Lawyers in England

Louise Cussen

Partner

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Louise Drew

Partner

HCR Law

Louise Elmes

Louise is an expert in contentious construction, energy and maritime law and professional negligence. She advises clients on construction, engineering, energy and shipbuilding projects and related professional negligence, both domestically and internationally. Louise has acted on disputes in relation to bridges, car parks, commercial buildings, electricity sub-stations, energy-from-waste plants, anaerobic digestion plants, highways, hotels, LNG plants, prisons, process facilities, railways, residential developments, sewage works, tunnels, mines, wind farms, water attenuation facilities, water treatment facilities, cargo ships, drilling rigs, LNG carriers, passenger ferries and superyachts. Louise is experienced in various forms of dispute resolution including litigation, international and domestic arbitration, adjudication and other alternative dispute resolution procedures. She advises on UK domestic forms of construction contract, including NEC and JCT, FIDIC, SAJ, AWES, BIMCO and bespoke contracts in various jurisdictions including England and Wales, Angola, the BVI, the Caribbean, China, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.

Keystone Law

Louise Finnie

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Louise Forsyth

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Louise Garcia

Louise is a consultant in the property and construction team. She is a knowledgeable and respected specialist adviser with over 20 years’ experience of contentious construction and engineering disputes acquired in the road and rail sectors, in PFI, on tunnelling and dredging projects, and in the residential, retail, hotel, education, and health and leisure sectors. Louise has particular expertise in working for clients delivering mechanical and electrical engineering services. Louise advises main contractors and subcontractors, consultants, and employers on all aspects of their construction and engineering needs, from advice on contracts and issues of design and construction, to disputes over payment, performance, and termination. She particularly enjoys advising on complex contract incorporation and interpretation issues, on final and interim account disputes, and on issues relating to delay and disruption, loss, and expense. Her experience includes advising on the usual standard form construction contracts including JCT and NEC, and on PFI and bespoke contracts.

Keystone Law

Louise Gowman

Louise’s emphasis is on the consenting, development and financing of infrastructure projects. A real estate lawyer by background, she has particularly focused on the ports industry for over 20 years, and during that time has advised ports on projects, financings, development control, marine licensing, statutory orders and public inquiries, harbour regulation, commercial agreements and the management of port estates. Her infrastructure focus also includes renewables projects, from wind farm developments to energy from waste facilities. Her clients typically come from the entrepreneurial/family business sector and look to Louise for advice across a wide range of issues facing them. Louise is a founder member of UK Port Advisers, specialist port consultants and advisers focused on the port industry in the UK and worldwide and comprising operations, business, finance, environmental, public affairs and legal specialists, which delivers a wide range of services to ports and their investors, as well as government and port users.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Louise Grendon

Louise is an experienced employment lawyer with expertise in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She started her career as a litigation specialist and this experience has given her a wide understanding of handling client disputes. As an employment lawyer, Louise’s work is often advisory in nature. She works alongside clients on an ongoing basis to help them manage their key resources in the best way. This work involves ensuring that clients’ employment and consultancy agreements are up to date and effective. She is experienced in drafting template contracts as well as negotiating individual senior contracts for directors and senior personnel. Louise advises employers on issues that arise in the day-to-day running of a business, whether the handling of an internal dispute or disciplinary issue, negotiating the termination arrangements of a senior employee or advising on a redundancy process. She also advises on employment issues relating to or arising from corporate transactions and corporate contractual arrangements.

Keystone Law

Louise Harman

Louise is a Partner in the Charity and Social Enterprise team at Bates Wells, advising charities, social enterprises, philanthropists, B Corps, and impact-driven businesses on governance, structuring, social investment and international development finance. She brings transactional expertise from her early career as a banking lawyer, including cross-border and emerging market finance. Louise co-leads the firm’s Purpose & Impact strategy and has played a key role in developing the B Corp movement in the UK, including designing the legal requirements now used by over 1,100 businesses. She also advises commercial organisations embedding purpose into their governance and operations and provides guidance on policy and mission-led business initiatives. Her charity law practice covers a wide range of legal and commercial matters, including corporate structure, regulatory compliance, financing, and impact investing, often working at the intersection of charitable and commercial activity.

