Lawyers in England

Amer Rahman

Director

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Ami Bhatt

Ami is a Legal Director with over 10 years' experience of corporate transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, management buy-outs, private equity and angel investments, pre-pack acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures. EOTs, share buy-backs and general corporate governance matters. Ami has experience of working with owner managed businesses, investors, buy & build businesses and management teams in various sectors such as IT, real estate, logistics & packaging, consultancy and childcare.

Shoosmiths LLP

Amie Pine

Amie Pine is a Partner at Vardags, advising on the full spectrum of family law issues, with particular expertise in complex financial matters and children cases. Amie’s practice includes high-value divorce and financial remedy cases involving business assets and farming interests, complex children matters including relocation and safeguarding issues, cases involving serious allegations and vulnerable parties, and strategic litigation and negotiation in emotionally charged disputes. Known as a “ferocious advocate”, Amie is celebrated for her honest, empathetic approach and tireless dedication to her clients, who have praised her for giving them “hope in humanity” and doing “more than just a job”.

Vardags

Amirah Ajaz

Team Leader - Financial Crime

ABV Solicitors

Amirah Khan

Stuart Miller Solicitors

Amit Nayyar

Recognised as one of the leading Private Equity lawyers in the UK Amit Nayyar helps PE sponsors, investee companies and management teams realise their investment strategies. Amit heads our relationship with leading PE sponsors such as Rothschild (Five Arrows Principal Investments), Foundation Investment Partners, Kelso Place, Norland Capital and Trilantic Capital Partners. With over 15 years' experience in private equity, Amit has acted as lead counsel on a variety of high-profile buy-outs, restructurings and deals in the UK and Europe – with a particular focus on technology, healthcare and education investments

Shoosmiths LLP

Amjid Jabbar

Amjid Jabbar is a Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors and currently heads Stokoe Partnership’s Central London office. He has a broad range of experience including defending allegations of money laundering, international drug trafficking and mortgage frauds. This experience is further enhanced by his extensive knowledge of the asset recovery and confiscation regimes, which allow him to provide his clients with a complete service. In recent years he has acted extensively in respect of civil recovery claims brought by the National Crime Agency. Amjid has been consistently ranked in the Chambers and Partners UK and The Legal 500 UK Guides for his expertise in general crime, fraud and asset forfeiture. He is listed as a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 UK 2022 Guide for ‘Crime: General’, and is ranked in Chambers UK 2022 for ‘POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture’. Chambers explains how he “brings tremendous energy to the case, has a lot of common sense and is a strategic thinker.” “He’s a hard-working, driven practitioner.” The Legal 500 notes that Amjid “has an excellent sense for tactics, particularly in the pre-trial, and even pre-charge, stages of a case. He too is as personable as he is able, with excellent solicitor/client rapport”. Chambers UK reports that he “has the natural instincts of a tactical lawyer and can see all the pieces on the board. He immediately knows where you can end up in a case.”

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

Amna Khaliq

Amna is a partner in the family department. She undertakes private and legal aid work. She specialises in all aspects of family and childcare law. Her practice includes divorce, financial matters, injunctions and care proceedings. Amna has extensive experience representing parents in international child abduction proceedings in the High Court. She has successfully secured the return of children to the UK. Amna represented the father in the reported case of SS v KS [2009] EWHC 1575 (Fam). The case illustrates Amna’s ability to act in complex children disputes and give wise advice. She has been an accredited Family Law Panel member since 2011 and accredited to the Advanced Family Law Panel since 2012 and is a member of Resolution.

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Amrik Kandola

CEDR Chambers Civil Justice Council (ADR member)

CEDR

Amrit Rana

Partner and Head of Private Client. With over 18 years’ extensive experience in private client matters, her work covers all areas of private client work including will drafting, estate and trust administration, contentious estates and trusts, and a broad range of Court of Protection matters. Amrit’s work includes providing bespoke advice to clients dealing with their estate planning needs, including succession planning, preserving wealth, and tax mitigation. She has also advised clients in relation to trust structures and lifetime gifts. For many years, Amrit has acted for elderly clients and assisted with their later life planning needs. She has specialist experience in handling contentious probate disputes, adopting a sensitive and pragmatic approach with an aim to achieve the most cost-effective resolutions for her clients. Amrit advises executors or personal representatives on all aspects of estate administration, she has experience in dealing with complex estates and trust matters often involving company matters with an element of international work. Amrit’s Court of Protection work covers all elements of assisting clients to manage their property and financial affairs, and she is a court appointed deputy for clients who have suffered brain damage. Having undertaken considerable Court of Protection work, Amrit has gained experience in dealing with individuals’ mental capacity issues, helping clients to make decisions relating to their welfare and financial affairs, and advising on lasting powers of attorney and deputyship applications. Amrit’s experience spans working with clients from diverse communities, she has an excellent reputation and is known to adopt a sensitive and caring approach when dealing with client matters. She has worked on high profile cases, having advised on the estates of murder victims, worked with US attorneys in relation to providing advice on plane crash victims‘ estates, and advice on estates of individuals who have died as a result of negligence.

Bindmans LLP

Amrita Hurst

Bevan Brittan LLP

Amritpal Singh

Amritpal joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in March 2016 as a Caseworker and went on to complete his training contract within the Immigration and Public Law department at the firm’s Birmingham office. He qualified as a solicitor in March 2019 and now practises as a Supervising Solicitor in the Private and Business Immigration department, also based in Birmingham. He began his legal career handling private immigration matters, gaining extensive experience and building strong relationships with clients – particularly vulnerable individuals – as well as leading counsel. Amritpal is known for his adaptability, professionalism and integrity, and is committed to going the extra mile to achieve positive outcomes for his clients. Amritpal has significant experience working with vulnerable clients, including those in detention, individuals with complex psychological issues, and victims of torture and trafficking. He has a particular specialism in challenging the detention of vulnerable clients, achieving successful releases and securing damages on their behalf. He is accredited as a Senior Caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme at Level 2, reflecting his expertise in this field. His caseload includes a wide range of matters such as asylum applications, fresh claims, Points-Based System applications for high-net-worth and skilled individuals, Tier 1 applications, family and partner visas, entry clearance, visitor visas, EEA matters, human rights applications, bail, nationality and citizenship applications, deportation, passport applications, and sponsorship and affidavit matters. In addition, Amritpal has extensive experience in Judicial Review claimant challenges, particularly those relating to immigration, asylum and civil liberties. These include cases involving unlawful detention, Dublin III/Third Country removal, challenges to the Competent Authority, delays in processing immigration and asylum applications, fresh claim challenges and unlawful denial of appeal rights, as well as refusals of Article 8 ECHR family and private life applications. Amritpal is multilingual and fluent in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Mirpuri.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Amy Anderson

Amy is a Principal Associate based in our Manchester office. Amy's particular area of expertise is managing employment tribunal litigation for businesses in the retail, hospitality and logistics sectors. In addition to defending employment tribunal litigation, Amy enjoys working alongside clients to manage people-related risks, whether that is by ensuring that businesses have the right contractual and policy documentation in place, to negotiating settlement agreements, to providing strategic advice during periods of organisational change. Amy prides herself on getting to know her clients' businesses so that she can provide straightforward, pragmatic advice which is in line with their commercial objectives. In recent years Amy has: ◦successfully defended a company in the hospitality sector against multiple claims of race discrimination which were alleged to have taken place over a period of in excess of five years; ◦successfully acted for a real estate business in respect of claims of sexual harassment in circumstances where the perpetrators of the allegations had left employment and were not willing to give evidence at Tribunal; and ◦advised a sports club on the employment aspects of the sale of a number of its golf clubs including on the application of TUPE.

Shoosmiths LLP

Amy Archer

Solicitor

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Amy Au

Associate Amy specialises in resolving IP disputes relating to trade marks, copyright, design rights and she assists Alex Newman in relation to patent and breach of confidence disputes. Amy acts for household names such as Mizuno and she works closely with leading UK businesses such as Gravity Fitness Limited, BetterYou Limited and Whitby Seafoods Limited. [Amy has worked on a number of high-profile reported cases such as L’Oreal SA and L’Oreal (UK) Limited v RN Ventures [2018] EWCH 391 Ch and [2018] EWCH 173 (Pat) and [2020] EWHC 3450 (IPEC)]

Irwin Mitchell

Amy Barrow

Partner at Lowry Legal International Family Law Specialist Next Generation Partner Legal 500 Family Lawyer of the Year (Silver)Citywealth Future Leaders 2025

Lowry Legal

Amy Barrs

Amy is a Senior Associate working in the Conveyancing Department. Amy joined Shoosmiths in March 2006 as an Assistant Case Handler in the Conveyancing department. Amy works on a wide range of diverse cases across Conveyancing, including sale, purchase, remortgage and transfer of equity transactions which include freehold, leasehold and shared ownership dealings. Amy has helped thousands of clients move home, taking responsibility for the progression of transactions on behalf of our clients through to completion.

Shoosmiths LLP

Amy Bars

Amy is a Senior Conveyancing Manager working in the Conveyancing Department. Amy joined Shoosmiths in March 2006 as an Assistant Case Handler in the Conveyancing department. Amy works on a wide range of diverse cases across Conveyancing, including sale, purchase, remortgage and transfer of equity transactions which include freehold, leasehold and shared ownership dealings. Amy has helped thousands of clients move home, taking responsibility for the progression of transactions on behalf of our clients through to completion.

Shoosmiths LLP

Amy Beaumont

Senior Associate

Shoosmiths LLP

Amy Bennett

Amy Bennett is a Clinical (Medical) Negligence Solicitor at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, based at the firms' City of London office. Amy has worked exclusively in the field of medical negligence since qualifying as a solicitor over ten years ago. She has special expertise in stillbirth and neonatal death claims and has a genuine and passionate desire to assist parents through the litigation process after the loss of their child. In addition to her in-depth knowledge and expertise in stillbirth and neonatal death claims, Amy handles a number of additional medical negligence matters including childbirth injury claims; gynaecological related claims; and misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis claims. She assists clients who have suffered negligence as a result of surgical errors and errors involving prescriptions, and also assists those who have suffered from pressure sores. Amy's work extends to representing families in negligence claims involving children, and in claims where a wrongful death has occurred.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Amy Berry

Amy is a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Employment Team, advising on a wide range of employment law issues, predominately in the education sector. Amy is a professional support lawyer, providing training and support both internally and externally. Her extensive experience includes: Advising in relation to ongoing staffing issues, such as sickness absence, capability, recruitment, whistleblowing, restructuring and misconduct, including providing practical advice as to liability and risk Supporting clients through TUPE processes Negotiating and drafting termination packages Advising in relation to Trade Union relations and industrial action Drafting bespoke contracts, restrictive covenants, non-disclosure agreements, consultancy agreements, secondment agreements and a broad spectrum of policies. Amy regularly speaks at internal and external events and writes articles on sector specific topics.

Stone King LLP

Amy Bradbury

Amy is a partner specialising in reputation management, information law and data privacy. Amy has a wealth of experience helping clients protect their reputation, personal information and data. She has a litigation background and advises on all legal areas relating to reputation protection and media law including defamation, privacy, confidentiality, data protection, freedom of information and harassment. Amy’s practice is international and she acts for a wide range of clients including corporates and brands, global figures, business professionals, high net worth individuals and people in the media and entertainment industries. Clients often seek Amy’s advice at times of crisis, including when faced with the threatened publication of damaging allegations, private information or personal data by media outlets or others. Amy also has particular expertise in contentious data protection issues including data subject access requests, data breaches and complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Amy Chater

Partner

Leigh Day

Amy Clowrey

Director & Solicitor

Switalskis Solicitors