Clarke Willmott LLP

Alex Walsh

Alex is a Partner in our Commercial Property team with a broad range of experience including acquisitions & disposals, leases & licences, estate management, corporate support and development. He acts for a variety of clients including OMBs, individual investors, banks, charities, pension funds and SMEs and startups.

Alex Jakubowski

Alex is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation team and has particular experience with contractual disputes, financial services disputes, professional negligence, commercial agency disputes and IT disputes.

Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Southampton commercial property team with expertise in working for national house builders

Anna Youngs

Anna is a Partner in the firm’s Employment and HR team. Anna supports employers with all aspects of employee relations and employment law issues, including contractual matters, disciplinaries and grievances, strategic exits, restructuring, Employment Tribunal litigation, and employment issues arising in corporate transactions. Anna is an expert on TUPE and outsourcing and has worked on matters such as the largest outsourcing from the public sector to the private sector.

Anne Minihane

Anne Minihane is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors’ Bristol Private Capital team and a panel Deputy for the Court of Protection.

Anthony Fairweather

Anthony Fairweather is a Partner and Managing Director in the Private Client team specialising in Court of Protection and elderly care advice.

Benn Richards

Benn is a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency team specialising in both contentious and non-contentious insolvency. Benn is a solicitor-advocate (all higher courts, civil and criminal) in both England & Wales and is admitted to practice as a solicitor-advocate in the Eastern Caribbean Circuit. Benn’s work includes acting for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, companies, directors and other stakeholders.

Beth Evans

Beth is a banking and finance lawyer. She advises on all kinds of corporate and commercial funding matters, encompassing facility, security and intercreditor documents. Her particular specialism is property development finance, and she also specialises in third sector lending and social housing finance. She is experienced in project financing (in particular clean energy) and education finance.

Beverley Pike

Beverley Pike is a solicitor in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Commercial Property team specialising in development work and property portfolio management.

Bonita Walters

Bonita is a Partner with 20 years of litigation experience and heads our contentious trust and probate team. She specialises in contested wills, inheritance and trust disputes, and in disputes involving mental capacity, including contested Court of Protection applications, Judicial Reviews, disputes with local authorities, and investigation of financial abuse. Her clients include private individuals, personal representatives and beneficiaries, attorneys/deputies, health professionals and care providers. She also acts for private clients in property disputes and professional negligence claims arising from wills drafting, estate administration and property transactions.

Caroline Waller

Caroline Waller is a Partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Planning and Environmental team specialising in all aspects of Town and Country Planning and Highway law.

Cheryl Brady

Cheryl is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s Bristol Commercial Property team. Specialisms include advising and assisting developers though the process of site assembly, site acquisition, planning, funding and site setup of the development.

Chidem Aliss

Chidem Aliss is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Southampton Commercial & IT team specialising in technology.

Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is a Partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Property Litigation team specialising in acting for national housebuilder clients.

Chris Charlton

Chris Charlton is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors Bristol Planning team specialising in all aspects of Planning and Compulsory Purchase.

Clare Webb

As a family law specialist, Clare understands that relationship breakdown is one of the most challenging and emotional times in a person’s life. The way in which separation and divorce is dealt with can have a significant impact on not only the individual client but also the children of the family. Clare has built her practice with a commitment to helping her clients resolve their issues in a constructive and conciliatory way. In doing so, she will always have regard to the longterm hopes and aspirations for the family as a whole, whilst of course protecting her client’s interest.

Clare Gregory

Clare is a partner in the commercial property team and specialises in real estate finance with particular emphasis on investment and development funding.

Daniel Gill

Daniel is a Partner working out of both our Taunton and Bristol offices. Daniel has a broad litigation practice encompassing all types of property litigation, commercial litigation, judicial review and contentious wills, trusts and probate.

David Robinson

David is a partner in the Corporate team specialising in corporate / commercial work and corporate finance. He advises on most areas of non-contentious corporate law including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, re-financings, management buy-outs and buy-ins as well as joint ventures and reconstructions.

