Lawyers in England

Kirsten Gilbert

Kirsten is a Partner and an intellectual property lawyer at Marks & Clerk Law who specialises in litigation, alternative dispute resolution and brand strategy. Kirsten advises in a broad range of sectors including food & drink, financial services, pharmaceuticals, fashion and creative industries. Kirsten “Gilbert creatively uses all available tools to score client-defined wins and is a master pragmatist who helps brand owners to avoid costly litigation.”(World Trademark Review) With over 20 years’ experience, Kirsten “brilliantly” leads the legal Brand Protection and Trade Mark team, finding efficient and pragmatic ways to overcome her clients’ challenges. Kirsten is drawn to the forever-evolving nature of both trade mark law and her (sometimes off form but always classy) team, Liverpool Football Club. Whilst Kirsten has been recognised for her sound approach to pre-litigation strategies, trade mark litigation and brand portfolio management, she also has significant experience in advising clients on registration strategies, and licensing of all types of IP rights. Kirsten is an active member of the Marks & Clerk Food & Drink Team Key cases Budejovicky Budvar v Anheuser-Busch (Court of Appeal, ECJ, High Court) GO Outdoors Limited v Design Go Limited (High Court Trade Mark) DNOW UK Limited v Distribution NOW UK Limited (High Court Chancery Interim Injunction) BlackRock Inc v Blackrock International Land (High Court Trade Mark) Silver Cross v Mamas & Papas (High Court Designs) SA Spadel v Harrogate Spa Water (High Court Trade Mark) Experience Represents clients in disputes in the High Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and Court of Appeal. Represents trade mark clients in proceedings before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union and has assisted in trade mark oppositions and invalidity actions in the EU IPO and the UK IPO. Represented clients in many domain name disputes. Advises clients on licencing agreements for wide ranging licensing activities in various sectors. Dealt with the Treasury Solicitors Office regarding the acquisition of bona vacantia IPRs and obtaining vesting orders for intellectual property rights held by the Attorney General on trust. Acted for clients in relation to applications for preliminary injunctions and full-scale trials. Professional Highlights Kirsten is named an ‘IP Trade Mark Star’ by Managing Intellectual Property and has also been recommended by Legal 500 and World Trademark Review. Kirsten co-authored the UK Chapter of Pharmaceutical Trademarks: A Global Guide 2020/2021.

Marks & Clerk

Kirsten Hewson

Kirsten Hewson is head of the real estate division at Shoosmiths, responsible for driving forward the strategy and vision of one of the largest real estate practices in the UK. As divisional head, Kirsten manages more than 270 legal advisers, including UK-wide teams in core real estate, construction, planning and real estate litigation. The teams are integrated across offices and managed nationally, so that well-leveraged teams (including relevant specialisms) can be selected to meet precisely the needs of project. This client-centred approach, which encourages both collaboration and flexibility, is frequently cited as a benefit by Shoosmiths’ real estate clients who include developers (residential and commercial), investors, occupiers and institutional lenders. A key focus for the real estate division is the continuing development of integrated solutions to clients, including the innovations and efficiencies (including AI) that clients expect in a changing – and potentially challenging – market. Before being appointed divisional head in 2018, Kirsten led Shoosmiths’ planning, environment and CPO team, doubling its size and gaining a top ten ranking in the prestigious Planning Law survey 2018. She is described in the current edition of Chambers UK as “a seasoned planning lawyer who is commercially-minded." A refreshingly ‘outside-in’ thinker who is not afraid to challenge law firm norms, she is valued by clients - and by Shoosmiths’ leadership team - for her strategic insights.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kirsten Powrie

Solicitor

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Kirsten Whitfield

Partner

Fieldfisher

Kirstie Chambers

Senior Associate

Fieldfisher

Kirstie Hutchinson

Kirstie acts for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and issuers, credit fund and bank lenders, special situations investors and speciality finance providers on a range of financing transactions including investment grade, hybrid and leveraged financings and acquisition financings, dividend recapitalisations and capital restructurings. She has extensive domestic, European and global cross-border experience. Kirstie is a member of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association and of the British-German Jurists Association. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500 2021 as a “Leading Individual” for both “Acquisition Finance” and “Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans”; and was named in “The Lawyer” magazine’s “Hot 100 2021” as “one of the City’s go-to banking and finance lawyers for private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds”.

