Kingsley Napley LLP — England

Abby Buckland

Abby is a Partner in the Family & Divorce team. She has established her reputation working on some of the team’s most complex and challenging high net worth financial cases, many with an international element. Abby has represented the successful wife in Daga v Bangur [2018] EWFC 91, a significant decision involving trust assets and non-matrimonial wealth estimated to be in the region of £1.3 billion and the Applicant in M v F [2018] EWFC 35, high value Schedule I proceedings, involving a world-wide freezing order and enforcement costs provision. Highly regarded for her capability in complex, HNW financial cases and named in Chambers UK, Chambers UHNW and included in The Legal 500, Abby has also been shortlisted as “Woman of the Year: Rising Star” in the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards and is recommended in the Spear’s Family Law Index. Abby regularly writes and speaks about issues affecting HNW families and she is part of the Next Generation HNW committee for ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce. She has chaired the Divorce Proofing Wealth Planning conference and spoken at Asset Recovery in Divorce and Enforcing a Divorce Award. · Family / Divorce

Adrian Crawford

Adrian is a partner in the employment practice. His particular interests include TUPE and outsourcing, and issues arising in the financial services industry, including bonus disputes, regulatory issues and partnership issues. He regularly provides seminars and workshops for clients. Adrian’s work includes acting for a wide range of businesses, including well-known law firms and other professional service firms, banks, commodity and financial futures brokers, hedge funds, and individuals. · Employment

Alun Milford

Criminal Litigation

Andreas White

Andreas is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s employment team. He has substantial litigation experience, with a particular focus on complex and high value employment and partnership disputes. Andreas’ areas of specialism include: • Senior executive contracts and severance arrangements • Discrimination law • Restrictive covenants and team moves • Redundancies and restructurings • Whistleblowing and internal investigations • Bonuses • Regulated professionals and firms Andreas has a particular interest in international and cross border employment law. He is a former president of the labour law commission of AIJA. Andreas is equally experienced in acting for employers, senior executives and partners, allowing him to understand the issues and tactics on both sides of the table. · Employment

Andrew Sanderson

Partner · Dispute Resolution

Andy Norris

Senior Associate · Employment

Anita Gill

Partner · Private Client

Bethan Owen

Bethan is the Head of the Real Estate & Construction team and specialises in residential property. Bethan advises on all aspects of residential property purchases, sales and mortgage transactions. Her broad client base includes UK and overseas based individuals and celebrities as well as trusts and companies, whether UK based or offshore. Bethan often develops lasting relationships with her clients and their wider families looking after all their residential real estate needs. Bethan has a great deal of experience in dealing with prime central London properties and country homes. Bethan is known for her efficient and pragmatic advice. She frequently has to work within tight timeframes and will work with the other side to ensure the transaction is completed to everyone’s satisfaction. Bethan is the chair of the Charities and Community Team at Kingsley Napley and is a member of the Kingsley Napley LGBTQ & Allies Network. · Real Estate

Caroline Day

Caroline is a partner specialising in complex fraud and financial crime and represents individuals and corporates in complex global investigations. She acts in investigations and prosecutions brought by various agencies including the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). She has extensive experience advising in a wide range of alleged financial misconduct, including serious fraud, money laundering, bribery and corruption, and cartels. Her practice encompasses both domestic and cross border matters. Caroline also conducts internal investigations on behalf of her corporate clients. She has led numerous investigations into allegations of wrongdoing, and has a particular interest in cases with an international dimension. Much of her work is high profile and multi-jurisdictional. · Criminal Litigation

Cate Maguire

Cate advises on matters including divorce and civil partnership dissolution, associated financial issues and issues surrounding children. She has particular experience of dealing with complex jurisdiction disputes, having worked on cases involving jurisdictions as varied as eSwatini (formerly Swaziland), Malaysia and Italy. She also has a strong network of overseas contacts, including in Australia and Canada, and spent time living and working in South Korea before beginning her legal career. As a result, she has a clear understanding of the particular issues facing international families, as well as the strategic issues at play in jurisdictional disputes. She also has a wealth of experience in dealing with complex trust and corporate structures and issues of company values, both in relation to domestic and cross-jurisdictional entities. Her high profile cases include representing Pauline Chai in the long-running Chai v Peng jurisdiction dispute, and Michelle Young in the Young v Young divorce. · Family / Divorce

Charlotte Bradley

Charlotte specialises in international divorce, finance and children cases (including relocation), especially European cases. She regularly acts on jurisdiction and financial disputes and recently acted successfully for the Russian wife in a case with significant disclosure issues and in several High Court reported cases involving conflict of jurisdiction. Charlotte is recognised for her exceptional client care skills and expertise in high conflict money and children cases. She assists City professionals and HNWIs in resolving financial disputes within and outside the court process. She is a leading expert in Schedule 1 cases and an accredited mediator, mediating high value and complex financial disputes and couples wishing to reach co-parenting and pre-marital/cohabitation agreements. Charlotte is recognised as a leading family lawyer in Chambers UK and HNW, The Legal 500 and Spear’s Family Law Index. · Family

