Adam is the head of the Real Estate team in Nottingham. His clients include investment funds, occupiers and both public and private sector organisations involved in regeneration and development schemes of all values. He is a real estate investment and development specialist, with particular expertise in purpose built student accommodation schemes, investment fund transactions and healthcare related property matters. His experience includes site assembly, joint venture and profit share arrangements, development agreements, investment acquisitions, funding agreements, property management agreements, the negotiation of institutionally acceptable leases, pre-lets and forward sales as well as general property and landlord and tenant transactions. He acts for investments funds such as Custodian REIT plc and the Starwood Capital Group as well as healthcare operators such as GP practices and renal dialysis operator Fresenius Medical Care.
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Adam specialises in advising on a wide range of corporate deals, including acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations and joint ventures.He is also a member of the Private Equity team operating out of our Birmingham office and the corporate transactions he advises on often involve a private equity investor.
Alex has for the last decade specialised in advising clients on fraud and asset recovery matters. His experience includes co-ordinating a major international asset recovery assignment for UK and offshore liquidators, which culminated in litigation being pursued in England for approximately £70 million and ultimately led to a substantial recovery being achieved for an institutional creditor. He has successfully applied on numerous occasions for urgent without notice relief in support of fraud proceedings and has conducted “dawn raids” for office-holders in order to prevent asset dissipation and preserve evidence. Most recently, he has advised an overseas government in relation to the pursuit of complex and high value fraud claims arising from the collapse of the country’s banking sector. This has required an international asset recovery strategy to be carefully devised and litigation to be co-ordinated in multiple jurisdictions, including the relevant FSU state, the UK and the United States.
Andrew heads up the Restructuring Advisory unit and specialises in advising upon corporate strategy and trading whilst under financial pressure, often during the twilight zone, and is predominantly based in the North West and London. This advice requires a solutions-driven approach with Andrew often accepting the lead advisor role to highlight transactional and corporate restructuring solutions. Andrew acts for private and public companies, financial institutions, funders and other stakeholders. He has recently represented our surety clients upon a number of very significant restructuring assignments. Andrew regularly advises Boards of Directors and other stakeholders upon directors' duties and trading issues. This experience can frequently lead to the formulation of transactional and other restructuring solutions, both solvent and insolvent. Andrew has worked with a range of household names and sectors in which he has experience include automotive, aerospace, retail, manufacturing, technology, care homes, real estate and professional services. Andrew often works closely with colleagues who specialise in providing solutions for pension deficits.
Andrew is a leading competition and European law lawyer working in merger control and anti-competitive agreements and practices, state aid and anti-dumping investigations. He has advised numerous sectors including biotechnology, automotive, pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, property development, construction, waste and recycling, aerospace, defence and the public sector.
Andrew has a wealth of experience in the commercial real estate market, undertaking a full range of non-contentious real estate work. He advises on investment acquisitions and disposals, development, portfolio and asset management work and all aspects of commercial landlord and tenant work. Andrew acts for a variety of public and private companies nationally, acting principally in the last few years for investors/asset managers in the retail sector.
Andrew heads the national Planning team. He specialises in planning, highways, compulsory purchase & compensation and local government law and is an experienced public inquiry advocate. Andrew acts for an extensive range of clients including landowners, developers, housebuilders and retailers, as well as public sector bodies. He has experience of acting on all types of development, in and out of centre retail, employment, residential, roads, airports, stadia and tall buildings.
Andrew was responsible for creating the banking & finance team at Gateley and has overseen the development of a national team. Having started life as a corporate lawyer in private equity transactions, Andrew’s focus is advising on corporate and banking transactions; he is regularly involved in complex structured finance and corporate lending deals, including leveraged buy-outs, project finance and restructuring. Andrew’s clients include many of the leading banks and financial institutions operating in the UK, as well as private equity investors and corporate borrowers. Andrew is responsible for managing many of Gateley’s national bank panel appointments. He also advises on ABL transactions, cross-border and syndicated lending.
Andrew heads the national Employment, Pensions and Private Client Group is the Head of our People Platform which brings together our specialists in employment law, pensions, leadership and management development. He has specialised in employment law for over 25 years and provides strategic and commercial legal advice on the full range of employment law issues with a particular focus on restructuring, redundancies, industrial relations, senior executive issues, complex disciplinary and grievance matters and employment tribunal litigation.
Andrew specialises in finance litigation, advising and representing financial institutions. His expertise includes guarantee claims, security enforcement (including mortgage possession proceedings), injunctive relief, asset recovery, professional negligence claims, fraud claims and personal insolvency. He also acts for lenders in defending claims brought by customers. Andrew has significant advocacy and mediation experience.
Andrew is an experienced company lawyer, with expertise in private and public M&A and corporate finance, private equity, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and all other aspects of corporate law. In the first part of his career in the City, Andrew worked on a variety of transactions mainly for large international businesses, with a focus on the oil and gas, IT, telecoms and manufacturing sectors. Since 1996 Andrew has mostly been based in Thames Valley, and the majority of his practice has been in private company M&A, alongside acting for a number of AIM-listed companies, and often in the technology sector. Since helping to establish Gateley’s Reading office in 2016, Andrew has been increasingly involved in private equity backed transactions, while continuing to act for corporate acquirers, and owner managers on exits.
Anna heads the banking and finance team. She specialises in banking and acquisition finance, acting for many of the major UK clearing banks and a number of corporate borrowers. Anna advises clients on a wide range of banking and finance matters including real estate finance, development finance, healthcare lending, syndicated and bilateral borrowing and structured finance.
Work for a variety of clients, primarily medium to large size companies. Provide a full range of employment work, both contentious and non contentious.
Benedict is a trusted advisor on employment law matters to a range of blue chip clients. His contentious practice encompasses everything from high court restrictive covenant disputes to multi-party tribunal claims. Benedict is also frequently asked to advise on transactional projects, with a particular focus on TUPE transfers and change management programmes.
Beth is a partner in the Gateley corporate team. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions (many with an international dimension), buy outs and disposals with a focus on private equity. Beth has considerable deal experience, is well known in the Midlands corporate finance market and advises on a wide range of transactional and non-transactional corporate matters.
Brendan is a leading corporate restructuring lawyer and head of the firm's Banking Group. He advises banks, funds, venture capitalists together with other financial institutions and stakeholders in businesses, on all aspects of corporate restructuring and turnaround. As well as corporate restructuring, Brendan also advises insolvency practitioners on more complex assignments and can give advice on all aspects of corporate administration.
Callum is a leader in the fields of residential development, urban regeneration and urban extensions. He is also a Director of Gateley Plc and a member of the Gateley Group Strategic Board. Callum has specialised in acting for housebuilders, land promoters and landowners on large scale residential developments, regeneration schemes, urban extensions and residential-led mixed use schemes nationwide for over 25 years.
Catriona leads the national Private Wealth & Family team at Gateley. She is a trusted legal and tax advisor, working closely with individuals and families to provide solutions to their high value and complex wealth planning and protection objectives. Catriona advises a range of clients and acts for families across the generations in planning for and preserving their wealth.
Charles is Head of Gateley's Corporate Platform. He specialises in mergers & acquisitions in both the private and public company arenas. Charles has many years’ experience of a full range of corporate finance work. He has a master’s degree in law (from the College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA) and has been awarded the Corporate Finance Qualification by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Chris is a leading player in the Midlands restructuring market and is widely known for his superb technical ability, the clarity of his advice and his straightforward approach. His career in restructuring started in 1989 and since then he has been involved in many of the Midlands’ largest restructuring and insolvency assignments.
Chris became National Head of the Employment Unit in May 2019, having spent the previous two years as a member of our Operations Board. He has specialised in employment law since qualification in 1997. He advises on the full spectrum of employment issues and also has expertise in the regulatory framework applicable to employment agencies and businesses. He has experience in sectors including recruitment, retail, leisure and travel, utilities and energy, financial services, health and the public sector.
Chris predominantly acts for Midlands-based commercial property developers in respect of the acquisition, funding, development and disposal of land. He also advises on general real estate management issues. His experience ranges from initial site diligence, drafting and negotiation of acquisition documents for investment acquisitions and bespoke acquisition documents for land assembly for development schemes including commercial/ mixed use residential schemes, retail parks and industrial/ distribution hubs, site disposals, drafting and negotiating lease documentation (mainly acting for landlords).
Colin is a real estate lawyer specialising in finance and investment transactions. He advises on all manners of real estate finance, investment, real estate portfolio management and corporate support work.
Danielle is predominantly instructed by Insolvency Act officeholders but also advises UK local authorities, private equity houses, investors, foreign creditors and company directors on institutional civil financial fraud, asset stripping and tax avoidance including working alongside the criminal authorities where there is a civil/criminal overlap. She has solid cross-border experience and is heavily involved in the firm’s Russia and CIS litigation practice on claims where there is a route to bringing claims from those jurisdictions in the UK. She is now developing a crypto-asset recovery niche practice to assist both insolvency practitioners and victims of high value fraud aimed at investigating, tracing and recovering cryptocurrency and assets bought with fraudulently obtained crypto and she is a member of CAPAG.
