Strategic dispute avoidance and managing risk advice on ongoing major projects.

John has been Addleshaw Goddard's Managing Partner since May 2014.  Since taking on the Managing Partner role, John has been responsible for re-focusing the firm's strategy and for its implementation. Before being elected to that role he was national head of the firm's restructuring practice. As a practitioner, he had extensive experience as a corporate lawyer, with a particular focus in corporate restructuring work.  He has advised on all aspects of restructuring, business support, turnaround and insolvency, advising directors and companies on restructuring opportunities as well as lenders and borrowers in distressed lending circumstances and acted on some of the firm's largest and highest profile restructuring assignments.

Construction litigation specialist. Principally acting for employers and contractors in adjudication, litigation and arbitration.

John Olden is a partner in the Firm's Corporate Department. He has previously advised in relation to capital markets, in particular, debt capital markets, MTN programmes, commercial paper  programmes, standalone debt issuance, and he has advised on equity capital market issuances by Irish companies. He has also advised on equity fundraisings and on public company take-overs. In the area of venture capital he has advised on the establishment and marketing of venture capital funds, ongoing relationships between the general partner and limited Partners and investments by venture capital funds. He has acted for Seroba Life Sciences, one of the two leading Irish life science venture capital funds since the establishment of the first fund in 2001, and most recently in relation to the establishment of the €100 million + Seroba Life Sciences Fund IV in December 2021.

Litigation partner with specialist expertise in international arbitration and civil fraud. Has arbitrated under most of the arbitral rules (including those of the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICSID), representing multinationals, banks and governments, often appearing as an advocate. Also has very broad commercial litigation expertise, ranging from high-value disputes in the Commercial Court arising from M&A activity to the pursuit of fraud claims supported by worldwide freezing injunctions. Experience of most forms of ADR, including mediation and expert determination.

Jon is a partner in the Professional Practices Group and advises on a broad range of partnership and LLP issues, including LLP conversions, mergers and de-mergers and joint ventures, as well as partnership disputes. He advises businesses in all sectors of the professional services industry and is noted for his expertise concerning the financial services sector.

Jonathan is a Partner in our Funds & Indirect Real Estate group and co-leads our real estate logistics sector team. Jonathan acts for a broad range of clients including managers, investors and developers on fund establishment and structuring, complex UK and cross-border acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures and down stream real estate investments and divestments.

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Partner and head of the contentious construction department specialising in international arbitration, litigation and forms of ADR. Work includes acting for a Korean contractor in a $200m arbitration re a power plant in the Middle East; a US contractor in arbitration regarding power plants in Pakistan; major PFI disputes in the UK with values in excess of £20m. He has advised clients in construction and energy disputes worldwide, on projects including Malaysia, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, P&C, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Canada, Mexico, USA, Japan, Korea, Singapore.

Jugwal is an associate in the Competition/Distribution department. He assists and represents clients in Anti-competitive practices Law, Merger Law and Distribution law. He is also involved in Sector regulation Law and Public business Law. Jugwal has first-hand experience of the telecoms sector, having worked for several years for electronic communications operators. Jugwal advises clients on contract negotiation and drafting, merger notifications, litigation and the implementation of compliance programs in competition and distribution law, appeals for litigation proceedings before the Arcep (dispute settlement and sanctions), the French competition authority and administrative and commercial courts.

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Julia acts predominantly in business Law and in particular on merger & acquisitions. She focuses her practice on advising and assisting companies with a wide range of transactions, from private equity transactions to cross-border acquisitions. She is mainly involved in the preparation and drafting of legal documentation relating to merger & acquisitions transactions, and also participates in the follow-up of these transactions until their completion. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Business Law (Master 2 Droit des Affaires Internationales et Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entreprise) from the University of Aix-Marseille. Julia joined the firm in 2023 after an initial experience within the merger & acquisitions department of a French Law firm

Julie is the national head of the property litigation team. Having trained and qualified in London, Julie has dealt exclusively with property litigation since 1991. Julie specialises in all forms of real estate litigation including dilapidations, complex lease renewals, rent review, rights of way disputes, insolvency and general property management work and acts for most of the firm’s real estate clients including Threadneedle, British land and Sainsburys. She frequently delivers seminars and training sessions, both internally and to external contacts and clients. She has particular experience of the wide range of legal issues that arise when managing large property portfolios including shopping centres. She also advisies key developers on the interpretation of agreements and their obligations under such agreements. A key aspect of Julie’s work is managing risk for these clients. Recent reported cases involve acting for Jolan Limited a landlord/developer in a complex and contested lease renewal and disputed exercise of a break clause at a prominent building in Manchester which involved a successful seven week trial in the high court, the decision from which was also upheld on appeal. The potential development includes a hotel and three retail units. Crosso No 4 Unlimited and Others v Jolan Limited and Others [2011] EWCA Civ 1619 and also John Bemoley & Others v Philip Noble [2014] EWHC 2657 (CH).

Julien Bacus is a partner in the Finance group of Addleshaw Goddard’s Paris office. Julien Bacus is a recognized lawyer in the field of finance, capital markets and structured finance. Julien advises in respect of a wide range of financing activities in relation to a number of asset classes.  He focuses, in particular, on derivative transactions covering different types of underlying assets. Julien has more specific experience in documenting these types of contracts as well as advising on issues relating to netting, collateral, the role of clearing houses and the implementation of new regulations applying to these products. Julien's activity is also oriented towards restructuring. He advises his clients in financial difficulty on the restructuring of derivative transactions. He is also used to work with his clients on pre-litigation matters linked to derivative and structured finance transactions. In addition, he has extensive experience in the hedging of financing transactions (LBOs in particular) as well as financial regulation. Julien has developed expertise with his clients in issuing debt products and various types of structured products. In this respect, he has been working both for different types of issuers, including financial institutions, corporates and sovereign entities. Julien is also a University Professor associated at Le Mans University (Professeur des Universités associé) where he teaches financial and corporate law.

Justine heads up Addleshaw Goddard's commercial tax team. On the business/corporate side, she advises on the tax elements of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and funds establishment, acting for corporates, individuals and public sector. She has a specialism in private equity transactions and is involved in most of the region's significant PE deals. Justine's other area of particular interest and expertise is advising on the tax aspects of property-based projects and transactions of various kinds, including structured acquisitions, joint ventures, investment funds and co-ownership arrangements in relation to complex developments, property financings and capital projects. Justine's key clients include Standard Life (for whom she is a client relationship partner), British Land, Bruntwood, Wolseley, National Grid and PE houses including LDC, Phoenix and Elysian. Justine also leads the firm's gender working group.

Justine Territt is a partner in the Property & Construction. She has extensive experience in commercial property acquisitions, disposals, including commercial lettings, residential and commercial property developments including industrial, business park and mixed developments, licensed premises and hotels. Justine also works closely with our Finance and Restructuring teams in relation to the property and banking aspects of lending, enforcement and subsequent disposal of security including property secured lending transactions, security reviews, restructuring and remediation of property portfolios and the sale of property assets

Kathi Ó Riain is a Partner and Head of the Real Estate team in Ireland. In addition to providing property support on M&A transactions, she has considerable experience in acting for foreign and domestic investors on the sale and acquisition of all types of investment properties and she has also acted on a number of the biggest office lettings in Ireland on both the landlord and tenant side. Given her German background, Kathi also regularly advises German companies on the property elements of setting up in Ireland and on acquiring Irish property.

Kirsty leads the largest English real estate team based in Scotland. After qualifying in Scotland, she re-qualified in England and worked as a real estate lawyer in the city. She maintains an excellent reputation and profile with clients in the City and across the UK, combining exceptional technical ability with hard work and a constant commitment to achieve the best results for her clients. Kirsty has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate work, including acquisitions and disposals of large property portfolios, high-value investment properties and ongoing management work, with a particular focus on the leisure and hospitality and residential investment sectors. Kirsty recently advised private investors on the acquisition of a £75m central London hotel and advised The Capital Pub Company plc as it built up a portfolio of more than 30 central London pubs before selling to Greene King.

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Lee heads up the London Funds and Indirect Real Estate team. Lee specialises in advising both managers of and investors in UK, pan-European and global investment funds operating across the real estate, infrastructure and private equity sectors. Lee’s work with fund managers covers advice on all aspects of fund formation and the establishment of their fund management business and in relation to investors, advice on fund investments, coinvestments and acquisitions/disposals of portfolios of fund interests in the secondary market. Lee also advises a range of property companies (both public and private) and real estate fund managers on complex corporate wrapped real estate transactions including investments/divestments, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Clients advised by Lee in recent years include; HB Reavis; CC Land; Aviva Investors; Hammerson PLC, SEGRO PLC,  as well as a variety of institutional and SWF investors.

Investment specialist with in-depth experience in retail, offices and logistics. Key clients include Threadneedle Pensions Ltd; Zurich Assurance, F&C Reit, Aberdeen and Radera. She is also handling increasing amounts of foreign investment into UK real estate by Sovereign Funds. She leads the firm’s Asia Business Group.

Leonora is a Corporate Partner with over 30 years’ experience in corporate transactions. Leonora has advised on numerous large-scale share and asset purchases, advising both purchasers and sellers and carrying out Due Diligence for both sell and purchase sides of transactions. She also advises clients on company law and corporate governance compliance, including directors loans, purchase of own shares and capital maintenance and all aspects arising under company law in respect of Private Companies. She practices exclusively in the area of corporate law and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, private equity placement and corporate restructuring. Leonora advises clients on continuing investments and shareholder and financing arrangements as well as disposals of assets through corporate structures. Leonora was Head of the Corporate Department until 2018 and sat on the Firm’s Management Board for ten years.

Lorna is Partner within the Corporate & Commercial group. Lorna advises on a wide range of issues within the corporate and commercial law practice area including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, corporate restructurings, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, general commercial contracts and corporate governance and compliance.  Lorna has a particular focus on share acquisitions and disposals and business and asset acquisitions and disposals and regularly advises companies from incorporation through to exit. In addition to her corporate and commercial work, Lorna advises employers and trustees on all aspects of pensions law including advising on employers’ and trustees’ obligations and duties under pension trusts and pension legislation and advises clients in respect of the drafting and amending of pension trust documentation.

Louis-Alexandre Montpeyroux focuses his practice on advising and assisting companies on projects related to the creation and development of their activities. He is mainly involved in the preparation and drafting of legal documentation relating to private equity and M&A transactions, and also participates in the follow-up of these transactions until their completion. His work also involves legal monitoring of companies in the context of various corporate law issues.

Partner in real estate department with experience in a broad spectrum of commercial property transactions. Particular expertise is in acting for corporate occupiers and investors in the retail and leisure sector. Particularly skilled in managing large teams, helping clients realise value from their existing portfolios, and advising on national acquisition programmes. Extensive experience of sale and leaseback transactions and large corporate disposals and acquisitions. Heads up the firm’s hotel and leisure sector group.

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Expertise: Malcolm is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Scotland. He specialises in corporate affairs, advising many companies at a strategic level and looking for deal making opportunities across the business world. Experience: Malcolm is a non-executive director of many successful Scottish companies. 

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Margaret is Partner within the Construction & Engineering Department. Margaret's Representative clients include: Tuath Housing Association, Home Building Finance Ireland, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks plc, Golden Port Estates, CA Ventures, Irish Distillers Limited and Fold Housing Association. Margaret advises on construction, planning and environmental law matters arising on construction projects promoted by public and private developers. Margaret’s practice is a combination of both contentious and non-contentious construction matters. She has extensive experience in the construction sector advising contractors, developers, funders and professional teams on construction projects and on dispute management and resolution. Margaret advises on planning and environmental compliance as well as civil and criminal liability and judicial review of planning decisions. Margaret advises on agreements for lease, building licences, construction contracts, performance bonds, collateral warranties and construction funding agreements as well as statutory compliance requirements for construction projects.

Marie-Emilie advises clients in various domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisition, joint-ventures, private equity and corporate restructurings. She leads negotiations and coordinates deal teams across multiple offices for both buy and sale-side transactions in a variety of areas including automotive, manufacturing, retail, energy and technology. She develops a business-focused approach in assisting both industrial players, investment funds and their portfolio companies, as well as banks and financial institutions. She has also a strong expertise in debt restructuring and bank regulatory compliance issues.

Mark is a partner specialising in commercial litigation. Mark provides advice to a wide range of clients including leading FTSE 100 corporates, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals, on disputes including complex fraud claims contractual and outsourcing disputes, contract termination and warranty claims. Mark has significant experience of leading complex, high-value litigation for multinational and major FTSE 100 companies both in the English High Court and in International Arbitration including claims supported by urgent injunctive relief and worldwide freezing injunctions. Mark is responsible for Addleshaw Goodard’s approach to edisclosure. Mark has a particular interest in disputes involving cross-border issues and regularly advises on matters involving jurisdictions in Europe, Africa and South and Central America. Mark is a lead partner in Addleshaw Goddard’s Africa Business Group. Mark’s arbitration experience includes disputes under ICC, LCIA, SCC and Uncitral rules.

Mark is a partner in the firm’s corporate group. Mark has undertaken a broad range of UK and crossborder transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and shareholder arrangementss. Mark has a track record of advising on transactions in the financial services sector with a focus on the wealth management. His representative matters include advising the partners of the law firm Ogier in respect of the disposal of their fiduciary services business to Electra private equity, advising mutual insurer Simplyhealth on its acquisition of Groupama Healthcare, advising the shareholders of the Jersey Trust Company Group on the investment by Close Brothers Private Equity, advising Daniel Thwaites Plc on the disposal of its ‘Beerco’ division, advising Fx Corporation on the disposal of its UK retail foreign exchange business ‘Eurochange’ to Notemachine and advising Newcastle Building Society on the disposal of its prepaid cards business to the German consumer bank Wirecard AG. Mark has been particularly active advising on transactions for the AA and SAGA including advising on acquisitions in the domiciliary care, personal finance and driver services sectors, advising on the ABS applications for AA Law and Saga Law and associated joint venture arrangements and advising on Saga’s joint venture with Tilney Bestinvest.

Mark is a Partner in the Real Estate Group and Head of Ireland. He has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial and residential property. Mark works closely with his clients in the management of all aspects of real estate acquisitions, asset management, disposals and financing and refinancing. He also advises on the property areas of restructuring and insolvency. Recent Experience includes advising A developer in relation to the letting and pre-letting of two prime office blocks, One South County and Two South County. Players Square in relation to their 100% refinance of the NAMA debt on John Player Factory and the Bailey Gibson industrial premises on the South Circular Road. Zara in relation to a letting of a new flagship store at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. Sale of a luxury Residential scheme in Dublin The purchase of a substantial agricultural holding and processing facilities.

Heads Addleshaw Goddard’s planning team and leads the housing group. Advises developers, funders and public sector clients on planning, compulsory purchase and compensation law. Particular specialisms are the retail, housing and rail sectors. Work includes reviewing and de-risking planning application documents, particularly environmental statements, negotiating section 106 agreements and managing public inquiries whether in the context of an appeal, call-in or compulsory purchase order. Marnix has led teams in relation to major city centre mixed use schemes, tall building and retail inquiries and is currently leading teams advising on major housing developments, including a number of high profile PRS developments, objections to development consent and Transport and Works Act orders and major retail schemes.

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Mathieu advises on all aspects of corporate/M&A matters. He specialises in mergers & acquisitions, group reorganisations, general corporate law and private equity. He has recently worked on domestic and cross-border transactions for clients, in the context of both external growth and distressed situations, either buy-side or sell-side and in various sectors such as automotive, aerospace and defence, packaging, traditional industry, oil & gas, agriculture, food & drink, engineering and financial services. With more than 18 years of experience, he is particularly skilled at handling complex carve-out issues and processes, including in the context of divestment or distressed transactions. Mathieu speaks fluent French and English and is admitted to practice law in France, Paris Bar.

Mathilde Mounic joined Addleshaw Goddard in 2023. She advises both French and international companies on employment law matters, both on individual work relations (employment contracts, international mobility, termination of employment contracts, etc.) and on collective work relations (restructuring, collective bargaining, employees representatives, etc.). She also represents her clients before national courts. Her practice also includes assisting companies with internal investigations. She has developed a particular interest in new forms of work and issues relating to the impact of artificial intelligence on labour law. Mathilde is also writing a thesis entitled "Work and artificial intelligence" at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1 and teaches labour law to third-year law degree students at the same university.

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Maura is Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Group. She also leads the Employment Law Group in Ireland. Maura’s disputes practice has involved the management of large scale litigation. This has recently included Commercial Court proceedings relating to professional negligence in the financial sector, management of a large e-discovery process, acting in a landmark case relating to the “Gig Economy” and the status of workers. In addition to representing clients in the Courts, particularly the High Court and Commercial Court, Maura has advised extensively on alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Maura’s practice includes advice on regulatory matters, including professional conduct investigations and decision making, administrative law and legal proceedings. She has advised on statutory investigations, tribunals of inquiry and directors’ liability for statutory offences. Having practised for many years in the area of employment law Maura’s practice includes advising employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transfer of undertakings issues. She also advises on a contractual matters, development of policies and procedures, management of disciplinary, performance, absence and other processes. This includes regularly appearing in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Civil Courts. Data privacy and dealing with data access requests under GDPR is a feature of many cases in which we are involved. Most recently she has advised extensively on Covid-19 related issues, restructurings, redundancies and legislative changes.

Maura is Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Group. She also leads the Employment Law Group in Ireland. Maura’s disputes practice has involved the management of large scale litigation. This has recently included Commercial Court proceedings relating to professional negligence in the financial sector, management of a large e-discovery process, acting in a landmark case relating to the “Gig Economy” and the status of workers. In addition to representing clients in the Courts, particularly the High Court and Commercial Court, Maura has advised extensively on alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation. Maura’s practice includes advice on regulatory matters, including professional conduct investigations and decision making, administrative law and legal proceedings. She has advised on statutory investigations, tribunals of inquiry and directors’ liability for statutory offences. Having practised for many years in the area of employment law Maura’s practice includes advising employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. She has been involved in many commercial transactions and has considerable experience of employment law issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transfer of undertakings issues. She also advises on a contractual matters, development of policies and procedures, management of disciplinary, performance, absence and other processes. This includes regularly appearing in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Civil Courts. Data privacy and dealing with data access requests under GDPR is a feature of many cases in which we are involved. Most recently she has advised extensively on Covid-19 related issues, restructurings, redundancies and legislative changes.

Experienced partner in a broad range of investment banking and retail disputes including disputes concerning derivatives, allegations of misselling, unauthorised overdraft charges and credit card charges, breach of mandate and credit default reporting. Has a real commercial understanding of her clients’ needs, having completed three secondments to a large retail bank early in her career and, more recently, two further successful secondments to the corporate and investment banking division of a large bank.

Partner specialising in corporate and property tax, advising on tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, property development and investment, reorganisations and restructuring, joint ventures, tax disputes and employment taxes. Michael’s clients include Ivestec, The Hut, John Laing, Peel and Capita.

Head of employment group and partner specialising in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law including corporate governance issues and boardroom disputes.

Partner specialising in public/private finance, structured finance, PFI and PPP (head of firm’s PFI/projects team), finance transactions involving public bodies of all types, transactional healthcare, regeneration schemes and economic infrastructure projects.

Michaël is a partner in the EU/Competition department in Paris. He represents clients in antitrust litigations, merger control, State Aid, counselling, and establishing effective antitrust compliance programs. He is also specialised in distribution law and restrictive trade practices. Michaël has considerable experience in competition matters involving the energy, transport and consumer products sectors and has represented clients in other industries including retail, banking, industrial equipment and private equity. Michaël lectures competition law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He is a member of the board of the French competition Law Society.

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Partner in the corporate division advising on acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions (MBOs, MBIs and development capital), joint ventures and other general corporate advice. Clients include 3i, Bridges Fund Managers, ECI Partners, Foresight, Graphite Capital and Piper Private Equity. Deal experience includes the secondary buyouts of the Las Iguanas restaurant chain and Kurt Geiger, the buyouts of Evans Cycles and Media iQ, and the disposals of Kerridge Commercial Systems and The Gym Group.

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Miles is head of Real Estate in Scotland and specialises in portfolio acquisition and asset management for both occupiers and investors. Miles works with some of the best-known names in the telecoms sector, leading European investment trusts, FTSE 100 companies and private property companies among many others. Miles is also a member of the firm’s Real Estate Division Executive board board.

Murray has extensive experience of advising on a wide range of corporate transactions with a particular focus on private M&A, private equity, and venture capital deals. His clients include large corporates, private equity funds, high growth companies, and high net worth entrepreneurs and investors. Murray's expertise includes advising clients operating in the transport, technology, life sciences, healthcare, food and drink and renewable energy sectors. In addition Murray has capital markets experience with a particular focus on AIM.

Partner and national head of Construction, Engineering and Environmental. Construction specialist with particular expertise in advising on procurement strategies and in the drafting, negotiation and approval of development and funding agreements, construction and engineering contracts, partnering agreements, consultancy agreements and warranties for large scale refurbishment schemes, leisure, retail and office developments, residential and mixed use schemes, manufacturing projects and developments involving both mechanical and process plant, and projects within the public sector. Has been widely involved in regeneration initiatives and civil engineering projects and advises clients not only on contract drafting and negotiation but also in relation to contract management issues and claims avoidance. Clients include a number of commercial developers who operate on a national basis and also contractors, financial institutions and public sector bodies, in particular in the higher education field.

Nathan acts on all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and restructurings, with a particular focus on private equity and other financial sponsor-led transactions and advising high net worth individuals and families. He advises private equity houses on executing their investments, on managing their portfolio companies during the life of their investments and on helping them to deliver successful exits. He has worked with a number of well-known investors including 3i, AnaCap, Bridgepoint, Candover (now Arle Capital), Doughty Hanson, Goldman Sachs PIA and Smedvig Capital on a full range of low, mid and large cap transactions. Nathan also regularly advises management teams backed by private equity funders – examples include advising the management of The Miller Group Limited on the terms of their participation in the circa £500m financial restructuring led by GSO (part of the Blackstone Group), and advising the management of RL360 on its buyout from Royal London backed by Vitruvian. In addition, Nathan frequently advises corporate, institutional and high net worth clients, having undertaken a broad range of transactional and other work in the UK and overseas. Examples include work for Rathbone Brothers Plc, GVC Holdings Plc, MacDermid Inc, Alliance Medical Group Limited and Boris Berezovsky. Nathan regularly works on cross-border matters, often working alongside our preferred law firms in numerous jurisdictions. He has particular experience in relation to Germany (where he spent six months on secondment to Noerr’s Munich and Berlin offices) and Italy (where he regularly works with NCTM).

Neil acts for clients involved in all aspects of real estate work, ranging from occupier clients (retail and business space) to clients acquiring and selling both investment and development property. In terms of development work, Neil has recently been involved in acquiring a number of sites for care homes and student accommodation, as well as for food retail. On the investment side, Neil has a number of very active clients who have been involved over the last few years in a many acquisitions and disposals, ranging from a multi-use development in the North of Scotland (Hotel/retail and pub) to a large office investment in the centre of Edinburgh. In terms of occupier work, Neil acts for some well know high street names in the retail and restaurant trade. In addition, he represents a highly acquisitive care home operator having completing numerous deals for them over the last few years. Neil looks after the firm's property finance team, and has dealt with some high profile funding deals, across all sectors including care homes, shopping centres, student accommodation, garden centres, office space and retail. He maintains a high profile with most major funders in the property finance sector and regularly acts for The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Santander and Svenska Handelsbanken, to name a few.

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Corporate partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP in London. Nick specialises in private and public M&A and other corporate transactional work, such as joint ventures and reorganisations.

Nicola McGrath is a partner in the Corporate Department. She specialises in company Law dealing in particular with corporate restructuring, equity fundraising, joint ventures , mergers & acquisitions and employee share schemes. In addition, Nicola provides on-going advice to clients in relation to company law, and corporate governance compliance, including directors loans, purchase of own shares and capital maintenance.

Partner and project finance expert who specialises in advising funders, sponsors and procuring authorities on the financing and structuring of major infrastructure and energy projects.  He has worked in project finance for over 20 years across a broad range of sectors including transport, renewable energy, social infrastructure, mining, waste to energy, process plant and natural resources and has particular expertise in complex financing packages and concession arrangements. In addition to conventional bank lending, Oliver has extensive experience advising on projects with capital markets funding solutions (public and private), mezzanine and DFI funding, as well as refinancings, restructurings and secondary market work.

Head of London banking and a partner in the finance and projects division working in the banking sector in London since 1982, having completed his training with the 3i Group. Extensive experience of banking and finance, and is a specialist in UK and pan-European real estate finance and associated restructurings and recoveries. Clients include many of the leading providers of senior and mezzanine debt finance to the real estate sector, including Abbey National Treasury Services plc, Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Plc, Britannia Building Sector, Fortis Bank SA/NV, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba), London Branch, HSBC Group and Nationwide Building Society. Recognised by independent commentators and legal directories as one of the UK’s leading lawyers in real estate finance. Significant transactions include: Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Plc, £465m acquisition and development facility to Somerston Hotels Group in respect of its portfolio of 36 investment properties and hotels; Helaba and others, £132m senior syndicated debt facility for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba), London Branch, Nationwide Building Society and Deutsche Postbank AD, London Branch to Mourant Property Trustees Ltd as trustee of the Aldersgate Eden and Brookfield Eden Unit Trusts secured on the Octagon and Eden Shopping Centres, High Wycombe comprising approximately 120 retail and other units; HSBC Group, £151m bond and guarantee facility to the Gallagher Group in respect of infrastructure works at a site exceeding 1,000 acres at Elstow, Bedfordshire and relating to the ultimate development of a new town and the construction of over 7,000 new homes; Nationwide Building Society, £160m investment facility to ING Property LP, £155m facility to the Golfrate Group in respect of the mortgaging to East India Docks London, £95m facility to the Devonshire Group secured on a mixed portfolio of investment properties.

Partner in corporate team focusing on general corporate, M&A and private equity. Leads the private equity practice in the North West. Has a particular sector focus on consumer goods businesses. Acts for a number of corporate and private equity clients, including Ardenton, ECI, Equistone, Inflexion, LDC, LivingBridge, NorthEdge Capital, NVM, Phoenix and PZ Cussons Plc.

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Paul is an energy infrastructure and regulatory specialist with significant experience advising on the development and funding of large scale energy infrastructure and on regulation in the energy and utilities sectors. He advises a broad variety of clients across the sector including developers, investors, supply chain, funders, regulators and sponsors (including central and local government bodies) with clients including National Grid, Drax, Britvic, Siemens, Foresight, Equitix, NIBC, DZ Bank and John Laing Investments. He advises on commercial and regulatory matters within the electricity, gas, smart (including smart metering and battery storage) and renewables sectors advising across the technology spectrum and he is recommended in Legal 500 for work in renewables.  He led the Addleshaw Goddard teams advising Biogen on three AD PPPs in the Welsh Food Waste Programme, he also advises John Laing on the acquisition and project financing of a number of wind farm projects, various funders and developers (Trina, Canadian Solar) on the development and financing of solar pv schemes, MAPs and energy suppliers on smart metering roll-outs and on CHP schemes for MediaCity, Network Rail, Citibank and Hub. Paul also advises clients including MCS, LCCC, Ofwat, and British Sugar.

Paul is a Partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Department. He has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial litigation with a particular focus on contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, insurance claims, product liability claims, professional negligence and personal injury claims.

Perrine spent two years at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner before joining Addleshaw Goddard in February 2021. Her practice focuses on assisting and defending French and international companies in commercial litigation and white collar and corporate crime litigation, both in the pre-litigation and litigation phases. She also advises French companies and their foreign subsidiaries on compliance issues through internal investigations and the implementation of anti-corruption procedures. Perrine is a graduate of the "Grande Ecole" program of Toulouse Business School and holds a master's degree in business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Partner in the firm’s real estate group based in the London office; wide experience of dealing with all varieties of commercial property, including sales and purchases, landlord and tenant work and development work, as well as acting in property aspects of PFI and PPP transactions. He also acts for private companies involved in arrangements with various NHS and health-related bodies. Peter has specialist expertise in delaing with the development of and investment in residential property, especially in the private rental sector. His clients include private and public development companies, such as Fulcrum Infrastructure, Dandara and Kajima and funds such as Aviva and Canada Life. Recent deals include: advising on the largest yet Build & Rent financing, acting on residential PRS forward fundings, advising on the forward funding of primary care developments; advising a fund on income strip investment transaction; acting for the developer on terms near health development schemes and acting for the developer of PRS and other residential units in London. Peter is chairman of the firm’s risk committee and is it’s compliance officer for legal practice.  He is a member of the BPF Development Committee.  

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Partner specialising in corporate and real estate taxation. Advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganisation and restructuring, and venture capital matters. Also advises individuals on aspects of corporate transactions, such as private company disposals. Advises on direct and indirect (VAT and stamp duty/SDLT) issues in relation to real estate transactions, and has worked on a series of substantial PFI projects. Advice to hedge fund managers and management teams and on setting up and buying/selling interests in funds, both venture capital and real estate funds/partnerships, REITs, real estate and corporate joint ventures and outsourcing transactions. Structured finance transactions include asset and film financing and US/UK structures based on cross-border leasing of assets, partnership structures and shares, worked extensively on a number of tax efficient tier 1 capital raisings by UK banks. Also advises on tax based litigation and dispute resolution with UK revenue authorities, both on direct tax and indirect tax.

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Pierre Mathé’s practice focuses on financial regulatory matters in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, enforcement and litigation. Pierre joined the firm in 2024 after spending more than 7 years in the Paris offices of two major international law firms. Lecturer in financial regulation law, Master II “Droit Bancaire et Financier,” Le Mans Université.

