Lawyers in England

Dominic Ibbs

Principal Lawyer

B P Collins LLP

Dominic Lacey

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Dominic McGinn

Excello Law

Dominic Morris

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Dominic Murphy

Dominic heads up the national Trade Mark practice. He has significant experience in a diverse range of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electronics, telecommunications, fashion, software, high street retailers and confectionery. He assists clients with the entire range of Trade Mark work, including pre-filing searching, filing strategies, filing UK, EU and International Trade Mark applications, oppositions, cancellations and invalidity actions. Dominic’s experience includes managing the world-wide Trade Mark portfolios of global electronics corporations, biotechnology firms, clothing retailers, financial software companies and confectionery retailers. This global portfolio management routinely spanned from urgent pre-filing searching, to world-wide Trade Mark filing strategies with tiered filing priorities and costs, to Trade Mark enforcement and oppositions, to budget forecasting and yearly management. Dominic also has extensive experience in advising on and filing Designs in the UK, EU and Internationally around the world.

Shoosmiths LLP

Dominic Offord

Dominic Offord is a partner and heads Howard Kennedy's Disputes Resolution team and represents clients on high-profile and multi-jurisdictional insolvency/ fraud cases. Dominic advises local and foreign Insolvency Practitioners, as well as, creditors and directors in a wide range of insolvency claims ranging from misfeasance to antecedent transactions and enforcing security. He also works closely with Howard Kennedy's experts in criminal and regulatory investigations and, where cases are high profile, his reputational management colleagues. Dominic regularly speaks at domestic and international conferences on issues in insolvency and civil fraud. He has helped shape the law on cross-border insolvency by representing clients in the appellant courts. During his career Dominic has successfully assisted clients recover billions of dollars. Dominic is a member of R3 Association of Business Recovery professionals, the Fraud Lawyers Association and the Insolvency Lawyers Association.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Dominic Ogden

Dominic is a consultant in the Commercial Property team. He is based in the Salisbury office but spends almost half his time working out of the Wilsons London office. Dominic handles a broad range of commercial property work. He has dealt with numerous complicated and high value transactions, often working closely with our corporate team and other professionals on corporate acquisitions and de-mergers involving large commercial property portfolios. His practice includes dealing with the sale and purchase of commercial buildings and development land, commercial leases (acting for both landlords and tenants), promotion agreements and options and mineral extraction agreements. He has acted for a wide range of clients from overseas corporate investors, wealthy UK and overseas private investors, well-known national charities, 'top 10' firms of surveyors and accountants, landed estates, breweries and pub companies.

Wilsons

Dominic Raeside

Dominic is one of the five principals who founded Family Law in Partnership in 1995. As Head of Mediation, Dominic holds the strong belief that whilst separation and divorce is often a difficult and painful transition, it does not have to destroy a family. Dominic’s practice is focused on helping couples reach a consensus about their future as it relates to their children, finances and housing. Dominic mediates both domestic and cross border family disputes including international child abduction, access and custody cases. Having worked for many years in the Courts advising the judiciary in contested children’s matters and previously having worked in the field of adult psychiatry, Dominic has a range of skills, knowledge and experience which he uses to help his clients to reach agreement. His work has earned Dominic a reputation as one of the most experienced and respected mediators in the country – many of his mediation clients are referred to him by the top family lawyers in the country. In 2013 Dominic was appointed to the prestigious role of the Family Mediator member of the Family Justice Council. In addition to his work as a Mediator, Dominic is a UKCP registered family and systemic psychotherapist and he sees clients in conjunction with his lawyer colleagues where he offers consultation on the child related, emotional and psychological aspects of divorce and separation.

Family Law in Partnership Ltd

Dominic Ribet

Dominic is an Legal Director in the private wealth team at Cripps. Dominic has a diverse practice acting predominantly for UK domiciled private clients advising them on all aspects of wealth planning including Wills, Probate, Mental Capacity, Trusts and Tax and with a particular focus on Charities and Philanthropy.

Cripps

Dominic Richardson

Partner

Gowling WLG

Dominic Robertson

Partner; Dominic advises a wide range of businesses on all areas of tax law. His practice includes: structuring and other tax aspects of M&A, joint ventures and other corporate finance transactions tax enquiries and disputes, including EU tax State aid investigations standalone tax advisory work, including group reorganisations, CFCs, transfer pricing, and the tax treatment of IP Dominic is co-head of the firm’s Tax Disputes practice.

Slaughter and May

Dominic Swift

Dominic Swift is a partner in the Real Estate team and is also the chair of The Evolve Multi Academy Trust. Dominic has 30 years’ experience working within the commercial property field and specialises in complex projects, appreciated by his clients for bringing not only legal expertise but also strong project management skills. His clients welcome his “hands on and can do attitude”. Dominic has project managed many academy conversions and advised a number of free schools focusing particularly on strategic site assembly. He has also played a major role in developing and delivering new services to help academy trusts in their strategic planning for the rapidly changing world they face.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Dominic Swift

Browne Jacobson LLP

Dominic Traynor

Dominic is a Partner in Druces’ Corporate & Commercial team, specialising in corporate law, listings and takeovers, M&A and corporate finance. Dominic has acted on several AIM admissions and reverse takeovers, acquisitions, joint ventures and secondary fundraisings, with a particular focus on the natural resources sector. He graduated from Durham University in 1997 with a degree in Law and, after completing the LPC at the College of Law in York, Dominic joined Ronaldsons where he qualified in 2000. Dominic’s hobbies include running and skiing. “Dominic is recommended in Legal 500 for his “wealth of experience in acting for mining and energy companies”. For his work in the equity capital markets arena, he is described as “very responsive, very intelligent, always providing sound advice.” “Dominic Traynor in particular, is an exceptional legal adviser, both commercial and practical – his depth of experience in industry matters and general commerciality provides insight well beyond that expected of a legal adviser. His legal skills are excellent, and he effectively uses the support team so that the correct fee level is matched with the work undertaken.” “Dominic Traynor is very knowledgeable and trustworthy in all situations.”

Druces LLP

Dominik Opaliński

Partner, dealing with all aspects of charity law, particularly the business of charities, and not-for-profit organisations, specialising in the development of social enterprise schemes for the benefit of communities in the UK and abroad, fundraising campaigns, trustees’ investment powers and fund management. Dominik has extensive knowledge and experience in establishing not-for-profit organisations including charities providing them with practical advice and guidance with a commercial steer.

Hunters Law LLP

Dominique Dolman

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Domonique McRae

Domonique is a Legal Director in the Employment Department. Domonique advises both businesses and individuals on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues at each stage of the employment life cycle. She is valued for her concise, commercial, “no nonsense” approach, across a broad range of different sectors. Domonique’s experience is wide-ranging. She is regularly instructed to draft employment related contracts and policies, to provide advice and support in relation to employee relations issues (such as disciplinaries and grievances) as well as strategic advice related to complex legal issues such as restructuring exercises or the impact of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) on mergers and acquisitions or tendered services. She has also represented both Claimants and Respondents in complex claims and appeals in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and in the civil courts. Whether she is instructed in relation to employment or discrimination claims or in relation to contract disputes (including the enforcement of restrictive covenants), she provides clear, unwaivering advice both in relation to the legal issues and in regards to litigation strategy.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Dona Ardeman

Dona is a corporate solicitor specialising in investment fund creation and early stage investment work in the private equity, venture capital and alternative finance sectors. She acts for a wide range of clients, from investment managers and venture capital funds, universities, technology transfer offices, crowdfunding platforms and business angels to entrepreneurs, companies and their officers. She also advises on a range of matters from the structure, setting up and running of an investment fund, angel syndicate, alternative finance platform or business through to financing, restructure, and exit.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Donald Lambert

Consultant specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration work, including physical commodities and a wide range of real estate disputes.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Donall Murphy

Donall is a partner in the conveyancing team. He advises both buyers and sellers in relation to freehold and leasehold transactions, dealing with many high value properties in prime locations. As well as his transactional work, his areas of particular expertise include lease extensions (including lease extensions under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993), new leases, identifying and rectifying defective leases, probate sales, Court of Protection sales, re-mortgages, auction sales and purchases, secured lending, new build purchases, restrictive covenants, residential development and some leasehold enfranchisement matters

Russell-Cooke LLP

Donna Barnes

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Donna Goldsworthy

Partner

Fieldfisher

Donna McCarthy

Donna is the Head of Devonshires’ Housing Management and Property Litigation department. She heads up a team advising on all aspects of housing management law and practice, acting for Local Authorities, Registered Providers and private landlords in complex litigation, including possession proceedings; actions to restrain Anti-Social Behaviour; injunctions and disrepair actions. She also advises social landlords on matters of housing policy and procedure. She has particular specialism in matters relating to mental health, capacity and safeguarding and is part of the Devonshires Care Group. Donna heads up LandlordPLUS, a service dedicated to social and private landlords offering properties for market rent. Donna is Devonshires Solicitors most prolific trainer, regularly presenting seminars to clients and is responsible for co-ordinating the Housing Management training programme. She is a regular speaker at internal and external events and has spoken at conferences held by the NHF, Capita, Resolve ASB and the Law Society. She also speaks in schools as part of the Inspiring the Future programme. Donna is actively involved in Devonshires Corporate Social Responsibility Programme and is a trustee of the Devonshires Charitable Foundation.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Donna Seferta

Senior associate Expertise: employment law; employees and employers, employer internal investigations, disciplinary advice.

Irwin Mitchell