Farrer & Co — England

Adele Eastman

Adele originally qualified at Farrer & Co, specialising in employment and education law. She was Secretary of the Schools Group and a regular speaker on school (independent sector) issues. Adele then spent four years at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as a Senior Policy Specialist. During this time, she gained extensive experience in the education (state - primary and secondary), child protection and mental health sectors. Adele researched and authored two CSJ policy reports: No Excuses: A Review of Educational Exclusion (published in 2011), and Enough is Enough: A report on child protection and mental health services for children and young people (published in 2014). She was a member of the Independent Review Panel appointed to advise the Department for Education on the allocation of £59M funding for families, children and young people. Following No Excuses, Adele was invited to be a member of the Office of the Children's Commissioner of England's School Exclusions Enquiry Year 2 steering group looking at illegal exclusions. During her research for Enough is Enough, she spent two years on secondment at the charity Kids Company. Having re-joined Farrer & Co, Adele specialises in child protection. She brings wider experience into the team having developed a detailed and robust understanding of education, child protection and mental health issues in the state and voluntary sector, and builds on her prior experience in the independent sector. Adele also offers a broad knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation and frameworks. · Child Protection

Alan Baker

Alan assists with a wide range of IP and commercial matters, primarily for clients in the knowledge and technology-based economies, the creative industries and the cultural sector. He has a diverse practice advising on copyright, trade marks and general commercial contracts, with a particular interest in technology law, software agreements and IP rights in an IT context. Alan also advises on data protection law, electronic commerce and the use of IP rights as business assets. · Intellectual Property

Alex Ruffel

Alex is a specialist in complex cross-border personal tax planning and asset structuring. Alex acts for UK and international individuals and families, helping them safeguard and structure their wealth in a tax-efficient way. This includes advising and supporting their family offices, trustees, foundations and asset-holding entities. Many of her clients originate from the Middle East, Asia-Pacific region or are Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). She has particular expertise in designing and project-managing the implementation of holding structures, such as private trust companies, for asset protection and succession planning for personal and business assets situated outside and within the UK. She has also specialised in complex cross-border tax matters for over 20 years. Most recently, this has included providing detailed advice as to the UK taxation of non-domiciled individuals, non-UK trusts and foundations, and the impact of the 2025 changes to the non-dom regime. Alex gives clear, practical advice and takes a highly collaborative and proactive approach with her clients and their other professional advisers. She is frequently instructed by lawyers and advisers in other jurisdictions to work with them on UK aspects of cross-border matters. · Private Client

Alexandra Hollingshead

Alexandra specialises in providing advice to trustees and UK and international individuals and family offices on wealth structuring and complex inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning. Alexandra has experience of using offshore trusts, companies and foundations together with Wills and estate planning. · Private Client

Alexis Hille

Alexis specialises in providing advice to UK and international individuals, family offices and trustees on wealth structuring and complex inheritance tax, income tax and capital gains tax planning. She has experience advising on matters relating to residence and domicile and cross-border succession issues, with a particular focus on US/UK tax and estate planning. Alexis also advises on tax disclosure regimes. · Private Client

Alice Cave

Alice advises clients on a wide range of employment matters, both contentious and non-contentious. She has experience of conducting Employment Tribunal litigation (including a number of high-value claims) from the initial presentation of a claim through to a hearing or settlement. She is experienced in providing day-to-day advisory support to clients, giving prompt advice on issues as they arise. She also assists clients embarking on longer-term projects such as redundancy exercises. Alice regularly advises employers and employees on employment contracts, compromise agreements, policies and procedures and other employment-related documents. · Employment

Alice Kendle

Alice advises individuals, institutions and corporate clients on a wide range of contentious matters. She advises both claimants and defendants at all stages of the litigation process from pre-action to trial. Alice recently co-authored Deathbed gifts: at a crossroads, which appeared in Trusts and Estates Law and Tax Journal in December 2015. · Litigation

