Mishcon de Reya LLP

Aarti Thakor

Aarti is a Partner in the Charities and Social Ventures team within the Impact department leading the team's non-profit consultancy, investigations and review capabilities for major international NGOs, international institutions, charities and philanthropic foundations. Aarti is a civil law barrister & accredited Mediator with 20 years of extensive charity, regulatory & international experience gained primarily within the Charity Commission's legal services directorate. She specialises in multi stakeholder projects, major and high-risk investigations, governance and incident response, as well as providing technical consulting on financial crime and terrorist financing risk. She is known for advising successfully and pragmatically in complex operational implementation in cross border contexts and for capability and capacity building at national and international levels. She has also advised a vast number of governments in the Far East, Middle East, Europe and Caribbean, including regulators, other institutions and agencies globally on how to develop or improve regulatory systems or policies for NGOs and civil society. She has been responsible for reviewing or changing relevant laws, policies and operational processes in multiple countries, and in FATF R8, AML and CTF matters, being well versed in engaging and influencing at the most senior Ministerial or national levels. As Director of Legal and Accountancy Services at the Charity Commission, Aarti oversaw all charity related national high profile, sensitive and complex cases and policy issues, including developing risk management, strategy and business processes. She also led in matters relating to national regulatory strategies, sector reviews and relevant risk assessments. Over the last decade she has also led the external legal development of charity law and the regulatory framework for charities through Parliamentary bills, primary or secondary legislation (Charities Acts 2016 and 2022) and national guidance, including written and oral evidence in Parliamentary Committees. Before joining the Charity Commission, Aarti has worked as counsel for the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda, and at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Aarti also previously worked in chambers dealing with a number of civil and criminal matters. Her excellent track record of delivering innovative strategic, policy and operational leadership, coupled with a unique perspective and insight from her extensive and authoritative Charity Commission experience ensures pragmatic, effective and robust solutions for clients. · Charities & Not-for-Profit

Abby Brindley

Abby is a Managing Associate in the firm's Private department where she works on a wide range of commercial disputes for both companies and individuals. As a member of Art Law, Abby acts for galleries, auction houses, artists, collectors, foundations and other public and private institutions in relation to disputes concerning ownership, provenance, attribution and restitution of artworks. Abby has specialist knowledge and interest in the evolving area of data protection and regularly advises on rights and obligations, acting for both individuals and companies. She also provides training on data protection issues for the firm and its clients. Abby is a member of the organisation of Professional Advisors to the International Art Market (PAIAM). · Commercial Litigation

Adam Bradley

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Adam Epstein

Adam is a Partner in the Finance & Banking Group. He leads the Firm's highly regarded practice defending clients against the financial services regulatory bodies. For more than 20 years, he has defended some of the biggest enforcement cases to emerge, ranging from the enforcement proceedings brought in relation to Barings in the 1990's to acting in the recent LIBOR and Forex investigations, and others not yet public. He knows the FCA prosecution well and has practical hands on experience in front of the decision makers. He also has extensive experience in cross jurisdictional matters that involve, for example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DoJ). In addition to defending contested actions, his work often takes place in the pre investigation and pre enforcement stages, helping clients protect themselves against future possible regulatory action. Adam's practice also includes a great deal of experience representing clients in front of a wide variety of other business regulators and enforcement authorities. He represents both individuals and institutions. Adam also leads the firm's Professional Discipline practice, advising professionals such as accountants, lawyers, insolvency practitioners and pension trustees who are facing challenge or investigation by regulatory or enforcement bodies. Adam also leads the firm's Professional Discipline practice, advising professionals such as accountants, lawyers, insolvency practitioners and pension trustees who are facing challenge or investigation by regulatory or enforcement bodies. He is also experienced in Court and arbitral proceedings, having acted in disputes involving substantial sums of money across arenas as diverse as funds, finance, private banking, spread betting, foreign exchange, structured products, pensions, insurance and capital markets. He combines 25 years' experience of litigating with an in-depth knowledge of the industry and the relevant rules. Adam is widely recognised as a leading individual in the area of Financial Services. The Contentious Regulatory practice that he heads is ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners and Adam himself has been consistently rated over the years by both legal directories. Legal 500 praises the group's "high-quality and commercially savvy advice" and states that "the ‘very experienced and wily’ Adam Epstein is the undoubted standout". Chambers cites Adam as "extremely good and knowledgeable in this area" and applauds his "extremely focused, very client-friendly" approach stating that he is "exactly the person you would want on your side". Legal 500 2016 states that "he provides 'calm, sensible and sound advice' and is 'revered by his opponents as an expert in his field.'". · Finance & Banking

Adam Goldthorp

Adam is a Managing Associate in our Commercial Real Estate team. He works on a broad range of property matters, from lettings and general property management to investment and development transactions. A particular area of focus is development projects documented on a forward funding basis. Adam acts for Watkin Jones on the construction of alternative asset class projects and also for institutional funds such as PGIM. · Real Estate

Adam Rose

Adam is a Commercial Partner in the Corporate department, with over 25 years' experience, specialising in advising clients on IT and commercial contracts, including franchising, agency, distribution and terms of business. He advises clients across a number of sectors, but in particular, those in real estate, publishing and broadcasting, financial services and retail and leisure, including hotels and restaurants. Adam is an expert in data protection and freedom of information law, where he advises corporates and individuals on all aspects of the law. Adam is the International Development Partner at Mishcon de Reya. His primary objective is to ensure the firm consistently delivers the best advice to its clients and to gain the trust of clients and lawyers from around the world. He works closely with the partners appointed as leaders for each international region to closely monitor the overseas service the Firm provides, the expansion of its client-base and how it is delivering against its strategy. · Corporate / M&A

