Lawyers in England

Nikki Bowker

Nikki is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team. Nikki has acted on a wide range of commercial cases during her time at Devonshires; including civil fraud cases, which have involved obtaining freezing orders and other interim injunctions, large facilities management contract disputes and complex IT disputes. Nikki is also experienced in handling cases involving public law and human rights issues. She is regularly instructed to deal with Judicial Review proceedings and has particular expertise in cases arising from the justice sector. Nikki is also part of the team at Devonshires that acts on a number of historic criminal cases. Nikki regularly advises on reputational issues and handling the media.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Nikki Brastock

Senior Associate in the Restructuring and Insolvency team

Ashfords LLP

Nikki Corrie

Nikki Corrie is a Senior Associate at Vardags, specialising in high-value and complex family law matters. With over a decade of exclusive experience in family law, Nikki is known for her forensic mind, exceptional recall, and strategic thinking. She has been described as “a partner in the making”, “a tremendous talent” and an “absolutely exceptional legal brain”. Nikki’s robust practice includes advising HNW clients on financial remedies following divorce or civil partnership dissolution, interim financial matters including maintenance and legal funding, children matters including contested national and international relocation, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and jurisdictional disputes. She handles numerous substantial money cases, and assets of c. £15m are now the norm for her. Nikki’s global client base includes individuals in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, often involving complex business interests, trusts, and pre-marital wealth. She is also commended on her client care skills, being described as “exceptionally efficient and reliable” with “interpersonal skills off the chart” and having clients who “adore her”.

Vardags

Nikki Edwards

Nikki Edwards is a partner in the Commercial Dispute Resolution team. She is a seasoned trial solicitor and a practising mediator, focused on achieving commercial and cost-effective results for her clients worldwide. Nikki has over 15 years’ experience resolving disputes across various sectors both within the UK and internationally. She has particular experience of dealing with shareholder and company disputes, fraud and dishonesty, complex contractual disputes, negligence and enforcing foreign judgments. She has obtained victories for her clients at trials in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court as well as the Court of Appeal. Nikki also has wide-ranging experience of dealing with injunctions and other interlocutory orders. However, her primary focus is on achieving successful results for her clients, often acting as a trusted advisor with a view to resolving matters at an early stage. Her experience as a mediator is valuable in this regard. As President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (the LSLA), which has over 3500 members, Nikki helps to shape civil justice reform and promote best practice in litigation in England and Wales.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Nikki Fahey

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Nikki Jonas

Nikki is a Partner and has specialised in Commercial Property since 2005. She assists Craig Moore in leading the Plymouth Real Estate Team. She acts for a number of high profile regional clients and has a wealth of experience in landlord and tenant work including commercial freehold and leasehold acquisitions, disposals and property management work for a wide variety of large developer and investor landlords. Nikki provides seamless project management experience in leading multidisciplinary teams of lawyers on large corporate share and asset acquisitions and disposals and has led and won a number of successful client pitches in the last year "virtually" during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the “go to” Real Estate touchpoint for the South West Corporate Team. She leads a core, skilled team to drive this forward efficiently and making use of technology. Nikki develops and grows strong, close collaborative working relationships with colleagues and continually recruits, leads, trains, supports and develops juniors. Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500 2022.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Nikki Link

Associate solicitor

Irwin Mitchell

Nikki Petken

Partner | Corporate & Commercial Team Nikki is a solutions-focused lawyer with extensive in-house experience, bringing a wealth of operational and commercial insight. Her comprehensive background spans contract drafting and negotiations, litigation, and corporate governance, equipping her with the skills to navigate complex legal landscapes. She has worked across a broad range of sectors and sizes of businesses in both private practice and in-house, with a particular focus on healthcare, sport, media, and broadcasting. This diverse experience has honed her ability to address sector-specific challenges and opportunities. As a highly versatile and effective communicator, Nikki excels at building strategic partnerships within businesses. Her role as a trusted adviser has been spotlighted by her tenure on boards and executive management teams, where she provided critical updates on legal, risk, and compliance matters, and reported to boards as company secretary on key approval issues.

