Lawyers in England

Jahanara Hussain

Partner

Fieldfisher

Jake Cohen

Jake is a Senior Associate in the Sports & Entertainment team at Lawrence Stephens. He acts for clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He acts on high-profile matters within sport and his calm, direct and focused approach coupled with his strong commercial background and experience working with key stakeholders across the global sporting industry enables him to communicate and distill complex legal matters into practical advice in an engaging, accessible and actionable way. he specialises in advising clients on commercial, image rights, employment, complex regulatory and cross-border matters in addition to acting for clients in disputes before The Football Association (FA), FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Given the international nature of his work, he frequently collaborate with colleagues from a variety of different countries, jurisdictions and backgrounds. He is passionate about ensuring that costs are not a barrier to receiving top legal advice and access to justice and he regularly provides pro bono assistance to young athletes and entrepreneurs. Additionally, he has been a member of the American Bar Association’s Military Pro Bono Project since qualifying as a lawyer and have been appointed to the Sport Resolutions Pro Bono Service.

Lawrence Stephens solicitors

Jake Hardy

Jake is primarily a banking and financial services litigator, with a wide range of experience across that sector derived from over 20 years of practice in the sphere. He has a long track record of leading large-scale complex and high value cases. He has a particular interest in claims arising from complex trades, transactions and products. Jake also has significant experience in fraud and asset recovery, public/administrative law, IT and procurement and general commercial disputes.

RPC

Jake Holmes

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Jake Marshall

Jake specialises in transactional and advisory matters involving intellectual property and technology. He advises clients across a variety of sectors including life sciences, software/technology, media and entertainment and retail. Jake’s work includes drafting and negotiating a wide range of IP/IT licences and commercial agreements, advising on the IP/IT aspects of transactions and also on matters relating to data protection and e-commerce. In the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 Jake was “singled out for his expertise in commercial agreements”. IAM Patent 1000, 2024 says he “skilfully draws up fruitful commercial agreements and draws on his in-house experience to understand the commercial needs and priorities of his following.” While Managing IP reports that Jake delivers a “first-class” service to clients.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Jake McQuitty

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jamal Saleh

Jamal advises on a wide variety of cross-border corporate and commercial transactions under the laws of England and Wales and the British Virgin Islands, including private mergers and acquisitions, scale-up investments and fundraises, joint ventures, partnership and LLP matters and restructurings, in addition to advising on asset sales out of administration alongside our Restructuring and Insolvency team. Jamal has particular focuses on private capital investments often involving family offices, and also high growth companies, while his sector expertise includes sport, automotive, technology and hotels and hospitality. He has advised on commercial contracts including sponsorship, supply and agency agreements.

Edwin Coe LLP

James Allen

Partner

Birketts LLP

James Alleyne

James is a Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He advises clients on the full spectrum of financial services and FCA-related matters, including on authorisation applications, perimeter and supervisory issues, enforcement investigations and cases before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal. James has a detailed understanding of the regulatory regime applying to firms and senior individuals under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, Payment Services Regulations 2017, Electronic Money Regulations 2011 and Money Laundering Regulations 2017. James joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from the FCA where he spent seven years in the Enforcement division, giving him a unique insight into the approach and working of the regulator. Whilst at the FCA James built the framework, and led the dedicated team responsible, for taking assertive supervisory intervention action against firms through the imposition of requirements, freezing of assets, banning of financial promotions and variations of permissions. This gave James a keen interest, and specialism, in the FCA’s use of supervisory intervention powers. In addition, his work while at the regulator within the crypto sector gave him particularly valuable insight into this sector. James also has significant experience of advising on FCA criminal and regulatory enforcement investigations into firms and individuals and conducting related litigation, including in relation to conduct issues, systems and controls failings, conflicts of interest and compliance with anti-money laundering legislation and cases involving sexual misconduct in the workplace. James also has extensive experience in advising on contested authorisations cases for firms, senior individuals and in respect of changes in control. You can see his profile here

Kingsley Napley LLP

James Alleyne

James is a Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. He advises clients on the full spectrum of financial services and FCA-related matters, including on authorisation and approval applications, perimeter and supervisory issues, internal and enforcement investigations as well as cases before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal. James joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from the FCA where he spent seven years in the Enforcement division, giving him a unique insight into the approach and working of the regulator. Whilst at the FCA James built the framework, and led the dedicated team responsible, for taking supervisory intervention action against firms through the imposition of requirements, freezing of assets, banning of financial promotions and variations of permissions. This gave James a keen interest, and specialism, in the FCA’s supervisory approach. In addition, his work at the regulator in relation to crypto firms gave him particularly valuable insight into this sector. James also has significant experience of advising on FCA criminal and regulatory enforcement investigations into firms and individuals including in relation to conduct issues, governance, anti-money laundering, insider dealing and market abuse and cases involving sexual misconduct in the workplace. Before joining the FCA James worked as an investigative lawyer in the Proceeds of Crime Department of the Serious Fraud Office, where he conducted restraint and confiscation litigation in cases of serious complex fraud and bribery and was the prosecutor on international criminal money laundering investigations. James is ranked as a Leading Associate in Legal 500 and is also part of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) Regulatory & Legal Committee and the UKBAA Legal, Tax & Regulatory Committee.

Kingsley Napley LLP

James Anderson

Partner

Poppleston Allen

James Anderson

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

James Anderson

Partner

Elkington + Fife LLP

James Aspden

James is a partner in the Will & Trust Disputes team, and specialises in resolving trust and probate disputes. James' work ranges from claims concerning the validity and effect of wills, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, undue influence and equitable claims, to actions by or against trustees of landed estates and international trust disputes. He regularly acts for clients in mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Wilsons

James Austen

Partner

Collyer Bristow LLP

James Austin

Birketts LLP

James Bacon

James advises on trust and succession law and tax. His work covers estate planning, trust variations, contentious trust and estate work, heritage property taxation, charities and the commercial use of trusts. His clients are UK and overseas individuals and families, landed estates throughout the UK, and trustees, trust protectors and beneficiaries in the UK and abroad. James is the English contributor to Bloomsbury’s International Succession Laws and was one of a number of contributors to Maggioli Editore’s Il Trust Nella Nuova Legislazione di San Marino. James is listed in the Citywealth Leaders List in the Honours List for Contentious Trusts and Landed Estates.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

James Baker

Partner and Head of Employment

Lee & Thompson LLP

James Baker

Partner

Constantine Law Limited

James Baker

My practice as an Employment law specialist leads me to deal with highly complex, often very sensitive litigation and/or investigations concerning allegations of discrimination, protected disclosures (whistle-blowing), harassment and victimisation. I advise a varied client base including private and public sector organisations and am most commonly instructed by Boards/NEDs or Trustees and high net worth individuals. The vast majority of my work requires complete discretion and utmost dedication, and I am known for providing a client service that is second to none, across the United Kingdom. I have worked for Michelmores for over 20 years, including a brief spell in Virginia (USA). Expertise Accelerated M&A Agriculture Data Protection & Privacy Employment Employment Entrepreneurs Health Sector Maintained Schools & Academies Public Sector James Baker - Partner - Employment | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

James Barnwell

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

James Barratt

James is an Associate Solicitor in the Employment Team and advises clients across the firm’s Education, Charity, Business and Private Client Sectors on a wide range of employment law issues. With a primary focus on the Education Sector, James advises large multi-academy trusts on issues such as discrimination, employee benefits, contentious employee exits, whistleblowing complaints, shared parental leave, some other substantial reason (SOSR) dismissals, safeguarding issues and relationship/ reputation management matters. He also drafts contracts, settlement agreements and policies. He manages complex Employment Tribunal claims involving complaints such as whistleblowing, race/sex discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal.

Stone King LLP

James Batham

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

James Beatton

James is managing partner of Cripps, as well as a partner in the corporate practice. He has considerable experience in acting for businesses of all sizes across a range of sectors with a particular emphasis on complex M&A and banking transactions. Many of the clients James works with are in the insurance sector where he advises businesses on their growth and exit strategies. He also specialise in working with and delivering transactions for complex shareholder groups who often have diverse or conflicting interests.

Cripps