Lawyers in England

Lauren O’Connor

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Lauren Pardoe

Lauren is a Partner in Rosling King’s Dispute Resolution Group, where she specialises in commercial and professional disputes. She handles a broad range of complex commercial litigation with a focus on company matters such as unfair prejudice petitions and directors’ duties claims, bringing professional negligence claims against auditors and valuers, contractual disputes including breach of indemnity/warranty claims and financial services disputes. Her experience includes mediation and other forms of dispute resolution, High Court litigation and taking matters through to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Lauren regularly acts for private equity investors, banks, insolvency practitioners, loan servicers, and other financial institutions and commercial entities. Her work often has a multi-jurisdictional element.

Rosling King

Lauren Parker

Lauren is a partner and head of landed estates. Advises high net worth clients with a focus on landed estates and land consortiums. Work includes complex trust restructuring, succession planning, business structuring to secure inheritance and capital gains tax reliefs, conditional exemption claims and land pooling arrangements.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Lauren Phillips

Partner & Head of Clinical Negligence

Taylor Rose

Lauren Smith

Lauren was called to the Bar in 2007 and entered the roll of Solicitors in 2012. She advises and represents clients in the Family Court on a range of matters in private and public law. Lauren currently specialises in childcare and is experienced in all aspects of proceedings including, interim removal, cross-jurisdictional care plans, Finding of Fact hearings and contested Final Hearings. She has represented in the High Court in relation to the Deprivation of Liberty of children. She is the lead advocate in the childcare department and controls a compact caseload of some of the most multifaceted, complex cases within the department. Lauren regularly represents at lengthy hearings with a range of expert, professional and lay evidence in issue. Lauren has an established background in advising on matters under the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act. Lauren has represented clients at Mental Health Tribunals for over 10 years. She specialised in High Security/forensic hospital admissions and was also able to advise on a range of matters under the Care Act. Lauren held the Law Society Mental Health Accreditation for 9 years before moving to Weightmans. Lauren is a dedicated advocate for the Regulatory team occasionally representing in Education and Adult Social Care matters. She works on the Local Government adult and child out of hours’ emergency advice line. She has had notable success representing local authorities at out of hours’ hearings where the Article rights of the parties are engaged.

Weightmans LLP

Lauren Stone

I'm a Managing Associate in the Digital, Commerce & Creative team and I've spent over ten years working with clients across the creative, media and entertainment industries. My work sits at the intersection of IP, commercial strategy and creative industries. I specialise in complex IP transactions - high-value sponsorship deals, talent agreements, creative partnerships, media buying negotiations and media catalogue acquisitions. I've also spent time in-house at a media agency, a Premier League football club, a model agency and a theatre, so I get the commercial pressures my clients face and how to get deals over the line. Music is a real sweet spot for me and I've been named as a key lawyer in Music by Legal 500. I help my clients navigate the convergence of music and brands - from rights clearances for live events and campaigns, to negotiations with rightsholders, through to investment in music rights and catalogues. Beyond music, I work with clients across fashion, talent and media; always with a focus on protecting, leveraging and commercialising IP rights in creative spaces.

Lewis Silkin

Lauren Tully

Partner

Leigh Day

Lauren Twidale

Lauren is a Senior Associate in the Media and Entertainment team. Lauren has experience with a range of commercial litigation matters with a particular focus on the media sector with defamation, privacy, reputation management, data protection and copyright infringement claims. Lauren has extensive experience with phone-hacking claims, assisting with claims brought by individuals against both News Group Newspapers and Mirror Group Newspapers.

Hamlins LLP

Laurence Brown

Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney

EIP

Laurence Evans

Partner

HCR Law

Laurence Gavin

Advises clients in regulated sectors, particularly FCA-authorised firms, charities, healthcare and other public sector bodies and sports industry companies on a range of commercial and compliance matters. These include joint ventures and collaborative working, funding agreements and constitutional arrangements, all of which are affected by new funding regimes and constant regulatory updates. Also advises on corporate finance matters including capital raisings and takeover offers.

Irwin Mitchell

Laurence Gray

Laurence is a skilled property litigator. He has expertise in all areas of property litigation including rights of way and other easements, both commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, adverse possession claims, removal of squatters/trespassers, modification of restrictive covenants, boundary disputes and residential possession claims. Laurence is also a certified mediator.

Keystone Law

Laurence Lacey

Laurence Lacey is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Bristol Commercial Property team specialising in development, regeneration and renewable energy.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Laurence Lacey

Laurence is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in development, regeneration and renewable energy. Laurence’s expertise includes working with national developers and public authorities in relation to complex site acquisitions and disposals including negotiation of multi-conditional contracts, development agreements as well as landowner and collaboration agreements. On the regeneration side, Laurence acts for a number of public authorities in relation to the redevelopment of their property portfolios and has extensive experience of issues that run alongside that such as procurement and grant funding. Renewables is also a key area for Laurence where he acts for both landowners and developers in the negotiation of options, project agreements and leases for wind, solar and biomass projects. His clients include Homes & Communities Agency, Bath & North East Somerset Council, The Crown Estate, Urbis Developments and Emotion Energy. Laurence joined Clarke Willmott in 2007 after training and qualifying (in 2003) at Watson Farley & Williams. He regularly speaks at renewables-focused events to landowners, developers and public authorities. Experience Working with a developer on the acquisition and phased redevelopment of a multi-tenanted shopping centre for a mixture of commercial, residential and leisure uses including the negotiation of the sale agreement and associated finance documentation. Acting for the Homes and Communities Agency in relation to all ongoing advice relating to the development and management of the Bristol & Bath Science Park and including advising on the flagship National Composite Centre development, a leading aerospace research and development facility located on the Park and backed by very substantial public funding. Acting for a solar developer in relation to a project to install solar panels on 600 units of local authority housing stock including advising on and negotiating the form of rooftop lease, direct agreement, finance lease and associated finance documentation. Acting for a number of private landowners in relation to solar panel projects on their (usually agricultural land). Acting for a private landowner in relation to the negotiation of an option and lease for a large scale wind farm project in Wales.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Laurence Matthews

