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Leigh Callaway

Litigation can be a daunting undertaking for corporates and individuals and is often a distraction for clients who would rather focus on furthering their businesses. My job, therefore, is to work alongside clients to help resolve those disputes and minimise those distractions, however possible. I specialise in solving commercial problems. This can be achieved via court action, arbitration, or alternative means such as mediation. I have an extensive range of experience, which can be turned to almost any type of disputes. My practice includes most commercial litigation work, often with an international element, including breach of contract, misrepresentation and warranty claims, and cases involving freezing injunctions and other forms of injunctive relief. I have a particular interest and focus on financial services disputes, civil fraud and data and cyber risk. Outside of the office, I am the co-founder and past president of the Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association, an organisation that represents the interests of over 900 junior litigators practising in London, and, having now aged sufficiently, I presently sit as a committee member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association. Beyond work, I am a keen gym-goer, and previously maintained a strong interest in caving (potholing). My ability to participate in the latter has, however, fallen away in recent years – I now spend most of my “down-time” running after my young family and digging holes of a different kind.

Fladgate LLP

Leigh Crestohl

Partner

Zaiwalla & Co

Leigh Edgar

Leigh is a specialist employment lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising both employers and individuals on the full range of UK employment and HR matters. She advises clients across a wide range of industries, with particular expertise in the financial services and biotech sectors. She supports employer clients with everything from day-to-day employee relations to recruitment, restructures, redundancies, large-scale contract changes, as well as complex exits, grievances and disputes – always with a clear, calm and commercial approach. She advises start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs and large corporates, and has worked for global businesses and financial institutions. Leigh enjoys developing her understanding of clients’ particular business needs and working as an extension of their HR function or management team. Leigh also works with individuals, senior executives, directors and LLP partners to review and negotiate job offers, navigate post termination restrictions, to deal with workplace issues, to enforce legal rights in the Employment Tribunal/ court, and to negotiate complex exits. She enjoys working with individuals to get the right result for them, and supporting them through what is often a difficult time. All clients get the benefit of Leigh’s extensive experience on both sides of the table, acting for employers and employees. Clients regularly highlight her ability to balance deep legal expertise with emotional intelligence and business context. Leigh is also described by clients as: “Better than brilliant!” “Responsive, knowledgeable, empathetic and takes time to understand the specific business situation to which the legal work relates.” She has been ranked in Chambers & Partners for the last four years, most recently in the 2025 UK guide, and in The Legal 500 directories from 2021 to 2024 last year. The Legal 500 also consistently praises Leigh’s empathetic and pragmatic style: “Very knowledgeable, experienced, pragmatic, and empathetic… excellent at anticipating potential outcomes… so we could put forward solutions or offers that had the best chance of working for all parties.” ‘We work exclusively with Leigh Edgar who is a delight to work with, highly responsive and efficient. We feel we are in safe hands.’ – Legal 500, 2024 While the Chambers UK Guide 2025 highlights that: “Leigh was excellent from start to finish. She was passionate, transparent and most importantly showed empathy.” “She’s extremely knowledgeable and always ready to go the extra mile to help us.” “Leigh managed to combine professionalism and expertise with deep empathy and kindness.” While previous editions of Chambers describe her as: “…really switched on commercially with excellent interpersonal skills. She builds empathy quickly and delivers advice in clear terms on law, process and strategy. Leigh has your back.” “Responsive, flexible, commercial and provides clear advice.” “She is exceptional… a very good communicator… I felt extremely well supported by her during a very difficult time.” “She is outstanding in developing a unique and personalised approach to dealing with clients.” Leigh trained and qualified at Gouldens (now Jones Day), later moving to Simmons & Simmons’ award-winning employment law team in Hong Kong (where she qualified as a Hong Kong lawyer) and then to work in the leading employment law practice of Eversheds Sutherland. She also volunteers as an advisor on the Rights of Women sexual harassment at work helpline, reflecting her ongoing commitment to equality and access to justice.

Bellevue Law

Leigh Hall

Leigh is an experienced international lawyer. Having spent many years as a leader and partner in leading international law firms, as well as in-house, his client portfolio comprises governments, companies and high-net-worth individuals on matters involving international development and project finance, production supply ventures, and commercial and compliance issues. In addition to counselling companies and governments in the development and financing of large-scale projects involving infrastructure, power, oil and gas, and petrochemicals, he acts for a wide range of businesses in building relationships with foreign governments and quasi-governmental entities, with a focus on the Middle East, Africa and China regions and the trade and business relationships between such regions. He also advises companies and professions on roll-outs (and, where appropriate, retractions) in the Middle East and Africa.

Keystone Law

Leigh Head

Partner in the corporate and commercial department. Predominantly involved in general corporate and M&A work, including private equity transactions, banking, financial and corporate restructuring whilst retaining a number of music and media industry clients including Graphite Media Limited, Bestival and Camp Bestival. Also acts for plc’s and privately owned SME businesses including household names in the world of franchising such as Winkworth Estate Agents, Headmasters and multiple unit franchisees within the Monkey Puzzle systems. Recent transactions include acting for the owners of Zund Plotting Systems Limited in the sale of the entire issued share capital to Zund Systemtechnik AG; continuing to act for Cambria Automobiles plc across various corporate and commercial activities including the restructure of the Group’s financial facilities and the acquisition and disposal of various Jaguar and Land Rover dealerships; acting for Bestival Limited in negotiations with production companies for filming rights for “The Festival”; continuing to act for Winkworth Franchising Limited across all corporate and commercial aspects of their franchise network and acting for ER Productions Limited, a specialist laser production company, in relation to their corporate and commercial requirement

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Leigh Nisbet

Solicitor

GT Stewart Limited

Lemi McAuley

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Leo Jones-Rowe

Partner - Litigation National

Weightmans LLP

Leo Marino

Leo Marino advises on a broad range of property matters, with particular specialism in the acquisition and disposal of properties held as investments, sale and leasebacks, property development, mortgage refinancing, business leases and lease renewals. He also advises on the purchase and sale of high value residential properties. Leo acts for a number of property investment companies and syndicates of investors, landlords and tenants, and property developers. Many investors are well known music artists. He also acts for IMO Car Wash, the world’s largest car wash operator with approximately 280 sites in the UK.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Leo Martin

Freemans Solicitors

Leo Nabarro

Leo is a partner and commercial litigator with extensive experience running High Court proceedings and trials. He acts for a broad range of clients comprising start-ups (including 2019 KPMG Best British Tech Startup), corporate finance houses, entrepreneurs and individuals. He has a track record of acting in complex, high value actions in both general commercial and shareholder disputes. His clients operate in a range of fields including hotels, online payment platforms, tech and corporate finance. Leo has particular skill in representing small clients and individuals against large, well-heeled opponents and has done so in proceedings against public companies, banks, large corporates and high-net-worth families. Leo regularly works with funders and insurers in pursuing such claims. Leo has worked on a number of reported cases including: Monde Petroleum SA v Westernzagros Ltd; Brown v BCA Trading Ltd; Peak Hotels & Resorts Limited v Tarek Investments Limited & Ors; Dial Partners LLP & Anr v Eastern Airways International Ltd &Ors; Abramovich v Hoffmann (High Court, Ch. D); Kazakhstan Kagazy Plc & Ors v Maksat Arip & Ors [2019] EWHC 2319 (Comm).

CANDEY

Leo Skinner

Head of the firm’s drinks hospitality and leisure specialist department. The drinks hospitality and leisure department is the only completely industry sector focussed offer in the UK to our knowledge. The department acts for many of the leading names in the drinks, pubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and late night sectors as well as leisure and gaming clients. The department is supported with specialist licensing services from the firm’s Leicester office and also benefits from the full service offer including real estate, employment, IT/trade marks, commercial, corporate finance, tax, construction and planning.

Freeths LLP

Leon Arnold

Leon is head of the corporate team and has over 20 years’ experience of advising the corporate sector. Recent projects include: Advising the selling shareholders of Two Circles Limited on their disposal to WPP group; advising the Würth Group on its UK acquisitions and disposals; advising the selling shareholders of JGA Limited in its sale to Jensen Hughes, Inc; advising the selling shareholders on the sale of Moo Ltd (trading as Preloved) to the Hut Group PLC; advising the management team in the buy-out of the Bath printing business of Communisis PLC and subsequent acquisitions for the newly formed Integrity Print Limited; advising exiting shareholders on the sale of Sleek to Walgreens Boots Alliance; and advising on the acquisition by Santova Limited (South Africa) of Tradeway North West Limited and Tradeway (Shipping) Limited.

Freeths LLP

Leon Chng

Leon is an associate in our Banking and Financial Services team providing advice to financial services firms including asset managers, wealth managers, private banks, and charitable institutions on a broad range of legal and regulatory issues. As part of his work, Leon advises on a wide range of regulatory issues in the financial sector, including regulatory perimeter questions, consumer finance, ESG issues, asset and wealth management, governance and senior managers, change in control and the regulatory implications of Brexit, as well as more general legal issues arising in the financial services industry. Prior to joining the firm, Leon trained at a magic circle firm and qualified into their financial services regulation team.