SA Law LLP

Nikki Powell

Nikki acts for a range of business clients, institutions and public sector occupiers in relation to their property requirements including acquisitions, lease renewals and disposals relating to trading premises, warehouses, industrial units and other properties. She guides clients through strategic projects (including corporate acquisitions and divestments, insolvency processes, re-organisations and Head Office relocations. She specialises in managing large and diverse property portfolios. Her work is predominantly retail focused and she acts for a number of national and international retailers including: Ann Summers Footlocker New Look Specsavers Post Office Nikki works with retailers managing their store portfolios across outlet, shopping centre and high street locations as well as on out of town retail parks and franchises. Over the last few years, Nikki has also assisted many of our retail clients with aggressive property maximisation programmes including pulling together strategies for expansions, rationalisations and re-gears. Nikki also works with a number of international manufacturers assisting them with their UK property requirements including managing their existing premises and also acquiring critical additional manufacturing and distribution facilities.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Nikola Southern

Niki is a partner within the employment team who has a strong litigation practice. She has successfully pursued and defended numerous hard-fought cases in the High Court and Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal, discrimination and breach of contract. Niki combines technical rigour with commercial nous and a pragmatic approach to place clients in the best possible position to avoid litigation, initiate claims or, for employers, provide a strong defence to any claims and reach favourable resolutions. Niki has often acted in complex cases requiring her to navigate overlapping issues such as equal pay, discrimination, harassment, sickness absence, performance and misconduct. She regularly advises on substantial, wide-ranging investigations. She has particular experience of representing employers and employees in the higher education, retail, media, professional and financial sectors. Niki co-edits the employment precedents in Sweet Maxwell’s Practical Commercial Precedents.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Nilam Sharma

Nilam is a dual US- and UK-qualified insurance and reinsurance expert. Specialising in directors and officers, financial lines, and professional negligence, with an emphasis on those professionals advising on financial transactions, she is one of very few lawyers outside of the US with expertise in this area. With an international client base spanning Europe, the US, Asia and Bermuda, Nilam advises insurers and their clients on policy coverage and the strategy of responding to a multi-jurisdictional regulatory investigation. In addition, she provides counsel on corporate governance issues and financial transactions and related regulatory investigations. Alongside her contentious practice, Nilam has an impressive portfolio of non-contentious work, including drafting policy wordings and assisting clients in detecting key risk issues. She is also a regular speaker at leading industry events.

Keystone Law

Nils Dahl-Nielsen

Nils is a Partner of Jackson Parton with extensive experience in all aspects of the firm's shipping practice, including charterparty and bill of lading disputes, P&I and defence work, piracy related issues, marine insurance and maritime arbitration. He acts for shipowners, charterers, P&I clubs, ship operators and cargo and hull underwriters worldwide. Nils is often instructed, and has acted as an advocate on applications for urgent injunctive relief, including anti-suit injunctions and applications for 'Vasso' orders. He also has experience in the salvage and collision aspects of shipping and general commercial litigation. For further information please contact Nils on the above number, or alternatively on +44 7947447105.

Jackson Parton Solicitors

Nilufer Ozdemir

Senior Associate Solicitor

TV Edwards Solicitors LLP

Nina Ali

Nina, formerly a qualified cardiology nurse, is now a senior partner with extensive experience of a variety of medical negligence cases ranging from maximum severity/high value claims including brain and spinal injury to claims of more moderate value but with equally and sometimes more complex medical and legal issues. She has a particular interest in psychiatric cases and is committed to working towards ensuring the same level of accountability that prevail in general medicine to this currently very poorly represented area. She has considerable experience of fatal cases, including advocacy at inquests.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Nina Caplin

Nina is a knowledge lawyer in the Banking and Financial Services team. She supports the Financial Services team, keeping them up to speed with the latest regulatory developments and providing them with the resources required to undertake client work efficiently and accurately. She trains the lawyers in new law and practice, answers legal queries, and assists with knowledge sharing and resources across the firm’s practice group.

Farrer & Co

Nina Clift

Nina is a senior associate within the trusts and private wealth group and advises high net worth clients and trustees with regard to the establishment and administration of offshore trusts. Nina deals with all aspects of fiduciary law and provides advice on contentious and non-contentious trust and probate matters. She also prepares wills and advises on wealth planning and estate administration for local and international clients.

Carey Olsen LLP

Nina Ferris

Partner - Head of UK Commercial Dispute Resolution

Hill Dickinson LLP

Nina Hansen

Freemans Solicitors

Nina Khuffash

Senior Associate Nina provides advice to both companies and individuals on all aspects of employment law, in particular on how to manage and resolve the day-to-day employment issues that can arise in the workplace. Nina's clients benefit from her experience acting on behalf of both individuals and companies in a range of sectors including theatre, start-ups, financial services, and technology. Nina advises employers on disciplinary issues, performance and capability, disability and ill health of employees, redundancy, as well as employment tribunal litigation. Reviews and prepares internal documentation for employers such as handbooks, policies and procedures, contracts, and settlement agreements. Nina supports individuals through disciplinary and grievance processes and advise a wide range of matters, such as unfair dismissal and discrimination concerns. This often leads to assisting employees in negotiated exits. Provides advice and support on data protection matters that flow from employment relationships, such as data subject access requests and data transfer agreements.

Magrath Sheldrick LLP

Nina Lake

Nina Lake is a Partner in Howard Kennedy’s Family Team. Nina is a highly regarded family law specialist, known for her outstanding expertise in resolving complex matrimonial and child-related disputes. She provides bespoke advice on a wide range of matters, including divorce, financial settlements, child arrangements, and sensitive family issues such as domestic abuse. Nina is particularly adept at crafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements tailored to safeguard wealth and future-proof her clients’ interests, as well as advising on the legal intricacies of cohabitation. Nina’s practice is focused on high-net-worth individuals, often involving substantial and intricate financial portfolios with multi-jurisdictional dimensions. Her clients include professionals at the top of their fields, such as lawyers, doctors, and senior executives, alongside entrepreneurs, business leaders, and inheritors of significant generational wealth. She is frequently sought after by high-profile celebrities and media personalities, offering discreet and strategic representation to protect their financial and personal interests. With an empathetic and pragmatic approach, Nina supports her clients through what is often one of the most emotionally challenging periods of their lives. She is praised for her ability to navigate complex negotiations with sensitivity while remaining focused on achieving the best possible outcomes. Nina combines technical excellence with strategic foresight, ensuring her clients feel empowered and secure at every stage of the process. Nina’s reputation for handling high-stakes cases with diligence and care has earned her the trust of clients both in the UK and internationally, making her a standout figure in the field of family law.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Nina O\'Sullivan

Nina O'Sullivan is a Legal Director, Professional Support Lawyer in the Intellectual Property Group. She has almost 20 years' experience of intellectual property (IP) litigation and protection and related fields, and has a particular interest in the life sciences, TMT and retail & luxury sectors. As the Group's Professional Support Lawyer, Nina provides the team and its clients with up to the minute information, guidance and training on developments in IP law and practice, and the implications for their business. Having specialised in IP litigation at a City firm, Nina has also gained valuable experience in delivering training as a Senior Lecturer, and is currently an Independent Research Essay Adviser for LLM students at University College, London (UCL). Nina has written extensively on IP issues in all of the main IP and industry press and worked with the Law Commission on its 2013 Report into the groundless threats regime, writing two Background Papers which formed part of the Report.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Nina Rathbone Pullen

Solicitor

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Nina Sekular

Nina is a consultant solicitor at Danielle Cohen Immigration Law Solicitors Ltd. She advises on all aspects of British nationality claims, including complex claims to citizenship for both children and adults born in the UK or abroad. She specialises in business immigration, particularly the skilled worker route, for businesses and individuals. Nina also has particular knowledge in complex family, private life, and asylum cases, as well as applications under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Danielle Cohen Immigration Law Solicitors Limited

Nina Smith

Nina is joint head of office for Thames Valley and a partner in Shoosmiths’ corporate department, advising a wide variety of clients, including professional equity investors (both PE and VCs), PLCs, large private companies, management teams and owner managers on a range of corporate transactions including acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses, management buy-outs and buy-ins and company reorganisations. Nina is also a member of the Shoosmiths Private Wealth team. Nina’s recent experience includes: advising LDC on the sale of ByBox to US PE house Francisco Partners for £221 million; advising the shareholders of Ikon Science Limited on the sale to US PE house Great Hill Partners; advising the shareholders of Phabrix Limited on the sale to Leader Europe Limited; advising nGage Specialist Recruitment on the acquisition of Henlow Recruitment Limited; advising large US clients on various largescale internal UK reorganisations; advising the shareholders of Chevron Traffic Management Limited on the exit by Portchester Equity Limited and incoming investment by Triton Partners; advising GAME Digital Holdings Limited (subsidiary of GAME Digital plc) on the £20 million acquisition of Multiplay Limited; and advising numerous private equity backed businesses on their buy and build acquisitions.

HCR Law