About
HCR Law is an award-winning top 50 UK law firm providing legal services to organisations, business leaders and individuals from 12 offices across England and Wales, with its international headquarters in the City of London. The firm advises across a range of sectors and has been recognised for its corporate dealmaking (Experian ranked it first in the UK for M&A in August 2024) and private client work (Private Client Team of the Year, June 2024).
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Adam Cotterill
Senior Associate Recognised as a Rising Star and Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500 for six consecutive years: 2019-2024. · Immigration
Adam Finch
I head up the Cheltenham Dispute Resolution team, which includes over 33 in the team. I specialise in Corporate Disputes such as shareholder, franchise and contractual issues. I lead on finance and financial services disputes and fraud, including injunctive relief and acting as supervising solicitor. · Dispute Resolution
Alan Taylor
Senior Tax & Trust Manager · Tax
Alex Taylor
Partner, Joint Head of Private Client Team. · Private Client
Alexandra Francis
Senior Solicitor. · Private Wealth
Alexandra Svennevik
Senior Solicitor. · Private Wealth
Alexia Simon
Trust Manager, Alexia deals with the administration of Trusts, ensuring tax compliance and dealing with the preparation of Trust tax returns and annual accounts. · Trusts
Ally Taft
Clinical Negligence
Andrew Cave
Partner, Real Estate Disputes. · Real Estate
Andrew Walker
Partner, Head of Real Estate Disputes. · Real Estate
Anne-Sophie Reynolds
Associate · Corporate / M&A
Arpinder Dhillon
Arpinder is Head of the Wales & West Corporate Team, Head of the Wye Valley Office and a Corporate Partner at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Arpinder has advised her clients for over 20 years on a wide variety of corporate matters. Arpinder acts for businesses of all shapes and sizes across a broad range of sectors and she focuses primarily on corporate transactional work, both in the UK and abroad. As well as acquisitions and disposals, Arpinder is experienced in corporate restructures and management buyouts. Alongside Arpinder's corporate role, she heads up HCR’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) team. EDI at HCR is about building on and nurturing HCR’s existing talent, and diversifying and widening our talent pool. Wye Valley office head, Arpinder Dhillon, maintains a strong focus on high-value transactions for clients spanning the worlds of IT infrastructure, legal compliance, manufacturing and financial services. · Corporate / M&A
Becky Woodcock
Senior Associate · Commercial Real Estate
Ben Thomas
Real Estate
Ben Ticehurst
Partner · Risk & Regulatory
Bernadette O'Reilly
Partner · Private Wealth
Beverley Morris
Partner and Head of Family Law (London) · Family Law
Bill Thatcher
Specialist in commercial work with emphasis on intellectual property (including in particular research and development and technology transfer); IT and e-commerce. · Intellectual Property
Catherine Ball
Partner in private wealth department in Northampton, specialising in wills, probates, tax planning and trusts. · Private Wealth
Ceri Riddell
Real Estate
Charlotte Thornton-Smith
Charlotte is a Partner within the corporate department at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and the Head of the Worcester and Central England Offices at HCR. With almost 20 years’ experience in the corporate legal arena, Charlotte is committed to delivering the best possible service to her clients and giving commercial and pragmatic advice. Charlotte has a wealth of experience in advising clients in connection with M&A transactions, investments and group reorganisations with a particular specialism in acting for clients across the health and social care sector. · Corporate / M&A
Chris Mackie
Head of the London Corporate Recovery & Insolvency · Corporate Recovery & Insolvency
Christopher Finch
Partner · Family Law
Christopher Nuttall
Head of Pensions · Pensions
Claire Howard-Amos
Partner · Real Estate
Clare Emery
Clare is a partner within the corporate department and heads up the Dental Team sitting within the Health and Social Care team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys. Clare has been working within the dental sector for over 15 years, and as one of only a small number of NASDAL accredited lawyers within the United Kingdom, she is nationally recognised for my expertise in advising dentists. Clare's primary focus is on assisting dentists to achieve their potential, whether through buying, selling or restructuring their practices. Clare's in-depth knowledge of the NHS and CQC frameworks within which practices operate allows her to provide specialist support to clients where issues arise with their regulators. Clare is often called upon to speak at dental conferences and seminars to share her knowledge of the dental sector. · Corporate / M&A
Colin Jaque
Partner · Private Client
Colin Jones
Partner, Head of Construction and Engineering. Legal specialisation in construction and procurement law. Clients include: Marshalls Airport, Kings College, Trinity Hall College, Gonville & Caius College, European Molecular Biology Institute. Adviser to the British Institute of Interior Design and the Association of Consultant Architects. Acts for contractors, professionals, developer clients, manufacturers of construction products; providing advice in regard to contentious and non contentious matters. Member of Cambridge CleanTech, sits on the Procurement Reform Group of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Adviser to the Sports and Play Construction Association. Council member of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry and a member of the Cambridge Interact Club of property and construction professionals. Governor of St Mary’s School, Cambridge. Practice areas: construction – contentious; Construction – non-contentious. · Construction
