Lawyers in England

Lisa Cox

Senior Associate

Ashtons Legal

Lisa Faragher

Lisa is a Senior Associate in our corporate department based in the London Office. Lisa advises on a wide range of corporate matters, including share and asset acquisitions and disposals, private equity investments and venture capital investments. Lisa also provides general advisory and transactional services to corporate businesses in relation to shares, corporate restructures as well as bespoke shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements. Lisa provides commercially focused legal support to a variety of clients including large corporates, high tech companies and owner-managed businesses.

Shoosmiths LLP

Lisa Fountain

Lisa is a Principal Lawyer in Slater and Gordon’s personal injury team in London. Lisa specialises in employers’ liability claims, road traffic accidents and occupiers liability claims. She is very experienced in handling cases involving spinal injury, brain injury, serious orthopaedic injury and disfigurement cases. Her other litigation interests include product liability and fatal accident claims.

Slater and Gordon

Lisa Gibbs

Lisa joined Shoosmiths in May 2017 in order to lead the new conveyancing team at our Manchester office. Lisa deals with a wide range of conveyancing transactions, including equity release, new-build, bridging finance and high net worth transactions. Her experience includes working with national estate agencies, mortgage brokers and lenders (including remortgages and equity release).

Shoosmiths LLP

Lisa Gilligan

Freeths LLP

Lisa Green

Anna deals with a wide range of complex contentious wills and trust disputes, including validity disputes involving lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence, want of knowledge and approval and fraud. She has many years’ experience both in High Court litigation and mediation. She further advises and assists clients on claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, as well as claims arising on intestacy (the absence of a valid will). Lisa acts on applications for the removal and/or replacement of executors and trustees, maladministration claims, and other disagreements arising during the administration of an estate or the life of a trust. She also deals with contentious Court of Protection applications (e.g. contested statutory wills or disputed Enduring Powers of Attorney and Deputyships). She acts for a variety of clients including spouses, partners and relatives of individuals who have died, minor beneficiaries, as well as executors, trustees and charities, in relation to disputed legacies and will contests. She is a trustee of two charitable trusts, is involved as a volunteer in other charitable work in my local community and church, and enjoy Fell walking in the Lake District and spending time with her family.

Moore Barlow

Lisa Gunner

Member, Serious Injury Lawyer

Thompsons Solicitors LLP

Lisa Highet

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Lisa Inzani

Partner

Poppleston Allen

Lisa Jordan

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Lisa Mark-Bell

Director

Freeths LLP

Lisa McCreath

Senior Associate Lisa works across all of the firm's core practice areas, her focus is commercial disputes, typically involving complex claims or civil fraud with a cross-border element. This includes arbitration, mediation and civil litigation. Prior to joining Astraea, Lisa trained and practiced at a global firm that specialises in large-scale, cross-border litigation and arbitration, working between their UAE and Scotland offices. She has experience conducting litigation in the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC), UAE (acting alongside local counsel) and UK domestic Courts. In addition, her arbitration portfolio includes claims and awards rendered under many of the major arbitral institutions and rules, including LCIA, ICC and DIAC (and formally DIFC-LCIA). Her practice is truly international having worked with clients and legal experts in the UK, Africa, France, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, Gibraltar, BVI, Moldova, Ukraine, US, Canada, Singapore, Australia and the Middle East. Work highlights include the ongoing work for a group of international investors seeking recognition and enforcement of an state-investor arbitration award for USD 500 M in damages against the Republic of Kazakhstan. She has an active interest in the evolving body of cryptocurrency and digital asset disputes. She regularly assists on both contentious and non-contentious instructions in this area. Lisa also contributes to the firm's legal insights, which can be accessed via the Astraea website and LinkedIn.

Astraea

Lisa Navarro

Head of Regulatory Law

KPMG Law

Lisa Page

Dr Lisa Page is a partner in the intellectual property team in Birmingham who specialises in the life sciences sector. With a client base ranging from pharmaceutical companies to biotech start-ups and spin-outs, she advises on all stages of the drug development pathway including registration, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, pre-clinical and clinical development as well as on multi-party collaborations and spin-outs. She has particular experience in the development stage of new products, covering pipeline, co-development, out-licensing and in-licensing arrangements. Alongside intellectual property and life sciences, Lisa has a separate practice focusing on state aid as it applies to research and development including the R&D&I Framework and GBER. She has advised on a number of high value grant funded and research infrastructure projects in addition to providing guidance to research organisations more generally on state aid compliance. Lisa has a PhD in molecular microbiology and direct practical experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry before re-training as a solicitor. Her scientific background provides a specialist insight into the issues faced by her clients and enables her to speak their language when advising on development programmes and the exploitation of life science technologies. She has held a number of in-house legal roles, including at the Energy Technologies Institute and Coventry University.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Lisa Pepper