Adriano Amorese

Adriano Amorese is a Partner in the Construction Group, within the firm's Real Estate department. A non-contentious construction lawyer with over 15 years' experience working on a broad range of domestic and international projects, Adriano specialises in advising on procurement routes for construction and engineering projects and in drafting and negotiating all forms of legal construction documentation, including construction and engineering contracts (both bespoke contracts and contracts based on industry standard forms, including JCT, NEC and FIDIC), consultancy agreements, bonds and guarantees. Adriano also has extensive experience advising on the construction aspects of project agreements such as development agreements, funding agreements, agreements for lease and asset protection agreements and their inter-relationship with legal construction documentation. · Construction

Alexander Rhodes

Alexander is a Partner and Head of Mishcon Purpose. He provides strategic Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to help clients navigate the opportunities and risks presented by a rapidly changing world. Alexander is a trusted advisor to typically international clients, with more than 15 years legal and global consultancy experience. He acts for families in relation to their personal, business and philanthropic interests; businesses seeking transition to more sustainable and resilient ways of working. He is privileged to have worked closely with governments and global leaders in their efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. A seasoned litigator, he has particular expertise in the resolution of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, usually with reputational aspects, and public affairs. As a trustee and advisor, Alexander's long-term preoccupation has been balancing the imperatives of environmental conservation and human development. He was the founding CEO of the charity Stop Ivory; head of the Secretariat to the inter-governmental Elephant Protection Initiative; and is a Chairman of Tusk Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a Conservation Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). In 2018 the ZSL named him its Conservationist of the Year in recognition of his work supporting African governments in combatting the illegal ivory trade and in elephant conservation. Alexander sits on the advisory board of the Athens Democracy Forum. · ESG & Sustainability

Alexandra Clough

Alexandra is a Partner in the Construction Disputes team in the Real Estate Department. She has over 15 years' experience advising a range of clients across numerous sectors including contractors, developers and occupiers on litigation, arbitration and adjudication matters. She has particular experience in mixed use schemes, offices, student accommodation, high-end residential, and retail. Alex spends much of her time helping her clients avoid disputes on live projects, giving pragmatic advice and seeking practical solutions. Where disputes cannot be avoided, she guides her clients through often complex and high value disputes, providing clear strategic guidance and robust analysis. She has a strong grasp of technical issues and uses alternative dispute resolution techniques such as mediation to obtain excellent outcomes for her clients. Alex has expertise in claims relating to building safety, and in particular disputes concerning defective external wall systems. She is a trusted advisor on the new building safety regime and has provided strategic advice on this complex area of law to some of the UK's leading developers. · Real Estate

Alexandra Whiston-Dew

Alexandra has a broad range of experience advising both international and UK based individuals and companies. With expertise in matters bridging the specialisms of private client law and a focus on reputation protection, she is an experienced commercial litigator. Alexandra participates in the Data Protection, Extradition, Russia and Africa groups. Managing the firm's engagement in the SPITE project - a pro bono partnership with Queen Mary University - she advises victims of revenge porn. Having written articles and presented lectures on the issue of sharing intimate images and personal data, she also delivers training to PR companies and publishers on developments in media law and data protection. Alexandra is a trustee and Company Director of LHA London, a housing charity that caters for students and young people, and a trustee of Future Talent, a charity that provides support and guidance to young musicians who demonstrate outstanding musical ability from low income backgrounds. · Private Client

Alice Mantle

Alice is a Managing Associate in the Family team. She advises on a broad range of family law issues, including: divorce/dissolution and financial remedy proceedings; private law children matters (including relocation and schooling disputes); cohabitation disputes; nuptial and civil partnership agreements; and surrogacy. She has experience working for a wide variety of clients, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs, business-people, homemakers, those with significant inherited wealth and with links to/assets in multiple jurisdictions. Alice is experienced in advising clients on a range of alternative dispute resolution processes, including arbitration, Private Financial Dispute Resolution hearings and mediations. She has acted for clients in numerous Private Financial Dispute resolution hearings and in arbitrations (children and financial) – often in highly acrimonious cases. Alice is a member of Resolution, an organisation which believes in a constructive, non-confrontational approach to family law matters and campaigns for improvements to the family justice system. Prior to qualifying at the Firm in September 2015, Alice spent her training contract working in Reputation Protection, Trust & Succession Disputes, Corporate, Private Commercial Litigation and Family. She continues to work closely with colleagues across the Firm, to ensure clients needs are met. · Family

Allison Keyse

Allison is a Partner in the Private Equity group. She focuses on private equity related transactions as well as mergers & acquisitions. She has particularly extensive experience acting for management teams and owner/founder-managers, as well as having acted for private equity institutions and investee companies. Allison also provides general advisory and transactional services to corporate businesses and entrepreneurs. With over 15 years' experience, her practice covers a variety of sectors including financial services, recruitment, technology and retail. · Private Equity

Amanda Gray

Amanda Gray is a Partner in Mishcon Private, specialising in Art Law and the related field of Luxury Assets. She is Practice Lead for Art Law and chairs Mishcon's firm-wide multi-disciplinary Luxury Assets Group. Amanda is valued by her clients for her commercial, flexible approach and depth of knowledge across a diverse range of legal problems faced by those operating within the art market and luxury assets fields. In addition to her Art Law practice, Amanda, as a long standing private client lawyer, has been able to bring her experience of dealing with sensitive personal situations to assisting bereaved families with inquests and advising clients on a range of medical negligence issues and loss of mental capacity. An art law specialist with over 13 years experience, she is valued by her clients for her commercial and solution driven approach and depth of knowledge. Her client base includes collectors, dealers, auction houses, artists, public and private institutions and foundations. She assists clients across a diverse range of contentious and non-contentious legal problems faced by those operating within the art market and luxury assets fields. These include sale and purchase agreements, art and antique collection management, loan and agency agreements, artists' resale rights regulations, special projects, bringing new discoveries to the market place and advising the art market on anti-money laundering regulations. Her specialist contentious work includes claims arising from due diligence issues including authentication and title claims, disputes arising out of breaches of contract, negligence and misrepresentation. Matters are often international, high value, and high profile with significant commercial and personal implications for the reputation and legacy of those involved. As a leading member of our multi-disciplinary Luxury Assets Group, Amanda provides advice to clients on luxury assets including classic cars, bloodstock and jewellery, each with nuances individual to their respective fields. Amanda is a Trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA); the pro-bono General Counsel for Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Sussex, which houses the permanent collection of works by the Ditchling Guild and is a member of the Responsible Art Market committee, London Chapter. · Art Law