Farrer & Co

Leon Golstein

Leon is a partner in, and previous lead of, our Real Estate Disputes team. He is also a member of our firm’s Risk and Compliance Team and currently is acting head of our Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Team. Leon’s principal expertise covers all aspects of property and landlord and tenant law on both the residential and commercial sides, contentious enfranchisement, planning, and regulatory compliance in the rented sector.

Seddons GSC LLP

Leon Hurd

Leon specialises in digital assets, blockchain, financial regulation, financial crime and related regulation. His practice covers advisory and contentious matters and his clients include disruptive and emerging tech businesses, multinationals, financial institutions, corporate fiduciaries and high-net-worth individuals. Having worked as a specialist financial crime prosecutor for the Government of Jersey in the Channel Islands and also as in-house counsel for a number of blue-chip companies, Leon is able to draw upon first-hand experience and expertise to assist clients with governance, compliance and investigatory matters. Leon also has a keen interest in the intersection between financial crime compliance and blockchain businesses; he conducts regulatory health checks on client businesses and advises clients on the structuring and development of their crypto businesses to strike the right balance between innovation, commercial objectives and regulatory compliance.

Keystone Law

Leon Miller

Leon is a partner in the corporate team based in London. Leon advises clients on a broad range of corporate finance transactions spanning the UK capital markets (especially AIM) and private equity, typically involving high growth companies. He has particular expertise advising on public and private M&A and financing through both debt and equity. He has sector knowledge of the oil & gas/mining sectors as well as technology, retail and other consumer-orientated businesses. Leon advised Tekmar Group plc on its admission to AIM in June 2018 raising £61.8m, the shareholders of NCE Group Limited on the sale of the company to Park Place Technologies Inc. in August 2017, AIM listed Hydro International plc on the £28m recommended offer by Hanover in 2016 and Opsec Security plc on the £66.7m recommended offer by Investcorp Technology in 2015.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Leona Ho

Managing Associate Leona advises on a variety of different property-related and secured lending matters acting for lenders, borrowers, commercial landlord and tenants and property investors. Leona’s main work areas are landlord and tenant matters, acquisition and disposals of commercial and residential property and property finance. Leona’s property clients are predominantly lenders securing their interests against property and business owners and investors purchasing, selling or leasing commercial property. Leona has particular expertise with secured lending, having worked with a number of high street banks, unregulated and regulated bridging lenders and borrowers on a variety of different lending scenarios, including re-finance, single unit finance, portfolio and development finance including heavy refurbishment bridging loans and development exit loans. Leona’s broad knowledge of the secured lending sector enables her to provide clear and constructive and practical commercial solutions to her clients and given the nature of her work Leona often works within extremely tight deadlines. Recent Experience £2.1 million purchase acting for a developer of a mixed used, part registered complex development site with the potential to create 7 flats and 3 retail units £1 million re-finance of property portfolio acting for the lender (1 freehold property and 11 leasehold flats) which completed in less than a week. Acting for the tenant, Salt & Pepper Manchester, on a commercial lease for their new commercial premises located in Manchester’s Northern Quarter in respect of their new business venture and expansion plans. £4.75 million auction sale of a Petrol Station on behalf of the Seller. Acting for the purchasers and dealing with the property aspects and due diligence on various corporate-led property deals and working closely alongside the BBS Corporate team. Acting for lenders and borrowers on high pressure re-finance deals involving both commercial and residential properties requiring quick turnaround.

Orwins

Leona Roberts

Legal Director - Regulatory Police Core

Weightmans LLP

Leonard Goodrich

I'm a consultant partner with the firm having joined as a green-behind-the-ear "articled clerk" in 1980, qualifying as an "assistant solicitor" in 1982 and having the honour to have been asked to join the partnership in 1986. My path then led to becoming head of the real estate department in 1988 a position I held for some 25 years (far too long!). Having served in senior positions for some forty years (including the firm's partnership remuneration committee) I decided to wind down slightly in 2018 to my current role assisting colleagues wherever I can. Having managed some major real estate and development transactions for some of the firm's largest clients over the years, someone once asked why I was never tempted to move on. My reply - it was either a serious error of judgment on my part or the firm is truly special! My longevity at the firm answers that question.

Lewis Silkin

Leonardo Carpentieri

Partner, Co-Head of International Arbitration

Rosenblatt Law

Leonardo Ferrando

Gulbenkian Andonian Solicitors

Leonie Byrne

Shoosmiths LLP

Leonie Power

Partner

Fieldfisher