Lawyers in England

Edward Banyard Smith

Edward has significant experience of advising on all aspects of construction and property development. In addition to advising construction clients, funders, contractors and consultants on procurement contracts, he advises on the construction aspects of real estate and finance transactions. He also advises on the resolution of disputes arising from construction projects. Edward regularly contributes articles to construction law publications, and has contributed chapters to two books on construction law.

Farrer & Co

Edward Bartlett

Partner

KPMG Law

Edward Bond

Edward acts principally for SMEs, assisting with both commercial and employment law issues. He also frequently handles the acquisition and sale of private companies and businesses. Areas of expertise include employment law, employment documentation, outsourcing and TUPE regulations, corporate and commercial contracts, the acquisition and sale of companies and businesses.

Keystone Law

Edward Burton

Edward is a partner in the Real Estate team and specialises in acting for private clients in relation to prime and super prime residential property. He has experience in working across the spectrum of residential property work, from listed buildings on the London estates and new build super prime apartments to country houses. He regularly acts on the highest value and most complex deals in London. He also advises on enfranchisement and lease extensions as well as working closely with the Private Wealth team on residential property structures. Having previously featured in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 editions, Edward is ranked individually in the Chambers HNW Guide 2020. He is also listed in the Legal 500 2020 as a Rising Star. Edward has also been ranked as one of eprivateclient's Top 35 under 35 and was named in the inaugural Spear's 500 as a Recommended Lawyer.

Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP

Edward Cardington

Partner Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (COLP) Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration (COFA)

Milberg London

Edward Cheng

Edward qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2024 and is a member of the Patents team based in the London office. Edward is a qualified China patent attorney, with extensive experience of patent prosecution in a leading international patent firm in Taiwan. He has previously worked as an IP analyst in a renowned international IP service company in London. Prior to entering his career in patent law, Edward worked as an engineer for Philips, focusing on medical devices including ultrasound imaging systems and cardiovascular apparatuses. Edward specialises in technical fields including optics, optoelectronics, photoacoustic imaging and Raman spectroscopy, and he also has gained considerable experience in drafting and prosecuting multi-jurisdictional patents across a diverse range of technologies, including electronic and mechanical inventions, semiconductors, lighting and display technology, and physical, virtual & hybrid musical instruments. In addition, he has advised and assisted clients, ranging from SMEs to big-name companies, on a wide variety of patent protection means including patent search, infringement, (in)validity and FTO analyses.

Maucher Jenkins

Edward Colville

Ed is a Partner in our Banking and Finance team, and has wide experience in all areas of banking, finance, and investment-related work. He typically acts for corporate clients as well as high net worth individuals entering into finance or investment agreements. Ed has several clients in the insurance industry, who he advises on the finance aspects of corporate insurance matters. He also has significant experience of real estate and development finance transactions.

RPC

Edward Cooper

Edward Cooper is a partner at Howard Kennedy. He advises on a wide variety of contentious real estate matters at all levels of the court hierarchy. His aim is to provide clear strategic advice, founded on good commercial sense. He heads our Real Estate Dispute Resolution team. Edward's clients have included large corporates and pension funds, together with wealthy individuals, whether based within the UK or internationally. He regularly advises on matters including: • Development advice, including neighbourly matters and rights to light • Business tenancy renewals • Lease enforcement, including rent arrears and forfeiture • Dilapidations claims • Rent review • Service charge disputes • Insolvency matters impacting real estate interests • Boundary disputes Edward's approach is to be clear and to the point, even when dealing with the most complex matters. He has recently acted on several major development matters, drawing in several fields of his expertise and requiring a sound strategic approach. Edward has strong relationships with professionals across the real estate sector, and has spoken at seminars and major events including the annual RICS UK Building Surveying Conference. Edward is recommended in Legal 500 and is also a member of the Property Litigation Association.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Edward Cooper

Edward is Head of Practice in the employment department at Slater and Gordon Lawyers, heading up the team servicing trade unions and staff associations and their members.. Edward specialises in all aspects of employment law, as well as advising on the “corporate” needs of trades unions/staff associations. His experience has a particular emphasis on collective and policy matters; including trade union and industrial law, as well as pensions, public law and human rights-related employment issues. Edward has advised on the rules and procedures governing numerous trade unions and has wide experience in advising trade unions on mergers, Certification Officer complaints, internal disputes and industrial action issues. He has conducted numerous judicial review applications relating to public sector employment rights issues, and acted for a wide range of individual workers in a wide range of industries. More recently, he has acted in a number of professional negligence claims arising from the previous handling of their employment disputes by other solicitors and advisers, and advised on the implications of GDPR for trade unions

Slater and Gordon

Edward Corbett

Edward Corbett is acknowledged as one of the world’s most experienced international construction lawyers with an unsurpassed reputation as a FIDIC expert. Edward has worked exclusively in construction law since 1984 and his experience includes contract drafting and procurement strategy as well as Dispute Boards, ICC arbitration, litigation and ADR. He has worked for contractors as well as for employers, funders and consultants. He regularly advises some of the world’s major employers and contractors and his current caseload involves projects in Europe, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. He has experience as an arbitrator and adjudicator on both UK and international disputes and is an accredited mediator. He was a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator (2021-2024). Edward is the author of FIDIC 4th – A Practical Legal Guide and a contributor to FIDIC 2017 – A Practical Legal Guide. He has written many articles and papers dealing with aspects of international construction contracts. He was a founder of Construction Law International (CLInt). He has lectured extensively on construction law and in particular on FIDIC’s standard forms of contract. He was a FIDIC Certified Trainer (2022-2024). Edward was named a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2019 and described as “a heavyweight in the international construction field and the top name in Europe according to our research this year”. Sources say he is “the star player in the UK market”, with “knowledge that is next to none”. Edward has been recommended in the Legal 500 since 2006. Edward runs and posts on the Cornerstone FIDIC Group on LinkedIn.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Edward Craft

Edward leads on the most complex and innovative transactions delivered at Wedlake Bell and provides technical leadership to both the team and the profession. Edward has sat on the Company Law Committee of The Law Society since 2013 and served as chair 2019-2022. In that role, Edward was responsible for the guidance to solicitors in conducting verification under the new register of overseas entities. The 2021 practice note and Q&A on electronic signatures in the context of COVID has proven a very valuable resource to practitioners. Edward has a long-established practice focussed on governance and transparency, including PSC, ROE and TRS. Edward has twice been the author of the Corporate Governance Code issued by The Quoted Companies Alliance, which is used by the vast majority of companies on AIM.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Edward Davis

Ed Davis is a leading commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience resolving a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. His practice focuses on complex and high value litigation and investigations, with a focus on financial services disputes covering a variety of markets and products, including derivatives, asset backed securities, swaps, and bond issues. Ed represents financial institutions, funds, corporations, commodities traders, accountants, trustees, and individuals.

Jenner & Block LLP

Edward Dawes

Edward is a corporate solicitor with over 30 years’ experience advising companies on how to effectively plan and execute a variety of corporate transactions. Throughout his career, Edward has worked on many high-value acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, mergers and takeovers, with many involving cross-border issues and significant commercial aspects. He also assists companies with, or seeking, a stock market listing, with UK equity market fundraisings and regulatory compliance. Edward acts across all industries but has extensive experience in advising those in the retail, hospitality, and food and beverage sectors as well as manufacturing businesses. Edward has been a contributing editor to Sweet & Maxwell’s Company Directors: Law and Liability for over a decade, and assisted with the development and publication of the CBI’s Practical Guide to Corporate Governance.

Keystone Law

Edward Floyd

Edward advises on all family law issues, helping clients resolve the financial issues that arise on separation, arrangements for children and marital and relationship agreements. His cases often involve high-value, multi-jurisdictional assets, including trusts and his clients include high net worth and highly compensated individuals.

Farrer & Co

Edward Foster

Edward Foster is a Partner in the Litigation & Recoveries team. With experience in-house and in private practice, Edward Foster has a specialism in asset finance and insolvency. He advises in consumer credit disputes, especially in the motor finance industry. He has considerable experience of commercial litigation in the asset finance sector, in addition to alternative dispute resolution and insolvency. Edward is also experienced in enforcement of debts owed to local authorities, and debt recovery in general. Edward has a varied client base including blue chip national and global lenders; captive and independent motor finance companies; factoring companies; insolvency practitioners; Local Authorities and football clubs.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Edward Garston

Since qualification in 2006 Edward Garston has been advising owner-managed SME businesses across a wide diversity of business sectors on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. Clearly enthusiastic about his practice area, his expertise spans company mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and restructuring, secured lending arrangements, company constitutional matters, share arrangements, all the way through to shareholder agreements. A particular specialism is advising company founders on their exit, whether by third-party sale, succession, or management buyout (MBO). He will, where possible, work in conjunction with a client’s existing advisers unless additional expertise is required for the particular project. He enjoys nothing more than guiding his clients through the entire process from inception to successful completion. On the commercial side, Edward regularly advises on business contracts and commercial arrangements such as terms and conditions and licensing arrangements. Edward joined Spencer West having previously practised at leading Essex law firms, most recently as a partner with Pinney Talfourd LLP. Having graduated in Economics from the University of Manchester, Edward first embarked on a varied Investment Banking career in London. Such experience affords him a unique insight into the banking and financial sectors, which enhances the service and advice he regularly offers. Edward is a keen networker and is often invited to share his professional expertise and experiences by speaking to industry groups and organisations.