Charlotte Judd

Senior Associate · Regulatory

Connie Atkinson

Connie is a Partner in the family team and has experience of dealing with all aspects of private family work relating to both finances and children. Connie regularly assists clients who need help with their separation and the practical and financial implications arising out of this. Most of Connie’s clients or their partners work in the City and many have an international connection. Connie therefore regularly works with solicitors in other jurisdictions. Connie has expertise in international surrogacy cases and helps parents with the parental order applications required following their children’s birth. On these cases, she works closely with members of our immigration team to resolve any issues in bringing the children home. Connie is also a qualified mediator and assists as a mediator for clients in respect of all practical and legal issues surrounding family relationship breakdown. She is recognised as a Next Generation Lawyer in Legal 500 UK 2019 for Family: Mediation and in Chambers UK 2020 as an Associate to Watch in Family/Matrimonial. · Family / Divorce

Corinne Aldridge

Corinne has specialised in employment law for over 30 years working both for senior executives and employers. Corinne’s practice covers the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment related issues. Corinne has particular experience in dealing with board room disputes, discrimination issues in the workplace including those arising out of Me Too, grievances, disciplinary investigations and acting in tribunal and High Court claims. Corinne works often within financial and professional services but she is active in a wide range of other sectors. Corinne also advises partners, LLPs and partnerships. · Employment

David Sleight

David has an extensive criminal litigation background. Regularly acting for individuals and companies in high profile cases, he specialises in providing advice at the crucial early stages of an investigation. Astute and practical in his approach, David’s early involvement in the case can make the difference between being charged with an offence or not. This includes representing clients who are arrested and interviewed under caution, challenging search warrants and other investigatory powers and making pre-charge representations to the police and prosecuting authorities. Should matters progress to court he is meticulous in his preparation and has a high acquittal rate. Case highlights include representing Cambridge Analytica’s CEO in the Facebook data breach scandal and other high profile matters. David’s white collar crime practice includes acting for companies and individuals accused of complex financial investigations involving fraud, overseas corruption and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA). He specialises in defending tax evasion/fraud allegations brought by HMRC and has developed a specialist expertise in advising in cross border tax litigation involving MLA requests between Member States. He is currently representing two separate companies in the on-going “cum ex” trading scandal in Denmark and Germany. · Criminal Litigation

Edmund Smyth

Ed has a long and successful track record representing individuals across the full range of criminal matters, focussing on white collar matters and acting for HNW or high-profile individuals facing allegations of violent or sexual offending. His white collar and fraud practice encompasses investigations, prosecutions and other litigation conducted by various agencies and includes bribery and corruption, financial crime and money laundering. He has particular expertise dealing with law enforcement applications that seek to freeze or seize assets, including Account Freezing Orders and other applications made under the Proceeds of Crime Act, and of challenging the exercise of search and seizure. He has acted in a number of the most high-profile of such cases, often with an international dimension. Ed also specialises in advising clients prior to, or at the earliest stages of, an investigation with a view to preventing further action. Where his cases engage issues beyond criminal law he engages other teams in the firm to provide a comprehensive solution. He also acts in appeals and applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (instructed post-conviction to identify potential challenge). · Criminal Defence

Edward Jones

Edward has practised exclusively in the field of criminal law for over 15 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his role. He has acted for clients accused of the most serious offenses such as murder, manslaughter and rape and always approaches all his cases in a calm, methodical and meticulous manner in order to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients. Serious Crime and Police Station Representation Edward’s practice predominantly focuses on the sensitive “pre-charge” stage of criminal litigation, a stage that can often make or break a criminal case. Edward’s approach at this stage is always to ensure that every possible avenue is explored to prevent the case progressing to charge. He has had notable successes with this approach, in particular in complex allegations of historic sexual offences. Edward also is also an expert in litigating criminal cases at all levels of the criminal courts. He has particular expertise in the field of serious crime, including allegations involving offences of a sexual nature. His approach to these cases is never to simply be reactive to the prosecution case, but always to proactively advance a positive defence case supported by the best-quality evidence available. International Law and Extradition Edward’s practice also involves a strong international element. He is a recognised expert in the field of extradition law in Chambers & Partners and has acted for clients facing extradition requests from countries all over the globe, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Kenya and Colombia. He is an expert in litigating the more complex “Part 2” cases which require a strong case to be advanced if a challenge is to be successful. He has over many years of litigating these cases built up an array of international contacts and expert witnesses that he can call upon to assist him with this. Police Criminal Records and Data Deletion Edward is acutely aware of the reputational damage that a criminal allegation can cause, especially to professional clients and those with a public profile, and is co-author of a highly-regarded practitioner text on the subject, Criminal Records, Privacy & The Criminal Justice System: A Practical Handbook, published by Bloomsbury Professional. He has a deep knowledge of the means by which the police can collect and retain an individual’s personal data and the means by which an individual can apply to have that personal data deleted from police systems. He is also an expert in dealing with issues arising from the disclosure of personal data on Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) certificates and applying for individuals to be removed from the DBS Barred Lists. Ed is also mentioned as a Key Lawyer in Legal 500 and is ranked in Chambers and Partners UK. London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association (LCCSA) In November 2023, Edward became the President of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association (LCCSA). The LCCSA currently has 850 members and represents the interests of solicitors working in the criminal courts of London. Ed follows in the Kingsley Napley footsteps of Sir David Napley, John Clitheroe, Christopher Murray, Linda Woolley, Nicola Hill and Greg Foxsmith who have served in that role over the years. · Criminal Defence

