Lawyers in England

Alina Smidre

Corporate lawyer Alina advises clients on company transactions, including sales, acquisitions and reorganisations in the case of private companies, as well as a range of other general corporate matters. She also has extensive experience in the business aviation and marine sectors, with a particular focus on luxury business aircraft and high-value yacht sales, purchases, financings, leasings and charterings. As a fluent Russian speaker, much of Alina’s client base is dedicated to companies and high-net-worth individuals based in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Keystone Law

Alisha Panue

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Alishan Khan

Solicitor - Property

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Alison Allen

Alison is a Partner and Stone King's Chair. Alison joined Stone King in 1998 and acts for a wide range of clients advising on general private client matters, including inheritance tax, trust drafting and administration, wills, including complex wills and tax efficient wills and administration of estates. She has particular interest in advising older clients and their families and carers, including advice regarding NHS continuing care funding and NHS complaints procedures, means-testing and care funding disputes with the local authority, court of protection matters, powers of attorney and deputyships.

Stone King LLP

Alison Appelboam-Meadows

Alison is a partner in the PI and clinical negligence team, which handles a range of personal injury and clinical negligence cases. She has over 30 years’ experience in the field, with particular expertise in clinical negligence cases involving obstetric negligence. She has handled many cases on behalf of children with cerebral palsy as a result of ante-/peri-/post-natal events, running the cases to trial, if necessary, to achieve the best outcome for her clients, eg Zhang v Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Massey v Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust. She also acts on behalf of adults who have sustained brain damage as a result of meningitis or hypoxia, eg Napoli v Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust, and those who have suffered significant spinal cord injuries.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Alison Bradley

Alison is a commercial litigator with over 11 years experience of a broad range of domestic and international/cross-jurisdictional High Court litigation. She provides commercial, risk and strategic advice as well as legal and dispute resolution advice, and acts for high-net-worth individuals, financial institutions and companies. She also advises on smaller matters, such as property repossessions, debt and smaller County Court disputes. Alison’s key achievements include (i) a £1.8bn claim in misrepresentation against an Icelandic bank in the Reykjavik Court and UK High Court for the Tchenguiz Family Trust, (ii) acting for Patek Philippe in a case involving breach of its authorised distribution network, (iii) successfully defending £30m breach of contract claim.

Keystone Law

Alison Brearey

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Alison Brennan

Alison is an Associate in the Liverpool healthcare team and qualified as a solicitor in 2010, joining Weightmans in 2012 and has dealt with clinical negligence claims across several specialist fields along with secondments to NHS Resolution. Alison deals with a range of complex high value and sensitive claims, including addressing complex clinical issues in cases relating to spinal injuries, paediatrics, orthopaedic and gynaecology including baby deaths. In addition, her caseload includes high-value cases in spinal injury and stroke medicine, along with sensitive psychiatric and suicide claims. Alison has a background in the health service as a nurse holding a dual qualification in paediatric and adult nursing. She has worked at a senior nursing level and therefore has significant knowledge and insight into the demands on the health service, along with a particular focus on clinical governance and patient safety. Alison remains committed to patient safety and continues to work with trusts, clinicians and teams to learn from and address patient safety issues through presentations and discussing specific topics, along with organising large events on this subject. She is also regularly instructed to assist trusts with complex complaints and serious incident investigations, taking a thorough, open and transparent approach in the way that she works with clinicians and liaising with families including other stakeholders.

Weightmans LLP

Alison Broadberry

Alison became the Managing Partner of Edwin Coe in April 2023, having joined as Head of Private Client in 2016. Alison acts for high-net-worth UK and non-UK domiciled clients on a wide range of tax, trust and estate planning matters. She advises on and creates solutions to hold, protect and pass on the wealth of her clients to minimise tax and maximise the protection against non-tax threats such as remarriage of the survivor, divorce of beneficiaries, family disputes, financially vulnerable or immature heirs, or simply “too much, too soon”. She has particular experience of relating the solutions to clients’ financial and investment planning situations and for business owners, of dovetailing personal and business succession planning. Her experience includes: - Advising on implementing practical estate plans to reduce inheritance tax and preserve wealth for individuals, couples and families; and ensuring that their wealth is preserved to support the surviving heirs and successive generations. - Implementing sensitive, practical and tax efficient estate planning for families where there are children or other heirs from more than one marriage or prior relationship; balancing the needs of the surviving spouse and all the children, minimising the risk of future conflict. - Advising clients owning and acquiring properties (in particular to assist their children on to the property ladder or those wishing to hold “buy to let” properties) on opportunities to save tax and protect the value from non-tax threats. - Advising high net worth clients on creating family trusts and family investment vehicles. - Ensuring assets will pass under tax-efficient and wealth protecting Wills and dovetailing this planning with asset protection trusts for life policies and pensions. - Advising business owners on maximising the availability of entrepreneurs’ relief for capital gains tax and business property relief for inheritance tax; dovetailing personal and business succession planning including advising on business protection strategies often involving the use of life assurance and trusts.

