Lawyers in England

Matthew Braithwaite

Matt advises a wide range of UK and international clients, from individuals, families, trustees, beneficiaries and family offices on a wide range of private client issues, including UK tax, estate and succession planning. Matt acts for high net worth individuals and families including business owners, professional executives and entrepreneurs. Matt advises on the establishment and use of trusts and other wealth holding structures, and also on the succession of family trusts and businesses and governance issues. He also advises on Wills and wider estate and succession planning issues.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Matthew Brandis

Partner and Practice Group Leader

B P Collins LLP

Matthew Brehaut

Matt is a partner in the corporate team in Carey Olsen’s London office. He advises on corporate and investment funds matters, with particular experience in the structuring and launch of investment funds. Matt provides funds, fund service providers and fund promoters with advice on all aspects of the establishment, regulation and operation of investment funds.

Carey Olsen LLP

Matthew Brown

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Matthew Brown

Matt is an experienced commercial litigator with a proven track record conducting heavyweight litigation with a particular emphasis in the following core areas: insurance litigation and policy disputes; product liability and property damage disputes; and building disputes and professional negligence claims. Matt has a particularly strong reputation in the insurance, retail and technology sectors and works with a number of leading white goods manufacturers and insurance companies including Hoover Candy Group and MD Insurance Services. Matt regularly handles complex and high value technical cases, often involving multiple parties and the need for expert evidence, in the High Court. He combines an analytical approach with an ability to understand his clients’ key objectives and commercial drivers to develop strategies that achieve the best possible results for his clients. In some cases this requires recourse to court action including, where relevant, urgent injunctive relief. In many cases, however, the focus is on facilitating an early commercial resolution, utilising ADR processes such as negotiation and mediation. Recent work handled by Matt includes: successfully extracting a global healthcare company from a multiparty, multi-million pound High Court product liability claim arising out of fire damage; securing a significant payout from a supplier for a household name client in respect of a multi-million pound claim in respect of defective toy products; successfully defending a multi-million pound High Court professional negligence claim relating to an allegedly defective lift; successfully resisting an application to bring an additional claim in a multimillion pound reported Commercial Court case (Gaia River SA v (1) Behike Ltd (2) Alpha Sky Ltd (2020)); securing a significant payout for a developer in connection with an insurance policy coverage dispute concerning a right to light claim. Matt has spent three months working on secondment with a leading global leisure travel PLC. Matt is a contributing author to the Insurance and Reinsurance section of LexisNexis' online practical guide for legal practitioners, Lexis PSL.

Shoosmiths LLP

Matthew Cain

Partner. Specialisms include: international tax-based investment structuring for high-net-worth individuals, utilising trusts, partnerships, corporate entities, hybrid entities, life insurance and collective investment schemes.

Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove

Matthew Cameron

Partner

Ashtons Legal

Matthew Chapman

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Matthew Claxson

Matthew is an experienced serious injury solicitor who specialises in accessing rehabilitation for people who have suffered major trauma. He also represents at inquest those who have been bereaved. His clients are those who have, through no fault of their own, suffered brain injury, spinal cord injury, limb loss, complex fractures or bereavement either in the UK or abroad. On their behalf, he claims compensation from the party at fault. An important part of this process is to secure payments as quickly as possible (interim payments) to support rehabilitation. Many of Matthew's clients are people who have suffered major brain or spinal cord injuries, and the families of fatal incident victims.

Moore Barlow

Matthew Cocklin

Matthew specialises in construction dispute resolution and acts for all groups that operate in the domestic and international construction industry including developers, public bodies, contractors, sub-contractors and construction professionals. He advises on the merits of all types of construction dispute and acts as party representative in adjudication, arbitration, expert determination and litigation (Technology and Construction Court) proceedings together with mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Matthew has experience of acting as advocate at meetings before some of the leading adjudicators in the UK.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Matthew Collings

Matthew is a Principal Associate based in Weightmans’ London office, having previously qualified as a barrister. Matthew deals with all aspects of planning law, having advised both public and private sector clients on policy support, planning applications including the preparation of environmental statements, section 106 agreements and judicial review. Matthew has particular expertise in compulsory purchase and compensation matters and, in 2016, was elected to the national committee of the Compulsory Purchase Association. He regularly lectures on a wide variety of planning and compulsory purchase subjects and is a former Committee Member of the Professional Advisory Board of the University of Salford's School of the Built Environment. He is recognised as an 'Associate to Watch' in Chambers and Partners 2017 with his "knowledge and awareness" being described as "first class". According to clients he is "really strong on compulsory purchase," with one client stating: "He'll sit and listen to debates and arguments on where we want to get to, detail and provide a number of options and point out our risks with each of those options, and then provide advice." He is ranked in Chambers and Partners 2019 and was recognised in Legal 500 2019 as “regularly handling high profile compulsory purchase mandates”.

Weightmans LLP

Matthew Collings

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Matthew Corn

Partner

Olliers

Matthew Cummings

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Matthew Currie

Matthew is managing Partner for motor road traffic accident claims at Irwin Mitchell and executive board member for the Personal Legal Services division. He is on the national management committee of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society. MASS, like Irwin Mitchell, is concerned with protecting and promoting the interests of road traffic accident victims and is regularly asked to consult on procedural and legislative changes.

Irwin Mitchell

Matthew Dalzell

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Matthew Dando

Matthew is an experienced litigator, specialising in contentious commercial matters and publication disputes in the media industry. “In any given day, I’m a lawyer, business adviser, strategist and manager of my team. I think clients particularly value my broad knowledge of media businesses and the media sector so they can be confident I understand their objectives. As someone with experience of working in-house, I appreciate the need for excellent service and pragmatic, commercial advice that goes beyond the purely legal. My work is hugely varied, reflecting the wide-ranging issues that my clients face. I handle hotly fought disputes such as libel and privacy litigation for publishers, often against prominent and well-resourced public figures, as well as substantial and often international pieces of commercial litigation and arbitration. I help clients at earlier stages too, working with media clients at a pre-publication/production stage to assess the risk profile of their content before it’s distributed and with commercial clients to consider contractual issues and stress test commercial scenarios so they can best prevent difficult situations arising at all. Across all of this, I feel lucky to work in partnership with smart clients, often doing ground-breaking work, to find a path through problems that sometimes seem intractable. I approach these situations in a calm, level-headed way always with my clients’ perspectives and objectives front of mind. Sometimes it’s necessary to go all the way to court to achieve a result, but there is often a more constructive way. While a lot of my work has a media focus, I also have a depth of experience with contractual and commercial disputes, including issues of rights exploitation, endorsement agreements, contractual interpretation, boardroom fallouts and responses to misuse of confidential information. No matter the situation, my aim is always to help clients gain early leverage and get back to their day job free from the distraction of disputes.”

Wiggin LLP

Matthew Davies

Matthew is a partner in the immigration department with 20 years of immigration law experience. He specialises in all areas of immigration and nationality law including advising individuals and organisations. His recent focus of activity has been in respect to relationship applications, human rights work, students, workers and the points-based system. He has represented on many appeals over the years including numerous reported cases in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has experience of large complex cases including national security appeals before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission. Matthew sits as a part-time immigration judge in the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Matthew Dick

Matthew specialises in all areas of brands-related law and litigation, with a particular focus on trade marks and designs. He has represented both small and multinational clients from a wide variety of industries, providing a full-service offering: from the development and clearance of new brands, to registration strategy, oppositions, use and exploitation in the marketplace and ultimately enforcement, all on a worldwide basis. Matthew has advised clients in relation to ASA complaints, UDRP proceedings relating to domain names and disputes before the EUIPO, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the UKIPO and the English High Court. He also advises clients on copyright and design issues. Matthew is a member of the Unfair Competition Team for MARQUES - the European association representing the interests of trade mark owners.

D Young & Co LLP

Matthew Dorman

Browne Jacobson LLP

Matthew Dorman

Associate

Browne Jacobson LLP

Matthew Duggan

Matthew advises entrepreneurs on complex commercial legal issues. Throughout his career, he has advised businesses and financial institutions on corporate and commercial transactions in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Matthew was founding executive and General Counsel for United Customer Management Solutions, a business process outsourcing company, where he was responsible for negotiating and managing a wide range of international transactions. His blend of private practice and in-house experience makes him particularly familiar with the challenges that organisations face in obtaining proactive and cost effective legal advice.

Keystone Law

Matthew Duncan

Matthew is a partner and Head of the Private Wealth Team. He has an extensive private client practice and has specialist expertise in a number of areas. His particular expertise includes dealing with complex tax planning, trust and estate issues for both UK and international high net worth individuals and trustees. Matthew deals with complex high level estate and succession planning with particular emphasis on entrepreneurial clients and family businesses. Furthermore he has developed a strong contentious probate, trust and disputed wills practice. Worthy of particular note, Matthew is registered as a will draftsman in the Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) Wills and Probate Registry where he is authorised to draft and advise on the production of DIFC compliant wills. Matthew was the first non Dubai based solicitor to be awarded this title. Furthermore he is a professional deputy for the Court of Protection and has a number of complex professional deputyships, Executorships and Trustee appointments. Matthew offers pragmatic, practical and personable advice. He is consistently praised by clients and intermediaries for his care and attention and excellent advice. Matthew is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). In Legal 500, Matthew is recognised for his personal tax, trusts and probate practice, where he is described as ‘a leader in his field, best private client lawyer – a true rock in any situation.’ He is also credited for his ‘good personal skills’ in regard to his contentious trust and probate work. “Matthew Duncan is simply by far the best lawyer we have engaged; He builds trust based on actions , and his legal knowledge is superior to anyone we have engaged before. A lawyer for life”.

Druces LLP

Matthew Evans

Of Counsel. Matthew has a broad practice within RPC's commercial disputes department, with a particular focus on banking and financial services disputes. Matthew acts on complex commercial litigation matters for corporates and financial institutions, most often with international dimensions. He regularly acts on matters appearing in the English High Court and Court of Appeal, including matters appearing in the UK Financial List. Matthew also has experience acting alongside US and MEA counsel on a wide range of litigation and advisory matters, often where relief is sought from the English Courts in support of foreign proceedings.

RPC