David Maddock

David Maddock is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Private Capital team specialising in Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax planning.

Ed Tennant

Ed is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s London Commercial Property team. He advises on portfolio and single asset management including landlord and tenant issues, development funding, corporate support work and investment acquisitions and disposals.

Ed Foulkes

Ed Foulkes is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Manchester Corporate team specialising in include mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance.

Elizabeth Smithers

Elizabeth Smithers is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Private Client team specialising in Wills, Trusts and Estate planning.

Emma Pope

Emma Pope is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Private Client team specialising in high value estates and inheritance tax

Esther Woolford

Esther Woolford is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton commercial and private client litigation team specialising in agriculture and property.

Fiona Rendell

Fiona is a Partner in the Commercial Property team and deals with a mixture of commercial property work. She acts for buyer, sellers, landlords and tenants in relation to commercial leases, licences, easements and covenants, due diligence investigations and various different landlord and tenant matters.

Fraser MacRae

Fraser MacRae is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Cardiff Social Housing team specialising in funding in the social housing and education sectors.

Gareth Schofield

Gareth Schofield is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Family team specialising in divorce settlements and cohabitation disputes.

Graham McIntyre

Graham is a Partner and Managing Director in our Property Litigation team and specialises in property portfolio management.

Greg Hughes

Greg is a partner in the commercial & private client litigation team specialising primarily in commercial and corporate disputes.

Hayley Steel

Hayley is a Partner within the construction team, with a focus on non-contentious construction, development and infrastructure/energy projects. She has a breadth of experience in acting on construction and engineering projects for a range of clients, acting on behalf of owners, developers, funders, investment vehicles, government bodies, contractors and commercial end users.

Helen Wittram

Helen is a Partner in the property team specialising in all aspects of the acquisition, development and disposal of residential and commercial property.

Iain Harrison

Iain Harrison is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Commercial Property team specialising in the retail sector, and acts for several high street names.

James Driver

James specialises in resolving construction and engineering disputes. The team advises on all stages from procurement to the completion of projects, with a unique offering combining an English and Spanish specialism in construction and engineering law. We have a particular focus on energy and infrastructure projects.

James Williams

James is a partner in Acuity’s Construction team. His advice is regularly sought on complex construction projects by local authorities and major companies, due to his breadth of knowledge. James specialises in non-contentious construction law, regeneration and development and acts for contractors, developers, consultants, and funders on various projects in the UK, the Middle East and Australia. He has extensive experience covering the drafting and negotiating of building contracts, sub-contracts, professional team appointments, consultancy agreements and warranties. He also specialises in the production of ancillary documents such as performance bonds, parent company guarantees, supply contracts and facility management contracts. James has worked extensively in the MENA Region and in Australia, and is experienced in using the FIDIC and AS forms of contracts, as well as those contracts more readily found in the UK, including the JCT, NEC and ICHEME forms. More recently, James has worked on some of the most significant recently developed Welsh construction projects, including over one million square feet of design and build projects in Central Square Cardiff. He and his team have also completed extensive work on modern methods of construction, off-site manufacture and in advising on the consequences of Brexit and COVID-19 on supply chains and performance. James is ranked as a Leading Individual in The Legal 500 and in Band 2 by Chambers and Partners. After beginning his legal career at Wragge & Co, he has also practised at Minter Ellison and Carter Newell in Australia, Trowers & Hamlins in Dubai, and Al Tamimi & Company in Abu Dhabi. Expertise: Acting on all aspects of non-contentious construction work Drafting and negotiating building contracts and amendments to the most commonly used standard form contracts, including the JCT, the NEC and the FIDIC suites of contracts Drafting and agreeing consultancy agreements and associated warranties for all consultants engaged in the construction process Advising on the provision of construction finance and security documents, and acting for banks’ lending funds for construction projects

Jane Halton

Jane Halton is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Private Client team specialising in wills, trusts and powers of attorney.

Jin Takhar

Jin is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in retail, portfolio management and property finance. Jin has extensive experience in acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold commercial property, landlord and tenant matters and secured lending.

