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Adam Walford

Adam Walford advises household name restaurants and retailers on their real estate occupancy needs, growth strategies and asset management needs. He leads the Investment, Landlord and Tenant team and is head of the Retail & Leisure group. He is a solicitor specialising in commercial real estate, particularly in acquisition and disposal work for the restaurant and retail sectors. Adam has an extensive and varied client base, including restaurant owners, occupiers, investors, and developers. He acts for global brands and quoted companies, as well as, household names like Carluccio’s, Pizza Hut, Patty&Bun, and Tortilla. He also supports some of the most exciting new brands in the sector. This breadth of experience is unusual. He lives and breathes the restaurant business, working closely with the wider sector team to benefit shared clients with a wealth of insight. Whether a client is buying a chain of 200 outlets, developing a brand new concept, branching out from a first success, or simply reviewing their staff contracts, he aims to be their first port of call. · Real Estate

Alex Watt

Alex Watt is an experienced intellectual property lawyer who specialises in commercial transactions that have intellectual property, often brands and their growth, at their heart. Alex is a Partner whose practice tends to involve commercial legal work in IP-centric businesses, such as licensing, gaming, egaming, franchising and publishing. He is also known for his work within the art world, within which he advises galleries, auction houses and the artists themselves. He has a deep knowledge of advertising and marketing and he leads the firm's advertising & marketing practice, providing advice to both agencies and brands directly. Recently such work has included increasing amounts of affiliate marketing and work a lot of work with influencers, and influencer agencies – as well as promotional advice, drafting ISBA compliant agency agreements, production agreements, sponsorship agreements, and advice more generally on ASA complaints and compliance. His work is often international and until recently he was the National Representative for the United Kingdom within AIJA, an international network of lawyers with over 4000 members from 90 jurisdictions. Alex has worked on secondment in-house a number of times, working closely with Universal Pictures, the Telegraph Media Group and the BBC, so he has a good understanding of what in-house lawyers expect and how they prefer to work. Alex has won significant acclaim for his expertise in legal rankings. He is “recommended for transactional trade mark work and advertising and marketing deals” by Legal 500 2021. He was recently praised by clients within World Trademark Review's WTR 1000 for 2024, who say “He understands the full picture in relation to any issue that arises and can identify the optimum solution for his client. His depth of experience of commercial law issues, regulatory issues such as advertising, and his ability to handle early-stage disputes make him the perfect person to work with.” · Intellectual Property

Alexandra Giles

Alexandra Giles is an associate specialising in domestic and international trust and estates disputes. She also advises on disputes involving vulnerable people in the Court of Protection. Alexandra Giles advises individuals, beneficiaries and trustees, as both claimants and defendants, in a full range of trusts and estates disputes. Her practice encompasses acting in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, challenges to the validity of wills, promissory estoppel claims, breach of trust claims and the removal of executors and trustees. Alexandra also advises on disputed Court of Protection applications, including the appointment and removal of deputies or attorneys, management disputes, and statutory will applications. She understands the emotional difficulty clients can face dealing with private wealth disputes. She is compassionate, whilst providing an analytical and pragmatic focus to resolving her clients' disputes. Alexandra is undertaking the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) course. She is also a member of ConTrA, the Contentious Trusts Association. · Trusts & Estates

Alexandra Mizzi

Alex Mizzi provides pragmatic, tailored advice to businesses and senior executives on all aspects of employment law, including business protection, employee relations, HR strategy and discrimination. Alex is a Legal Director in the Employment team. She advises businesses of all sizes and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She has a particular focus on data protection in the employment sphere and leads the team's work on AI and technology in the workplace. She advises businesses on handling staff data (including in contentious situations) and regularly speaks externally on issues such as workplace technology, AI and data privacy. She works closely with HR Directors and business owners to help them navigate through complex employee relations issues, often involving discrimination or whistleblowing allegations, to find a pragmatic solution. Her work for senior executives complements this, enabling her to see a dispute from all angles and anticipate tactics. She has a track record of securing favourable outcomes for individuals facing potentially career-ending allegations, particularly in financial services and other regulated professions. Alex also has a particular expertise in business protection. She gives tailored advice to individuals and businesses on the legal and commercial issues surrounding employee competition, whether lawful or unlawful. She regularly acts in High Court disputes involving breaches of confidentiality, restrictive covenants, and team moves. Alex has written for and been quoted in trade and national press and has appeared on BBC Radio and television news, discussing developments in employment law. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association Training Committee. She is a regular speaker at client seminars and provides bespoke in-house training for HR teams and business owners. · Employment

Amanda McNeil

Amanda McNeil specialises in contentious issues relating to commercial and residential property. She focuses on enabling clients to find the best outcome for their unique circumstances. She heads our Real Estate team. Amanda has a diverse client base. As a solicitor she advises landlords, retailers and other commercial occupiers with their asset management needs. She works with commercial developers on site clearances, restrictive covenant issues, boundary and other disputes. She acts for high-net-worth individuals on disputes relating to their personal property portfolios and their homes in the UK. Amanda’s expertise in commercial property disputes includes acting on Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals (including opposed renewals), forfeiture actions, rent recovery, service charge disputes, dilapidations claims, enforcement of covenants, rent reviews and withholding of consent to assign/sublet/carry out alterations. She additionally guides clients through original tenant liability and liability of guarantors issues, disputes over rent deposits and property insolvency issues. Meanwhile, her residential property experience includes advising on exercising the right to manage, service charge disputes, enforcement of covenants, and possession proceedings (both Rent Act tenancies and Assured Shorthold tenancies). Amanda acts for both landlords and tenants advising on all aspects of leasehold enfranchisement including lease extensions of flats, collective enfranchisement (whereby the leaseholders in a building join together and buy the freehold), freehold purchase and lease extension of leasehold houses. She prides herself on listening to her clients, understanding their objectives and provides first class strategically and commercially driven advice in an unstuffy way to achieve the best possible outcome in line with their unique needs. Her alternative dispute resolution experience includes mediation, arbitration and advocacy. She represents clients in the Privy Council, Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court and increasingly in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Chamber. Amanda is a member of the Property Litigation Association and the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners. · Real Estate

Amy Cunliffe-Rowe

Amy Cunliffe-Rowe is a solicitor specialising in data protection and commercial contracts across a range of sectors. Amy is an Associate in the IP & Commercial team. She advises clients on data protection and commercial contracts across various sectors including retail, tech and media. Her data protection work regularly includes advising on complex data protection matters, the use of novel technology, privacy notices, data protection breaches, data security, data agreements, data sharing arrangements, and data subject access requests. On the commercial side, Amy advises on commercial contracts such as franchise agreements, software agreements, and IT contracts. Amy takes time to understand clients and their commercial aims so that she can provide commercially focused advice. · Data Protection

