Lawyers in England

Alex Heaton

Alex is a commercial property lawyer of over 20 years’ experience. He advises on all aspects of real estate transactions, including landlord and tenant matters, sales and acquisitions. For landlords, Alex frequently advises on property portfolios, leading lease negotiations, preparing template documents, managing tenant logistics, and disposing of surplus property. He also has significant experience representing tenants, particularly in the financial and professional services sectors, guiding corporate real estate occupiers through office relocations and complex lease negotiations. Alex has acted for tenants moving into some of London’s newest high-profile buildings.

Keystone Law

Alex Hutchings

Partner, Head of Real Estate

Greenwoods

Alex Jakubowski

Alex is a Partner in the Commercial Litigation team and has particular experience with contractual disputes, financial services disputes, professional negligence, commercial agency disputes and IT disputes.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Alex Jay

Partner and Head of Insolvency and Asset Recovery Alex is a global asset recovery specialist who leads the contentious insolvency and asset recovery team, focusing on disputes arising from fraudulent conduct and distressed or insolvent situations, often involving allegations of breach of duty, misuse of powers and dishonesty. Alex focuses on maximising returns to his clients, and recovering substantial assets quickly and efficiently. Alex has recently represented liquidators in a claim for over $450m against an offshore bank and its former owner, relating to suspected widescale tax frauds affecting numerous insolvent entities. Alex has experience acting for a wide range of clients, including insolvency practitioners, corporates, individuals, family offices, financial institutions as well as governments and public bodies. Alex has led a number of successful cases on behalf of his clients in a wide variety of sectors, securing the recovery of many millions in the process. Alex’s recent experience includes acting for: Liquidators in a claim for over $450m against an offshore bank and high net worth individual, relating to a widespread VAT carousel fraud operation Bondholders with debt of over $1 billion, in a corporate group that collapsed because of alleged fraudulent business activity Liquidators of a BVI company, seeking to recover over $800m of investor funds dissipated in a multi-jurisdictional Ponzi scheme Asset managers with significant holdings worth in excess of £100m, held by a party placed into special administration following an FCA investigation A major multinational, defending a claim by liquidators for over £100m relating to a group restructuring and disposal of a lease on landmark London premises Liquidators of Stanford International Bank, in connection with the second largest Ponzi scheme in history, with creditor-victims of over $7bn A sovereign island state, and a major African state, in both cases investigating wide scale corruption and misappropriation of state assets A major UAE retail and distribution company in connection with misappropriation of monies and assets within a corporate group A variety of Brazilian corporates and insolvency officeholders on asset recovery actions relating to substantial corporate asset stripping, corruption and fraud Liquidators of UAE entities incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre, including obtaining one of the first disclosure orders against former advisers in that jurisdiction

Stewarts Law LLP

Alex Jones

Alex Jones is a Principal Associate specialising in planning, highways, and environmental matters. Alex’s work comprises a mix of both contentious and non-contentious planning work, including drafting and negotiating complex s106 agreements, providing highways advice, negotiating infrastructure agreements, undertaking planning due diligence on a variety of matters, providing strategic planning advice, undertaking judicial reviews, obtaining footpath and highway closures, and undertaking planning appeals. She acts for a wide range of clients, including public bodies, funders, commercial and residential developers, governmental departments, charities and retail clients. Alex's experience includes: Drafting and negotiating complex Section 106 Agreements, including the negotiation of the various planning agreements associated with the redevelopment of Birkenhead town centre and the Section 106 Agreement relating to the Eden Project in Lancashire; Negotiating sewer and highways agreements and providing support to the Real Estate Division, including inputting into development agreements, sale contracts and leases; Submitting a successful application for a screening direction from the Secretary of State in respect of the Council's decision to determinate that an application for a large development fell within the criteria for an Environmental Impact Assessment; Promoting a Development Consent Order for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project in Cheshire; Submitting appeals to the Secretary of State against the refusal or non-determination of planning applications; and Advising developers and landowners in relation to permitted development rights and changes of use. Alex regularly speaks at internal and external seminars aimed at local authority, public sector and private developer clients. She also delivers training for RICS and the Local Government Association.

Shoosmiths LLP

Alex Kaufmann

I specialise in advising on corporate transactions including M&A, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments as well as restructurings. I have extensive experience in advising on cross-border transactions with a particular emphasis on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Benelux and Nordic countries. I am first and foremost a transactional lawyer who specialises in advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions of all kinds, as well as on corporate joint ventures. I feel lucky that I am able to say that I enjoy what I do. My enjoyment comes from advising and helping clients and, in doing so, working with driven and talented people. My practice has a strong international element. For my international clients, I act as extension of their legal team in relation to their UK businesses, advising on legal issues that their business or investment may encounter in the UK. As their first point of contact, I coordinate the response within our firm and ensure that the client gets exactly what they require, within the timeframe they need it in. As a native German speaker, I am particularly well known for advising clients from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We have a fantastic team of German speakers in the firm who can advise clients from the German speaking regions in all core areas of English law. We understand the differences between business and legal cultures home and abroad and are adept at bridging these, thereby delivering real added value to our clients’ UK businesses.

Fladgate LLP

Alex Keenlyside

Alex is an experienced litigator specialising in contentious media and data protection matters. He primarily acts for media and technology companies in relation to content, with a particular emphasis on defamation, privacy and data protection disputes. Alex joined Bristows as a partner in December 2019. He is an experienced litigator specialising in contentious media and data protection matters. He primarily acts for media and technology companies in relation to content, with a particular emphasis on defamation, privacy and data protection disputes. Alex has advised various media publishers and internet service providers in relation to claims brought in libel, privacy, data protection and breach of confidence, including: Advising leading global internet companies on various cutting edge defamation, privacy and data protection matters, including the first “Right to Be Forgotten” claims to be determined at trial in the High Court. Acting for a number of mainstream media entities, including representing a leading international broadcaster and online content provider on a breach of confidence claim following its reporting on information contained in a mass data leak.

Bristows LLP

Alex Kelham

Sport is at the heart of my work (and my life!). I'm known as a leading sports lawyer, focusing on the exploitation of commercial and IP rights but I also work across media, technology and advertising, My 'sweet spot' is where these intersect with sport, for example negotiating sponsorship deals in highly regulated sectors, drafting complex sports tech contracts, and advising on ambush marketing. I'm principally a commercial contracts lawyer, but also provide specialist advertising / media / broadcast regulatory advice. I was once an elite athlete and bring that energy and focus to my legal work – I'm commercially minded and see winning as getting the 'right' outcome based on my client's business objectives. Having spent 7 years in-house at London 2012, I also appreciate the pressures clients are under to get things done!

Lewis Silkin

Alex Kennedy

Senior Associate

Gannons Commercial Law Limited

Alex Kenworthy

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

Mills & Reeve LLP

Alex Kiernan

Head of Employment Law

Thomas Mansfield Solicitors

Alex Kirkhope

Alex is a Partner in the Commercial team with a particular focus on Technology and outsourcing, advising clients on all aspects of their business-critical IT systems and related business functions, as well as wider technology-based commercial contracts, software licensing and information law. Alex works closely with client commercial and legal teams in delivering transactions and has a detailed understanding of the key commercial drivers behind technology deployments. Over his career, Alex has advised on numerous major public sector IT contracts and procurements for UK Government, in particular in relation to the development, implementation and delivery of nationally significant benefits systems, a £1bn BPO of administrative and payment systems underpinning the NHS in England, and the largest UK police force on its outsourcing of Application Maintenance and Support Services. Recent examples of transactions Alex has advised on include: advising Moorfield Group in relation to its £600m PropTech-based JV with Bricklane; advising a luxury high street retailer on its £multi-million O365 Transition Framework negotiations with IBM; advising a global automotive manufacturer on multiple contracts related to their IT environment and supply contracts, including in relation to their international enterprise-wide licensing arrangements with Microsoft; acting for a high-growth financial services technology provider on the contract terms underpinning the rollout of its mortgage aggregation software platform to corporates, brokers and intermediaries; advising a leading Smart Cities technology provider in relation to a number of significant smart city technology deployment projects; leading a team advising a major UK Building Society in relation to the second generation outsourcing of its savings and mortgage account software platform; advising another leading UK Building Society in relation to contracts covering multiple aspects of its IT systems and infrastructure including the negotiation of terms relating to a high-value cloud service deployment, as well as a range of other business-critical IT agreements; acting for a major UK construction company in relation to its procurement of WAN services to support its UK and international operations; and acting for a global airline group in relation to the negotiation of enterprise-wide software licensing arrangements with Oracle.