Alice Quirk

Alice joined the Family Department as an associate in November 2017 after qualifying as a solicitor in 2013. Alice works hard to help clients achieve the best possible result on a wide range of family matters, including divorce, financial remedy and issues relating to children. · Family

Alice Yandle

Alice is a Partner in Farrer & Co’s Employment Team. She is an experienced employment lawyer, advising both organisations and senior executives on complex employment, partnership and regulatory issues. Alice frequently advises on employee competition matters, including confidential information and post-termination restraints in the context of team moves. Alice advises C-suite executives, senior employees and partners on all employment and partnership matters including: negotiating complex joining arrangements and departures including the implications for equity and incentive awards, particularly in the private equity context; advising those subject to misconduct investigations, often with regulatory considerations; advising on high value discrimination and whistleblowing complaints and on disputes concerning the enforceability of restrictive covenants. Alice represents employers in a range of sectors including insurance, financial services, corporate, legal, and education. She advises on the full range of employment issues, including complex restructuring exercises, workplace investigations (including those with regulatory implications), TUPE, negotiating employee entrances and exits, and advising on the drafting of and enforcement of restrictive covenants. Alice has extensive litigation experience when advising both senior executive and employers, and is adept at handling and defending complex and high-value discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Alice also has substantial experience in High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, including on employee competition matters. Alice also has an extensive practice in the education sector and regularly advises schools on safeguarding issues, pupil-related matters, special educational needs, the full range of Equality Act 2010 issues, parental complaints and complex investigations (including staff misconduct matters involving DBS and TRA referrals and hearings), alongside her employment work for schools. · Employment

Alicia Rice

Alicia advises on all aspects of high-value residential property, for both domestic and overseas clients, including purchases, sales, re-finances, acting for private lenders and other associated matters. Alicia’s clients are predominantly high-net-worth individuals, private companies and trusts. She also has experience of acting for private banks on secured lending transactions. The nature of her clients’ transactions means she often works closely with other teams across the firm if they need advice on related matters, for example, planning, stamp duty land tax, family and private client. Prior to joining Farrer & Co, Alicia trained at a regional firm in London which had a core real estate practice. During her training she regularly acted for buyers on several well-known new-build developments across London and gained experience in the prime central London market. Alicia qualified as a solicitor in March 2023. She approaches her work in an efficient and commercial manner and is committed to keeping her clients regularly updated to make what she appreciates can often be a stressful process as streamline as possible for her clients. Alicia enjoys working in the fast-paced environment that residential property transactions often demand and building close-working relationships and rapport with all parties involved. · Real Estate

Amy Penrose

Amy specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious planning and development law. She acts for a variety of land owners, investors, lenders, developers, objectors and private individuals, helping them to navigate the planning and consenting regimes in England and Wales. As well as drafting and negotiating statutory agreements, she provides clients with strategic and technical advice in both transactional and development contexts. Amy’s dynamic approach is commercial, client focused and proactive. Amy acts on a broad range of planning matters including planning enforcement action, environmental impact assessment advice, biodiversity net gain advice, negotiating and drafting planning and highways agreements, planning application reviews and strategy, certificates of lawfulness, use class advice, due diligence in the context of property, corporate and finance transactions, judicial reviews, statutory challenges and planning appeals. Amy advises clients on a wide range of schemes and transactions, including understanding and managing planning risk in sales, acquisitions and financings. She regularly provides strategic advice on aspects of land promotion, lawful implementation for community infrastructure levy purposes and multi-phase developments. Amy has experience in a variety of sectors, including infrastructure, data centres, life science facilities, retail, offices and residential (including student accommodation). Amy has additional contentious experience having supported clients (as claimants, defendants and interested parties) in judicial reviews and statutory challenges. She also has experience of planning appeals and representing clients in compulsory purchase compensation claims against HS2. Amy is known for her personable and dynamic approach. She combines technical legal expertise with commercial and practical advice to provide meaningful contributions to clients’ decision-making processes. Amy works seamlessly and collaboratively with planning and technical consultants, as well as other departments within Farrer & Co to help achieve holistic outcomes for clients. Amy is able to draw on her farming background, which has proven to be an asset to clients when advising on rural land and environmental factors. · Planning & Environmental

