Mills & Reeve LLP

Alasdair Poore

Head of technology team: intellectual property and technology law including patent, trade mark, designs filing and prosecution; advice and negotiations on licensing and exploitation, including defence of a patent infringement claim seeking to prevent supplies to major games in 2012, multinational patent litigation relating to advertising systems in the media industry and a commercial dispute concerning royalty distributions in respect of monoclonal antibodies. Specialist expertise in computers, electronics and communications technology. Also public sector technology issues, including leading role in public procurement of IT systems and high technology products, eg for leading UK universities, a major industry regulatory body, and acting for the NHS in the acquisition of drugs for use in emergency supply breakdown, for the purchase of pandemic fly vaccines, and in IT projects in place of systems procured through Connecting for Health, including TETRA/O2 radio systems for ambulances, Oracle software and services from CAP-Gemini, Fujitsu, IBM and others. · Intellectual Property

Alex Kenworthy

Alex is a corporate solicitor specialising in advising a range of clients including public and private companies, large international groups, private equity houses and high net worth individuals. His work involves acquisitions and disposals, investments in companies and businesses, corporate governance, reorganisations and management buy outs and he has years of experience of working across a number of industry sectors including media and technology, food and beverages and healthcare. He also has several years of experience working in the area of private and public sector pensions. · Corporate / M&A

Alexandra Pike

Alexandra is a specialist in construction and engineering law, acting for a wide range of public and private sector parties. She advises throughout the life-cycle of projects including the initial drafting and negotiation of contracts, assisting during the works with the contractual management of design issues and time/cost overruns, and advising on the management and resolution of disputes. Alexandra’s recent work includes the settlement for a Local Authority of a £30m engineering claim under an amended NEC Engineering and Construction Contract Option C; drafting and negotiating a complex set of documents on a £110m hospital development; advising a design and build contractor and its insurers defending proceedings in the Technology and Construction Court on a defects claim to a 70,000sqm steel reinforced concrete floor slab; defending a Local Authority in an adjudication on a contractor’s loss and expense claim; Advising a Charities client regarding the construction aspects of its corporate relocation to a £50m new-build high tech office and preparing and negotiating the construction contracts for the fit out on the basis of the JCT Design and Build Contract 2011, including schedule of amendments, deeds of novation, security documents and collateral warranties; advising a University client on potential deductions against a Project Company under its PFI arrangements. · Construction & Engineering

Alice Wilson

Alice Wilson is the Lead Partner for Weightmans’ UK Property Damage team and has specialised in all aspects of property and business interruption insurance for 15 years. Alice acts for major insurers and their policyholders in relation to major and complex coverage disputes, subrogated recoveries, and in the defence of claims made against policyholders. Her experience covers a broad spectrum of property claims, including substantial fires, explosions, flooding, theft, building collapse and subsidence. Not only is Alice an established expert in this field, she brings with her a unique insight into the challenges faced by her insurer clients, having undertaken several secondments within insurer property claims teams. She prides herself on her forensic approach to claims and ability to cut through complex issues to provide clients with a commercial route to a favourable solution, avoiding litigation whenever possible. Clients praise the high quality of her advice and her ‘can-do’, down to earth and approachable manner. Alice joined Weightmans as a Partner in April 2022. She is the current Chair of the Property Committee of Insurance Law Global. · Insurance Litigation

Alison Bull

Area of practice includes family mediation; collaborative law; civil/commercial mediation; family court work. Alison is also a children and financial arbitrator. Types of work include complex financial settlements on divorce, wealth protection (including pre-and post-marital agreements), all issues mediation, advice in relation to disputes about children. Important cases include numerous confidential high-value divorce and pre-marital agreement cases involving individuals based in England & Wales and overseas. Increasing number of mediation cases, involving a wide range of clients, including some high profile individuals. Particular focus on resolving disputes in a conciliatory way in the best interests of the families and children involved. Reported cases include McMinn v McMinn [2003] 2 FLR 823 and [2003] 2 FLR 839, D v D (Divorce: media presence) [2009] EWHC 946. Heads the Mills & Reeve family dispute resolution practice. · Family

Alison Garrett

Specialises in the field of complex multi-million pound construction and engineering disputes. Advises a wide variety of clients involved in the construction and engineering industry including employers, contractors, consultants and insurers. Acts in mediations, adjudications, litigation (mainly in the Technology and Construction Court) and arbitrations. · Construction

Amanda Tagg

Amanda specialises in all aspects of agricultural property law, with an emphasis on work for institutional and corporate clients that hold agricultural land as an investment, and on rural property development. She has very wide experience of most aspects of agricultural and property law, including the acquisition, management and disposal of freehold and leasehold agricultural estates; agricultural tenancies; single-farm payment; agri-environmental schemes; and diversification of agricultural land (for example, through commercial activities such as business and research parks, residential development schemes and energy projects). Her recent work includes advising: a private investment company on the acquisition of a 1,200 acre estate in Norfolk for £11m and in relation to the acceptance of a surrender by one of its agricultural tenants of a tenancy of a substantial estate in Essex and advising on the ongoing management of both estates; a charity on the grant of a strategic land option over 300 acres of farmland to a national housebuilder (with a minimum land value of £30m), the restructuring of occupational leasehold interests and management arrangements at its research park and the potential redevelopment of parts of the park; a private client in relation to the grant of an option to a supermarket chain to construct an eco-friendly supermarket and associated food academy on allotment and agricultural land in Norfolk; and a leading international university in relation to the restructuring of agricultural tenancies on its agricultural estate in Shropshire. · Agriculture

Amy Starnes

Senior Associate, an experienced children lawyer, specialising in all areas of children law, adoption, child arrangements, domestic abuse, relocation, child abduction and surrogacy. · Family / Children

Andrea Newman

Commercial real estate lawyer, with a focus on development projects for all sectors. Andrea’s clients include institutional investors, non-departmental public bodies, charities, corporates and property developers. · Real Estate

Andrew Hipper

Insurance disputes lawyer dealing with professional indemnity claims against a variety of professions (but principally lawyers and financial professionals). Andrew advises Insurers and insured clients in relation to claims and Insurers in relation to coverage issues. Andrew also has experience of dealing with disciplinary proceedings, acting on behalf of professionals. · Insurance

Andrew Moore

Family law specialist, mediator and collaborative lawyer specialising in financial remedy and private children proceedings upon relationship breakdown. Andrew regularly advises on wealth protection opportunities and issues, working closely with Mills & Reeve’s corporate, commercial and private client teams to deliver joined up advice for regional, national and international business owners, and other high net worth individuals. · Family / Matrimonial

Andrew Ray

Andrew practices exclusively on projects work including PPPs and outsourcings. He acts for a range of public sector organisations, bidders and funders across several sector areas, including detention, health, higher education, waste, office accommodation and transport. Among Andrew’s current clients are the Ministry of Defence, a number of National Health Trusts, a leading international detentions company based in the US, universities and local authorities. Recent work includes acting for a leading South London Mental Health Trust with its two site rebuild, funded via a sale of trust land, and through an innovative development arrangement; numerous large scale defence projects, including a pathfinder project to transform the approach to procurement of battleground communications equipment (involving multiple single source and competitive procurements); advising a South Coast Council on its PPP for Leisure facilities; advising a major international Leisure Operator on the provision of a green energy centre to provide heat for its key attractions; and advising the government of the Republic of South Africa on the roll out of its prisons PPP programme and subsequent refinancing initiative. Andrew is a regular provider of training to clients on legal issues so they can adopt “self- help” to solve problems before requiring more specialist legal input. · Projects

Andrew Secker

Partner · Employment

Andrew Tobin

Partner – Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes · Insurance

Andrew Wood

Partner. · Projects

Angus Turner

Angus has been a partner since 2000, having qualified with Mills & Reeve in 1995. He is recognised by the legal directories, and clients, as a leader in his field and specialises in acting on professional indemnity claims against law firms, as well as advising insurers on policy response. Angus is regularly instructed on complex and high value claims, arising from all areas of the profession including property investment schemes, corporate transactions, matrimonial settlements and ‘lost’ litigation. Angus heads up the firm’s Legal Malpractice sector, and is also an accredited mediator. · Legal Malpractice

Ania Tarasiewicz

Senior Associate advising on all aspects of relationship breakdown including divorce/separation, division of finances, arrangements for children as well as nuptial and cohab agreements. Experience in complex cases with businesses particularly in the agri-business and property sector, complex income structures as well as cases with an international element. · Family & Children

Anna Moore

Professional Support Lawyer · Private Client

Ben Hardiman

Ben has specialised in handling insurance disputes with a professional indemnity and construction focus for nearly 20 years. He is regularly instructed to act on behalf design & build contractors, architects, engineers and other specialist contractors and consultants and their insurers in connection with disputes of significant complexity and value. He also regularly defends insurance brokers and provides risk management advice to them, including in conjunction with the Chartered Insurance Institute, the British Insurance Brokers Association and broker networks. · Insurance

Beverley Firth

Beverley’s recent work includes advising Urban&Civic, the owners and developers of Alconbury Weald, in connection with the planning application for its development. In 2011, Alconbury Weald was selected to become one of the government’s coveted Enterprise Zones and the project as a whole plans to create 8,000 jobs and 5,000 new homes over the next 25 years. Initially Beverley advised on planning strategy and provided a legal review of key application materials, including an extensive environmental statement, and on community infrastructure levy issues. Subsequently, Beverley has advised this client throughout the planning application processes and on the section 106 agreement and planning conditions. The section 106 has been negotiated using bespoke and novel drafting in order to maintain flexibility throughout the development and to aid marketing and disposals. Beverley has acted for BT and Aviva Investors in connection with their planning application to develop the Rugby Radio Station site – a planned expansion of Rugby. She has acted for the developers of CB1 in Cambridge. This is a mixed use scheme which is regenerating the railway station area of Cambridge. In relation to the same site, Beverley has advised a developer client on a number of joined appeals relating to the refusal of reserved matters and consent for demolition of existing properties contrary to officer advice (with a successful costs application). Beverley has acted for O&H, the developers of Hampton, the southern expansion of Peterborough. This has involved dealing with numerous variations to the original outline planning consents, to update these following viability reviews and changes in requirements, and handling a full range of planning enquiries, additional and supplemental planning consents and addressing issues arising from a phased disposal programme. Beverley has acted for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in the section 106 agreement to release the planning permission for the redevelopment of Deepcut Barracks in Surrey. Beverley continues to work for Addenbrookes NHS Trust on planning matters relating to its ‘2020 vision’, which involves a major expansion into the Cambridge Green Belt Advising and NHS Trust on the redevelopment of two previous hospital sites to provide over 300 dwellings, land for retail and community uses and public open space. · Real Estate

Brett Frankle

Family

Brian Marshall

Brian has wide experience in acting for corporate clients on acquisitions and disposals, fundings, restructurings and advising on shareholder disputes. He also advises on commercial agreements and competition law in the public and private sectors. · Corporate / M&A

Caitlin Jenkins

Partner in family and children team, mediator, collaborative lawyer, financial arbitrator. Family lawyer for 25+ years, supporting people and their families in the UK and beyond to resolve the full range of issues arising out of divorce and separation. Also the familylawvlogger, the first family law vlog in UK. · Family

