Lawyers in England

Andrew Whitehead

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Andrew Wilkinson

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Andrew Wilkinson

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Andrew Willan

Andrew is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department and Privacy and Media Law team. Andrew specialises in reputation management. His work covers all aspects of media law, including defamation, confidence, privacy, harassment, data protection and intellectual property rights. His background as a commercial litigator means that he also has considerable expertise in high value disputes and cases involving civil fraud and cybersecurity. The nature of Andrew’s work is often confidential, however recent reported cases include Max Mosley v Google Inc and Hourani v Thomson & Others. He has particular expertise in the evolving field of cyber and privacy law, representing victims of highly sophisticated cyber-attacks and privacy intrusions in some of the most significant and ground-breaking cases in this jurisdiction. Andrew also has significant experience in third party disclosure requests, including claims under the Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction. The Legal 500 UK has listed Andrew for many years as a “Recommended Lawyer” and has recognised him as a 'rising star' with “great judgement and an unflappable temperament.’ He is ranked in the current The Legal 500 UK law directory in the field of Reputation Management and is noted as 'pragmatic, personable, delivers great advice' and 'approachable and has an in-depth knowledge of reputation management issues.' He is commended for having 'far more experience than most lawyers of his age... he has great judgement and an unflappable temperament.' Andrew writes numerous articles and contributions in the national and legal press, and gives conferences on a wide range of legal issues relating to media and privacy law.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Andrew Williams

Partner specialising in acquisition and disposal of commercial property (freehold and leasehold); all aspects of management transactions; and landlord and tenant matters.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Andrew Williams

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Andrew Williamson

Andrew is a Partner in Mishcon Private. He specialises in rural and agricultural law. He is known for his specialisms in advising land owners on farming partnership agreements, land management issues, agricultural land sales and purchases and also acting for landlords and tenants on specialist agricultural tenancy issues. He is often recommended to new clients by other property professionals. Andrew and the other members of the Farms & Estates team are known for efficiency and pragmatism. They are valued by their ability to give clear commercial advice coupled with swift and effective dealing at an agreed cost. They are known for getting the deal done. He is known for acting for innovative land owners and new entrants to farms and estates and acts in concert with colleagues in the innovation teams to help land owners who want to use their land to do something new. Andrew is a ranked partner in Chambers 2022 which notes that he is "well versed in agricultural tenancies work, together with partnership structure and succession planning advice for landed estate clients and other landowners." Andrew is identified by Spear's as one of the top Landed Estates Lawyer in the 2022 index. He is named as a key lawyer in the Legal 500 2022 guide noting that he is a "a key adviser on agricultural tenancies and succession planning" Andrew is a member of the Country Land & Business Association and a member of the Agricultural Law Association.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Andrew Wilmot-Smith

Andrew’s practice covers all aspects of commercial real estate, but with a particular emphasis on development and investment projects for family offices, landed estates, and other private capital entities. He has extensive experience of advising landowners on the development of strategic land, and UK and overseas entities on investment and development projects within Central London. He manages the investment portfolios of several family-owned property companies and regularly acts for both borrowers and lenders on the real estate aspects of property finance transactions.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Andrew Wolfin

Andrew is a Partner in the firm's Corporate department, having been called to the Bar in 2001 before transferring to become a solicitor and qualifying in 2003. He is a highly experienced transactional and commercial advisory lawyer, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements and complex commercial contracts. His work is both in the UK and overseas, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and bespoke contractual arrangements. Andrew is the lead partner for M:Tech, Mishcon de Reya's legal mentoring and advice programme for early-stage tech companies. Andrew takes a frank and commercial approach to advising his clients, who rely on his counsel and his ability to act as a sounding board on matters affecting all aspects of their business. He has advised businesses in a diverse range of industries, including fashion and brands, technology and online platforms, wholesale distribution, charities, media, healthcare and private members' clubs. Andrew is intimately involved in all aspects of the firm's graduate recruitment process and vacation scheme, including interviewing, assessing and supervising students and trainees. He has delivered numerous training sessions both internally and externally and has given talks at BPP Law School and Leeds University. Andrew also acts as a mentor for entrepreneurs, including for one of our MdR Lab 2018 companies and as part of Walpole's Brands of Tomorrow initiative, a bespoke mentorship programme for aspiring British luxury brands.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Andrew Wong

Andrew is an established top tier rated licensing lawyer and has developed a following of renowned restaurants, bars, clubs, hotels, art galleries and museums. His clients include Tate Galleries, Chiltern Firehouse, Gaucho, Busaba, Barworks, and Alan Yau. Where firms do not have a licensing department, they regularly ask Andrew to advise their clients on the best licensing strategy. Andrew has worked on some of the highest-profile cases and always aims to secure licenses without the need for an appeal. He excels in managing large portfolios for clients and helping them to expand across the UK.

Keystone Law

Andrew Wood

Partner.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Andrew Woolf

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Andrew Worley

Partner in the Real Estate team

Ashfords LLP

Andrew Wright

Consultant

Gowling WLG

Andrew Zajac

Andrew is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Cambridge. He specialises in serious injuries such as brain injury and orthopaedic injury. Andrew is known for delivering clear legal advice in a way that clients understand and goes above and beyond expectations to provide exceptional client care and demonstrates outstanding attention to detail. Case successes include six-figure awards of compensation for two clients who sustained serious orthopaedic injury (one of which sustained a complicated psychological injury involving pain syndrome) and a seven-figure settlement on a complex brain injury cases in which liability was contested. Clients describe him as “an excellent lawyer" and approachable and helpful.”

Slater and Gordon

Andriana Syrimis

Freemans Solicitors

Andrij Jurkiw

Andrij is a partner and head of the UK Competition Team. As well as obtaining merger clearances, defending clients under investigation for alleged competition law breaches and counselling clients on a wide variety of competition law issues, he deals with competition damages claims, competition disqualification orders, consumer protection enforcement cases, NSIA filings, state aid/subsidy control, procurement challenges and commercial litigation which involves competition defences or heads of claim. Cases include Firstgroup/ScotRail Phase II merger clearance, Toys and Games price fixing investigation, Servier – Perindopril pay for delay investigation, Argos & Ors v Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited & Ors competition damages claim, Eurotunnel v Secretary of State for Transport procurement claim, Tempus Energy & Ors v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy State Aid JR, Rest & Play Footwear Ltd v George Rye & Sons Ltd standalone damages claim.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Andy Attfield

Associate Within Reddie & Grose, Andy is a member of the electric and autonomous vehicles team within the electronics, electrical devices and software practice group. He has handled patents relating to a variety of related technologies, including vehicle software, electrical motors and battery systems. Andy is also interested in how the patent system interacts with the ever growing space economy, and has written on the topic and handled a variety of satellite network applications.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Andy Cloughley

I have worked with innovative businesses worldwide for over 25 years, helping them to protect and use their intellectual property. Having run my own business with an international client base before joining Lewis Silkin, I have a drive to provide a first class service to all our clients and love the international element to our work. As well as handling day-to-day prosecution before the EPO and the UKIPO, I enjoy contentious work, including oppositions & appeals at the EPO and litigation in the national courts. I also undertake due diligence and provide strategy advice to clients. My technical areas of work cover a wide variety of electrical and mechanical subject matter including: pumps and compressors; engines and motors; medical devices; consumer electronics and devices; mobile device technology; display devices and touch screens; sensing devices; music synthesisers; electrical circuit design; software; signal, data and image processing and encoding; semiconductors; solid state memories and disk drives; and printers and consumables. I have lectured extensively in the UK, Europe and Japan, covering various aspects of UK and European IP law.

Lewis Silkin

Andy Ellis

Andy is the founder and Executive Director of Practico. He brings deep experience in costs litigation and ADR and is actively involved in supporting clients at a strategic level, particularly on high-value and sensitive matters, ensuring that advice is aligned with wider litigation and commercial objectives. His recent work includes acting for multiple defendant law firms and legal departments representing the ADR Defendants in the Grenfell Tower Litigation, advising Mishcon de Reya and the Federal Republic of Nigeria in one of the most significant commercial disputes in UK legal history, and providing independent costs advice in a collective action brought by Bulk Mail Claims Limited against Royal Mail.

Practico

Andy Francey

Andy is a partner in the Freeths corporate team based in Leeds. Andy is a corporate lawyer advising on the full spectrum of corporate transactions and matters ranging from mergers and acquisitions, disposals, MBO’s, investments and private equity through to start ups, joint ventures and corporate governance. Andy also advises on banking transactions, advising both borrowers and lenders on facilities and security matters. Andy has a wealth of experience in advising on substantial bank re-financings, particularly in the leisure sector. Recently Andy has acted for: Hague SR Limited in their acquisition of iCOM Printworks Ltd; Growth Partner LLP in their investment in Keelham Farm Shop; Panintelligence Limited in its £4.5m investment from YFM Equity Partners and Comhar Capital; and the management team in the management buyout of high performance computing business, OCF Limited. Clients noted Andy Francey “stands out with his logical approach to resolving complex legal matters, coupled with his personable approach and ability to deliver outstanding service on a tight time line, within the budget originally estimated." Clients have praise him for his “top-quality, speedy responses”.

Freeths LLP

Andy Griffiths

As Business Change, Knowledge & Market Affairs Director, Andy is responsible for the overall delivery of business change at Weightmans, together with our knowledge management and providing market affairs insight for clients. He leads three teams. One consisting of project managers and business analysts engaged on a variety of projects throughout the firm. Another consisting of professional support lawyers focussed on embedding a knowledge sharing culture that contributes to the success of our clients, our business and our people. And also a team of market affairs specialists dedicated to horizon scanning and thought leadership. Andy and his department are continually and actively looking for ways to enhance the client experience - always seeking to add value and deliver tangible benefits. Andy is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma methodology is just one of the approaches used by the Projects team when seeking to review and re-engineer processes. Looking at everything we do, how we do it and how it can be improved. Andy oversees consistent and effective project management nationally and is a certified AgilePM practitioner. He also forms part of the operations board responsible for portfolio management of projects and priorities. As a qualified solicitor, Andy has, in the past, acted for a number of local authorities specialising in the defence of public and employers' liability claims. He also has experience of operations management and team management during his time at Weightmans which is used to good effect in his current role. Andy joined the firm as a trainee in 2001, qualified in 2003 and became a partner in 2009. Andy splits his time between our Liverpool and Birmingham offices.

Weightmans LLP

Andy Grimsey

Associate Solicitor

Poppleston Allen

Andy King

Partner, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP