Lawyers in England

Gary Milner-Moore

Partner

Seladore Legal

Gary Moss

Chairman, Solicitor

EIP

Gary Moss

Chairman, Solicitor

EIP

Gary Oldroyd

Gary is a partner in our financial and professional risk team. Recognised for many years as a leader in his field by Chambers and Partners, Gary has specialised in the defence of claims against lawyers for over 20 years and he has been involved in several high-profile claims in this arena. Gary has acted for many of the ‘Participating Insurers’ who are authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to provide insurance cover to law firms as well as for many excess layer markets. In this capacity, Gary regularly provides coverage advice to insurers, in addition to regulatory advice to their insureds. Increasingly, Gary assists law firms to manage the consequences of data breaches including law firms who are the victims of cyber-crime. Gary has particular expertise in managing the provision of claims handling services to professional indemnity insurers, having dealt with several schemes throughout his career.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Gary Pellow

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Gary Phillips

Partner specialising in commercial property, acting for many high-net-worth individuals who invest in all types of commercial property.

Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP

Gary Pickard

Director

Fieldfisher

Gary Richards

Gary is a Corporate Tax Partner in the Corporate department with over 35 years' experience advising clients on tax planning and transaction structuring, whether domestic or cross border. He advises clients in a number of sectors, including corporate finance and M&A, real estate, outsourcing and financial services. He also works with both public sector organisations and their private sector counterparties in joint ventures, reconciling their different perspectives on tax planning and related reputational issues. Apart from his wide-ranging experience of corporate tax structuring, Gary has significant experience of indirect taxes, particularly VAT and SDLT, and successfully managing and resolving tax litigation with HMRC. His previous participation in various tax working parties, including being a member of HMRC's GAAR Interim Advisory Panel, enables him to offer insights on the likely reaction of HMRC to tax advantaged structures. Gary has been recognised as a Leading Individual in his field by both Chambers UK and Chambers Europe, as well as being credited as a Recommended Lawyer by Legal 500. He was also selected for the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom and recognised in Who's Who Legal's Thought Leaders list for Corporate Tax.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Gary Roscoe

Partner

TLT

Gary Rubin

Partner and Head of the Regulatory & Health & Safety Teams A specialist in health and safety, regulatory and criminal litigation, Gary regularly defends organisations and individuals, including directors and senior managers in complex Police, HSE and HMRC investigations and prosecutions. He has extensive experience of defending those accused of gross negligence manslaughter and health & safety breaches, arising from workplace fatalities across a wide spectrum of industries including railways, construction, electrical & engineering, gas and the medicine and care sectors. He is currently instructed in a number of high profile work place fatality cases and represented the driver of the Tram in the Croydon (Sandilands) tram crash during the police investigation. Gary also acts for a number of clients in the Grenfell Inquiry and associated police investigations. Previous high profile cases include defending the train drivers following the Watford & Southall train crashes and appeared in the Southall & Ladbroke Grove public rail inquiries. Gary was instructed to represent the machine operator in the Tebay disaster where 4 trackworkers were fatally injured, and acted in the corporate manslaughter charge of a construction company and health & safety charges of its’ senior director at the Old Bailey in 2017, for the fatality at Cadogan Square when a balustrade collapsed during the lifting of a sofa killing two operatives. In December 2007 Gary represented the Purley train crash driver in his successful appeal against conviction for manslaughter following the crash in 1989. This was unique as the appeal was made 17 years out of time and the driver had pleaded guilty. He is currently acting for client’s in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Gary also advises and represents companies, directors and senior officers, both self-employed and employees in relation to enforcement action taken by regulatory bodies and represents proper interested parties at Coroner’s Inquests, including Article 2 inquests where there has been a death at work or in police custody. He is currently instructed for the tram driver in the Sandilands Inquests (Croydon). Commanding a thorough understanding of regulatory and disciplinary codes of conduct, Gary represents police officers, professionals including Doctors, nurses, paramedics and social workers at disciplinary hearings. This experience has proved invaluable when instructed in serious criminal cases where there has been significant overlap between the criminal liability and regulatory and employment matters. Gary also has several years experience of representing police officers and police staff in Post Incident Procedures where there has been a fatality involving police contact. He has over 20 year’s experience of representing clients in the police station, Magistrates and Crown Court.

