Commercial lawyers

Stuart Firman

Stuart Firman is a Senior Associate within Ganado Advocates’ corporate finance team, regularly assisting clients in the areas of corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and cross-border transactions. Stuart also provides advice to clients on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) law and assists them with FDI notifications.

Ganado Advocates

Stuart Little

Stuart Little is head of the advisory services division at Shoosmiths, responsible for the management and direction of one of the firm’s largest groupings. As divisional head, Stuart is responsible for leading almost 400 legal advisers, including 70+ partners, working across a portfolio of the firms core commercial disciplines including commercial, IP, employment, pensions, regulatory, and commercial litigation. Within this broad commercial frame work the division is also able to offer support across specialist service lines including privacy & data, cyber, competition compliance, international arbitration and insurance. Complementing its specialist technical expertise, the division is focussed on delivering a solutions-based approach to clients drawing on technology and the use of AI to enhance the overall client experience. He works closely with general counsel (GCs) and in-house legal teams and is a regular panel speaker at in-house lawyer events (most recently the GC Summit in London in 2019). In conjunction with the GC of a leading US technology company, Stuart pioneered a risk and reward pricing model which was a winner of one of the first FT Innovative Lawyers Awards, for innovation in billing and fees. He maintains a hands-on role as the client partner for one of the firm’s major technology clients and is a member of the Society for Computers and Law. A skilled negotiator, he has utilised ADR processes to achieve early commercial resolution, frequently preserving what are important commercial relationships between the parties.

Shoosmiths LLP

Stuart Robertson

Stuart is an experienced corporate lawyer who advises entrepreneurs, owner-managed businesses, private and quoted companies, and corporate advisers on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary listings on AIM and other capital markets, public takeovers, joint ventures, company restructurings, equity and debt fundraisings, and general company and commercial law advice. Areas of expertise: Mergers and acquisitions (shares and assets) IPOs with particular expertise on AIM listings Private equity transactions (including management advice) Investment/shareholders’ agreements/articles/shareholder disputes Corporate finance and equity fundraisings Legal due diligence/preparation for exit (IPO or trade sale) General company and commercial law including directors’ duties

Keystone Law

Stuart Smith

Stuart is a corporate and commercial lawyer, with a particular interest in advising clients working in the media, entertainment, technology and creative industries. He advises on a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments, shareholders agreements, LLP and partnership arrangements, employee incentives and general company law advisory work.

Simkins LLP

Stuart Tyler

Stuart Tyler is a Partner and Group Head within the Corporate Department in Guernsey. Stuart deals with a number of corporate and commercial matters including fund raising, acquisitions, debt finance, financial services regulatory matters, insolvency, shareholder arrangements, insurance structures and the commercial aspects of trusts and foundations law.

Appleby

Stylianos Trillides

Partner

Patrikios Legal

Stéphanie Sá Silva

DLA Piper ABBC

Sukontharat Nobnom

Senior Associate

IAS Advisory

Suneer Kumar

Partner

Alsuwaidi & Company

Sunil Kakkad

Consultant

Gowling WLG

Supasit Saypan

Senior Associate

Tilleke & Gibbins

Susan Breen

Susan Breen is a Partner in the firm's top ranked Betting & Gaming Group in the Innovation Department. Susan's practice spans both corporate and M&A, as well as regulatory and commercial advice with over 20 years' experience acting for gambling industry clients. A particular strength of Susan's practice is her ability to blend her corporate knowledge with regulatory, infrastructure, and compliance advice to many of the industry's leading operators, service providers and business owners both in the UK and internationally. Much of Susan's work is international with a particular focus on helping clients buy or build businesses in an environment that has become increasingly complex from a legal, regulatory and tax perspective. She has been involved in many of the sector's high profile and innovative transactions over the last two decades. Clients include significant operators, regulators, governments, affiliate marketing groups, games developers and service providers. Susan has been a senior trusted adviser for many years to certain high profile clients and governments in other jurisdictions. She has extensive experience of advising operators and their key shareholders on the risk management and issues facing operators in regulated or yet to be regulated markets. In addition to advising established businesses, Susan has also advised new entrants to the online gambling market in the UK, Africa and the US. Susan is regarded as a pre-eminent lawyer in the betting and gaming sector by Legal 500, Chambers UK and Chambers Global, particularly for "servicing clients on complex, cutting-edge transactions, providing the regulatory overlay which makes her skillset so unique in this sector". Clients say that her "industry knowledge and understanding is unparalleled", "she cuts to the crux of the issues and gets on with it" and that she "really goes the extra mile for her clients".

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Susan-Barbara Boye

Partner and Head of the Corporate Commercial practice

Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah

Susan-Barbara Kumapley

Partner and Head of the Corporate Commercial practice

Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah

Suzanne Beijersbergen

Suzanne is a committed and experienced corporate lawyer specialized in the field of venture capital investments and mergers and acquisitions. Suzanne successfully assists investors and companies with high quality legal advice and a business focused approach.

BJTK

Suzie Miles

Partner in the Commercial team

Ashfords LLP

Svetla Koleva

Legal Counsel

Penkova & Partners Law Firm

Svetlana Hramcenko

Attorney, M&A, Corporate and Commercial practice

Spridzans, Snipe & Hramcenko

Svetoslav Pandilov

Associated partner

KGK Law Firm

Sybren de Beurs

Partner

NautaDutilh

Synne Høj Nørgaard

Attorney at Law & Associated Partner

Donatzky & Partnere

Szabolcs Posta

Partner, Lawyer

Vámosi-Nagy Ernst & Young Law Office

Szilvia Fehérvári

Partner

Szabó Kelemen & Partners Andersen Attorneys

Sébastien Roy

Advises financial institutions, corporations and individuals on their transactions, contracts and regulatory matters. His practice focuses in particular on financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He also advises corporations on setting up operations in Switzerland and on their corporate and commercial matters.

Pestalozzi