Hill Dickinson LLP — England

Adrian Marsh

Partner, Head of Transport and logistics sector. Expertise covers litigation and commercial work within the marine insurance, logistics, shipping and trade sectors. Dispute resolution experience includes: cargo recovery claims; transit liability claims (all modes); bills of lading/charterparty disputes; marine insurance coverage disputes and policy interpretation; lien and insolvency disputes; arbitration and mediation; freight recovery claims; Commercial experience includes advising/preparing logistics and supplier agreements, charterparties and COAs, standard trading conditions and bill of lading terms. · Transport & Logistics

Alan Pugh

Partner. · Construction & Engineering

Alasdair Mackinnon

Partner · Banking & Finance

Alastair Moss

Partner · Real Estate

Alex McCann

Head of Real Estate · Real Estate

Alexander Bramwell

Partner · Shipping

Alison Starr

Partner. · Corporate / M&A

Amanda Burge

Partner. · Commercial Litigation

Amy Millson

Partner · Employment

Andrea Proudlock

Partner in Health Real Estate and Head of Newcastle Office · Health Real Estate

Andrew Craggs

Health Business Group Leader · Healthcare

Andrew Gibson

Andrew qualified in 1989, and gained a wide range of employment litigation experience with a niche commercial law firm in Manchester before joining Hill Dickinson in September 2001. Andrew has extensive experience in a range of employment law matters, and undertakes advocacy in the Employment Tribunals, and the Employment Appeal Tribunal. He has conducted litigation in the Court of Appeal. He advises on all aspects of an increasingly complex area of law, including TUPE, the Working Time Directive, race, sex and disability discrimination and redundancy. He is also involved in extensive litigation on-going nationally relating to equal pay. Notable cases include Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley and the national test issue of Jones & Ors v Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors. He acts primarily for employers, from small private companies to large PLCs, NHS Trusts, Colleges, Local Authorities and Universities. He has acted for teachers and lecturers in disputes with their employers, and as a school governor for many years has a particular interest in Education Law. He is also a prominent member of the firm’s on-going training and continuing development activities for clients and potential clients, as well as coordinating the training needs for solicitors and support staff in the employment and pensions practice group. · Employment

Andrew Leslie

A highly experienced practitioner who specialises in defendant clinical negligence representing the NHS. He manages a high-value caseload of catastrophic injury claims, with a predominant focus on the most complex adult and child brain injury claims. Substantial experience in ADR, achieving multi-million pound settlements using periodical payment orders and successfully defending claims to trial when merited. Background in healthcare advisory work and coroner’s inquests, as well as lecturing to health sector audiences. Firm client relationship partner for a number of NHS clients. · Clinical Negligence

Andrew Little

Partner · Commercial Litigation

Andrew Williams

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

Anjon Malik

Partner, Head of Construction & Engineering. · Construction

Anthony Allen

Tony heads our world renowned yacht team, and has more than 20 years' experience of yacht-related legal issues. With an international client base and having worked with most of the leading European yacht underwriters and yards, he enjoys a reputation as one of the leaders in this field. His work focuses primarily on large yacht transactions and major yacht insurance disputes whilst he also has an active involvement in industry bodies such as the Superyacht Society, the British Marine Federation and its Superyacht UK initiative, and the Royal Yachting Association. · Maritime / Shipping

Anthony Gibbons

Legal director dealing with professional negligence claims and complaints against the firm. · Professional Negligence

Anthony Houghton

Partner specialising in commercial property, site assembly, landlord and tenant, large project/portfolio work, leases, multi-site telecommunications lettings and property development. · Real Estate

Barry Gibb

Barry is a solutions focused pensions lawyer who is instructed by employers and independent trustees to ‘trouble shoot’. He is innovative and responsive when advising clients. He has been involved in a number of high profile matters including: • Advising Stobart Group on the pensions issues of the proposed takeover of Flybe. • Assisting Swissport GB Limited in respect of a complex scheme merger project for three of its final salary schemes. • Providing advice to the Trustees of the PJKI Pension Scheme in relation to a ‘PPF plus’ buy out exercise. • Advising Vynova Runcorn Limited on a complex re-write of the rules for two pension schemes following a double scheme closure.• Advising numerous trustee boards on scheme restructurings: • Trustees of the Veryards Limited Pension Scheme, putting in place a flexible apportionment arrangement (FAA) and funding guarantee; and• Trustees of the MWH UK Limited Pension & Life Assurance Plan, agreeing an FAA together with three guarantees and cash mitigation with the Canadian parent company. Barry is the training partner for the Manchester office of Hill Dickinson and sits on the Training Committee as he is passionate about the next generation of lawyers at Hill Dickinson. · Pensions