Andrew Goldstone

Andrew is a Partner in Mishcon Private and heads up the Tax group. He advises high net worth UK and international families and trustees on all aspects of UK and offshore tax, succession planning and trusts. He regularly advises on residence and domicile issues including the statutory residence test, business investment relief and the locations of offshore trusts. He advises on philanthropy and the establishment of charitable trusts and foundations. His diverse range of clients cover all sectors and ages and include many high profile names. Andrew also advises entrepreneurs and key executives on relevant tax reliefs and tax efficient investments, such as IHT Business Property Relief, CGT Entrepreneurs Relief, Enterprise Investment Schemes and Venture Capital Trusts. He is a published author on tax and estate planning, has written numerous articles and is quoted widely in the national press. Andrew has been included in the Citywealth Leaders List since 2010 and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). · Tax

Andrew Rimmington

Andrew is a Partner in the Corporate department and a recognised expert in international cross border M&A and private equity transactions. His work embraces a wide range of industries but has a particular focus in financial technology, software and e-commerce, recruitment, real estate and automotive industries. He works with wide range of business types from successful entrepreneurs to multinational corporations. Andrew regularly represents clients who specialise in financial technology, software, SaaS, IaaS and other high tech services, communication services companies, private equity firms and financial institutions. He also has a proven track record of working with multinational clients and acting as a “trusted adviser” in relation to transactions in multiple jurisdictions including divestitures, recapitalisations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, venture capital and private equity transactions (including management buyouts and minority investments) and acting for management teams. · Corporate / M&A

Andrew Savile

Andrew is a Partner in Mishcon Private. Andrew advises individuals and families on a wide range of areas affecting their businesses and their personal affairs. Andrew has spent many years specialising in transactional work, shareholders agreements, partnerships and joint ventures. He also deals with transactions involving high value chattels, secured lending and insolvency. Andrew's clients are both UK-based and international, and come from a wide range of sectors including finance, property, art, betting and gaming, politics, technology, leisure and the third sector. Andrew also advises high net worth international individuals and families on all aspects of their personal and financial affairs as well as their offshore trusts and corporate structures. Andrew often takes on a general advisory role for a number of clients, helping them to negotiate their way through whatever challenges are facing them. Andrew is a member of our multi-disciplinary Luxury Assets Group, which advises individuals and businesses on the buying, selling, structuring and protection of luxury assets across the globe. · Corporate / M&A

Andrew Williamson

Andrew is a Partner in Mishcon Private. He specialises in rural and agricultural law. He is known for his specialisms in advising land owners on farming partnership agreements, land management issues, agricultural land sales and purchases and also acting for landlords and tenants on specialist agricultural tenancy issues. He is often recommended to new clients by other property professionals. Andrew and the other members of the Farms & Estates team are known for efficiency and pragmatism. They are valued by their ability to give clear commercial advice coupled with swift and effective dealing at an agreed cost. They are known for getting the deal done. He is known for acting for innovative land owners and new entrants to farms and estates and acts in concert with colleagues in the innovation teams to help land owners who want to use their land to do something new. Andrew is a ranked partner in Chambers 2022 which notes that he is "well versed in agricultural tenancies work, together with partnership structure and succession planning advice for landed estate clients and other landowners." Andrew is identified by Spear's as one of the top Landed Estates Lawyer in the 2022 index. He is named as a key lawyer in the Legal 500 2022 guide noting that he is a "a key adviser on agricultural tenancies and succession planning" Andrew is a member of the Country Land & Business Association and a member of the Agricultural Law Association. · Agriculture & Rural

Andrew Wolfin

Andrew is a Partner in the firm's Corporate department, having been called to the Bar in 2001 before transferring to become a solicitor and qualifying in 2003. He is a highly experienced transactional and commercial advisory lawyer, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements and complex commercial contracts. His work is both in the UK and overseas, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and bespoke contractual arrangements. Andrew is the lead partner for M:Tech, Mishcon de Reya's legal mentoring and advice programme for early-stage tech companies. Andrew takes a frank and commercial approach to advising his clients, who rely on his counsel and his ability to act as a sounding board on matters affecting all aspects of their business. He has advised businesses in a diverse range of industries, including fashion and brands, technology and online platforms, wholesale distribution, charities, media, healthcare and private members' clubs. Andrew is intimately involved in all aspects of the firm's graduate recruitment process and vacation scheme, including interviewing, assessing and supervising students and trainees. He has delivered numerous training sessions both internally and externally and has given talks at BPP Law School and Leeds University. Andrew also acts as a mentor for entrepreneurs, including for one of our MdR Lab 2018 companies and as part of Walpole's Brands of Tomorrow initiative, a bespoke mentorship programme for aspiring British luxury brands. · Corporate / M&A

Angela Fox

Angela is a Partner in the Intellectual Property group, specialising in contentious and non-contentious matters involving trade marks, copyright and domain names. Angela counsels clients on disputes, brand protection, strategy and enforcement. She has extensive experience in clearing and protecting trade marks and in handling domain name and company name disputes and matters relating to trade mark infringement and passing off, including litigation, advocacy, opinion and advisory work. She is also an experienced negotiator in mediations and settlement discussions. Angela also advises on IP-related commercial transactions and relationships, including assignments, licenses and non-disclosure agreements. Angela is a solicitor advocate and certified trade mark litigator, and also serves as a domain name panellist for the World Intellectual Property Organisation ("WIPO") Arbitration and Mediation Center. She has served on the official users committees for the Intellectual Property Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Angela is also an Irish solicitor, a Registered European Lawyer (Munich) and an attorney-at-law in the US, having been admitted to the bar of the state of New York. She was ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as an IP Star in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Angela is author of Intellectual Property Enterprise Court: Practice & Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd Ed.), the leading guide on litigating in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”). She has extensive experience supporting sophisticated multinational businesses in protecting and enforcing brand rights in in the UK, Europe and around the world. · Intellectual Property

