Lawyers in England

Andrew Godfrey

Andrew is a partner in private client team. Andrew is recognised for his advice on cross-border private client matters. Andrew is a member and former chair of STEP’s Cross Border Estates Group committee. He regularly talks at conferences on cross-border matters within the UK and abroad, and has authored many legal texts in this area. Andrew is a Board member of the Lexunion network and has a wide network of contacts. He speaks fluent Italian. Andrew advises on cross-border wills, estate planning, estate administration, trusts and international tax.

Russell-Cooke LLP

Andrew Goldstone

Andrew is a Partner in Mishcon Private and heads up the Tax group. He advises high net worth UK and international families and trustees on all aspects of UK and offshore tax, succession planning and trusts. He regularly advises on residence and domicile issues including the statutory residence test, business investment relief and the locations of offshore trusts. He advises on philanthropy and the establishment of charitable trusts and foundations. His diverse range of clients cover all sectors and ages and include many high profile names. Andrew also advises entrepreneurs and key executives on relevant tax reliefs and tax efficient investments, such as IHT Business Property Relief, CGT Entrepreneurs Relief, Enterprise Investment Schemes and Venture Capital Trusts. He is a published author on tax and estate planning, has written numerous articles and is quoted widely in the national press. Andrew has been included in the Citywealth Leaders List since 2010 and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Andrew Haffner

Partner Andrew is an experienced commercial litigator with a particular expertise in company related disputes. Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in advising his clients on a broad range of litigation and dispute resolution matters with a particular emphasis on contractual disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes and contentious insolvency matters (acting for both directors and insolvency practitioners). Andrew also has significant experience in advising both employers and employees on issues arising out of contracts of employment, particularly relating to the enforcement of post-employment restrictions. Andrew regularly advises on matters that require obtaining urgent injunctive relief. Andrew also advises on property matters (particularly Landlord and Tenant disputes), professional negligence matters, construction disputes and intellectual property disputes. Andrew provides advice at all levels of courts and tribunals, ranging from County Court to the Court of Appeal and have significant experience of pursuing alternative despite resolution including being involved in numerous successful mediations. Recent experience Defending a multi-million pound claim relating to the enforceability of a personal guarantee arising out of loan transactions. Advising director/shareholder of a property development company in dispute with co-shareholder involving complex accountancy issues. Advising former employee both in a High Court trial and the Court of Appeal in relation to claims arising out of the enforceability of contractual “non-competition” clauses. Advising property receivers in successfully seeking possession of extensive farm/rural premises following a contested trial. Advising company in a claim against a former shareholder/employee in complex issues arising out of contractual restriction clauses. Defending a claim including a freezing order brought by liquidator against former director. Advising minority shareholder in longstanding and complex company dispute involving issues relating the intellectual property owned by the company. Advising residential home owners in complex dispute with their neighbour Landlord in relation to claims of breach of lease and forfeiture. Advising Charity in proceedings against The Charity Commission for an appeal against the appointment of interim managers.

Orwins

Andrew Harding

Andrew specialises in commercial property transactions, with particular emphasis on the investment, development and leisure sectors. He has wide ranging experience of funding developments, complex sale and purchase contracts conditional on planning, site assembly, re-financings, acquisitions, disposals and portfolio investment management. He also has expertise acting for occupational tenants on pre-lets, sales and leasebacks and portfolio management. His recent work includes: leading on the statutory transfer scheme to separate the legal property interests of Royal Mail and Post Office Limited across 150 properties; acting for an institutional pension fund on various investment asset purchases to a value of over £200m in the last three years, including leisure, industrial and retail property; acting for a national transport infrastructure company on redevelopment projects, including overage arrangements, for retail, leisure, office and residential purposes.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Andrew Harmer

Partner, Head of Housing Management,

Birketts LLP

Andrew Harrison

Andrew is a Partner in the Medical Negligence team. He has a wide range of experience including birth-related injuries to mother and child, brain damage following surgery (for example after late removal of untreated tumours) and other maximum severity cases involving disablement or life-limiting injuries. He also handles orthopaedic claims (negligent hip/knee replacement for example), cosmetic and dental surgery claims, fatal claims involving substantial dependency awards and all other types of clinical negligence claims. Andrew has handled a claim for the family of a 32 year old Portuguese mother of three who died when five months pregnant following negligent removal of an ovary instead of an infected appendix. Two junior surgeons operated on her unsupervised and there were proceedings relating to practice at the GMC as a result.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Andrew Harrison

Partner, Clinical Negligence

Price Slater Gawne

Andrew Hawkins

Partner

Warners Solicitors

Andrew Haywood

Partner specialising in both contentious and non contentious employment law issues. He has particular experience in the areas of age discrimination and the enforcement of post-termination restrictions. His corporate practice is drawn from a number of sectors including media, retail and financial services where he advises on day-to-day and post-employment issues. Andrew also acts for several household names in the technology sector. He has specialist expertise in the sports and entertainment industry and heads up the firm’s sports and entertainment sector group. He has been instructed by sports clubs, agents and professionals on a variety of matters including disciplinary and contractual disputes. On the individual side, he advises many senior executives and non-UK domiciled high net worth individuals.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Andrew Head

Partner

Forsters LLP

Andrew Henderson

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Andrew Herring

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Andrew Hildebrand

With a unique background as mediator, lawyer and business adviser, Andrew brings extensive business and legal experience to his mediation practice. Andrew has been on both sides of the table, as mediator and advising clients in mediation. This, combined with his extensive commercial experience, gives him an enviable ability to see all sides of a dispute and to find the best way to resolution. Ranked as a leading mediator in the Legal 500, Andrew is highly effective. He is attuned to what solicitors and clients want from a mediator and can be relied on to be relentlessly proactive, tenacious and commercially focused. He combines this ability with an affable nature that allows him to deal with difficult personalities and the confidence to know when to be robust and challenging and when to defuse the dynamics in a room. A leading Entertainment, Sports & Licensing mediator and IFTA Arbitrator, Andrew has mediated high profile cases involving Hollywood studios, broadcasters, rights owners, agents, managers, licensors, distributors, producers, creative talent, financiers, event organisers, sportsmen, franchises, brands and rock bands. His approach is underpinned by his in-depth industry experience working with creative businesses and his familiarity with the business practices and the personalities, both here and abroad. He set up and ran the commercial side of FilmFour, headed up business and legal divisions for companies like Channel 4 and ‘The King’s Speech’, Momentum and executive produced for the late Richard Attenborough. He has co-financed over 100 feature films, including ‘Motorcycle Diaries’, ‘The Madness of King George’ and ‘Trainspotting’ and numerous television productions. Andrew also specialises in mediating disputes as they start to flare up. Disputes between businesses and disputes within businesses, including between Partners, Shareholders and Family Members. Where people are having difficulties handling a commercial relationship, he can get it safely back on track or, if they prefer, help them separate sensibly, managing the transition sensitively and productively. Separately, Andrew acts on an exclusive basis for clients as a Dispute Settlement Specialist, working closely with them and their advisers to ensure that they manage their dispute risk portfolio effectively, settle on the most effective terms and get the best out of mediation.

IPOS Mediation

Andrew Hill

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Andrew Hipper

Insurance disputes lawyer dealing with professional indemnity claims against a variety of professions (but principally lawyers and financial professionals). Andrew advises Insurers and insured clients in relation to claims and Insurers in relation to coverage issues. Andrew also has experience of dealing with disciplinary proceedings, acting on behalf of professionals.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Andrew Hirst

Andrew is a projects and procurement lawyer advising on public sector contracts and public procurement. His areas of focus are PFI handback, heat networks / decarbonisation, leisure and waste. Examples of experience include advising: PFI/PPP on PFI handback arrangements in order to maximise the benefits for clients and mitigate procurement and contractual risk on the renegotiation of a number of major PFI contract funders to the successful bidders on a number of PPP schemes a bidder on its bid for a PPP in central Europe (the first PPP in the country) a bidder on its successful bid to deliver a private patient unit within an NHS hospital Heat Networks and Decarbonisation the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on guidance for local authorities on the procurement of finance for heat networks a number of local authorities on the procurement of heat networks including advice on procurement and commercial structuring a local authority on its park and ride contract including the introduction of ultra-low emission buses Leisure City of York Council on its award winning community stadium project and transfer of number of leisure facilities Barrow in Furness Borough Council and South Holland District Council on the transfer of their leisure services a range of local authorities on managing the impact of COVID-19 on their leisure arrangements Waste Hereford and Worcester Councils on a variation to their circa £900 million waste PFI scheme to deliver an EfW facility Wrexham County Borough Council on a variation to its waste PPP in order deliver savings and higher recycling rates a middle eastern municipality the structure and contract for its EfW PPP.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Andrew Hopkin

Browne Jacobson LLP

Andrew Hutchinson

Andrew is a partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution team, with 20 years’ experience handling disputes before the UK courts, CJEU, UPC and EPO. Andrew is an expert in managing and coordinating global cross-border patent litigation. With his biotechnology and biochemistry background, Andrew advises clients on complex patent, SPC and regulatory problems, supported by his insights from committee positions in industry organisations. According to IAM Patent, he is a “life sciences maven”. Andrew is a seasoned patent litigator and strategic advisor for pharma and biotech clients. He has utilised his strong technical background – having studied Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) at Cambridge, Christ’s College – to advise clients litigating patents before all courts in the UK, including the UK IPO, Patents Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, as well as the Court of Justice of the European Union. His experience includes a number of leading small molecule and biologic drug cases for Bayer, Eli Lilly, LEO Pharma and GSK, as well as disputes concerning medical devices, additive manufacturing, cosmetics, consumer products and industrial manufacturing. Andrew also understands and advises clients on regulatory matters, in particular relating to supplementary protection certificates (SPCs). This is supported by insights from Andrew’s roles sitting on IP advisory committees for industry organisations, such as the UK Biotech Industry Association and US Intellectual Property Owners Association. Andrew has also been involved in consultations concerning reforms of SPC and regulatory law. Andrew’s expertise and experience extends beyond the UK, advising clients involved in almost every dimension of parallel disputes, including coordinating timelines and case spanning courts and patent offices in the UK, Europe, US and across the globe. Andrew has applied his experience to advise clients on the new dimension added by the powerful forum of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), handling disputes at the fringes of developing rules and caselaw, and providing strategic advice on areas such as pinning patents (out and in), complex jurisdictional issues and cross-border enforcement.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Andrew Irvine

Andrew is a commercial litigator with a wealth of experience in several areas of contentious law. His career has seen him act in numerous types of disputes and an array of high-profile cases. His practice currently focuses on company, partnership and shareholder disputes, civil fraud and professional negligence. Andrew is also an experienced insolvency lawyer and regularly advises insolvency practitioners on both corporate and personal insolvencies. He is also well versed in advising directors and individuals through the ramifications and difficulties of the various insolvency regimes.

Keystone Law

Andrew Johnson

Ansons

Andrew Jolly

Partner; Andrew undertakes a broad range of corporate and corporate finance work. His practice consists principally of acting for clients on domestic and international corporate finance and M&A transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, mergers and public takeovers, restructurings, equity financings and joint ventures. Andrew is an expert advising clients on company law, corporate governance and other board-related matters. He is Head of our Risk practice and a member of the Company Law Committee of the Law Society. Andrew also heads our Sport team, counting football, in particular, as a specialist area. He is a trustee of The Arsenal Foundation.

Slaughter and May

Andrew Jones

Solicitor

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Andrew Jones

Andrew is a solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP who joined the firm in January 2019. Andrew’s practice covers a wide range of immigration, asylum and nationality matters. Andrew regularly assists client to make applications for parents, partners and other family members applying to enter or extend their stay in the United Kingdom. He also has experience with applications for asylum, British citizenship for adults and children and status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Andrew successfully challenges Home Office decisions in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals and by judicial review.

Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP

Andrew Jordan

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP