Lawyers in England

Hamish Ferguson

Managing Partner

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Hamraj Kang

Hamraj Kang, senior partner of Kangs Solicitors, has over twenty years’ experience representing clients throughout the country in the above-mentioned areas of law. He is consistently ranked in the leading legal directories as a leader in the areas of financial crime and serious general crime. Hamraj acts for individuals and businesses in investigations brought by the major UK authorities including the SFO, HMRC, FCA, CPS, NCA, ICO, BEIS, Trading Standards and a host of regulatory bodies. He has particular expertise in the areas of VAT & tax fraud, bribery & corruption, money laundering and insider dealing, having been retained by a number of PLCs and senior company executives on such matters. The work is often complex and multi-jurisdictional. Hamraj advises corporate and individual clients both during and in the immediate aftermath of dawn raids when quick, effective and incisive advice is required to protect the legal rights and reputation of the firm’s client. He has vast experience of representing clients in a wide range of interviews including SFO, HMRC and NCA. He is admired for his novel tactical thinking and possesses a proven track record of guiding clients to a successful conclusion in the most difficult and demanding cases. Hamraj also undertakes a full range of serious criminal work such as historic sexual allegations, murder, corporate manslaughter, drugs offences and serious driving offences, having acted in many high-profile cases of this nature. Clients include football clubs/players, high net worth private individuals, members of the professions, company executives and personalities from the entertainment, media and sports sectors. Hamraj places the issues of confidentiality, privacy and reputation management at the forefront of his strategy when conducting such sensitive cases. He always adopts a strong and proactive approach to such investigations with the overriding objective to bring each matter to a successful and swift conclusion in an endeavour to avoid court proceedings and any adverse publicity for his client. Hamraj’s work in POCA/Asset Forfeiture includes advising on Restraint Orders, Freezing Orders, Unexplained Wealth Orders and Cash Seizures. Recent cases include HMRC tax and revenue enquiries, Civil Recovery Order/Proceedings, Property Freezing Orders, Account Freezing Orders, defending section 22 POCA applications, conducting section 23 POCA applications (inadequacy of available amount), numerous large-scale cash seizures and third-party representation in Confiscation Proceedings.

Kangs Solicitors

Hana Kapadia

Associate

LK Law LLP

Hanisha Godhania

ABV Solicitors

Hanna Basha

Hanna is a recognised leader in the field of defamation, privacy and breach of confidence, having acted in a number of landmark cases in the High Court. As well as litigation, Hanna has a wealth of experience in media and crisis management and advises clients on strategies for preventing and dealing with significant reputational attacks. She is able to put a responsive strategy in place quickly and effectively when clients are facing unwanted media attention. She skilfully manages media storms. Hanna also acts for her clients in more general litigation, regulatory matters, employment disputes and inquests where maintaining reputation or privacy is key. She has been involved in a number of high profile inquests, disciplinary hearings, employment claims and sports disputes, representing clients in the High Court, before coroners and before governing and regulatory bodies.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Hannah Awcock

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Hannah Barnett

Hannah is a Partner in Mishcon Private, specialising in Immigration. She advises both high net worth individuals and businesses on a range of UK Immigration matters, covering the Points Based System, ancestry visas, European free movement rights, long residence applications, family based applications, and litigation matters in the Immigration Tribunal. Many of Hannah's cases are of an exceptional, complex and multi-jurisdictional nature. Hannah is also part of the firm's business immigration group advising clients in relation to corporate immigration matters. She has assisted both employees and employers with sponsor licence applications, including the prevention of illegal working through the conduct of audits to ensure compliance with Legal Right to Work Checks and immigration processes within company HR systems. Many of her clients wish to obtain Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK and subsequent British citizenship. This often involves complex matters requiring the provision of long term strategic advice. Hannah regularly assists clients with second citizenship applications and has spent time in different countries regarding economic citizenship programmes. Hannah represents the Mishcon Immigration Group at the Home Office's Business User Forum, liaising with the Home Office on key developments and issues affecting clients.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Hannah Batten

Hannah helps clients to make the most of their intellectual property (IP) rights and other IP related opportunities, by providing strategic advice on the ownership, protection and exploitation of IP rights. Hannah has particular expertise in drafting and negotiating IP licences, but also advises on a wide range of other non-contentious and transactional IP agreements and other matters. This includes assignments, collaborations, franchising and sponsorship arrangements, as well as IP issues arising in M&A, joint ventures and investments. She regularly advises on IP ownership within a corporate group structure, and has significant experience of advising charities on trade mark ownership and licensing arrangements. Hannah takes a very human approach to her advice, and has been described by her clients as ‘approachable’, ‘diligent’ and ‘tenacious’. She finds earning the trust and confidence of clients the most rewarding aspect of her work, as this leads to genuinely collaborative relationships and the ability to add real value through a deeper understanding of the wider circumstances and personalities (as well as the commercial priorities) involved in a particular situation or deal.

Foot Anstey

Hannah Beddis

Hannah qualified in 2003, she is a Partner in the local government team based in the Leeds office. Hannah has extensive experience of handling litigated personal injury claims with a strong focus on public sector clients, working primarily for local authorities and insurers. She handles claims across the wide spectrum of local authority risk. She has a specialism in handling stress bullying and harassment claims from initial notification through to trial/settlement. She successfully advised the defendant in the case of Akay v Newcastle University [2020] EWHC 1669 (QB) where the claim was struck out as an abuse of process in light of previous Employment Tribunal proceedings. She also has a keen interest in highways claims, she advised the local authority in the Court of Appeal case of Kim Ali v City of Bradford MDC [2010] EWCA Civ 1282 relating to deposits on the highway. Hannah is a regular speaker at external events such as ALARM and IOG meetings. She regularly writes and delivers a wide variety of training seminars and provides risk management advice to clients and has worked with a major insurer providing advice on claims handling strategy. She has worked closely with commercial and municipal insurers providing support in respect of a wide variety of casualty claims as well as directly supporting an insurer client’s claims handlers in respect of their pre-lit handling and professional development.

Weightmans LLP

Hannah Bingham

Hannah is an associate in the Corporate department. Hannah has experience across a range of corporate and commercial matters, including the sale and purchase of companies and assets, company incorporation and structuring, shareholder arrangements, and advising upon a wide variety of commercial agreements across many different industry sectors. Hannah advises a broad range of clients, including entrepreneurs, start-ups, family businesses and private companies of all sizes.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Hannah Boddy

Hannah has experience in high value cases across a broad range of family matters including complex financial disputes upon marital breakdown, child arrangements, Family Law Act matters and nuptial agreements.

Manders Law

Hannah Brassington

Associate

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Hannah Cash

Hannah is a leading marine law and superyacht specialist with over 20 years’ experience advising on non‑contentious transactional matters within the luxury marine sector. She acts across a wide range of high‑value marine assets and has a distinctive specialist focus on the luxury London houseboat market. Hannah advises on the sale and purchase of new‑build and pre‑owned vessels, vessel registration, marine finance and mortgage arrangements, yacht charters, and mooring and berthing agreements. She also has extensive experience structuring complex vessel ownership arrangements, including fractional and syndicate ownership. Hannah advises a UK and international client base comprising high‑net‑worth and ultra‑high‑net‑worth individuals, business founders, family offices, celebrities, and owner‑managed companies, and has particular experience advising female entrepreneurs within the marine and luxury sectors on personal asset ownership.

Keystone Law

Hannah Clark

Legal Director - Commercial National

Weightmans LLP

Hannah Clifford

Senior associate Specialisms: HR issues - reorganisations, disciplinary proceedings and dismissals. Employment contracts, policies and procedures.

Irwin Mitchell

Hannah Clipston

Partner Hannah has considerable experience in commercial litigation and the resolution of disputes for commercial organisations, particularly in the sport and leisure industry. Clients she has assisted include Greenwich Leisure Limited and Nuffield Health. She trained and worked in the City for five years and her practice covers High Court litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Blake Morgan LLP

Hannah Cornish

Hannah is a skilled family lawyer who advises on complex disputes concerning both children and financial matters. Hannah’s practice consists of disputes involving children, such as residence, contact arrangements, parental alienation, international custody disputes, international child abduction, adoption and international surrogacy. Hannah also advises on issues relating to divorce, financial matters, cohabitation and domestic abuse. She is an expert in negotiating divorce financial settlements, especially those involving businesses, complex pensions and foreign property. Hannah has been regularly quoted in the national media, spoken on national radio and frequently appeared on Sky and BBC News talking about family law.

Keystone Law

Hannah Costley

Hannah is an Associate Solicitor with our Crime and Regulatory team. She qualified as a Solicitor in November 2019 and is also an accredited police station representative. Her specialisms lie within RSPCA prosecutions as well as road traffic offences. From advising suspects during police interviews to defendants appearing before the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, Hannah has plentiful experience in working with a vast range of individuals. Hannah also has experience advising Police Officers involved in misconduct proceedings and representing Foster Carers who face allegations made against them by children in their care. She has experience representing defendants involved in Fire Safety prosecutions.

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Hannah Crowther

Hannah advises on all areas of data protection and privacy law, helping multinational and UK organisations navigate the changing landscape of EU and UK data protection law including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy. Hannah's practice covers a wide range of EU and UK data protection and privacy issues, including ‘accountability’, data transfers, Binding Corporate Rules, adtech, data subjects rights, Artificial Intelligence and direct marketing. Her practice also includes a significant amount of contentious work, advising clients on managing personal data breaches and enforcement by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and other EU data protection authorities, including the CNIL and Irish Data Protection Commission. Hannah is also increasingly advising in the growing area of data protection litigation, assisting with cases before the UK courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. In 2014 Hannah spent three months on secondment working in the Privacy team of a US law firm in Seattle, where she gained a valuable insight into data privacy law from a US perspective.

Bristows LLP

Hannah Cullinane

Solicitor - Corporate Commercial

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Hannah Currie

Associate Solicitor

Hall Brown Family Law

Hannah Daeche

Principal Associate

Gowling WLG

Hannah Davies

Hannah Davies is a Senior Associate in our Corporate & Commercial Team. Hannah joined Gardner Leader as a Solicitor in April 2019 as part of the growing Corporate & Commercial team in the Maidenhead office. Hannah has a natural interest in developing a close understanding of each client’s business and finding commercially driven and cost-effective solutions to allow clients to accomplish their objectives.

Gardner Leader LLP

Hannah Drury

Hannah is an Associate at Littler and works across all areas of employment law, including advisory, litigation and transactional support.

Littler