John Irving

John is a Partner in the Commercial Team specialising in commercial contracts particularly between trading companies and the shareholders of companies.

John Flint

John Flint is a Partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Commercial & Private Litigation team specialising in Director, Shareholder and Partnership disputes.

Jonathan Morton

Jonathan Morton is a partner in Clarke Willlmott solicitors' Birmingham Commercial Property team specialising in development.

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in commercial Landlord and Tenant, commercial freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposal and secured lending.

Karl Brown

Karl is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in the acquisition and disposal of development land. Karl also has extensive experience in acting for developers on sales to housing associations.

Kary Withers

Kary heads Clarke Willmott's Social Housing team and is a Partner in our Property Litigation team dealing with a wide variety of property related disputes, both residential and commercial.

Kat Quinton

Kat Quinton is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Debt Recovery team specialising in local authorities, government bodies & utility companies.

Kate Silverman

Kate is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s London Social Housing team.

Kate Saunders

Kate is a Partner and is Head of the Home Sales team. The Home Sales team is based in our Taunton and Bristol offices.

Kelvin Balmont

Kelvin Balmont is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Southampton Corporate team specialising in acquisitions, disposals, refinancing & real estate finance.

Ken MacLennan

Ken MacLennan is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Bristol Insolvency & Restructuring team and has a wide range of experience in corporate restructuring.

Kerry Fifield

Kerry Fifield is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Bristol Clinical Negligence team specialising in birth injury claims for Claimants with cerebral palsy.

Kirill Bingham

Kirill is a Partner in the Corporate team and advises on all stages of the business cycle, with extensive experience in dealing with business disposals and acquisitions (by way of shares or assets)

Laura Robinson

Laura is a Partner in the Financial Services Litigation team specialising in claims and complaints relating to financial and tax products and planning. Her expertise includes managing claims and complaints regarding negligent advice given in respect of investments, pensions and tax mitigation schemes, primarily for claimants. Laura is a member of the Personal Finance Society and Chartered Insurance Institute and holds the CII Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning. Laura joined Clarke Willmott in 2009 after graduating from the University of the West of England with a Distinction in Legal Practice.

Laurence Lacey

Laurence Lacey is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Commercial Property team specialising in development, regeneration and renewable energy.

Lee Hart

Lee Hart is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Personal Injury team specialising in high value catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims.

Lindsay Felstead

Lindsay Felstead is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Manchester Property Litigation team specialising in ASBOs, injunctions for access and repairs

Marc Long

Marc is a Partner in the Employment team specialising in all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious employment, with particular emphasis on TUPE and outsourcing.

Marguarita Tyne

Marguarita is a Partner in the Personal Injury team specialising in Clinical Negligence. Since joining Clarke Willmott she has continued to investigate brain injury cases, including those arising as a result of meningitis in childhood.

Mark Buckerfield

Mark is a Partner in the Private and Agricultural Property team specialising in non contentious agricultural and residential property matters such as farm sales and purchases, house sales and purchases, auctions, agricultural landlord and tenant matters, remortgages, the single farm payment scheme, easements and covenants.

Martin Askew

Martin is a Partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency team and he specialises in contentious insolvency.

Maz Rahmati

Maz is a Partner in the Insolvency team specialising in all areas of corporate and personal insolvency. His expertise includes working with Insolvency Practitioners, financiers, creditors and debtors

Neil Baker

Neil is a Partner in Clarke Willmott's Planning and Environment Team and acts for a number of leading institutions, national housebuilders, regional commercial developers, landowners, industrial and manufacturing concerns, and for a number of public sector bodies.

Neil Ham

Neil is a partner in our Property Litigation team whose expertise has been gained acting for many investor, developer and industrial clients.

Niall Murphy

Niall Murphy is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Southampton Corporate team specialising in share schemes, international tax planning and tax litigation.

Nicola Seager

Nicola is a Partner in the Property Litigation team specialising in real estate management and development.

Oliver Smedley

Oliver is a Partner in our Commercial Property team specialising in development and investment work.

Owen Williams

Owen is a partner in the Commercial & Private Client Litigation team specialising in the main in commercial and corporate disputes.

Paul Davies

Paul leads the private capital team in the Manchester office of Clarke Willmott. He has been assisting wealthy individuals, trustees, and executors, with all manner of legal and tax issues for 20 years. Although he deals with all aspects of private client work, he has particular specialisms in estate planning, inheritance tax mitigation, and the use of onshore and offshore trusts, and other asset holding vehicles. He is regularly appointed as an independent professional executor and trustee by his clients.

Paul Hinett

Paul Hinett is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in development.

Paul Griffiths

Paul is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Birmingham specialises in professional negligence, commercial landlord and tenant claims and also deals with general commercial disputes including contractual and property disputes.

Paul Chapman

Paul is the Managing Director of the Litigation Division and the firm’s Compliance Officer for Financial Affairs. He is also a Partner in the Financial Services Litigation Team specialising in professional negligence claims involving financial institutions.

Paula Squire

Paula is a Partner and has been with the Clarke Willmott Employment team for nine years, specialising in employment law and human resources advice.

Peter Swinburn

Peter is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in retail, portfolio management, development and property finance.

Peter Brewer

Peter is a Partner in the Commercial and Private Client litigation team and deals with the resolution of complex, high value commercial disputes, and is particularly specialist in acting on corporate litigation.

Peter McHugh

Peter McHugh is a construction law specialist, acting on behalf of contractors, sub contractors and employers in construction disputes of all sizes and types.

Philip Edwards

Philip is a partner in the Serious Injury team specialising in head injury claims.

Philip Whitcomb

Philip works in the firm’s wills, tax and trusts team and specialises in succession planning, asset protection, heritage law and tax advice for individuals, trusts and family businesses. His clients include owners of landed estates, farmers, high-net-worth individuals and their families. Philip uses his extensive knowledge and practical experience to advise clients on the issues arising in estate planning including the tax efficient ownership of agricultural, business and heritage property. He deals with all aspects of wills and farming partnerships — advice which requires a high level of technical know-how combined with commercial acumen. He also acts for trustees and beneficiaries on a range of trust issues including the scope of trustees’ powers and the interpretation of complex trust arrangements. Philip takes time to understand his client’s circumstances and their particular needs and wishes. His clients want pragmatic legal advice from someone who empathises with the issues and challenges they face.

Philip Thompson

Phil is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in the real estate aspects of property development for a number of national and regional residential development companies.

Philip Roberts

Phil is a Chartered Legal Executive and Partner with the firm specialising in defended, high profile and complex debt recovery litigation and insolvency actions for both individuals and commercial entities. His sector expertise includes working with managing agents, utility companies, commercial businesses, insurance companies, government bodies, local authorities and independent schools.

Philippa Hann

Philippa is a Partner in the Financial Services Litigation team specialising in investment product misselling claims and negligent investment advice.

Priscilla Hall

Priscilla Hall is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' London Construction team specialising in renewable energy - wind, biogas, waste and solar.

Rayner Grice

Rayner is a Partner and Head of the Birmingham Family Team. She has nearly 20 years’ experience of practising in all areas of family law but in particular she specialises in dealing with high value complex financial matters as a result of divorce or relationship breakdown.

Rich Eldridge

Rich is a partner at Clarke Willmott LLP. Rich is an established banking & finance lawyer. Rich can advise on a wide range of financings including for working capital, equity releases, acquisitions and developments. Rich’s expertise includes negotiating facility agreements, security agreements and intercreditor agreements. Rich can advise on documents based upon Loan Market Association templates as well as shorter documents. Rich has appeared on Panorama. He has been quoted in the printed press including The Telegraph, The Times and The Independent.

Richard Swain

Richard Swain is a Partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Southampton Corporate team specialising in acquisitions, MBOs and mergers/demergers.

Richard Moore

Richard Moore is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Bristol Commercial & Private Client Litigation team specialising in international property disputes.