Her recent work has focused on: fraud investigations, asset tracing and recovery on behalf of investment funds and other defrauded entities conducting investigations into misconduct affecting corporations, including suspected fraud, corruption, theft of commercial data, false accounting, tampering with safety equipment, and unlawful surveillance acting for corporates and individuals facing asset freezing and forfeiture orders advising on industry-wide campaigns of private prosecutions and acting as a leading advocate for the proper and lawful conduct of private investigations. Polly also advises a growing number of corporate clients grappling with allegations of sexual offences in the workplace. Her advisory work extends beyond legal remedies into managing reputational issues and crisis planning, preparedness and response. Polly was junior counsel in the high profile prosecution of News of the World journalists in 2014, and served as technical advisor to a Parliamentary inquiry into private investigators and phone hacking in 2012. Polly previously served as Head of Strategic Intelligence at the UK Serious Fraud Office and worked for several years as a corporate investigator and investigative journalist.

Partner advising corporate clients and trustees on all aspects of ongoing pension schemes and advising on independent trusteeships (both ongoing and statutory trusteeships dealing with schemes in winding up); specialising in advising pension providers, employers and trustees on all legal aspects of trusteeship and compliance with the regulatory regime, and the Pensions legislation; advice in relation to pension scheme documentation; dealing with the regulatory authorities including the Pensions Regulator, the Inland Revenue and the Pensions Ombudsman.

Rachel advises trustees and corporates on all aspects of occupational and personal pension schemes. She has particular expertise in pension scheme mergers, DB liability management, corporate transactions and employer debt issues. She is the team's expert on buy-in and buy-out transactions. She is also part of the SIPPs and pensions products team and advises SIPP providers and trustees on establishing and amending SIPPs and all day-to-day queries relating to the operation of SIPPs. Her clients include the trustees of the lbstock Pension Scheme, Shepherd Building Group, WPP, Carclo plc and the Co-operative Group. Rachel's recent experience includes: advising the UK subsidiary a NASDAQ listed business specialising in connectivity infrastructure and services for global deployments of broadband networks on all their UK pensions issues, including advice on scheme funding negotiations, how to manage a legacy error where administration practice did not accord with scheme rules and the buyout and wind up of the DB pension scheme with a UK insurer; advising the trustees of a DB scheme in relation to administration errors resulting in overpayments to members and the legal and practical issues for the trustees in determining how to manage this and mitigate the risk of complaints from affected members; advising a sponsoring employer of a DB scheme on the ability to switch from RPI to CPI for pension increases as part of wider strategic discussions regarding the DB scheme; advising the trustees of a DB scheme on a very successful pension increase exchange exercise and a subsequent enhanced transfer value exercise; advising trustees on the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the steps required to ensure compliance; advising a sponsoring employer on potential equalisation exposure  in over 25 different legacy pension arrangements including advice on both technical and strategic and practical issues relating to how to deal with remediation of benefits; advising a sponsoring employer on the switching off of long-standing discretionary practice previously exercised in member's favour and the legal risks including whether the discretion may have converted into a legal right; advising the trustees of a £600mil+ DB scheme on the closure to future accrual undertaken by way of extrinsic contracts with members and their obligations and duties; advising a corporate in connection the pensions issues arising out of a major disposal of certain divisions of the business which participated in the group's DB pension scheme, which included putting in place a £15mil pensions bond with two bond providers for the benefit of the purchaser; advising the trustees of a DB scheme on a professional negligence claim and potential rectification claim arising out an historic drafting error in their governing documents; advising in connection with the complex separation of benefits in a SSAS arising out of a business dispute; and advising numerous clients on changes to their life assurance arrangements and the introduction of excepted group life schemes and advising on the governance of these schemes.

Rachel is a Partner in Dispute Resolution specialising in both commercial litigation and media law. In the area of commercial litigation, Rachel acts on an on-going basis on behalf of various companies and financial institutions before the High Court, to include the Commercial Division, dealing with actions for specific performance, enforcement, breach of contract and injunctions. Rachel also regularly represents clients at mediation and arbitration. In media law, Rachel has significant expertise in defamation, privacy and also in providing pre-publication advice to clients. Rachel has also been involved in several high profile media related cases to include successfully defending a client in respect of the first injunction brought under Section 33 of the Defamation Act 2009. Rachel has expertise in reputation management acting for corporate clients in addressing issues arising from social media, disaffected employees, unhappy customers, competitors, regulatory investigations, pressure groups or sensitive litigation.

Ray is Partner and Head of Finance (Ireland). He specialises in finance transactions across multiple sectors. Ray regularly advises both borrowers and lenders in relation to acquisition financing, real estate financing, development financing, social housing transactions, funds finance and on a range of products across various fund sectors (including private equity funds and real estate funds). He acts for domestic and international financial institutions on syndicated and bilateral deals and for direct lenders in relation to both senior and mezzanine facilities. Ray has also acted for a number of large Irish corporates on the borrower side of financing transactions with a number of domestic financial institutions

Rémy has 30 years of legal experience, both in business as a former legal director and in a law firm. Rémy finds pragmatic solutions to complex negotiations and cross-border projects. His main areas of expertise are mergers and acquisitions, private equity acquisitions and disposals, as well as build-up and carve-out operations. He works in the energy and renewable energy sectors, defense, aerospace and technology, as well as cosmetics, food and retail. Rémy Blain worked at Airbus Defence and Security (2004-2001) as General Counsel, and Legal Counsel (2001-2000) at Thales. He also spent 7 years at TotalEnergies as a Senior International Counsel (1993-2000), negotiating upstream oil & gas projects and with a focus on Russia-CIS region.    

Partner specialising in advising public and significant private companies and well known for advising on large-scale corporate transactions, including acquisitions/disposals, City Code takeovers, flotations, secondary issues and general listed and related ‘plc’ compliance issues.

Partner in employment group specialising in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law including corporate governance issues and boardroom disputes.

