Lawyers in Wales
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Sian Reynolds
Sian is an experienced and commercially focused Senior Associate in our real Estate team. Sian has 18 years of experience across a wide range of complex and varied commercial property transactions for a broad range of clients. She specialises in acquisitions and disposals, real estate development, landlord and tenant and the marine sector. She is a dedicated sailor, having competed at international level, and is current chair of the Royal Yachting Association Cymru Wales. Expertise: Advising on acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold land Advising on real estate development Advising on Landlord and Tenant matters Advising on property aspects of real estate finance transactions Advising on property aspects of corporate transactions Unregistered land Auction sale and purchases
Acuity Law
Simon Morgan
Simon is a specialist commercial property lawyer of more than 30 years’ standing. His practice encompasses a wide spectrum of property-related transactions, including sale and purchase of Freehold and Leasehold properties, sales, purchases and financial restructuring of businesses (with a particular speciality in dental practices), and all aspects of property funding and investment. Simon’s large and varied client base includes investors, owners and occupiers of industrial estates, waste-to-energy reprocessing facilities, office buildings, retail shopping centres and individual retail and wholesale warehouses, hotels, pubs and restaurant properties and dental practices. He acts for individuals, partnerships, pension companies, banks and all types of lending institutions. Outside of the law, Simon has been married for 34 years and has two grown-up children who have fled the nest. He is a keen weightlifter, and also enjoys surfing, dogs, walking, holidays in France and local community projects. Expertise: Commercial property Sale and purchase of Freehold and Leasehold properties Sales, purchases and financial restructuring of businesses Property funding and investment
Acuity Law
Siân Jones
Siân is a partner in our dispute resolution team and a specialist in property litigation and residential landlord and tenant disputes with a wealth of experience in the Social Housing sector.
Blake Morgan LLP
Sophia Farmer
Sophia advises on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters focusing on maximising realisation. She specialises in litigation recovery work on behalf of Bank’s, Insolvency Practitioners and individuals and offers a tailored solution to achieve an early recovery of debts and the swift resolution of disputes. Sophia has a growing practice of personal insolvencies, acting on behalf of Trustees in Bankruptcy to realise assets, defend challenges to Trustees’ remuneration, obtain Possession and Sale Orders and Income Payment Orders, and advise on antecedent transactions. Sophia works with a number of local authorities’ to assist with the collection of debts either by using a fully funded bankruptcy service to recovery council tax arrears, national non-domestic rates and over-paid benefits or by placing charging orders over the property. Sophia is regularly instructed by individuals in respect of annulments, and defends applications in insolvency proceedings for the recovery of assets and transactions to defraud creditors. Sophia assists with all aspects of corporate insolvencies and has been instructed to appoint administrators by qualifying floating charge holders, disclaim leases on behalf of a liquidator, recover unpaid rent, pursue unpaid director loans, transactions at an undervalue and challenge preference payments. Sophia regularly carries out Security Reviews on behalf of HSBC bank and has been successful in making applications to the Court for a declaration to perfect security and rectify the companies charges register. Personal Insolvency and Litigation Instructed by Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy to recover UK property that vests in the bankruptcy estate but is registered to a dissolved Company in Belize, also providing advice in the respect of Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 proceedings (ongoing) Successfully defended an application to challenge the Trustees remuneration and obtain a Possession and Sale Application in respect of outstanding bankruptcy estate costs (2016) Currently acting on behalf of an individual to defend an application pursuant to section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (transaction to defraud creditors) in respect of an alleged “sham” legal charge. The matter is listed for a four day hearing in early 2018. (ongoing) Instructed to advise Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy in respect of a bankrupt with mental capacity issues and the appointment of a deputy via the Court of Protection (2016) Corporate Insolvency Assisting Liquidators with the investigations into the transfer of properties and issued an application pursuant to section 236 of the Insolvency Act to question the directors and to obtain company documents (2017) Pursuing a director for an unpaid director loan account for the sum of £330,000 and a preferential transaction claim pursuant to section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (ongoing) Assisting Joint Liquidators recovery property transferred at an undervalue by the company directors and pursue misfeasance claims against the directors (ongoing) Assisting with the appointment of Administrators by number of companies, including a famous Swansea call centre and (2015) Securing and recovering a historical debt arising from a loan agreement between individuals and two companies in the sum of £1.4 million (2015) Sophia is currently assisting in an unfair prejudice petition on behalf of a minority shareholder relating to hotel projects located in central London with a minimum value of £25-30 million (ongoing). Public Sector Instructed to recover historical unpaid National Non-Domestic Rates from a company registered in Panama (ongoing).
Blake Morgan LLP
Sophie Lowe
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Spencer Collier
Spencer is a Partner in the Medical Negligence team which handles all kinds of medical negligence claims. From the maximum severity cerebral palsy, spinal and amputation cases, to the mid and lower end missed fractures. He also handles delayed diagnosis of cancer and fatal claims. Acting solely for the injured victims of medical negligence, the team has recovered many millions in damages for clients injured as a result of negligent medical occurrences. Spencer has over 30 years’ experience in acting on behalf of the victims of medical negligence to achieve justice and compensation. He has handled all types of cases, including cerebral palsy, spinal injury, amputations, surgical errors, delayed diagnosis of cancer and claims under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. Spencer has developed a formidable reputation in this specialism and has devoted the last three decades to helping victims of medical negligence. He has secured life-changing awards of damages for claimants. He has never been afraid to fight and pursue the pioneering and frontier pushing cases that others may decline.
Geldards LLP
Stephanie James
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Stephen Berry
Steve is Chairman and founding partner at Acuity Law, with over 25 years of top-level experience both in the UK and internationally. A highly experienced corporate lawyer and dealmaker with a demonstrable track record of advising on numerous high-value M&A transactions, Stephen is widely recognised as a leader in his field. He is listed as a leading individual in The Legal 500 and has a Band 1 ranking from Chambers and Partners. With extensive experience advising on complex, often highly technical and intricate finance structures and partnerships between the private and public sectors, clients describe him as “very good, pragmatic, commercial and doesn’t mess around.” Steve has board-level experience of working with growth companies from early-stage funding through to exit and has a particular interest in technology-backed ventures. Expertise: Corporate deals and transactions including mergers, acquisitions and disposals Private equity-funded transactions and PE backed buy and build strategies Commercial projects and contracts including long-term contracts between the private and public sectors Banking and finance structures, including complex and structured arrangements Restructuring and distressed situations
Acuity Law
Stephen Perry
Senior Legal Manager
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Stephen Waggett
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Stephen Webber
Steven is head of one of the two divisions at Hugh James. This division comprises all of the teams which advise private individuals; both claimant litigants and individuals requiring advice on their personal finances and family. Steve specialises in high value medical negligence cases including cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, brain injury, psychiatric, obstetric cases and issues relating to human rights. He also specialises in representing clients in public inquiries and has a niche specialism in acting for people affected by food poisoning outbreaks and dealing with inquests. Stephen is on both the AVMA and Law Society's clinical negligence panels and is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. Stephen is also the Chairman of the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers.
Hugh James
Steve Morris
Steve co-leads Acuity’s award-winning Real Estate team alongside Gareth Baker. Steve enjoys an impressive reputation for advising on high-value property-backed financings and was named as one of the most influential people in property and construction in the Wales Insider Media Property Power List 2022. He is ranked by both The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Working with a portfolio of both developers and lenders, Steve is well-known for his strong technical skills and extensive market knowledge. He has a specialism in large-scale real estate projects encompassing elements of structuring, finance, planning and procurement. A well-established general development lawyer for both commercial and residential schemes, his clients include major local and national developers, investors with portfolio management needs, technology giants, financiers, public and third sector organisations. He acts for such names as Sony, Lloyds Banking Group, Principality Building Society, Hodge Bank and West Sussex and Wolverhampton County Councils. In recent years, Steve has led teams on some of the largest, highest profile property deals in London and South Wales, including acting for a major Cardiff developer in the development, construction and letting to the BBC and HMRC of their new Welsh HQs, and the new Welsh Valleys HQ of the Department of Work and Pensions. He continues to act on some of the largest deals in Wales and around the UK. Steve has played a key part in the growth of the Acuity Law Real Estate team. He is noted for his client-centric approach, and his ability to analyse a multitude of complex interlocking issues across a wide range of disciplines are often key reasons why clients instruct him. Steve regularly hosts seminars and workshops in England and Wales on planning matters and delivers lectures for RICS Wales and the Brownfield Land Wales conference. Expertise: Commercial property deals and transactions – acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold land, landlord and tenant, placing of security, securitisation of assets Real estate development projects – from site assembly to land acquisition, site due diligence, procurement, finance and advice on planning applications and appeals. Experience in complex land assembly and split financing projects Property finance – negotiation of forward funding and property development finance agreements, drafting of security agreements, collateral guarantees, and complex facility arrangements Planning – from assessment of the site and application process through to negotiation and drafting of detailed planning agreements (including viability and affordable housing delivery) with advice on divergences between England and Wales in statute and policy Insolvency and effect on ownership of property – protecting tenanted properties
Acuity Law
Steve Roberts
Partner
Richard Nelson LLP
Susanne Bradley
Susanne is a senior property Partner with over 30 years’ experience in delivering real estate and development advice. She is head of the property department in Cardiff and her work covers a variety of property transactions in both private and public sectors; including buying and selling individual properties and investment portfolios, granting and taking commercial leases, estate management, providing strategic advice, leisure, retail, office and mixed use development and major public regeneration schemes. Susanne’s varied caseload ranges from a private two-plot luxury housing development, to major town centre regeneration schemes, from the sale of a motorway service station to the purchase of an industrial warehouse for conversion to a ballet studio and from a small anaerobic power generation plant in rural Wales to a city-centre shelter for the homeless. She deals with public and private sector projects in equal measure and her insight into the driving factors for each sector aids her in assisting the parties to reach agreement on a project where both sectors are involved.
Geldards LLP
Tamsin Wallace
Senior Associate Professional Support Lawyer
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Tanya Barrett
Tanya is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Property Litigation Team. She has experience dealing with a range of property litigation disputes acting for both Landlords and Tenants including bringing and defending possession claims, rent and service charge arrears recovery and civil injunction proceedings. Tanya acts for landlords in complex residential possession and antisocial behaviour cases involving discrimination, Equality Act and Mental Capacity challenges. She also acts for commercial landlords and tenants in all aspects of landlord and tenant portfolio management including lease renewals, dilapidations and covenant enforcement. Tanya's clients include social housing providers in Wales and England, charities, local authorities and the Welsh Government, and commercial business.
Blake Morgan LLP
Theresa Grech
Theresa is a partner in the Corporate department with considerable corporate transactional experience. Theresa advises on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and joint ventures. She also has experience of corporate restructurings, corporate finance and corporate governance issues.
HCR Law
Thomas Player
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Tiffany Neville
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Tim Edds
Tim is a partner specialising in matters involving assessments of public and administrative law risk, particularly those matters with a Welsh devolution focus. He is also an experienced legislative draftsman. Tim establishes close working relationships with his clients and regularly operates as an extension to in-house legal teams. Tim advises his clients on the development of various, nationally significant policies and drafted numerous Orders and Regulations implementing such policies. He has advised, and been a member of, Bill teams that have taken primary legislation through Senedd Cymru and regularly drafts secondary legislation. Tim has vast experience advising elected officials (including Ministers and Cabinet Members) and policy officials of all levels of seniority in respect of legal risk based on public law principles. He regularly acts for government departments and other public bodies defending judicial review proceedings. Tim previously worked as an in-house Welsh Government lawyer, as well as previously in Environment Agency Wales (now Natural Resources Wales). His experience has given him a unique understanding of the considerations entailed in, and a complete appreciation of, the process of policy development from inception through to formal decision and implementation through legislation.
Browne Jacobson LLP
Tim London
Principal Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Tina Trewartha
Section Manager
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Tina Whitman
Tina specialises in working with the public sector, primarily undertaking defendant personal injury work on behalf of the NHS and national and local government. Tina’s case load includes RTA, employer’s liability, public liability and disease claims at all levels of severity. She also provides advice to NHS bodies and other public bodies on a range of issues, including Judicial Review, Inquests, the NHS Performers List Wales Regulations 2004, continuing health care, funded nursing care and the NHS Pharmaceutical Regulations. Tina is a key member of Blake Morgan’s Public Sector and Personal Injury training forums, regularly delivering training on all aspects of personal injury law and risk and claims management.
Blake Morgan LLP
Tom Black
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP