Boodle Hatfield LLP

Aleem Khan

Aleem’s practice encompasses all aspects of real estate development. He provides end-to-end advice on residential and mixed-use schemes. With a strong track record in complex transactions, Aleem regularly advises on conditional contracts involving sales and planning overage, option and regeneration agreements, freehold reversion sales, affordable housing arrangements, and serviced land disposals. He ensures that legal strategies are closely aligned with client objectives effectively through a strong commercial lens. · Real Estate

Andrea Zavos

Andrea is the Senior Partner of the Firm and a member of the contentious trust & estates team. She specialises in advising individuals, trustees and trust companies in complex, high value disputes both domestically and internationally. Andrea is aware that family relationships are often at stake and approaches the resolution of disputes with that in mind. She is highly regarded for her ability to engage with clients and other professionals in a sympathetic and constructive manner. She is able to absorb the emotive issues whilst focussing on the end game when acting for family members or trustees. She works closely with wealthy families on generational succession planning including wills, trusts, wealth protection structures and pre and post nuptial agreements. · Trusts & Estates

Andrew Loan

Andrew is a corporate tax lawyer with over 20 years' experience advising on a wide variety of corporate tax and VAT matters, particularly taxation issues in the context of acquisitions and disposals of public and private companies, and also the taxation of corporate groups, finance, real estate and investment funds, and tax investigations and disputes. He holds a Chartered Tax Adviser qualification, which is known as the highest and most prestigious chartered credentials in professional tax expertise in the UK. Andrew also served as an officer of the taxes committee of the International Bar Association for several years. Andrew has written articles in a variety of publications, including Taxation, the Tax Journal, and PLC magazine, and speak regularly at international conferences on tax matters. · Tax

Andrew Wilmot-Smith

Andrew’s practice covers all aspects of commercial real estate, but with a particular emphasis on development and investment projects for family offices, landed estates, and other private capital entities. He has extensive experience of advising landowners on the development of strategic land, and UK and overseas entities on investment and development projects within Central London. He manages the investment portfolios of several family-owned property companies and regularly acts for both borrowers and lenders on the real estate aspects of property finance transactions. · Real Estate

Charlie Hewlett

Charlie is a Partner in the firm's Corporate and Commercial team. He advises on a range of corporate matters including M&A, reorganisations and equity raises. He also helps a number of private companies with their day-to-day corporate and commercial arrangements. In particular, he specialises in working with entrepreneurs and family businesses. In addition to his legal experience, Charlie was formerly a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. · Corporate / M&A

Clare Pooley

Clare advises high net worth individuals, families and family offices on a diverse range of private client matters, particularly internationally. Her areas of work include advising on: personal taxation and tax planning, such as the foreign ownership of UK residential property; the administration, (re)structuring and taxation of domestic and offshore trusts; cross-border estate and family succession/governance planning. · Private Client

Clare Stirzaker

Clare specialises in succession planning and related legal and tax matters for multi-generational families and their family offices. She works alongside some of the world’s leading private businesses and her practice focuses on how to help individuals developing their succession planning strategy and designing bespoke asset holding and wealth management structures including PTCs, limited partnership structures and foundations. Clare has particular experience of advising and supporting families on implementing family and corporate governance frameworks to support successful wealth transition. She also supports clients in developing their philanthropic strategy to enable greater and more effective wealth distribution. Clare is recognised for her work having won multiple awards from the leading private wealth award bodies. Prior to joining the firm, Clare was a Partner at PwC and also worked at Barclays Wealth, providing her with a real breadth of experience and commercial insight across the private client sector. Clare is the Committee Chair for Remember A Charity newly launched wealth adviser committee – more information on this can be found here. · Private Client

Colin Young

Colin acts on a wide range of property and commercial matters. He has particular experience in property litigation matters for landlords, tenants, freeholders and developers. This includes strategic property management advice, breaches of covenant, rent recovery, contentious rent review, dilapidations, contentious assignments and alterations, lease renewals, both contested (especially to free up sites for development) and uncontested, trespass, tenant insolvency and forfeiture / surrender of leases. His other areas of work include commercial disputes and licensing. · Real Estate

David Davies

David advises owner-managed businesses, family offices, international investors, entrepreneurs, venture-backed companies and management teams on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs, public and private fundraising and corporate reorganisations in the small to mid-cap market. He also advises UHNWs on establishing family investment companies and related governance matters. David has particular expertise in the technology sector and a strong interest in the ESG-driven, impact economy. His practice is grounded in taking a personable approach to helping dynamic, high-growth businesses navigate complex transactions and strategic growth milestones, both in the UK and internationally. · Corporate / M&A

David Rawlence

David has experience in all areas of commercial and residential property matters including acquisitions, disposals, financing and development as well as landlord and tenant work. He acts for landed estates, property companies, family offices, lenders, developers, hotel owner operators and individuals. David also has a particular expertise in acting for both owners and operators in the flexible office sector. · Real Estate

Dom Rothbarth

Dom is a private client lawyer specialising in tax matters, acting for an international client base. Dom advises entrepreneurs, investors, senior executives, financial services professionals, private banks, family offices and trustees on a broad range of matters, including the structuring of business interests and investments throughout the lifecycle of a business, wealth structuring and succession planning generally, remuneration strategies, carried interest and co-investment arrangements. Dom also regularly supports clients in navigating HMRC investigations and disputes and has a particular interest in helping clients to resolve complex tax scenarios in a pragmatic and commercial manner. · Private Client

Edward Allan

Edward acts predominately for high net worth families and individuals on a range of acquisitions and disposals of high value residential property. He also advises both landlords and tenants in respect of statutory lease extensions in some of the most desirable parts of London. He has experience in all aspects of residential property work. He focuses in particular on the higher end of the London and country property markets and regularly assists individuals who are purchasing, selling, mortgaging or letting high value homes, investment properties or country estates. He works hand in hand with our private client and corporate teams in structuring transactions in a tax efficient manner. · Real Estate

Eleanor Sepanski

Eleanor deals with all aspects of onshore UK tax, private client and trust work and her clients include some large family businesses. She also advises on offshore structures and international tax and estate planning, with a particular interest in the USA. Eleanor further specialises in charity law, dealing in particular with governance issues, philanthropy and CSR planning for companies. Eleanor is a member of the firm’s Art Law & More team and advises on the full spectrum of art matters for private clients. Her clients include wealthy families and individuals with large art collections as well as high profile artists and not-for-profit art foundations. Eleanor also has experience in advising artists on their estate planning and philanthropy. · Private Client

Emily Brand

Emily is known for her creative and discreet approach acting in high profile cases often involving extensive wealth or complex issues concerning children including international relocation. She frequently advises on cases involving family businesses or private equity. She has worked on a number of ground-breaking cases including Radmacher v Granatino (concerning a German prenuptial contract), Prest v Petrodel (piercing the corporate veil) and Young v Young (involving complex financial structures, asset tracing, non-disclosure and enforcement). She also has particular expertise and interest in advising on disputes concerning children on the autism spectrum. Whether in court proceedings or negotiating private settlements, Emily delivers results for her clients, always focusing on their specific needs and concerns. She is widely respected for her combination of compassion for her clients’ unique circumstances, and her astute ability for intelligent problem-solving. Emily is also a qualified Arbitrator. · Family

Fred Clark

Fred is a corporate and commercial specialist who advises businesses on a full range of advisory and transactional matters. He is also a well-regarded practitioner in the Arts and Culture sector. He routinely advises companies, entrepreneurs and HNW owners on their various business arrangements in a range of sectors, with a focus on privately owned businesses. In the business services sector, Fred is a transactional lawyer who regularly advises on M&A, debt and equity finance, shareholder and Board governance issues and other advisory matters. He works with clients to negotiate the full range of commercial agreements. His clients are generally, but not exclusively, privately funded ventures. In the Arts and Culture sector, Fred is experienced at advising clients on contractual, advisory and strategic matters. His clients are from across the art and classic car markets and include high profile private collectors, international museums, leading dealers, artists and well-established third-party intermediaries and advisors. He understands the intricacies of underlying assets and their markets and has advised on many high value transactions. He is also knowledgeable about collecting and museum best practice. Fred also has experience advising clients on data protection and data privacy matters, following the adoption of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK’s GDPR. He advises clients on their compliance with data protection and marketing rules. He is also knowledgeable about intellectual property matters. Fred is an author of the Firm’s dedicated art law blog, Art Law & More and a member of the digital assets team – a cross departmental specialist group who advise on everything from cryptocurrency to digital artwork and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Alongside his client work, Fred is on the advisory board of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. He is also a Trustee Director of the De Morgan Foundation, a charity that was established in 1967 and which owns and exhibits an unparalleled collection of artwork by the late 19th and early 20th century artists William and Evelyn De Morgan. · Corporate / M&A