Amy Radnor

Amy joined Farrer & Co in 2018 from a Tier 1 central London family department. Clients seek her advice on the full range of family law matters. Amy has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of relationship breakdown and wealth protection, including financial claims on divorce, international and jurisdictional issues, and issues relating to children. She has a particular interest and expertise in drafting and negotiating pre- and post-nuptial agreements and in cross-border children work. · Family

Amy Wren

Amy is a Senior Counsel and Knowledge Lawyer in the employment team, providing expert technical legal support to the team and leading its know-how function. Given the fast-changing nature of employment law, Amy ensures the team is at the forefront of all legal changes and can provide the best possible advice to our clients. · Employment

Andrew Peterkin

Andy is a well-regarded partner in our Financial Services team. He undertakes a wide range of general financial services work, as well as advising on fund formation and operation and securities law issues. His broad range of clients include asset managers, investment fund managers, non-financial sector institutions and private banks. Andy's focus is on the establishment, management and winding up of investment funds, advising on the regulatory aspects of the sale and purchase of regulated firms. Non-financial sector institutions such as charities, universities and schools turn to him for advice on the impact of financial services legislation on their businesses. He also advises issuers and investors on securities regulation. He has particular expertise in advising investment fund managers on the impact of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), including, capital requirements, leverage, relationships with administrators, depositaries and fund marketing. He also regularly advises private banks, investment managers and fund managers on general Conduct of Business issues including the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and FCA and PRA prudential requirements. He also advises on issues arising on the sale and purchase of regulated firms, including the FCA's Change in Control Regime. Andy has a particular interest in fintech and has advised on the establishment of several fintech-based products and services. He also has significant expertise in advising on outsourcing arrangements in the financial services sector. Andy has a strong knowledge of the issues that arise around capital-raising, with a focus on social investment, charities and education, and covering the scope of regulation, structuring and marketing. He often advises on note issues via the Model X note purchase agreement. · Financial Services

Andy Peterkin

Andy advises a wide range of financial institutions, including asset managers, private banks and pension providers on non-contentious matters, including: regulatory capital issues; collective investment schemes; financial regulatory compliance issues; the Consumer Credit Acts 1974/2006; and transfers of financial services businesses. · Banking & Finance

Anisha Birk

Anisha is an Associate in the Intellectual Property & Commercial team. She advises clients across a number of sectors, with a particular focus on the not-for-profit and higher education sectors. Her experience includes advising on a wide range of intellectual property assets, commercial contracts and commercial regulatory issues, including a keen interest in state aid law. · Intellectual Property

Anjana Daniel

Anjana is a solicitor with over nine years’ experience in UK immigration, asylum, and nationality law. Anjana has extensive experience in advising individuals and families with their personal immigration matters, with a focus on spouse, private life, settlement, and European applications. She is adept at handling complex nationality matters and claims through ancestry for British citizenship. Anjana has particular expertise in the education sector and her clients include independent schools and private education providers. She assists with licence applications and subsequent licence management, advising on compliance obligations and risk management strategies. She has worked closely with clients in the context of Home Office inspections to achieve excellent outcomes. Anjana’s corporate experience includes advising companies on navigating the points based system, working closely with sponsors and employees to advise on right to work issues, sponsored work applications, and immigration compliance following corporate restructures. Anjana is known for her client-centric approach, and specialises in finding pragmatic solutions to complex issues. · Immigration

