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Victoria Willson

Victoria specialises in employment law and advises on the full range of employment law issues for both employers and employees. She has particular expertise in guiding employers through restructures (including the complexities of TUPE) and negotiating exit terms and high value settlements for senior employees, particularly those working in the financial services sector (for example, she was specifically instructed by a senior executive following the recent Libor scandal). Victoria also regularly defends and brings claims in the Employment Tribunal and Courts. She successfully represented one of the respondents in the first ever appeal, a seminal case regarding service provision changes under TUPE, Kimberley Group Housing Ltd v Hambley and others, and also the associated case, Clearsprings v Ankers and others. These cases involved over 170 claimants and 12 respondents in relation to the provision of accommodation and support services for asylum seekers for the Home Office. Victoria regularly contributes to various well known publications including a regular column in the Third Sector (the UK’s leading publication for charities, the voluntary sector and social enterprises). She also regularly speaks on employment law issues and chairs seminars, including at the Royal Society of Medicine. Victoria was invited to contribute to a Russell Group university’s research project on the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on charities. In addition, Victoria trains and provides bespoke programmes for senior managers and HR professionals on all aspects of employment law.

Simkins LLP

Victoria Wright

Victoria has expertise in advising insurers and logistics operators and is known for industry knowledge. She has been handling EL/PL claims for insurers and large self-insureds for over 15 years and leads on technical civil claims for haulage, construction and warehousing clients.

Weightmans LLP

Victoria Wright

Associate Partner - Property

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Victoria Zivkovic

Partner

TLT

Victory Thiru

Associate Solicitor

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Vijay Ganapathy

Partner

Leigh Day

Vijay Patel

Vijay is a commercial property partner specialising in finance and development across the real estate sector. He advises investors, developers, and funders on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, development agreements, commercial leases, property management, and financing arrangements for both investment and development projects. With extensive experience in the clean energy sector, Vijay has acted for developers, funders, and contractors on the real estate aspects of clean energy and energy-from-waste projects. He also acts for clients in the hotels, hospitality and leisure sector, advising property owners, investors, and operators on transactions, operations, and portfolio management. Vijay’s clients range from institutional investors and major developers to entrepreneurial businesses and specialist funders. Vijay

Keystone Law

Vik Khurana

Vik is a commercial technology lawyer, advising clients in a diverse range of sectors. Vik specialises in all aspects of commercial technology law and regularly leads complex and strategic technology projects. In particular, Vik advises on outsourcing, software development and licensing, digital transformation, cloud computing, e-commerce, and other arrangements involving the use or exploitation of IP and technology. In addition, Vik has a growing practice in emerging disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, advising both high-growth and established businesses as they develop, deploy and scale new products and services in the market. Vik acts for clients in a diverse range of sectors, including technology, media, government, healthcare and financial services. Having spent significant time seconded to clients – including a global energy company and the Singapore arm of a major telecoms provider – Vik has a keen understanding of the needs of clients' legal and business teams. Projects Vik has worked on include: a £1 billion global customer operations outsourcing involving cutting-edge robotic process automation technology; an agile software development project for a government department relating to critical national security infrastructure; a core banking platform design, build and implementation project for a world-renowned software vendor; negotiations with NHS Trusts on behalf of a healthtech provider for the provision of cloud-based medical diagnostics platforms; and Genomics England’s procurement of bioinformatics services relating to its 100,000 Genomes Project.

Bristows LLP

Vikki Sidaway

Vikki is an Associate in the Commercial Litigation team, based in Southampton. Vikki assists with a wide range of contractual and commercial disputes, including company/shareholder disputes, partnership disputes and commercial contract claims. She also has experience in a broad range of specialist areas including insolvency and professional negligence.

Blake Morgan LLP

Vilash Gami

Vilash Gami is a Director in the Public Law & Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She specialises in asylum, human rights and public law work, with significant experience of litigation in the Administrative Court and Court of Appeal as well as in the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. Vilash represents vulnerable clients including minors, victims of torture, trafficking and domestic abuse, and those with mental health conditions. She represents clients in judicial review cases including: unlawful detention; false imprisonment; unlawful delay in processing immigration applications; third country removals; challenges to decisions to deny access to public funds; and challenging removals by way of urgent interim relief applications. Vilash is an accredited Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme, enabling her to represent and advise both publicly funded (legal aid) and private clients.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Vince Shore

Joint National Head of Clinical Negligence.

