Alex heads up the family team at Cripps. He has more than 20 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of family law with a client base comprising predominantly City professionals, entrepreneurs, family businesses, agriculture and estates clients and those with substantial inherited wealth.
In the last 12 months Alex has continued to attract a variety of substantial instructions, including nuptial agreements for multi-millionaires, divorce matters with foreign elements and complex and sensitive disputes concerning children.
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Amy is a partner in the residential estates team supporting landlords and leaseholders in their residential property matters. She specialises in leasehold enfranchisement including any associated disputes.
Amy has a particular focus on complex leasehold enfranchisement claims; including lease extensions, collective claims of large blocks and house claims, as well as experience of tenants’ rights of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.
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.
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Ben is a partner in the real estate team acting for clients in both the private and public sector. His role includes advising large property investment companies, pension funds, private equity companies and local authorities on a wide variety of general commercial property matters.
Managing associate in the commercial real estate team specialising in commercial landlord and tenant, investment acquisitions and disposals, and corporate real estate
Beth is a partner in the planning team, specialising in all aspects of planning and environmental law.
Beth advises on strategic and complex planning matters including the preparation of s106 agreements to support large scale housing and mixed use developments and regeneration schemes, planning appeals, local plan examinations and judicial review.
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I am a Managing Associate in the family team and I have a wide range of experience in all aspects of family law including nuptial agreements, divorce, finance and children proceedings.
As a family lawyer my role is to ensure that my clients get through often the most difficult times of their lives as smoothly as possible. It is very important to me that my clients feel supported and can rely on me to allay their worries and concerns in what is often a complex and challenging area of law. My job naturally involves engaging on a personal level and I thoroughly enjoy the variety that is entailed.
Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, joint ventures and insurance.
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Partner, Co-Head Insolvency & Corporate Recovery
Dino is a managing associate in the specialist dispute resolution team. He is an expert in resolving wills, trusts, inheritance and estates disputes. Dino also has a background in advising clients on contractual disputes, issues surrounding the court of protection and mental capacity.
Dominic is an managing associate in the private wealth team at Cripps. Dominic has a diverse practice acting predominantly for UK domiciled private clients advising them on all aspects of wealth planning including Wills, Probate, Mental Capacity, Trusts and Tax and with a particular focus on Charities and Philanthropy.
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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 deals with a variety of real estate work but specialises in real estate finance, from secured lending transactions to development finance and refinancing of existing facilities, acting for banks and individuals alike. Otherwise, Ed acts for a number of investors in connection with their property portfolios and has also gained considerable experience in landlord and tenant matters.
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.
Elliot is a managing associate in the commercial team. He is experienced at reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts, as well as advising on intellectual property, data protection and other commercial issues.
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Partner and head of residential conveyancing, handling all areas of non-contentious residential property.
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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.
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Specialises in residential and commercial development work, including site acquisitions, planning and disposals; acquisition and disposal of strategic land; joint venture, collaboration and consortium arrangements; overage agreements; development agreements; land promotion arrangements; funding transactions and land security agreements; bulk housing association and investor disposals.
Partner with particular experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and private equity backed transactions. General corporate advisory and public company matters.
Helen is an experienced family solicitor. She advises on a full range of family matters including division of financial assets on relationship breakdown, disputes arising relating to children, prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements.
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Partner, Head of Commercial
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 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 is 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.
Recent work highlights include advising on the sales of the Cobra Insurance Group to PIB and Aston Lark Insurance Group to Goldman Sachs and leading the Cripps team advising the Pack family on the management buyout of Holiday Extras. James continues to advise our banking clients and has close relationships with Handelsbanken, Santander and HSBC amongst others.
Managing Partner, Head of Real Estate, Head of Healthcare
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Jason is Head of the Commercial Real Estate team, specialising in development, investment, commercial landlord and tenant, real estate finance, and all aspects of asset management
Jeremy is a partner in the Private Wealth team specialising in all aspects of wealth planning including UK and International Tax and Succession, Probate and Estate administration, Trusts, wills, Heritage Property, Business Succession and Court of Protection
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
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.
John is a partner in the corporate finance team. He has significant transactional experience acting for a broad range of clients, including buyers, sellers, SMEs, individuals, private equity, insolvency practitioners, international businesses and family investment firms.
John is a partner in the real estate team. He helps clients on all aspects of their property portfolios, including acquisitions and disposals, lettings, reorganisations, development projects.
Partner in the corporate team specialising in a wide range of corporate and corporate finance transactions with a particular emphasis on acquisitions and disposals with a sector focus on childcare transactions, venture capital/private equity and banking work. Expertise in advising French groups setting up in the UK, or buying, selling or reorganising their UK business.
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Partner in the Real Estate Division. Leads a team acting for retail landlords, focusing on shopping centres. Acts for the joint owners of centre:mk (regional shopping centre in Milton Keynes), AEW Europe, Kennedy Wilson, Angelo Gordon and Endurance Land, Prologis at Kings Hill, Studio Wayne McGregor and several leading law firms. Other areas of practice include large due diligence projects, investment portfolio management, landlord and tenant, investment acquisitions and disposals..
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.
KAte is a partner in the real estate team advising real estate investors, developers, occupiers, and public sector clients on a wide range of real estate matters. She advises on redevelopment title and possession issues, as well as site assembly, and repurposing.
Kate's clients include charities and other voluntary organisations as well as trustee clients, with a particular expertise in ecclesiastical property.
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
A legal director in the corporate transactional team, specialising in pragmatic, commercial, solution-led advice. Works closely with business owners to advise on selling and acquiring businesses, and on reorganising their companies to have the most beneficial structure.
Laura is a partner in the real estate dispute resolution team specialising in all aspects of commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, including property related professional negligence, insolvency, and injunctions
Laura is a partner in the residential estates practice, advising landlord and tenants on all aspects of tenancies, including leasehold enfranchisement and lease extension, collective and right to manage claims.
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Lowri is a partner and head of the transaction services team (TST), which was established to focus on providing clients with more efficient due diligence delivery on mergers and acquisitions.
Senior Associate
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.
Senior partner with extensive experience in property dispute resolution, dealing with a wide range of property-related disputes, including landlord and tenant disputes, dilapidations, rent reviews, unreasonable withholding of consent, forfeiture, real property issues, easements, restrictive covenants, trespass, nuisance, squatters’ actions, boundary disputes, party wall actions, and rights to light disputes.
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.
Partner and head of private client group since 2008, specialising in will, estate and trust disputes. Recent major cases include: (1) winning a multimillion pound settlement against an estate worth in excess of £30m (2) compromising of £2m estate dispute involving a family business; (3) defending a £15m trust challenge and obtaining costs against claimants.
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.
Partner dealing with a range of commercial and other non-contentious property work, including land acquisition and disposals for major transport infrastructure projects. Also acts for a number of charities and not for profit organisations. More recently has been acting for clients investing in agricultural land.
Nitej's specialist areas of practice are construction disputes (including disputes arising out of contractor insolvency), landlord and tenant claims (including the impact of insolvency on the landlord and tenant relationship), development based litigation, disputes concerning easements, covenants and adverse possession as well as property and construction related professional negligence.
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.
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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.
Paul specialises in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships and LLPs. He has particular experience in the real estate sector, with specific expertise in structured property transactions, property funds and investment vehicles.
Partner specialising in advising both domestic and international families on their succession and tax planning using wills, trusts and other structures. He also has extensive experience advising owners, custodians and managers of rural estates on tax, heritage and succession issues.
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.
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.
Phil is a managing associate in the commercial team. He advises on a range of commercial agreemnets with a particular focus on IP/IT and technology.
Philip specialises in resolving disputes concerning money and other assets left on trust or under the terms of a will and in contentious regulatory work.
Partner with particular expertise in financial services negligence involving the mis-selling or mismanagement of a financial product or service leading to financial loss.
Partner who deals with all aspects of residential conveyancing and specialising in statutory and voluntary lease extensions either acting for the landlord or tenant.
Rebecca has built up strong connections during her career at Cripps with clients, referrers and colleagues. She enjoys getting to know her clients while providing a stress-free conveyancing process and an exceptional level of service.
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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 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.
Richard is a partner and heads up the tax, trusts and estate teams. He advises on a range of matters including tax compliance, use of trusts, and succession planning.
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.
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As a partner in the corporate team, Salim specialises in corporate transactions with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions (company/business acquisitions/disposals and management buyouts), private equity and capital markets, as well as advice to directors and shareholders of companies. Salim is fluent in Spanish and advises Spanish businesses looking to invest/operate in the UK.
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Partner specialising in high-value residential property sales and purchases, and also non-contentious agricultural law.
Partner specialising in investment acquisitions and disposals, commercial leasing and residential and commercial development including site acquisitions and disposal, collaboration and consortium arrangements, overage arrangements, development, forward funding and promotion agreements. Sarah also has particular experience acting for registered providers in land acquisition, development agreements, securitisation, regeneration schemes and stock acquisitions and disposals.
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Simon works with a variety of clients including major funds, listed property companies, international clients, public bodies, and private individuals advising on investment acquisitions/disposals, development transactions and commercial leasing. Recent work includes major town centre regeneration work for a local authority. Simon is currently a Legal Director.
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 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.
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.
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Chartered Legal Executive
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.
Partner and Head of Corporate with particular expertise in alternative investment structures and funds.
Victoria is a partner in the private wealth team based in London. She advises clients on estate, tax and succession planning including the preparation of wills, probate and administration of estates and the setting up and management of trusts. Victoria also manages the preparation of powers of attorney and Court of Protection work and provide formation and management advice to charities.
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Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, Co-Head of Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring
Zainab is a partner and head of the London residential transactions team. She specialises in all areas of residential property predominantly in the prime central London area. Zainab has particular expertise in complex leasehold transactions, buy-to-lets and landlord portfolios.