Elspeth Guild

Legal counsel specialising primarily in EC law relating to free movement of persons, including the transfer of staff from companies between member states, the right of establishment and the provision of services; wide expertise in UK immigration and nationality law generally. · Immigration

Emily Carter

Emily is a partner within the public law team, specialising in representing clients in investigations, inquisitorial proceedings and information law. Her background within criminal and regulatory proceedings has provided her with a balance of defence and prosecution experience and a particular strength in dealing with complex, large-scale matters. Emily has been involved in a number of high-profile public inquiries and inquests. She has represented clients in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, Northern Irish Inquiry into Renewable Heat Incentives, Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust public inquiry, Baha Mousa public inquiry and the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. She has acted for a number of professional regulators in the healthcare, security and financial sectors. Emily advises in relation to judicial review and statutory appeal proceedings. She advises upon public law remedies across the areas of her work, including inquests, inquiries, misconduct and disciplinary proceedings. She advises individuals and organisations concerning compliance with data protection legislation, as well as the exercise of individual data protection rights and data breaches. · Public Law

Emma Dauriac

Emma joined the Immigration team as an Associate in September 2021 and is a member of the department’s corporate client team. Emma has broad experience of assisting clients on matters relating to: EEA/non-EEA nationals Sponsor Licence applications and compliance Skilled Worker and Senior or Specialist visas Government Authorised Exchange visas for interns Business visitors’ permitted activities Sole Representative visas now closed to new applicants Moreover, she also has experience in private immigration such as: Spouse visas Human rights applications Indefinite Leave to Remain British naturalisation/registration applications Emma is listed in the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025. Prior to joining Kingsley Napley, Emma worked at a central London law firm specialised in UK immigration and nationality for four years and gained extensive experience dealing with corporate but also private clients. Before coming to the UK, Emma graduated with a First class Honours degree in International, Comparative and European Law including a Joint Master's degree in European Law and Human Rights from UT1 Toulouse Capitole and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2016. Emma is a native French speaker and has developed strong ties with the French community in London. She therefore regularly advises French companies and individuals on their UK immigration matters. Emma is also a member of the French Chamber of Great Britain. Outside work, Emma likes travelling, good food and kick boxing. · Immigration

Emmanuelle Ries

Emmanuelle advises both employers and senior executive employees. She specialises in employment issues relating to cross-border situations from recruitment and secondment arrangements to termination matters. She has significant experience of employment disputes including discrimination and whistleblowing cases, High Court litigation involving post-termination restrictions and litigation with multi-jurisdictional issues. · Employment

Eurydice Cote

Eurydice is a Senior Associate in the Clinical Negligence Team. She represents individuals who have sustained life changing injuries. Eurydice joined the department in 2015. She now acts for a variety of claimants, both adults and children, and deals with claims involving delays in diagnosis, surgical errors and patient mismanagement. She has expertise in assisting claimants who have sustained spinal or orthopaedic injuries. She has also advised on numerous ophthalmic claims. Eurydice acts for families in fatal claims where the death has occurred through medical negligence. She regularly secures high value settlements. Eurydice has an eye for detail and ensures cases are thoroughly investigated to achieve the best outcome for her clients. She advises clients in emotionally difficult situations arising from life-changing events. She understands how daunting litigation can be and works hard to reassure and support her clients. She is professional, approachable and tenacious. · Clinical Negligence

Fiona Simpson

Fiona specialises in civil fraud litigation, advising clients bringing or defending civil fraud proceedings, often involving injunctions and often with an international dimension. Fiona regularly advises on freezing orders and asset tracing. Fiona regularly advises directors, shareholders and companies involved in breach of duty disputes or unfair prejudice petitions. She also advises clients in commercial dispute resolution matters including breaches of contract, partnership disputes and professional negligence. Fiona has acted on many cases involving jurisdiction matters where a party is domiciled outside England and Wales and/or where the subject matter of a claim involves other jurisdictions. She has been appointed by the High Court to act as a Supervising Solicitor in relation to the execution of Search Orders. Fiona was a contributing author to Lexology's Getting The Deal Through 2020 - Asset Recovery. · Fraud

Francesca Parker

Francesca is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. Her practice focuses on complex, high value disputes, often with a cross-border element. Francesca’s work includes international arbitration; commercial and contract disputes; civil fraud and investigations; international and cross-border disputes; shareholder and director disputes. Francesca is au fait with all stages of the litigation process and has extensive trial experience. She has conducted arbitrations under the rules of leading arbitral institutions (including LCIA and ICC), and has represented clients in ad hoc arbitrations. · International Arbitration

Gemma Tombs

Gemma is a Legal Director in the Criminal Litigation team and brings a wealth of experience to the role, having advised clients facing investigation and prosecution for many years. Gemma was previously a partner at Corker Binning and has been ranked as a leading individual in Crime by Chambers & Partner and been recommended by The Legal 500 in Fraud: White Collar Crime. Gemma’s practice spans general criminal defence, white collar and financial crime, money laundering and sanctions and she has acted in many high-profile and complex cases, including those related to sexual misconduct in the workplace. White Collar and Financial Crime Gemma has been involved in many high-profile investigations and prosecutions brought by the SFO, the CPS, the FCA and HMRC for offences including tax fraud, cheating the public revenue, insider dealing and bribery and corruption. Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering Gemma frequently advises on the UK’s anti-money laundering regime and the impact of the Proceeds of Crime Act and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. She has worked with many organisations and businesses on their regulatory obligations including those in the education sector, the art world and the gambling industry. Sanctions Advice Gemma has particular expertise in sanctions-related matters and advises on the impact of sanctions not only on designated persons but also the individuals and businesses they are linked to. Gemma’s work in this area includes advising on the risk of sanction breaches, reporting obligations and obtaining specific licences from OFSI. · Criminal Defence

Hannah Eales

Hannah is a partner in the Regulatory team. She is head of the Regulatory team of advocates. She specialises in professional discipline, regulatory, criminal and fire safety law. In the area of professional discipline Hannah has acted for some of the leading regulatory bodies in high profile and complex cases. These regulators include the Health and Care Professions Council, the Teaching Regulation Agency, the Education and Workforce Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Architects Registration Board, CILEx Regulation and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Having acted for both the prosecution and defence throughout her career, Hannah fully understands the effect that proceedings may have on the individual or prosecuting body. She is known for being a thoughtful and fair advocate, whilst always seeking the best outcome for the client. · Professional Discipline

Harry Carter

Lord Carter of Haslemere CB (Harry Carter) is a barrister who joined the Government Legal Service as a Home Office lawyer in 1989, becoming Deputy Legal Adviser to the Department in 2009. Harry has worked on dozens of Bills, has played a key role in setting up and then advising on public inquiries and inquests, and been extensively involved in public law litigation, both domestic and ECHR. While at the Home Office, he made a leading contribution to the contents of the ground-breaking Modern Slavery Act. In 2013, he also made a key contribution to fundamental changes to extradition law, including the introduction of a forum bar for US and other non-EU cases and improving the implementation of the European Arrest Warrant. Other notable areas include constitutional and international law, protecting national security, advising on Northern Ireland issues including the Belfast Agreement, and immigration. From 2016 to 2023, Harry has been General Counsel to the Prime Minister, based in No 10. The role included ensuring No 10 interests were taken into account, including giving strategic advice on all significant litigation. A crucial aspect was testing and probing legal advice given by others to ensure legal risks were properly assessed. The post required exceptional communication skills, stature and high personal impact, as well as the ability to command credibility with senior politicians and officials. It follows that Harry has high levels of personal resilience, having operated so successfully under intense scrutiny and sustained pressure, with the ability to navigate a way through legal obstacles on issues which are at the cutting-edge of law and politics. He was made a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2015 and is now a cross bench Peer in the House of Lords. He is also a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust. · Public Law

Helen Morris

Helen is a highly experienced media litigator who has specialised in this field since 2002. She has acted for claimants and defendants in high profile defamation, privacy and harassment cases including obtaining and resisting injunctions. Helen has provided pre and post publication advice to a broad range of clients including celebrities, politicians, companies, pressure groups, regulators, newspapers and publishers. She also provides advice on intellectual property, data protection and contempt. · Litigation

Iain Miller

Iain is a Partner in the Regulatory team specialising in legal ethics, investigations, and public law matters. Iain has acted in many leading cases relating to the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales. His experience covers not only disciplinary proceedings but also business structures, investigations, public law challenges, liability and restructuring. He advises a number of large law firms on SRA related issues and provides advice to law firm partners. · Regulatory

Ian Ko

Ian advises firms and senior individuals facing regulatory investigations and enforcement action, with a focus on the financial services, accountancy and audit sectors. He has advised major accountancy and law firms, professional service organisations, as well as senior individuals in investigations and enforcement proceedings involving financial misconduct, ethical breaches, and workplace culture, often brought by the FRC, ICAEW, SRA, ACCA and CAI. He regularly advises on anti-money laundering compliance and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. Ian also assists firms in these sectors to manage complex regulatory risks. This includes conducting internal investigations, advising on compliance with ethical standards, and navigating issues such as the use of artificial intelligence in audit and accountancy services. He has advised both the buy and sell sides in transactions involving private equity investment in accountancy and professional services firms in the UK, as well as other offshore and international jurisdictions. In addition to his investigations practice, Ian has experience advising public figures, institutions, and individuals involved as core participants or witnesses in major public inquiries, inquests and reviews. Admissions Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Attorney, State Bar of New York. · Regulatory & Compliance

Ilda De Sousa

Ilda is a partner in the immigration team with more than 19 years of UK corporate immigration law experience, managing large company clients as well as handling complex matters for individuals, British nationality applications, appeals, judicial reviews and applications under European Law including Brexit related advice. Ilda also has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of the Points Based System, including assisting employers with sponsor licence applications, to include advising on their compliance obligations. Equally, she has extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs and high-net worth individuals. Ilda has spoken on matters of immigration law for several distinguished organisations throughout her career. She has also written several articles on a variety of subjects relating to UK Immigration law. · Immigration

James Alleyne

James is a Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He advises clients on the full spectrum of financial services and FCA-related matters, including on authorisation applications, perimeter and supervisory issues, enforcement investigations and cases before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal. James has a detailed understanding of the regulatory regime applying to firms and senior individuals under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, Payment Services Regulations 2017, Electronic Money Regulations 2011 and Money Laundering Regulations 2017. James joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from the FCA where he spent seven years in the Enforcement division, giving him a unique insight into the approach and working of the regulator. Whilst at the FCA James built the framework, and led the dedicated team responsible, for taking assertive supervisory intervention action against firms through the imposition of requirements, freezing of assets, banning of financial promotions and variations of permissions. This gave James a keen interest, and specialism, in the FCA’s use of supervisory intervention powers. In addition, his work while at the regulator within the crypto sector gave him particularly valuable insight into this sector. James also has significant experience of advising on FCA criminal and regulatory enforcement investigations into firms and individuals and conducting related litigation, including in relation to conduct issues, systems and controls failings, conflicts of interest and compliance with anti-money laundering legislation and cases involving sexual misconduct in the workplace. James also has extensive experience in advising on contested authorisations cases for firms, senior individuals and in respect of changes in control. You can see his profile here · Financial Services

James Alleyne

James is a Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He advises clients on the full spectrum of financial services and FCA-related matters, including on authorisation and approval applications, perimeter and supervisory issues, internal and enforcement investigations as well as cases before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal. James joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from the FCA where he spent seven years in the Enforcement division, giving him a unique insight into the approach and working of the regulator. Whilst at the FCA James built the framework, and led the dedicated team responsible, for taking supervisory intervention action against firms through the imposition of requirements, freezing of assets, banning of financial promotions and variations of permissions. This gave James a keen interest, and specialism, in the FCA’s supervisory approach. In addition, his work at the regulator in relation to crypto firms gave him particularly valuable insight into this sector. James also has significant experience of advising on FCA criminal and regulatory enforcement investigations into firms and individuals including in relation to conduct issues, governance, anti-money laundering, insider dealing and market abuse and cases involving sexual misconduct in the workplace. Before joining the FCA James worked as an investigative lawyer in the Proceeds of Crime Department of the Serious Fraud Office, where he conducted restraint and confiscation litigation in cases of serious complex fraud and bribery and was the prosecutor on international criminal money laundering investigations. James is ranked as a Leading Associate in Legal 500 and is also part of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) Regulatory & Legal Committee and the UKBAA Legal, Tax & Regulatory Committee. · Financial Services

James Bell

James is the head of our Medical Negligence and Personal Injury practice and joined the firm in 2023 from Hodge, Jones & Allen. He has undertaken medical negligence and personal injury cases for over 30 years. Throughout his career James has dealt with a very wide range of cases concerning all types of negligence claims – delayed diagnosis cases, birth injuries, anaesthetic injuries, surgical errors, GP and hospital negligence, all types of orthopaedic claims, including complex hip and knee replacement surgery claims and all types of cancer cases. He has pursued cases against NHS and private hospitals, General Practitioners and many disciplines of private treatment providers. He is also very experienced in dealing with insurance companies and their appointed legal teams in personal injury claims. · Medical Negligence

James Fulforth

James is Senior Partner of Kingsley Napley. · Corporate / M&A

James Ward

James heads the Private Client team at Kingsley Napley. He has extensive experience advising families and individuals on wealth protection and tax mitigation. He is adept at managing the succession planning through the generations and often acts for parents, children and grandchildren to facilitate the best results. Often his clients will have international connections; whether they own overseas property or have recently arrived or invested in the UK, or are long term residents who are still non-UK domiciled. He specialises in giving advice on UK tax for these international clients or working closely with accountants on key areas such as UK inheritance tax and UK capital gains tax. James has a broad client base covering people just across the road or located on the other side of the world. He is just as comfortable dealing with the private affairs of a CEO of a multinational business or person in the public eye as he is dealing with a vulnerable elderly client with tricky family dynamics. James is regularly asked to comment in the media, give lectures and provide thought leadership on private client matters. · Private Client

Jane Keir

Jane is a Partner in the Family & Divorce team. She is recognised for her expertise in protecting wealth, both pre and post-divorce. In February 2020, she represented the successful wife in winning a compensation award of £400,000 in RC v JC (2020) EWHC 466. She also represented the wife in the leading financial and trust case of Daga v Daga (Bangur) [2018] EWFC. In December 2023 she represented the successful wife in the decision in PS v NB (2023) EWHC 3486 obtaining a maintenance award in excess of £30,000 per month for her client, plus costs. Jane is a very technical lawyer who is known for finding novel and creative solutions for clients. She represents equal numbers of men and women and works closely with accountants and private wealth advisers. Listed in Chambers UK and HNW guides; the 2020 Spears Top Flight Family Lawyers; The Legal 500; Citywealth’s Top Ten Matrimonial Lawyers and Top 20 Women in Private Wealth and in and in Who’s Who. Regular speaker at conferences and contributor to publications including Law Society Gazette; Family Law; Farmers Weekly; The Lawyer; Spear’s Wealth; and The American among others. · Family & Divorce

Jemma Brimblecombe

Jemma is widely recognised for her skills and experience in commercial litigation. She acts for both claimants and defendants in a wide range of sectors, including financial services, legal services, accountancy, and construction. She is listed in Legal 500 where she is described as “a tough, forensic litigator with a no-nonsense approach to her cases”. Jemma has particular expertise in professional negligence claims having previously acted for professional insurers dealing with high-value and complex claims. Her defendant professional negligence background uniquely positions her to advise claimant clients, as she understands how insurers and their solicitors approach cases from a risk perspective. Jemma has a track record of achieving successful outcomes for her clients, both in and out of court. She has extensive experience in conducting litigation at all levels, as well as in arbitration and mediation. · Litigation

Jemma Garside

Senior Associate · Private Client

Jessica Clay

Partner · Regulatory

Jill Lorimer

Jill is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Financial Services Group. She has an extensive track record in advising firms and individuals facing regulatory and criminal investigations by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Having recently completed a 12 month secondment in the Criminal Prosecutions Team at the FCA, Jill has particular insight into the organisation’s approach to the investigation and prosecution of serious financial offences. Jill has particular experience in advising those facing insider dealing / market abuse and market manipulation allegations and offences under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). She also advises a number of authorised firms including private banks, wealth management firms and brokerages in respect of supervisory and enforcement issues. More generally, Jill has a broad fraud practice and has involvement in many of the largest Serious Fraud Office investigations. Jill has written widely on cyber-crime and has a particular interest in the regulatory and criminal aspects of crypto-assets and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Chapter contributor to:Kingsley Napley: Serious Fraud, Investigation and Trial (4th edition, Lexis Nexis)Cyber Security: Law and Guidance (Bloomsbury Professional) · Financial Services

Jonathan Grimes

Jonathan is an experienced criminal lawyer specialising in serious and complex cases. A leader in the field of Proceeds of Crime work, he has particular expertise dealing with law enforcement applications that seek to freeze or seize assets. His business crime practice includes all areas of financial crime and regulatory matters, including corruption, money laundering, anti-competitive behaviour, insider dealing, market manipulation, and fraud, often for HNW individuals. Jonathan also represents companies and individuals during the initial police and Health and Safety Executive investigation, through to the conclusion of cases at inquests or in the criminal courts. He has extensive trial experience over many years across all areas of crime. He acts as independent legal adviser in investigations of all kinds, many in the banking sector, attending numerous interviews with employers and regulators both in the UK and abroad. A number of his cases have involved advising individuals following requests from overseas authorities for UK assistance under Mutual Legal Assistance treaties. He is also Kingsley Napley’s Money Laundering Reporting officer. · Criminal Law

Julie Matheson

Julie is a partner in the Regulatory Team. She has a breadth of experience in both prosecuting and defending professionals across all sectors, but now specialises in advising regulated individuals and firms in the financial and built environment sectors. She has particular expertise in acting on behalf of accountants and accountancy firms in high-profile proceedings brought by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA; and on behalf of surveyors in proceedings brought by RICS. She regularly advises senior public sector finance officers on their statutory roles and on challenges brought in respect of them. She also advises the FCA in relation to lessons learned reviews, for example the Davis Inquiry and the Connaught review, and the IFoA in relation to cases brought under its Disciplinary Scheme. · Regulatory

Julie Norris

Julie is a partner in the Regulatory Team and predominantly advises in the legal services sector. Her clients include law firms, solicitors, barristers and judges. Julie has particular expertise in advising in internal investigations, on #metoo related issues, in respect of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing and in responding to threatened or anticipated regulatory proceedings. · Regulatory