Angela Fox

Angela is a Partner in the Intellectual Property group, specialising in contentious and non-contentious matters involving trade marks, copyright and domain names. Angela counsels clients on disputes, brand protection, strategy and enforcement. She has extensive experience in clearing and protecting trade marks and in handling domain name and company name disputes and matters relating to trade mark infringement and passing off, including litigation, advocacy, opinion and advisory work. She is also an experienced negotiator in mediations and settlement discussions. Angela also advises on IP-related commercial transactions and relationships, including assignments, licenses and non-disclosure agreements. Angela is a solicitor advocate and certified trade mark litigator, and also serves as a domain name panellist for the World Intellectual Property Organisation ("WIPO") Arbitration and Mediation Center. She has served on the official users committees for the Intellectual Property Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Angela is also an Irish solicitor, a Registered European Lawyer (Munich) and an attorney-at-law in the US, having been admitted to the bar of the state of New York. She was ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as an IP Star in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Angela is author of Intellectual Property Enterprise Court: Practice & Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd Ed.), the leading guide on litigating in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”). She has extensive experience supporting sophisticated multinational businesses in protecting and enforcing brand rights in in the UK, Europe and around the world. Clients describe Angela as "a superb lawyer" and a “sophisticated, thoughtful counsellor”, "diligent and meticulous", who "brings skilful analysis and tremendous insight to the projects she handles." They praise her “creative, solution-orientated approach", her "extensive experience and knowledge of trade mark law" and strong commercial awareness. "I feel confident in entrusting to her my clients' most difficult and complex problems…she is an absolute pleasure to work with." · Intellectual Property

Anita Rivera

Anita is a Partner and Head of Planning in the Real Estate department. The Planning team advises leading commercial and residential property developers, property companies, investment funds and high net worth individuals on a broad range of planning matters. Anita advises clients on strategic planning approaches to maximise value, create flexibility and minimise risk and development costs. She finds solutions to complex planning issues and regularly advises on planning appeals and challenges, planning, highway and development agreements, community infrastructure levy, assets of community value, planning policy, environmental impact assessments, listed buildings, planning enforcement, town and village greens, CPOs, certificates of lawfulness and other public law matters. · Real Estate

Anju Suneja

Anju is a Partner in the Real Estate department. She has over 20 years' experience specialising in investment, development funding and property development work for a range of clients across all sectors in the real estate industry including retail, offices, industrial and logistic sectors. Anju also specialises in development pre-lettings. Anju has an established reputation and track record with clients for understanding and project managing portfolio and complex acquisitions and disposals. Her clients appreciate her driven and proactive approach to closing deals. She has acted for a broad spectrum of clients including institutional investors, publicly quoted and private property companies, property funds, property developers, financial institutions, overseas investors, high net worth individuals, retailers and corporate occupiers. · Real Estate

Anne Rose

Managing Associate · Commercial Contracts

Anthony Julius

Anthony is a highly regarded lawyer. He has held several central roles at Mishcon de Reya, including serving on our Management Board, ten years as head of the litigation practice and is currently our Deputy Chairman. Anthony is the Firm's most senior solicitor advocate, and has appeared in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has significant experience in arbitration and is involved in the Firm's work in public advocacy. Anthony is a trusted advisor to his often high-profile clients, and typically acts for ultra-high net worth families and individuals in personal and business disputes. Anthony's clients also include companies and charities. As a recognised academic, Anthony now holds the Chair in Law and Arts in the Faculty of Law, UCL. He was for several years a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London in the Department of English and the Humanities. He is a noted author who has written extensively on law, literature, art and culture. Anthony serves as Chairman or Non-Executive Director of a number of companies, some of which are clients of Mishcon de Reya. He was co-founder and first chairman, and then Vice President, of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund until it was wound up. He also serves as a Trustee on several charitable and non-profit organisations. · Litigation

Antonia Felix

Antonia Felix is a Partner in the Family department. She specialises in all aspects of family law with a particular emphasis on complex financial remedy cases often involving assets in different jurisdictions and complicated trust structures. Antonia also advises on cohabitation disputes and private law children matters, including applications for leave to remove children from the jurisdiction and surrogacy. She is experienced in advising on pre and post-marital agreements and cohabitation agreements. Antonia's work involves multi jurisdictions and often involves disclosure issues and obtaining disclosure orders against third parties, including trustees and registered agents in offshore jurisdictions, and joining third parties to proceedings within the context of financial remedy proceedings. Antonia is a member of the Firm's Surrogacy and Modern Families Group and was involved in hosting an event for the Law Commission in respect of its surrogacy reform consultation. Antonia also leads the family team's Education group and has a network of contacts who can assist clients who need guidance on all aspects of their children's education as well as being able to advise on education issues which arise as part of litigation. Antonia was named by Citywealth as one of the top 100 private client lawyers in 2021. Antonia is a member of Resolution and the Association of Women Solicitors, a community for women lawyers supporting each other in their careers. Antonia is part of the Working Party put together by the human rights charity, JUSTICE aiming to improve access to justice for separated families in private family proceedings. Antonia is also on the Board of Governors at St George's school, Ascot. Antonia is a partner of the WealthiHer network. · Family