Partner and Head of Insurance Disputes. The insurance practice focuses on the representation of major national and multinational policyholders within the financial and professional services, retail and consumer, real estate, construction and pharmaceutical/health sectors. Contentious and non-contentious insurance coverage expertise include: product liability, US mass tort issues, professional indemnity, D&O, employers' liability, fidelity/fraud/corporate crime, right to light and construction all risks. Specialist Bermuda Form insurance disputes practitioner, with experience of acting in complex, international, multi-party disputes.International arbitration experience includes advising clients in relation to ad hoc proceedings, as well as those brought before the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, LMAA and ICSID. Richard also spent two years working in our Singapore office, advising clients throughout South-East Asia and in India. He is an active member of the firm's Asia and India Business Groups, having been seconded to two leading Indian arbitration practices in Mumbai and New Delhi in recent years.Experience of alternative funding methods, including CFAs, DBAs, third party funding and ATE insurance.

Richard is a partner in the banking and finance team. He acts for banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions including corporate lending, leveraged acquisition finance, asset finance, real estate finance (both development and investment finance) and project finance. Richard’s clients include The Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Yorkshire Bank and PZ Cussons.

Partner specialising in banking, finance and investment disputes and contentious regulatory work acting for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and pension funds in domestic and cross border cases involving a range of lending and investment products both structured and plain vanilla.

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Specialises in a wide range of corporate finance advice and M&A transactions, and leads our relationship with some of our biggest household name clients. Advises a mix of listed and private companies and individuals on all aspects of company law and corporate finance, including M&A, takeovers, the Takeover Code, disposals, demergers, spin-outs, IPOs, fundraisings, group reorganisations and financial restructurings, capital reductions, joint ventures, corporate constitutional matters, shareholder agreements, directors’ responsibilities and governance issues, including the UKLA’s Listing Rules, Market Abuse Regulation, Prospectus Rules, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules and the AIM Rules. He leads our relationship with and advises Dixons Carphone, BT, MoneySupermarket.com, Speedy Hire, JD Sports, Norcros, The Hut, My Dentist, Boohoo, Arrow Global, Radius Payment Solutions, B&M Retail, Fircroft, Travel Counsellors and Victrex.

Ronan is a Partner in the firm's Dispute Resolution Law Department. He specialises in regulatory and statutory offences and remedies including administrative sanction and the relief of Judicial Review. He also practices in the Personal Injury/ product liability areas and has been a past Chairman of the law Society’s litigation Committee. He has extensive experience in administrative law, medical law, personal Injury cases, statutory Inquiries and Tribunals of Inquiry. He also practises in the area of contentious intellectual property law, specifically trademark and copyright infringement cases. He regularly oversees cases in the District Court and High Court on behalf of his clients. In the lower jurisdictions, he has excellent advocacy skills and regularly appears on behalf of his clients.

Partner specialising in retail financial services and financial services transactional work. Advises a wide range of clients on regulatory compliance with the Consumer Credit Act 1974, Mortgages FCA Handbook, Payment Services Regulations, unfair contract terms and consumer protection. Also significant experience in debt portfolio transactional work, and FSMA Part VII Banking business. Clients include Barclays Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC.

Head of finance disputes and head of litigation north. Partner specialising in all aspects of banking and finance litigation and dispute resolution but with particular expertise in asset finance litigation; advises a number of major asset finance companies on a variety of disputes and obtaining urgent return of assets via injunctive relief. Advises lenders on claims against solicitors and valuers, defended possession actions, and claims against lenders. Regularly resolves disputes via mediation.

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Sean is Partner in the Real Estate Team. He advises on traditional acquisitions, development, finance, leasing, and re-structuring through to newer areas such student accommodation, data centres, primary care centres and the private rented sector. Sean has experience in acting for foreign and domestic Investors on the sale and acquisition of all types of property and has acted on several large office lettings both on the landlord and tenant side. Sean works closely with our lawyers in our corporate team in relation to property elements of mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked extensively with lawyers in other jurisdictions on the real estate elements arising in international M&A deals and on international property syndication transactions. He works with our Banking team in financing both for banks and borrowers.  Sean advises on lending restructurings and enforcement of securities in conjunction with our corporate recovery team.

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Simon is a partner in the finance and projects division, specialising in asset based lending and receivables financing. Simon advises a range of bank owned and independent ABLs in relation to all types of asset based lending and receivables finance transactions, including syndicated ABL facilities, off balance sheet receivables purchase facilities and supply chain finance. His clients include RBS Invoice Finance, HSBC Invoice Finance, Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance, Barclays Bank, PNC Business Credit and Leumi ABL.

Partner in London infrastructure, projects and energy group in advising on infrastructure projects in both the UK and internationally, across a range of social and economic infrastructure sectors including schools, hospitals, roads, renewable energy (and in particular solar). In addition to Simon’s valued commercial advice on projects, he is recognised for his successful track record in facilitating introductions and he has brought together investors, sponsors and developers on a number of projects in both the UK and internationally (in particular Africa) including solar, waste to energy, oil storage and hotel developments. Simon has particular experience of the solar sector, having advised sponsors, pv suppliers and funders on a number of projects. Important recent deals are: advising Trina Solar on a range of large ground mounted solar projects, including West Raynham – the largest UK solar project at 49.9MW. This included an innovative construction finance arrangement where the project was sold to Bluefield; advising BLB on the project finance of a number of large ground mounted solar projects ranging from 7MW to 20+MW; advising Just Ghana, a consortia of developers, sponsors and consultants, on a PPP strategic partnering agreement in Ghana which provides a framework for future infrastructure projects; advising a Macquarie led consortium on various infrastructure projects in Benelux including a number of tram projects in Belgium; advising the Barclays Infrastructure Fund on various road projects in the Netherlands.

Simon is head of the dispute resolution team in Scotland and a solicitor advocate. He regularly handles complex and high value cases in both Sheriff Court and the Court of Session with a particular focus on commercial, contractual, insolvency and sports related disputes. Simon specialises in the full range of commercial, contractual and insolvency disputes. His clients range from insolvency practitioners, banks and public limited companies to small privately owned companies and partnerships. Clients also include UK football clubs and professional sportsmen in the fields of football and athletics. Simon is the appointed solicitor member of the board of the Scottish Court Service. He is also a member of the firm’s Scottish and UK managing boards.

Head of international arbitration. Partner specialising in company and shareholder disputes; mergers and acquisition-related claims; misfeasance and directors duties issues, sports law, cross-border litigation and injunctive work, public law and judicial review. Contributor on legal topics to various business and legal publications.