Bates Wells

Louise Hart

Louise heads up the Personal Injury team and is recognised as a “leader in her field”. Louise is dedicated in representing Claimant’s who have suffered from limb loss or chronic pain including CRPS. Louise focusses her attention to detail on liability arguments, medical evidence and quantifying claims to ensure that she secures maximum compensation for those who instruct her. Louise has been accredited as a Personal Injury Lawyer under the Law Society Personal Injury Panel for over 25 years. Louise is recognised as a leading Lawyer by the Legal 500 who describe her as “caring, competent, well organised and highly effective”. Louise is praised for her ability to tailor her approach for each individual client. Louise’s experience is extensive and include acting for clients suffering from Chronic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, limb loss, orthopaedic injuries scarring, polytrauma, injuries resulting in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Louise is robust in terms of liability relating to: Accidents at work; Road traffic accidents; Motorbike accidents; Occupiers Liability; Product liability.

RWK Goodman

Louise Harvey

Louise Harvey is the Team Manager of our Plots Department. She is experienced in leading teams that deal with large volume transactions; ensuring legal services are delivered on time and within fee. Louise is constantly looking for innovative ways to improve our legal services; making use of technology and systems to deliver outstanding client service. Being at the forefront of the residential plot sale and part exchange offering, she is tasked with understanding client requirements, monitoring residential market trends and resourcing according to demand at any particular time. She is also an experienced landlord and tenant real estate lawyer having acted for large national retailers and assisting with the transactional aspects of the portfolio management.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Hawkfield

Partner - Niche Costs

Weightmans LLP

Louise High

Louise is an associate director working across aviation, marine and insurance matters, based in the London office. She specialises in reinsurance and insurance litigation and commercial disputes as well as contentious and non-contentious matters working primarily on complex, high value and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Louise acts for insurers and reinsurers as well as financial institutions in the UK and European market. Her main area of expertise is within the aviation and aerospace industry acting on coverage disputes, maintenance agreements and leasing agreements. She regularly deals with matters including foreign jurisdictions, foreign law, policy disputes and contractual disputes. She has experience of litigation stretching from county courts to the Court of Appeal and has managed high value arbitrations in London with elements of domestic and international law. Louise has also acted for a large multinational corporation in the criminal courts in relation to the Dangerous Goods Regulations and carriage by air.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Louise Hodges

Louise is Head of Kingsley Napley’s Criminal Litigation team specialising in financial crime, corporate investigations, FCA regulatory investigations and serious and complex fraud. Long recognised as a leader in this field, she is commended for her grasp of broader strategic issues and the practical advice she gives clients, both companies and individuals, caught up in complex litigation. She is experienced in advising companies and individuals with regard to internal investigations, frequently representing witnesses being interviewed either by employers or by investigating authorities, including those compelled to attend interviews. She leads the firm’s cross-practice Financial Services team and Internal Investigations team. She currently represents a number of individuals, including HNW individuals and business leaders, in a range of financial crime cases being investigated by the SFO, FCA, HMRC and NCA amongst others. She was part of the team representing Tesco in connection with their Deferred Prosecution Agreement and related criminal matters. Her cases frequently have an international element.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Louise Howarth

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Louise Ingram

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Louise Jeffers

Browne Jacobson LLP

Louise Jenkins

Louise is a Partner in the Sheffield office and leads the Serious Injury team comprising of over 50 team members. She has more than 20 years of experience in acting for clients who have sustained serious brain and spinal cord injury and other complex injuries, having joined Irwin Mitchell in 1997. Louise’s cases have won the Post Magazine’s Rehabilitation First Award on a number of occasions (claimant’s solicitor category), demonstrating Louise’s strong ethos of maximising client recovery and prioritising rehabilitation and quality of life in every case. She has been part of legal teams tackling complex and ground breaking issues. These include appearances in the Court of Appeal in relation to securing substantial interim payments, Statutory Services funding, life expectancy, periodical payments and the interaction of legislation regarding Statutory Services provision with damages recovery. Louise has also been involved in a significant number of highly complex, multi-million pound settlements. Alongside her considerable technical expertise, Louise is known for her profoundly caring and compassionate approach with clients, helping them to rebuild lives positively after serious injury.

Irwin Mitchell

Louise Jukes

Louise has over 20 years of experience representing claimants who have suffered catastrophic injuries, including traumatic brain injuries, chronic pain, and spinal injuries resulting from road traffic accidents, workplace incidents, and public liability accidents. She also handles cases involving fatal incidents. Louise has a high record of accomplishment, often taking over ‘tricky’ cases from other solicitors and bringing these to a successful conclusion. Louise’s thorough and dedicated approach, together with the time and tenacity she gives to her cases ensures that her clients receive strong representation. Louise is dedicated to securing early rehabilitation for her clients. She represents vulnerable individuals and collaborates with charities like the Child Brain Injury Trust to support children with acquired brain injuries and their families, as well as Brake, the Road Safety Charity, where she assists bereaved families and those seriously injured in road accidents. Louise is also actively involved with the Queen Elizabeth Foundation.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Louise Knight

Louise primarily acts for executors or administrators in the administration of estates where inheritance tax is potentially relevant. She has administered estates with foreign property and administered only the English estate where the deceased was domiciled abroad. She often saves tax for executors and/or beneficiaries during the administration period such as by advising on and preparing deeds of variation.

Keystone Law

Louise Leaver

Louise is a specialist housing finance lawyer and is recognised for providing commercial and pragmatic advice to clients. She has been acting for borrowers and lenders for over 20 years, and represents a broad range of clients including corporate borrowers, registered providers, charitable entities, property developers, banks and institutional investors. She has experience advising on all types of loan agreements, security documentation, intercreditor and security trust arrangements, swap transactions and capital market issues. Louise specialises in supporting and advising clients in the social housing sector to raise funds, whether through short-term revolving credit facilities or longer-term private placements and bond issuance. She also advises on development finance, acquisition finance, off-balance sheet delivery models, joint venture arrangements and restructurings. She used her experience acting for borrowers and lenders to evolve and document new funding structures. Recent Experience o Advising a leading housing association on the first unsecured revolving credit facility in the social housing sector. o Lead lawyer advising a large London housing association on their debut US private placement with a novel mix of secured and unsecured tranches. o Acting for institutional investors in relation to over £1billion of private placements. o Supporting a large housing association through a £250m bond issuance, merger and subsequent group restructure and related refinancing. o Lead lawyer advising a large G15 housing association on structuring their PRS portfolio and accessing funding through the PRS Government Guarantee scheme. o Advising a G15 housing association on their role in a large regeneration project structured through a contractual joint venture with a nationwide developer.

Bevan Brittan LLP

Louise Lewis

Louise is a Partner and joint head of the Oxford Trusts, Estates and Tax Team. She is a highly regarded private client lawyer who advises on a variety of matters. Louise qualified in 2005 and joined our firm from Penningtons Manches Cooper in June 2019. Louise drafts Wills, sets up and administers trusts, administers estates and drafts and registers powers of attorney. She has expertise in the field of mental capacity and advises on disabled persons’ trusts, deputyships for children reaching adulthood and other welfare-related issues. She prepares lasting powers of attorney and Wills for clients with mental capacity issues and complex applications to the Court of Protection and High Court for mentally incapacitated people. These include applications for statutory Wills, for gifts and trusts, for removal of incapacitated trustees and for welfare decisions. Louise is the Deputy Chair of the steering committee for STEP’s mental capacity special interest group and she Chaired a session on mental capacity and welfare issues at STEP’s global congress in London in summer 2022. She regularly speaks on mental capacity topics and has presented for the Brain Injury Association and the Alzheimer’s Society among others. Louise is a Dementia Friend. In 2020, she completed an advanced STEP certificate in advising vulnerable clients, receiving a distinction. In addition, Louise is a member of the firm’s private wealth initiative and is able to provide advice to business clients on estate planning at all stages of the business cycle. This includes tax advice and trusts for people exiting their businesses, advice on Wills and the interaction of Wills with corporate structures, advice on suitable structures for start-up owners and new partnerships and advice on trusts to hold company shares. Louise also administers business interests following death of business owners and advises on available tax reliefs for estates. Louise has considerable experience of working with international clients and advises on residence and domicile and cross border estate planning. In June 2023, Louise completed an advanced STEP certificate in UK tax for international clients, receiving a distinction.

Freeths LLP

Louise Lightfoot

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Louise Long

Partner, Head of Private Client Advisory

Birketts LLP