Barry Jervis

Partner · Commercial Dispute Resolution

Ben Acheson

Partner Ben is head of the Real Estate team in our Birmingham office and has more than 15 years of experience in real estate transactions. Ben spent 12 years at City law firm Macfarlanes before taking on the role of head of real estate for the Birmingham office of Irwin Mitchell. He deals with all aspects of real estate work including investment and development transactions, both for commercial/mixed use and residential projects, as well as acting for both landlords and tenants on commercial occupier work. · Real Estate

Beth Bradley

Partner · Shipping

Bill Chandler

Bill is the professional support lawyer to our national property and construction team, providing technical legal support to the team and its clients. Prior to assuming his present role, Bill was a partner in the property team with over 10 years' transactional experience acting for retailers, developers and others on all aspects of commercial property work - including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant, and development work. A regular speaker on property topics for the client seminar programme and at events organised by various professional bodies, he also writes regular articles for the firm's newsletters, the local press and various legal and property publications. Bill also devises and presents a number of internal training courses. Bill graduated from Cardiff University in 1993 with a first class honours degree in law and several prizes, including best overall degree result. He achieved a distinction on the LPC at the Chester branch of the College of Law the following year. · Real Estate

Blair Adams

Partner · Employment

Caroline Prosser

Partner · Employment

Chris Johnston

Partner · Real Estate

Claire Cosgrove

A partner in our property team, undertaking a wide range of property tranactions with particular emphasis on acquisitions amd disposals and landlord and tenant work, Claire was originally a trainee at the firm and qualified into the property and construction team in 2005. She was promoted to senior associate in 2008 and partner in 2011. She has particular expertise in acquisitions and disposals and landlord and tenant work. Particular areas of specialism include: bulk disposals and acquisitions investment acquisitions including retail parks and shopping centres acting for tenants in the retail sector - Claire has acted for national retailers since qualification in all aspects of their property portfolios · Real Estate

Colin Lavelle

Partner · Shipping

Craig Scott

National head of the corporate team, Craig's particular expertise includes advising on private equity backed transactions, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, and joint ventures. Craig joined the firm in 2010, having previously worked for 10 years at international law firm DLA Piper, and 4 years at Halliwells. He has over 19 years’ corporate transactional experience for corporates, management teams and equity houses. Craig specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity funded transactions covering all forms of share and asset acquisitions and disposals, auction sale processes, mergers, corporate joint ventures and investments. Craig leads a specialist team with extensive experience of private equity transactions and has also acted on several major corporate finance transactions for listed companies. Craig completed his law degree at Sheffield University (LLB Hons)and attended Chester College of Law. Craig was one of the first solicitors in the North West to hold the corporate finance qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England. He has national and cross-border experience of private equity-related transactions, acting regularly to institutional investors and management teams, and has also acted on several major corporate transactions for listed PLCs. Additionally holds the corporate finance qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Clients include Downing Student Management, Fishawack Group, Secured Mail, Next Wave Partners, Merseyside Special Investment Fund, Finance Wales, Thomas Hardie Commericals and Dorma UK. Recent deals include: Acting for Next Wave on its partial exit from Fox International Group Limited to Mayfair Private Equity The £18m merger of CMS Network (London) with Secured Mail to create the £100m t/o Delivery Group Representing Enterprise Ventures in connection with its investment supporting the MBO of Blue I Event Technology Limited Acting for MSIF in connection with its £2m MBO of Charles Stanley Financial Solutions Advising the vendors on the disposal of Downing Student Trust to a fund managed by HSBC Alternative Investments Limited for £193m. · Corporate / M&A

Darren Hamer

Partner. · Real Estate

Darren Wall

A partner in the commodities team, with over 10 years' experience advising in the field of international trade and shipping, Darren regularly advises companies that trade, finance and transport a wide range of commodities. He is also vastly experienced in dispute resolution, having been involved in a variety of trade association arbitrations, including the LME, GAFTA, FOSFA, ICA, RSA and SAOL and arbitrations subject to ICC, LCIA and LMAA terms. Darren has also frequently appeared before the Commercial Court and also has experience at Court of Appeal and Supreme Court level appeals. He regularly contributes articles to legal publications, as well as presenting at a number of industry seminars and training events. He obtained a postgraduate diploma in law at City University, London in 2005, attending Inns of Court School of Law. · Commodities

David Banks

Partner. · Construction & Engineering

David Hill

David has provided legal advice to clients in the health and social care sector in England for 9 years. He previously worked for the Directorate of Legal Services of the Health Service in Northern Ireland. His areas of practice include primary care commissioning, information governance and regulatory proceedings. He has acted on behalf of a wide range of organisations in judicial review proceedings on issues ranging from public consultation about service reconfiguration to decisions about treatment funding. He advises on the regulation of GPs, dentists and opticians. He has a particular interest in the regulation of pharmacists. He also represents clients at inquests, including those heard by a jury and dealing with deaths in custody and mental health services. · Healthcare

David Oram

Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious construction. · Construction

David Parry

Partner, Head of Commercial Employment - Manchester · Employment

David Pitlarge

Has specialised in shipping and commercial law since qualifying in 1989. Undertakes a broad range of shipping and related commercial work, including advising on contractual disputes arising from bills of lading, charterparties, MOAs, shipbuilding contracts, ship management agreements and international sale agreements (this has included investigative work following casualties); drafting and advising on documentation for shipping and shipping-related transactions, including management contracts, sale and purchase, construction, loan and ancillary security documentation; advising on insurance coverage, principally P&I and H&M issues; and advising on general commercial litigation. Clients include ship-owners/operators, P&I clubs, banks, charterers, underwriters, brokers, traders and non-English lawyers. While acting for clients from a diverse range of locations, David has a particular interest in the Mediterranean markets. · Shipping

David Swaffield

David heads the thriving (and growing) property and construction team based in the Liverpool, Manchester and London offices. His own particular areas of expertise include property investment and development work, and landlord and tenant issues. Originally joining the firm in 1976, David has served on its board (in various manifestations) for 25 years. He currently chairs the audit committee and is its compliance officer for legal practice. He was president of the Liverpool Law Society in 2000. David has a broad commercial property practice but his particular areas of expertise include investment and development work, and landlord and tenant matters, especially in the office, industrial and logistics sectors and infrastructure projects. He acts for a number of major developers, occupiers and institutions. · Real Estate

David Wareing

David is the chairman of the firm with responsibility for representing the best interest of the business from both an internal and external perspective. · Marine Trade

Debra Cooper

Partner · Banking & Finance

Duncan Hope

Partner · Commercial Litigation

Elan Iorwerth

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Emma Callow

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Emma Galland

Partner · Healthcare

Emma Roche

Partner · Real Estate

Emma Stockwell

Partner · Health Care

Fiona Parry

Partner and Head of Business Services · Commercial Litigation

Fionnuala Kenny

Department head · Private Client

Francois de Lange

Partner. · Corporate / M&A

Glenn Hayes

Partner · Employment

Graham Archibald

Partner · Real Estate

Grant Anderson

Partner. · Real Estate

Hed Amitai

Partner · Private Client

Helen Evans

Partner · Real Estate

Helen Penfold

Partner. · Banking & Finance

Helene Peter-Davies

Partner · Admiralty

Iain Campbell

A partner in our commercial litigation team, Iain has lengthy experience of both dispute resolution and regulatory defence work for clients in many sectors, including financial services, retail and higher education. His litigation experience ranges from commercial disputes to emergency injunctions and crisis management. Iain's specialisms include competition law, restraint of trade and financial regulation. He lectures for CPD providers on technical topics such as legal professional privilege, and is also a mediator, being a member of the national panel of The Mediator Network. As a student, Iain won the Observer Mace debating tournament and subsequently graduated in law from Manchester University. · Commercial Litigation

Ian Gardiner

Partner · Health Litigation

Ian Gillis

Partner – Head of Professional Services · Corporate / M&A

Ian Riggs

National Head · Corporate / M&A