Anna Birtwistle

Partner at Farrer & Co since June 2019. · Employment

Annabel Dean

Annabel advises individuals, families and institutions on all aspects of property law and its financing. She is known for her technical skill and ability to translate this into pragmatic and strategic advice, which enables her to solve problems quickly and to help her clients navigate the property market intelligently. Annabel acts for clients based in and outside the UK. She is well known for the work she does for clients in and from the Middle East and she travels regularly to the region. Annabel’s particular skill is in drawing together teams from across the firm to deliver bespoke advice for each client which covers the client’s particular concerns, whether this be a complicated property investment project or as a more general wealth management plan. Clients praise Annabel's diligence and responsiveness as well as her calm, measured advice under pressure. · Real Estate

Annabel Spearman

Annabel is a Senior Associate in the Private Client Services team. Annabel advises both international and UK clients on wills, trust law, tax, and estate planning. She also advises on the use of wealth-holding structures, including the use of trusts and offshore companies. · Private Client

Annabelle Allen

Annabelle advises clients on a broad range of property transactions, including sales and acquisitions, developments and landlord and tenant management matters. Before joining Farrer & Co, Annabelle trained and worked at two international law firms and has experience acting for a variety of investors, funds, developers, and corporate occupiers. Annabelle qualified as a solicitor in February 2019. · Real Estate

Anthony Turner

Anthony is a partner in the corporate team. He advises both corporate and individual clients on the full range of company law and corporate transactions including acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, equity investments and joint ventures. Anthony is a member of the firm’s international private wealth group and has particular experience advising trusts and trustees on corporate matters. He also advises on admissions and fundraisings on AIM. Anthony is recommended by Legal 500 as a corporate lawyer. He is a contributor to the Butterworths Corporate Law Service, a member of the Legal Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance and he regularly lectures on corporate law matters. · Corporate / M&A

Antonia Lyne

Antonia specialises in intellectual property, commercial and data protection law. She has a particular interest in advising clients in the technology, media, culture, education and sport sectors. Antonia advises clients with issues relating to the management, protection, transfer and commercialisation of IP rights, including copyright, trademarks and other registered and unregistered rights. She also assists with a wide range of issues related to commercial contracts. · Intellectual Property

Athalie Matthews

Athalie is highly experienced in all aspects of the law surrounding reputation management, particularly from a claimant perspective. · Reputation Management

Barbara Beasley

Barbara advises a broad range of corporate, institutional and private clients on commercial property matters, focussing on acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters and general commercial property investment. · Commercial Property

Ben Amoah

Ben advises both claimants and defendants on all aspects of commercial litigation and dispute resolution. In particular, he has experience of all stages of the litigation process from initial pre-action advice to trial. Ben has assisted on a number of complex civil fraud disputes. · Litigation

Ben Longworth

Ben advises corporate clients, high net worth individuals and not-for-profit organisations on a wide range of complex contentious matters. His practice focusses on high-value disputes arising out of commercial contracts, post M&A issues, shareholder disputes, professional negligence and civil fraud. His recent experience includes advising a large international business on a multi-million pound High Court civil fraud and breach of contract claim, defending the sellers of an educational business against substantial warranty and indemnity claims and advising an international software company pursuing a multi-million pound breach of contract claim. Ben advises both employers and employees on High Court claims arising out of large-scale team moves and allegations of misuse of confidential information. He also has a busy practice advising independent schools on disputes with suppliers, parents and overseas partners. Ben is often instructed at the pre-action stage to provide strategic advice to help put clients in the best possible position. He has extensive experience of resolving disputes through negotiation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, particularly mediation. He also has significant trial experience in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and of making and responding to applications for injunctive relief. · Litigation

Bethan Waters

Bethan assists on a wide variety of banking matters. She works with both lenders and borrowers (including charities and institutions) on secured and unsecured banking transactions and also has experience of international syndicated and bilateral lending (both in traditional and emerging markets) and asset, art and property financing. · Banking & Finance

Blue Elliott

Blue is a Senior Associate in the Disputes team. Blue assists on a wide variety of contentious matters for individual, institutional and corporate clients. She advises both claimants and defendants on all stages of the litigation process from the pre-action stages of litigation up to and including trial. · Litigation

Bryony Cove

Bryony is an experienced private client lawyer working with a broad range of UK and international clients, from individuals and families, to trust companies and family businesses. At the core of her practice is helping clients and their families put in place the most effective strategies to manage the long term stability and integrity of their estates. Bryony has extensive experience advising on all aspects of UK estate planning, including wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney and family governance issues. She regularly advises on the administration of large and complex estates and international probate, and some contentious probate and trust matters. She also has a number of longstanding US/UK and European clients. She is often called upon to help families resolve situations where legal crises have arisen as a result of deteriorating mental or physical health. Her practice includes strong elements of wealth stewardship, philanthropy and reputation management. Bryony looks after entrepreneurial and multi-generational private business owning clients as well as talents from the fields of entertainment, media, music, sport, literature, art and design. She also advises professionals including private bankers, investment managers and accountants. Clients appreciate Bryony's empathetic approach, as well as her technical expertise, and rely on her natural ability to help simplify complex and challenging situations. Many of the issues she deals with feature significant concerns for multiple generations and she is adept at maintaining channels of communication with all those involved and at all levels. Bryony ensures her clients receive the best possible advice, blending knowledge from across the firm to resolve challenges requiring property, corporate, family, disputes and charities expertise, or drawing on her network of external trusted professional advisers. Bryony acts as a trustee for several UK business and land owning families, gaining invaluable insight into the very specific challenges of this role. She has contributed to Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal and she is a member of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) sitting as a founder member of STEP’s Responsible Stewardship of Wealth strategy group. Bryony also regularly speaks at and chairs industry seminars and events both within the UK and overseas. · Private Client

Caroline Holley

Caroline advises a diverse client base on both contentious and non-contentious matters, with a particular focus on cases involving an international element. Her practice ranges from drafting and negotiating pre-nuptial agreements to advising in complex financial disputes arising out of all aspects of relationship breakdown. She also has considerable experience advising in private law children matters, including in relation to contact disputes, relocation applications and abduction. Her practice involves a significant level of international work and she has particular expertise in complex cross-jurisdictional cases. She speaks French and Italian and frequently uses her language skills and experience to assist clients whose cases involve international elements. She has also spent time on secondment with a top family law firm in Los Angeles, California. Caroline recently advised in the important case of Prest v Petrodel which was heard in the UK Supreme Court. The extremely complex case, the importance of which extends beyond family law and into important aspects or trust and company law, was ultimately decided in her client’s favour. · Family

Caroline Tatham

Caroline is a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team. · Banking & Finance

Caroline Vollers

Caroline has experience working with both international and UK-domiciled clients needing advice on wills, lasting powers of attorney (LPAs and EPAs), trusts and succession planning. She also has experience advising in relation to wealth and property holding structures using offshore companies and trusts and providing advice to trustees. · Private Client

Charles Fursdon

Charles advises private, commercial and institutional clients on a wide range of contentious matters. He advises both claimants and defendants on all stages of the litigation process from pre-action up to trial. He has experience assisting on multi-million pound cases in the High Court as well as smaller matters in the County Court. · Litigation

Charlotte Black

Charlotte is Counsel in the Tax team. Charlotte advises on all direct taxes, stamp duties and VAT. Her client base comprises individuals, corporates, charitable institutions and investment funds. Charlotte has experience in transactional, advisory and HMRC dispute resolution work including in the areas of employee incentives, M&A and property tax. · Tax

Charlotte Fraser

Charlotte has broad experience acting for both private and corporate clients on a wide range of commercial disputes including breach of contract and fiduciary duty as well as fraud. She also regularly advises on trusts and estates disputes both offshore and in England and Wales, acting for both trustees and beneficiaries. Charlotte has particular experience of will and probate disputes to include claims for proprietary estoppel, validity, capacity and construction issues as well as claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and in the Court of Protection. She has also assisted on a number of complex multi-jurisdictional trust disputes on issues involving breach of trust, beneficiary rights of information and jurisdictional issues. Charlotte has been recognised as a 'Rising Star' by Thomas Reuters in its 2014 London Super Lawyers list. · Litigation

Charlotte Freeman

Charlotte advises on a variety of banking and financial transactions acting for both lenders and borrowers (including financial institutions, public and private companies, trustees and private individuals) on secured and unsecured lending transactions. She also has experience of advising insolvency practitioners, creditors and stakeholders on a broad range of restructuring and insolvency matters, including enforcement of security. · Banking & Finance

Charmaine Pollock

Counsel · Employment

Claire Gordon

Claire enjoys a diverse client base and an extensive caseload involving all aspects of family law for high net worth individuals, covering divorce, financial settlements, private law children matters, enforcement, civil partnership matters and unmarried couples. She also has considerable experience of drafting and advising upon pre and post-nuptial agreements. Her cases regularly include very complex financial, business and international matters, often involving offshore assets and trusts. Claire is a collaborative lawyer and a mediator and regards both practices as valuable alternative means of settling disputes. · Family

Claire Randall

Claire advises UK and international clients on their estate and tax planning affairs. She is recognised for her ability to find practical solutions to complex issues involving UK taxation, including for individuals moving to or back to the UK, and UK resident individuals setting up or benefitting from offshore structures and investing in the UK. Claire also has experience in making tax disclosures and settlements with HMRC. · Private Client

Claire Sheppard

Claire has over 25 years’ experience in environmental law. She advises clients on environmental issues in a transactional and regulatory context. Claire has acted on a wide range of transactions including corporate sales and acquisitions, privatisations and project transactions. She advises on legal due diligence and the identification of environmental liabilities and the contractual allocation and apportionment of environmental risk. In the real estate context, her experience includes advising on environmental issues in relation to property sales and purchases, leases and developments. · Environmental

Clare Reddy

Clare is a specialist construction lawyer advising on matters such as regeneration, mixed use development, and the refurbishment and fitting out of commercial property. · Construction

Clare Serenyi

Clare works for a wide variety of clients on private family law matters, both contentious and non contentious. This includes resolving complex financial disputes and children matters, often with an international element, following relationship breakdown. Clare also has experience of advising on civil partnerships, pre and post nuptial agreements and cohabitation. · Family

Daisy Tarnowska

Daisy works on a broad range of family law matters, both contentious and non-contentious, and often with an international element. These include divorce, complex financial disputes, pre-nuptial agreements and cohabitation. Daisy also deals with issues of child contact and residence. · Family

David Copping

David is the Head of the Higher Education Group. He specialises in non-contentious intellectual property and commercial law, predominantly advising clients operating in IP rich sectors such as media, culture and higher education. David regularly advises clients on a range of issues relating to the acquisition, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, including in relation to trade marks, copyright, and other forms of registered and unregistered rights. His principal areas of focus are complex collaborative projects involving the creation and/or exploitation of intellectual property, and IP considerations arising in corporate transactions, research collaborations and joint ventures. In terms of more general commercial work, David has expertise in relation to technology contracts, IT and business process outsourcing, supply and distribution agreements and a range of other contractual matters. Recent experience includes: advising a number of London universities on significant strategic collaborations in India, Singapore, China and Hong Kong; advising Historic Royal Palaces on the joint venture arrangements relating to the poppies at the Tower of London, voted London’s top cultural attraction of 2014; coordinating IP due diligence on one of the UK’s premier music publishing catalogues for a private bank; advising the RFU on a joint venture and outsourcing arrangement relating to the provision of hospitality and catering at Twickenham Stadium; advising the Institute of Cancer Research on its ground-breaking agreement with BACIT Limited, an innovative LSE listed fund-of-funds established to help fund the battle against cancer; constructing and analysing complex EU funded research consortia under Horizon 2020, including Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) and European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) · Intellectual Property

David Fletcher

David is a corporate partner and advises on a broad range of commercial transactions involving corporate bodies, partnerships and individuals. David has acted for private equity investors, financial institutions and company directors. David is also a licensed insolvency practitioner and has worked on a number of corporate restructurings, as well as advising on insolvency processes. · Corporate / M&A

David Gubbay

Corporate tax expert David Gubbay works across the firm's sectors to help clients through some of the most complex issues they face. He is known for his considered style allied with a grounded pragmatic manner. · Tax

David Hunt

David advises a broad spectrum of clients from the education, sports, banking, commercial and charity sectors on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. He also acts for individuals in relation to contract and exit negotiations and team move and restrictive covenant issues. He is a member of the firm’s Higher Education and Sports Groups. · Employment

David Morgan

David provides clear, practical advice on commercial matters in the areas of data protection, intellectual property and contracts. He works with private and public sector clients across a variety of industries including technology, media, sport, financial services, culture and not-for-profit. David’s data protection and intellectual property work covers both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has experience in managing complex subject access and erasure requests (often with a safeguarding angle), advertising and direct marketing compliance, copyright licensing in the publishing sector, and negotiating business critical technology and outsourcing contracts. · Data Protection

Edmund Fetherston-Dilke

Edmund advises several major estates on the full variety of legal issues including residential, agricultural and business tenancies, rights of way, sporting rights, agri-environmental schemes, riparian issues and planning and environmental matters. He is well connected in the residential and rural property markets and regularly works with a number of buying agents acquiring countryside and London properties for clients where transactions often need to be executed to brisk timetables. Often these acquisitions will involve offshore ownership structures and complex financing issues. Edmund has been dealing in high value residential property work for more than 20 years and has substantial experience in all matters whether freehold or leasehold, listed or new build/off-plan. As part of his residential practice he regularly deals with lease extensions and enfranchisement matters for both landlord and tenant. Edmund also assists his clients with their significant refurbishment projects dealing with the associated planning and construction issues. He looks after a number of clients who have diverse commercial property interests on the granting and surrendering of leases, service charge issues and dilapidations. · Real Estate

Edward Banyard Smith

Edward has significant experience of advising on all aspects of construction and property development. In addition to advising construction clients, funders, contractors and consultants on procurement contracts, he advises on the construction aspects of real estate and finance transactions. He also advises on the resolution of disputes arising from construction projects. Edward regularly contributes articles to construction law publications, and has contributed chapters to two books on construction law. · Construction

Edward Floyd

Edward advises on all family law issues, helping clients resolve the financial issues that arise on separation, arrangements for children and marital and relationship agreements. His cases often involve high-value, multi-jurisdictional assets, including trusts and his clients include high net worth and highly compensated individuals. · Family

Edward Twigger

Ned provides advice to financial services firms, including asset managers, private banks and wealth managers on a variety of complex regulatory issues. Ned’s work has encompassed advice on regulatory change projects for clients, such as MiFID II, the SMCR and the IFPR but also on various ad hoc regulatory questions steaming from, for instance, the UK versions of the AIFMD, MAR and the Fourth and Fifth Money Laundering Directives. Ned also regularly advises on the sale and purchase of regulated financial services firms, including advice on the FCA’s and the PRA’s Change in Control Regime, and has assisted with a number of applications to the FCA in relation to firms’ Part 4A permissions. Ned has also spent time on secondment to a large asset manager during which he advised on a broad array of regulatory and fund-related matters. Ned’s particular expertise lies in the regulatory issues facing asset management firms and Ned has frequently advised managers of both authorised and private funds on how to meet their UK financial services regulatory requirements. Ned also has a wealth of experience in the Regulatory M&A space, having regularly advised both buyers and sellers of FCA and PRA authorised firms, and has a strong knowledge of the regulatory issues arising on the sale and purchase of such businesses. Ned’s work in this space has frequently involved international and cross-border elements when acting for both the buy-side and the sell-side. · Financial Services Regulation

Eleanor Rowswell

Eleanor is an experienced employment lawyer who advises both senior executives and a range of employers, including clients in the financial services sector and law firms. She has particular experience in advising senior individuals in regulated environments, including FTSE directors, senior bankers and directors of private companies. She has an established track record in advising both individuals and employers on complex discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the Employment Tribunal and appellate courts and on restrictive covenants and team moves in the High Court. Eleanor is a member of the firm's Professional Practices and Private Banking and Investment Management Groups. She is a regular speaker at external seminars and conferences, for example, recently speaking on the impact of the Senior Managers regime on the financial services sector and delivering a number of Lexisnexis webinars on restrictive covenants. · Employment

Elena Hinchin

Elena has nearly 10 years' experience in Immigration Law. She built up her expertise at a specialist immigration firm and more recently at a multi-family office. She has particular experience in providing strategic immigration advice to high net worth individuals, professionals and family offices in respect of relocation to the UK. This includes personal immigration matters as well as family and staff migration. Elena also has vast expertise in complex immigration matters, including political asylum claims and immigration appeals. She has acted for clients before the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, in Judicial Review applications and in applications to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She advises clients from a broad range of jurisdictions, including Russia & the CIS regions, the Middle East, Far East and the USA. · Immigration

Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth is the practice head for Charities at Farrer & Co. Elizabeth has extensive experience advising charities on governance and constitutional issues, re-structuring, fundraising, equality law (in relation to charitable trusts), charity mergers and regulatory matters. She also advises on grant-making, trading subsidiaries and endowment trusts. Elizabeth is a member of the Charity Law Association's taxation sub-committee and co-authored 'Structuring-not-for-profits in the UK'. In May 2015, she was named as one of Charity Finance's Top 25 Rising Stars in the charity sector. · Charities

Elizabeth Sainsbury

Elizabeth advises on a wide range of commercial, trust and private wealth disputes, acting for individuals, schools and higher education institutions, and businesses. She has a particular interest in advising individuals and families in contentious trust and estate matters and Inheritance Act claims. Elizabeth was recently involved in the Supreme Court case HMRC v Forde & McHugh ([2014] UKSC 14). This case concerned the treatment of NICs in respect of an employer company's contributions to a Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefits Scheme (FURBS). · Trusts & Estates

Ellen Maguire

Ellen advises asset and investment managers, fund management companies and private banks on an array of legal, transactional and regulatory issues. Ellen has cross-border experience, having advised Irish, Luxembourg, UK and US domiciled fund management companies in respect of their authorised funds products, including fund authorisation applications, conversions of fund legal structure and on fund wind-ups and terminations. Ellen advises fund management companies and investment managers on how to meet their financial services regulatory requirements and has guided foreign domiciled investment managers through the necessary clearance process to act in Ireland. Ellen’s work to date has involved transactional matters in the context of change of control situations, large asset-sales (from both a corporate and financial regulatory perspective) and fund mergers under the UCITS IV Meger regime on both a domestic and cross-border basis. From both an EU and UK perspective, Ellen has advised clients with respect to their ESG credentials, assisting fund management companies to navigate both the UK’s SDR regime and EU-wide SFDR. · Investment Funds

Emily Costello

Emily specialises in reputation management and dispute resolution across a broad spectrum of privacy, defamation, tech and data protection issues. Emily provides bespoke legal advice to a wide range of clients, including high-profile individuals, schools, charities, corporations and executives. She has a wide experience of litigation, advising both claimants and defendants at all stages of the litigation process, and has worked on a variety of complex disputes. She is experienced in acting in very sensitive matters and clients appreciate her calm and reassuring approach in what can be highly stressful situations for the client. Emily is particularly experienced in advising on defamation, privacy and data protection, including right to be forgotten requests. Emily holds a law degree from Trinity College Dublin and undertook her training contract at a Magic Circle firm. Emily was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2021. · Reputation Management

Emily Jamieson

Emily is Counsel in the Corporate team. Emily advises corporate and commercial clients on a broad range of corporate matters. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions, fundraisings, joint ventures, shareholders' agreements and re-organisations. She has experience working with a wide range of clients including public and private companies and individuals. · Corporate / M&A