Lawyers in England

David Mills

David is the national lead of the employment team and also leads the work for private sector clients and international clients. David has a broad experience in both contentious and non-contentious work and has particular experience in working for hi-tech/bio-tech companies and a particular interest in advising on all aspects of discrimination.

Mills & Reeve LLP

David Milne

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Moore

Bevan Brittan LLP

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.

Farrer & Co

David Morton

David is a transactional finance lawyer with over 25 years’ experience gained at some of the leading national and international law firms. Based in Scotland, David has advised both lenders and borrowers on the full range of transactional banking covering real estate finance, leveraged finance, growth finance and asset based lending. Across the UK and further afield. Various matters that David has handled over the years include: acting for a leading hotel chain in £40m development funding of a hotel in Glasgow advising private equity groups on the multi-million pound acquisition of a leading brand of garden centres representing a funding syndicate on the multi-million management buyout of field sales solutions provider McCurrach representing the borrower on multi-million acquisition and development finance in respect of a mixed use commercial site in Bristol representing leading Scottish bank in providing growth finance to a national house builder representing leading Scottish bank on a growth finance facility for various technology companies based in the UK and overseas. David is recognised as a leading expert in finance matters in both Chambers and Legal 500 law directories and delivers high quality results for clients, marrying technical ability with commercial awareness.

Spencer West LLP

David Mundy

Partner

Broadfield Law UK LLP

David Murphy

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

David Murray

David Murray is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Blandy & Blandy. David is a very experienced litigator, accustomed to providing practical and commercial advice to corporate bodies and individuals on disputes of all sizes and complexity. He also advises clients on risk identification, avoidance and management. In addition, heis a qualified mediator via the ADR Group, skilled in appearing as an advocate at innumerable mediations. Throughout his career, David has been actively involved in advising insolvency practitioners, funders, companies and directors on insolvency, turnaround and business reconstruction matters. He provides proactive advice on the wide range of issues that arise in insolvency and turnaround, including contract, property, and employment rights. He has a particular expertise in contentious insolvency matters.

Blandy & Blandy LLP

David Murray

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Nisbet

Please see full biography at osborneclarke.com/lawyers/david-nisbet/

Squire Patton Boggs

David Niven

David is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution group, specialising in high value, multi-party professional negligence actions against solicitors and other professionals. A leading UK lawyer for group actions, including in claims against solicitors for mis-sold properties, he has an established media profile, client following, and reputation for getting results. David is acting for hundreds of clients in numerous group action claims against solicitors and architects following high-profile unsuccessful off plan property investment schemes with substantial losses. He has recently acted for over 130 claimants in multi-million-pound proceedings which were the subject of an important application to the Court of Appeal (headed by Master of the Rolls, Vos LJ). The appeal concerns the fundamentally important procedure in this field of law of using a single claim form to encapsulate multiple claims, as disputed by the defendant solicitors/appellant. This matter went to the Court of Appeal where the judge ruled in favour of class action claims in a single claim form. David’s team has also acted for a group in cutting-edge High Court proceedings involving a £20 million insurance coverage claim against AIG, which settled recently on confidential terms shortly prior to the November trial.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

David Oliver

Consultant

Isadore Goldman

David Oram

Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious construction.

Hill Dickinson LLP

David O’Brien

Partner in the London commercial dispute resolution team acting in all areas of commercial and general dispute resolution and with a particular interest in commercial contract disputes. He is also a key member of the professional negligence team with considerable expertise in handling professional negligence claims. He has a growing specialism in acting for claimants in high value, multi-party actions against solicitors.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

David O’Hara

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Pack

The main area of David’s practice is dispute resolution with a focus on high value, complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and commercial fraud investigations. He acts for companies and businesses within and outside the UK in many of the ‘offshore’ jurisdictions. His clients include; companies, government bodies, housing associations, military, regulators and private individuals. David’s practice includes claims and disputes concerning commercial fraud, extradition, POCA, money laundering, tax investigations (COP9/COP10), professional negligence, insolvency litigation, asset tracing, debt recovery, shareholder and other corporate disputes. More recently, David has seen a rise in client’s seeking advice on cryptocurrency related fraud.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

David Parry

Partner, Head of Commercial Employment - Manchester

Hill Dickinson LLP

David Parry

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

David Perry

David is a real estate lawyer, and Living Sector specialist, with extensive experience of acting for developers, end users, investors and funders. With a particular focus on residential development, housing and regeneration work, he advises on acquisitions, development and disposals, including site assembly, pre-lets, strategic and immediate use options and complex conditional contracts with overage, planning and development obligations, on both immediate take and major strategic land schemes. As national lead of Shoosmiths’ Affordable Housing team, David works with specialists throughout the firm to advise Registered Providers, developers and funders on all aspects of affordable housing, helping clients to manage risk in a complex regulatory and funding environment. His recent experience includes advising: • a regional local authority on a series of residential development acquisitions; • a major regional house builder on a programme of strategic land options and regears to deliver their development pipeline, including single-take schemes, phased drawdown sites, and hybrid option-promotion agreements; • various commercial lenders on a range of asset management and lending instructions to registered providers, including portfolio charging and review work; • a registered provider on the negotiation and regearing of a phased drawdown development agreement for more than 130 units, including the eventual termination of the agreement post-long stop date with recovery of deposit monies; • a registered provider on the acquisition of mixed-tenure affordable plots within a larger development of their land including secured development obligations and open market sales overage provisions; • a registered provider on the drafting of an innovative tenure structure based on traditional shared ownership leases, allowing them to release stock into the market for sale while mitigating carrying costs for void and short-term leases.

Shoosmiths LLP

David Philips

David Philips specialises in the purchase of development sites. He advises clients on residential and mixed-use development schemes guiding them along the way to avoid falling foul of any pitfalls during each transaction. David is a solicitor in the firm's Real Estate department. He advises on all types of commercial property transactions, including the purchasing, structuring and financing of sites, lettings, and sales. His main area of expertise is the purchase of development sites, advising on the development process and then disposal of the finished product. Clients include public limited development companies and investment companies. He has acted for a wide variety of clients including Galliard Homes, Ballymore Properties and Heron PLC. One of his roles is to oversee large-scale sites going down to the plot sales team. He works hard to ensure that title documents, sales contracts and leases are thoroughly drafted and easy to follow, while always giving clients the space to achieve their ambitions.

Howard Kennedy LLP

David Philpott

Partner

Olliers

David Pickering

David specialises in acting for clients following relationship breakdowns, involving all forms of assets, on and off shore including businesses, residential and commercial property, trusts and pensions. David has specialist expertise in cases involving assets located in Spain, France and elsewhere and dealing with offshore trusts.

JMW Solicitors LLP

David Pickstone

Partner and Head of the Tax Litigation department. David specialises in complex tax disputes with HMRC and commercial parties before the Tax Tribunals, UK and European Courts. He acts for a large number of high net worth individuals as well as various corporate clients across a range of sectors. David has acted on numerous high-profile direct and indirect tax cases before the courts and Tax Tribunals, including two cases before the Supreme Court. In addition to his vast experience in HMRC litigation, David also acts in professional negligence and mis-selling actions and other tax-related commercial litigation. In addition to David’s substantial tax practice, David has also acted in numerous public law cases, many of which arose from his tax client base. These have included two judicial review challenges which proceeded to the Supreme Court (Prudential and Davies & James / Gaines-Cooper), and one to the Court of Appeal (Shiner). David also acted in the States of Jersey’s judicial review against the UK government, which was widely covered in the media at the time. David’s experience includes: Running the well-publicised Prudential privilege litigation from the High Court to Supreme Court Acting in the Littlewoods compound interest litigation before the High Court Conducting the Stamp Taxes Group Litigation Order for the claimants Acting for a number of FTSE100 companies in the FII and dividend Group Litigation Orders Acting in the residency judicial review Davies and James/Gaines-Cooper, which also reached the Supreme Court

Stewarts Law LLP

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.

Hill Dickinson LLP