Partner working in the Technology and Outsourcing team.  He has significant in-house experience from four secondments: with a multi-national FTSE 100 manufacture, a major financial institution, a multi-national insurance company and Aegon.

Stéphanie is an associate in the finance team of the Paris office of Addleshaw Goddard. She advises a wide range of clients on domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Her practice is focused on acquisition finance, intra-group financing and capital markets. Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Stéphanie gained experience mainly in an American law firm in Luxembourg where she was admitted to the Luxembourg bar as a foreign lawyer and where she advised local and international clients, both lenders and borrowers, on investment fund financing and real estate financing transactions. Stéphanie is active in academic activities. She previously worked as a research and teaching associate at a French university and regularly delivers courses on business law and civil law.

Non-contentious real estate. Specialising in investment and development/regeneration of commercial property. Main adviser to several well-known North West property investment and development companies as well as a number of other real estate businesses. Has experience of acting for the public and private sectors and for partnerships bewteen the two. Deals with large portfolio acquisitions, disposals and management and development projects many of which are strategically sensitive.

Stephen is a partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution department and is also the head of the Regulatory group. Stephen provides strategic advice to clients in all areas of regulatory and administrative law, and represents a number of professional regulators in misconduct inquiries and in litigation before the Irish superior courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. His expertise acting for and advising regulators and private sector entities, includes complaints, criminal regulatory prosecutions, statutory applications, professional indemnity insurance issues, the entitlement of overseas professionals to practise in Ireland under EU and domestic law and drafting legislation.

Partner advising in relation to structured finance; specialising in social housing finance, real estate finance, debt capital markets, project finance and derivatives

Stewart is a partner in the Firm's Infrastructure practice. He has extensive experience of acting on infrastructure and project finance transactions, including PFI/PPP projects, energy/utilities projects and government concession arrangements. He has advised across a range of sectors, including health, education, roads, railways, waste management, water, renewable energy and telecoms, and has acted for private sector participants, public authorities and funding institutions. Stewart has more than 20 years of experience in his field and is qualified to practice in Scotland, and in England and Wales. Stewart is recognized for his work in the Legal 500 directory.

Partner with extensive experience of a wide variety of high-profile and large-value disputes for commercial enterprises; expertise includes both defending and bringing warranty and indemnity claims; contractual disputes and dealing with loss-of-profit claims; defending and bringing negligence claims; obtaining urgent injunctive relief, for example in relation to employee fraud and making applications for judicial review against public authorities and central government. Particular expertise in disputes relating to pensions, tax and trusts. CEDR-accredited mediator and higher rights of audience in civil proceedings. Acted in the following reported tax cases: Howell and Morton v Linda Trippier (HMT) [2004] EWCA Civ 885, Halifax plc and others v The Commissioners and Customs & Excise for the VAT and Duties Tribunal (LTL 12/6/022); appeal to the High Court and reference to the ECJ [2006]; Neways International (UK) Limited v Customs & Excise Commissioners [2003] WL 1823113; Bradmount Investments Ltd v Williams de Broe plc and others [2005] EWHC 2449; Betafence v Veys [2006] EWHC 999.

Sylvie focuses her practice on leases, construction, property development, real estate financing, acquisitions, and litigation. She acts for international and French clients. Sylvie has experience of the London market following experience in the legal department of Bouygues UK. She works with both French and international clients.

Terry is a Consultant in the Dispute Resolution Department, with over 40 years’ experience in this sphere. While dealing mostly in commercial litigation, Terry has specialised throughout his career in banking and financial product litigation. He has worked on a wide variety of cases including contractual disputes, specific performance, IT and proprietary knowledge cases and numerous injunctions. He also specialises in the area of Corporate Recovery Law and has extensive experience in litigation relating to this field. Terry also frequently advises on Regulatory matters for State Bodies or Associations.

Tim specialises in all aspects of insolvency, restructuring and recovery across a wide range of industry sectors. His experience includes multi-disciplinary corporate restructuring, management and bank-led distressed turnaround, restructuring and distressed acquisitions. Tim has particular experience in the asset-based lending sector, distressed refinance and pension scheme-related distressed restructurings. Career highlights include: in 2013, Tim led a multi-discipline, firm-wide team advising on the high-profile liquidation of The Scottish Coal Company; in 2014, Tim advised the administrators of Ferguson Shipbuilders. More recently Tim has acted for the administrators on the trading administration of Penman Engineering Ltd.

Tom specialises in banking and finance work and acts for all of the major banks in the UK on transactional and advisory work. He has worked on a large number of corporate and banking projects with a broad range of capital values. He has been instrumental in ensuring the firm remains on the panels of most UK banks as well as a number of European and other overseas banks. Tom is regarded by a number of lenders as a market leader in financing businesses which provide frontline and associated healthcare support services. His substantial catalogue of completed transactions in this field is testament to his experience and quality of service.

Vicky is a partner in the Real Estate department who has experience acting for a range of clients, specialising in institutional investor work. She is account manager for Standard Life Investments, advising in relation to all aspects of its property transactions, including development and funding, sales and acquisitions and management work. Vicky also works with regional developers, including Peel and has recently acted for Manchester City Council in its £1 billion joint venture to regenerate East Manchester

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One of the acknowleged leading individuals in the field of LLP and partnership law in the UK. He advises professional services firms on the full range of issues and is frequently instructed on the most difficult partnership disputes. He also specialises in mergers and de-mergers, the acquisition of professional services firms, partnership downsizing, governance, structuring and internal arrangements. He has wide experience in the management of distressed partnerships, and assisting in the use of partnerships and LLPs in finance, insurance, media, real estate and private equity. William has been at the forefront of advising law firms and other commercial organisations on the advent of alternative business structures under the Legal Services Act 2007. William frequently lectures and commentates on all issues concerning professional services firms and is leading the Group’s response to the opportunities provided by the Legal Services Act 2007. He is Chairman of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and is one of The Times Law 100 Panel of leading practitioners. William previously practised at the Bar.

Corporate transaction and specialist advice in the payment sector and rail sector.

Partner specialising in all areas of corporate finance work with particular expertise in buy-out and venture capital work, acting for institutions, Newco and management teams.

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