Rob Ridd

Rob is a partner in the Corporate team specialising in company acquisitions and disposals, debt and equity fundraising, shareholders’ agreement and joint ventures, along with other corporate vehicles such as limited liability and general partnerships.

Rod Lloyd-Jones

Rod Lloyd-Jones is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Private Property & Agriculture team specialising in rural property transactions.

Roger Seaton

Roger heads our Banking and Finance group specialising in real estate finance. Roger’s expertise includes working with clearing and private banks lending to UK and off-shore based corporates and high net worth individuals on development and investment projects as well as business ventures, particularly in the hotel and leisure sector.

Ruth Hartnell-Thorne

Ruth is a partner and has a wide range of experience of insolvency law in both areas of personal bankruptcy and corporate insolvency. In particular she has undertaken and assisted on a wide variety of work including possession and sale applications and asset recovery, challenging transactions at undervalue and preference payments, illegal dividend payments, private examinations of bankrupts and directors of insolvent companies, directors disqualification proceedings, annulment applications, wrongful trading and misfeasance proceedings.

Samantha Grimwood

Samantha is a Partner in the Private Property and Agriculture team specialising in residential property law. Samantha deals with residential sales and purchases, auctions, residential landlord and tenant matters, re-mortgages, charges and transfers of equity.

Sarah Wood-Heath

Sarah has many years’ experience of advising on family law. Her expertise includes family breakdown, advising and representing clients through divorce proceedings, civil partnership dissolutions, co-habitation disputes and the associated financial negotiations, and settlement.

Sarah Mogford

Sarah is a Partner within the Commercial Property team, who advises both landlords and tenants across a range of sectors on all matters of property law.

Sharon Latham

Sharon Latham is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Employment team specialising in HR/legal/strategic support for businesses.

Simon Thomas

Simon is a Partner and Managing Directo in the Corporate team specialising in a wide range of transactional matters (including mergers and acquisitions, public and private equity fund raisings and debt financings) as well as providing general company law advice to businesses and their stakeholders.

Simon Smith

Simon is a Partner in the Corporate team specialising in the acquisition and disposal of companies and businesses (domestic and cross-border), debt and equity fundraisings, reorganisations, demergers and corporate joint ventures. He also advises on company, LLP and partnership formations, general banking matters, compliance and corporate governance.

Simon Freeman

Simon is a Partner in the Property Litigation team specialising in asset management and corporate real estate including development and joint ventures, recoveries, rent views and valuation, rating, rights of light and party wall matters, professional negligence relating to real estate, planning and environmental related litigation and investment transactions.

Simon Day

Simon is a Partner in the Real Estate team specialising in commercial landlord and tenant work, Investment property management, funding and property insolvency.

Stephanie Slinn

Stephanie Slinn is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Birmingham Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency team.

Stephen Rosser

Stephen is Clarke Willmott's Chief Executive having been elected to that position in May 2010. He is responsible for the day to day management of the firm, and chairs its executive board, and defining and implementing the firm’s strategy.

Stephen Searle

Stephen Searle is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Financial Services Litigation team specialising in professional negligence disputes.

Steven Slough

Steven Slough is a partner in Clarke Willmott's Bristol housebuilder team specialising in acting for developers in site acquisitions and planning issues

Tim Copplestone

Tim is an employment lawyer within the firm’s sport sector, having previously been an international athlete representing Great Britain in kayaking. Tim advises a wide range of commercial employers, professional clubs and senior employees on contractual matters (including football manager contracts, bonus structures and tailoring restrictive covenants), Employment Tribunal litigation, and employment issues arising in corporate transactions.

Tom Chiffers

Tom is a Partner in the Private Capital team, specialising in inheritance tax and succession planning for private individuals, farmers and other business owners. Tom grew up in rural Somerset and his practice has an agricultural focus.

Vicky Kells

Vicky Kells is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Cardiff Social Housing team specialising in charging affordable housing portfolios.

William Juckes

William Juckes is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Commercial Property team specialising in property portfolio management.

Zoe Stollard

Zoe Stollard is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Construction team specialising in public and private, domestic and international projects.

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