Ashley Williams

Partner and Co-Leads the Technology Transactions Group · Technology Transactions

Attilio Leccisotti

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Barbara Reeves

Barbara is a Partner in the firm's Family team. She is widely recognised as one of London's leading Family lawyers, and has been constantly top-ranked by the major professional directories, including being listed in eprivateclient as one of the 2022 50 most influential in the Private Client profession. She is an accredited specialist in all aspects of Family law, and provides a multi-faceted and flexible approach in relation to the needs of families, having led cases involving substantial wealth, complex multi-jurisdictional disputes and trust issues. Many of the cases that Barbara works on have an international dimension, including the US, Russia and the Middle-East. She is renowned for her handling of the financial fall-out from divorce, with significant experience in cases with an element of non-disclosure and enforcement issues. She is also adept in dealing with the wider issues affecting families, such as separation; property disputes; injunctions; marital agreements; cohabitation and all private children arrangements, including residence and contact arrangements, overseas relocation, surrogacy and adoption. She is a trusted advisor for many families which includes assisting with opportunities and challenges, that require the expertise of the wider firm including tax and wealth planning, asset protection, reputation management, real estate and immigration. Barbara has acted in a number of high profile cases in relation to divorce, matrimonial finance, and financial provision for the children of unmarried parents. Her clients include high net worth and international clients from a wide range of backgrounds, including entrepreneurs, owners of family businesses, City professionals and the independently wealthy. Barbara is a qualified mediator and is a member of the ADR Group, which is recognised for its cross disciplinary depth in the fields of family, civil, and commercial mediation. She is a member also of the Advisory Panel of Insuring Women's Futures, a programme established by the Chartered Insurance Institute, aimed at promoting and enhancing the insurance and financial planning profession’s role in relation to women and risk. She is a member of the Development Board of the Young Vic and a trustee of the WOW Foundation. · Family

Becca Hird

Becca is an Associate in the Mishcon Private department. · Private Client

Ben Lasserson

Partner · Competition

Beth Leng

Beth is a Consultant in the Employment Department specialising in employment litigation (Tribunal and High Court) and dispute resolution. Her practice is divided evenly between corporates (including advising partnerships and LLPs) and senior executives. Most of her clients are based in the financial services (including PE and VC), art, retail and media sectors. She also acts for charities and not-for-profit organisations. Much of her work focuses on senior executive remuneration schemes and disputes. Discrimination and gender equality are particular themes in Beth’s work, regularly representing senior women (including lawyers). Her key interests include equal pay, remuneration and agile working in the City. · Employment

Campbell Forsyth

Partner · Intellectual Property

Cassandra Hill

Partner · Intellectual Property

Charlie Sosna

Charlie is a Partner in Mishcon Private and heads up the Private Tax and Wealth Planning group. Charlie's main practice areas are: UK and international tax, including UK-US tax planning; trusts; asset protection structuring; and lifetime planning for high-net and ultra-high net worth individuals, families and their trustees. Charlie frequently advises clients on their residence and domicile status, and advises on effective tax planning – with a particular focus on acting for clients with connections in Asia. He has been described as someone who offers 'high quality reliable advice, excellent client manner - a joy to work with', and who has 'a clear understanding of tax issues arising for private clients and identifies practical solutions'. He has further been described and as 'an excellent lawyer who commands the respect of everyone he interacts with and acts for who is ahead of his years in terms of expertise, ability and maturity who will excel to become one of the leading lights in the world of the private client lawyer'. Charlie is a member of Mishcon de Reya's multi-disciplinary Luxury Assets Group, which advises individuals and businesses on the buying, selling, structuring and protection of luxury assets including art, cars and other high-value collectables across the globe. In 2014 Charlie passed with distinction the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients. · Private Client

Charlotte Braine

Charlotte is a Managing Associate in the Construction Group within the Real Estate department, specialising in non-contentious construction law. Charlotte drafts and negotiates a wide range of construction agreements for our clients across the construction and real estate field, typically acting for developers, funders, purchasers and investors. She also provides construction support to our banking, commercial real estate and corporate teams. Charlotte has experience working on various forms of construction procurement, with particular expertise in disaggregated procurement routes (management contracting and construction management). Having acted on several major UK real estate developments and also having worked in-house with a developer, she has had exposure to the commercial objectives and challenges faced by clients throughout the lifecycle of a project and is able to effectively guide and advise clients through every stage. · Real Estate

Charlotte Wilson

Charlotte is a Legal Director in the Funds and Financial Services team and has experience in both UK financial services regulation and funds-related matters. Her financial services experience is broad, encompassing the perimeter of regulation including: advising unregulated entities and individuals on whether they need to become authorised; the marketing of financial products; appointed representative arrangements; interpretation of the FCA Rules and Guidance; and advising on UK anti-money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation. She also regularly advises on the consumer credit regime and regulated mortgages. In terms of her funds experience, Charlotte advises investors and onshore and offshore investment fund managers in relation to real estate, private equity and venture capital funds, in connection with a broad range of matters, including: fund formation and on-going operational and regulatory matters - including under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive; co-investments; and internal reorganizations. She also advises on the establishment and restructuring of UK investment managers and investment advisers. Charlotte is described in The Legal 500 as "able and thorough". · Funds

Chhavie Kapoor

Chhavie is a Partner in the Real Estate department specialising in real estate disputes. She has particular experience in advising developers on avoiding disputes and, where issues do occur, how to mitigate against them in order keep the development on track. This includes advising clients on minimising the potential of rights of light related claims. Chhavie has also successfully acted in connection with planning judicial reviews and has defended clients from applications to register development land as town and village greens. She also has extensive experience of acting for developers on rights of light strategies including the use of insurance policies and section 203 Housing and Planning Act 2016 to mitigate risks. She advises both landlords and tenants on all aspects of their relationship, including business lease renewals (both unopposed and opposed), dilapidations, tenant insolvency, recovery of arrears, service charge disputes, consents, rent review and issues relating to quiet enjoyment. · Real Estate

Claire Green

Partner and Co-Lead of Technology Transactions Group · Technology Transactions

Claire Yorke

Claire is a Partner in the Family team, practicing in the area of family law for 16 years. She recognises that changing family dynamics require a flexible and commercial approach, with early intervention and the use of ADR being key. Her diverse practice includes advising international and domestic HNW clients on the financial implications of relationship breakdown, in particular those involving trusts and corporate assets, crypto assets, inherited wealth, complex remuneration structures and where there are allegations of non-disclosure or dissipation. She also has a well-established wealth protection practice advising clients on pre-and post-nuptial agreements. Claire has great experience in private law cases relating to a child's living arrangements, significant decisions regarding their care and applications by one parent to relocate within the UK or overseas with a child. Claire has a particular interest in managing the reputational aspect of relationship breakdown and protecting the balance between personal and private life. Described as "one of the very best partners", "out performing her peers" and whose negotiating skills are "second to none", Claire is adept at ensuring that her clients feel supported in what is often a pivotal time in their lives, working with them to achieve the best possible outcome, enabling them to move forward with confidence. · Family

Clare Radcliffe

Clare is a Managing Associate in the Firm's Family Department. She specialises in all aspects of the divorce process, including financial issues; jurisdictional disputes; private law children matters, such as residence and contact; and applications for leave to remove children from the jurisdiction. Clare also deals with pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. · Family

Claudia Emerson

Claudia is a Partner in the Real Estate department, specialising in commercial real estate. She has transactional experience in all aspects of commercial real estate including investment sales and acquisitions, development work and landlord and tenant work, acting for both parties. She has also provided real estate support for corporate- and finance-led transactions. Claudia acts for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from pension funds and banks to private investors, developers and property companies. Her current focus is acting for Capital & Counties Properties Plc on the management and development of its Covent Garden portfolio. · Real Estate

Dan Beattie

Dan is a lawyer in Mishcon Private, specialising in all areas of Family law. He is an accredited Resolution Specialist in complex financial remedies and private children law. Whilst Dan works on matters involving all aspects of contentious and non-contentious family law, including cases with an international element, he has particular expertise in complex financial remedy cases and private children matters (including domestic and international relocation, education issues, living arrangements and paternity). He also has particular experience with litigating cases where "conduct" and "add back" are central aspects in a matter and has significant experience with cases involving a wide range of addictions and certain mental health issues. His emotional intelligence is of great value in matters which are sensitive and / or involve complex fact patterns. In addition, Dan has previously been involved in a variety of cases involving issues such as substantial family wealth, gender discrimination in financial remedy proceedings, relationship generated financial disadvantage, personal injunctions and the validity of Pre-Nuptial Agreements. He has also written legal opinions in respect of international wealth protection and the validity of a marriage. Dan is a keen advocate and practitioner of Arbitration via the IFLA scheme in financial remedy matters and is a former member of Resolution's London Regional Committee. · Family

Daniel Farrand

Daniel is Of Counsel in the Planning and Environment Group. He is experienced in handling complex and high profile developments and property deals, working with master developers and major property owners as well as acting for a range of investors and retail occupiers. Typically this kind of work covers planning agreements, applications and appeals (including environmental impact assessments), inquiry work, judicial review and enforcement. Daniel also advises on compulsory purchase, highways, environment and related public law. Daniel began his career in the public sector – as a trainee at Warwickshire County Council and then as a principal solicitor for East Cambridgeshire District Council. · Planning

Daniel Goldsborough

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Daniel Greenaway

Daniel is a Partner in the Corporate department and leads the Funds and Financial Services team. He has significant experience helping our private equity and real estate clients on the entire fundraising process, including marketing their funds to investors, setting market-standard commercial terms of the fund, agreeing documents with investors and closing the fund. Daniel assists institutional and boutique fund managers across private equity and real estate including specialist strategies across growth capital, venture capital, credit and those raising buy-and-build platforms. Daniel acts for managers whether they are raising a discretionary fund, spinning out of an existing institution or raising a series of co-investment funds. He also assists institutions and Mishcon family office clients on their fund investment and co-investment programmes. Chambers and Partners recognise Daniel's "deep expertise in the structuring of a variety of funds, including fund of funds, venture capital and debt vehicles" describing him as "similarly well versed in the tax and regulatory aspects of asset management". Daniel has authored chapters in The Guide to Responsible Investment (PEI: Private Equity International) and Understanding Private Debt in Europe (PEI: Private Debt Investor). · Corporate / M&A

Daniel Levy

Daniel is a Partner and Head of the Property Litigation team. One of the largest and most well-regarded practices in London, the team advises leading UK property companies, developers, corporate occupiers, investment funds and high net worth individuals. Daniel's specialism is in complex property related disputes, including development disputes, injunctions, judicial reviews, dilapidations, rights to light and neighbourly matters, service charge disputes, trespasses, consents, rent reviews, lease renewals, high value residential disputes and joint venture disputes. Daniel and his team regularly participate in court and trial work – including in the Appeal Courts. Daniel and the lawyers he works with are highly skilled litigators and experienced negotiators, mediators and arbitrators. Their cases, given their size and complexity, often attract significant media interest and require a commercial and strategic approach. Consistently ranked at the top of the legal directories, Daniel is included in Chambers 100, the first ever ranking of the UK's top 100 business lawyers. · Real Estate

Daniel Lipman

Daniel is a Partner in the Real Estate department with over 20 years' experience, specialising in all aspects of commercial property investment and development, with particular emphasis on investment structures for quoted and private property companies and funds. Daniel acts for a range of UK real estate investment and development clients including O&H Properties, Matterhorn Capital and Mansford. His matters include advising O&H on the redevelopment of the Podium Shopping Centre in Bath, with a subsequent letting of the site to Waitrose to create their Waitrose At Home concept, and the redevelopment of Christian Dior's flagship London store in New Bond Street. He also acted for a group of investors led by the Matterhorn Palos Partnership on its acquisition of Hammersmith's Kings Mall Shopping Centre and its subsequent disposal for £153 million. Daniel also has expertise in student accommodation development and PRS/build-to-rent development and funding. This includes advising specialist PRS investor and operator Fizzy Living on various forward funding schemes such as the circa £100 million forward funding and purchase of a 348-unit residential scheme at Silvertown Way in Canning Town. In addition, Daniel acts for banks on a variety of property finance transactions and has particular expertise in development finance. · Real Estate