Geoffrey Todd

Geoffrey gives UK and international tax and estate planning advice to individuals, trustees and family businesses. He advises on tax planning strategies including the use of trusts and alternative structures, on residence and domicile issues and on cross-border estate planning, particularly between the US and the UK. He helps owners of landed and other estates with succession planning, including the protection of wealth against divorce, and philanthropy. Geoffrey acts for entrepreneurs and owners of established trading companies, whose businesses include luxury retail, manufacturing, medical research and property. · Private Client

Graham Winkley

Graham's practice covers a wide breadth of residential and commercial property, but with a particular emphasis on enfranchisement and the disposal of residential and mixed use properties. He has extensive experience of advising landed estates, property developers and individual property owners. · Real Estate

Hayden Bailey

Hayden has an extensive range of private client and tax planning experience and advises entrepreneurs, family business owners and city executives on their UK capital taxation strategy, wills, trusts, life assurance based products, partnerships, shareholder issues and corporate governance. Hayden also advises non-UK domiciliaries on their UK taxation exposure and asset holding structures and Family Office arrangements. · Private Client

James Ferguson

James specialises in family law dealing with all matters arising from the breakdown of a marriage/relationship. His legal specialisations include: separation and divorce, civil partnership dissolution, financial proceedings, children, and pre-marital pre-civil partnership and separation agreements. · Family

Jonathan Hyndman

Jonathan specialises in real estate debt finance. Jonathan advises lenders, financial institutions, sponsors, servicers and corporate borrowers on all forms of real estate debt finance including senior and mezzanine loan origination, loan restructuring and loan workout. He has a particular focus on real estate development finance where he combines his construction law and finance expertise to provide commercial solutions for his clients. Jonathan acts for property developers and funders on a wide variety of real estate development projects, advising on development agreements and joint ventures, acquisition and development finance documents and the preparation and negotiation of construction documents. · Real Estate

Julie Howard

ulie is a Partner in the Private Client & Tax department. Julie specialises in tax and estate planning for individuals, families and trusts, with a particular emphasis on international planning. She has extensive experience in advising on complex offshore structures and family governance as well as planning for individuals both leaving and arriving in the UK. She works with many clients from the Middle East and Africa in relation to global wealth structuring and asset protection. She also holds a Chartered Tax Adviser qualification, which is recognised as the highest and most prestigious chartered credentials in professional tax expertise in the UK. · Private Client

Katie O\'Callaghan

Katie advises clients on all aspects of family law, with a particular emphasis on high net worth financial remedy proceedings on divorce. A high proportion of her workload involves complex wealth structures both in the UK and abroad. She often acts for clients where the majority of the wealth is tied up in a family business which raises issues not only about the value of the company but also the ways in which funds can be extracted from it to buy out one spouse’s interest. She has a varied client base with backgrounds in private equity, sport, retail and technology. Katie has a particular interest in the preparation and negotiation of pre- and post-nuptial agreements in order to seek to protect certain assets in the event of a divorce. She works closely with the Firm’s corporate and private client teams to advise entrepreneurs, landed estate families and trustees in relation to such agreements. These may also be preceded by cohabitation agreements for unmarried partners as a means of regulating each partner’s financial contribution to their relationship. Katie has expertise in private children law matters which often involve disputes regarding the arrangements for the children upon their parents’ separation, applications by one parent to relocate a child elsewhere in the UK or abroad and financial provision for children of unmarried parents. She has particular experience in dealing with cases involving an autistic child. Katie is also a qualified mediator. Mediation works by helping people who have decided to separate, end a civil partnership or divorce or who are trying to deal with changes in family relationships to talk things through. Katie is trained to help clients focus on what really matters to them and their family and to help clients to discuss and agree the best arrangements for the future, whether that be in relation to their children, their money or the practicalities of how life will work in the future. Find out more about mediation here. Clients and Counsel commend her support throughout what can be a difficult process and her detailed knowledge of the law. She is dedicated to securing the best outcome for her clients, whether through negotiated settlements or via the court. · Family

Kellie Jones

Kellie's practice encompasses a wide range of commercial and property litigation. Kellie has substantial experience in dealing with commercial litigation for privately owned companies, family businesses and high net worth individuals, acting for both claimants and defendants. Many cases involve an international element. She has particular experience in partnership and joint venture disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, high value contractual claims, professional negligence claims, misrepresentation claims, and debt recovery, insolvency and enforcement. Kellie also has substantial experience in dealing with all aspects of property litigation, including enforcing freehold restrictive covenants, disputes over rights of way, development disputes, party wall claims, enfranchisement litigation and claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. Kellie acts for estates, freeholders, landlords, tenants and individuals. Kellie also advises on all landlord and tenant matters in commercial, residential and mixed use buildings, including advising on business lease renewals, both contested and uncontested, possession, service charge issues and breaches of covenant including dilapidations, repair, alterations, assignment and remedies, including forfeiture. Kellie has experience of acting for clients in proceedings in the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), County Courts, High Court, Commercial Court and Court of Appeal. · Litigation

Kyra Motley

Kyra specialises in multi-jurisdictional wealth planning, international tax and trusts, succession planning and family governance for high net worth (“HNW”) and ultra high net worth (“UHNW”) clients, their families as well as related advice to family offices. She has extensive experience in advising on wealth preservation and tax efficient structures in an international context and is well recognised for advising clients in relation to complex cross-border tax and estate planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals and families. Many of Kyra’s clients are from the Middle East, particularly Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Her commercial acumen, “hands-on approach”, “attention to detail” and strong cultural understanding enables her to assume the role of trusted advisor to many families and individuals in the MENA region. Over the last 12 years, she has built a solid reputation managing global legal affairs and has particular expertise in structuring wealth so that the devolution complies with the Islamic Sharia principles of succession (where this is needed). She has been widely recognised for her achievements by the legal directories including Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. This includes being listed as a foreign expert (Middle East-wide) in the Chambers High Net Worth guide and shortlisted in the same category for the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2022. Kyra is also Band 1 ranked for our Tier 1 Family Office and Funds practice and is a ‘Leading Individual’ in Legal 500 UK. Kyra is a regular traveller to the Middle East and she is also a contributor to the legal and national press and has recently shared her insights in the Times, the Telegraph, the FT and CityAM. · Private Client

Laurence Morgan

Laurence advises on all areas of tax, trust and estate planning for individuals, trustees and family offices, with a particular focus on complex cross-border tax advice. A significant number of his clients have connections with the US or Spain. He regularly advises on pre-arrival planning for individuals moving to the UK, as well as on asset holding structures for international families with members resident in multiple jurisdictions. This often involves working with advisors in other jurisdictions to provide his clients with coordinated advice. Laurence has particular experience in advising on matters with a US connection and he regularly advises US citizens who are resident in the UK or otherwise have connections with the UK on US/UK cross-border matters. Laurence also speaks fluent Spanish and before becoming a partner Laurence spent six months in Barcelona on secondment to the tax group of a leading Spanish law firm. There he worked alongside Spanish advisors and gained an understanding of Spanish tax and estate planning that assists him in advising on cross-border matters involving the UK and Spain. · Tax

Mark Lindley

Mark specialises in resolving disputes regarding trusts, estates, tax, gifts and matters relating to mental capacity, with particular expertise in relation to offshore and cross-border estates. He has advised on matters where proceedings have taken place in many jurisdictions, including Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Scotland and elsewhere. The types of work Mark deals with include: Breach of trust and removal claims against trustees, executors and administrators; Advising trustees, executors and beneficiaries in relation to applications relating to the interpretation of trust deeds, wills and other documents, the approval of decisions by trustees and other issues arising in the administration of trusts and estates; Professional negligence claims against trustees and professional advisers, particularly relating to advice on transactions giving rise to unexpected tax consequences and claims seeking to set aside such transactions; Claims relating to the validity of wills, gifts and other documents challenged on the grounds of undue influence, fraud and a lack of mental capacity; Claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; Proprietary estoppel claims and claims based unjust enrichment; Claims relating to Deputies and Attorneys in the Court of Protection, including applications for statutory wills and approval of gifts; and Unfair prejudice petitions / claims for just and equitable winding up, particularly of family businesses. He also works with individuals, families and trustees in relation to planning needs, drawing on his experience as both a private wealth adviser and litigation lawyer. Mark is often approached to act as litigation friend for protected parties and as replacement trustee or personal representative in removal proceedings. · Trusts & Estates

Matthew Bennett

Matthew advises both UK and overseas resident individuals and families on the management of their legal, personal and tax affairs, and on the transfer of wealth down the generations. Much of his work includes advising on trusts and other asset holding structures. His client base ranges from entrepreneurs and company directors, to authors and artists. He also advises UK and overseas trustees and other fiduciaries on their duties and responsibilities and particular aspects of trust law. He acts as executor and as trustee for his clients and for a number of charitable trusts. Matthew qualified and worked in the City before moving away from London and becoming a partner in 2000. He returned to London in 2015 and joined the Firm in 2020. · Private Client

Michael Duffy

Michael's practice covers a broad range of both domestic and offshore private client matters including tax and estate planning, wills, trusts and estate administration. Much of his domestic practice relates to the landed estate sector, advising trustees and beneficiaries of complex and dynastic UK trusts in relation to tax and succession planning and trustee compliance. Michael also advises international clients and trustees of offshore structures (including private trust companies), in relation to the ongoing administration of the structures, UK tax advice and in relation to specific projects and restructuring. He has a particular interest in multi-jurisdictional succession planning. · Private Client

Naomi Heathcote

Naomi’s practice centres on advising urban and rural estates on residential property matters. She has a particular focus on leasehold enfranchisement, where she has a wealth of experience, a loyal base of real estate clients and is recognised as a leading specialist in this niche area of law. · Real Estate

Natasha Hassall

Natasha advises on long term estate planning, handling both onshore and offshore trusts, tax planning and wills. She is very experienced in dealing with large landed estates, including heritage property issues. She is experienced in advising on complicated trusts; addressing long-term asset preservation and devolution questions; and capital tax planning. She also advises families based outside the UK and UK resident members of wealthy foreign families. Natasha is a member of the firm’s Art Law & More team and advises owners and trustees on heritage property issues, including around substantial art collections. She has expertise in succession planning, conditional exemption and gifts in lieu, as well as chattel rental and general tax advice in relation to art and estate planning, such as IHT and CGT. · Private Client

Neil Biswas

Neil specialises in development and investment work with a particular focus on the living sector. With over two decades of experience, he regularly advises a wide range of clients – including developers, regeneration specialists, investors, and end users – across all major property asset classes. Neil has built a strong reputation in the market for advising on complex, large-scale transactions. His expertise spans housing and regeneration both in the private and affordable sectors, student accommodation and mixed-use development, joint ventures, property funds, and real estate finance. He is particularly well known for his work in the London market and has acted on some of the UK’s most high-profile development and residential investment projects. · Real Estate

Nicola Bushby

Nicola is a Partner in the firm's Private Wealth Disputes team. She specialises in trust and estate litigation for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, often involving complex capacity issues. Nicola has particular expertise in claims for breach of trust, inter-family disputes in relation to the administration of estates and constructive trusts, Will disputes and setting aside transactions by reason of mental incapacity and undue influence. Her cases regularly involve multiple jurisdictions and recovering money held offshore. She has enormous strength across the whole spectrum of Court of Protection work, with particular emphasis on contentious financial applications concerning the estates and businesses of those who may have lost capacity to manage them, financial abuse, gift and statutory Will disputes and the removal of attorneys and deputies. She is particularly skilful and experienced at dealing with the dynamics of family disputes and adept at untangling the most difficult and challenging of cases. · Private Wealth / Private Client

Rahul Thakrar

Rahul advises ultra-high net worth's, family offices, entrepreneurs and businesses on a variety of corporate and banking matters including fund raisings throughout the capital stack (such as equity, senior debt and mezzanine debt transactions), joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions as well as assisting clients with day to day commercial agreements. He also has significant experience in advising on private funds in the real estate, private equity and venture capital sectors on structuring and regulatory matters. Uniquely for a lawyer, Rahul has undertaken all of his Chartered Financial Analyst examinations (a qualification typically achieved only by senior bankers) and therefore regularly assists clients with negotiating the key commercial terms of a transaction as well as then finding a structure which provides the necessary commercial outcomes. · Corporate / M&A

Rajeev Joshi

ajeev has extensive experience of real estate investment, development and finance work for institutional investors, foreign investors, asset managers, financial institutions, family offices and entrepreneurial property companies. He acts regularly for lenders and borrowers on real estate secured lending transactions as well as acquiring and disposing of high value portfolios of investment properties as well as providing advice to developers on large scale developments. Rajeev also has particular experience in the hotel sector where he acts on the acquisition, development, leasing and financing of hotels. He also acts for entrepreneurial developers on residential development schemes. · Real Estate

Rebecca Foden

Rebecca's practice encompasses a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration with a particular focus on shareholder disputes, art law and art litigation and cross border civil fraud claims. Rebecca acts for companies, international clients and high net worth individuals. Rebecca has substantial experience in dealing with various aspects of commercial litigation, most recently focusing on partnership and shareholder disputes, professional negligence claims, high value contractual claims, insolvency, defamation and enforcement. Rebecca has acted in a wide range of matters across a number of sectors before the High Court, and arbitrations in the LCIA (London seat) and the ICC (London seat). In the field of art law, including art litigation, Rebecca represents clients across the spectrum of the art world including collectors, dealers, artists, foundation and galleries. She has experience in dealing with various aspects of art litigation, including cases involving, professional negligence, attribution, authenticity, disputed ownership, fraud, guarantees, recovery, insolvency and enforcement. Rebecca is a co-founder and regular contributor to the Firm’s dedicated art law blog, Art Law & More. · Litigation

Reem Al-Jumaily

Reem is a fluent Arabic speaking partner specialising in the sale and purchase of UK residential property, including prime central London and large London development projects. Reem has over sixteen years’ experience handling client property transactions and advises both high net worth individuals and companies (offshore and domestic). She also has vast experience in secured lending and advising private banks in property financing transactions. In 2021, Reem was appointed as a UK Ambassador of the Women Lawyers Group Middle East – an organisation aiming to enhance the professional development of women in the legal field in the Middle East. · Real Estate

Richard Beavan

Richard has been a corporate & commercial lawyer since 1998. He has extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, joint ventures, corporate and share capital reorganisations, investment funds, directors’ duties, corporate governance and a wide range of commercial contracts. Richard acts for entrepreneurs, investors, owner-managed companies, family businesses and management teams. · Corporate / M&A

Richard Elliott

Richard advises on M&A and joint ventures, corporate finance, real estate finance and structuring for private clients particularly with an international focus. His practice includes advising on asset finance matters, specialising in the sale/purchase, financing and structuring of aircraft assets, including business jets and helicopters, as well as luxury yachts. Richard also works across the sports and media sectors, advising businesses and UHNW individuals on corporate and commercial matters. · Corporate / M&A

Salpy Kouyoumjian

Salpy specialises in succession, tax, wealth preservation and estate planning advice for individuals and their families, as well as the trustees, private banks and family offices which support them. Salpy has extensive experience in designing and establishing bespoke international asset-holding and wealth management structures including PTCs, limited partnership structures, family investment companies, pooled investment vehicles and investment management/advisory structures. In recent years, she has established family offices in the UK, US, Monaco, the Channel Islands and Singapore. Prior to joining the Firm, Salpy spent five years at Clifford Chance and then 10 years at Baker & McKenzie where she was a partner in the Wealth Management team. Salpy is fluent in Arabic, French and Armenian. · Private Client

Sarah Rock

Sarah heads the Firm’s construction practice and specialises in both contentious and non-contentious advice. She has particular experience helping clients in relation to the Building Safety Act, sporting projects and digital construction. Sarah has vast experience of providing advice to assist clients with navigating and staying compliant with the Building Safety Act. From leaseholder certificates to registering higher-risk buildings to navigating the gateways processes Sarah is a market leader in this new and fast paced area of law. She has produced checklists to assist clients with complying with their obligations of managing higher-risk buildings and her dual specialisms of building safety and digital construction leaves her well placed to advise on the Golden Thread of Data. Sarah sits on the British Property Federation’s Building Safety Sounding Board. Sarah also specialises in the field of Building Information Modelling (BIM) having advised numerous clients on the incorporation of this technology into their projects. She has had several papers published on the subject as well as being a named contributor to the Chartered Institute Of Building’s Complex Projects Contract, having assisted with drafting of the BIM clauses. She also co-authored The Winfield Rock Report for the UK BIM Alliance. Having previously acted for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and a Premier League football club on all of the construction elements of its £100m new training ground facility, Sarah sits on the Firm’s Sports working group. Sarah is the Firm’s partner lead for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and sits on the board of Freehold LGBT+ CIC, a network for property professionals who identify as LGBT+. In April 2024 Sarah was awarded LGBTQIA Corporate Champion of the Year at the DIVA Awards. · Construction

Saskia Arthur

Saskia has a diverse client base and wide ranging practice focusing on the residential, rural and landed estates sectors and advising on all areas of property law that impact on high net worth individuals, large land owners and estates. She heads the Firm’s residential practice and acts for both domestic and foreign nationals and works closely with our tax, private client and corporate & commercial teams on the often complex arrangements surrounding such transactions. With a number of urban and country estate clients, along with property investors and private clients, she acts on all major property matters including sales and purchases of high value residential property, landed estates and commercial farming operations, overage arrangements, landlord and tenant issues (whether residential, commercial or agricultural), easements, first registrations, sporting and telecommunications, together with the ongoing day to day management advice on a myriad of issues. She regularly acts on acquisitions and purchases of the most expensive land, farms and residential properties and estates in England. · Residential Property

Shaima Jillood

Shaima is amongst the leading UK lawyers acting for Middle Eastern and International Ultra High Net Worth individuals, families and companies. She is experienced in all aspects of residential property including acquisitions, disposals and financing of UK real estate. She also acts for many domestic and international Private and Islamic banks. She works closely with our private client & tax team when advising clients on tax efficient ownership structures in respect of all their UK investments. Shaima’s commercial acumen, hands-on approach and fluency in Arabic enables her to assume the role of trusted advisor to many families in the region. Over the past 20 years, she has successfully built a solid reputation in the London Real Estate market and the Middle East region as the go-to person for legal advice for many international families, intermediaries and businesses. · Real Estate

Simon Fitzpatrick

Simon's practice covers a broad range of commercial litigation. He is leader of the commercial litigation team and head of the arts group. He provides services to a range of clients including high net worth individuals and privately owned companies, recently advising on: Corporate disputes Contractual disputes Claims for breach of warranty Art law and art litigation Professional negligence claims Family business disputes Commercial Agents Regulations Misrepresentation claims Partnership and Shareholder disputes Debt recovery Employment litigation Proceedings based on the Hotel Proprietors Act Property disputes Much of Simon’s work is for international clients and involves working with lawyers in other jurisdictions to resolve commercial disputes both in this country and abroad. Boodle Hatfield is the London member of TAGLaw, a global alliance of high quality, independent law firms with more than 4,000 lawyers worldwide. Simon heads up our relationship with that network. Simon has specialist knowledge of art law and art litigation including auction house misattribution, auction house negligence, authenticity and provenance claims. Simon also has particular knowledge of the law relating to agrochemicals and the pesticide regulation system both in England and Europe and regularly advises clients on regulatory issues arising from the sale of pesticides. · Commercial Litigation

Simon Gorham

Simon is head of employment and advises on the full range of employment law issues, both contentious and non-contentious, often across European and international jurisdictions. He has extensive experience of: Representing senior executives and investment professionals on sensitive and high-stakes matters, including on the Senior Managers & Certification Regime Advising corporates, financial services institutions and family offices on employment and employment regulatory issues, investigations, multi-jurisdictional re-organisations, whistleblowing, discrimination, grievances, dismissals and defending claims Advising family businesses on UK and international employment law issues Advising on the employment aspects of a wide variety of private equity, M&A and outsourcing transactions (with a particular emphasis on the application of TUPE), as well as restructuring schemes and IPOs Advising on protecting confidential information and enforcing post-termination restrictions Bringing and defending employment litigation in the Employment Tribunal and High Court Simon previously worked in the employment department of an international law firm and has spent time on secondment at in-house legal and HR teams at an international bank and at a global professional services firm. Simon is the Vice-Chair of the Employment and Immigration Law Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. · Employment

Simon Kerrigan

Simon deals with all aspects of residential property work, in particular landlord and tenant matters. He has detailed knowledge and experience in enfranchisement cases, both for landlords (including large landed estates both in and outside London) and tenants. He also deals with acquisitions and disposals for high net worth individuals. · Real Estate