Spencer West LLP

Edward Grange

Edward is recognised as a leader in the field of extradition law and has extensive experience in defending requested persons in extradition proceedings. Edward’s expertise in extradition law spans over 18 years and during that time, he has provided strategic advice and representation to individuals facing extradition to a wide range of jurisdictions across the world and has an enviable record in defeating such requests, including those emanating from the USA, Russia, Ecuador and India. He has conducted hundreds of Arrest Warrant cases from almost every EU member state. He was part of the legal team advising Julian Assange. Edward also advises on a variety of criminal litigation matters. An experienced criminal defence lawyer, he has conducted a wide range of cases from police station through to trial. His criminal litigation practice covers a broad spectrum of offences ranging from complex fraud to serious sexual offences, violence and murder. He has extensive experience acting for younger clients involved in serious criminal cases having spent many years in the Youth Courts of London. Edward advises clients accused of serious road traffic offences involving fatalities. His expertise in extradition means that Edward is ideally placed to provide strategic advice to individuals who are subject to (or believe they may be subject to) INTERPOL red notices. He has successfully made representations on clients’ behalf to the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (‘CCF’) for the deletion of red notices and, where pre-emptive representations have been made, for red notices not to be issued. Edward is the co-author of ‘Extradition Law: A Practitioner’s Guide’, published by Legal Action Group (3rd edition 2021). He is also the Co-Founder and past Chair of the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum. Edward has given evidence before the House of Lords Select Committee on Extradition and his evidence featured extensively in their final report.

Corker Binning

Edward Griffiths

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Edward Hall

Partner. Specialisms include: advising high net worth individuals and families and their trustees on the creation and fortification of trust vehicles and other succession planning structures, for asset protection and wealth preservation reasons; advising UK domiciled clients on wills, trusts, personal taxation and general estate and succession planning; advising non-UK clients on residence, domicile and remittance basis of taxation matters and on the tax implications of UK property ownership and investment.

Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove

Edward Hughes-Power

Ed is a Partner in the Commercial Real Estate department with over 15 years’ experience. He has specialist expertise in high value investment deals and complex development projects across all sectors. He has also developed a particular expertise in the alternative residential sector including PBSA and Build-to-Rent. In addition, Ed is highly experienced in landlord and tenant matters, particularly on significant pre-let agreements. Ed acts for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from listed corporates and UK and overseas property companies to developers and private investors. His clients include Derwent London PLC, Endurance Land LLP, Nan Fung Group, O&H Properties, GWM Capital, NP Investment Management, Watkin Jones PLC and specialist student developer Fusion Students. His recent highlights include advising Derwent London on the pre-letting of the Brunel Building in Paddington to (amongst others) Sony Pictures Entertainment, Premier League and Paymentsense and the ongoing redevelopment of the Network Building, W1 (which is targeting a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating and NABERS 4 Star rating). Ed also acted for Watkin Jones PLC on the sale and forward funding of the build-to-rent development at the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, and advised Hong Kong based investor Nan Fung Group and developer Endurance Land on two pre-lets totalling 114,000 sq ft within The Bailey in the City of London. He recently advised student accommodation provider Fusion Students on the sale and forward funding of a student portfolio to US investor Cain International and on the new £210 million student accommodation site at Brent Cross Town, forming part of Related Argent's regeneration scheme in North West London.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Edward Jackman

Edward has broad experience of commercial property work, acting for large corporates, private companies and private clients. His particular areas of expertise include agreements relating to the sale of land for residential and commercial development, and commercial landlord and tenant work acting for both users and investors.

Thrings LLP

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.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Edward Lee

Blaser Mills Law

Edward Lewis

Edward has a deserved reputation as a “marquee name” in cyber and is the preferred choice advisor to many corporations, public bodies, the emergency services and insurers when it comes to matters of strategic, reputational, or political importance involving IT infrastructure, data, technology, media & privacy. He is also one of only a handful of lawyers whose cyber expertise extends to an intimate knowledge of insurance law and the interpretation of cover for cyber-related losses. Under his leadership, the CyXcel team at Weightmans has evolved to become one of the most specialised and experienced cyber risk advisory, crisis and litigation practices in the UK, assisting organisations at all stages and with all aspects of digital transformation. The CyXcel team’s proven track record includes the legal architecture design for some of the largest and most complex data processing and commercialisation projects ever undertaken in the UK. When it comes to cyber incidents, the team has also successfully led the response to some of the most challenging security and data breaches across a range of sectors worldwide — from privacy violations resulting from phone tapping and covert surveillance, to D-DOS and ransomware attacks by organised crime syndicates and drug cartels, statecraft and espionage, as well as destructive network intrusions by hostile actors. Edward writes regularly for mainstream media, is at the forefront of thought-leadership on incident response strategy and directly involved in UK-led efforts to regulate cyber security, solve the challenges posed by systemic risk, and create a cyber cat loss market within insurance. The team recently received national acclaim for their efforts in tackling ransomware gangs after making new law in XXX v Persons Unknown. Legal 500 describes Edward as “Brilliant, an excellent negotiator; bright, commercial, serious and tough”.

Weightmans LLP