Lawyers in England

Craig Yeung-Williams

Associate Solicitor

Family Law Partners

Crispin Bridges Webb

With 30 years’ experience of corporate and M&A work, Crispin is a partner in the Corporate Group and a leader in his field. Crispin not only works across the UK (working between the London and Midlands offices of Shoosmiths) but also manages transactions outside the UK. He has a wide breadth of experience in terms of clients (whether UK or international private or public corporates, institutions, private equity houses, growth companies and start ups and individuals) across most sectors. Work includes M&A, divestments, equity capital markets, private equity transactions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Crispin also jointly heads Shoosmiths International managing and co-ordinating Shoosmiths’ relationships with law firms around the globe, including through its’ membership of the World Services Group (WSG), a global network of law firms, as well as its participation in the International Bar Association (IBA). He was awarded UK M&A Lawyer of the Year 2020 by Lawyer Monthly. Legal directory quotes include: ‘cutting-edge advice’, ‘fantastic client-focused service’, 'good commercial sense with a view to getting deals done quickly’, ‘pragmatic approach to complex multi-party negotiations’.

Shoosmiths LLP

Crispin Daly

Crispin is a contentious insolvency specialist with extensive experience of complex domestic and cross border restructuring situations, enforcements and formal insolvency processes with a particular focus on insolvency litigation, litigation funding and recovery. He provides advice to a broad range of clients in all aspects of contentious insolvency and restructuring, both in and out of court. Typical mandates include: • contingency planning for companies and directors in the zone of insolvency, contesting insolvency proceedings and defence of misconduct and antecedent transaction claims; • acting for insolvency office holders to plan and execute restructuring strategies across any relevant jurisdictions, including conducting or defending any related claims, recognition and relief applications and support for ongoing trading; • acting for creditors and creditor groups to maximise recoveries through strategic participation in an enforcement/restructuring process or contesting/ disrupting such process; • acting for third parties interested in acquiring assets or claims from distressed or insolvency situations. A significant part of Crispin's practice has included sourcing and obtaining funding / AE insurance for claims on behalf of insolvency office holders and acting for both dedicated and one-off litigation funders. Having represented such a varied client base (rather than focusing on e.g. creditors/ debtors) in respect of a such a wide range of insolvent or near insolvent situations he has valuable insight into the options available to any client as well as the likely courses of action of any opponent.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Cristina Dolinta

Immigration Lawyer

Sterling Law

Cynthia Watts

Cynthia has over 25 years’ experience defending public bodies, initially within the health sector. She specialises in the defence of civil claims brought against local authorities and the police, inquests and other advisory work. Civil claims work includes personal injury, Human Rights Act, Equality Act, abuse, claims against social services departments, misfeasance, wrongful arrest or detention and malicious prosecution.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Cyrilia Davies-Knight

Partner & Head of Public Inquiries Cyrilia is a specialist human rights, Coronial and public law solicitor and the Head of Public Inquiries department at Saunders Law. Her expertise lies in representing civil claims against the police and other public authorities. Cyrilia represents clients at four major Public Inquiries: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the Infected Blood Inquiry, The Undercover Police Inquiry and the Covid-19 Inquiry.

Saunders Law

Cyrille West

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Daden Hunt

Partner

Birketts LLP

Daff Richardson

Daff co-leads the firm’s multi-disciplinary education sector group, and is a partner in the employment department. She advises institutional, corporate and individual clients on strategic and high-value employment matters including reorganisations and restructuring. Daff also advises senior executives and employers on boardroom disputes, and executive appointments and terminations. Her employer clients include higher education institutions, household name charities, and technology sector clients. She has advised senior figures in life sciences, IT, and education. Penningtons Manches’ education sector group advises HEIs, private colleges, independent schools and other further and higher education institutions and charities. The group provides a full service to these clients including immigration advice, advice on corporate structures, charities, employment, real estate, governance, compliance and student issues. Daff’s personal practice includes advising individual academics and institutions on employment issues, particularly where disciplinary action is taken. She also advises institutions on student complaint matters. Her clients include a household name educational charity, several Colleges of the University of Oxford and a leading independent school.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Dafydd Bevan

Dafydd advises clients on the enforcement and commercialisation of intellectual property. He has particular experience of strategic advice on the litigation and licensing of TMT, electronics and software patents, regularly advising clients on such cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has a broad range of experience, which, in the technology sector, includes advising on patents in fields such as software, broadcasting, graphical user interfaces, mobile telephony, network communications and internet applications. This includes recent and ongoing advice on FRAND and SEP licensing issues and related litigation. Dafydd’s other patent litigation experience relates to oil and gas machinery such as tong-positioning devices, wellbore technology and shale shakers and more general mechanical patents ranging from household equipment to industrial machinery. Dafydd also has significant experience in advising on the interaction of co-pending UK litigation and opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office, having worked closely with Marks & Clerk’s patent attorneys on a large number of oppositions relating to parallel UK litigation proceedings. In addition to his patent practice, Dafydd has considerable experience of advising on the litigation of designs, including advice on UK and EU registered and unregistered designs across a broad range of products.. His experience in this field includes such diverse areas as designs for fashion products, furniture, fitness accessories, packaging and camping equipment. Dafydd often also advises on disputes relating to trade marks, copyright and confidential information. As well as his litigation and dispute resolution experience, Dafydd has broad experience of advising clients on commercial and transactional matters involving licensing and commercialisation of intellectual property and has significant experience of IP due diligence. He has worked on R&D collaboration agreements, licensing and sponsorship arrangements, employee IP issues and the IP aspects of corporate transactions. Dafydd speaks English, French and Welsh fluently. He is happy to accept instructions and give advice in any of these languages. In particular Dafydd has recent significant experience of advising French-speaking clients on English litigation through the medium of French. Example Cases Rovi v Virgin Media and TiVo Gemstar v Virgin Media Sealed Air v Sharp Interpack Mast-Jägermeister v Global Brands Off the Wall v Sambell Engineering Mobile VPT v Link Interchange Networks and others Weatherford International v BJ Services

Marks & Clerk

Dagmara Selwyn-Kuczera

Dagmara specialises in both commercial and residential property law and is highly experienced in investment transactions and landlord and tenant issues. Property companies and trustees of pension schemes turn to Dagmara for her advice on portfolio acquisition, disposal and management. She also acts for occupiers across a variety of sectors and regularly assists them with the acquisition, renewal and regearing of leases and general management. Dagmara also acts for banks and other financial institutions, in relation to secured lending transactions. On the residential side, in addition to advising on conveyancing transactions such as property sales, purchases and mortgages, Dagmara assists with the transactional aspects of enfranchisement and lease extension claims.

Keystone Law

Dahren Naidoo

Dahren is a partner in the Freeths corporate team based in Leeds. He specialises in all aspects of corporate work, including private equity transactions (acting for institutional investors, founder shareholders and management teams) and mergers and acquisitions (ranging from SMEs to larger corporate and institutional clients). Recently Dahren has acted for the management team on the Mobeus Equity Partners backed buy-in management buyout in Star Brand Holdings Limited; Fleetondemand Holdings Limited in their acquisition of FleetEurope; the management team on the Inflexion acquisition of Rosemont Pharmaceuticals; and the management team in Limerston Capital Partners acquisition of Forensic Access and Axiom International. Clients noted that “Dahren Naidoo thinks laterally and proactively tests and challenges the business rationale for a particular action in the context of the legal framework. He manages the project and team cost effectively and on time, and delivers sound advice in a timely fashion and acts very much as a critical friend to the business. He is very highly regarded and the ‘go-to’ corporate lawyer for M&A.”

Freeths LLP

Dai Durbridge

Browne Jacobson LLP

Daisy Divoká

Daisy is a private M&A lawyer with a specialised focus on representing founders, owner-managers and management teams in mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and related corporate restructures She has particularly extensive experience in private equity-backed transactions. Daisy supports UK and international businesses, management teams and entrepreneurs through complex M&A scenarios. Her deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by management teams allows her to deliver practical and effective solutions that drive successful outcomes, especially in roll-over/reinvestment situations.

Marriott Harrison LLP

Daisy Everett

Associate Solicitor

K J Smith Solicitors

Daisy Jones

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

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.

Farrer & Co

Dale Carter

Partner

Reddie & Grose LLP

Dale Williams

Dale is a corporate and commercial partner who advises on high-level negotiations and contract drafting for businesses. He specialises specifically in advising his clients on restructuring, project finance, share options, MBOs, and disposals and acquisition

Keystone Law

Dalee Kaur

Bevan Brittan LLP

Daljit Kaur

Senior Associate, Daljit, joined Browne Jacobson following over 11 years in local government and works within the firm’s Business Services team supporting our education clients. She specialises in providing pastoral advice to schools, academies and educational establishments within the education sector as well providing support for appeals against EHC Plans and Disability Discrimination in the First Tier Tribunal. She also advises clients on Freedom of Information requests and Data Protection.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Daljit Singh Shina

Daljit Singh Shina is a Supervising Solicitor in the Housing department based in Duncan Lewis' City of London office. He is also a host on the firm's 'This is Housing' podcast. Daljit is instructed on a variety of publicly and privately funded housing matters including claims for possession, landlord and tenant disputes, applications for eviction, suspension of warrants for possession, housing disrepair, unlawful evictions, harassment, homelessness reviews, homelessness appeals in the County Court, and applications for judicial review. Daljit has considerable experience dealing with cases ranging from small claims matters to complex multi-track cases, and matters which haven been determined by the Court of Appeal. He regularly assists as a Court Duty Adviser and advocate on behalf of clients at the County Court. Daljit volunteers and supports Help for Southall Street Homeless (HSSH) which is a homeless charity set up to assist rough sleepers who suffer with various medical needs and/or substance abuse issues in Southall (West London) and the neighbouring arears. He also volunteers with CRISIS at Christmas and assist homeless people in London over the Christmas period. Daljit's volunteering work has developed his ability to work with and assist some of the most vulnerable and high-risk people in society. Daljit is ranked as a Leading Associate in The Legal 500 UK for his outstanding social housing work across London and the South East.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Dalton Odendaal

Dalton is a consultant specialising in all aspects of the commercial exploitation of rights in the sports industry, ranging from sponsorship, endorsements, licensing, broadcasting, ticketing and hospitality through to the digital and new media aspects of such rights. He advises rights holders, sports governing bodies, teams, sportspersons, sponsors, brands and other commercial entities on the exploitation of their rights in a sporting context. Dalton has specialist knowledge of the legal and commercial aspects involved in hosting major sports and other events, having been (i) the Head of Legal: Commercial for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games; (ii) the general counsel for the Invictus Games (the Games for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women spearheaded by Prince Harry); and also (iii) the general counsel to and a board member of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant company. Dalton was previously a sports law partner and head of the sponsorship group at Harbottle & Lewis. He was also the director of business development at the British Olympic Association. Dalton is the founder and director of a sports rights management company which advises rights holders on the commercial exploitation of their rights.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Damian Carter

Damian is a Partner in the national Commercial Litigation team at Weightmans and, also leads the firm’s Owner Managed Business team in Manchester. His specialism is resolving complex commercial and corporate disputes, and he has over 25 years' experience. He acts primarily for owner managed businesses, corporates, entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals. Damian has experience of a wide range of commercial litigation matters with a particular emphasis on high value corporate disputes. Damian's caseload includes claims for breach of contract, warranty claims, shareholder actions, board disputes, insolvency, fraud claims, partnership disputes, banking litigation, intellectual property disputes, defamation claims, commercial agency disputes, restraint of trade, regulatory matters, contentious probate claims, property disputes and professional negligence actions. Damian also has considerable experience in working with clients to create innovative and flexible funding arrangements for litigation claims, enabling companies to leverage claims as a potential asset. Damian leads the firm’s third party litigation funding and ATE offering for clients – “Enable”. Damian has extensive experience in conducting proceedings in the specialist divisions of the High Court including the Business and Property Courts. Damian's work includes emergency applications for injunctions and expedited trials. Damian is an exponent of alternative dispute resolution and has successfully resolved many claims for his clients at mediation. Damian has experience in varied sectors including banking and finance, energy and utilities, healthcare, manufacturing, property and construction, retail and technology. Damian is recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Part of the winning team for Litigation Team of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards 2022.

Weightmans LLP