Adam Penman
Adam is an associate in the firm’s Labor and Employment Department.
He works on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters and has experience in employee benefits and incentives work and data protection.
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Alan Holliday
Alan is a partner in McGuireWoods’ London office advising financial institutions and corporates on debt financing, corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions) and commercial law.
Alan’s primary focus is on drafting and negotiating credit facility agreements and security documentation on behalf of lenders and borrowers.
Alan has represented an array of high-profile clients, including an American multinational financial services corporation, a major commercial bank in Ireland, international corporations, and other lenders and investors. He has handled investment-grade, mid-market and mezzanine financings, including financings for, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, aircraft purchases and real estate acquisitions. Alan has significant cross-border experience having coordinated transactions across jurisdictions worldwide, including Dubai, the Pacific Islands, Italy, Germany, France, Finland, the U.S., Canada, England, Brazil, India, China, Venezuela and Australia.
Callum Hassall
Callum advises on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions involving a variety of property types including retirement living and care homes, student accommodation, industrial estates and warehouses, hotels, office premises and logistics.
He advises on single asset and portfolio acquisitions and disposals, property financings, developments, landlord and tenant work as well as assisting clients with general matters of property law. He also has extensive experience in the real estate aspects of corporate investments and banking transactions.
Callum has significant recent experience advising leading developers and providers of senior care/retirement living and student accommodation. This has involved dealing with complex joint venture arrangements and cross-border property investment structures.
He also offers clients additional support and property law advice in connection with a variety of commercial matters including assistance with heads of terms, title indemnity insurance policies, rights of light releases, dilapidation settlements and most recently, property enquiries in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
He has advised a variety of clients including real estate investment trusts, domestic and overseas investors, landlords, tenants and developers.
Callum is co-chair of McGuireWoods London’s pro bono programme.
Chloe Steele
Chloe represents international and domestic, corporate and individual clients in a variety of complex commercial disputes.
Chloe handles a wide range of proceedings – often with an international dimension – in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, county courts, tribunals and London Court of International Arbitration.
Chloe provides tailored advice on an array of high-stakes issues, including at the pre-action stage and in alternative dispute resolution.
Dan Peyton
Daniel is the managing partner of the firm’s London office. He practices in all aspects of English employment law, particularly focused on contentious employment matters, including whistle blowing, discrimination, restraint of trade and confidential information disputes and board level terminations and employment issues arising in regulated sectors (e.g., financial services, security and professional services).
He also has extensive experience advising on non-contentious matters such as redundancy programs and the employment aspects of business re-organizations, as well as advising on the employment issues arising in corporate transactions. He has substantial experience in dealing with cross border employment issues, particularly involving the US, EU and Nordic region. He has participated in numerous client seminars and management training programmes on employment law topics including unfair dismissal, redundancy, whistle blowing, discrimination, restrictive covenants, confidential information workplace conflict management and alternative dispute resolution. Daniel is a qualified barrister, solicitor and an accredited workplace mediator.
Hannah Irish
Hannah focuses her practice on commercial real estate within the UK. She has acted on many high value lettings within the life sciences, retail and offices spheres as well as sales and purchases of industrial, retail properties and student accommodation developments. She has represented a broad range of clients including landlords, tenants, developers, and institutional investors. In addition, she has also advised on the real estate aspects of corporate sales, acquisitions, and financings.
Hannah is an active member of The Association of Women in Property, Interlaw Diversity Forum and Investment Property Forum.
Hannah joined McGuireWoods LLP in July 2018.
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Patrick De Ridder
Patrick De Ridder serves as a trusted business advisor to public and private companies with global operations looking to acquire and divest businesses domestically and internationally. He concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, joint ventures and domestic and international supply chain management. Patrick also regularly counsels clients on general corporate and business law matters, helping them realize their strategic business objectives and goals.
Patrick’s recent transactions have involved businesses with operations in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia, and have involved diverse industries, with a predominance in manufacturing, life sciences, and food and beverage.
Simon Hems
Simon Hems is an international dispute resolution and insurance recovery lawyer, predominantly focused on, and experienced in, international arbitration governed by the principle institutions, such as ICC, LCIA, ICSID, DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, LMAA and ad hoc under UNCITRAL Rules. Simon has also handled matters at all levels of the English court system.
Simon has specialism in the energy industry, with two decades of experience advising U.S. and European oil and gas industry clients in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. He is known globally in dispute venues, having represented clients in matters arising out of major EPC projects, offshore services and drilling contracts, and pipeline projects around the world and particularly in West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East and former Soviet states.
Simon primarily represents contractors and service companies in engineering and construction disputes, as well as matters arising out of offshore casualties, contracts for the provision of offshore services and related insurance coverage issues. In that context, Simon has handled a wide range of oil and gas related claims, including general contract, tort, maritime law, banking law, and fraud issues.
Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Simon led the energy and infrastructure group at an international commercial law firm.
William Boddy
Partner