Daniel Naftalin

Daniel is a Partner and Chair of the Employment department, sitting on the Management Board. He is one of the pre-eminent London employment lawyers, working for corporates, LLPs and senior executives in contentious and non-contentious matters that range from High Court and Employment Tribunal litigation to advice on recruitment, termination, discrimination and competition issues. He has over 25 years of experience and in that time has litigated many landmark cases up to Supreme Court level and is a recognised expert on restrictive covenant enforcement, team moves, discrimination, whistleblowing and employee reorganisation and restructuring. Daniel has made a particular name for himself in financial services, including investment banking, private equity and hedge funds, and recruitment, media and sport. · Employment

Danny Davis

Danny is a Partner and Head of the Insolvency Group. He is a litigator specialising in insolvency and fraud and is experienced in managing complex litigation, investigations, fraud and asset recovery cases. He is a specialist in insolvency litigation, acting both for and against administrators and liquidators, banking and finance institutions and also large creditors. Danny has over 20 years' experience as a litigator in complex and high value insolvency and fraud cases. He is currently working on a number of large investigations and cases in London, but also significant cross border cases in Luxembourg, Malta, Cayman, Guernsey, Belize and · Insolvency

Dario Garcia

Dario is a Consultant in the Tax Disputes & Investigations team. He is a leading practitioner in indirect taxes, particularly in financial services. Dario joins Mishcon from FTI Consulting where he was a Senior Managing Director of their European Tax Services Group. Prior to his role at FTI, Dario was Global Head of Indirect Taxes and Transfer Pricing at Barclays Bank Plc, where he gained experience, not only in the technical tax and regulatory aspects of international financial services, but also as a consumer of professional advisory services. Dario also spent 14 years at Ernst & Young, 10 of those as an indirect tax partner. His clients included a range of leading UK and international businesses, and his work embraced the conduct of many high-profile appeals in the Tribunal and Upper Courts. One of his early accomplishments was successfully arguing for VAT purposes that Jaffa Cakes, are in fact “cakes.” · Tax Litigation & Dispute Resolution

David Cummings

David is a Partner in the firm's Employment Department, practising across all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. His experience ranges from complex litigation in the specialist employment tribunals and superior courts, to corporate transactions, business restructuring, regulatory investigations, complex HR advisory services and international employment law (supporting both multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and stand-alone cross-border HR projects). David works across a variety of sectors, with particular expertise in Financial Services, Media and Life Sciences. In particular, David's practice across the Financial Services sector focusses on the intersection of employment law and conduct risk from a regulatory perspective. This relates to the high stakes employment aspects of regulatory enforcement issues and investigations from both employee conduct and remuneration perspectives, supported by David's expertise in sectoral remuneration regulation across the Banking and wider Financial Services sector. · Employment

David Leibowitz

David is a Partner in Dispute Resolution department. He is an insolvency litigation specialist. David acts regularly for banks, insolvency practitioners, trade creditors, directors, shareholders, the Insolvency Service and foreign lawyers on both domestic and cross border insolvencies. He has extensive insolvency litigation experience, in particular in the context of fraud, cases concerning validity of security, asset recovery, guarantees, director’s duties, office holders duties, transaction avoidance and disqualification proceedings. He has particular expertise in restructuring and insolvency assignments in the insurance and financial services industries and the interaction between FSMA and the Insolvency Act. David is a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the R3 Education Committee. He is a consultant to Oxford University Press and is on the Consulting Editorial Board for LexisNexis and is recognised by both Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in insolvency law. He lectures regularly on insolvency litigation and related topics and is the co-author of the Administrations chapters in the current edition of Tolley’s Insolvency Law. David has recently been appointed by the Ministry of Justice onto the Insolvency Rules Committee. David sits on Consulting Editorial Board for LexisNexis, the Education Committee of R3 and is a peer reviewer for Oxford University Press on restructuring and insolvency publications. He also sits on the Insolvency Rules Committee, appointed by the Ministry of Justice · Insolvency & Restructuring

David Rose

David is a highly experienced litigator and one of only a small number of IP lawyers in the UK who have taken both patent and trade mark cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has acted in a number of high profile and often ground-breaking cases before both the UK and European Courts including successfully representing Sky in the first passing off case to reach the UK's highest court (the Supreme Court) in over 25 years (Starbucks v. Sky) and acting for Nintendo in securing the first ever blocking injunction against ISPs in reliance on technological protection measures under the UK's copyright legislation. Additional high profile actions include: HTC v Gemalto; Sky v Microsoft; Napp v Sandoz; ratiopharm v Alza; Sky v Skype; Marks & Spencer and others v One in a Million; Lupin v. Gilead; Ann Taylor v. Holzer; Sony Computer Entertainment v Pacific Game Technology; Racing UK v Satellite Information Services; Arrow Generics v Merck; Cairnstores v Astra Zeneca; and Servier v Lupin. In the patent sphere, David advises on infringement, validity and ownership disputes, the scope of protection of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) and disputes over standard essential patents (SEPs) including their licensing on FRAND terms (principally for implementers). He also has considerable experience advising on "clearing the way" strategies in relation to pharmaceutical patents. Recent representations include acting for Lupin in its successful application to revoke Gilead's SPC for the HIV treatment Truvada® following hearings before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU and the Court of Appeal in London. In the area of brand and design protection, David has extensive experience advising on brand and design portfolio management with particular expertise acting in administrative proceedings before the UKIPO and the EUIPO and their respective appellate tribunals, including appearing successfully in numerous cases before the General Court of the EU. David is one of only eight UK IP lawyers listed in the Legal 500 "Hall of Fame", is ranked as a leading individual in Chambers (IP, life sciences and patent litigation), IAM Patent 1000 (patents and life sciences), Who's Who Legal (patents, life sciences and trade marks) and is recognised as one of World Trademark Review's "Global Leaders". Recent commentary from the directories includes: "tough as nails... a 'natural litigator' who is 'experienced and aggressive" (World Trademark Review); "a real client's lawyer, always very tenacious in looking after their interests…He is good to work with and gets the best out of his team." and "has impeccable judgement on strategic matters" (Chambers); "outstanding experience in this arena makes him a force of nature in the courtroom" (IAM Patent 100). David was recognised as the UK Practitioner of the Year at the 2020 Annual Managing IP EMEA Awards. · Intellectual Property