Partner & Head of Divorce and Matrimonial Finance

Osbornes

Lisa Raymond

Lisa is a senior commercial property specialist with particular expertise in retail and leisure property. Lisa acts for a wide portfolio of clients including investors, blue chip property companies, household name tenants and smaller start-ups. Lisa’s key achievements include acting for national brand tenant (Chopstix) in roll out of over 20 restaurant acquisitions in Central London and major shopping centres and high street locations nationwide. Acting for portfolio of other restaurants/cafes/leisure operators including advice on making first acquisition, licensing, service charges, lease acquisitions, lease renewals and landlord and tenant matters. Acting for British Land plc in purchase, development and letting of two retail parks including negotiation of purchase, funding and forward letting documents and detailed implementation and drafting of restrictive and non-competition covenants, option agreements and conditional contracts. Acting on nationwide acquisitions by Mark One plc of over 40 shops nationwide from high street stores to shopping centres. Acting on purchase, development and forward leasing of sites for British Land plc to Tesco and J Sainsbury plc.

Keystone Law

Lisa Rivers

Associate Solicitor - Dispute Resolution

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Lisa Robotham

Lisa is a Partner in our housing team. She is an experienced property lawyer who specialises in commercial property work, residential and commercial development and securitisation. Lisa handles acquisitions and disposals including conditional and other contractual arrangements, S106 agreements, regeneration projects, site set-ups, along with commercial leases, joint ventures, outsourcing and partnership arrangements. She acts for a wide range of clients and in particular public sector clients including local authorities, registered providers, charities, NHS bodies and private healthcare organisations. Lisa has a strong background in real estate work and is experienced in both providing strategic estates advice and supporting clients with large estate portfolios. She served as Head of the Birmingham Real Estate Team at a niche public sector firm before joining us. Lisa also held senior positions at other law firms (including two international law firms), served as a Partner at two national Midlands practices and worked in-house for the Law Society and for a PLC. She provides regular workshops and training sessions to support clients.

Brabners LLP

Lisa Sharkey

Managing Partner

Poppleston Allen

Lisa Sharkey

Managing Partner

Poppleston Allen

Lisa Sigalet

Lisa is a Partner within the Corporate department, based in the Solent office. Lisa advises on a wide range of corporate matters and her experience includes advising on acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations and corporate governance. Recent transactions include: acting for Benefex Limited in relation to the initial investment by Business Growth Fund, the first BGF investment in the UK, as well as various corporate matters including acquisitions, disposals and restructuring, and on the subsequent exit of BGF as investors following a purchase from Bain Capital Private Equity; acting for Meridian Growth Capital Limited on a number of investments, including advising on the initial investment into the start up loveholidays Limited in 2012 and the eventual £190 million sale to Livingbridge Private Equity; acting for the Matchtech plc group on the acquisition of Application Services Limited and the subsequent placing of shares on AIM; and advising Portchester Equity on a number of investments and disposals, including Chevron, Hi Technology Group and St Francis Veterinary Services.

Shoosmiths LLP

Lisa Spencer

Lisa qualified as a solicitor in January 2004 joining Weightmans as an assistant solicitor in February 2004. She was promoted to associate in 2013. Her workload is predominantly clinical negligence, dealing with often complex claims. She also has experience of dealing with claims involving care homes, deprivation of liberty, claims involving the Human Rights Act and the Mental Health Act including psychiatric claims i.e. patient suicide and patient assaults on other patients/members of the public. Her clinical negligence work is predominantly multi-track litigated and non-litigated claims. These include failure to diagnose, misdiagnosis, negligence during surgery, failure to provide informed consent, failure to treat and wrong treatment. She has experience is a vast number of medical conditions and expert specialisms with claims including colorectal, obstetric and gynaecology, orthopaedic, paediatric, cardiology, vascular, oncology and diabetes etc. and significant experience in fatal claims and claims involving protected parties. Lisa has experience in managing highly complex and high-value claims including birth injury claims, brain injury in adults, complex injuries involving internal organs (i.e. perforation of bowel, ureter and aorta), failure and/or delay in diagnosing cancer and also complex ophthalmic claims; in regards to the latter she has recent experience in dealing with a highly complex ophthalmic claim which involved a rare (and as yet unknown) genetic complication and arguments involving Bailey v Ministry of Defence which is currently with the Court of Appeal. She regularly deals with claims worth in excess of £1,000,000 and has experience in claims involving provisional damages and periodical payments.

Weightmans LLP

Lisa Stratford

Senior associate She has substantial experience of dealing with complex landlord and tenant matters including lease renewal and termination proceedings, dilapidations claims and rent and service charge disputes & recovery. In addition to landlord and tenant matters, Lisa also acts for investors and developers and in an advisory and risk management capacity. Lisa is regularly instructed in complex matters on behalf of banks, Law of Property Act Receivers and insolvency practitioners to deal with a wide range of property related insolvency matters. Lisa is also instructed in general property litigation matters such as those concerning easements, breach of covenant and nuisance. She has developed a specialism in acting in substantial nuisance cases for both private individuals and developer clients, and also carries out specialist work in all forms of leasehold enfranchisement/right of first refusal work, acting for both freeholders and leaseholders.

Irwin Mitchell

Lisa Swales

Partner

Switalskis Solicitors