Hudgell Solicitors

Vincent Billings

Partner | Head of Corporate & Commercial Helping organisations and entrepreneurs to achieve their commercial objectives, Vincent works with established SMEs and invested start-ups. He has particular expertise in the property, retail, technology, and software sectors as well as creative agencies in marketing. Vincent helps those looking to buy or sell a business, or needing support on many other major transactions including mergers, management buy outs and buy ins. He advises on the corporate finance aspects of a deal for those looking to raise capital, or acting as lender or investor. Vincent also helps organisations with their corporate structures, applying company law to areas such as property, IT, security, supply of goods or services, sales, and marketing. He drafts contracts and agreements that establish clear expectations and can perform a health check on existing corporate documentation to ensure it is fit for the modern corporate environment. Working closely with clients, Vincent provides the most appropriate advice based on a clear understanding of an organisation and its offering. In the Business Today Lawyer Awards 2023, Vincent was recognised in the Thames Valley Top 10 Most Influential Lower Mid-Market M&A Lawyers hall of fame.

SA Law LLP

Vincent Buscemi

Bevan Brittan LLP

Vincent King

Vincent is a projects and commercial lawyer. He advises public sector clients on capital projects, contracts and service delivery models including the establishment of wholly owned companies, outsourcing, partnerships and joint ventures. Vincent has established a variety of contractual and corporate structures including shared services arrangements between public bodies. He also advises on the associated funding arrangements including grants. He acts for different types of public sector bodies including clients in the local government, emergency services, education, health and housing sectors. Vincent has a good understanding of procurement law. He has advised in particular on stand-alone procurements and call-offs under frameworks, the availability of exemptions including the in-house exemption and public sector co-operation arrangements, and contract variations. He has also advised extensively on the application of the procurement rules to projects involving the development of land. He also advises private sector clients on contracts with public sector bodies, outsourcing, supply agreements and joint ventures.

Weightmans LLP

Vincenzo Maggio

Vincenzo is a partner within the real estate law practice with a heavy focus on investment work and landlord and tenant matters. He usually acts for investor clients, such as a number of Cambridge colleges, pension funds and US listed property investment companies. Vincenzo oversees teams managing extensive property and the work ranges from acquisitions and disposals of multi-let investment properties (typically office accommodation and shopping centres). Recent works includes the forward funding and purchase of the new Microsoft headquarters in Cambridge and the acquisition of three private hospitals. Vincenzo also regularly advises corporate occupiers on their business needs. Recent transactions include the relocation of the headquarters of a financial services company and UK premises for a US e-commerce business. He leads the team providing real estate advice to the BPP Group in relation to their national education centres.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Virginia Chalmers

Partner In September 2014 Virginia (Ginny) joined Irwin Mitchell as a partner and head of the workplace injury team in Bristol, bringing with her the asbestos team from Lyons Davidson. Ginny is a specialist solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in personal injury and is dual qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Canada. She has recovered millions of pounds of compensation for asbestos claimants and their families. She often speaks at conferences and in 2013 chaired a groundbreaking conference on inquests and post-mortems in mesothelioma deaths. Ginny is named on the Mesothelioma UK National Panel of Solicitors specialising in mesothelioma claims and often speaks at and chairs conferences.

Irwin Mitchell

Virginia Cooper

Bevan Brittan LLP

Virginia Edgecombe

Virginia has specialised in private tax law since 2003. Her focus is on estate planning including wills, trusts, inheritance and capital gains tax planning, the administration of estates and trusts and powers of attorney. She acts for a wide variety of clients including owners of landed estates, entrepreneurs and professionals, with assets in the UK and overseas. Recent work includes administering an estate valued at over £60m comprising agricultural land, residential property, business property (both companies and partnerships) and heritage property.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Virginia Henley

Virginia heads the firm’s charities team and plays an active role in the education sector group. She advises charities, universities and schools, and a wide range of not-for-profit organisations, on core legal, regulatory and governance issues. Her specialisms include charity governance, fundraising, trustee training, charity mergers, charity registrations and incorporations, commercial arrangements, and serious incident reporting. Her clients range from charities of all sizes to community interest companies, universities and Oxbridge colleges. She works closely with the firm’s private client and business services teams, particularly on real estate, employment and corporate matters.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Virginia Hickley

Partner and Head of Financial Claims. Virginia has specialised in insurance litigation with a professional indemnity bias since qualifying and the majority of her work involves defending claims against financial professionals on behalf of their professional indemnity insurers. She has also drafted policy wordings and advises on policy coverage. Her focus is predominantly on financial lines work (accountants, auditors, IFAs, finance brokers, hedge fund managers, trustees, pensions administrators) and defending solicitors’ claims. However, since qualifying in 1998 she has defended a wide range of professionals and claims of all values and levels of complexity. Her current caseload includes claims against solicitors, accountants, trustees, fund managers, pension administrators, brokers and independent financial advisers. The claims range in value from £100,000 to several million pounds. Virginia also advises underwriters on claims against French insureds, liaising with French lawyers and reporting to UK insurers.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Vishalee Amin

Senior Associate (solicitor)

Brett Wilson

Viv Jones

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Vivien Cochrane

Partner

Constantine Law Limited

Vivien Davies

Partner

Fieldfisher