Shoosmiths LLP

Laurence Morgan

Laurence advises on all areas of tax, trust and estate planning for individuals, trustees and family offices, with a particular focus on complex cross-border tax advice. A significant number of his clients have connections with the US or Spain. He regularly advises on pre-arrival planning for individuals moving to the UK, as well as on asset holding structures for international families with members resident in multiple jurisdictions. This often involves working with advisors in other jurisdictions to provide his clients with coordinated advice. Laurence has particular experience in advising on matters with a US connection and he regularly advises US citizens who are resident in the UK or otherwise have connections with the UK on US/UK cross-border matters. Laurence also speaks fluent Spanish and before becoming a partner Laurence spent six months in Barcelona on secondment to the tax group of a leading Spanish law firm. There he worked alongside Spanish advisors and gained an understanding of Spanish tax and estate planning that assists him in advising on cross-border matters involving the UK and Spain.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Laurence Relton

Laurence has broad national and international experience handling commercial support, company sales and purchases and corporate restructuring. He previously advised McDonalds on its first UK acquisition of Café Aroma Ltd. Laurence is a specialist in the rapid production of shareholder agreements for funded start-ups. Bilingual in Italian. Laurence’s areas of expertise include Sales & acquisitions (business and shares), MBO’s, AIM and private placements, corporate governance and FSMA regulatory, company restructurings. Joint ventures, shareholder/investment agreements, service level and technical services agreements, option agreements and consultancy agreements. Laurence’s key achievements include acquisition of entire issued share capital of Italian brokering company by UK listed company. Acquisitions by major French construction company for entire issued share capital of manufacturer of remote operated vehicles. McDonald’s Restaurant Operations Inc’s first UK acquisition of Café Aroma Limited. Acquisition of German Biotech company involved in the manufacture of technical equipment. Organisation and structuring of network of mixed private and public hospitals/clinics. Distribution agreements for major US film distributor (BuenaVista International) for video titles throughout Italy. Commercial contracts for laboratory testing company for clinical trials testing including template services agreement, service level agreement and global courier agreement. Pan-European model software and hardware master agreement for Sun Microsystems. Agreement establishing distribution network and bespoke sales points for Levis in shops throughout Italy and providing FSMA and FSA advice in relation to regulated activities.

Keystone Law

Laurence Rogers

Laurence predominantly focuses on real estate finance and additionally cover acquisition and leveraged finance. He acts for lenders and borrowers (both on traditional financing and Islamic financing) covering all aspects of the capital stack (senior, mezzanine, preferred equity) and all asset classes including office, residential, logistics, student accommodation, hotels and self-storage. His practice is UK and overseas including the more complex multi-jurisdictional cross-border deals. Clients will often come to him to help source potential buyers or lenders for deals or for introductions to particular players in the market.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Laurence Shore

Partner

Seladore Legal

Laurence Weeks

Partner, Head of Commercial Litigation

Birketts LLP

Laurie Hammond

Laurie is a dual-qualified senior banking and finance lawyer in England and South Africa, with 20 years’ experience advising on cross-border transactions across Africa and other emerging markets. She specialises in trade and commodity finance, debt finance, and refinancing, acting for global financial institutions and corporates active in trade finance. Her sector experience spans financial institutions, energy and natural resources, infrastructure, metals and mining, and agriculture. Laurie’s clients include banks, corporates, and funds. She advises a broad international client base on cross-border trade finance matters, bringing years of transactional experience and established relationships with leading law firms across Africa and other markets.

Keystone Law

Laurie Horwood

Laurie’s practice covers a wide range of matters relating to residential and commercial property. He focuses principally on the acquisition, disposal and financing of prime residential properties acting for individuals, corporate entities and other purchasing vehicles. He also acts for a number of leading private banks in connection with these transactions and has particular expertise advising on the property aspects of financing transactions. His individual client base is drawn from both individuals resident in the UK and also non-UK residents purchasing prime property, typically in London, for investment or to establish a UK base. In addition, Laurie has acted on a number of matters involving the enforcement of security over property and other insolvency related situations.

Farrer & Co

Lawrence Abramson

Lawrence joined Keystone Law in January 2014 as a consultant in the media team. He is one of the leading litigators in the media industries in the UK, advising on both media and commercial disputes. Lawrence has extensive knowledge of all areas of the entertainment and media industries, including music, television, film, publishing, sport and interactive entertainment. His expertise covers a broad range of disputes and he has represented many high-profile individuals and corporate organisations. Lawrence has also advised a number of syndicates and company insurers in film insurance claims in the Commercial Court. Areas of expertise include contractual and other forms of commercial disputes; copyright and trade mark issues and passing off; defamation and reputation management; production and distribution agreements; minority shareholders protection; director’s duties; insolvency; management, recording and publishing agreements; computer games development.

Keystone Law

Lawrence Cartier

Lawrence is a widely experienced lawyer with expertise in complex national and multi-jurisdictional matters predominantly concerning the formation and performance of contracts, and, as required, dispute resolution and commercial litigation. He has dealt with substantial matters in terms of value and complexity, including acting for major banks, corporations and high-net-worth individuals nationally and in various parts of the world, including in particular in Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Africa. Lawrence has achieved notable success in some of the largest contentious cases both in England and Wales and abroad.

Keystone Law