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Melanie McGuirk
Melanie has a strong track record in resolving disputes for clients relating to intellectual property. She has extensive experience of acting for major retailers and clients in the fashion, manufacturing, and creative industries, helping to protect their brands, product designs and commercial know-how, including where they act as master franchisor. She has specialist expertise in trade libel and reputation management, particularly in relation to the adverse or intrusive media coverage of clients’ business interests or personal lives. Melanie is also an experienced supervising solicitor in search order cases. Melanie’s work highlights include cases where search and seizure orders were served or defended in multi-million-pound parallel import disputes and a key decision of the European Court of Justice in respect of jurisdictional issues arising from online trade mark infringement.
Foot Anstey
Melanie Minter
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Melanie Steed
Melanie Steed is a principal associate in the employment, pensions and immigration team, based in the Leeds office. She has acted for all kinds of employers during her career, from large PLCs and household name employers through to owner managed businesses and senior execs. She has particular expertise in the education sector, having joined Weightmans from her most recent role as a senior in-house lawyer at The University of Leeds where she worked hand in hand with her senior management, human resources and governance colleagues to manage a whole range of staff and institutional related issues. Melanie deals with all contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including employment tribunals, employee relations and transactional work. She has a strong reputation amongst her clients and peers for giving pragmatic and commercial advice in a way which is direct and accessible as well as for being easy to work alongside.
Weightmans LLP
Melanie Talbot
Partner
Fieldfisher
Melanie Williams
Melanie is appointed as a professional property and affairs deputy in the Court of Protection for those with dementia, learning disabilities and acquired brain injury. This role involves taking responsibility for the financial assets of someone who lacks the capacity to make decisions for themselves. Melanie provides advice and support to lay deputies about their ongoing responsibilities. She can advise and assist with property and affairs applications, welfare applications deputyship returns and damages award management. She frequently makes applications to the Court of Protection for a statutory will where somebody cannot make their own will; instructions are taken, often from the deputy or a family member, and a draft of a proposed will is sent to the Court of Protection for approval. Representations may be made to Court by those who will be affected by the new will. Where possible, if all parties can agree, the matter can be concluded without the need for an attended hearing at Court. Melanie also deals with the drafting and administration of personal injury trusts including High Court approved trusts for injured children. She has a special interest in NHS Continuing Healthcare matters and represents clients going through the assessment process. She recently worked with a team of professionals to secure funding for a client with an acquired brain injury, living in her own home, where a primary health need could be evidenced. Where NHS funding is not available, Melanie advises on whether an application should be made for local authority funding. She recently pursued funding for a client which resulted in Social Services agreeing to pay for a package of care worth £6,000 per month and reimbursing fees of £120,000 already paid.
Freeths LLP
Melike Kankur
Associate
gunnercooke LLP
Melinda Dix
Associate Solicitor
Birketts LLP
Melinka Berridge
Melinka is a litigation specialist with expertise in the fields of private prosecutions, professional discipline and Health and Safety. Melinka heads up the team responsible for private prosecutions. She helps individuals, corporates and charities bring criminal prosecutions, especially when the State fails to act. Melinka has over twelve years’ experience of investigating and presenting high-profile fitness to practise cases. She also advises regulatory clients on the suitability of their enforcement regimes. Melinka acts for directors and senior officers accused of committing health and safety offences. She also advises them on what constitutes effective governance over health and safety within their organisations. Prior to joining Kingsley Napley, Melinka was the Head of Licensing for JD Wetherspoon plc. She continues to help operators in the leisure sector to comply with their regulatory responsibilities or respond to enforcement action.
Kingsley Napley LLP
Melissa Arnold
Partner
Osbornes
Melissa Barker
Partner and Head of Plot Sales
Shoosmiths LLP
Melissa Ellis
Melissa is a Legal Director in the Private Client Department. Melissa advises on a range of tax, trust, estate and succession planning issues, including lifetime giving and tax compliance for high net worth UK and international individuals, families and trustees. She also advises individuals moving to and leaving the UK on tax residence and domicile issues. Melissa regularly advises trustees on structuring and UK tax issues particularly in relation to UK property holding structures and trust distributions to UK resident beneficiaries.