Blackfords LLP

Gary Small

Gary is the Managing Partner at Carpmaels & Ransford. He is a highly respected software, computer and medical technology specialist, who handles a diverse portfolio of cases that cover technologies ranging from complex medical systems employing software, AI, and signal and image processing, and medical devices, to electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, semiconductor technology and measurement technology. He has a particular interest in the environment and maintains a portion of his portfolio in areas that support environmental improvement. Over the years this has included hybrid vehicle technology, alternative drive systems, solar and wind power, and more recently thermal energy storage. Gary is recognised for his ability to tailor creative strategies to the differing requirements of his clients, creating and advising on patenting strategies, carrying out due diligence, and coordinating patent portfolios, throughout the world. Throughout his career Gary has represented a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from large multinationals, such as Hewlett-Packard Company, Micron Technology and Blue Prism, various Healthcare companies including Biosense Webster, Acclarent and Cerenovus, through SMEs such as TouchType (SwiftKey) now a part of Microsoft, Leman Micro Devices and Rondo Energy, to universities and individuals. He has a wealth of experience in drafting patent applications in extremely diverse areas of technology, so as to ensure that they are robust in multiple jurisdictions. Gary manages a very large prosecution practice before the UK and European patent offices, and has handled numerous oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office (EPO), both as opponent and defendant. He also advises his clients on the infringement and validity of UK patents, and co-ordinates subsequent negotiations and/or actions. Gary regularly advises his clients on the contentious and ever-developing area of patentability, in both the UK and European forums, of software and computer-implemented inventions, and inventions in other areas said to be excluded from patentability. He has retained a particular interest in AI since his research days, and is active in exploiting the possibilities provided by the developing legislation and guidelines on patenting AI inventions at both the EPO and UKIPO, and advising clients on how to navigate this developing area of the law. He has a sizeable prosecution practice in applied AI technologies.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Gary Smith

I am a debt finance partner with over 22 years’ experience across real estate, corporate lending and leverage finance and has been involved in a number of restructuring transactions. I work as part of a wider Funds, Finance and Regulatory team at Fladgate which gives me access to the best specialist advice to fit any transaction together with the wider capabilities across Fladgate. It is more than just about the legal documentation for me, it is about understanding my clients' businesses and really getting into the commercial side. This enables me to be able to give advice rather than just the options. It is about finding the solutions not the problems and taking the work off my clients', invariably very full, plates! I advise lenders and borrowers on both domestic and cross-border transactions. My experience includes acting on structured mezzanine and senior debt financing, restructurings and investment and development financings for financial institutions, fund structures and corporate vehicles. I have particular expertise in the hotel, student accommodation and PRS sectors and involved in both development and investment financings. I also have experience in cross border financings including in Germany, Monaco and Switzerland.

Fladgate LLP

Gary Smith

Partner

Nockolds Solicitors

Gary Soloman

Partner and head of Burges Salmon's planning and compulsory purchase team. Recent/current matters: acting for Isle of Anglesey County Council in relation to the proposed new nuclear power station at Wylfa, including promoting a CPO for significant highway improvements. Advising on a number of town and city centre regeneration schemes and acting for the Canal and River Trust and the Environment Agency in promoting CPOs to deliver European funded environmental works along the River Severn. Gary also recently assisted Redrow Homes secure permission for a 7,000 home garden village at Plasdwr, North-West Cardiff.

Burges Salmon LLP

Gary Wainwright

Partner and Head of Commercial Property & Real Estate Finance

Healys LLP

Gary Walker

Gary Walker is a Partner leading the Enable Law Abuse team that sits within the wider personal injury team. He has over 15 years of experience acting for seriously injured clients who have suffered abuse and neglect in the workplace, a healthcare setting or when in care. He has both children and adult clients and is a panel member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (one of only 15 in the country and the only panel member in the South-West). He regularly receives direct referrals from professionals in childcare, other personal injury lawyers and the Official Solicitor. Some of Gary's cases that have been on the public eye include representing clients in the Fuller Inquiry, clients that were inpatients at Edenfield, resident clients of Fullerton House as well as the now infamous Winterbourne View setting. Gary also advises clients on the developing law in data breach concentrating on acting for adoptive families. https://www.enablelaw.com/team/gary-walker/

Foot Anstey

Gary Webber

Gary is a full-time mediator who has mediated over 650 disputes. He has extensive experience, both as a barrister and as a mediator, in a wide range of commercial and property disputes: Landlord and tenant disputes (commercial and residential) Telecoms disputes. Disputes involving boundaries, rights of way and other easements Conveyancing and misrepresentation claims Restrictive covenants Property joint ventures Co-ownership and trust disputes Inheritance Act claims and probate disputes Property related negligence claims and other areas of property law. Various commercial disputes. Gary also has a great deal of experience in family disputes having mediated many cases between parents and children, siblings, separating couples and divorcing partners. Much of this work has related to the dissolution of family businesses, co-ownership and trusts, inheritance and administration of estates.

The Property Mediators

Gary Whiting

Gary is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Electronics, Software and Communications team. Gary has been working with patents, mainly in the fields of electronics, software, telecommunications and engineering since joining the patent profession in 1997. Gary has always enjoyed supporting a wide spectrum of clients, including university spin-outs, SMEs and large multi-national corporations. In addition, he has spent almost ten years working as an in-house patent attorney, resulting in a practical, commercially-focused approach to intellectual property in general and patents in particular. Gary has drafted and prosecuted many patent applications around the world and has particular experience of patent prosecution before the UK, European, US, Chinese and German Patent Offices. He also has extensive experience in providing freedom-to-operate advice, including the understanding and mitigation of risk.

Venner Shipley LLP

Gavin Ballance

Gavin joined Keystone in August 2014 and has a wide range of experience in resolving commercial, corporate and property disputes. He has acted for many highly regarded clients such as the trustees of a city bank pension fund, a large UK institution, a large UK developer, licensed insolvency practitioners, professional footballers, employees of a large city bank and high-net-worth private clients. His areas of expertise include; commercial disputes, professional negligence claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, insolvency disputes including liquidations, bankruptcies and advising interested third parties and creditors, rent recovery, possession actions, service charge disputes, commercial lease renewals under the 1954 Act, section 25 and 26 notices. Notable achievements include: £3.9m claim concerning a telecommunication company; £40m claim involving the supply of catering services to American and British troops in Iraq; £2.5m building dispute claim concerning the construction of eight properties in Esher valued at £10m; acting for an offshore open-ended investment company in connection with a portfolio of 1,200 properties which were subject to lifetime leases with an investment value of £73.65m; and advising on sponsorship rights for Moto GP contracts.

Keystone Law

Gavin Coull

Partner

Birketts LLP

Gavin Cummings

Browne Jacobson LLP

Gavin Denton

Independent International Arbitrator & Head of Arbitration Chambers

Arbitration Chambers

Gavin Dundas

Senior Associate Gavin handles patent work in the physics, engineering, materials and consumer products fields. He is regularly involved in drafting, filing and prosecuting UK, European, and international (PCT) patent applications in technical areas including electrochemistry, medical equipment and semiconductor devices. Gavin also has experience in patent searching and preparing infringement, patentability and freedom to operate opinions.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Gavin Ellison

Gavin has over 15 years' experience of providing strategic and practical advice to employers and trustees on all aspects of pensions law. He helps employers manage their pension scheme liabilities and trustees in protecting members' interests. He specialises in working closely with clients on formulating and progressing benefit restructuring, de-risking and transition management exercises for a combination of defined benefit, hybrid and defined contribution schemes. Gavin is insightful, pragmatic and particularly skilled at finding solutions which strike the middle ground between employers’ and trustees' interests. Gavin also heads up WBD's auto enrolment practice. He is recognised amongst clients as an expert in this field and has written extensively on the subject and delivered numerous training sessions to clients, intermediaries and industry experts.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP