Lawyers in England

Jill Paterson

Partner

Leigh Day

Jill Weston

Principal Associate advising commissioners and providers on a range of health-related matters including confidentiality and information governance issues, disclosure, continuing healthcare, the interpretation and application of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty issues, inquests and judicial reviews.

Weightmans LLP

Jim Aveline

Partner and head of the firm's Private Client Services department. Specialises in tax and estate planning for both UK and offshore clients. This includes advising landed estates and diversified farm businesses on their various tax, trust and agricultural issues. He also has a particular focus on succession planning and structuring for family business owners and heads up Burges Salmon’s Family Business team. His international work includes advising resident and non-resident clients on their global trust and wealth structuring and advising on structures to pass their wealth on to the next generation. Recent examples of work include: advising an international family with £300m+ assets on their offshore structures, innovative partnership and trust structuring to claim CGT relief on a record breaking agricultural land sale; advising the trustees of a significant landed estate following the death of its main heir; drafting and advising on a Family Charter to set out the principles of how control and ownership will pass in a large diversified family business to give certainty to the next generation. Winner of STEP President’s prize for best thesis on international issues.

Burges Salmon LLP

Jim Dennis

Jim’s practice covers all areas of intellectual property. Jim has particular expertise in handling disputes which involve trade marks, passing off, designs and copyright. Although Jim has successfully fought many cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and IPEC, he is also commercially highly aware and will always seek to resolve disputes so as to achieve each client’s real-world business objectives. Jim is also highly experienced in advising clients on brand development, protection and enforcement, and is a trusted advisor to many corporate and individual clients in connection with their domestic and international trade mark portfolios. Jim is also experienced in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements involving IP rights, such as licences, assignments and image rights deals.

Simkins LLP

Jim Garton

James is head of real estate and real estate finance in London and his particular areas of specialism are hotel and residential (and mixed use) development; real estate finance and joint venture arrangements. James has many years’ experience of acting for investment funds and institutions, property companies, developers, banks, high-net-worth individuals and end users on a diverse range of real estate work including development, investment, real estate finance and landlord and tenant. Recent successes include advising on hotel developments and mixed use schemes – including joint venture arrangements, acting on numerous secured lending transactions including hotel acquisitions and developments, investment properties, mixed use developments and restaurant premises and representing high-net-worth clients in relation to high-value residential sales and purchases. He has also been responsible for advising West Ham United in connection with its bid to take over the Olympic Stadium in Stratford following the London Olympic Games in 2012.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Jim Meyer

Jim has over 29 years’ experience as a specialist criminal litigator and regulatory enforcement lawyer; he is widely regarded as one of the UK's best criminal lawyers and consistently ranks as a top criminal solicitor in the leading industry directories. Jim has acted in some of the UK’s most high-profile criminal cases, including notorious murders, terrorism, international conspiracies and sex cases, but his practice is now focused on business crime, particularly investigations involving the Environment Agency; the Health and Safety Executive; the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; and the consumer protection and environmental health protection departments of local authorities. Jim was contracted by the HSE to prosecute its cases in the London region and this, coupled with his criminal litigation experience, has given him an unrivalled expertise in the field of health and safety law enforcement and investigations following fatal accidents at work, particularly corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter.

Egan Meyer

Jim Purves

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Jim Ryan

Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer whose practice also includes contentious matters, compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons, and town and village greens. Jim also provides planning advice to lenders of development finance as part of the lenders’ necessary due diligence processes. His early career was spent as an engineering technician in local government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and subsequently training with Burges Salmon in Bristol. In June 2010, Jim was appointed to an in-house role as Head of Legal Services to M J Gleeson Group plc, a role he held until the end of 2014. Expertise: Town and Country Planning (with a bias towards contentious matters) Compulsory Purchase The law of Highways and Rights of Way The law of Commons and Town and Village Greens

Acuity Law

Jim Sharkey

Partner

Fieldfisher

Jim Varley

Jim is an insolvency partner with extensive knowledge of forensic recovery and contentious insolvency. Over 20 years he has built a strong expertise in reorganisations, administrations, pre-packs, administrative receiverships and LPA receiverships, voluntary arrangements and bankruptcy situations. His work includes advising creditors in relation to their rights and options in relation to unsecured liabilities in both liquidations and bankruptcies, and also advising and assisting Insolvency Practitioners in seeking to recovering assets and liabilities in usually zero asset insolvencies. Jim’s recent experience includes: acting for a liquidator in seeking to recover moneys from a former director resulting in a recovery of £1m; acting for a liquidator in a claim against a former director for the recovery of company moneys spent by him for his personal use resulting in full recovery plus interest and full indemnity costs; acting for a provisional liquidator and special manager of a partnership accused of alcohol diversion fraud involving multi-jurisdictional aspects in the USA, France etc; advising an estate in relation to a multi-million, multi-jurisdictional VAT evasion fraud in which they recovered large sums; undertaken a search and seizure application in the United States; examination of witnesses in a court in India; advising insolvency practitioners in relation to asset recovery from bankrupts; advising in relation to directors' liability arising from their conduct in running various insolvent companies and successful recovery from them; forensic investigation for insolvency practitioners; advising in relation to bankruptcies of partners of a large accountancy practice that went into liquidation; and advising in relation to the retention of title claims made following the collapse of a large retail organisation.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Jimmy Desai

Jimmy is a commercial lawyer specialising in Internet and technology law, data protection, intellectual property, commercial contracts, and IP/IT in M&A transactions. Jimmy has worked for a range of high-profile clients including BT, Royal Mail, AIG, lastminute.com, Shazam, and Surrey Satellite Technology. In addition, Jimmy acts for funded and fast-growing Internet start-up companies in relation to their fast growth and then sale or IPO. Jimmy is a published author of legal textbooks and writes as a subject-matter expert for LexisNexis on Technology law. He has also written for numerous organisations and publications including the Society for Computers and Law, CIPS, Computer Weekly, Electronic Business Law, The Lawyer, Solicitors Journal, and Freedom of Information Journal.

Keystone Law

Jimmy Nicholls

Partner, European Patent Attorney (EPA), UK Patent Attorney, French Patent Attorney (CPI), European Patent Litigator

J A Kemp

Jin Takhar

Clarke Willmott LLP

Jing Wang

Solicitor

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Jo Backwith

Partner

Stowe Family Law LLP

Jo Bewley

Jo is a commercial property lawyer with over 20 years of experience specialising in real estate finance, the healthcare sector and social housing. She has extensive knowledge in acting for both landlord and tenants as well as the specialised area of acting for care providers in acquiring and disposing of care homes, while also representing specialised banking teams in this sector. Jo has led multi-discipline teams and advised on the acquisition and development of GP surgeries, aiding GP groups in the creation of modern healthcare hubs suited for today’s healthcare needs. She has also acted for Registered Providers in the acquisition and investment structure of their property stock.

Keystone Law

Jo Bradley

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Jo Briers

Associate Director

Davitt Jones Bould

Jo Brittain

Co-Managing Partner

Russells Solicitors

Jo Carr-West

Partner in the family department. Jo has broad experience of the complex financial aspects of divorce proceedings, dealing with cases exploring issues of inherited assets, trusts and company law, as well as advising on wealth protection pre-marriage – including pre-nuptial agreements. In addition, she advises on disputes concerning children and on the issues surrounding cohabitation and other forms of family breakdown.

Hunters Law LLP

Jo Coleman

Jo specialises in advising charities and those who work with charities on all aspects of charity law and regulation. Whether establishing new charitable organisations for philanthropists, or advising national household name charities on new projects, structures and ventures, Jo delivers complex projects efficiently and in a straightforward manner to ensure her clients can achieve more for their beneficiaries. Jo also has significant experience in conducting governance reviews of all types of charitable organisation, providing practical and tailored advice to help improve governance processes and systems. She has also advised membership charities on disagreements with their members. She advises across the range of charitable activity and has particular experience in advising religious bodies on restructuring and managing complex trust arrangements. Jo has also advised on many multi-party charity mergers, helping to guide her clients smoothly through the process. She also provides reassuring support when charities face financial difficulties and provides advice designed to ensure that trustees are protected from liability and the best outcome possible can be achieved for the charity and its purposes. With the Charity Commission becoming a more active regulator, Jo has advised numerous charities who need to report serious incidents, charities facing compliance visits and inspections and those who are subject to a section 46 Inquiry. Jo is currently the Chair of the Charity Law Association. She chaired the working party on the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 and gave evidence to the Joint Scrutiny Committee in the House of Lords. Jo lectures on issues of charity law and writes for the sector press.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Jo Davis

Partner and Employment Practice Group Leader

B P Collins LLP

Jo Farmer

I am proud to lead our firm with Richard Miskella. Alongside my leadership role, I advise my clients on the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, and the exploitation of IP rights and content. My clients include brand owners, content creators, communications agencies and media platforms. I am included as a leading lawyer in the field of advertising and brand reputation in Legal 500, and have been listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers for 20 years (and am now recognised as an Eminent Practitioner). Social mobility is a topic close to my heart; if you're considering a career in law but think your background might make that difficult, do get in touch.

Lewis Silkin

Jo Farr

Jo has worked as a property lawyer for over 25 years building up technical know how and wide connections with property professionals both locally and further afield. Her work usually involves one or more of the following: sales and acquisitions, commercial leases; development work and property finance. She deals with a wide client base from local independent retailers to investment landlords and from property developers to banks, which means she is able to see transactions from various perspectives. She takes the time to get to know herclients and their businesses so that she can understand their priorities and concerns. She doesn't stand on ceremony and has always found that a no nonsense approach gets the best results. At home Jo enjoys all kinds of sport including rock climbing and triathlon. She has a sense of adventure so she likes to travel as often as she can. Otherwise she is kept busy with her lovely children.

Moore Barlow