Daniel Goodall
David Browne
Partner specialising in corporate acquisitions and disposals, banking and non-contentious insolvency. In charge of the firm’s owner-managed business group and a member of the firm’s banking and finance group. · Corporate / M&A
David James
Partner · Corporate / M&A
David King
Partner (National Deputy Head of Private Client Team) and Head of Private Client Team in Cardiff · Private Client
Deanne Hamilton
Senior Associate. · Restructuring & Insolvency
Delyth Evans
Delyth is an Associate in HCR's Corporate team. · Corporate / M&A
Denise Wilkinson
Partner dealing with agricultural and rural businesses and advising land-owning charities. Dealing with rural owners on acquisitions and disposals, all aspects of tenancy work and restructuring in relation to tax planning and trusts. Advising rural property owners on renewable enerrgy projects and options/leases for energy generation by solar, wind, AD and water. Dealing with acquisition of property and documentation in relation to management and development of sites by land-owning charities including joint ventures. · Agriculture & Estates
Derek Callanan
Derek is a partner within the corporate department with over 20 year’s experience. Derek has extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of Corporate and Company Law matters, advising individuals and corporate clients, both locally, nationally and internationally on realising the maximum potential value/return from their business by buying, merging, re-structuring or selling their business/company through share or asset purchases and/or sales with multi-jurisdictional experience. Derek also advises on creating corporate joint ventures and or partnerships with specific expertise and interest in dealing with construction companies both private/plc and property developers/land owners; Derek has a specialist knowledge of the automotive sector and specifically advising a large Global Motor Manufacturing Group. He is also passionate about the Equine Law sector and the horse racing industry. Derek has also worked with clients across the globe advising American, Canadian, Spanish, Japanese, Irish and French based corporates on their corporate group interests within the United Kingdom. · Corporate / M&A
Dominic Hopkins
Partner, commercial litigation and ADR with a particular emphasis on cross-border disputes and recoveries, civil aspects of commercial fraud; insolvency; professional negligence; corporate governance and directors’ duties and liabilities advice; IT disputes. Member of the technology and insolvency and corporate recovery groups. · Commercial Litigation
Elizabeth Davies
Partner specialising in tax and estate planning, wills, trusts and probate. · Private Wealth
Elizabeth Herbert
Senior Solicitor · Private Wealth
Elizabeth Swinburn
Partner, Cambridge employment team. Advises employers and individuals on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. · Employment
Emily Pumfrey
Partner · Agriculture & Estates
Fern Lovell
Agriculture & Estates
Frank Brumby
Partner · Restructuring & Insolvency
Gareth Williams
Agriculture & Estates
Gemma Dudley
Legal Director · Planning & Environment
Gemma Hill
Associate. · Employment
Gwenllian Reeves
Associate · Family
Hauke Harrack
Senior Solicitor · Private Wealth
Helen Deady
Senior Solicitor · Agriculture & Estates
Helen Higginbotham FCG
Helen is a Legal Director within HCR's Corporate Team. Helen heads up the BRICS team and is a qualified chartered company secretary. · Corporate / M&A
Helen Mutucumarana
Partner- Commercial Real Estate · Real Estate
Inger Anson
Inger is a Corporate Partner who heads the HCR Cambridge office and the Corporate team located there. Inger is engrained in the Cambridge legal market with over 23 years’ experience. She known for my expertise in the early stage funding arena and is a ‘go to’ lawyer for investee companies and investors alike. Inger acts for all types of businesses and individuals involved in the early stage and growth markets advising on all elements of early stage and follow on investments, predominantly in the technology sector. She also advises her clients on all aspects of M&A work, restructuring and certain elements of public company work, including admissions to AIM. Inger supported Origin Capital on its investment in Unum Aircraft Seating and also Carbon 13 on the recent investment by True Ventures and others. She also supported the shareholders of Grove Pet Food shareholders in the multimillion-pound sale of the company to Cranswick Country Foods. · Corporate / M&A
James Frankland
Legal Director · Real Estate
James Grigg
Partner, Head of Family Team. · Family
James Lawrence
Partner in corporate department specialising in equity markets and mergers and acquisitions; venture, start-up and development capital, particularly in biotech and technology sector; corporate and banking finance and reconstructions; and employee share option schemes. Practice areas: flotations (small and mid-cap); corporate finance; M&A. · Corporate / M&A
James Osborne
Partner · Family Law
James Simnett
Chartered Legal Executive. James deals with both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and regularly acts for office holders in claims for possession and sale, setting aside antecedent transactions and challenges to office holders' remuneration. · Corporate Recovery & Insolvency
Jane Stebbings
Associate · Private Wealth
Jenny Raymond
Partner in the dispute resolution team at Harrison Clark Rickerbys acting for PLCs, large multinationals, SMEs, partnerships and directors/shareholders across a wide variety of industries. Particular areas of focus include financial services, banking and insurance disputes, breaches of restrictive covenants, professional negligence & contractual disputes, and director/shareholder disputes. · Litigation
Justin Mason
Partner, Head of Real Estate, Cardiff · Real Estate
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