Lawyers in England

Naz Gauri

Principle Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Nazia Khan

Nazia is a solicitor in the immigration department, also specialising in civil litigation. She frequently represents clients at the High Court in their judicial review matters and takes on a wide range of immigration related cases, including the following; Unlawful detention False imprisonment Unlawful delay in processing immigration and asylum applications Fresh claim challenges/unlawful denial of appeal rights Challenges to refusals of Article 8 ECHR family and private life applications Third Country removals Challenges to decisions to deny access to public funds Challenging removals by way of urgent interim relief applications Nazia has represented clients in all aspects of human rights claims from initial applications through to appeals in the First-tier and Upper Tribunal of the Immigration Asylum Chamber and the Higher Courts. She has also assisted clients with entry clearance applications, settlement applications and nationality matters. She has significant experience in dealing with vulnerable clients including minors, those in detention and those suffering from complex psychological issues, as well as victims of torture, trafficking and victims of domestic violence.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Nazia Nawaz

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Nazir Mirza

Nazir was admitted as a solicitor in September 2015 and joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in November 2021 as a Clinical Negligence Solicitor within the firm’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence department. She has extensive experience acting for claimants in serious and complex matters, including cases involving catastrophic brain injuries, fatalities, and complex orthopaedic trauma. Nazir regularly represents clients who have sustained injuries as a result of accidents at work, road traffic collisions, and slips or trips, and is adept at navigating the evidential and procedural challenges these claims present. Her clinical negligence practice encompasses a wide range of claims, including those arising from delayed diagnoses, surgical errors, and orthopaedic injuries caused by misdiagnosis or negligent treatment. She works closely with medical experts and counsel to secure the best possible outcomes for her clients. Nazir is passionate about advocating for individuals who have suffered life‑changing injuries through no fault of their own. She is committed to ensuring that her clients not only obtain the compensation they deserve but also access the rehabilitation and long‑term support necessary to rebuild their lives. Fluent in Punjabi and Urdu, Nazir is able to provide legal advice to clients from a wide range of backgrounds.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Neal Hodges

Partner

Simons Muirhead Burton

Neal Samarji

Neal has been an insurance litigation specialist lawyer from the start of his career in 1992. He was head of insurance litigation at Elliotts where he spent 11 years before joining Weightmans in 2003. Neal has significant experience in defendant insurance litigation particularly high value and sensitive injury litigation including catastrophic injuries. Neal's work is divided between his legal practice and managing client relationships where his approach is pro-active and focused in providing solutions and value to clients' needs. Memberships include the Law Society and Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL).

Weightmans LLP

Neal Todd

I am a highly experienced tax adviser, specialising in tax planning for corporates and HNWI with business interests. An example of recent work includes completing a major reorganisation of a private equity group with significant business interests around the world. The planning resulted in a structure which should be tax efficient going forward and is acceptable to all stakeholders, including the tax authorities in the countries in which the business operates. I am recognised as an expert in tax law by both Chambers and Legal 500.

Fladgate LLP

Neave Maguire

Neave is a highly experienced construction lawyer with a dual practice in contentious and non-contentious matters, advising clients across the full project lifecycle. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating NEC, JCT, and bespoke contracts on major UK and international infrastructure projects across the energy, transport, life sciences, and residential sectors. Neave frequently supports clients with procurement strategy, contract amendments, risk allocation, and project delivery issues. She also advises on collateral warranties, bonds, and construction aspects of corporate transactions. On the contentious side, Neave acts as lead associate in complex disputes involving fire safety, delay and disruption, latent defects, final accounts, and wrongful termination. She has experience in adjudications, mediations, expert determinations, and court proceedings, including before the Court of Appeal. She also advises on contractor insolvency, recovery strategies, and general commercial litigation. Neave’s clients include developers, pension funds, housing associations, subcontractors, and global engineering and transport firms.

Keystone Law

Ned El‑Imad

Ned is a legal advisor to a wide range of clients including ultra high net worth individuals, private banks, real estate investors, developers and dealers. His clients include some of the most successful business people from different countries around the world and he assists them with varying legal requirements in the areas of real estate, tax planning, asset protection, immigration, reputation, private client and special situations. Ned provides diligent and tactical advice and recognises the importance of commercial strategy considerations in addition to pure legal advice. He has extensive experience of international clients and their sensitivities in home jurisdictions. Ned is well connected in London and internationally, and often facilitates important business introductions for his clients. Ned is frequently quoted in the media, and is considered a leader in his field. He was recently voted one of the Top 35 under the age of 35 lawyers, by Private Client Practitioner Magazine as well as being voted as a leading expert in real estate by Spears Magazine. In addition, Ned was ranked as one of London's 10 Real Estate Secret Power Brokers by London Loves Business.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Neda Badri

Associate

Birketts LLP

Negin Kalkan

Negin is a Director in the corporate team.