Simon Rylatt

Simon specialises in UK and international tax and estate planning for individuals and trusts. His work includes estate planning strategies for wealthy families and their businesses (encompassing jurisdictional and conflicts of laws considerations), governance, divorce issues, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and generational succession planning. Simon also advises on high value, contentious trusts and estate disputes for both onshore and offshore clients. · Private Client

Sophie Henwood

ophie specialises in commercial property. Sophie has extensive experience in providing cradle to grave advice to high net worth individuals, family offices and private capital entities on the acquisition, financing, asset management and disposal of property. She has advised on a broad spectrum of asset classes including offices (including in the shared space economy), industrial estates, healthcare, retail and agricultural. Sophie advises landowners and developers on section 106 agreements, option agreements, promotion agreements, overage agreements, rights of light deeds, neighbourly agreements and deeds of easement. She regularly advises on the installation of telecommunications equipment and has a special interest in drones and other new technologies that will disrupt the built environment and provide opportunities for landowners. Sophie is well-versed in advising occupiers as well, guiding them through the process of leasing retail and office space and has significant experience acting for specialist property lenders in connection with the deployment of capital secured by charge over a property asset. · Real Estate

William Rollin

William's practice covers all areas of matrimonial finance from cohabitation agreements and pre-nuptial agreements through post-nuptial agreements and the resolution of finances on divorce. He is particularly interested in complex HNW and UHNW financial cases which often include trusts, offshore trusts, private equity, funds, leverage, and also layered domestic and international business interests. William is a trained practitioner in both the Collaborative Process and the Resolution Together (“one couple, one lawyer”) approach to making children and financial arrangements upon divorce. With a strong personal commitment to early case resolution, (where appropriate) William actively supports his clients in identifying and exploring settlement in the most appropriate settlement process. He welcomes enquiries on dispute resolution and can guide clients through the range of processes including Resolution Together, Collaborative and Quasi-Collaborative, Early Neutral Evaluation, Mediation, Hybrid Mediation and solicitor negotiation. Where appropriate, William leverages his experience to adopt a flexible approach, borrowing from more than one of these processes to find a bespoke dispute resolution model. William is also an advocate for arbitration – which offers clients speedy access to the leading expert arbitrators who act as privately appointed decision-makers – with binding effect. Arbitration has the particular benefits of speed, choice of arbitrator and a guarantee of shielding the privacy of those with media profiles and / or complex assets. When litigation is unavoidable, William is an experienced, robust and strategic litigator, adept at pulling together the right team to ensure that the process generates the best outcome for his client. William speaks good French and some German. His expertise in finances is complemented by a long-standing interest in complex children cases, including international relocation cases and transfer of residence applications. Many of William’s children cases have involved issues of parental alcohol or substance abuse – often coupled with psychological and psychiatric concerns. William also has significant experience in managing cases with a public and private interface – for example where his clients have been subject to malicious allegations of impropriety and the Police or Social Services have become involved. · Family

Zoe Jacob

Zoe heads the firm's UK immigration team. She is an immigration expert with over a decade of experience advising both individuals and businesses in all areas of UK immigration, nationality and asylum law. She is known for her client-centric approach and her ability to find innovative, commercially viable solutions in unusual circumstances. She represents UHNW and HNW individuals who come to her for her track record of exceptional client service, and tangible results, when advising on complex matters, particularly those which fall outside the Immigration Rules. She has extensive experience working with individuals relocating to the UK for the purposes of investment or establishment of a UK entity. Zoe also works seamlessly with businesses applying for sponsor licences and Skilled Worker visas, and helps these clients navigate the ever-changing sponsor licence compliance regime. Zoe has significant experience working with the Home Office to achieve the best possible outcomes for her clients. Her previous experience acting as independent counsel for the Home Office in a range of appeals in the Immigration Tribunal gives her a unique insight into the Home Office decision making process. Zoe was appointed as a member of the Law Society’s Immigration Law Committee in September 2023 for an initial three-year term. This policy advisory committee helps shape Law Society policy on the immigration-related issues affecting the profession, access to justice and the rule of law – now and into the future. Zoe is also a course trainer for the ‘Introduction to student sponsor license compliance’ course run by HJT training – a specialist training provider focussing on education on human rights and business issues, as well as immigration and employment law. · Immigration