Edwin Coe LLP

Alison Bruce

Associate solicitor

Irwin Mitchell

Alison Buckingham

Bevan Brittan LLP

Alison Bull

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

Mills & Reeve LLP

Alison Daniels

Associate

Elkington + Fife LLP

Alison Devlin

Principal Associate Professional Support Lawyer

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Alison Downie

Senior Consultant

CM Murray LLP

Alison Eddy

I head the Medical Negligence team in London and also have expertise in neurotrauma. I specialise in claims for adults and children who have suffered brain or spinal injury, associated with permanent disability, caused as a result of clinical negligence or as a result of a road traffic collision. Our aim is to obtain interim payments wherever possible, so that we can put rehabilitation, a care package and suitable accommodation in place before the claim is concluded. As a team, we are dedicated to improving the quality of life of our clients. Our clinical negligence team has extensive experience in clinical negligence claims arising from obstetric, neonatal, anaesthetic, neurosurgical, cardiac and psychiatric care. In 2019, I won Champion of the Year at First 100 Years' Inspirational Women in Law Awards and Insurance Individual of the Year (London) at the Legal 500 UK Awards.

Irwin Mitchell

Alison Fernandes

Partner / Head of Sheffield

Hall Brown Family Law

Alison Fernandes

Partner / Head of Sheffield

Hall Brown Family Law

Alison Garrett

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

Mills & Reeve LLP

Alison Goldney

Partner Alison has almost exclusively specialised in running brain and spinal cord injury claims since qualifying in 2007. She has particular experience in claims arising from the delayed diagnosis of spinal abscesses, injuries resulting from mismanagement of spinal injury, cauda equina and spinal surgery claims. Alison is committed to securing excellent results for her clients and recognises the importance of early access to rehabilitation following a life changing injury. This has led Alison to pioneer access for clients to support networks from the outset of the case. Alison knows the importance of getting to know the individual client and their families during the lifetime of a case and focuses on a collaborative approach to ensure that compensation is tailored, as far as possible, to enable clients to fulfil their future goals and aspirations. Notable cases: Alison has recovered over £7.3m in capitalised damages for a 39 year old who suffered a severe brain injury following the negligent insertion of a shunt. The Claimant was left with significant cognitive, behavioural and emotional impairment. A six figure interim payment was obtained which enabled the Claimant to move from an assisted living facility into his own property with the assistance of support workers and a team of therapists. The claim settled on the basis of annual payments for care and remainder by way of a lump sum. The Claimant’s family hope that the compensation will enable the Claimant to lead as fulfilling and independent a life as possible. Recovered damages with a capitalised value of over £7m in relation to a catastrophic brain injury case relating to the mismanagement of anti-platelet medication leading to the claimant having a stroke. Recovered damages for a 74 year old claimant who was rendered tetraplegic following negligent spinal surgery. The damages were awarded by way of annualised payments for care for the rest of his life and a lump sum for the remainder of the damages, with a total capitalised value of £3m, Acted for a horse enthusiast rendered an incomplete paraplegic following the delayed diagnosis of a spinal abscess. Damages of £3m were recovered which assisted the claimant to return to her passion for riding. Secured a seven figure settlement for a brain injured client in relation to the delayed diagnosis in A&E of a subdural haematoma following an assault. Recovered damages of £2.6m for a 56-year-old claimant with cauda equina syndrome Recovered damages of £1.49m for a 39-year-old claimant with cauda equina syndrome. The settlement reflected significant litigation risks as liability remained in dispute. Recovered damages of £1.2m for 83-year-old tetraplegic with four year life expectancy. Alison has also been involved in significant judgments which have been widely reported in medical negligence arena including Read (whereby the court dismissed the defendants’ application for an extension of time to serve their defence to allow time for an early medical examination, a helpful judgment for claimant practitioners who are often placed under pressure by defendants to allow early examination of claimants) and Dee (a successful interim payment application where causation remained in dispute).

Stewarts Law LLP

Alison Harden

Partner

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Alison Hartley

Partner

Hugh James

Alison Hawes

Consultant in Family law, all financial issues with particular niche in complex assets and businesses including farms, landed estates and corporate valuations. Experienced in asset protection for families and family businesses – pre and post marital agreements.

Burges Salmon LLP

Alison Hayes

Handles complex financial remedy cases together with all aspects and types of work involving children, often with an international element, managing a high level of emotion. Alison is experienced at drawing up all types of agreements, between people wishing to regulate their relationships, whether married or not. Alison does not need to litigate; she is a Resolution accredited mediator, and is also able to directly consult with children in mediation. She is a collaborative lawyer working in both London and Kent.

Levison Meltzer Pigott