Kate Salter

Kate is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. She regularly acts for individuals in bringing and defending claims against estates, including claims for lack of capacity, want of knowledge and approval and undue influence. She also has broad experience in fraud and forgery claims and proceedings in the Court of Protection, as well as professional negligence claims relating to wills and trusts, and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Kate also works on a number of complex and high value commercial claims, including contractual disputes and civil fraud cases. Kate regularly writes on trust and estate issues and developments, her content having been picked up and republished by other publications including Today’s Wills & Probate, ePrivateClient and LexisNexis. · Dispute Resolution

Katherine Pymont

Katherine is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team who specialises in Trust and Estate Disputes. Katherine’s experience in the field of Trusts and Inheritance Disputes covers challenging the validity of wills, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, removal of executors and trustees, breach of trust claims, fraud cases involving trust structures and professional negligence claims relating to wills and trusts. Katherine also works in Court of Protection matters. Katherine’s background is in broader high profile and complex litigation. Notably Katherine acted for Genting Casinos in the landmark Supreme Court win against Phil Ivey in which the longstanding criminal legal test for dishonesty was overturned and for the Financial Conduct Authority in successfully defending proceedings challenging the interpretation of Russian sanctions in both the Administrative Court and the European Court of Justice. · Litigation

Katie Newbury

Katie is a Partner in Kingsley Napley’s Immigration team and she heads up the Private Client Immigration team within the department. She advises on all aspects of UK personal immigration with an emphasis on more complex matters. She also specialises in applications for high net worth individuals and those in the tech industry, nationality and human rights matters and claims for international protection. She has a particular interest in complicated family applications including those with international adoption and surrogacy elements, working closely with Kingsley Napley’s Family & Divorce team and contributing articles on this subject to the legal press. Katie writes and speaks regularly on UK immigration developments. · Immigration

Kim Vowden

Partner · Business Immigration

Kirsty Allen

Kirsty is a highly experienced medical negligence solicitor who undertakes a wide variety of cases with particular specialisms in child cerebral palsy and adult brain injury cases, fatal claims, loss of sight cases, as well as failure to diagnose cancer and gynaecological claims. Kirsty’s expertise in medical negligence work is demonstrated by her membership of the clinical negligence panel of UK charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA). Kirsty also undertakes personal injury work with a focus on serious injury and fatal claims, such as road traffic accidents. She has deep experience of complex financial dependency claims involving family owned firms. Kirsty spends time understanding her client’s businesses and their finances in order to ensure the claim is appropriately calculated and supported with good evidence. Kirsty recognises that for some clients, understanding what happened can be as important as financial compensation, so she tailors her approach to her client’s needs. Kirsty is passionate about trauma informed lawyering – an approach that puts clients first by holding the trauma they have suffered in the forefront of the mind when engaging with them. Kirsty’s clients have praised her hard work and caring approach. Kirsty is passionate about patient safety, and increasing understanding between doctors and lawyers around common mistakes leading to a medical negligence. She has previously provided training to medical practitioners in this area. · Medical Negligence

Krishna Mahajan

Krishna is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Team, who specialises in litigation and resolution of complex tax matters. Krishna has extensive experience in tax and trust litigation including working on Codes of Practice 8 and 9, cross-jurisdictional schemes with UK tax implications, settling EBTs and film finance schemes with HMRC, and concluding long standing HMRC enquiries. Krishna assists agents and companies who have made R&D claims that are being investigated, including COP8s and lengthy information requests under Schedule 36 of Finance Act 2008. Krishna is studying to become a qualified member of the Association of Tax Technicians. Krishna acts for corporate clients, high-net-worth individuals, trustees and personal representatives regarding HMRC disputes and investigations in all areas of tax. Areas of expertise Tax disputes and investigations Tax investigations involving complex trust structures Investigations involving cross-jurisdictional schemes with UK tax implications Code of Practice 8 investigations where HMRC suspect that the taxpayer has deliberately tried to pay less than the correct amount of tax Code of Practice 9 investigations where HMRC suspects deliberate fraudulent behaviour Voluntary disclosures for corporates and high-net-worth individuals Bringing longstanding complex HMRC enquiries into a client’s tax affairs to a close Advising on professional negligence matters relating to tax advice · Dispute Resolution

Laura Harper

Laura advises both UK resident and non-UK resident/domiciled individuals, families and trustees on a wide variety of UK tax, trust law and international estate planning issues. She has a particular focus on the US and regularly advises on issues concerning planning to be undertaken when moving to or from the UK. She also has extensive experience working on cross-border matters and structuring involving family-owned businesses. She has also developed an in-depth charity law knowledge and regularly advises and presents on the benefits of dual registered charities in the US and the UK, allowing national institutions, family office clients and UHNW individuals to structure their philanthropic projects in the most tax efficient and effective manner. She also has experience of cross border power of attorney and deputyship applications. · Private Client

Lauren Evans

A Partner in the family team with experience of all types of private family work relating to both children and finances. Lauren is also a mediator and helps clients to work through the practical and legal issues arising from family relationship breakdown. · Family / Divorce

Linda Woolley

Managing partner of Kingsley Napley. Criminal law, specialising in: corruption, fraud, serious and business crime. Acted in large number of SFO investigations/prosecutions, advises companies/individuals in corruption matters. · Criminal Law

Louise Hodges

Louise is Head of Kingsley Napley’s Criminal Litigation team specialising in financial crime, corporate investigations, FCA regulatory investigations and serious and complex fraud. Long recognised as a leader in this field, she is commended for her grasp of broader strategic issues and the practical advice she gives clients, both companies and individuals, caught up in complex litigation. She is experienced in advising companies and individuals with regard to internal investigations, frequently representing witnesses being interviewed either by employers or by investigating authorities, including those compelled to attend interviews. She leads the firm’s cross-practice Financial Services team and Internal Investigations team. She currently represents a number of individuals, including HNW individuals and business leaders, in a range of financial crime cases being investigated by the SFO, FCA, HMRC and NCA amongst others. She was part of the team representing Tesco in connection with their Deferred Prosecution Agreement and related criminal matters. Her cases frequently have an international element. · Criminal Litigation

Marcia Longdon

Marcia joined as a partner in the immigration team in January 2014. She has practised in the area of immigration, nationality and European law since 1998. Marcia is a leading expert on corporate immigration covering mergers and acquisitions. She is incredibly knowledgeable with HR policy, compliance and risk analysis; reporting and audit planning; high touch service planning for executives and VIPs; business traveller compliance; cost and budgeting as well as global project planning. Marcia also provides training to HR professionals and practitioners on all aspects of immigration law. · Immigration

Mark Fallman

Mark is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. He has a broad range of commercial litigation experience acting for a variety of clients including individuals, corporates, and trustees. He regularly acts on complex and high value disputes, including those with a cross-jurisdictional element. Mark has particular expertise in international arbitration, civil fraud and shareholder/director disputes. Mark is experienced in advising on asset tracing investigations, obtaining and opposing freezing injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal orders and other types of interim relief. Areas of expertise: International Arbitration; Commercial and Contractual Disputes; Shareholder and Director Disputes; Civil Fraud; and Injunctions. · International Arbitration

Matthew Hardcastle

Recognised for his work in pre-charge investigations, Matt has particular experience acting for the accused in high-profile cases. Matt also has significant experience in acting in cross-practice area investigations which include allegations of a criminal behaviour, including sexual misconduct in the workplace. · Criminal Litigation

Melinka Berridge

Melinka is a litigation specialist with expertise in the fields of private prosecutions, professional discipline and Health and Safety. Melinka heads up the team responsible for private prosecutions. She helps individuals, corporates and charities bring criminal prosecutions, especially when the State fails to act. Melinka has over twelve years’ experience of investigating and presenting high-profile fitness to practise cases. She also advises regulatory clients on the suitability of their enforcement regimes. Melinka acts for directors and senior officers accused of committing health and safety offences. She also advises them on what constitutes effective governance over health and safety within their organisations. Prior to joining Kingsley Napley, Melinka was the Head of Licensing for JD Wetherspoon plc. She continues to help operators in the leisure sector to comply with their regulatory responsibilities or respond to enforcement action. · Litigation

Michael Tyler

Michael is a Partner and the Head of the Costs Team with over 18 years’ experience in the field of costs law. He is the ‘go to individual’ when it comes to Part 36 offers and negotiation strategy of high value costs matters and insurance coverage. Qualifying as a Costs Lawyer in 2010 and as a Legal project Practitioner in 2018, Michael has conducted hearings on behalf of a wide variety of clients and professional bodies in County Courts, the High Court and has achieved success as the advocate on Appeal hearings before varying Circuit Judges. Most notably in the Privy Council of the Supreme Court. Joining Kingsley Napley in 2015, Michael’s practice involves working with insurers, strategic planning and costs budgeting of High Court matters. In particular for media, defamation and privacy cases. · Costs

Natalie Cohen

Natalie joined Kingsley Napley as a Partner in the Public Law team following over 22 years’ service as a government lawyer, working within the Government Legal Department (GLD) as a litigator. Natalie has been a public law specialist since 2005. From 2021 to 2023 she led one of the largest public law teams in GLD, representing a range of government departments and other public bodies. Her clients have included the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Education, HM Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, among many others. Her recent work included providing legal services for DFE and MOJ with respect to the ongoing Covid Inquiry. Natalie has conducted litigation before the widest range of courts, tribunals and regulators, up to and including the Supreme Court. This has included many of the most high profile and cross-cutting public law cases of the last two decades. Natalie has extensive knowledge of how government departments function, allied with a deep appreciation for what gives rise to a viable legal challenge in judicial review proceedings. Natalie’s areas of expertise include judicial review litigation, human rights challenges, information law (GDPR, FOI and EIRs) inquests, and public inquiries. In addition to handling subsisting litigation, Natalie has assisted clients in reviewing decision-making processes, insulating them from potential legal challenge, such as in the context of substantial infrastructure projects. · Public Law