Shoosmiths LLP

Alex Kleanthous

Partner

Gannons Commercial Law Limited

Alex Kynoch

Browne Jacobson LLP

Alex Last

Alex is partner in the Mourant international Cayman practice, Global Practice Leader for its Investment Funds team, and Managing Partner of the Mourant London office. Alex focuses on all aspects of fund formation and frequently advises many of the world's leading private fund sponsors on the structuring and establishment of investment funds, secondary transactions and related deals. I also have extensive experience on regulatory, corporate and fund finance matters.

Mourant

Alex Lawrence

Bevan Brittan LLP

Alex Lerner

Alex is a “very hard-working and skilled litigator with top City pedigree” (Legal 500, 2022). He is listed as a key lawyer in the Legal 500 for both banking litigation and professional negligence and is sought out for high-value and strategically complex matters, often involving multi-jurisdictional elements. Client feedback has praised Alex’s strategic insight, ability to think outside the box, diligence and commercial approach. Alex’s clients include FTSE100 listed companies, banks, professional service firms (including law firms), funds, private equity firms, high-net-worth individuals (including sports and media personalities), insolvency practitioners and start-ups in the tech sector. His expertise encompasses mis-selling, fraud, professional negligence and shareholder/M&A disputes. Alex also has deep experience of high value and complex group litigation. He has acted for both claimants (Ingenious and Eclipse litigations) and defendants (RBS and Post Office litigations) in group litigation and has considerable experience of all aspects of the legal and procedural intricacies of such cases.

Stewarts Law LLP

Alex Leslie

Alex is a Partner in the Healthcare team. He has more than 30 years’ experience in health related law acting for NHS and private healthcare providers. Alex’s principal area of work is advising professionals working in the NHS on regulatory, disciplinary, employment and ethical issues. Alex has advised participants in major public inquiries and acted in many high profile cases, including: R(Squier) v General Medical Council (GMC), Chhabra v West London MH NHS Trust, Lewis v Secretary of State for Health, R(Bonhoeffer) v General Medical Council (GMC), and Re C. Alex publishes articles and gives seminars.

Weightmans LLP

Alex Madden

Alex is a litigator specialising in contentious planning and environmental law. He has a wealth of experience in dealing with statutory nuisance cases and environmental offences involving controlled waste, pollution and the environmental permitting regime. Alex’s planning practice covers statutory appeals against enforcement notices and refusal of planning permission, advising on the EIA regulations and offences relating to listed buildings and conservation areas (including tree preservation orders). He also advises on statutory challenges to appeal decisions in the High Court and judicial review.

Thrings LLP

Alex Marler

Alex defends professionals facing negligence claims, chiefly in the construction sector, including engineers, architects, design-and-build contractors and surveyors. Alex is skilled in analysing the legal and practical issues in a claim, and gathering and deploying the evidence and arguments in his client’s favour. This has helped many clients walk away from trial with the claims against them dismissed, and brought many more to successful negotiated conclusion where that is the best outcome. Alex also specialises in insurance coverage disputes, dealing with issues such as fair presentation, breaches of policy conditions, the effect of exclusions, aggregation and double-insurance. A current highlight is a matter in which the Court of Appeal is set to determine a point of law regarding limitation in Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 claims. The outcome will be of some significance to all liability insurers, and those seeking to bring claims against them. Alex is recognised by clients for his technical ability, innovation, clarity and pragmatism.

Weightmans LLP

Alex Mason

Browne Jacobson LLP

Alex Maxwell-Keys

AssociateAlex Maxwell-Keys handles patent work in the engineering, materials and consumer products fields.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Alex McCann

Head of Real Estate

Hill Dickinson LLP

Alex McCarney

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP