Lawyers in England

Matt McBride

Partner in the employment department. Acts for a range of employer clients in the public and private sector. All aspects of employment law, including: tribunal representation and advocacy, designing and delivering training sessions, and senior executive terminations.

Freeths LLP

Matt McCahearty

Matt’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration, white collar defence, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations. Matt leads the litigation and dispute resolution group. He regularly advises global corporations and financial institutions in relation to some of their most significant and sensitive international disputes, investigations and enforcement matters, working frequently with leading independent firms around the world to provide a comprehensive international strategy. Matt has particular familiarity with litigation, arbitration and regulatory enforcement matters in the US having been seconded to a leading New York law firm and worked extensively on transatlantic cases. Matt is a member of the firm’s International Committee, the International Bar Association’s Litigation Committee and regularly speaks at international conferences. He is also a Solicitor-Advocate.

Macfarlanes LLP

Matt McDonald

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Matt Nixon

Matt is a Legal Director in the Planning Team, based in London. Matt is an experienced planning lawyer and advises on all aspects of planning, highways and compulsory purchase law. He has experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters, including complex section 106 agreements, highway agreements and stopping-up, compulsory purchase, environmental impact assessments. Matt has gained significant experience in both making and defending judicial reviews and statutory challenges. Matt's recent experience includes: advising the applicant on all aspects of a proposed development for a significant film studio located in the greenbelt, including application review (EIA development); advising on a comprehensive mixed use redevelopment comprising up to 1,524 residential units at the former Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs, London. Including a three week public inquiry, subsequent legal challenge and redetermination process, including negotiating a number of complex section 106 unilateral undertakings; advising the developer on the negotiation and agreement of a section 106 agreement of a phased outline scheme for up to 1,152 residential units and commercial space in central London; advising on all aspects of a comprehensive town centre redevelopment to provide up to 1,867 residential units and retail/commercial floorspace; acting for a land promoter in successfully defending the adoption of the Guildford Local Plan and Wycombe Local Plan by way of statutory challenge following a challenge to greenbelt release; lead advisor acting for a developer as part of a consortium challenging the decision of a local authority to proceed with the adoption of a Neighbourhood Plan, including claim for Interim Relief; advising on the planning aspects of numerous portfolio disposals and due diligence exercises, including purpose built student accommodation, industrial sites and development opportunities for a range of sites across the country.

Shoosmiths LLP

Matt Noon

Partner / Head of Liverpool Office

Hill Dickinson LLP

Matt Smith

Matt is an Associate Solicitor in the corporate team in our Birmingham office. Matt specialises in all aspects of corporate law, including acquisitions and disposals, private equity and corporate governance and advisory. Matt’s clients range from individual private investors to owner-managed businesses and large corporates.

Irwin Mitchell

Matt Stephens

A real estate partner, Matt has a broad practice including development, investment, and secured lending work. He has a focus on landlord and tenant matters and particularly the retail sector, in which he has been operating for the past 7 years. Matt’s clients range from well known high street and supermarket retailers, to international operators entering into the UK market, to major UK banks. Matt’s recent deals include: Act for Aldi on their acquisition programme in the South East of England. This includes the acquisition of existing retail space and developer-led retail park sites and there have been a significant number of sites secured over the past 3 years. Act for high street bank on various property finance lending into the UK market Act for high street retailers on their UK acquisitions and portfolio management Act for a leading international pizza delivery operator on its UK acquisitions and management. Act for a London based mixed used developer specialising in commercial and residential schemes including site acquisition and disposals both of individual units to occupiers and complete developments to funds.. Taken space for various restaurant operators in and around central London including Borough Market, Covent Garden and Notting Hill. Act on all commercial disposals of major new mixed use development in Islington. Act for US tech retail & services company on their initial entry into UK market. Acted for authority on £20M+ investment purchase in London.

Freeths LLP

Matt Taylor

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Matt Ward

Matt is a senior associate in the Commercial department, based in Milton Keynes. Matt has experience in advising clients on a variety of commercial matters, including supply agreements for goods and services, IT agreements, confidentiality agreements, advertising and marketing agreements, and consumer terms and conditions. Matt also has a particular interest in data protection, having advised and supported some of the largest companies in the UK on GDPR-compliance.

Shoosmiths LLP

Matthew Alderton

Matthew is an experienced advisor and litigator specialising in public, regulatory and information law. Matthew has provided advice and representation to clients in high profile and complex judicial review proceedings, statutory appeals, procurement challenges, and data breach/breach of confidentiality claims. Matthew previously worked within the Government Legal Department conducting high profile litigation in the areas of constitutional (the Brexit cases), health and social care (the junior doctors, accountable care and overseas charging judicial reviews), social security (the 2 Child tax judicial review), and information law. Matthew is dual qualified in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Matthew Allen

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Matthew Ambler

Irwin Mitchell

Matthew Anson

Matthew is a partner in our corporate team with wide-ranging experience advising private equity sponsors on acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, and incentive schemes and has acted for several sovereign wealth funds on co-investment matters. He has also represented clients in respect of several take-private transactions. Matt has expertise in providing fund-level advice in connection with continuation fund transactions. He also has extensive knowledge of advising on customary policy terms and the competitive landscape in the transactional risk insurance market, having worked as an underwriter in the W&I market.

Keystone Law

Matthew Astley

Matthew Astley is a Senior Associate in our commercial litigation team. He deals with a wide range of commercial litigation and dispute resolution matters, including contractual disputes, shareholder and director disputes and professional negligence cases. He also handles employment-related litigation matters (including claims for breach of restrictive covenant and misuse of confidential information) and similar claims involving contractors and commercial parties. Matthew has a strong track record in sports-related litigation and arbitration cases, as well as sports regulatory and disciplinary matters, having acted for clients in proceedings before sports national governing bodies including The FA, British Cycling and British Dressage. He's a member of The FA’s National Serious Case Panel — which adjudicates on all types of serious disciplinary cases in grassroots football — and a Specialist Member of Sport Resolutions’ Panel of Arbitrators. His reported cases include Fleetwood Wanderers Limited (t/a Fleetwood Town Football Club) v AFC Fylde Limited [2018] EWHC 3318 (Comm) — concerning an appeal against the decision of an FA Rule K arbitrator. Matthew joined us in January 2024 and is based in our Lancashire office.

Brabners LLP

Matthew Atkins

Partner

Birketts LLP

Matthew Aves

Partner

Warners Solicitors

Matthew Barnett

Matthew joined the Private Client team as a Partner in 2019 from Harbottle & Lewis. Matthew acts for high-net-worth individuals on a wide range of estate and succession planning issues. He has extensive experience in advising high-net-worth clients on lifetime gifting and on the use of wills and trusts for the protection of wealth for future generations. He regularly advises trustees on their duties, responsibilities and specific aspects of tax and trust planning. Matthew also advises business owners and entrepreneurs on business succession planning. Matthew has vast experience in probate and estate administration and has dealt with many high value, complex and multi-jurisdictional estates throughout his career. He often advises beneficiaries of estates on succession planning involving post-death variations. Matthew also has particular experience in advising clients on mental capacity issues such as Lasting Powers of Attorney and Deputyship applications to the Court of Protection.

Edwin Coe LLP

Matthew Barrow

Matthew is a Partner in the Real Estate Group at Lester Aldridge. He advises on a wide variety of commercial property matters including: Distressed property realisations Secured lending All aspects of non-contentious landlord and tenant work Marina based property matters Portfolio management Investment acquisitions and disposals

Lester Aldridge LLP

Matthew Bennett

Matthew advises both UK and overseas resident individuals and families on the management of their legal, personal and tax affairs, and on the transfer of wealth down the generations. Much of his work includes advising on trusts and other asset holding structures. His client base ranges from entrepreneurs and company directors, to authors and artists. He also advises UK and overseas trustees and other fiduciaries on their duties and responsibilities and particular aspects of trust law. He acts as executor and as trustee for his clients and for a number of charitable trusts. Matthew qualified and worked in the City before moving away from London and becoming a partner in 2000. He returned to London in 2015 and joined the Firm in 2020.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Matthew Biles

Interim Head of Private Wealth & Partner

Greenwoods

Matthew Blaseby

Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney

EIP

Matthew Booth

Matthew advises clients in relation to a broad range of family law issues arising on the breakdown of marriage or cohabitation/relationships. He has a particular interest in dealing with private children matters, including leave to remove cases (where one parent wishes to relocate together with any children of the family) and disputes surrounding children's living and contact arrangements (determining with whom they live and the time they spend with their other parent). In addition Matthew is a qualified Family Mediator and sits on the London Committee of Resolution (formerly known as the Solicitors’ Family Law Association, a national organisation for Family Lawyers).

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Matthew Bosworth

Matt is a partner in the dispute resolution group specialising in professional disciplinary, financial regulatory and leads on reputation management matters. He also advises on the protection of intellectual property rights and copyright in all jurisdictions. He advises clients on matter involving regulatory offences and the protection of intellectual property rights. He regularly advises individuals, businesses and organisations as to the most effective investigation and protection procedures.

Russell-Cooke LLP

Matthew Bowles

Matt is a Partner in the Real Estate department with extensive experience in all aspects of commercial property investment, development and management work. He acts for institutional investors and high net worth individuals on a wide range of acquisitions and disposals, including portfolio transactions. In addition, he undertakes asset management and development work for a number of landlords and tenants. He also regularly advises lenders and borrowers on real estate financing transactions. Matt deals with all asset types, including retail, office and mixed-use schemes, and has particular experience in the high-value central London office and retail market. He has acted for a number of the UK's largest property investors including Shaftesbury Capital, Great Portland Estates, Land Securities, LaSalle Investment Management, O&H Properties, Schroders and Threadneedle Investments. Matt also acts for a number of large corporate occupiers providing assistance and advice in relation to their property requirements in the UK and throughout Europe.

Mishcon de Reya LLP