Lawyers in England
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David Poddington
David has specialised in employment law for nearly twenty years and has comprehensive experience in advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law and industrial relations issues. He has particular expertise in organisational change including collective redundancies, changing terms and conditions of employment, and the application of the TUPE Regulations. David advises well-known brands in the engineering, energy, media, advertising, education and leisure sectors.As well as mainstream employment law advice, David has significant experience in advising on data protection and on the interrelationship between pension issues and the employment relationship.David is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and is recognised as a leading individual in employment law by the Legal 500.AREAS OF EXPERTISE: All day-to-day HR advice (e.g. disciplinary, grievance and absence issues) Contractual disputes TUPE and outsourcing Reorganisation and collective issues Drafting contracts, directors’ service agreements and staff handbooks Employment Tribunal claims Restrictive covenants and confidentiality Discrimination and equality issues Executive severance and settlement agreements Employment issues on corporate transactions Employment and HR training Advice on LLP member issues Data protection
Keystone Law
David Potter
Partner heading up team of employment lawyers, providing full range of legal risk management services in the employment field.
Freeths LLP
David Powell
Partner and Head of Business Law
TWM Solicitors LLP
David Power
Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney
J A Kemp
David Pryce
Senior Partner
Fenchurch Law
David Quastel
David Quastel is the firm’s Managing Partner and is a versatile and highly skillful commercial/property lawyer with special expertise in real estate development finance and structuring complex property related joint ventures. David Quastel is regularly instructed to assist in strategising international and UK disputes in terms of litigation and corporate issues. His role itself is more often than not confidential and his input used (with acting counsels’ knowledge) to assist in directing a case or for his views on strategy being employed. David’s forte extends well beyond providing technical legal advice and clients have come to value and rely upon his hands-on strategic advice at the earliest stages of planning and structuring complicated property, corporate and international transactions. Clients appreciate David’s strategic insights and absolute attention to detail and describe him as “a formidable negotiator”, “a unique problem solver”, “a driving force in concluding a deal satisfactorily” and a “wonderful technician”.
Quastels LLP
David Quli
David is Wiggin’s managing partner, and is widely recognised as one of the UK’s foremost experts in film and television financing law. He advises banks, funds and companies on loans and investments in feature films and television programmes. “With the rise of global streaming platforms, the film and television industry has undergone, and continues to undergo, huge structural change. Whether my client is a bank, fund or company, the risks it now encounters on a financing deal are very different to the risks encountered in the past. With over 20 years of experience advising clients on all different types of deals, including debt, gap and equity, I help my clients identify risks and structure deals, often across multiple jurisdictions, to best protect their interests. Deadlines are often critical on film and television productions. I work with my clients and other parties to ensure that deals close on time and within budget.”
Wiggin LLP
David Rawlence
David has experience in all areas of commercial and residential property matters including acquisitions, disposals, financing and development as well as landlord and tenant work. He acts for landed estates, property companies, family offices, lenders, developers, hotel owner operators and individuals. David also has a particular expertise in acting for both owners and operators in the flexible office sector.
Boodle Hatfield LLP
David Regan
I am a Partner in the Employment team, based in the London office, with a proven track record advising on both UK and international employment matters. I joined Lewis Silkin from a global firm and bring extensive contentious and non-contentious experience across all types of litigation (including on matters before the Employment Tribunals and High Court); strategic advice on issues ranging from global restructurings and industrial relations concerns to outsourcing and shared services implementation; together with broad experience of providing employment law support on both UK and cross-border corporate and commercial matters (both buy- and sell-side). I have long-standing expertise advising on the employment-related aspects of cross-border and global mobility issues, being a trusted advisor on global matters for a variety of clients ranging from publicly listed global entities, leading tech and fintech brands and advertising and marketing communications groups. I also provide strategic advice to startups and senior individuals across a range of sectors. I bring experience in relation to workplace mental health and neurodiversity matters, and frequently deliver training on the legal and non-legal aspects and benefits of managing employees' mental health and supporting neurodiverse employees, as well advising clients on the employment implications of AI.
Lewis Silkin
David Rewcastle
Partner and Head of the transport sector, specialising in transport; railway franchising; railway-related projects.
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
David Richardson
Partner, Head of the Planning and Infrastructure Consenting team and Joint Head of Public Sector and Government
Ashfords LLP
David Ritchie
I have 13 years' experience in immigration law, with a diverse practice covering personal and business immigration matters and specialising in complex legal issues arising in both areas. In the business immigration law context, my practice focuses on compliance issues, including the immigration implications of corporate transactions and M&A activity, and challenging Home Office decisions to suspend or revoke sponsor licences and issue civil penalties for illegal working. In the personal immigration context, I specialise in applications that rely on the exercise of discretion due to a failure to meet all the requirements or historic breaches of the immigration rules. I have successfully challenged adverse decisions by way of administrative review, tribunal appeals and judicial review, often securing withdrawal and reconsideration from the Home Office before reaching the full hearing stage. I work with clients across a broad range of sectors, with a particular focus on professional services, technology and health & care. I am a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association.
Lewis Silkin
David Robinson
Director and the Head of Debt Recovery.
Fieldfisher
David Robinson
I specialise in equity capital markets and in both public company and private company mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In over twenty five years at Fladgate, I have acted on numerous initial public offerings (IPOs) on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and AIM Market, including dual listings, as well as secondary fundraisings and other transactions for both listed companies and their financial advisers. I have advised on takeovers, both by way of offer and scheme of arrangement. My clients like to break new ground and I enjoy the legal challenges that brings. As a result, I have acted on: the first cryptocurrency company to list on the LSE, Argo Blockchain; the first esports business to list on the LSE, Guild Esports; and the first pure-play FMCG cannabinoid listing on the LSE, Cellular Goods. My private company M&A practice spans many sectors but I have particular experience in publishing (both books and journals) I acted for Random House on the acquisition of the majority shareholding in BBC Books and for Penguin Books on the sale of The Rough Guides.
Fladgate LLP
David Robinson
Consultant
Forsters LLP
David Robinson
David is a Partner at the firm and is recognised as a leading practitioner for digital technologies and as an “outstanding specialist for machine learning patents” (Juve Patent UK Rankings). David’s academic background allows him to quickly and effectively understand complex computer-implemented and mathematical inventions – David holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in computer science and maths and the interface between the two and David also completed a Ph.D in Automated Reasoning before joining Marks & Clerk. David’s practice includes managing patent portfolios of leading multinational software companies, as well as working for universities and SMEs. David has considerable experience of drafting and prosecuting patent applications throughout the world, as well as advising clients on infringement and validity matters. David also has particular expertise in advising in connection with the inherent patentability of computer implemented inventions in different jurisdictions around the world. Alongside David’s particular experience in artificial experience, David’s experience covers a full range of aspects of computer science including data storage systems, computer implemented mathematical methods, image analysis including methods for analysing circuit boards and medical image processing, data analysis, communications protocols and computer graphics to name just a few. David is also the managing partner of our Manchester office.
Marks & Clerk
David Rose
David is a highly experienced litigator and one of only a small number of IP lawyers in the UK who have taken both patent and trade mark cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has acted in a number of high profile and often ground-breaking cases before both the UK and European Courts including successfully representing Sky in the first passing off case to reach the UK's highest court (the Supreme Court) in over 25 years (Starbucks v. Sky) and acting for Nintendo in securing the first ever blocking injunction against ISPs in reliance on technological protection measures under the UK's copyright legislation. Additional high profile actions include: HTC v Gemalto; Sky v Microsoft; Napp v Sandoz; ratiopharm v Alza; Sky v Skype; Marks & Spencer and others v One in a Million; Lupin v. Gilead; Ann Taylor v. Holzer; Sony Computer Entertainment v Pacific Game Technology; Racing UK v Satellite Information Services; Arrow Generics v Merck; Cairnstores v Astra Zeneca; and Servier v Lupin. In the patent sphere, David advises on infringement, validity and ownership disputes, the scope of protection of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) and disputes over standard essential patents (SEPs) including their licensing on FRAND terms (principally for implementers). He also has considerable experience advising on "clearing the way" strategies in relation to pharmaceutical patents. Recent representations include acting for Lupin in its successful application to revoke Gilead's SPC for the HIV treatment Truvada® following hearings before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU and the Court of Appeal in London. In the area of brand and design protection, David has extensive experience advising on brand and design portfolio management with particular expertise acting in administrative proceedings before the UKIPO and the EUIPO and their respective appellate tribunals, including appearing successfully in numerous cases before the General Court of the EU. David is one of only eight UK IP lawyers listed in the Legal 500 "Hall of Fame", is ranked as a leading individual in Chambers (IP, life sciences and patent litigation), IAM Patent 1000 (patents and life sciences), Who's Who Legal (patents, life sciences and trade marks) and is recognised as one of World Trademark Review's "Global Leaders". Recent commentary from the directories includes: "tough as nails... a 'natural litigator' who is 'experienced and aggressive" (World Trademark Review); "a real client's lawyer, always very tenacious in looking after their interests…He is good to work with and gets the best out of his team." and "has impeccable judgement on strategic matters" (Chambers); "outstanding experience in this arena makes him a force of nature in the courtroom" (IAM Patent 100). David was recognised as the UK Practitioner of the Year at the 2020 Annual Managing IP EMEA Awards.
Mishcon de Reya LLP
David Samuels
I am a Partner in our market-leading Employment litigation practice. I help businesses and senior executives to navigate complex issues of employment and partnership law. I have a particular interest in advising on disputes involving team moves, breaches of contract, misuse of confidential information and restrictive covenants, and I frequently act in the High Court and through Arbitration. I have significant experience in advising clients in the financial services, technology and built-environment sectors. I also work with multinational companies to meet their day-to-day employment law needs and have considerable experience in managing and delivering strategic and commercial advice to organisations dealing with multi-jurisdictional issues. I speak regularly at seminars and training events for clients and other lawyers. I am also frequently asked to comment on employment law issues by news media and have have done so on the Today Programme, BBC News, ITV News, talkRadio, CNN and in the Financial Times.
Lewis Silkin
David Saunders
David has experience of a wide range of pension issues advising both employers and trustees. He is the lead partner for a number of the firm’s major defined benefit and defined contribution clients in the financial services, electricity, IT and logistics sectors. His broad practice encompasses interpretation and application of scheme documentation, mergers and demergers, scheme funding, liability management and generally helping clients to navigate their way through the increasing maze of pension regulation and legislation. His recent work has included advising clients making changes to their pension provision, including closure to future service accrual and bulk transfers of members’ benefits, scheme funding and the Regulator’s new regime. He also frequently advises on the pensions aspects of corporate acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations and heads up the team that provides transactional support services to other law firms.
Sacker & Partners LLP
David Saunders
Partner, Head of Client Development, Konexo
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
David Scott
David is a corporate tax and share incentives partner in our corporate group. He has a wealth of experience providing corporate and personal tax advice to the full range of the firm’s clients and his core practice involves tax advice for entrepreneurs and their businesses. David has considerable experience advising on the tax aspects of M&A transactions and expertise in all aspects of share incentive arrangements. David works closely with businesses at varied stages of growth and size, advising both investors and investee companies on tax efficient fundraising, including EIS and SEIS, through to an exit. He also advises on a range of employment tax issues, including share based incentives and option schemes ranging from the implementation of EMI and CSOP share schemes to highly tailored share-based arrangements for senior management such as growth shares. He also advises on the use of employee benefit trusts (EBT) and employee ownership trusts (EOT). As the head of the charities and philanthropy group, he advises not-for-profit organisations and individual philanthropists on all charity law issues, including commercial arrangements and corporate governance issues, as well on specific charity tax issues.
Harbottle & Lewis LLP
David Seals
David specialises in acting for employers in employment disputes and is an experienced advocate in the Employment Tribunals. He has acted for a broad range of clients, such as company directors, HR managers and owner-managers, in a variety of sectors from the motor car industry to schools and charities. He advises on all aspects of employment law, including terms and conditions of service, employment policies and procedures, termination, disciplinary and grievance procedures, employment aspects of business transfers/TUPE, redundancy and restructures, discrimination law, restrictive covenants and associated litigation, employment tribunal litigation and appeals. David also provides in-house training on employment law to HR departments and managers, typically in such areas as discrimination law, disciplinary and grievance procedures, and reorganisation/restructures. He is a regular article contributor to business journals and has presented many employment law seminars and workshops.
Downs Solicitors LLP
David Sears
Senior Solicitor
Hudgell Solicitors
David Seddon
David is a Partner in our corporate team. He is a corporate lawyer and a member of our health sector who handles corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, company formations and restructuring, partnership and shareholder agreements and disputes. David heads up the Firm’s Pharmacy M&A Team and has established a reputation as a leading healthcare specialist lawyer, acting for a range of healthcare organisations along with healthcare professionals such as pharmacists, dentists and General Practitioners.
Brabners LLP