Annie Long

Annie Long is an Associate in the Employment team. She assists clients with a range of employment law issues, both contentious and non-contentious, from recruitment through to termination of employment. In particular, Annie advises clients on matters involving: Disciplinary and grievance procedures Discrimination Whistleblowing Reputation management Drafting and negotiation of employment contracts Staff handbooks and policies TUPE Unfair dismissal Termination issues (including settlement agreements) Redundancies She is a member of the firm's Retail and Leisure sector group. Annie trained at Howard Kennedy and completed seats in Residential Conveyancing, Media Dispute Resolution and Employment. She also completed a secondment with whistleblowing charity, Protect. · Employment

Anoushka Nehra

Anoushka Nehra is an associate specialising in trust and estate disputes. She represents clients in a range of domestic and international disputes concerning wills, trusts and estates. Anoushka is an associate in the Trusts and Estates Disputes team. She advises both claimants and defendants in a full range of complex estate and trust-related disputes, including: Will challenges Trust and estate administration disputes Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Applications for the removal of executors and trustees Court of Protection disputes Anoushka read Law with French Law at university, and has an intermediate proficiency in French. She has experience working on a number of cross-border disputes. Anoushka is undertaking the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) course for qualified solicitors. She is also a member of ConTrA, the Contentious Trusts Association. · Trusts & Estates

Anthony Hunt

Anthony Hunt heads the Corporate Real Estate team, which focuses on the real estate sector, acting for domestic and international investors and developers, in particular in the hotel, retail, restaurant and leisure sectors. As Head of Corporate Real Estate, Anthony plays a lead role in the operation and development of the firm’s fast growing corporate real estate practice and especially its recognised expertise in the hotels and leisure sector. He is also one of the lead corporate partner contacts for M&A, as well as the firm’s international practice and its two referral networks and sits on the Exco of Lawyers Associated Worldwide. Anthony acts for private and listed companies and entrepreneurs and he works closely with several international high net worth clients. He advises clients on all aspects of corporate finance, domestic and international listings, takeovers, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs. He also supports clients with turnaround and pre-pack, public and private fund raising, secured lending, acquisition finance, tax-related products and collective investments schemes advice and guidance. He works on all types of corporate transactions including domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance, including AIM, domestic and international wealth protection and private and corporate banking. · Real Estate

Antonia Frangakis

Antonia Frangakis is a commercial property solicitor specialising in the retail, restaurant and leisure sectors. She helps operator-occupiers in the retail and leisure sector on all aspects of commercial property and regularly handles leasehold acquisitions and disposals for national brands and independents. She also advises overseas clients entering the UK market. Antonia deals with wider general estate management, advising on and dealing with legal and practical issues relating to landlord and tenant matters. Antonia sits on the committee of the LPFXtra and is an active member of the Leisure Property Forum. · Real Estate

Anzélle Ford

Anzélle Ford is a dual qualified lawyer who has been involved in international construction cases concerning infrastructure projects based on the FIDIC suite of contracts, across various jurisdictions in Europe and the Middle East. Anzélle has experience in international construction and international arbitration cases concerning infrastructure projects based on the FIDIC suite of contracts, across various jurisdictions in Europe and the Middle East. She has several years of experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Anzélle completed her studies in South Africa, and graduated with B.Com (Law), LLB and a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning. She qualified and was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2019, and in 2024 enrolled and admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Anzélle is fluent in both English and Afrikaans. · Construction

Arish Bharucha

Arish Bharucha is a leading Solicitor-Advocate who focuses on international arbitration, commercial litigation and civil fraud disputes. He chairs the firm’s India group and has strong personal and professional links with the country. Arish advises international and domestic clients on a range of high value and complex contentious matters. He acts on a wide array of commercial disputes in English seated arbitrations (under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC and UNCITRAL rules) and in the English Courts, including cases involving civil fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, complex contractual claims, negligence claims, economic torts, shareholder, joint venture and partnership disputes, and jurisdictional battles (amongst others). Arish advises on cases across many industry sectors including commodities, technology, energy, banking and financial services, engineering and pharmaceuticals. Arish advises clients (both corporates and individuals) from all over the world and most of his cases have an international dimension. He has a particular interest in, and focus on, India-related disputes and spearheads the firm’s India group. He visits India regularly to develop and maintain the firm’s connections there. Arish is also dual qualified as a lawyer in Delhi. Prior to joining Howard Kennedy, Arish trained at, and was an Associate in the Litigation & Arbitration Division of, a large international firm and subsequently practised at a specialist dispute resolution firm. Arish read Law and History at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Lizette Bentwich prize for law. Arish also has an LLM in Law from University College London, where he was awarded the Chief Justice Scholarship. · International Arbitration

Ashley Reeback

Ashley Reeback acts on corporate transactions in both the public and private arenas, including M&A, IPOs, MBOs and MBIs. He is a partner and Head of the Corporate department at Howard Kennedy. Ashley assists clients on the full spectrum of corporate and capital markets transactions. He is a solicitor with a particular focus on mid-market M&A, as well as, public company transactions. He advises on both the purchase and sale of private companies including by way of Management Buy Outs and Management Buy-Ins. On the capital markets side of his practice, Ashley acts for clients on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and has advised on over 40 AIM IPOs (some by way of reverse takeover), acting for both issuers and Nomad/brokers. Ashley also advises on public takeovers, as well as, early stage and pre-IPO funding rounds. · Corporate / M&A

Astrid Stanley

Astrid Stanley is a partner specialising in commercial real estate and is a co-lead of the student accommodation group. Astrid has established herself as a go-to solicitor in the practice and advises developers, investors and HNW individuals across real estate development and investment transactions. Her strength is her deep understanding of the real estate market and provides her clients with strong commercial and strategic advice throughout a transaction. Her practice covers student accommodation, living, mixed-use, office, industrial and logistics, hotels & leisure, sectors. Astrid's expertise is in development and finance and she has an ability to advise on large scale and complex transactions, with a strength in client relationships management. Astrid has broadened her experience in the development team, advising investors, landlords and occupiers on commercial acquisitions for lease and development acquisitions for sale and forward funding. · Real Estate

Ayesha Salim

Ayesha Salim specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, acting for and advising clients ranging from private individuals to multinational companies. She is a solicitor acting for clients involved in contractual, company, shareholder, partnership, and joint venture disputes. Ayesha also assists clients with professional negligence and agents' commission claims, as well as, contentious trust and estate, and commercial agency disputes. Ayesha has extensive experience of alternative dispute resolution including mediation. · Litigation

Benjamin Filmer

Ben Filmer is an experienced corporate solicitor advising individuals and businesses on a broad range of transactional and non-transactional matters. Ben undertakes a wide variety of corporate work, including share and asset acquisitions and sales, corporate re-organisations, joint ventures and corporate governance. He acts for a varied client base including large corporate entities, individual shareholders, and management teams. He has worked across a broad range of sectors including technology, manufacturing and retail. Ben takes a pragmatic solutions-based approach; seeking to find the best commercial solutions for his clients and helping them to achieve their aims. He has twice been ranked as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 Guide. · Corporate / M&A

Beth Myers

Beth Myers is a partner with over 15 years' experience in the commercial real estate sector acting for (among others) landed estates, charities, investors, offshore companies and tenants in complex real estate matters. Beth is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate team with a particular focus on commercial landlord and tenant, real estate investment acquisitions and disposals and corporate real estate for a variety of clients. Beth acts for a wide range of clients, including landed estates, property companies, offshore companies, charities, education providers, private high net worth investors and retail and occupier clients. Beth’s work leads her to regularly liaise with the Development team and Planning and Construction team on cases. Beth is a strong technical solicitor with broad experience and a commercial and efficient approach to transactions. She understands a client's needs and helps to deliver and achieve successful outcomes. She provides a proactive client-focused service. · Real Estate

Bhavini Patel

Bhavini is Co-Head of the Building Safety Group. She has expertise in all aspects of compliance with post-Grenfell statute acting for developers, leaseholders, RTMs and landlords. Her dispute resolution practice spans commercial and residential property. Bhavini regularly acts on contentious issues involving retail property and developer clients. She advises on business lease renewals, breach of covenant claims, break notices, possession claims, site clearance, forfeiture claims, contractual disputes and trespass actions. As Co-Head of the Building Safety Group, Bhavini is an advisor on building safety matters including landlord and leaseholder certificates, accountable person and principal accountable person's responsibilities, registration of higher-risk buildings and recoverability of service charges incurred in remediating buildings. Bhavini works closely with the firm's construction team in relation to these issues. Bhavini acts in a leading Upper Tribunal Appeal, acting for leaseholders who are seeking to enforce leaseholder protections introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022. She also acts for various clients seeking remediation contribution orders against landlords and developers. She provides strategic advice to clients at all stages of the life cycle of a property, from planning, development and occupation and property management through to disposal. Bhavini focuses on ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements whilst also protecting the value of the asset. Her practice spans County Court and First Tier Tribunal proceedings. She tailors her straightforward advice focusing on a non-contentious resolution. With litigious issues, Bhavini has the experience to resolve matters through negotiated settlements and has attended numerous settlement meetings and successful mediations. She is a member of the Property Litigation Association. · Real Estate

Bob Sadler

Bob Sadler is a senior solicitor with extensive experience in all aspects of planning and highways. He is highly experienced with complex section 106 agreements, planning appeals, highways issues (including all forms of agreement), large mixed-use developments, hotels, residential development and Assets of Community Value. He also drafts complex contracts conditional on planning, analyses planning decision documents for judicial review risk and is adept at tying together complex documents in development deals. Bob is dedicated to finding elegant commercial solutions to knotty legal issues. · Planning

Brendan Udokoro

Brendan Udokoro is an associate specialising in disputes and litigation concerning or connected to wills, trusts, the estates of deceased persons, and all other inheritance and post-death related disputes. Brendan advises clients on the resolution of a broad range of estate and trust-related disputes, including applications for the removal of executors and trustees, trustee-beneficiary disputes, challenges to the validity of wills and claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975,. Brendan qualified as a solicitor in May 2018, having trained at a leading regional firm in Kent. He joined Howard Kennedy in August 2022 and was promoted to associate in May 2023. · Contentious Probate

Candice Ross-Field

Candice Ross-Field is a senior associate in the Real Estate department, focussing on the retail and leisure sectors. Candice works for a range of retail and leisure clients, assisting and dealing with portfolio management, site acquisitions, and disposals of freehold and leasehold properties. She additionally assists private sector clients with investment advice, as well as general landlord and tenant work for a variety of clients. · Real Estate

Charles Maxwell

Charles Maxwell is a partner and Head of Commercial Development. He is a real estate solicitor specialising in residential development, commercial real estate and residential real estate transactions. He is fluent in Hebrew and is Head of the Israel Desk. Charles acts for real estate companies, public funds, high-net-worth individuals and international investors on a wide spectrum of non-contentious property matters, including sales, acquisitions, refinancing, management and bulk purchases of both residential and commercial properties. On residential development matters, Charles typically works with his clients through the entire property cycle from site acquisition to individual plot sales, and provides clients with a round-the-clock service to ensure transactions are completed efficiently and in a timely manner. He acts for a wide variety of Israeli real estate investors actively investing in the UK real estate market. Charles also has experience in the leisure sector advising restaurateurs, hoteliers, and nightclub and bar operators. · Real Estate

Charlotte Whitworth

Charlotte Whitworth is a solicitor and co-head of corporate real estate team advising on a range of corporate matters with specialisms in corporate real estate and student accommodation. She is also co-lead of the student accommodation group. She acts on a wide variety of transactional and non-transactional corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, corporate real estate matters and general company law matters. She focuses on corporate real estate and has deep sector knowledge of the real estate market which is used to her clients' advantage when completing transactions. Much of her work has a strong international focus. Charlotte acts for developers, landowners and investors in documenting their joint venture arrangements (including shareholders, LLP, and contractual profit share arrangements). Charlotte also deals with all aspects of corporate wrapper acquisitions and disposals. She takes a commercial and pragmatic approach when assisting clients and delivers commercial and strategic advice to her clients. Charlotte is one (of three) of the firm's appointed representatives for the international network Meritas and is a member of the Meritas Young Lawyer Advisory Board. Charlotte has been appointed Chair-Elect of the Meritas Emerging Leaders Advisory Board. This is the first time Meritas has elected a chair from outside North America. · Corporate / M&A

Chloe-Jane Belton

Chloe-Jane is a white-collar and investigations lawyer with experience both at the independent Bar and in private practice. Her practice focuses on complex multi-agency and cross-border investigations involving fraud, corruption, money laundering and sanctions breaches. Chloe-Jane has extensive experience in advising individuals, governments and multinational organisations under investigation by authorities including the SFO, FCA, NCA and overseas government authorities including DOJ, SEC and CFTC. She is well-placed to advise clients on all aspects of financial crime cases including bribery, corruption, market manipulation and fraud. In addition to her white-collar crime and investigations practice, Chloe-Jane gained extensive experience as a barrister whilst practising at the criminal bar, where she established a reputation for defending and prosecuting clients facing complex criminal and regulatory proceedings. Of note, she was junior prosecution counsel in Operation Bronze, what was then the largest local authority prosecution of its kind, involving charges of misconduct in a public office, fraud and money laundering. Her clients benefit from her practical experience when seeking advice on how to respond to criminal or regulatory prosecution. Chloe-Jane regularly acts in pro bono matters with a particular focus on defending human rights and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. She advised an international human rights charity seeking to decriminalise homosexuality across the world and provided advice to a charity working to free those believed to have been wrongly convicted and preventing future wrongful convictions. She is a member of the Fraud Lawyers Association, Private Prosecutors' Association, Criminal Bar Association and the Female Fraud Forum. Prior to joining Howard Kennedy, Chloe-Jane was a senior associate at a global law firm based in London. She was called to the Bar in 2008. · White-Collar Crime

Colin Sawdy

Colin Sawdy is an intellectual property solicitor specialising in trade marks, copyright and designs. He is a partner and heads Howard Kennedy's Trade Marks practice. Colin's practice focuses on international trade mark and design clearance, prosecution and portfolio management. He manages the filing and defence of opposition, revocation and invalidity actions, as well as, negotiates settlements and coexistence agreements. Colin regularly enforces clients' rights by way of dispute resolution and coordinating litigation in the UK and abroad. He is experienced in anti-counterfeiting matters and advises on, as well as, drafts intellectual property commercial agreements. Colin assists clients with copyright and domain name matters, ranging from securing the protection of such rights through to their commercialisation and enforcement against infringing third parties. He routinely advises clients in both written and spoken Japanese on a wide range of intellectual property matters, and regularly gives presentations in Japanese at industry events. He speaks, reads and writes Japanese fluently, having majored in Japanese language and culture as an undergraduate at university. He lived in Japan for over four years. As a dual-qualified UK solicitor and US attorney at law, Colin provides strategic advice to clients seeking to protect intellectual property rights internationally. He is licensed to practise in the state of Illinois, having worked in the IP departments of international law firms in Chicago for a number of years. Colin advises clients across a wide range of industries including computer games, financial services, technology, entertainment, media, character merchandising, cosmetics, fashion, art, sport, consumer electronics, household products, online retail, leisure and pharmaceuticals. · Intellectual Property

Craig Emden

Craig Emden is the Chairman and General Counsel of Howard Kennedy. He is also a commercial litigator with over 40 years’ experience acting for clients across a number of industries and sectors. Craig served as the firm's Managing Partner from 2017 to 2025, having also served as joint Managing Partner from 2013 to 2017. As Chairman, Craig covers several elements, including the role of General Counsel, working with the risk, business development finance and recruitment teams on strategic initiatives and mentoring those with aspirations of partnership. In his capacity as General Counsel, Craig provides legal oversight and strategic risk management for the firm, drawing on his decades of experience in complex litigation and professional practice. Craig is a solicitor known for his clear, commercial advice on all aspects of commercial and real estate litigation, both domestic and international. His areas of expertise include sports-related litigation, corporate and partnership disputes (particularly shareholder disputes), professional negligence, insolvency, and general commercial litigation. His clients range from individual entrepreneurs and partnerships to major PLCs. On the sports side, Craig acts for football managers and other coaching staff, players, and agents. Craig’s aim is always to alleviate pressure from his clients, fully understand their goals, and achieve those outcomes as efficiently and painlessly as possible. · Litigation

Crispin Daly

Crispin is a contentious insolvency specialist with extensive experience of complex domestic and cross border restructuring situations, enforcements and formal insolvency processes with a particular focus on insolvency litigation, litigation funding and recovery. He provides advice to a broad range of clients in all aspects of contentious insolvency and restructuring, both in and out of court. Typical mandates include: • contingency planning for companies and directors in the zone of insolvency, contesting insolvency proceedings and defence of misconduct and antecedent transaction claims; • acting for insolvency office holders to plan and execute restructuring strategies across any relevant jurisdictions, including conducting or defending any related claims, recognition and relief applications and support for ongoing trading; • acting for creditors and creditor groups to maximise recoveries through strategic participation in an enforcement/restructuring process or contesting/ disrupting such process; • acting for third parties interested in acquiring assets or claims from distressed or insolvency situations. A significant part of Crispin's practice has included sourcing and obtaining funding / AE insurance for claims on behalf of insolvency office holders and acting for both dedicated and one-off litigation funders. Having represented such a varied client base (rather than focusing on e.g. creditors/ debtors) in respect of a such a wide range of insolvent or near insolvent situations he has valuable insight into the options available to any client as well as the likely courses of action of any opponent. · Restructuring & Insolvency

Daniel McClean

Daniel McClean specialises in art and cultural property law working with leading artists, estates, advisers, collectors, dealers, galleries, foundations, and museums. Daniel is actively involved in the art world as an independent curator and writer and has commercial gallery experience. Enthusiastic and approachable, he offers bespoke advice tailored to the needs of art world clients, including: artists, collectors, dealers, galleries and museums. He advises clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious issues from disputes involving the ownership, export and authenticity of artworks and antiques to the drafting of agency, consignment, commissioning, and sale agreements. His clients include Artangel (where he is a board member), Tate, La Colección Jumex (Mexico City), Gagosian Gallery, Pilar Corrias Gallery and the Keith Arnatt Estate. He also specialises in intellectual property law and regularly advises artists and photographers on intellectual property agreements and disputes. Daniel is the commissioning editor of ‘Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture’ (2002) and ‘The Trials of Art’ (2007). He co-wrote ‘Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists’, with Louisa Buck and published by Thames & Hudson (Autumn 2012). He writes a regular column for Art Review on art legal issues and teaches Art Law at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London). He is a regular writer for the international contemporary art magazines, Art Review and Frieze. Daniel is a member of the Art Law Committee of the International Bar Association. · Art & Cultural Property

Danielle Coglin

Danielle Coglin is an associate solicitor specialising in a wide range of planning and environmental matters. Danielle advises on s.106 agreements, planning applications and planning appeals, listed buildings and conservation areas, the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations and highway agreements. She also advises on planning and environmental aspects of property and corporate transactions. · Planning & Environment

David Hamilton

David Hamilton is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He is a white-collar and regulatory lawyer with significant experience advising on bribery, fraud, money laundering, and market manipulation matters. He has a particular specialism in financial services enforcement and compliance. David has nearly 15 years' experience representing individuals and corporates in the context of internal investigations and actions brought by domestic and international regulatory and law enforcement bodies including the FCA, SFO, HMRC, the police, the European Commission, and US Department of Justice. Notably, he has acted on the FCA's high-profile investigations into LIBOR and FX manipulation, representing individuals suspected of market misconduct and senior managers investigated for governance and oversight failings. David has advised in the context of regulatory enforcement actions involving insider dealing in debt and equity markets, anti-competitive behaviour in relation to IPOs and share placings, and consumer redress schemes following the mis-selling of financial products to over two million customers. He has also acted for individuals and companies investigated by HMRC for tax offences, in particular securing the discontinuance of a four-year multinational VAT fraud investigation into an ultra-high-net-worth individual. Alongside his investigations practice, David has significant experience advising clients on financial crime and regulatory compliance systems and controls. He has worked across a broad range of sectors, including financial services, real estate, energy, infrastructure and retail to implement appropriate risk-based preventive procedures. These include risk assessments, third party due diligence and screening, governance and oversight frameworks. David has particular expertise in the application of the Money Laundering Regulations, having advised a substantial number of clients on their compliance programmes, registration and ongoing engagement with supervisory authorities. David also supports clients with remediation exercises where breaches are identified, advising on regulatory reporting obligations and internal and external stakeholder management. David is a former officer of the International Bar Association's Anti-Corruption Committee. · White-Collar Crime

David Philips

David Philips specialises in the purchase of development sites. He advises clients on residential and mixed-use development schemes guiding them along the way to avoid falling foul of any pitfalls during each transaction. David is a solicitor in the firm's Real Estate department. He advises on all types of commercial property transactions, including the purchasing, structuring and financing of sites, lettings, and sales. His main area of expertise is the purchase of development sites, advising on the development process and then disposal of the finished product. Clients include public limited development companies and investment companies. He has acted for a wide variety of clients including Galliard Homes, Ballymore Properties and Heron PLC. One of his roles is to oversee large-scale sites going down to the plot sales team. He works hard to ensure that title documents, sales contracts and leases are thoroughly drafted and easy to follow, while always giving clients the space to achieve their ambitions. · Real Estate

Denise Condon

Denise Condon has acted for developers for the past 24 years. She is a partner and Head of the Residential Development Sales team. Denise specialises in acting on large residential developments for some of the UK's leading property developers in the sale of off-plan property. She advises on all aspects of the plot sale transaction and has extensive experience in both the UK market and overseas sales at exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. She deals with developments from the initial instruction stage through to completion and post-completion formalities. Her clients range from large-scale developers to investment companies. · Real Estate

Dominic Offord

Dominic Offord is a partner and heads Howard Kennedy's Disputes Resolution team and represents clients on high-profile and multi-jurisdictional insolvency/ fraud cases. Dominic advises local and foreign Insolvency Practitioners, as well as, creditors and directors in a wide range of insolvency claims ranging from misfeasance to antecedent transactions and enforcing security. He also works closely with Howard Kennedy's experts in criminal and regulatory investigations and, where cases are high profile, his reputational management colleagues. Dominic regularly speaks at domestic and international conferences on issues in insolvency and civil fraud. He has helped shape the law on cross-border insolvency by representing clients in the appellant courts. During his career Dominic has successfully assisted clients recover billions of dollars. Dominic is a member of R3 Association of Business Recovery professionals, the Fraud Lawyers Association and the Insolvency Lawyers Association. · Insolvency

Edward Cooper

Edward Cooper is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He advises on a wide variety of contentious real estate matters at all levels of the court hierarchy. His aim is to provide clear strategic advice, founded on good commercial sense. He heads our Real Estate Dispute Resolution team. Edward's clients have included large corporates and pension funds, together with wealthy individuals, whether based within the UK or internationally. He regularly advises on matters including: • Development advice, including neighbourly matters and rights to light • Business tenancy renewals • Lease enforcement, including rent arrears and forfeiture • Dilapidations claims • Rent review • Service charge disputes • Insolvency matters impacting real estate interests • Boundary disputes Edward's approach is to be clear and to the point, even when dealing with the most complex matters. He has recently acted on several major development matters, drawing in several fields of his expertise and requiring a sound strategic approach. Edward has strong relationships with professionals across the real estate sector, and has spoken at seminars and major events including the annual RICS UK Building Surveying Conference. Edward is recommended in Legal 500 and is also a member of the Property Litigation Association. · Real Estate

Edward Corbett

Edward Corbett is acknowledged as one of the world’s most experienced international construction lawyers with an unsurpassed reputation as a FIDIC expert. Edward has worked exclusively in construction law since 1984 and his experience includes contract drafting and procurement strategy as well as Dispute Boards, ICC arbitration, litigation and ADR. He has worked for contractors as well as for employers, funders and consultants. He regularly advises some of the world’s major employers and contractors and his current caseload involves projects in Europe, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. He has experience as an arbitrator and adjudicator on both UK and international disputes and is an accredited mediator. He was a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator (2021-2024). Edward is the author of FIDIC 4th – A Practical Legal Guide and a contributor to FIDIC 2017 – A Practical Legal Guide. He has written many articles and papers dealing with aspects of international construction contracts. He was a founder of Construction Law International (CLInt). He has lectured extensively on construction law and in particular on FIDIC’s standard forms of contract. He was a FIDIC Certified Trainer (2022-2024). Edward was named a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2019 and described as “a heavyweight in the international construction field and the top name in Europe according to our research this year”. Sources say he is “the star player in the UK market”, with “knowledge that is next to none”. Edward has been recommended in the Legal 500 since 2006. Edward runs and posts on the Cornerstone FIDIC Group on LinkedIn. · Construction

Elizabeth Morley

Elizabeth Morley is a dispute resolution solicitor with a broad practice spanning international, commercial, media and human rights matters. Liz advises clients across a wide range of commercial litigation and cross-border disputes, with a particular focus on the media sector. She regularly acts for clients on all aspects of media law, including high profile defamation and privacy actions. Her practice also covers reputation and brand-related issues, including contentious intellectual property matters, as well as, data protection and regulatory matters. Liz often takes on complex matters for clients, which include freedom of expression and human rights issues. She has worked on cases before various domestic and international courts and tribunals, including the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. She also acts for clients in cases on appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. · Dispute Resolution

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence, with particular experience in the field of employers' liability injuries. Elizabeth is a solicitor advising on all types of work-related injury, however, she has particular expertise in work-related upper limb disorders, manual handling claims and stress at work cases. She acts for trade union members and professional associations, with extensive expertise supporting employees of the NHS, radiographers, nurses, health visitors, and actors, dancers and stunt performers in films. Recently her list of clients has diversified and includes an A-List film actor, a high-rated personal assistant to a multi-millionaire, an undercover reporter, a commodities broker, a veterinary specialist, and a paediatrician all of whom have suffered work-related stress injury. These are demanding, high profile cases. Elizabeth undertakes much of her own advocacy work in the Lower Courts and works closely with a team of experienced barristers who understand the nature of her work when representing clients through the litigation process. Any injury in the workplace causes emotional stress, as well as, physical disability. Elizabeth supports her clients by recognising this and always making herself available. She looks to avoid full-blown litigation by finding creative ways to resolve a situation and reaching settlement. · Personal Injury

