محامون في England

Uday Patel

Partner

Judge & Priestley LLP

Udo Onwere

Udo Onwere leads the Bray & Krais private client and sports offering. Prior to joining Bray & Krais as Partner in 2016, Udo worked in Farrer & Co.’s private client team. Udo’s main areas of work include advising on all aspects of tax and estate planning for UK domiciled individuals, wills, probates, Court of Protection matters and powers of attorney. He was previously a professional footballer for 12 years with several clubs including Fulham Football Club. Building on his sporting background, Udo advises high profile sports individuals (particularly professional footballers, managers and directors) on all areas of private client matters and general commercial issues. Udo also has extensive experience of advising individual professional sportsmen and their agents on contractual negotiations and content. He is a judicial panel member on regulatory and disciplinary issues for the Football Association and is regularly appointed to adjudicate high profile cases. In addition to the above, Udo advises a number of private business owners and entrepreneurs regarding the creation of family trusts, lifetime settlements and succession planning. He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and Solicitors for the Elderly. In 2019, Udo was appointed as a director of the British Association of Sport and Law. BASL is an association which represents sports law practitioners, sports administrators and sports law. Udo’s team has been recognised in the Legal 500 in the 2025 Sports Section, rising up the ranks from “One to Watch” to Tier 6.

Bray & Krais

Umar Mirza

Solicitor

Curzon Green Solicitors

Umar Shaikh

Associate Solicitor

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Vaiben Lipman

Associate

LK Law LLP

Vaishali Gupta

Vaishali specialises in banking and finance transactions. Her recent experience includes advising various corporate and financial institutions on structured finance and fund related finance transactions, as well as financial restructurings.

Carey Olsen LLP

Valerie Fogleman

Head of environment. Specialising in all aspects of environmental law, in particular, environmental liabilities (including Environmental Liability Directive, water pollution, contaminated land and other environmental damage) and insurance cover and claims for such liabilities.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Valerie Lambert

Partner in Cambridge employment team. Acts for employer and employee clients specialising in post-termination restrictive covenants.

HCR Law

Vanda James

Partner

Birketts LLP

Vandana Chitroda

Partner

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Vanessa Barnett

Vanessa is a commercial lawyer who helps clients who are using technology to innovate or disrupt established ways of doing things. She has supported clients from household-name global brands to nimble start-ups do this for over 15 years, across goods, services and digital.Vanessa is frequently singled out by clients in both Chambers UK and Legal 500 for her client service and practical approach, using a bespoke mix of the lawyers’ toolbox to support the business objective, which could include structuring and documenting commercial relationships, protecting revenue and ideas, making sure the data can be gathered and exploited, and ticking off any consumer or industry-specific regulations.Vanessa has advised established businesses like Amlin, Apple, Balfour Beatty, Barclays, Google, Tesco, Tesco Mobile, SBOBet, SuperGroup, and Westfield. She has also advised successful high-growth companies such as autograph.me, Canonical, HQhair and Loans.co.uk. Her experience spans all sectors, but most recently in retail, financial services, sport, and TMT.Vanessa believes in open legal knowledge and was the founding author of the Internet section of Practical Commercial Precedents. She has also been a regular Internet industry commentator and speaker. AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Planning and stress testing; Documenting IP-based relationships; Documenting goods and services-based relationships; Terms of buiness; E-Commerce advice; Privacy, data protection; Advertising, marketing and sponsorship; Boilerplate and template documents; Legal audits; Supporting procurement teams; Supporting transactions

Keystone Law

Vanessa Challenger

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Vanessa Friend

Vanessa is a partner and Head of the Family Law team at Hodge Jones & Allen. Vanessa qualified in 2009 and has practised exclusively family law. In 2017 she won a City Wealth Award for her work on high value and complex matters. Her practise encompasses all areas or private family law, with a particular focus on the financial issues arising out of separation, relationship agreements (including cohabitation, prenuptial agreements and separation agreements), and arrangements for children. Many of her cases have an international element with clients who live abroad or assets located outside of the jurisdiction. She works with family lawyers in foreign jurisdictions to ensure her clients receive comprehensive advice. Vanessa is also a Resolution trained mediator who assists couples in reaching a negotiated outcome. She helps clients to carefully consider the options for out of court dispute resolution. Vanessa has a busy mediation practice for both financial and children matters. She also mediates for couples entering into prenuptial agreements and other relationship agreements.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Vanessa Ganguin

Managing Partner

Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law

Vanessa Joll

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Vanessa Laundon

Vanessa is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She is a solicitor who advises retail and leisure operators and property investors on commercial property transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, refinances, and all aspects of portfolio management. Vanessa has over 20 years' retail and leisure sector experience, advising a wide range of domestic and international retail and leisure clients on the full life cycle of their occupation, including site acquisition, disposals and general portfolio management. Vanessa also advises new entrants to the UK retail market, with experience ranging from national portfolio acquisitions and roll-out programmes to high-value single-store acquisitions in London’s West End. She has extensive experience advising private investment funds on the acquisition, disposal and management of commercial property interests including offices, retail and mixed-use residential/commercial properties.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Vanessa Rhodes

Vanessa is a partner in the Real Estate and Construction team at Kingsley Napley LLP and is experienced in a range of commercial and residential property matters. Vanessa advises on the full spectrum of residential property work, acting on the purchases and sales of prime residential property in London and country homes. She has particular expertise in advising on the acquisition, disposal and refinance of complex residential portfolios and clients value her commercial, efficient and pragmatic approach. Vanessa also acts on residential property developments, sales, purchases and portfolio management of commercial properties, and advises both landlords and tenants on the lettings of commercial leasehold property. Her broad practice involves acting for high net worth individuals and families, investors, celebrities, developers and landlords and tenants.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Vanessa Rickard

Vanessa is an extremely experienced real estate practitioner with over 20 years' experience in the sector. She specialises in commercial real estate with an emphasis on investment, asset management and development. She regularly acts for landowners, developers and occupiers. Recent experience includes: Advising a national charity in connection with its property investment and asset management portfolio and in connection with the disposal of land for third party development and in connection with collaboration agreements with a number of local authorities for the promotion of land for development. Advising a cinema operator on various aspects of its Real Estate interests including refinancing, and the acquisitions. Advising a hotel operator in connection with the acquisition under development agreement and lease of a site at Heathrow terminal 3 for the development of two budget hotels. Advising in connection with the disposal of brownfield sites including options and overage provisions. Advising a variety of lenders in connection with the funding and refinancing of a range of real estate projects including residential development schemes, mixed use and retail investment acquisitions. Advising in connection with the acquisition, asset management and ultimately the disposal of prime shopping centres in Manchester and Liverpool, including the pre-letting of the Liverpool shopping centre. Advising a developer client in connection with Estate management aspects of its residential and mixed use development schemes. Advising a major sports retailer in connection with the acquisition of new stores. Advising in connection with the disposal of a portfolio of garden centres. Advising in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of residential development sites at various stages of development Advising in connection with the whole life of student accommodation developments from site acquisition to disposal.

Shoosmiths LLP

Vanessa Ruparel

Senior Associate Solicitor

Curzon Green Solicitors

Vanessa Wells

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Vanessa Wiggins

Solicitor

Bark&co

Vanessa Williams

Excello Law

Vanina Wittenburg

Senior Associate in the private client department specialising in wills, administration of estates, trusts and powers of attorney. Vanina undertakes a wide range of private client work, including drafting wills and trust documents, the preparation and registration of lasting powers of attorney, the preparation of applications for probate, the administration of estates and trusts (including dealing with HMRC in relation to inheritance tax, capital gains tax and income tax), and providing tax and estate planning advice.

Hunters Law LLP

Verity Barker

Legal Director

Gowling WLG