Dean Poster

Dean is a Partner in the Corporate department. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, sports-related mergers and acquisitions, and property-related corporate work - with the latter including deals in excess of £1.5 billion. Client companies come from a wide range of industries, most notably real estate agencies and financial services entities, and include names such as CB Richard Ellis and Dover Corporation. Dean is a member of the firm's Sports law group and has recently been involved in a number of football-related transactions, including the acquisition of Bolton Wanderers, the acquisition of Leeds United on behalf of the Cellino family and the sale of Leyton Orient FC on behalf of Matchroom Sports. Before joining Mishcon de Reya, Dean spent over 15 years at US law firms in London. In view of his US connections and clients, he has been appointed Co-Regional Head of Mishcon de Reya's International Development Group for the US, responsible for developing and strengthening the firm's relationships with US law firms. · Corporate / M&A

Edward Hughes-Power

Ed is a Partner in the Commercial Real Estate department with over 15 years’ experience. He has specialist expertise in high value investment deals and complex development projects across all sectors. He has also developed a particular expertise in the alternative residential sector including PBSA and Build-to-Rent. In addition, Ed is highly experienced in landlord and tenant matters, particularly on significant pre-let agreements. Ed acts for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from listed corporates and UK and overseas property companies to developers and private investors. His clients include Derwent London PLC, Endurance Land LLP, Nan Fung Group, O&H Properties, GWM Capital, NP Investment Management, Watkin Jones PLC and specialist student developer Fusion Students. His recent highlights include advising Derwent London on the pre-letting of the Brunel Building in Paddington to (amongst others) Sony Pictures Entertainment, Premier League and Paymentsense and the ongoing redevelopment of the Network Building, W1 (which is targeting a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating and NABERS 4 Star rating). Ed also acted for Watkin Jones PLC on the sale and forward funding of the build-to-rent development at the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, and advised Hong Kong based investor Nan Fung Group and developer Endurance Land on two pre-lets totalling 114,000 sq ft within The Bailey in the City of London. He recently advised student accommodation provider Fusion Students on the sale and forward funding of a student portfolio to US investor Cain International and on the new £210 million student accommodation site at Brent Cross Town, forming part of Related Argent's regeneration scheme in North West London. · Real Estate

Elliot Wilson

Elliot is a Partner in the Real Estate department. He has extensive experience advising developers, entrepreneurial landowners, investors, commercial landlords, corporate occupiers, and technology and life science companies on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions with particular areas of expertise including: renewable energy projects; strategic land development; commercial landlord and tenant; the acquisition of land for commercial and residential development; real estate aspects of international expansion into the UK. · Real Estate

Emilia Piskorz

Emilia is a Managing Associate in the Private Wealth Disputes Team with extensive experience of a wide range of private wealth disputes including trust and estate disputes. Emilia has particular expertise advising and representing corporate and individual trustees, beneficiaries and those with an interest in an estate. Emilia's work ranges from high value, complex, and hostile litigation through to acting for trustees in applications to court. She has recently litigated in England, Jersey, Guernsey, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Monaco, Bermuda, Cayman, Panama, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. Emilia is an affiliate member of STEP. She is a committee member of ConTrA, the Contentious Trusts Association and an Associate Member of ACTAPS (The Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists). · Private Wealth

Emily Knight

Emily Knight is a Partner in the Mishcon de Reya Employment team, advising both employers and senior executives on all aspects of employment law. Emily advises clients across a wide range of business sectors including financial services, private equity, technology, energy, commercial property, luxury goods and retail. Emily specialises in steering senior executives through high-stakes and career-threatening situations such as workplace investigations, team moves and negotiated exits. Most recently, Emily has acted for several high-profile C-Suite executives in connection with sensitive investigations involving allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, and workplace relationships. She also has extensive experience of complex litigation, both in the High Court and Employment Tribunal. Day-to-day, Emily provides HR assistance to corporate clients on all issues which arise during the employment life cycle. Emily is a key member of the firm’s M/POWERED WOMEN Group. She also sits on the Investigations Steering Committee and regularly delivers training on investigations and workplace conduct. · Employment

Emily Nicholson

Emily is a Partner in Mishcon Private. Her practice centres on complex commercial cases and she acts for a wide range of clients including individuals, families, companies and not for profit organisations. She has experience across a range of commercial disputes and in a variety of forums, often acting for international clients in complex and multi-faceted disputes. In particular she has experience in breaches of contract, confidence and fiduciary duty, fraud claims and shareholder disputes. As a key part of her offering, Emily acts as a trusted advisor to her clients - assisting with any dispute that might arise including issues between partners (business and romantic), disputes over gifts/loans, problems involving privacy and data protection or issues with friends and family. Notably, Emily acted for Gina Miller in both of her successful landmark constitutional judicial review cases against the government – the first in 2016 in relation to parliamentary approval of the triggering of Article 50 and the second in 2019 in relation to the legality of the Prime Minister's prorogation of parliament. Emily is a trustee of the Book Bus Foundation, a charity that is working to improve child literacy rates in Africa, Asia and South America by providing children with books and the inspiration and skills to read them. · Commercial Litigation

Emma MacIntyre

Emma is a Partner in the Real Estate department, specialising in property disputes. She has dealt with wide range of property matters concerning all types of property interests and acting for significant property owning companies, large corporate occupiers, retailers and high net worth individuals. Much of Emma's work involves advising on complex legal issues where litigation is often involved or contemplated. She is particularly experienced in dilapidations claims and contract/joint venture disputes having acted on a number that have involved proceedings and trials. She has also worked on contentious business lease renewals (both unopposed and opposed), property management issues (such as recovery of arrears, service charge disputes, consents and rent reviews), quiet enjoyment, contract disputes, trespass claims, covenant disputes, easements (including rights to light and rights of way) and adverse possession. · Real Estate