Lawyers in England

Martin Bunch

Martin is a Partner in the Employment team at Bates Wells, continuing to build his successful employment practice after having served as Managing Partner for 12 years. During his leadership Martin oversaw the firm’s certification as a B Corp and spearheaded a number of firm-wide initiatives to advance the responsible agenda; steering Bates Wells into the purpose & impact space, narrowing the firm’s gender salary gap, and taking practical action to promote inclusion and diversity. Martin is also an experienced advocate in the Employment Tribunal and an accredited CEDR mediator. He works in all areas of employment law with a particular focus on TUPE issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions, and the protection of confidential information and other confidential property by the enforcement of contractual covenants. He also provides contentious and non-contentious advice to clients ranging from large commercial clients to charities and individuals.

Bates Wells

Martin Chitty

Consultant

Gowling WLG

Martin Codd

Partner with more than 30 years’ experience specialising in commercial and residential property in prime central London primarily for high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Main specialisation is in investment (both residential and commercial) and enfranchisement of flats and houses within London. Acts for various private limited property companies and investors, particularly property traders. Also advises on SDLT as well as complicated enfranchisement claims and landlord and tenant matters for both landlords and tenants.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Martin Davies

Martin is a Partner in the firm's Wealth Planning and Tax team and heads the firm's Middle East practice. Martin is a Middle East expert advising UHNW and HNW clients on their global affairs, with an emphasis on leading families and family offices from Saudi Arabia, the GCC countries and the wider Middle East. Martin advises on all aspects of private capital and wealth planning, often when a client is considering changing their life pattern or reviewing historical structures. This involves advising on taxation and relocation issues, succession, trusts and family constitution; asset protection; common reporting standards and reputation management. Martin also regularly advises on international investments and Private Equity. Martin's experience of cross-border business transactions combined with his wealth planning and private capital expertise enables Martin to act as a close personal adviser across all aspects of the client's affairs. Martin's understanding of the nuances of doing business in the Gulf Region is reflected in his reputation as a Middle East expert. He has been involved in the setting up and restructuring of many tens of local entities and joint ventures in the Middle East for almost four decades. Martin established and managed law offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Washington, DC over 30 years ago and continues to spend considerable time in the Middle East. Martin co-founded and was the elected Chairman of a global legal network with over 100 members. Martin has been actively involved in promoting trade with the UK throughout his career and is a founder member of the Saudi British Joint Business Council. He was co-founder of the Saudi-British Society in 1986 and is a Trustee of the Oriental Cultural Foundation and several other charitable Trusts.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Martin De Ridder

Ansons

Martin Donoghue

Partner - Corporate and Commercial

Branch Austin McCormick LLP

Martin Duck

Martin is a partner and head of commercial real estate. He practices in the land development team and works with some of the country’s leading national and regional house builders. Having first qualified as a chartered surveyor, Martin knows land development inside out meaning clients benefit from his excellent understanding of the development process from the initial identification of land opportunities (which he refers to clients to whenever he can), drafting and negotiating the contract documents, obtaining planning permission through to disposal by plot sales or perhaps trading the site. Having an invaluable insight into his clients’ needs enables Martin to anticipate potential issues or delays and deal with them quickly. His clients receive clarity and decisiveness in helping sort out legal issues that could derail a deal, such as boundary disputes or restrictive covenants. When problems arise, he provides solutions. As a partner in the firm Martin is personally involved in all aspects of the work and is able to pick up the phone and provide well-informed advice without delay and help to give his clients a competitive edge in a challenging market.

Moore Barlow

Martin Edwards

Previously head of employment and HR at Mace & Jones, Martin specialises in all aspects of employment law and has appeared as an advocate before Employment Tribunals nationwide, as well as before the Employment Appeal Tribunal. He is regularly consulted by private and public sector organisations seeking fast and practical advice on high-profile business transactions, ranging from corporate mergers to European and premier league football transfers. Martin is a specialist in providing strategic advice in high profile and sensitive cases. Martin’s clients include many solicitors, barristers’ chambers and household name companies based throughout the UK, as well as multinationals. He regularly acts for a wide range of public sector clients including education establishments, NHS Trusts and Local Authorities. He is consistently recommended by Independent Legal directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading individual.

Weightmans LLP

Martin Edwards

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Martin English

Martin qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and joined the regulatory team at Weightmans in September 2014. Martin's specialism is representing organisations, insurers, NHS Trusts and individuals designated Core Participant status in public inquiries or Interested Person status at inquests. He has used his excellent knowledge and understanding of the inquisitorial process for both public inquiries and inquests to represent clients in cases involving major incidents, fatal road traffic collisions and major health & safety incidents, as well as on numerous healthcare inquests involving complex medical care. He conducts a significant proportion of his own advocacy, including Article 2 ECHR, multi-week, multi-party and jury inquests. He has managed and advocated cases of complexity as well as great sensitivity, some of which have attracted regional, national and international media attention. Martin also represents individuals and organisations in the magistrates and crown court in respect of the full spectrum of road traffic, regulatory and criminal offences (from speeding to homicide-related offences). He has had notable success in securing acquittals on complex and technical points of law. He has independent LEXCEL quality accreditation for providing advice and assistance at interviews under caution and providing advocacy assistance in the magistrates court.

Weightmans LLP

Martin Forshaw

Partner - Casualty Management

Weightmans LLP

Martin Hall

Partner Equivalent

Hill Dickinson LLP

Martin Halling

Consultant, commercial property

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Martin Hamilton

Experience Martin is Managing Partner at Capsticks. As well as being responsible for the running of the firm, he works to deliver its strategy – providing pragmatic legal solutions for organisations particularly in the health and social care, housing, emergency services and regulatory sectors. Expertise Martin is best known for his employment law expertise. He advises on Board-level employment and engagement issues; workforce change; complex disputes such as in relation to discrimination and whistle-blowing; and managing doctors under the national NHS framework “Maintaining High Professional Standards”.

Capsticks LLP

Martin Jackson

Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator, Patent Attorney Litigator

J A Kemp

Martin Jenkins

Martin is a very experienced practitioner who has been dealing with pension issues since the maxwell case (where he acted for the Mirror Group Pensioners, successfully recovering lost funds). He is the author of 'Pensions Act 2004' (Oxford University Press) and a contributor to a number of publications including Sweet & Maxwell's 'Law of Pension Schemes' and Butterworths' 'Pension Law'.

Irwin Mitchell

Martin Jones

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Martin Kay

Martin heads the Corporate team in London and advises corporate clients and not-for-profit and public bodies, including universities, on a range of corporate and commercial issues. With extensive experience in private and public companies, Martin advises on capital re-structuring, equity fund raises, mergers and acquisitions including by general offer, MBOs, MBIs, IPOs including by reverse takeover, on AIM and delisting. His clients include Blackbird plc, International Greetings plc, Quindell Portfolio Plc, Tantalus Rare Earths AG, Telecom Italia SpA, The Royal British Legion and the University of Reading.

Blake Morgan LLP

Martin Loxley

Consultant

Hall Brown Family Law

Martin MacLean

Martin MacLean’s principal practice areas include; drafting and global prosecution, defence and opposition, freedom-to-operate and strategic advice. In this regard, he has extensive experience in the conduct of hearings before the European Patent Office, having conducted over 100 hearings. Martin specialises in technologies such as the re-targeting of bacterial toxins, vaccines, expression systems, microbial detection assays, cytokine-based therapeutics, and agrochemicals, and represents clients ranging from UK Government and blue chip biotech companies through to spin-outs and start-ups.

Mathys & Squire LLP

Martin McKeague

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Martin Meredith

Martin is a partner in RK’s Dispute Resolution Group. Dual qualified (England & Wales and Australia), with over 15 years of litigation and dispute resolution experience, he has handled complex commercial disputes to trial and appeal, mediations and regulatory investigations across several common law jurisdictions. Martin’s experience extends to acting for financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, hedge funds, regulators, public sector bodies and commercial entities. His career includes advising clients in relation to complex cross border interconnected recovery actions worth in excess of £100m associated with the winding up of foreign corporate entities, misrepresentation/ negligence claims worth USD650m, together with successfully defending high profile judicial reviews. As a qualified mediator, Martin has considerable experience in advising and representing a broad spectrum of clients in resolving disputes through mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes.

Rosling King

Martin Ochs

Martin is a Partner in the Entertainment, Media and IP team. Martin has wide experience of contentious IP and commercial litigation, particularly in the media and entertainment fields where he focuses on contentious music and copyright litigation.

Hamlins LLP

Martin Otvos

Joint Managing Partner Areas of Practice: Sale, Acquisition, Development, Funding and Letting of Commercial Property.

Wallace LLP