Payne Hicks Beach LLP
Melissa Gardner
Partner Melissa acts for children and adults in high value cases involving serious harm. She has significant experience in dealing cases involving birth injuries, neonatal jaundice (kernicterus) and hypoglycaemia. She also acts for adults in cases involving strokes and cauda equina syndrome. 2020 highlights include the hypoglycaemia case of OP, which settled for £13M, and the spinal injury case of KI, which settled for £2.1M.
JMW Solicitors LLP
Melissa George
Partner and head of the Restructuring and Insolvency team
Ashfords LLP
Melissa Gulcimen
Melissa is a Senior Associate in our Commercial team, based primarily in our Manchester office. After qualifying with Shoosmiths in 2017, she worked as in-house Legal Counsel within the retail industry for several years. Melissa has extensive experience advising a leading fast-fashion retailer and advising clients in the retail, beauty and nutrition industry on their promotional terms, marketing and social media strategies, influencer and ambassador collaborations, e-commerce and IT projects, website compliance, ASA investigations, logistical operations and wholesale partnerships. Melissa returned to Shoosmiths in July 2022, bringing a wealth of in-house experience and having a genuine appreciation of the challenges faced by business stakeholders and in-house legal teams. She is driven by the need to offer clients creative and practical solutions, and is experienced in implementing processes and procedures in order to maximise efficiency for in-house legal teams (including the implementation of Legal Tech for contract management and template creation, the development of training manuals and the delivery of technical training workshops).
Shoosmiths LLP
Melissa Lesson
Melissa is a barrister and Partner in the Family department and heads up the Anglo-French Family Law team. She is also head of the Firm's French Group. She is a dual French and English national and is a multilingual speaker, speaking French and Italian. Many of her cases have a Francophone angle. Melissa specialises in separation, divorce, trusts and jurisdictional disputes, including complex, multi-jurisdictional cases involving significant assets. These often also include private children matters such as residence and contact, prohibited steps and specific issues. Many of Melissa’s clients have been high profile figures, and she regularly works on cases with lawyers in Paris and on international prenuptial agreements. Melissa has law degrees from both the Universities of London and Paris and was a pupil at 1 Hare Court. She was called to the Bar in 1998 and became a Partner at Mishcon de Reya in 2008. Melissa speaks at international conferences and is a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). She leads Mishcon's membership of the French Chamber of Commerce and regularly contributes articles to their website. Melissa was listed as a Family Law expert in the 2013 London Super Lawyers directory and has been included in the Citywealth Leaders List 2013. Melissa is a Trustee of the Soke Foundation which funds initiatives aimed at caring for the mental health of the vulnerable, and those unable to seek help due to financial or other circumstances beyond their control.
Mills & Reeve LLP
Melissa Loucas
Partner
Birketts LLP
Menelaos Nicolaou
Partner
Preston Turnbull
Meredith Hurst
Partner & Head of Knowledge Management
Thomas Mansfield Solicitors
Meriel O’Loughlin
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Meriel Pymont
Meriel is an experienced commercial and intellectual property solicitor. She trained with Linklaters and subsequently worked in-house for Walt Disney and then again in private practice for Farrer & Co which gives her a commercial pro-active approach to advising clients. Meriel advises media, manufacturing, fashion, sporting and software clients on their commercial arrangements and protecting /exploiting their intellectual property rights. The areas in which Meriel specialises are; advising on all aspects of online commerce including privacy policies (data protection) and distance selling; international licensing; manufacture and distribution agreements; software licensing development and maintenance agreements; terms and conditions of sale and purchase; sponsorship and event agreements; including broadcasting of events; advertising and marketing agreements; international non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements; consultancy agreements; broadcasting; channel and satellite agreements; research and development agreements; book publishing agreements; film option agreements; consultancy agreements; agency agreements; outsourcing agreements.
Keystone Law
Merrill April
Partner
CM Murray LLP
Michael Adamson
Partner and Head of Property Litigation
DKLM Solicitors
Michael Alden
Partner and Head of the Private Wealth Division
Ashfords LLP
Michael Allum
Partner
The International Family Law Group LLP