Lawyers in England

Alun Milford

Kingsley Napley LLP

Alyona Antonenko

Alyona is a commercial lawyer with specialist experience in the hotel industry. She has 20 years’ experience working for top international law firms and in-house for the largest hotel companies in the world. Her clients include the world biggest hotel operators (such as Marriott and Wyndham), owners, developers and sector-focused lenders with projects in the UK, Russia/CIS, Europe, Turkey and India. Alyona advises on a wide range of development and operational legal issues. She structures, negotiates and drafts franchise and hotel management agreements, key money, development and joint venture agreements and related contract documentation and wholesale distribution agreements. She also advises on any operational issues arising during the full hotel project’s lifecycle. She provides training to in-house legal teams and develops boilerplate and templates of management and franchise agreements. Alyona is multilingual and is a dual-qualified solicitor in England & Wales and Russia.

Keystone Law

Alys Jones

Alys is an experienced litigator who specialises in defending claims against a range of professionals. Her clients include professional firms, particularly accountants and auditors, insolvency practitioners, tax professionals, solicitors and barristers, and their professional indemnity insurers. She also advises professionals on regulatory and disciplinary issues and has experience of dealing with regulators including the ICAEW, IPA, and the FRC.

RPC

Amal Dhesi

Partner - Real Estate Manchester and Leeds

Weightmans LLP

Amal Kaur

Real Estate Manchester and Leeds

Weightmans LLP

Amalia Gherson

Amalia assists with asylum and protection claims, appeals to the Immigration Tribunals, designation challenges (in respect of both immigration sanctions and financial sanctions), UK sanctions compliance advice and sanctions enforcement. Amalia often works closely with teams of professional advisors both in the UK and overseas. She is frequently appointed as case coordinator and point of contact on multifaceted cases, due to her organisational and communication skills and versatile experience. She is a steadfast and dedicated solicitor who works tirelessly to advise and support her clients. Amalia’s previous experience within the inbound immigration team means that she has an in-depth knowledge of all facets of UK immigration. Prior to joining Gherson, Amalia gained property law experience, dealing with aspects of residential and commercial real estate.

Gherson LLP

Aman Sehgal

Aman is a restructuring and insolvency lawyer with more than ten years’ experience working on high-profile corporate and personal insolvency cases that include multi-million pound bankruptcies and fraud investigations. With expertise that covers dealing with contingency planning, insolvency filing requirements, debt restructuring, financing and reschedulings, acquisitions/sales, credit bidding, formal insolvency proceedings, restructurings, refinancings, and debt trading, his career has seen him advise an array of insolvency practitioners on various complex, public-interest litigation cases. Aman has significant experience in acting on behalf of The Insolvency Service in relation to all aspects of directors’ disqualification, from investigation through to prosecution and enforcement.

Keystone Law

Amanda Andrews

Amanda is a partner in the family team and a member of Penningtons Manches Cooper’s private wealth group. She offers a depth of resource for clients and brings more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of family law, but especially complex children matters and high finance including offshore trusts, complicated property aspects and corporate structures. She also regularly negotiates complex pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Amanda is a trained mediator who strongly believes in resolution without recourse to court proceedings wherever possible. She approaches all her cases with the same pragmatic and empathetic approach, seeking to find sensible and fair solutions at the earliest opportunity be it in relation to children or the financial aspects of relationship breakdown.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Amanda Bailey

Amanda is a Partner in our private client team. She is an experienced private client lawyer who specialises in landed estates. She handles a range of succession and tax planning matters such as the preparation of wills, the creation and administration of Trusts and the establishment of Family Investment Companies. Amanda acts for private individuals, business owners, agricultural property owners, family trusts, and landed estates. She also advises on probate matters, with a particular expertise in the application of agricultural and business inheritance tax reliefs. In addition, she is experienced in advising on and establishing ‘Balfour’ type partnership arrangements for landed estates. Amanda has a strong background in all non-contentious tax, trust and estate planning. She is a recognised as a leading authority on family investment companies and gives professional training for lawyers and accountants on the subject via MBL Training and the Offa Group. Amanda is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Brabners LLP

Amanda Bucklow

Amanda has maintained a full-time independent dispute resolution practice since 1991 and was accredited as a commercial mediator in 1996. She is one of the first career mediators to practise in the UK and she has a significant portfolio of mediated disputes across a range of industry sectors and legal contexts. Her personal style is to focus on generating good decisions and she has an enviable record of accomplishment as a catalyst for reaching agreement between even the most ‘individual’ of individuals. Parties frequently remark how much they appreciate the time and effort Amanda invests in helping the parties prepare for negotiation. She speaks with everyone before the mediation day so they are comfortable that they have someone who understands their goals and interests. This helps enormously with the use of time on the day. They also remark on her commercial flair, creative input and persistence in finding a resolution with a persuasive yet non-confrontational style.

IPOS Mediation

Amanda Burge

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Amanda Callaghan

Amanda joined Browne Jacobson in 2013 to start the Health and Clinical Negligence team in our Manchester office. Amanda specialises in clinical negligence claims and complaints, risk management, confidentiality and disclosure of medical records, consent to treatment issues and inquests. Amanda is head of the Browne Jacobson Manchester office.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Amanda Cavanagh

Associate

Ashtons Legal

Amanda Dench

Consultant

Miles & Partners LLP

Amanda Ford

Associate Solicitor

TV Edwards Solicitors LLP

Amanda French

Amanda specialises in portfolio management and store development programmes for multi-national retail businesses. She is also experienced in managing investment portfolios. Amanda is a Commercial Property expert with 16 years’ post qualification experience (PQE). Amanda specialises in portfolio management and store development programmes for multi-national retail businesses. Amanda has gained extensive retail experience from working in both law firm and in house settings. As Head of Property Legal for two multinational retailers (River Island and Farrow & Ball) she provided commercial strategic advice on the global property portfolio issues and transactions, whilst reducing risk, providing business cost savings and managing the internal and external legal teams. Uniquely Amanda has also held commercial roles within business and has extensive client side commercial and project management experience driving dynamic change, and has experience of sitting on a number of executive boards. Amanda sits on various sports club committees, and has just resigned as Vice-Chair and Trustee on Dartmoor Multi-Academy Trust providing strategic guidance to the Management Team delivering education to over 4,500 pupils across three senior schools and 16 primary schools. Until 2021 she was also a Trustee for a new primary school in Okehampton and a Governor at her daughter’s primary school. How Amanda can help you Having been client side, and had Board roles, Amanda really understands what drives the clients. She understands their challenges, but also how important direct and pragmatic advice is to them. Experience Management of a large mixed asset property portfolio valued in excess of £100million – Amanda led the management of a large retail property portfolio, managing a team of lawyers, developing the precedent databases and work flow processes. She worked closely with asset managers and retail agents, meeting tight deadlines, dealing with title issues, a complex redevelopment of part of the portfolio, and bank funding. Estate Management of one of the UK’s largest rail hubs – Amanda led on the general estate management issues but also the estate management during the redevelopment of the hub. With tenants simultaneously entering into agreements to surrender, completing temporary occupational arrangements and agreements for lease (with development obligations). Retailer Expansion Programme for UK’s largest Trade DIY store – Amanda advised on the store expansion programme of a national DIY retailer. She completed numerous transactions simultaneously meeting tight deadlines, handling all standard issues with Agreement for Leases with development and planning issues and collateral warranties. Fashion Brand store expansion programme – Amanda has managed the estate for numerous high street fashion brands from Reiss to New Look, Oasis to Whistles. This included pre-let agreements in shopping centres from Exeter Princesshay to the Trafford Centre and Westfield, high street locations such as Crown Estate’s properties on Regent Street, and large out of town industrial estates. Head of Property Legal at River Island – Amanda’s remit was to deliver commercial strategic advice on the global property portfolio issues and transactions, whilst reducing risk, providing business cost savings and managing the internal and external legal teams. She was simultaneously advising on pre-let Agreements for Lease, contentious and non-contentious portfolio issues, whilst managing legal advisors globally on the store expansion programme and estate management issues. By undertaking a huge amount of the transactional work in-house, implementing standardisation, reporting processes and developing internal processes Amanda halved the property legal budget in 12 months. Head of Legal at Folk2Folk – Amanda demonstrated her ability to manage numerous projects, tight timescales and adapt to new issues with a commercial strategic outlook. She was responsible for the appointment and management of a 30-strong legal panel nationally; providing operation advice and legal support to the Credit & Applications team, Company Secretary, advising on the branch rollout and negotiated branch leases, reviewing commercial contracts, and assisting with corporate governance. In addition she supported the CEO through regulatory approval process, a capital raise and acquisition proposals.

Clarke Willmott LLP

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.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Amanda Green-Lord

Consultant

Wordley Partnership

Amanda Hado-Bodfield

I specialise in acquisitions and disposals, with a focus on development and development financing of commercial multi-assets and mixed-use schemes. I also advise on all aspects of lettings, pre-lettings and asset management. I advise clients on a wide range of real estate issues, ranging from investment acquisitions and disposals to development schemes and development finance and leasehold portfolio management and corporate work. My clients operate across a range of sectors including industrial, hotels, student accommodation, retail and office properties. Working for a wide range of clients provides me with broad expertise, which I apply to the work I do for my clients. I am known for giving commercial, pragmatic, big picture advice whilst being thorough and diligent on the detail as my recent deal list demonstrates. I promote and engender a great degree of teamwork and collaboration (with my clients too) and am committed to the promotion of Team Fladgate and the delivery of an effective, quality service on time!

Fladgate LLP

Amanda Holden

I am a paralegal in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team in our Sheffield office. I have been with Irwin Mitchell since July 2018, during which time I have developed a specialism in: Will validity challenges Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependants) Act 1975 Executor and trustee disputes Proprietary Estoppel and claims under the Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA).

Irwin Mitchell

Amanda Hopkins

Partner

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Amanda Hughes

Amanda is an Associate in Rosling King’s Dispute Resolution Team with expertise in acting for corporate clients across a wide range of multi-jurisdictional disputes, including corporate fraud, directors’ duties claims and breaches of contracts. Amanda’s experience also includes handling disputes in professional negligence recoveries, insurance coverage claims, corporate contracts and banking litigation, including the enforcement of personal guarantees.

Rosling King

Amanda Hulme

Partner

TLT

Amanda Hurst

Excello Law