Lawyers in England
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Lisa Uttley
Lisa leads Gherson’s UK Inbound Immigration team and advises High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth individuals, their family members and their offices across the full spectrum of Points-Based System immigration and British nationality applications. Her practice includes matters involving discretionary elements, such as excessive absences, missed deadlines and exceptional in-country switches. She is also experienced in challenging Home Office delays and incorrect decisions via judicial review and appeals and provides strategic advice on a wide range of inbound immigration issues.
Gherson LLP
Lisa Waghorne
Partner
Warners Solicitors
Lisa Wallis
Lisa works in Freeths’ Sheffield corporate team and advises on a range of corporate and commercial law. Her expertise includes share sales, asset sales, MBIs, MBOs, company restructuring, loan and investment arrangements, joint ventures, partnership arrangements and a range of commercial agreements including distribution agreements, supply of goods and services agreements and service level agreements. Lisa deals with a range of clients in various sectors, including manufacturing, engineering and technology, from local SMEs to larger corporate and national clients.
Freeths LLP
Lisa Watson
Lisa joined Weightmans in 2001 and has been a Legal Director since 2022. Lisa has practised in the personal injury field throughout her 30 year career and currently specialises in the defence of all types of occupational induced disease claims, especially high value complex asbestos related conditions but handles disease claims of all types, lung cancer, skin cancer, sensitisation, occupational asthma, dermatitis. She was involved in Heneghan V Manchester Dry Docks [2016] EWCA Civ 86 establishing the test for causation in divisible disease conditions and provides strategic advice for insurers in relation to all issues on liability, causation, contribution, and public liability claims. Lisa has extensive experience in high value catastrophic injury claims as well as physical conditions such as chronic pain, psychological injury and stress at work and has had experience in handling class actions. Lisa has several nominated clients for whom she provides bespoke strategic advice and support for the defendant organisation and their insurers having considerable experience in relation to work related employer and public liability claims and attending quarterly claims review meetings for all nominated clients. Notable cases: Heneghan V Manchester Dry Docks [2016] See above. Denial of skin cancer cases for outdoor workers – breach of duty and foreseeability. Negotiated settlements involving complex pension losses for both private and public bodies. Negotiation of pleaded multi-million mesothelioma claim for £500,000.
Weightmans LLP
Lisa Watson
Conveyancing Executive - Property
Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)
Lisa Watson-Cook
Whether you work for a charity, social enterprise, voluntary organisation or association, Lisa can advise you on all aspects of charity law. Lisa’s background is as in-house counsel for a ‘top ten’ charity. In addition to providing a broad range of legal, regulatory and constitutional advice to the national umbrella body, she was responsible for the charity’s constituent parts, namely 150 separately registered branches, affiliated trusts, grant-making charities and non-charitable subsidiaries. This role has given her unique insight, versatility and knowledge of the charity sector. Understanding your organisation’s operating model as well as the wider regulatory environment means she can provide simple, pragmatic and tailored advice. Lisa’s aim is to support trustees and charity professionals to advance their strategic objectives with minimal risk. Lisa’s particular experience lies with federated or branch structures, membership bodies, animal charities, trading subsidiaries, governance reform and supporting charities with a range of compliance issues, including fundraising and data protection.
Lester Aldridge LLP
Lisa Williams
Lisa is a real estate lawyer specialising in development, acting principally for land owners. Lisa is a Partner in Shoosmiths’ Real Estate department based in Milton Keynes. She has a broad range of experience in all aspects of commercial property but in recent years she has specialised in the sale and purchase of land for strategic and immediate development. She has extensive experience in acting for land owners on the negotiation of complex overage deeds, collaboration agreements, planning promotion agreements, option agreements and hybrids. Lisa’s specialist knowledge of agricultural law is key to ensuring the land owners can manage and use their land during the promotion and/or planning process but still deliver vacant possession when required. Lisa also specialises in the purchase and sale of and development of land as mobile home parks, holiday parks, the acquisition of inland marinas as well as acting for landowners on the development of land for renewable energy sources. She is also a member of the Shoosmiths Private Wealth team. Lisa’s clients value her for her honest, no nonsense approach. She takes a practical and commercial view and is very quick to respond. She can make the most complicated deal accessible. Examples of work undertaken: acting for London and Continental Railways on the sale of the land to a joint venture company set up by Oxford City Council and Oxford University’s Nuffield College. The land in the Oxpen's area of Oxford is to be developed as part of a new neighbourhood with up to 500 homes plus offices, academic buildings and commercial space in a £200 million revamp of Oxford’s west end; acting for a farming partnership of six individuals on the sale of a 100 acres site in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The Wellingborough North Development is set to have up to 3,000 new homes along with community facilities and commercial space and will be developed over three phases. The transaction involved deferred consideration secured by a first legal charge and complex overage provisions for which Lisa’s penchant for arithmetic was invaluable; in 2013 Lisa led the Shoosmiths team who acted on behalf of Park Holidays UK Limited in the £172 million sale of its entire issued share capital by independent private equity investor Graphite Capital to Caledonia Investments Limited a self-managed fund; and since 2003 Lisa has acted on behalf of the Tingdene group of companies, a leader in the park home sector, on the purchase, sale, development and management of mobile home parks, holiday parks and inland marinas.
Shoosmiths LLP
Lisa Williams
Lisa is a Principal Associate with nearly 25 years in the insurance industry and who began practicing law exclusively in 2004. Lisa has over 10 years' experience in the aviation sector starting out with a boutique aviation law firm. Lisa has provided legal advice and representation to numerous international and global airlines, including a flagship carrier, and their insurers in a range of legal disputes and cases both domestically and abroad, also in claims with multi-jurisdictional elements and cross border issues. Lisa’s has defended airlines and their insurers in passenger and third party injury claims arising out of the Montreal Convention 1999, Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 and Regulation EC 1107/2006, as well as in property damage, baggage, flight delay and denied boarding claims. She is also experienced with advancing and defending subrogation claims on behalf of aviation clients, as well as with commercial litigation, insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes and general aviation claims. Lisa is also skilled in resolving claims pre-litigation, handling “white label” pre-litigation insured claims on behalf of a major UK airline and with Aviation ADR schemes approved by the Civil Aviation Authority, such as the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). Lisa has been recognised on more than one occasion in the Legal 500 UK as a recommended lawyer for Aviation London, being cited as having 'exceptional work capacity and [being a] commercial thinker' as well as 'approachable, knowledgeable and commercially astute'. Notable cases Handling of the passenger claims in the UK and US emanating from an incident of severe and unexpected turbulence on a commercial flight to Tampa in 2019, generating great media intrigue; Resolving the lost baggage claim in the UK from a high profile "WAG"; Involved in handling the alleged toxic fume claims, arising from a 2019 emergency landing of a A321 in Valencia following the inflow of smoke in the cabin. Incident under investigation by the Spanish Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (CAAIIC); Successfully rebutting a very commercially sensitive UK Claim for denied boarding and discrimination for a well-known carrier, including liaising with the carrier’s press office to assist with appropriate responses to the media/social media; Defending a major UK carrier from a passenger claiming to have been inappropriately touched and groped during a flight, the subject of which entered the public domain via a blog post; Swiftly dealing with the, ultimately modest, settlement of a passenger claim against a flagship carrier for injury from a bag falling from an overhead compartment which was the subject of a news article in the Evening Standard in 2016; Defending the claims from passenger against a carrier following an alleged aerotoxicity incident, with interest in the US following linked litigation brought in the States involving Boeing; and Representing a carrier in litigation for a high value denied boarding claim for a well-known carrier, involving issues of Human Rights and the Tokyo Convention Act 1967, from a group who were removed from aircraft for disruptive behaviour.
Weightmans LLP
Lisa Wilson
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Lisa Wright
Partner; Lisa advises in relation to all aspects of competition and regulatory work including merger control, antitrust, sectoral regulation, competition litigation, state aid and public procurement. She also advises on foreign investment. Lisa works in both our London and Brussels offices. She is a member of the Brussels Bar (A list), as well as being qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales).
Slaughter and May
Lisa-Marie Kennedy
Lawyer in the Real Estate group dealing with a variety of issues ranging from: acquisitions and disposals; landlord and tenant; management; refinancing; corporate transactions; development. Lisa advises a wide range of clients including large national household names with extensive property portfolios and primarily in volume acquisition and disposal projects. Lisa is a project management specialist managing large cross office and cross discipline high volume and high value transactions.
Mills & Reeve LLP
Lisette Dupré
Lisette advises on all aspects of private family law, with specialist expertise in cross-border and jurisdictional issues. She is ranked in The Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner. Lisette has extensive experience in all aspects of private family law including, financial disputes on separation, divorce, children matters and cohabitation and pre-nuptial agreements. She regularly advises clients on cases involving complex jurisdictional issues to include the enforcement of foreign ‘maintenance’ orders. Lisette has secured financial remedies following a foreign divorce and maintenance for ‘abandoned spouses’. Notable publishable cases include: Acted for wife in financial proceedings following a foreign divorce with husband from wealthy Iranian family. The husband took his wife to the UK against her will while pregnant and then some years later abandoned her in Iran without her passport, taking their child. Prepared a pre-nuptial agreement for an international couple in London, acting in tandem with the parties’ tax planning and ring-fencing key non-marital assets. Acted for a charity wishing to intervene in a Supreme Court case of Owens v Owens to raise awareness of the draconian effect divorce law has on survivors of domestic abuse. Acted for the applicant in Mittal [2013] EWCA Civ 1255 to include pro bono in the Court of Appeal. This case concerned the court’s power to stay proceedings where there were competing divorce proceedings in another (non EU) jurisdiction.
Stewarts Law LLP
Liv Lyons
Partner and head of New Artist department
Russells Solicitors
Livia Velicu
Livia is a Senior Associate in the Charity and Social Enterprise team at Bates Wells, where she advises charities, social enterprises and non-profits on governance, formation, restructures, conversions, and contractual matters. She has a particular focus on intellectual property within the Culture + Creative sector, advising on IP licensing, assignments, and related charity law considerations, and is expanding her work on legal issues arising from the development and launch of digital products and apps. As an active member of the firm’s faith group, Livia regularly supports faith-based organisations with registration, trading, restructures, and embedding their mission and values into governing documents and operations.
Bates Wells
Liz Banks
Liz is a real estate partner based in our Leeds office. Her extensive expertise spans a variety of areas from commercial development, fund management and investment, landlord and tenant work and acquisitions and disposals. Liz is recommended by the Legal 500 for local government work.
Freeths LLP
Liz Barratt
Partner and Head of Immigration. Liz has a wide-ranging practice covering all aspects of immigration, EEA, nationality and asylum law, and is well known for her work with unaccompanied children and vulnerable clients. She is regularly instructed by NGOS and local authorities in relation to children in care, and has experience in public law. She has acted in cases before the First Tier and Upper Tribunal, the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and Court of Justice of the European Union.
Bindmans LLP
Liz Barrett
Liz Barrett is an Associate in the Family Law department at Vardags, advising on the full spectrum of private family law matters. She is prized for her strategic thinking, meticulous attention to detail, holistic and empathetic approach to client care. Legal 500 has described her as “very hardworking and conscientious, and it pays significant dividends". Liz’s clients include high-profile and high-net-worth business owners, sports personalities, landowners, royalty, entrepreneurs, and their spouses, acting for them in highly complex and emotionally charged disputes. While she is based in London, she has clients world-wide and regularly provides strategic English law advice on overseas family law issues. Her practice includes divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships; jurisdictional disputes and international family law issues; financial remedy proceedings, including unmarried parents, cases involving trusts, offshore assets, and opaque company structures; private law children matters, including safeguarding and relocation; surrogacy, adoption, and modern family issues; and drafting and advising on UK and overseas pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and cohabitation disputes.
Vardags
Liz Barton
Liz is a highly experienced lawyer advising companies and individuals on all aspects of corporate law, from advising on company constitutions and corporate governance matters, to group reorganisations and share and business disposals and acquisitions.
Doyle Clayton
Liz Brownsell
Partner, Head of Charities
Birketts LLP
Liz Byrne
Liz is an Associate focussed on building and growing the Rural Tax, Trusts and Estates Team in Manchester and the wider North West. Many of her clients transferred over to Irwin Mitchell as a result of her move. Liz specialises in advising on tax, trusts and estate matters, with a particular emphasis and expertise in assisting all types of farming and equestrian families, High Net Worth individuals and owner managed businesses.
Irwin Mitchell
Liz Cohen
Liz is a highly experienced and well regarded IP specialist with a focus on counselling clients in the Life Sciences sector on national and international patent strategy and litigation. With over 20 years’ experience, Liz is a sought after adviser for Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Devices companies alike and has represented companies in the Life Sciences industry in patent matters in the English Courts all the way up to the Supreme Court. Her extensive experience of coordinating cross-border litigation within Europe and beyond means that her strategic advice is particularly valued making her a trusted commercial adviser to her many clients. Liz is a qualified solicitor advocate, a qualification she has used successfully to obtain an interim injunction on short notice in the High Court. Liz's background in Natural Sciences provides her with an excellent understanding of the technical and commercial issues facing those operating in the life sciences industry. Liz regularly advises clients on the implications of the proposed Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court and played an integral part in representing the alleged infringer in the much publicised Bristows UPC real-time mock action. Liz’s work is regularly published in industry journals and she is also a member of EPLAW, EPLIT, and CIPA, sitting on the CIPA Life Sciences Committee. She is frequently asked to comment and lecture on legal issues affecting the Life Sciences Sector and she is a regular speaker at international conferences on strategic considerations for European and International patent litigation. Liz is a tutor on the Oxford University Diploma in Intellectual Property law and Practice course, teaching patent litigation.
Bristows LLP
Liz Coley
Liz is a highly experienced sports lawyer, who offers clients an indepth understanding of the world of professional football. Liz had almost 20 years experience working for 4 professional football clubs and for The FA prior to qualification as a lawyer. Since that time she has worked exclusively in sports law, representing a large number of clubs in relation to player contracts and transfers, compliance and regulatory issues and disputes. She has undertaken secondments at both Premier League and Championship clubs, assisted clubs with the Club Secretary role when vacant and spent time with a number of clubs undertaking a contract health check and helping them to develop their own precedent documents. Her experience within club football gives her an unrivalled understanding of how clubs operate and their unique needs. She has also worked with intermediaries in relation to their representation of both players and managers/coaching staff. Liz is the co-author of the chapters on ‘Contracts – Players’ and ‘Player Transfers’ in the textbook ‘Football and the Law’. Independent testimonials include: “She’s someone we can trust. She has worked in football clubs and has a massive amount of football experience. She is really able to cut through everything and translate that. She has helped us do a few matters where we have been really up against deadlines. She does what needs to be done to make it happen, rather than doing too much.” “She’s very good. She has great experience from being in-house and is a pleasure to deal with.” “She is very knowledgeable on compliance. She’s ex-FA, so she understands it in terms of who we’re complying with. She’s practical and pragmatic in her approach.”
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Liz Cotton
Partner
TLT
Liz Ellen
Liz is a Partner and Head of the Sports Group. Her practice is solely focused on sport, and her in-depth knowledge of the industry means that she is always able to provide her clients with the clear and decisive advice they require. She is strategic and creative in her approach, and finds innovative solutions to complex issues. She is a specialist litigator but also a trusted advisor to clubs, athletes, rights holders and governing bodies, understanding how their legal situations fit within their public profile and wider business needs. She has expertise in fraud and corruption issues in sport, a strong regulatory knowledge and good commercial awareness. Liz has represented clients in cases before FIFA, the European Boxing Union, the Basketball Arbitration Tribunal and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as well as domestic tribunals such as the Football Associations of England, Scotland and Wales, the British Boxing Board of Control, the British Horseracing Authority and UK Anti-Doping. She also has significant experience of litigating cases through both arbitration and the High Court. Much of Liz's work has an international aspect, including cross-border transfer deals and disputes, sports immigration and image rights structures. She has a particular focus on the Far Eastern sport industry and is often consulted by Chinese football clubs, Asian investors looking at European opportunities, and by clubs, players and agents seeking to do business in the Far East. Liz is a director of Women In Football (WIF), a member of the Beyond Sport Advisory Board, a founding member of Women In Sports Law (WISLaw), and a member of the British Association of Sport and Law (BASL). She was the only practicing lawyer to appear in the Independent's inaugural list of "50 Most Influential Women in Sport", in which she was ranked 13th. Since 2014, Liz has run the Mishcon Sports Law Academy – an educational course where aspiring lawyers can learn about a wide range of sports law issues from the lawyers who manage those cases. She is also a mentor for Kick It Out's 'Raise Your Game' scheme.
Mishcon de Reya LLP