Ellis Gardner-Browne

Ellis is a partner in the Real Estate team with extensive expertise across the investment, retail, leisure, and petroleum sectors. He is developing a specialism in Off-Shore investment fund investment in UK renewables assets. Ellis specializes in investment and occupier acquisitions and disposals. He is experienced in handling multi-jurisdictional transactions and large projects (to £950M) related to Motorway Service and petrol forecourt portfolios, large sheds, logistic facilities and retail parks for UK and offshore private funds, institutional investors, and industry-leading clients. He also specializes in Head Office acquisitions and disposals. · Real Estate

Eloise Crompton

Eloise Crompton is a solicitor specialising in commercial dispute resolution and investigations. Eloise provides expert practical advice on all aspects of procedure and case management, including procedural rules, interlocutory matters, interim relief and the conduct of hearings. Her practice includes cross-border work and in particular, international arbitration. Eloise qualified as a solicitor in Australia, practising in commercial and public law in both the public and private sectors. She worked as Associate to the Honourable Justice Hinton of the Supreme Court of South Australia and as Counsel-Assisting the Solicitor-General of South Australia. · Commercial Dispute Resolution

Emily Mailer

Emily Mailer is a trust and estates disputes specialist, resolving both domestic and international cases. Emily acts for individuals, families, executors, trustees, beneficiaries, trust companies, protectors and family offices. She has a wealth of experience dealing with disputes which often have an international element. This includes conducting cases concerning the validity of wills, breach of trust claims, construction proceedings and rectification applications, and applications to remove executors and trustees. Emily also handles Court of Protection applications (both contested and uncontested) for the appointment of deputies and the approval of statutory wills or lifetime gifts. Along with the Trusts and Estates Disputes practice, Emily provides robust representation of clients in court but equally helps clients reach a settlement away from the risk and publicity of litigation where possible. She is experienced in various forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, such as mediation. Emily's experience means that she also advises settlors who are establishing trusts on risk management issues, such as the treatment of a trust's assets on the divorce or bankruptcy of a beneficiary. Emily is also often approached to act as an independent administrator of estates following the resolution of a dispute and in cases where existing personal representatives need to be replaced with an independent professional. She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, and also contributes to national publications on issues surrounding disputes relating to inheritance. Emily is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and also a member of STEP, the global professional body that help families plan for their future. · Trusts & Estates

Emily Vandenberg

Emily Vandenberg is a solicitor in residential and commercial real estate disputes. She specialises in landlord and tenant disputes, complex residential possession matters and breaches of covenant. Emily acts for both individuals and corporations in all types of property and real estate disputes across many sectors. For commercial landlords and tenants, Emily acts on opposed and unopposed business lease renewals, break notices, dilapidations, forfeiture and breaches of covenant. For residential landlords and tenants, Emily advises on possession matters, including trespass, licences, alms houses, guardianships and tenancy agreements, service charge disputes, breaches of covenant and rent arrears claims. Emily also advises on claims of unauthorised alterations and disrepair, as well as adverse possession. Emily also supports guardian companies, advising on contractual arrangements with the building owner, claims by and against guardians, and in possession claims. Emily prides herself on giving no nonsense, pragmatic and commercial advice to her clients, helping them to secure the best possible result. Emily is a member of the Property Litigation Association and Women in Property. · Real Estate

Emma Green

Emma Green is a family law solicitor with particular expertise in providing solution focused thinking in invariably critical times for her clients. She specialises in private law children cases and matrimonial matters. Emma specialises in all aspects of family law including divorce and related financial remedy proceedings, civil partnership, pre-nuptial and other marital agreements, co-habitation disputes. and Children Act Proceedings. She is a Legal Director in the Family team. Emma sits on Resolution’s Skills and Support Committee which exists to design training that develops members’ personal and professional skills. · Family

Eve Gallagher

Eve Gallagher is an experienced solicitor who provides advice on a wide variety of international and domestic corporate transactions. Eve has a range of corporate experience providing strategic legal advice to private and public corporations on all aspects of commercial and corporate law with multi-disciplinary teams. She advises clients on high value, complex M&A acquisitions and disposals, investments, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, general corporate advisory matters and post acquisition integrations. Eve has worked as a legal secondee in Ireland and also in private practice in each of Ireland, Australia and the UK across a variety of industries including renewable energy, technology, retail and construction. Eve works with a solutions-focused attitude to provide commercially astute and pragmatic advice to her clients in a manner that helps and supports them achieve to their goals, their way. · Corporate / M&A

Fran Garvey

Fran Garvey is a senior associate specialising in criminal law. She has experience representing both individuals and corporates across multiple jurisdictions on matters involving bribery and corruption, fraud, market abuse, cartels, sanctions, and general crime issues. Fran advises clients on a range of criminal, regulatory and internal investigations. She has experience dealing with the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, US Department of Justice, Financial Reporting Council, Crown Prosecution Service, and the police, as well as various other regulatory bodies in the UK and overseas. She represents high-net-worth individuals in general crime matters including allegations of sexual and physical assault. She has specialist experience advising clients on international sanctions, particularly in relation to enforcement action, specific transactions, and regulatory compliance including reporting obligations. Fran is a member of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association and the Female Fraud Forum. · Criminal Law

Gabriel Mulero Clas

Gabriel is an international construction lawyer with over 11 years' experience in large multi-million-pound disputes and arbitrations worldwide as an advisor, representative and advocate. He is bilingual in Spanish and English. Gabriel is experienced in complex multi-million-dollar claims, dispute adjudication board and ICC, SIAC & other arbitration proceedings as an advisor, representative and advocate. He has acted for governments and ministries, contractors, consultants, development banks and aid agencies. His work has involved international construction projects including airports, seaports, hydroelectric dams, dredging, underground/underwater tunnels, motorways, railways and hotels worldwide (Europe, South Asia, Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and the UAE) in FIDIC and other forms of contract. His experience includes assisting on matters concerning the widely reported case of Obrascon Huarte Lain SA v Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Gibraltar in both the Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Gabriel holds a Master of Laws (Merit) from University College London, a Juris Doctor (Cum Laude) from the University of Puerto Rico and two Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations (Cum Laude) from Boston University. He is an attorney at law from the US jurisdiction of Puerto Rico with working experience in English, Spanish and French. Before moving to London for his Master of Laws in 2010, Gabriel developed his own legal practice in Puerto Rico where he advised clients on contracts, labour issues and family disputes including an agency of the Government of Puerto Rico. His prior experience also includes multi-million-pound banking and financing projects as paralegal in Linklaters from where he was seconded to ABN AMRO Bank London to advise on contractual matters · Construction

Gillian White

Gillian White is a partner and head of the M&A team. She is an experienced corporate solicitor who is committed to her clients and their commercial success. She is Head of the M&A team and takes the lead on corporate governance services at Howard Kennedy. Gillian's clients appreciate her commercial acumen, pragmatism and common sense. Gillian acts for entrepreneurial clients, larger companies and institutions looking to acquire or invest in entrepreneurial businesses. Many of her clients are based in the US and Scandinavia. Gillian works with businesses with valuable intellectual property and those in the creative, retail and leisure industries working closely with Howard Kennedy's IP and Commercial team to offer innovative solutions and opportunities to clients. She additionally collaborates with Howard Kennedy's Private Wealth team on helping clients with succession planning, governance structures and family investment companies and dealing with valuable corporate assets that form part of marital assets or an estate. Her transactional experience means that she is adept at managing complex projects and drawing advice from multiple professional advisers and clients' commercial teams. Her corporate governance experience means that she is adept at uncovering and understanding competing stakeholder needs and providing commercial and sensitive guidance. · Corporate / M&A

Graham Kaye

Graham advises property developers and investors. He handles all aspects of commercial property transactions with particular expertise in residential development and the build to rent sector including student accommodation and co-living. He is a partner in our commercial development team and his clients include private property companies, property funds, offshore private trusts, retailers and residential developers. Graham advises on site acquisition and disposal and his practical hands on approach has resulted in him effectively becoming an in-house legal advisor to clients he has represented for over 30 years. Graham’s first instinct is to look for ways to achieve his clients’ objectives, rather than to look for problems which could scupper them – he finds reasons to do the deals for his clients, not issues which might prevent them from completing. · Real Estate

Hannah Hooper

Hannah Hooper is a commercial litigator, who focuses her practice on financial services litigation, civil fraud and insolvency disputes. She is an effective solicitor who applies creative solutions to complex problems. Hannah provides pragmatic advice in a straightforward manner, with an emphasis on achieving her clients' commercial objectives as efficiently as possible. Hannah's cases often involve multi-jurisdictional elements. She has a particular interest in matters involving allegations of money laundering and regulatory compliance issues. She also regularly advises clients in the art and cultural property arenas. · Commercial Litigation

Hannah Place

Hannah Place is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She is a commercially focussed and practical finance lawyer with experience in real estate finance, creditor enforcement, restructuring and insolvency. Hannah's practice concentrates on advising lenders and borrowers on a variety of real estate finance and banking transactions. She acts for banks, institutional lenders, alternative lenders and bridging lenders, as well as borrowers, on syndicated and bilateral facilities (both domestic and cross-border), including development finance transactions. Hannah also advises clients on security enforcement strategy, restructuring options and delivers restructuring and insolvency solutions. She initially qualified as a restructuring and insolvency solicitor before broadening her skill set to include banking and real estate finance transactional work. Hannah's broad range of experience and commercial approach has been deepened through various industry roles, including in-house positions at a private bank, an alternative lender and an institutional lender. · Banking & Finance

Heidi Walsh

Heidi is an international arbitration partner who has worked in multi-jurisdictional disputes with clients from all over the world. Heidi has represented clients in investor state disputes under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and ad-hoc (UNCITRAL) and commercial dispute under rule of the London Court of Arbitration (LCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), and ad hoc arbitrations. She has a diverse experience spanning the oil and gas sector, shareholder complexities, telecommunications, and commercial disputes. Heidi has been recognised as Future Leader in the 2024 edition of Who's Who Legal: Arbitration and named as a Rising Star in Legal 500 2024. · International Arbitration

Hollie Wright

Hollie Jordan-Wright is a real estate dispute resolution solicitor specialising in neighbourly rights, residential and commercial landlord and tenant, and real property matters. Hollie acts for clients - typically in the real estate, retail, leisure sectors or private individuals - on commercial and residential property matters. For landlords and tenants of commercial premises, she acts on business lease renewals (both opposed and unopposed), breaches of covenant, break notices, service charges, dilapidations, and forfeiture. On residential property matters, she acts for landlords and tenants on breaches of lease covenants such as repair obligations and unauthorised alterations or subletting, rent arrears and service charge issues including major works consultations. Meanwhile, she acts for landlords of residential premises in the private rented sector, obtaining possession by serving notices of possession, issuing court possession claims and instructing County Court bailiffs and High Court Enforcement Officers. Hollie regularly acts for clients making applications to the Land Registry for registration of easements and adverse possession claims, as well as applications for light obstruction notices and referrals for determination by the First Tier and Upper Tribunal. In addition, Hollie acts for guardian companies, advising on contractual arrangements, claims by and against guardians and in possession claims. · Real Estate

Huseyin Huseyin

Huseyin Huseyin is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience representing national housebuilders, developers and land promoters on high-value mixed-use schemes across the UK. Huseyin advises on the acquisition, financing and disposal of residential and mixed-use developments, with development values regularly exceeding £100m. He specialises in advising groups of developers collaborating on long-term strategic land acquisitions. This involves complex options, pre-emptions, and planning promotion agreements, including disposal strategy. Huseyin offers expert ongoing advice through each development stage. His developer clients value his ability to structure deals and solve complex site-specific problems in a straightforward way. · Real Estate

Ian Ryan

Ian Ryan is a Partner and Head of the Business Crime and Regulatory team. He is a white-collar crime lawyer specialising in serious fraud and acting in serious and high-profile matters both domestically and internationally. Ian heads the firm's well regarded Business Crime team. Ian has over 25 years' experience dealing with a full range of business crime and serious fraud investigations. This includes investigations by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Competition Markets Authority (CMA), the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). He advises on investigations from the early stages through to and including contested jury trials. His primary focus is acting for clients in SFO investigations. He is representing senior individuals in SFO investigations into Euribor, Patisserie Valerie, Amec Foster Wheeler, and ENRC (Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation). Ian successfully represented Achim Kraemer, the only defendant acquitted in the first Euribor trial in June 2018. He has previously acted on the SFO investigations into Rolls Royce, GSK, Tesco, Harlequin and represented Vincent Tchenguiz on his arrest by the SFO and subsequent search of his business premises. Ian also acts for corporates on production orders, dawn raids, confiscation proceedings, warrants and the extent of legal professional privilege. He has represented both multi-nationals and individuals in numerous internal investigations. Ian has specialist experience in solicitors' disciplinary work and SRA investigations and is skilled at representing General Counsel caught up in SFO investigations. Ian has a niche specialism in money laundering and was previously a member of the Law Society's Money Laundering Taskforce. He is a member of the Law Society's AML directory providing advice to solicitors. Ian continues to represent high-net-worth individuals (celebrities, politicians and sports people) in general criminal matters. · Business Crime

Iona Nicolson

Iona Nicolson is an associate solicitor in the Family team, advising ultra-high-net-worth, high-net-worth and high-profile clients such as city professionals and business owners, on private children and matrimonial financial matters, particularly those arising from relationship breakdowns. Iona has significant expertise in complex financial remedy cases, including those involving dynastic or complex business structures, foreign assets and companies, complicated tax issues and digital assets such as cryptocurrency. She also specialises in domestic children matters, with experience in cases involving serious allegations of abuse, concurrent criminal proceedings, sensitive issues concerning adopted children, parental alienation, and both domestic and international child relocation and abduction under the Hague Convention. Iona regularly handles cases involving jurisdictional disputes, providing expert advice on pre- and post-nuptial agreements and supporting a substantial number of clients through the voluntary financial remedy or non-court dispute resolution processes. She works closely with foreign lawyers in countries such as the Netherlands, Turkey, Colombia and Switzerland, among others. A strong advocate for non-court dispute resolution, Iona supports her clients through mediation or arbitration, where appropriate. She is committed to developing viable alternatives to litigation and is part of a group piloting a scheme to give children a voice in solicitor-led negotiations. As part of this initiative, she is helping to organise a 'Voice of the Child' conference this year. Where court intervention is necessary, Iona offers her clients personal and steadfast support during challenging proceedings. She excels in managing large volumes of evidence, drafting clear and concise witness statements, and presenting complex matters with clarity, all while ensuring her clients feel supported and well-informed throughout the process. Iona joined Howard Kennedy in August 2023, having qualified in 2022. She is a member of Resolution, an organisation of family lawyers committed to resolving family matters constructively, which is reflected in her approach to her practice. Iona is also a regular contributor to industry and other publications, including eprivateclient, the Law Society Gazette and Tatler Experts' Corner. · Family

Jade Chalmers

Jade Chalmers is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She is a solicitor specialising in all planning matters for a wide range of residential and commercial property developers, leading house builders, property companies, investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals. Jade Chalmers heads up the Planning and Construction Team and is co-head of the Living Sector, focusing on bespoke advice for clients within student accommodation, build to rent, co-living and later living. She specialises in all planning matters for a wide range of residential and commercial property developers, leading house builders, property companies, investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals. Jade advises on complex s.106 agreements, planning applications, the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations, highway agreements, planning appeals, listed buildings and conservation areas. She also advises on the planning and environmental aspects of major property and corporate transactions. · Real Estate

James Stewart

James Stewart is the Managing Partner of Howard Kennedy. James is responsible for driving the overall strategic direction and performance of the firm. Prior to taking on this role, James was Head of Real Estate, a full-service department of eight teams and 160 people, where he advised clients on a broad mix of contentious and non-contentious construction and development work. He has been a member of Howard Kennedy's board since 2023. James is a construction lawyer with particular expertise in development and development finance, advising on residential, commercial and mixed-use schemes. His work spans the full lifecycle of a project, from initial structuring and funding through to completion and post-completion disputes. He advises on professional appointments, bonds, warranties, and construction contracts, as well as the construction elements of development agreements. He acts for a range of clients including developers, funders, consultants, and specialist sub-contractors. His advice covers the entire project journey, with a focus on risk mitigation and commercial outcomes, including dispute avoidance, adjudications and the resolution of final account and defect issues. He continues to work closely with clients to navigate the increasingly complex legal and commercial challenges of the built environment. · Real Estate

James Wingfield

James Wingfield specialises in resolving commercial disputes, often international, whether through litigation or international arbitration. James acts extensively in cross-border contract claims, including those in the energy, international trade, financial services and art and cultural property sectors. He advises on shareholder disputes and on claims against directors for breach of duty. His fraud and asset tracing practice includes significant disputes over allegedly fraudulent conduct and advising on freezing orders and other interim relief. James' art and cultural property practice includes acting for art dealers and artists. He recently successfully defended a London art dealer against high-profile allegations of negligence in the sale of a Chardin and Studio painting. He acts on claims concerning title to artworks and those arising from forgeries. He has expertise in financial services disputes, having acted in leading cases against banks and for FCA regulated payment providers. James is a higher courts advocate. He has extensive experience of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. · Litigation

Jane Amphlett

Jane Amphlett is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She provides strategic and pragmatic advice in all areas of employment law and partnership disputes. She is Head of Howard Kennedy's Employment and Immigration team. Working closely with business leaders, including HR directors and senior executives, she provides commercial legal input into business critical issues. These include strategic, boardroom and partner appointments and terminations. She advises on discrimination prevention and litigation, as well as, investigations including into harassment allegations and complex grievance complaints. Jane regularly advises on team moves and other restrictive covenant and garden leave enforcement, confidentiality breaches and data protection issues. She helps businesses to facilitate local and international redundancies and restructuring. She advises many clients in the financial services and other regulated sectors and professional practices. Jane is a member of the Employment Lawyers' Association Standing Committee on Sexual Harassment. · Employment

Jason Tann

Jason Tann is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He has over 20 years of experience as a solicitor in the London real estate market. He helps investors, developers, funders and occupiers with strategic decision making as well as dealing with all aspects of real estate. Jason provides advice to public and private companies, landed estates, funds, charities, families and individuals on how to navigate the property world. He has a deep understanding of the London real estate market but also supports clients with assets and projects throughout the country. Advising on assets in all commercial sectors and mixed-use investments and developments, Jason covers the full range of real estate investment, development, funding and asset management matters. His experience as seconded in-house counsel to a listed property company has given him a vital insight as to the value that lawyers can, but don't always, bring to clients. Jason also helps corporate clients with their occupational requirements and covers a broad range of ancillary property issues, such as management agreements and corporate real estate matters. · Real Estate

Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown is a construction and engineering dispute resolution expert, with a specialty in liability insurance and in resolving coverage issues for policyholders with their insurers. Jeffrey is a solicitor practising exclusively in the field of construction and engineering law and liability insurance. Where possible, he provides clients with timely advice allowing the avoidance of disputes, as well as, their subsequent resolution, if this does not prove possible. Adjudication is now the often preferred means of resolving a construction dispute, at least in the first instance. He acts for suppliers, in addition to purchasers within the construction sector, allowing him to deliver a more holistic and comprehensive analysis of any given dispute. Jeffrey also drafts bespoke contracts and produces amendments to standard forms of building and engineering contracts. His knowledge and experience provides clients with confidence and reassurance. He resolves insurance disputes where the insurers deny they have a liability to indemnify for claims made, mostly within the construction sector. Instructions are provided by the policyholders, usually at the recommendation of their insurance brokers. Jeffrey is an expert in the New Engineering Contract (NEC) suite of contracts – usually the preferred choice in large infrastructure projects, especially where they are publicly funded. He additionally specialises in JCT standard forms. The energy sector is an increasing source of new work. He is a regular contributor to Building Magazine. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurance Practitioner. · Construction / Engineering