Macfarlanes LLP

Kirstie Pike

Kirstie Pike is an insurance litigator who specialises in professional negligence claims. She has defended numerous professionals, including surveyors and educational establishments, but has particular expertise in claims against solicitors and insurance brokers. Kirstie has successfully defended a number of claims at trial, but is also a keen negotiator and a frequent user of mediation. She regularly advises on policy coverage.

RPC

Kirstin Roberts

Kirstin is a Chartered Waste Manager with the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), Midlands Representative to the CIWM Members Council and Secretary of the Midlands Centre Council of CIWM. She is an experienced commercial lawyer of 23 years standing, who has worked with businesses in the Waste and Renewables sector for over 15 years, including two 6-month secondments with FCC Environmental (one of the UK’s biggest Waste companies). Kirstin advises companies at all levels of the industry, advising on disputes and agreements in connection with EfW plants, reviewing and negotiating publicly procured contracts such as collections or treatment agreements with localauthorities, advising on offtaker arrangements, feedstock arrangements, haulage agreements, and advice in connection with Combined Heat and Power plants. Having also spent over 2 years as Head of Legal at an Internet & Telecoms plc, she is therefore, used to working with Ops Boards and in-house lawyers, operating as one of the in-house team.

Freeths LLP

Kirsty Adamson

Weightmans LLP

Kirsty Allen

Kirsty is a highly experienced medical negligence solicitor who undertakes a wide variety of cases with particular specialisms in child cerebral palsy and adult brain injury cases, fatal claims, loss of sight cases, as well as failure to diagnose cancer and gynaecological claims. Kirsty’s expertise in medical negligence work is demonstrated by her membership of the clinical negligence panel of UK charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA). Kirsty also undertakes personal injury work with a focus on serious injury and fatal claims, such as road traffic accidents. She has deep experience of complex financial dependency claims involving family owned firms. Kirsty spends time understanding her client’s businesses and their finances in order to ensure the claim is appropriately calculated and supported with good evidence. Kirsty recognises that for some clients, understanding what happened can be as important as financial compensation, so she tailors her approach to her client’s needs. Kirsty is passionate about trauma informed lawyering – an approach that puts clients first by holding the trauma they have suffered in the forefront of the mind when engaging with them. Kirsty’s clients have praised her hard work and caring approach. Kirsty is passionate about patient safety, and increasing understanding between doctors and lawyers around common mistakes leading to a medical negligence. She has previously provided training to medical practitioners in this area.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Kirsty Ayre

Partner and head of the Sheffield employment team. Kirsty advises on all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in employment tribunal litigation, senior exits and strategic change programmes in the financial services, construction and university sectors. She provides pragmatic and solutions-driven advice to clients, and has spent time on secondment to the HR function of a major bank. Recent work includes: representing some of the UK’s largest banks and insurance companies in employment tribunal litigation; advising a global organisaiton on the sensitive exist of its financial director; managing large-scale redundancy programmes involving hundreds of exits; advising one of the world’s largest banks on a high-profile change to its pension and redundancy schemes; providing employment law support on strategic and sensitive outsourcing projects; and adising on collective and union issues. She sits as a fee-paid employment judge in the London Central employment tribunal, and is also a Scottish qualified solicitor, having spent ten years living and working in Edinburgh.

Irwin Mitchell

Kirsty Bishop

Kirsty has been a partner at the firm for over 10 years and has 20 years of experience representing clients charged with the most serious offences. Kirsty is the Head of the Fraud department and has a wealth of experience in this area. Kirsty has expertise dealing with all offences including murder, serious drugs offences, sexual offences, robbery and fraud. Kirsty is meticulous in her case preparation and this coupled with her client care and tenacity, ensures that her clients are fully supported during the legal process whilst also receiving the highest level of representation.

Edward Fail Bradshaw & Waterson

Kirsty Black

Kirsty is a partner in our real estates disputes team. She specialises in all aspects of contentious property advice including business lease renewals, rent reviews, restrictive covenant issues, rights of occupation, landlord’s consents, dilapidations and service charge disputes. Kirsty is recognised nationally for advising national retailers on their property portfolios. Her advice has been described by clients as "invaluable". She also advises a number of the firms development clients and has particular expertise in restrictive covenant issues. Her recent experience includes: advising high street names on their response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including advising board members on the strategy to be adopted and updating on the numerous changes of legislation, and dealing with in excess of 200 sets of proceedings for rent arrears including the case of AEW UK Reit Plc v Sportsdirect.com Retail Limited [2021] EWCH 1013 (QCB) which included defences of rent suspension, implied term and frustration; advising a landlord on a multi-million pound dilapidations strategy, including service of a notice to repair, to achieve a settlement which was not curtailed by the section 18 cap as a terminal claim would be; providing strategic advice on a portfolio renewal of circa 280 properties, half of which are proceeding via formal lease renewal claims with the result of them having to be batched and case managed innovatively. The initial case resulted in the tenant successfully securing a 5 year term with a 3 year break and large discounts on quantum and frontage to depth; acting for a strategic land client to advise on a restrictive covenant threatening a large development scheme having previously been successful at Tribunal in obtaining a modification to a covenant limiting use of land to a public house to allow a development; and acting for a large house builder on the interpretation of a sale agreement threatening the purchase of an important strategic site. She frequently presents at industry events and is recognised in both Chambers and Legal 500.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kirsty Chalkley

Kirsty advises on a broad range of real estate matters with a particular focus on commercial development work including pre-lets and forward funding transactions. She has extensive experience managing property portfolios for major plc clients and household names and deals with all aspects of Landlord and Tenant work. Kirsty acts for a wide variety of clients including developers, investors, landlords and occupational tenants principally in the Later Living sector and in the retail, licensed and leisure sectors. Kirsty's experience includes: • managing acquisitions for Revolution Bars Group PLC on its ambitious bar restaurant roll out programmes, and managing all aspects of its property portfolio; • acting for private commercial development companies on conditional acquisitions, sub-sales, disposals, pre-lets and forward funding arrangements; • advising Mercedes-Benz on all aspects of its property portfolio, including acquisitions and disposals, development of new dealerships and real estate asset management matters; and • dealing with conditional turn-key development agreements for a well-known national hotel chain.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kirsty Cooke

Partner in the Employment team

Ashfords LLP

Kirsty Corkum

I am a real estate lawyer working on high value, complex developments, prelettings and investments. With over twenty five years experience in the real estate sector, I provide legal advice to developers, purchasers, landlords and tenants of UK property. I have worked extensively on high value mixed use, leisure/hotel and office urban development projects. I coordinate specialist planning and construction lawyers and work with other real estate consultants to deliver a holistic legal product which anticipates the drivers/requirements of funders, purchasers/occupiers and other stakeholders in order to achieve project completion - without unwelcome surprises. I love working as part of the development and transactional team; it is this integration which enables me to forecast upcoming pinch points and provide solutions and delivers the job satisfaction of creating - with others – place making destinations. I work both with UK developers/ investors and international organisations; helping them successfully navigate the idiosyncrasies of the UK market.

Fladgate LLP

Kirsty Day

Kirsty is a Principal Associate manages a team of conveyancers and conveyancing assistants from the Northampton office whilst also carrying out various commercial and residential development disposal work and being allocated various client relationship responsibilities. As well as working as part of a wider team to draft template documentation, produce sales packs and scope out development site set ups, Kirsty also negotiates sales of affordable housing to Registered Providers, deals with management agreements and reports on infrastructure agreements for the provisions of services to developments. Kirsty also deals with small commercial freehold and leasehold disposals and also coordinates disposals of reversionary interests in leasehold developments (large scale developments or apartment blocks). Kirsty has also been a key adviser on several major student accommodation schemes and, as a solicitor, is jointly responsible for training and knowledge-share for Shoosmiths' plot sales teams across all offices.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kirsty Dolphin

Kirsty is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Chemical and Life Sciences team with a particular focus on the Biotech sector and Antibodies and Cell and Gene Therapy. Kirsty has experience of drafting patent applications, prosecuting them around the world and regularly handles Oppositions and Appeals before the European Patent Office. Kirsty’s practice covers inventions across a broad range of the biotechnology sector such as gene therapy, vaccines, antibodies, recombinant DNA technology, immunology, siRNA, sequencing and screening methods and diagnostics. Kirsty also has experience in handling SPCs and large freedom to operate and due diligence projects. Prior to joining private practice, Kirsty worked in-house at Procter & Gamble where she was responsible for multiple areas of the fast moving consumer goods market. Working in-house gives Kirsty first-hand knowledge of clients’ commercial needs. She advises with a strong sense of commercial awareness leading to strong relations with clients both locally and abroad be that lone inventors, SMEs, large multinationals or her network of foreign associates.

Venner Shipley LLP

Kirsty Hughes

Kirsty is a Senior Associate in the Regulation, Business Crime and Compliance team. She advises companies, directors and individuals on regulatory compliance across a range of areas including health and safety, food safety, weights and measures, underage sales, trading standards, product safety and fire safety. She has experience of large scale inquiries and inquests. Kirsty is also an experienced licensing lawyer and provides expert advice on alcohol, late night refreshment, entertainment and gaming licensing. Taking a break from the law, Kirsty gained practical compliance experience as the Technical Manager for a producer of cooked and smoked poultry where she was responsible for all compliance matters for the company including HACCP, audits, health and safety, food labelling and fire safety. Kirsty then worked as a Compliance Officer in a school, as well as a Clerk to the Governing Body, extending her knowledge base to the education sector. Kirsty has also been a School Governor, sat on the Scrutiny Board for Education at Solihull MBC and clerked a charity which supported local good causes.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kirsty Leary

Kirsty acts for companies at all different stages of their lifecycle; from initial idea or start up, through growth and expansion and ultimately exit. She thrives from working for entrepreneurial businesses whether that is a single isolated transaction or being involved in the whole journey. She understands that, as a business owner, you will have a strong personal connection with your business and will endeavour to support you through the, often complex, legal processes that you encounter along the way. She provides clients with clear and practical advice based on a good understanding of their business combined with an expert knowledge of the law. A good understanding of the entrepreneurial mind-set combined with close attention to detail means her clients are reassured that they will receive the best possible legal support.

Moore Barlow

Kirsty McKenzie

Chartered Legal Executive

Hall Brown Family Law

Kirsty McLean

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Kirsty Morris

Partner

Burgess Mee

Kirsty Stuart

Associate Solicitor. Kirsty advises on a range of Court of Protection health and welfare issues relating to the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She represents Relevant Person's Representatives, family members, and is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor. Kirsty is also qualified as an Accredited Legal Representative, so can act on behalf of those who have been deemed to lack capacity to conduct court proceedings. This is a possible alternative to a Litigation Friend. She has a special interest in urgent medical treatment cases, and cases which involve a crossover of medicine and law. Kirsty also help people challenge unfair public body decisions through judicial review. Prior to working in public law and human rights she specialised in mental health law and continues to advise detained patients, family members and hospitals. Kirsty is Irwin Mitchell’s point of contact for in-house mental health law advice. Kirsty also advices on community care law, covering cuts to care packages, the duties of the local authority and other public bodies under the Care Act and support for carers. More recently, she has developed a focus on assisting and supporting individuals in Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs) and regularly assists those in these units to move into the community with a suitable care package which can meet their assessed needs.

Irwin Mitchell