Carina Davis

Carina is a real estate partner and specialises in structuring and delivering large scale, mixed use, residential led communities/strategic sites, real estate led joint venture agreements and large scale cross-office projects (including managing large scale portfolios for clients of circa 500 properties). Her development expertise involves advising upon all aspects of development work including: site assembly, development agreements, land sales/purchases, promotion agreements, collaboration/consortium and land owner agreements, overage agreements, leases and discussions and negotiations with third parties (utility providers and local authorities) in relation to infrastructure and statutory agreements. The other side of Carina’s practice involves her helping clients structure, fund and then project manage volume acquisitions and disposals. Such projects span multiple disciples, may involve different jurisdictions, requires a close working relationship with the client’s board, tax, planning and environmental consultants, and are often time critical. Carina also leads our Patient Capital arm of our Real Estate Investment Sector which means she works alongside many stakeholders on emerging themes in this sphere, commenting on potential new structures both within the Strategic Land remit and on matters such as the Stewardship Model. · Real Estate

Caroline Dean

Caroline has extensive experience of acting for corporate occupiers, developers and landowners and advises on a full range of complex commercial property matters. Caroline has a particular expertise in acting for charities and has been advising the consortia of institutions at the Norwich Research Park on the development of their world leading science park. She also regularly acts for large corporate clients including Norwich City Football Club, Anglian Windows, Wood Group and Archant , dealing with their real estate portfolios and has extensive experience in the retail sector. She also acts for numerous landowner clients bringing forward land for development, both for residential and commercial new builds, including dealing with promotion agreements, joint ventures and collaborations as well as the more traditional options and conditional sale agreements. Caroline also continues to act for landowners in the minerals and waste sector. · Real Estate

Caroline Hanratty

Caroline is based in the Manchester office of Mills & Reeve. She has considerable experience in all areas of commercial property work ranging from industrial, retail, residential and leisure developments to landlord and tenant work, pension fund acquisitions and property finance. She specialises in development work (including option agreements, conditional contracts, development agreements, planning promotion agreements and joint ventures) with particular expertise in hotel and residential development. Her clients include Marick Capital, Topland Group, Persimmon Homes, Urban&Civic, Bridge Properties and Bluemantle Limited. Caroline’s current projects include hotel developments in London and Manchester and two large mixed-use developments in Lancashire. · Real Estate

Catherine Scott

Partner leading Norwich Agribusiness team. · Real Estate

Charles Staveley

Real Estate Partner specialising in real estate investment and development work Charles leads the firm's real estate investment sector, drawing together expertise in mainstream investment work and alternative asset classes. Charles’s clients include institutional pension funds, management houses, property companies, onshore and offshore investors (in the USA, Asia and Europe). He is a member of the IPF, the Cambridge Land Economy Advisory Board, the IBA Real Estate Committee, the Mills & Reeve Board, is a Charity Trustee of Cambridge RUFC and a Kids cricket coach at St Giles CC. · Real Estate

Charlotte De Silva

Principal Associate · Litigation

Chris Belcher

Partner, National Head of Private Client · Private Client

Chris Ross

Chris advises a variety of businesses on corporate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations. Whether advising large corporates or working with owner managers on transactions, Chris has been a part of the North West deals market for over 15 years. Recent deals in 2016/17 include the acquisition of a majority stake in online retailer Blinds 2 Go for multinational Hunter Douglas NV and an intensive buy and build strategy for the Global Entertainment and Media Group, completing the acquisition over 18 months of 14 separate major music festivals, making Global the second largest festival operator in the UK. · Corporate / M&A

Chris Wilkinson

Chris has considerable experience in advising companies, investors and management teams on corporate finance matters including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has a particular expertise in the pharmaceutical wholesale and retail sector for Pan-European and regional companies. · Corporate / M&A

Christian Bull

The Birmingham office’s lead real estate-education lawyer helping with the property needs of a range of education clients from the higher, further, academies, studio schools and university technical colleges sectors. Also the Birmingham real estate lead on helping commercial property organisations and businesses with the legal aspects of their estate. Specialises in all areas of real estate law in England and Wales for education institutions and companies. Christian is Mills & Reeve’s North America desk. · Real Estate

Christine De Ferrars

Partner, specialising in real estate development projects. Particular expertise in large scale residential projects and estate management/long-term stewardship schemes. · Real Estate

Claire Clarke

Claire has extensive experience in advising listed and private companies, funders and private individuals in a wide range of company corporate finance and commercial matters from start-up and spin-out through funding rounds and acquisitions to flotation or trade sale. Claire has also advised on and established various types of fund structures using limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships as well as company vehicles. In addition to her mainstream corporate practice Claire has extensive experience of advising higher education institutions and other public sector bodies on various corporate matters including spin-outs, mergers and collaborations. · Corporate / M&A

Claire Roake

Claire has been a professional indemnity lawyer since qualifying in 2003. She has extensive experience of the London insurance market and of resolving claims against a variety of professionals. In more recent years Claire’s work has focused upon defending claims against solicitors and financial professionals such as pensions advisors, professional trustees, IFAs and insurance brokers. She also advises insurers in relation to policy coverage. Claire has significant experience of resolving claims by alternative dispute resolution and has successfully defended claims to trial in the English High Court · Professional Indemnity

Colin Rogerson

Recognised as one of the UK’s leading surrogacy and fertility lawyers, Colin heads the firm’s fertility law team. He is also highly regarded for his specialism in children law and is ranked in Band 1 for Cross Border Children Disputes by the Chambers Guide. He undertakes cases with international dimensions including child abduction, jurisdiction disputes and domestic and international relocations. Colin has litigated at all levels of court including the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. · Fertility & Surrogacy

Craig Hodgson

Craig is a partner in the corporate team and has considerable experience in relation to major cross-border transaction work and in the field of company sales and acquisitions, private equity, MBOs/MBIs and corporate venturing/purchasing. Craig has also acted on a number of share issues on AIM and the Official List and takeovers. Craig heads the firm’s food and beverage sector and acts for a number of clients in the sector. In April 2013 he acted for shareholders of EAP, one of the countries’ leading pig producers on its sale to Cranswich Plc. Other recent work includes acting for EV Offshore limited on a number of funding rounds and in October 2013 for the shareholders of Ecome in the sale to Interquest Group Plc. · Corporate / M&A

David Catchpole

David is a Partner and a specialist in contentious trust and probate disputes. He deals exclusively with such matters and has developed a real expertise in this niche area. His work includes helping both individuals and larger organisations like charities or higher educational establishments deal with a whole range of contentious issues relating to trusts and disputed wills. This diverse work covers all sorts of matters, ranging from testamentary capacity and undue influence claims and applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, to advising on proprietary estoppel and breach of trust actions. · Trusts & Estates

David Faulkner

Principal Associate working with employers of all sizes in a variety of different sectors, with a particular focus on Mills & Reeve’s nationally-renowned higher education practice. Has advised on some of the highest-profile disputes in the sector, regularly advises on sensitive and complex internal disputes, restructurings and Tribunal litigation, and also has the experience of having worked on secondment in a university HR department. David was appointed as a part-time Employment Judge in 2013. · Employment

David Gooding

David is a professional indemnity and policy coverage specialist. His practice is focussed on advising lawyers, accountants and financial professionals and their insurers on defending and resolving claims as well as assisting accountants and solicitors with disciplinary investigations. He also advises insurers on policy coverage disputes and dishonesty investigations. David is head of the national accountants disputes practice. David is regularly instructed to assist and defend businesses facing high profile and significant claims. He recognises the financial, personal and reputational impact of a claim on professionals and their businesses. David is able to reduce that impact by relying on 20 years' experience, working closely with clients and by providing insightful, commercial and clear advice. His recent experience includes helping strike out an unmeritorious multi-million pound claim against a professional firm pursued by a determined litigant in person. This year, he successfully led the defence of an accountants claim at the Supreme Court, Matthew & Others v Sedman & others [2021] UKSC 18 · Professional Indemnity

David Mills

David is the national lead of the employment team and also leads the work for private sector clients and international clients. David has a broad experience in both contentious and non-contentious work and has particular experience in working for hi-tech/bio-tech companies and a particular interest in advising on all aspects of discrimination. · Employment

David Varnham

Banking lawyer specialising in international and UK syndicated and bilateral lending, acquisition and leveraged finance, property and development finance, project financing and restructurings. · Banking & Finance

Deborah Clark

Partner and Barrister specialising in estate planning for high net worth individuals, including advising on Wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney and probate matters. Deborah has particular experience advising clients with business interests where understanding of both corporate and private tax issues is key. Deborah has a national reputation for advising on the design and formation of family investment companies especially when used as an estate planning tool and regularly lectures on this area to accountants, lawyers and financial advisers nationally. She also has significant experience in advising on the transition to employee ownership structures and succession planning. · Private Client

Dona Ardeman

Dona is a corporate solicitor specialising in investment fund creation and early stage investment work in the private equity, venture capital and alternative finance sectors. She acts for a wide range of clients, from investment managers and venture capital funds, universities, technology transfer offices, crowdfunding platforms and business angels to entrepreneurs, companies and their officers. She also advises on a range of matters from the structure, setting up and running of an investment fund, angel syndicate, alternative finance platform or business through to financing, restructure, and exit. · Corporate / M&A

Douglas McDonald

Principal Associate · Commercial Litigation

Duncan Astill

Duncan is part of the commercial, regulatory and public sector disputes team in Cambridge. Duncan specialises in regulatory enforcement action. He represents clients immediately following serious incidents, through Police and HSE investigations and at Coroner’s Inquests. In addition Duncan advises on a full range of regulatory matters including environmental issues. Duncan is a public law expert experienced in judicial review proceedings. He advises on governance and risk management and provides bespoke training to many clients on health and safety related topics, including training boards in respect of their collective and individual responsibilities. Throughout his career Duncan has acted for a variety of clients across all sectors of the economy. He has a particular strength in health, education and in respect of building and construction related issues. · Regulatory Enforcement

Ellie Milner

Partner in the Private Client team, specialising in advising business owners, entrepreneurs and high net worth families in relation to their estate and succession planning. Particular focus on Family Investment Companies. · Private Client

Fiona Barker

Principal Associate · Planning & Environment

Frances Bailey

Principal Associate · Family & Matrimonial

Gary Attle

Head of education and governance. Gary leads the firm’s national practice in the higher education sector, which advises on all areas where universities need legal advice, ranging from spin outs to student accommodation developments to international joint ventures. His own specialist area relates to governance and student issues. Gary’s recent work involves advising universities on allegations of research misconduct, the student-university legal relationship, the regulatory framework for higher education, defamation and freedom of speech. Many of his matters have an international element to them. · Education

Greg Gibson

Partner in the commercial services group, advising on commercial contracts, outsourcing, competition law, media and entertainment and sport. Clients include Aviva plc, the Financial Services Authority, Group Lotus and Warner Bros. · Commercial Contracts

Gregory Laming

Gregory has a wide experience acting for individuals in relation to wills, tax and trust matters, including Court of Protection work. Much of his work has involved creating solutions to tax planning problems and giving detailed inheritance tax, income tax and capital gains tax advice in both the onshore and offshore arenas, and more recently in relation to the pre-owned assets charge. Gregory’s recent work includes advising shareholders in a large property investment company on tax and succession planning, wealthy land owners on structuring their wills and property interests to maximise available inheritance tax reliefs, the trustees of farm land how to minimise their tax exposure on the sale for residential development and giving detailed offshore trust advice. · Private Tax

Hannah Wilson

Principal Associate – Specialist in family and children law, collaborative lawyer and mediator. · Family

Helen Prandy

Litigation and procurement disputes lawyer with experience in all aspects of contentious work before courts and tribunals as well as international arbitration. Specialising in particular in contentious procurement work Helen has advised on a number of high profile cases and took the first case to the High Court on the nature of the automatic suspension under the Public Contracts (Amendments) Regulations 2009. Helen advises both contracting authorities within the firm’s key sectors of health and education and those bidding for public contracts. Helen also advises a variety of commercial clients on matters ranging from warranty claims to breach of confidence; on-line gaming and breach of contract and has been involved in a number of cases with an international element. Helen also blogs and speaks on a variety of contentious procurement subjects. · Litigation

Ian Hardman

Ian is a Partner specialising in construction and engineering. Ian has extensive experience advising on projects across a range of sectors including power/process, nuclear decommissioning, residential, retail, office and education. Ian regularly advises on large and complex infrastructure projects and commercial developments. He is experienced in all the standard forms of contract including JCT, NEC, ICC, IChemE, MF/1 and FIDIC. Ian is rated as one of the leading construction lawyers in the North-West by Chambers. Ian’s relevant experience includes: Advising the client on the procurement of a waste for energy plant. Contract value circa £250m. Advising a national retailer on the procurement of a new distribution centre including the automation and picking system. Contract value circa £250m. Advising on the procurement of new cranes for a sea container terminal. Contract value circa £100m. Advising a developer on various apartment PRS developments. Each project having a value of circa £40m. Advising in connection with and preparing contract documentation for a new €166m chlorine facility at Runcorn, Cheshire. Advising a local authority in connection with claims by a contractor for an extension of time and disruption arising out of the construction of a new by-pass. Claim value was circa £5m. · Construction

Jagvinder Singh Kang

Jagvinder is a Partner and the International & UK Head of IT Law (CIPP/E, CIPM) at Mills & Reeve. He is an award winning and market leading technology lawyer. He is featured in Legal 500's ‘Hall of Fame’ - which Legal 500 confirms: “highlights, to clients, the law firm partners who are at the pinnacle of the profession.” He has been recognised for 10 consecutive years in Legal 500’s 'Elite List of Outstanding Technology Lawyers Nationwide', and consistently been ranked number one for IT and technology law by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for a decade. He is a specialist technology and GDPR/data protection lawyer (CIPM, CIPP/E – he has attained amongst the world’s highest certification score on this internationally regarded specialist data protection qualification), as well as a qualified software engineer (First Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Software Engineering), with over 20 years of expertise from having advised on billions of pounds worth of UK and international technology transactions, involving the full range of organisations from innovative start-ups to FTSE100, NASDAQ listed and other world-class corporates. He also advises on UK and global GDPR compliance projects as well as cyber-breaches. · Technology

James Fry

James is head of Mills & Reeve's fast growing multi-disciplinary life sciences team. · Life Sciences

James Hunter

Partner in corporate team based in Norwich. Also Head of Office, Norwich. · Corporate / M&A

James Kidd

James is an employment lawyer, specialising in TUPE. His work includes supporting our corporate and commercial teams in dealing with mergers and acquisitions work and projects (the largest single corporate deal being a £200m asset acquisition), as well as dealing with large-scale redundancy and reorganisation matters. He also, of course, deals with the usual mix of helpline queries on day-to-day operational matters, together with handling settlement agreements, employment tribunal claims, service agreements, consultancy agreements, complex grievances and disciplinary processes. James has worked extensively with clients in multi-jurisdictional matters, including global outsourcing and exits of senior individuals. He has worked with clients to protect business information when employees leave and secured the necessary protections. He has also supported a number of clients to successfully divest themselves from final salary pension schemes. His work focuses on the commercial sector, particularly in relation to private healthcare and food and beverage. · Employment