Darren has experience in dealing with all aspects of commercial real estate work including real estate finance. He acts for a wide range of occupiers, developers, investors and banks on site acquisitions, disposals, day-to-day property management and real estate finance.
David has a wealth of expertise in corporate finance, corporate and commercial matters, including: mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions and investments. UK inward- and outward-bound investments acquisitions, corporate structuring and projects. He has over 30 years’ experience working for clients on growth and acquisition strategies. His clients include public companies, multi-national and private family-owned companies from the UK, the US and further afield and covering many different sectors.
Emlyn is Gateley’s national head of the Construction & Surety unit. He deals with the full range of complex construction and surety work. This includes complex bond transactions, bond disputes and the security and recovery claims in addition to high value, complex disputes arising out of all the forms of major standard form construction and engineering contracts as well as professional negligence claims. Emlyn prosecutes litigation, arbitration and adjudication proceedings in conjunction with the strategic use of alternate dispute resolution (mediation, conciliation and expert determination).
Gareth has a wide range of experience in all aspects of commercial real estate work, and in particular development work. He acts for landowners, developers and local authorities in relation to large scale development and regeneration schemes.
Gavin is a specialist restructuring lawyer. Consistent exposure to a wide range of projects, together with a secondment at a firm of accountants, has allowed Gavin to develop an informed but commercial approach to law and a greater understanding of clients’ needs. Gavin has significant experience advising insolvency practitioners and financial institutions on all legal matters arising from corporate and individual insolvencies.
George specialises in advising national and regional housebuilders from the point at which a new site is first identified, through negotiating heads of terms, assisting in guiding the structure of the transaction and preparing and negotiating the site acquisition documentation. With substantial experience in relation to mixed use development, he is able to give holistic advice to his clients where they are taking a residential phase of a mixed use scheme or selling any commercial elements of large scale residential led schemes.
Heather provides advice and support to a number of clients working in wide ranging industries including insurance, retail, construction, professional services, recruitment and manufacturing. Delivering support on issues which cover the full range of employment law, Heather is part of her client’s wider HR team advising on day-to-day workplace issues and larger restructure and litigious matters. Heather has significant experience in drafting, amending and negotiating contractual documentation and policies and in achieving results in the Employment Tribunal setting.
Helen is a Senior Associate in the Restructuring team at Gateley, based in Birmingham. She specialises in non-contentious insolvency transactional and advisory work.Helen regularly advises financial institutions, investors, companies/directors, insolvency practitioners and creditors on all aspects of security and its enforcement, restructuring, distressed acquisitions and disposals and formal insolvency processes.She completed a secondment to a major clearing Bank.
Jacob specialises in advising on corporate, banking and debt restructuring transactions. He is regularly involved in complex structured finance, real estate finance and corporate lending transactions including leveraged buy-outs and general commercial lending. He acts for many of the major banks and financial institutions in the UK, private equity houses and corporate borrowers and regularly acts on multiple jurisdictional transactions.
James specialises in all areas of corporate tax, real estate tax and share schemes. He has particular expertise on the taxation of real estate investment, real estate development and urban regeneration. James' clients include global banks, listed companies, private companies, entrepreneurs and individuals, charities and landowners. He is a consulting editor on VAT, stamp duties and stamp duty land tax for Lexis Nexis Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents. He is also a member of the VAT Practitioners Group and a member of Law Society Stamp Taxes Working Group.
James commonly acts in complex breach of contract claims, shareholder disputes, contentious trust and probate matters, High Court employment actions, and professional negligence claims. James’ experience is based on work for public and private companies, professional associations, high net worth individuals, estate executors, and insolvency practitioners. He has significant experience of injunction applications and trial work, whilst his practice encompasses litigation in the County Court, High Court and the Court of Appeal, often with a cross-border element. He has successfully used mediation on many occasions as an alternative and cost-effective means of resolving disputes.
James is an expert in investment transactions and landlord and tenant matters. He leads a team who act for London-based and regional funds and advises on acquisitions, disposals and asset management work over a wide range of UK assets. James has advised on over £100m of property acquisitions and disposals over the past year, including complex conditional purchases and time critical transactions where clients were able to secure a commercial advantage by contracts being exchanged within a few days of instruction.
James is an expert in landlord and tenant law. He leads a team of lawyers who specialise in advising businesses in relation leasing, managing and disposing of commercial property. He specialises in the retail sector, advising a number of national retailers on their store portfolios. James sits on the property committee of a national retailer, reporting monthly to the main board on property matters. James has substantial experience of dealing with office lettings, advising both landlords and tenants on new lease arrangements. His work has included advising on lettings of office space in the City of London as well as regional head office facilities for retailers, professional services firms and national housebuilders.
Jane has expertise in shipping and insurance disputes. She specialises in carriage of goods by sea and road and insurance (both marine and non-marine).Experience includes: Shipping & TransportJane acts for cargo owners, cargo insurers, freight forwarders, haulage companies, shipowners and charterers.Many of her cases involve pursuing or defending cargo claims, advising on contracts and acting on a wide range of shipping disputes. Marine InsuranceJane acts for insureds and insurers on all types of marine and freight liability policies. She handles policy disputes as well as insurance recoveries and defence work. Non Marine InsuranceJane acts for businesses and individuals who have problems getting a claim paid under an insurance policy. She has good experience of dealing with claims under almost every type of non-marine insurance policy, including property, engineering, Directors & Officers, credit risk, crime and fidelity, construction, public liability and professional indemnity policies. Where clients do not have insurance cover for a particular loss or liability, Jane helps them to make recoveries from parties responsible for the loss. She also helps them to defend their position, when others are holding them liable for a loss.
John specialises in advising banks, building societies and other financial institutions on a wide range of contentious matters including guarantee claims, security enforcement (including mortgage possession proceedings), asset recovery, fraud and professional negligence claims. He also assists clients with complaints to the Financial Services Ombudsman and defends claims brought against them in relation to allegations of mis-selling financial products and breaches of contract.
Jon specialises in high value urban regeneration projects, development schemes, investment transactions, complex site assembly and development funding for clients both in the public and private sectors including CPO anchored development schemes. He has particular experience in sports-led regeneration schemes, public sector funding and shopping centre developments.
Karen acts for major names in manufacturing, retail, energy, IT and telecoms negotiating, mediating and litigating complex and high value disputes from the pre-action stage through to trials in the High Court and appeals to the Court of Appeal. Karen’s focus is on achieving efficient and cost effective resolutions with as little impact as possible on her clients' businesses. Karen regularly acts for clients involved in contract disputes, post-acquisition warranty and indemnity claims arising out of SPAs, shareholder disputes/ unfair prejudice petitions and claims to enforce employee restrictive covenants. Karen has a teamwork-based approach to litigation and a successful track record in obtaining search orders, freezing injunction orders and other injunctions for her clients on an urgent basis. Since joining Gateley in 2002 Karen has gained an excellent reputation for fighting her clients’ corners hard and well and for obtaining good results including on difficult cases. Karen is known for her ‘can do’ attitude, her straight and open approach and is recognised for providing an exceptionally high level of service to clients.
Karen is a nationally recognised expert in surety law, specialising in advising on bond wordings and disputes in relation to performance bonds, indemnities and guarantees issued for construction projects. She advises on resolving construction disputes, commercial disputes and professional negligence cases. She also has particular expertise in advising on disputes arising in relation to nuclear decommissioning projects. She has worked internationally in cooperation with clients and lawyers overseas in relation to large bonded contracts, notably shipbuilding, factories and power plants.
Kate has a wealth of experience of private equity deals, such as management buy-out and development capital investments, as well as advising on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and shareholder/member arrangements.
Katie has experience in dealing with all aspects of commercial property work including freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals and general landlord and tenant work. Katie’s experience includes: drafting of leases; negotiation of leases; property acquisitions and disposals; lease renewal proceedings and general property portfolio management.
Katie is a member of Gateley Plc’s Operations board and provides administrative support to its Strategic board and the board of Gateley (Holdings) Plc. Her role encompasses a range of activities including risk and compliance, governance, IT, facilities and more. Prior to her current role, Katie was a partner in our Corporate team having many years’ experience working within corporate finance, advising on mergers and acquisitions for both public and private companies. She has also advised shareholders, officers and advisers on in connection with corporate law related matters, in particular mergers and acquisitions and stock exchange regulatory requirements.
Ken has wide ranging experience of all aspects of restructuring, insolvency and turnaround work, with an emphasis on transactional and advisory work. He has advised lenders, insolvency practitioners, companies and directors, creditors and stakeholders for many years, operating across a wide variety of industries and business sectors. Ken has spent time on secondment with a national lender in the UK and with the high value restructuring team at a leading overseas bank.
Liz’s experience includes development work, investment acquisitions and disposals, particularly in the retail and industrial sectors, and all aspects of non-contentious landlord and tenant and estate management work. She has led teams of lawyers dealing with multiple property portfolio transactions. Recent successes include acting for Listerhills SSV Limited, the developer/joint venture company (owned by the Hayaat Group and Welbeck Land Limited), in connection with the £40m student accommodation village at Listerhills, Bradford, including all aspects of securing grant funding, led a team of lawyers acting for a Manchester-based investor on the acquisition of 77 former Kwik Save sites from Somerfield plc and dealing thereafter with the disposal of the portfolio, led a team of lawyers dealing with the property aspects of a proposed float for Focus Wickes Limited, and subsequently its financial restructuring and led a team dealing with all property aspects of the sale by Focus Wickes Limited of the Wickes group of companies to Travis Perkins.
Mahnvir is a Legal Director in the restructuring team and has experience of advising a broad spectrum of clients including banks, funds, PE houses and CLOs, corporate debtors, directors, shareholders, insolvency practitioners, financial advisers, agents/security trustees and pension scheme trustees. Mahnvir has also gained valuable experience from secondments at major international banks and has first-hand experience of corporate and investment bank restructuring teams, leveraged and structured debt financings, distressed debt trading and distressed mergers and acquisitions. Notable matters that Mahnvir has worked on include: the CPP and Affinion Schemes of Arrangement, IBRC loan portfolio sales, Regency Casinos, Opal Property Group, KCA Deutag, Snoras Bank, Drive Assist, Premium Bars and Restaurants plc, Meridien Hotels Group, Eurotunnel, Concordia Bus AB, Courts plc and Homebuy plc.
Mark is Head of Gateley’s Complex and International Recovery Work unit. He has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of corporate insolvency, turnaround and restructuring acting for banks, venture capitalists, insolvency practitioners and corporates. She specialises in contentious insolvency matters often involving offshore entities and allegations of fraud or breach of duty. He also has a niche practice in bringing claims against and defending insolvency practitioners.
Mark specialises in private company mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. He is primarily based in the Reading office, but travels widely supporting his colleagues and clients. He acts for private equity investors, corporates, management teams and entrepreneurs. Mark was named Young Dealmaker of the Year at the Thames Valley Deal Awards 2018.
Mark specialises in all aspects of planning and compulsory purchase law and associated environmental and highways issues. His work involves complex statutory agreements, strategic planning advice, appeals, applications, development consent orders, scheme/site specific advice/opinions and High Court work.
Martin is a specialist tax lawyer who advises on a broad range of tax issues across all types of transactions and restructurings. He specialises in company tax planning, corporate acquisitions and disposals, reconstructions, management buy-outs and management buy-ins. He is frequently involved in real estate transactions and advises on share-based employee incentivisation. As well as being a qualified solicitor, he is a chartered tax adviser and the education secretary of the regional committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Matt specialises in all aspects of recovery, restructuring and insolvency work, with an emphasis on non-contentious corporate and property advice. He advises insolvency practitioners, fixed charge receivers, banks and other lenders, directors and shareholders. Matt has undertaken secondments with Royal Bank of Scotland’s AIM team, Yorkshire Bank’s SBS team and National Australia Bank’s CRE team and has a good working knowledge of lenders’ internal processes, procedures and requirements.
Matthew specialises in planning, compulsory purchase, highways, judicial review and aspects of environmental law. He acts for many of the UK's major developers, housebuilders and land promoters and is experienced in dealing with planning and highways agreements for both commercial and residential development. He regularly carries out complex planning due diligence for commercial developers as well as advice relating to delivery of large scale developments.
Merran is a specialist employment lawyer advising on all aspects of the employment relationship. She provides straightforward, practical advice with an emphasis on finding solutions. Merran supports a range of clients from internationally-headquartered entities, financial institutions and household names to local charitable bodies and senior executives in their personal capacity. Merran manages the full range of employment tribunal claims and has extensive experience of multi-party litigation. She was instructed by the lead respondent in litigation described by The Guardian as “the largest ever legal claim over the national minimum wage” and regularly represents employers in a range of tribunal claims involving issues such as whistleblowing, constructive unfair dismissal, the adequacy of TUPE information and consultation exercises and discrimination issues. This includes representation before the Employment Appeal Tribunal. She also regularly supports clients with complex disciplinary and grievance issues and change management programmes and the drafting and enforcement of post-termination restrictions. Merran regularly advises on a variety of corporate transactions and insourcing/ outsourcing exercises which often involve the TUPE Regulations. Recent support included advising Gymshark on the employment-related aspects of the investment by General Atlantic which valued the Gymshark business at over £1bn.
Michael has over 30 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, advising private and public companies and private investors. He acts for sellers, buyers and debt or equity providers on corporate transactions, restructurings and shareholder disputes. Michael is regularly involved in contract negotiations, deal origination and deal restructuring.
Neil is a commercial real estate partner with many years of experience in the Midlands and across the country. Neil’s background includes dealing with all manner of real estate transactions, including sales, purchases, leases and finance. Neil is also a specialist in transactions involving Catholic charities and insolvency practitioners.
Nick specialises in litigation and arbitration relating to shipping and international trade. He speaks fluent French and is a correspondent member of the French Maritime Law Association (AFDM). Nick’s experience and expertise includes commodity trading disputes, especially under GAFTA and FOSFA terms and oil trading contracts, cargo claims, disputes under charterparties, bills of lading, general average, MOAs and shipbuilding contracts. Lloyd’s List named him as one of their top 10 UK maritime lawyers in 2017.
Nick has significant experience in national and international corporate finance, capital markets, private equity and mergers & acquisitions, with particular specialisms including real estate investment and finance, and telecoms and technology mergers & acquisitions.
Nicola’s practice encompasses advising on a variety of commercial disputes for both corporate and individual clients. She has experience of all aspects of the litigation process from the pre-action stage through to trial, and has participated in a number of mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Nuala is a specialist employment solicitor advising on all matters relating to the employment relationship. Nuala’s practice includes both contentious and non-contentious work. She advises clients on a range of internal HR related issues and carries out training for managers and HR advisors. Nuala undertakes litigation in the Employment Tribunal, including multi party claims. She is also involved in Court litigation as a result of breaches of confidentiality or post-termination restrictions. Nuala has represented a number of senior executives and advises on exit packages. Nuala regularly advises on the employment issues arising out of corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions and TUPE transfers.
Owen has specialised in family law since he started his training contract in 1996. Owen advises on all aspects of family law including divorce, matrimonial finances, cohabitee disputes, disputes about children, domestic violence injunctions and pre- and post- nuptial agreements. Owen is also a Collaborative Lawyer, so can conduct cases in a more conciliatory manner using the Collaborative Law route. He has a wealth of experience having started his career dealing with Legal Aid cases including complex children cases. During this time he has acted for clients in divorce and financial proceedings in both small money and high net worth cases, including Section 37 injunctions to freeze assets.
Pam specialises in residential development work and has over 20 years’ experience working exclusively in the housebuilding sector. She acts for our housebuilder clients on acquisition of development sites ranging from immediately available schemes to large scale regeneration projects and longer-term strategic land. Pam is experienced in advising on grant and funding schemes available to our clients, a large part of her practice is advising our housebuilder clients on schemes working collaboratively with Homes England, public sector bodies and affordable housing providers to bring forward mixed tenure developments across the country.
Patrick is a partner in the pensions team as well as a director and founder of Entrust, a leading professional pension trustee company. He has overseen Entrust develop into a global business helping inward investors in more than 20 countries worldwide manage legacy defined benefit scheme liability aspects of their UK operations. Patrick has helped to develop Entrust’s comprehensive services platform for businesses seeking to reduce the time and money spent looking after their defined benefit schemes. He has worked on sole trustee appointments and co-trustee cases, including as Chair of trustees. Patrick has succeeded in challenging negotiations, assisted employers to break free from outdated scheme structures and brought a leading industry wide scheme for over 200 employers to a successful conclusion.
Patrick has over 20 years’ experience in acting on banking and corporate finance transactions. During that time he has worked in-house heading the UK Corporate Banking Legal Team at Bank of Scotland and subsequently working as a banking and finance partner in private practice. He is regularly involved in complex structured finance and corporate lending deals including real estate investment and development, leveraged buy-outs, general commercial lending, restructuring, ABL and private client lending. He regularly advises a wide range of leading banks and financial institutions, corporate and high net worth borrowers. His experience includes secured and unsecured UK and cross border transactions.
Paul heads up the Gateley Private Equity group and has over 25 years of corporate transactional experience. He leads a variety of M&A deals, specialising in private equity transactions, such as management buy-out/buy-in and development capital investments, as well as advising on mergers and acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. Paul also advises on fund formation and constitution for a range of private and institutional investors and limited partners both in the UK and offshore, advising fund managers and limited partners in those structures.
Peter is an experienced dispute resolution lawyer in the firm’s Construction unit and a member of the Strategic and Operations Boards. He has considerable experience in construction disputes, acting for developers, contractors, sub-contractors and construction professionals. He is familiar with all standard industry documentation and has considerable experience of all types of dispute resolution.
Phil specialises in commercial property development work, acting for developers and end user occupiers on complex and large scale development schemes. He has particular expertise in acting on retail development projects and regeneration schemes. In addition to advising on development transactions, Phil has experience in acting on significant investment and portfolio sale and purchase transactions as well as all types of landlord and tenant matters.
Philip has extensive experience across a broad spectrum of finance matters. He has particular expertise in equipment leasing and asset finance together with consumer credit work. He regularly provides advice on regulatory issues, drafting standard and bespoke finance documents, advice on the structuring of projects and handling one-off transactions. He has assisted various clients gain FCA authorisation and frequently advises on authorisation issues.
Rachel provides a wide range of pensions legal advice to both employers and trustees of occupational pension schemes. She has worked on issues ranging from employers funding obligations under the Pensions Act 2004 to extensive drafting work consolidating schemes’ deeds and rules. Rachel is also a director of Entrust, a company which acts as trustee of ongoing and winding-up schemes.
Rachel acts for a wide range of developers, investors, occupiers and banks in respect of their acquisition, development and disposal of land, real estate finance and general real estate management issues. Her experience ranges from initial site diligence, drafting and negotiation of bespoke acquisition documents for schemes including large out of town retail parks and mixed use regeneration projects, site disposal, drafting and negotiating lease documentation (acting for both landlords and tenants).
Rebecca Sherwin is head of the real estate team. She is an expert in real estate finance. She advises banks, borrowers and funders on the real estate aspects of commercial and residential investment and development.
Richard is highly regarded for his innovation, broad experience and thought leadership in all types of financing transactions. He works on highly complex, demanding and innovative deals and is renowned for providing the highest quality legal advice for more than 20 years to governments, banks, funds, UK and international institutions and corporates. Richard is author and contributing editor to the leading textbook Modern Financial Regulation.
Richard advises high street and institutional lenders and investors on all forms of real estate finance including large scale investment portfolios and bespoke development finance. He has spent time on a legal secondment with HSBC UK Bank Plc working alongside the Bank’s Corporate Banking Real Estate team.
Richard has expertise in restructuring matters and complex and international dispute resolution. He has significant extra-territorial experience in asset protection, asset tracing and recovery and of representing parties in disputes, both in the High Court and London Court of International Arbitration, as well as numerous overseas courts including the Courts of Appeal of Hong Kong, Singapore and Gibraltar. Richard has a particular specialism in cases involving tax avoidance, evasion and fraud. He started his career as a Banking and Financial Services Litigator at the international firm of Simmons and Simmons and now has 20 years of complex litigation experience. Since 1999, he’s had extensive experience of conducting heavyweight financial litigation matters on behalf of high net worth individuals, corporate, institutional and officeholder clients as well as government departments.
Richard is an expert in real estate development, funding and investment, having acted for a variety of institutional and private clients on mixed use, logistics, retail & leisure, and office schemes. Having recently worked in the commercial development sector, Richard is able to combine this direct experience with a wealth of knowledge from many years as a commercial real estate lawyer acting upon complicated and significant transactions.
Rob’s practice focuses on advising financial institutions on a variety of contentious issues including: managed exit advice; asset-tracing and recovery; operational disputes and claims arising from sale of bank products; enforcement of secured lending (including challenges to security documents, occupancy and lease issues and disputes involving subrogation, misrepresentation, duress and undue influence); risk assessment and dispute prevention advice (for instance arising from changes to lending criteria or business practices); professional indemnity claims; reputational issues; and injunctions and disclosure orders.Rob has practiced exclusively in the financial disputes field for almost two decades, working with most major financial institutions and lenders. He regularly leads client relationships. Rob also has higher rights of audience as a Solicitor Advocate.
Robert specialises in consumer credit, mortgages and financial services regulation and advises extensively in respect of lending documentation, financial promotions and compliance with the FCA Handbook of rules and guidance. He has a niche expertise advising the sub-prime and not standard lending sectors on regulatory and legal risk including dealing with the regulators. He carries out compliance reviews for clients and provides support in dealing with FCA authorization issues, regulatory reviews and investigations including support on past business reviews. He has worked for the government and regulator advising on consumer credit policy. He is known for providing pragmatic commercial solutions in complex matters.
Sarah specialises in commercial dispute resolution including contractual disputes; company, partnership and shareholder disputes and professional negligence. Sarah regularly acts for clients involved in disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions. She assists individual and corporate clients in a number of different business sectors, including developers, professional service providers, healthcare and sports - with a client base ranging from local and European owner-managed businesses to global corporations. Sarah is experienced in all methods of dispute resolution – litigation, arbitration, adjudication and alternative methods of conflict resolution such as mediation and in relation to cross-border litigation.
Sarah specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular emphasis on shareholder disputes. She has acted for Plcs, privately-owned companies and individuals in a variety of matters including advising on shareholder disputes, commercial contract disputes, restrictive covenant claims, injunctions and search orders, partnership disputes, professional negligence claims and breach of warranty claims.
Sarah specialises in private company mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. She acts for companies, private equity investors and management teams. Sarah also advises on corporate advisory matters. Sarah was named Young Dealmaker of the Year at the Thames Valley Deal Awards 2019.
Shazan has experience in a broad range of commercial property work, from acquisitions and disposals to property finance and landlord & tenant matters. He has acted on a number of high-value disposals of mixed use developments and portfolio sales. He regularly acts for developers and investors and has particular expertise on student accommodation projects with complex planning and overage provisions. He also has considerable experience in acting for insolvency practitioners and has dealt with numerous disposals in this area. He acts for a number of household names in the retail sector as well as many of the largest institutional lenders.
Patent Attorney & Trade Mark Attorney, Managing Director
Simon heads up Gateley’s Business Services group and is also head of the Commerce, Technology & Media practice. He is a commercial lawyer in every sense, advising clients across a range of sectors. Simon advises on: Commercial ventures Outsourcing (of IT, logistics, facilities management and other business processes) Procurement of goods and services Licensing of rights Supply chain management Franchising Sport Hotels Bribery Act compliance
Stephen is a specialist employment lawyer, with an emphasis on contentious work such as unfair dismissal, redundancies, executive severance, employment relations issues, discrimination and employment tribunal litigation. Stephen also advises on industrial relations and trade union law. He is very experienced in employment tribunal litigation and undertakes advocacy for clients. He appears in all of the major tribunal centres throughout England and Wales, often for household name clients in high value cases. Stephen has also represented clients in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (in England and Scotland) and the Central Arbitration Committee.
Stuart specialises in acting for debtors and for lending syndicates, banks, funds and other financial institutions in consensual and non-consensual restructurings, for investors in distressed acquisitions and for insolvency practitioners during pre-packaged and unplanned insolvency processes. He works predominantly in the North West and London. He advises on realising and maximising value in distressed situations, including consensual workouts and restructurings, whether these are delivered through distressed sales, enforcement, insolvency processes or distressed debt trading.
Su specialises in both non-contentious and contentious restructuring matters, advising insolvency practitioners, banks, turnaround professionals, companies and directors on formal insolvency appointments, restructuring and security issues. She has experience of advising in connection with the turnaround, restructuring or insolvency of construction companies, care home operators, football clubs, hotel operators, private schools, property developers, retailers, solicitors and travel businesses.
Tertia advises on all elements of real estate law including landlord and tenant work, sales and acquisitions and real estate finance.
Tim has acted for all of the country’s largest national housebuilders, including regeneration specialists.In addition to acting for housebuilders, a good deal of Tim's practice nowadays involves acting for three of the country’s largest residential land promoters. Since 1987, Tim has specialised exclusively in the housebuilding sector and as a consequence has an enviable wealth of experience in dealing with all aspects of the acquisition and disposal of consented and unconsented land whether through conditional contracts, strategic options or land promotion agreements. He has also prepared consortium and partnering agreements between other builders, Registered Providers and local authorities.
Head of Corporate Birmingham, Tom specialises in public company transactions, private equity investments and mergers and acquisitions. He acts for corporates, financial institutions and entrepreneurs. His key clients include Gymshark, Virgin Wines UK Plc, Connection Capital, Hammonds Furniture, Grosvenor Health and Social Care and Stuart Turner.
William has over 30 years experience of business restructurings, re-financings, rescues and turnaround. He specialises in advising the management of public and private companies where there is some form of financial or organisational under-performance, stress or difficulty. Over the years, William has acted on numerous high-profile restructurings and insolvencies such as the ground breaking Parkside Industries Group, CardWorld, Furness Withy Shipping, Morris Properties, Fox Hayes Solicitors, Barretts & Stylo Shoes, Powerfuel Mining, Bid TV, Jones the Bootmaker and he advises various tax offices in Germany in connection with ‘insolvency tourism’ cases.