Ernst & Young LLP

Neil Adleman

Neil is a partner and head of the firm's theatre practice. Neil advises extensively in the theatre sector and is recognised as a leading practitioner both in the UK and abroad. In particular he provides strategic and business advice to players in the theatre and wider entertainment industries. His clients include leading producers, theatre owners and operators, subsidised sector venues and touring companies. He also advises a number of high profile rights owners in connection with the management and exploitation of their rights across a wide range of media and platforms. Neil has a prolific international practice, regularly advising in connection with productions opening on Broadway and in other territories worldwide, on transfers from Broadway to the West End and in particular on UK/US financing structures. Productions he has advised on include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, War Horse, Dear England, The Lehman Trilogy and Wicked.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Neil Baker

Neil is a Partner in Clarke Willmott's Planning and Environment Team and acts for a number of leading institutions, national housebuilders, regional commercial developers, landowners, industrial and manufacturing concerns, and for a number of public sector bodies.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Neil Barbour

Partner with a recognised expertise in agricultural law. Advises clients on all aspects of agricultural property law, ranging from the acquisition and disposal of farms and estates, to advisory work on agricultural tenancies of all types and secured lending work to the agricultural sector. Deals with all areas of work for estate clients, including (where relevant) sales and purchases of residential units, and the grant and release of easements.

Thrings LLP

Neil Bhan

Partner - EPI Leeds, London, Manchester & Birmingham

Weightmans LLP

Neil Biswas

Neil specialises in development and investment work with a particular focus on the living sector. With over two decades of experience, he regularly advises a wide range of clients – including developers, regeneration specialists, investors, and end users – across all major property asset classes. Neil has built a strong reputation in the market for advising on complex, large-scale transactions. His expertise spans housing and regeneration both in the private and affordable sectors, student accommodation and mixed-use development, joint ventures, property funds, and real estate finance. He is particularly well known for his work in the London market and has acted on some of the UK’s most high-profile development and residential investment projects.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Neil Bradley

Neil is a Principal Associate in the Manchester Real Estate Team. Neil joined Shoosmiths in 2008 in our Birmingham office following a number of years working with another major national firm in their landlord and tenant and property finance teams working for both leisure and retail clients. Neil has experience in all aspects of commercial property transactions, including landlord and tenant work, development (with funding) and convenience store developments. Real Estate finance with major high street lenders as well as private lenders also forms part of his practice. Neil has worked alongside our Restructuring and Insolvency Team, working on deals ranging from major property administrations to lower value disposals for nationwide receivers. Neil also works with a number of clients in the residential and student tower developments for both private occupation and private rented sector through schemes across the north of England.

Shoosmiths LLP

Neil Brand

Bevan Brittan LLP

Neil Brown

Neil is an experienced corporate partner who specialises in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate advisory, and his work also includes Part VII transfers and Lloyd’s third-party syndicate management transactions. His focus is largely on corporate deals within the insurance, technology, sport and retail sectors and his clients include professional services firms, sports businesses, and global insurance and reinsurance companies. Prior to joining RPC, Neil worked for Freshfields for eight years advising on high-value transactions for financial institutions.

RPC

Neil Burton

Neil is head of charities at Mills & Reeve, with responsibility for its 250+ charity clients, which include many of the largest and best-known names in the UK and internationally. Neil is a commercial specialist and is involved in much of the firm’s cutting edge work for the sector, for example around alternative fundraising and innovative deal structures for charity, NGO, university and further education clients. He works closely with specialists in IP, tax, contested legacies and procurement to deliver complete and commercial solutions to his clients’ challenges, whatever and wherever their activities are. A large part of Neil’s work is international. He is part of a team that has advised universities on collaborations and new campuses in over 50 countries. He has been seconded to leading law firms in China, India, Abu Dhabi and Qatar and is the head of firm’s Middle East desk. Neil is also a Notary Public.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Neil Clayton

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Neil Cuffe

Partner

Judge & Priestley LLP

Neil Davies

Neil specialises in acting for insurers and insured professional clients in the defence of professional negligence claims. He has experience in acting for a broad range of professionals, and has a particular interest in claims relating to construction professionals, and insurance brokers. His reported cases include (1) Pearson Education v The Charter Partnership [2005] EWHC 655 (QB) (first instance); [2007] BLR 324 (Court of Appeal); and (2) Daniels v Thompson [2004] EWCA Civ 307. Neil has joint responsibility for managing the insurance practice based in the East of England. He is also the partner responsible for insurance work relating to construction professionals and insurance brokers in the East of England.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Neil Davis

Neil joined Mills & Reeve in 2000 and became a partner in 2004. Since 2008 Neil has led the London insurance and reinsurance team and in 2012, he became head of the firm’s national insurance group with responsibility for developing and delivering the firm’s strategy for this core sector. Neil’s own experience is principally in relation to professional negligence disputes and his particular areas of focus are in defending claims against solicitors and insurance brokers, where he is currently dealing with a number of substantial and complex claims. In addition, he has a growing practice defending professional negligence and breach of contract claims against IT companies. Neil has significant experience of advising on coverage issues. He is client partner for a number of the firm’s key clients including AIG, Allianz and WR Berkeley.

Mills & Reeve LLP