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Anna Favre
Anna Favre
Partner in the residential real estate team specialising in all aspects of residential landlord and tenant acting for HNW individuals, charities, great landed estates and companies. Particular focus on leasehold law including complex/ high value leasehold enfranchisement claims, security of tenure, acquisitions and disposals under the Landlord and Tenant 1987, right to manage and conducting proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal.  A recognised industry speaker in these specialist areas.
Ed Weeks
Ed Weeks
Ed has been resolving high level disputes for over 20 years.  He heads the commercial dispute resolution team at Cripps and his personal focus is on the commercial litigation needs of individuals in business, whether they are directors, investors, partners or shareholders. He is an acknowledged expert on shareholders disputes and directors duties, blogging and presenting seminars on the subject. Ed has dealt with numerous high-value shareholders disputes and partnership disputes over the years, is an advocate of alternative dispute resolution wherever this is appropriate but has successfully taken many cases to trial.
Ed Fowler
Ed Fowler
As a partner in the real estate team, Ed deals with all kinds of commercial property work with a particular focus on the property aspects of corporate transactions and advising businesses on their occupational property interests. He heads up the retail leisure and hospitality sector and focusses in particular on luxury international retailers and boutique hotel operators and restaurants.  His clients include a major statutory water supplier in Kent, Sussex and Surrey; a high end, leading UK retail business, lots of international retailers, boutique hotel chains; and various other local, national and international businesses. Recent work highlights include flagship store acquisitions for international retailers in Regent Street, Covent Garden, Westfield and Chelsea.
Garry Brett
Garry Brett
Strategic land for housebuilders, regeneration schemes and residential/commercial development generally, Build to Rent (BTR) and Private Rented Sector (PRS), warehousing/sheds/logistics, development finance and secured lending. High end residential plot sales account manager. Inward investment from Europe and beyond. Clients include Bovis Homes, Argent (King's Cross), Battersea Power Station Development Company, Inspired Villages Group, Millwood Designer Homes, U+I, and Wates Developments.
Irfan Baluch
Irfan Baluch
Irfan acts for a range of clients including software developers, large corporates, government agencies, universities and SMEs. He advises on all matters relating to information technology, intellectual property, data protection, outsourcing, procurement, e-commerce law and exploitation/commercialisation of novel technologies. He engages in M&A transactions focused in the technology sector and advises on commercial issues for corporate clients. Irfan has a scientific background, having completed a BSc (Hons) in Engineering (comprising a broad mix of both mechanical and production engineering) and worked for a number of years as a software developer prior to qualifying as a lawyer.
James Lee
James Lee
James is a partner in our construction and engineering group specialising in non-contentious construction law.  His practice normally centres on advising employer clients including large institutional investors, shopping centres, developers, central Government departments, local authorities and affordable housing providers, but can provide advice to any party at any point of the supply chain, including contractors, professional consultants and sub-contractors.  His expertise includes advising on all forms of building and engineering contract, bespoke development agreements, consultant appointments, sub-contracts, collateral warranties and project finance documentation.
James Beatton
James Beatton
James is managing partner of Cripps, as well as a partner in the corporate practice. He has considerable experience in acting for businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors with a particular emphasis on complex M&A and banking transactions. Many of the clients James works with are in the insurance sector where he advises businesses on their growth and exit strategies. He also specialise in working with and delivering transactions for complex shareholder groups who often have diverse or conflicting interests.
Jessica Jamieson
Jessica Jamieson
Jessica is a partner in the non-contentious private client group providing bespoke succession and inheritance tax planning advice to individuals and their families. She advises on wills, trusts and powers of attorney, co-habitation agreements and capital gains tax advice, with a particular specialism in probate work for non UK cases. She acts for both UK and international clients. Notable highlights include: Acting for executors of multi-million pound estate advising on inheritance tax calculations involving grossing up and calculations of distribution Lifetime tax planning for ultra high net worth individuals including establishing multiple trusts and advising on company set up for property interests Advising trustees of high value trusts on ongoing administration and inheritance tax issues. Jessica was the top placed candidate in the country in her STEP personal tax paper in 2008
Joanna Ford
Joanna Ford
A Partner in the commercial dispute resolution team, Joanna has particular expertise in high value restructuring and insolvency matters, disputes involving IT and technology contracts, and shareholder/corporate governance issues. Her insolvency work includes claims against directors, including misfeasance and wrongful trading, acting for insolvency practitioners, creditors (including landlords affected by CVAs) and companies in financial difficulties. She also has a wider commercial dispute resolution practice with a focus on shareholder and corporate governance issues, and manages litigation work for several of our larger corporate clients.
