Lawyers in England

Jamie Hamilton

I specialise in venture capital, private equity and M&A, advising high-growth, early-stage companies and investors on capital raises, acquisitions, exits and joint ventures. I am a multilingual lawyer with an international practice that focuses in particular on western and central Europe. I represent innovative start-up and scale-up companies and their investors across all areas of the venture and growth capital ecosystem. I am constantly amazed at the array of original business ideas and talented, passionate founders that I encounter in this work, and I am privileged to be able to play a part in helping them to achieve success. I particularly enjoy the challenge of structuring transactions in order to strike the balance of alignment of interests between founders and investors that is so crucial to success. I also enjoy bringing the diverse range of expertise within Fladgate to bear in order to help our clients to achieve their goals. I act for a range of investors including VC funds, corporate venture divisions, family offices and HNWIs, and understand the particular dynamics that each investor type brings. A lot of my work is international and I enjoy working with clients and lawyers in other countries to deliver complex cross-border projects.

Fladgate LLP

Jamie Horner

Jamie provides specialist legal advice to the sports, events and entertainment industries. His expertise extends across motorsport, rugby, cricket, golf and football, as well as Olympic sports including athletics, rowing, and alpine and freestyle skiing. He also advises on legal issues connected with a wide range of live events, as well as providing transactional and litigation advice to talent agencies, high-profile actors, television and sports personalities. Jamie’s wider expertise includes advising on legal matters relating to art and antiques and, in particular, classic, vintage and historic cars. Jamie is a CEDR accredited mediator and has wide-ranging experience of High Court and County Court proceedings, as well as national and international arbitration, mediation and national and international sports tribunals. He is also Chair of Snowsport England and an RFU Registered Agent.

Keystone Law

Jamie Huard

Jamie is a Partner in the Real Estate department at Bates Wells, acting for commercial, charity and private clients in all aspects of transactions involving commercial property, having had extensive experience of advising on technical aspects of charity property law, including legacies and trusts. Additionally, Jamie has corporate property transaction experience including amalgamations, mergers and asset sales and purchases, as well as residential property experience. He also advises residential tenancies and public sector spin-out transactions.

Bates Wells

Jamie Leader

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jamie Mangan

Partner

Fieldfisher

Jamie McConnell

Partner, Commerical Disputes & IP

Greenwoods

Jamie Otter

Jamie’s key focus is acting for schools and academies in the North and is based in our Manchester Office. Jamie has vast experience acting for providers across the education sector, and advises schools, academies, nurseries, further education and sixth form colleges and local authorities on sophisticated corporate governance issues, including the establishment of trading companies, collaborative groupings and federations on collaboration agreements. He has also managed over 1,500 academy projects and his experience includes providing cutting edge strategic advice to a number of high profile multi-academy trusts on academy to academy transfers.

Stone King LLP

Jamie Partridge

Legal Director

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jamie Romer

Managing Associate Jamie specialises in Private Client law. Clients note him for his personable and patient approach, whilst striving to ensure that he meets their objectives and achieves the best possible outcome for them tailored to their specific circumstances. Jamie’s areas of expertise include: Wills Inheritance Tax (IHT) Probate Deeds of variation Lifetime planning Powers of Attorney Trusts Matters relating to the Office of the Public Guardian.

Orwins

Jamie Wheatley

Insolvency and commercial litigation especially affecting technology, manufacturing and food based businesses.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Jamshed Bilimoria

Slaughter and May

Jan Atkinson

Partner & Head of Private Client

Osbornes

Jan Galloway

Jan has over 30 years experience in all aspects of family law. As of May 2023 she practises solely as a mediator having taken a step back from litigation. She has trained as a mediator with Resolution and with FMA. She is a member of the Family Mediation Council. Her clients continue to be drawn from many different professions and industry sectors, both in the UK and abroad, and are often high net worth individuals with assets in more than one country. She has worked with clients encompassing all aspects of family law, assisting them when sadly the relationship has broken down and supporting them through the process of securing a financial settlement, often involving complex financial structures and making arrangements for the children. That wealth of experience underpins the knowledge and support she now brings the couple in the mediation forum. Relationship breakdown can be emotional and distressing for all. She provides clients with a sympathetic and understanding approach and ensure that their discussions are respectful, forward looking and child centred. Her role as mediator is to move the family forward towards a resolution acceptable to all. She has also trained as a coach with Barefoot a fully accredited course provider and she is a member of the International Coaching Federation. She specialises in coaching individuals going through a divorce or separation. As such she also has an understanding of what issues one may be facing and the emotions at play which may create a challenge within the mediation forum and she can assist the couple manage that, offering a better prospect of success. She is also studying a degree in Humanistic counselling to enhance and support the skills and experience she can bring to the mediation process. She is passionate about family law and the positive evolution of the same towards dispute resolution and keeping families away from the courts, save where entirely necessary. She has a large network of professionals both in the UK and other jurisdictions who can help inform the couple to assist them achieve resolution of all the issues they are facing, providing a full package of support at what can be a very difficult and testing time.

Moore Barlow

Jan Hoppe

I specialise in corporate and commercial law often with international (cross-border) elements, such as M&A, joint ventures, IT and supply chain contracts, agency and distribution networks. I am qualified as a solicitor in England and a Rechtsanwalt in Germany. My job is to assist the clients to get deals done, be it an acquisition or sale of a business or the negotiation of a contractual trading relationship with customers or suppliers. I act for a number of UK and international clients across industries ranging from manufacturing companies to service providers in the online business sector. My clients range from SMEs to large international companies and groups, including the Knauf Group, Carl Zeiss and DZ Bank. As I am qualified as a solicitor in England and Germany, my practice has a particular focus on cross-border transactions and matters involving the German speaking countries of the EU and the UK. My experience spans more than 20 years of advising clients in connection with national and international transactions and agreements. I enjoy providing my clients with both legal advice as well as strategic guidance on negotiating tactics and skills. I am a contributor to various legal publications and a frequent speaker at conferences and events.

Fladgate LLP

Jan Levinson

Jan specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on media, sports, and tech disputes. He has acted for a number of big-name clients across many well publicised cases, and has extensive experience handling complex cross-border disputes, with cases spanning Japan, France, the USA, Singapore, Spain, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and India. He has experience in all aspects of heavyweight commercial litigation; including shareholder disputes, unfair prejudice petitions, warranty claims, directors’ duties, injunctions eg around team moves and also defamation, privacy and sports. As an accredited mediator, Jan brings substantial expertise in dispute avoidance and alternative dispute resolution.

Foot Anstey

Jan Putnis

Partner; Jan is Head of our Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of our Financial Institutions Group. Jan’s practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with particular emphasis on regulatory advice (both contentious and non-contentious) and multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial transactions. He acts for a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, investment banks, brokers, insurance and reinsurance groups, market infrastructure operators, asset managers and fintech businesses. Jan has been at the forefront of the industry’s thought leadership on the impact of Brexit, which includes working with several industry bodies, such as UK Finance and TheCityUK. He is recognised as a leading individual in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' section of Chambers UK, and is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010). He is a regular contributor to PLC Magazine and a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee.

Slaughter and May

Jan Vleck

Partner Jan’s trade mark practice includes clients of all sizes. Jan has significant experience in prosecuting applications around the world. He regularly handles the planning for and resolution of trade mark conflicts and has considerable experience of settlement, consent and co-existence agreements on an international scale. His patent clients include companies in the fields of: medical equipment; aircraft and aerospace technology, pressure, temperature and speed sensors for use in hostile environments; oil and gas exploration, production and distribution; military or defence equipment; wave and tide energy; and consumer products.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Jan Walaski

Jan heads up the Electronics, Software and Communications team, having stepped down from his position as Managing Partner, which he held from 2015 to 2021. He is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney and solicitor. Prior to his legal career, he gained industry experience as a control engineer in one of the UK’s largest chemical/pharmaceutical companies, working mainly on control technology and software simulation of manufacturing processes. Jan specialises in patent prosecution and advice in the electronics and software fields. He enjoys the variety and challenge of working in new fields of technology and has gained experience over a wide range of technical subject matter, including cryptography, digital systems, display technology, telecommunications, operating system software and fuel and battery cell technology, to name but a few. He also has substantial experience of prosecuting applications in the challenging area of business related software, where he has acted for a betting exchange as well as providers of trading, gaming and other internet based platforms. Jan has extensive experience of European prosecution, opposition and appeal procedures and is increasingly involved in litigation matters, both before the EPO and in infringement proceedings before the UK courts, as part of Venner Shipley’s legal team.

Venner Shipley LLP

Jane Allan

Legal Director

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jane Amphlett

Jane Amphlett is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She provides strategic and pragmatic advice in all areas of employment law and partnership disputes. She is Head of Howard Kennedy's Employment and Immigration team. Working closely with business leaders, including HR directors and senior executives, she provides commercial legal input into business critical issues. These include strategic, boardroom and partner appointments and terminations. She advises on discrimination prevention and litigation, as well as, investigations including into harassment allegations and complex grievance complaints. Jane regularly advises on team moves and other restrictive covenant and garden leave enforcement, confidentiality breaches and data protection issues. She helps businesses to facilitate local and international redundancies and restructuring. She advises many clients in the financial services and other regulated sectors and professional practices. Jane is a member of the Employment Lawyers' Association Standing Committee on Sexual Harassment.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jane Biddlecombe

Jane has over 20 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of employment law in a variety of sectors. She is also a business immigration specialist. Jane advises on a wide range of employment issues including disciplinary issues and dismissals; performance management; absence management and capability issues; handling grievances; discrimination; redundancies and business re-organisations; post-termination restrictions; employment issues relating to acquisitions and disposals including TUPE; drafting employment contracts and policies/procedures; settlement agreements, including Director exits; and Employment Tribunal claims, including representation at hearings. Jane also specialises in all aspects of business immigration law including obtaining a sponsor licence to employ Skilled Workers in the UK and advising on compliance with sponsor duties. She advises clients on obtaining Certificates of Sponsorship and visas for employees including Skilled Worker visas, Global Business Mobility visas (intra-group transfers of senior or specialist workers), Temporary Worker visas and Business Visitor visas. Jane advises a variety of businesses ranging from large international companies to small and medium sized companies in both the private and public sectors.

Blake Morgan LLP

Jane Bohill

Partner

Warners Solicitors

Jane Charlton

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Jane Clark

Jane Clark has over 30 years’ experience of drafting, prosecution, infringement, validity, commercialisation of IP and global IP strategy advice including Freedom to Operate, licensing advice, entitlement disputes and competitor monitoring. She has extensive experience in many technical areas including metrological devices, medical devices, network and communications technology, semiconductor process and integrated circuit technologies and consumer products particularly domestic appliances and personal care. Jane also has significant experience in negotiating multinational Intellectual Property Agreements and Collaboration Agreements with high-tech companies and Universities. She also has many years’ experience of EPO hearings and recently successfully defended a patent considered of very high value by the client during Opposition Proceedings.

Mathys & Squire LLP