Kate Arnold
Kate Arnold
Partner in the private client advisory group providing bespoke succession and inheritance tax planning advice to individuals and their families, advising on wills, lasting powers of attorney, trusts, co-habitation agreements, Court of Protection matters, lifetime tax planning and estates. Acting for both domestic and international clients and working on cross-border UK/French issues. Advising family businesses on longer term succession, with a particular emphasis on agricultural businesses and properties. Partner in Cripps charities sector advising on the set up and governance of charitable companies and trusts. Interesting cases: acting for executors of multi-million pound agricultural estate advising on agricultural property relief, administration of estate dealings with difficult beneficiaries; advising trustees of trust consisting of substantial company shareholding on ongoing governance and inheritance tax issues; providing advice to trustees of a private charitable trust generally and particularly in relation to a multi-million pound project being undertaken by the trustees.
Kathryn Rogers
Kathryn Rogers
Kathryn is a partner in the corporate division specialising in non-contentious commercial law, with a particular focus on technology and IP related matters. The clients she works with include investment managers, hosted service providers, data management companies and digital media agencies as well as a wide range of corporate clients in other sectors with commercial contract requirements. Kathryn's specialties include: - Commercial contracts - E-commerce - Data protection - Agency and distribution - IP assignments and licences - Technology contracts
Melanie  Stancliffe
Melanie Stancliffe
Melanie is partner in the employment team where clients value her practical, jargon-free advice and responsiveness along with her advanced negotiating skills. With over 20 years’ City experience, Melanie's role includes advising businesses, senior executives and professionals on the full range of employment matters. She has a particular focus on owner-managed businesses and, as a fluent French speaker, handle many Anglo-French matters. She regularly comments on employment matters on radio and in the press.
Mike Scott
Mike Scott
Senior partner and chair of the board, leading on the firm’s strategy and culture, working with the managing partner and the board to set the firm's vision and long term strategy, as well as a partner in the property disputes team. Mike's areas of expertise include developer and neighbour disputes, rights to light, party walls, access, easements, restrictive covenants, property-related insurance claims, development-related contract disputes, landlord and tenant disputes (commercial and residential), and property-related negligence claims.  
Miles Paffard
Miles Paffard
Partner specialising in property litigation – commercial and residential; landlord and tenant disputes including opposed lease renewals, rent review, dilapidations, landlord and tenant insolvency, opposed alienation, service charge, forfeiture and other possession claims, leasehold enfranchisement, rights of first refusal, squatters actions; land law disputes including adverse possession, easements, restrictive covenants, nuisance, trespass, boundary and neighbour disputes. Clients are all property clients of Cripps LLP including government departments, local authorities, property investment companies, retail landlords and tenants, housebuilders and RSLs.
Natalie Mulholland
Natalie Mulholland
Legal director in the Commercial Real Estate team, dealing with all aspects of commercial property transactions, specialising in real estate investment and asset management within the retail, office and industrial sectors. Natalie acts for a range of individuals and businesses involved in real estate investment and development from institutions such as M&G, AEW and Kennedy Wilson to individual private investors and corporate occupiers. Natalie is often praised for her professional manner, efficiency, approachability and clear, straightforward, practical advice.
Oliver Morris
Oliver Morris
Specialises in real estate investment and asset management with the retail, office and industrial sectors. Oliver acts for a range of individuals and businesses involved in real estate investment and development from institutions such as M&G Real Estate to individual private investors and corporate occupiers. Recent work includes: managing the legal asset management work on a 170 unit shopping centre for M&G Real Estate; representing a major charity on the sale of an industrial warehouse for approx. £25m; advising a private investor on a series of acquisitions including a supermarket, hotel and car park; advising government departments (eg Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service) on relocations, acquisitions and disposals across their occupied estates; acting for a Far Eastern bank and a US law firm on the relocation of their respective London headquarters.
Olivier Morel
Olivier Morel
Partner, Head of International French and English dually-qualified corporate lawyer with over 30 years’ experience providing legal advice and strategic solutions to international groups in the UK.  I also advise British businesses expanding overseas. Board Director of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain. President of the UK chapter of the Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur de la France, a French government think-tank on international trade. Regular writer and speaker on international, legal and business issues in the national and international press.
Pete Kenyon
Pete Kenyon
Pete is a partner and heads up the advertising technology and media sector and the commercial team. He has over 20 years’ experience working as a lawyer in the information technology sector. He has a large client base focused on the commercialisation of software, online businesses and businesses from other sectors whose business models rely on the use of technology. Pete manages a number of key client relationships including with IT suppliers such as Optomany, Apex Networks, Park IT and Infectious Media and businesses with large-scale IT procurement such as Holiday Extras and Accor.
Peter Scott
Peter Scott
Consultant; tax and financial planning for UK domiciled and international clients (individual and corporate); charities: formation and advice on ongoing issues and on trustees’ responsibilities; trusts and probate, both UK domestic and international; heritage property; experienced in conditional exemption applications and acceptance in lieu applications; experienced in advising proprietors of incorporated and unincorporated businesses on tax aspects of realisation of value and estate planning.
Richard Housley
Richard Housley
Richard is a partner specialising in property litigation, including commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, including opposed lease renewals, landlord and tenant insolvency, rent review, dilapidations, forfeiture and other possession claims, as well as long residential leasehold matters including leasehold enfranchisement and rights of first refusal, and land law / development disputes including adverse possession, easements, restrictive covenants, nuisance and trespass.
Richard Blackman
Richard Blackman
Richard heads up the corporate real estate team. He acts for both residential & commercial property developers and banks on all matters relating to property development, including site assembly, planning agreements, construction documentation and development financial agreements. Richard also advises companies on their property requirements. Richard has been involved in renewable energy transactions across the country involving solar parks and wind turbines acting for both developers and land owners. Richard has more than 19 years’ experience advising on real estate matters.
Russell Simpson
Russell Simpson
Russell leads the Specialist Disputes team at Cripps. The team’s principal areas of practice are professional negligence, trust and estate disputes and regulatory disputes. Russell has significant experience in dealing with all forms of professional negligence claims for private clients and is a well-known and respected figure in the market. Russell is a member of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and combines his expertise in professional negligence and contentious trusts in many of the cases that he handles. He takes a pragmatic and commercial approach to cases, guiding clients on strategy and steering them towards the most effective course. Over the past 12 months Russell has been engaged in a number of complex professional negligence disputes, some multi-party and high value; acting for Trustee beneficiaries in a multi-million pound Inheritance Act claim; and dealing with several Probate claims for both Claimants and Defendants.
Simon Donald
Simon Donald
Simon is a partner in the family team with over 15 years’ experience of dealing with issues that arise on the breakdown of a marriage, relationship or civil partnership. He regularly advises individuals who work in the financial sectors, media, and high net worth individuals. Simon is frequently asked to write articles on current divorce and financial matters in the press and for online resources and is listed in the 2022 Spear’s index of the best family lawyers for high-net-worth clients as ‘recommended’.
Stephen Horscroft
Stephen Horscroft
Stephen is a Partner in the Private Wealth team who advises on a wide range of issues relating to individuals including Wills, estate planning, trusts, powers of attorney and capacity issues. Stephen aims to help his clients to achieve their goals and solve their problems promptly and efficiently. He enjoys being able to relieve some of the pressure which can be applied by having to deal with the law at difficult or stressful times. He achieves this by assisting his clients in a friendly and pragmatic manner. Stephen is a member of Solicitors for the Elderly and sits on the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Global Steering Committee for Mental Capacity.
Stephen Hedley
Stephen Hedley
Partner and head of real estate, dealing with investment transactions and day to day asset management. Experience gained acting for large institutional investors, private property companies and investors, leisure companies and major lending institutions as well as smaller companies and individuals across all sectors including offices, industrial and trade parks. A particular focus is on retail investment and asset management. Lead partner acting for Kennedy Wilson, development Securities, AEW and Pradera.
Tom Bourne
Tom Bourne
Tom is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution team.  Tom’s focus is on complex commercial disputes, injunctions, employment related disputes and contentious insolvency matters; including claims against former directors. Tom often advises on disputes with an international element and is adept at handling supply and franchise agreement disputes. He has developed expertise in relation to shareholder and partnership disputes and has particular experience in handling disputes within the food and drink sector. Tom leads the Food and Drink team at Cripps and has a notable specialism of acting for vineyards, which is a growing segment of the food and drink sector in the South East.
Melanie Stancliffe
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