Lawyers in England
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Paul Thomson
Paul joined Weightmans in 2016 and has over 15 years of experience in the resolution of disputes arising from clinical negligence for the NHS and for medical protection organisations. He advises on and manages a wide spectrum of claims for NHS Resolution and NHS Trusts including for brain injury sustained at birth and neurological/spinal injury, neonatal deaths, psychiatric and orthopaedic injury. He has also dealt with a number of sensitive cases involving allegations of non-accidental injury and sexual abuse. He focuses on running complex and high value cases often with complex quantum issues and has settled numerous cases by way of periodical payment orders (PPOs). Recent instructions include a paediatric claim with multiple defendants for severe disability following an alleged delay in diagnosing pneumococcal meningitis. Cases involving a patient in a minimally aware state following a medication overdose, a failure to diagnose a rare neuro-metabolic disease and a claim involving a failure to obtain informed consent for an intra-operative epidural leading to severe neurological injury and paraplegia. Paul is an advocate for alternatives to litigation for resolving disputes and in particular for mediation where appropriate. Reported cases include the successful defence of the secondary victim psychiatric injury claim, Shorter v Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 614 (QB). Other experience includes representing Trusts and healthcare practitioners at Inquests and in healthcare regulatory work representing doctors under investigation by the General Medical Council and dentists under investigation by the General Dental Council including GMC v Taranissi and GDC v Kotzenberg and others. Paul also presents to healthcare clients on a variety of topics including claims, Inquests and risk management and safety and learning issues.
Weightmans LLP
Paul Thorogood
Partner.
Freeths LLP
Paul Tomkins
Partner in real estate litigation team dealing with all types of property disputes, ranging from disputed break notices to dilapidations to lease renewals to tenant insolvency advice. Clients comment that Paul’s advice “often brings a different angle to some of the more traditional advice provided” and that “having Paul Tomkins on your side is invaluable, he brings astuteness, clarityof thought and an awareness of client needs second to none”.
Freeths LLP
Paul Toolan
Corporate law expert Paul advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and partnership investment vehicles, joint ventures, and distressed mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on regulatory issues relating to the financial services sector. As a corporate lawyer, Paul’s practice is sector-agnostic, but he does have industry-specific experience in the following fields: media, including film, television, music, radio and theatre; advising family offices; food & beverage brands. Paul also advises on various corporate real estate matters, including finance, and acts for a number of developers and investors.
Keystone Law
Paul Verrico
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Paul Wakefield
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Paul Waldron
Associate
Elkington + Fife LLP
Paul Walsh
Partner and Head of Commercial Litigation Liverpool
Hill Dickinson LLP
Paul White
Paul is a business and property tax lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in the City. He is a member of the firm’s private client, wealth management and tax group, and work closely with all the transactional practices of the firm to provide advice on corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax, value added tax, stamp duty and stamp duty land tax. He has extensive tax planning and advisory experience, particularly in UK and cross-border finance, property and corporate transactions. His M&A experience is especially broad and he contributed the tax chapter for “Oil and Gas Sale and Purchase Agreements” (Globe Law and Business, 2016). Paul joined Druces in November 2017 after 14 years with two major US law firms, prior to that he was a partner at Denton Wilde Sapte.
Druces LLP
Paul Whitehead
Paul is a partner and specialises in private client matters and international wealth structuring, including onshore and offshore trusts, UK personal taxation, Wills and estate planning, with an emphasis on complex tax and trust issues, residence and domicile, the international private client and offshore structures. Paul advises regularly on pre-immigration planning for individuals and families moving to the UK; he advises on residence – both becoming UK resident and non-UK resident - and on domicile and has been involved in negotiations and HMRC enquiries to agree the domicile status of a number of clients. Paul advises on and creates trusts and similar structures for families to address asset protection, succession planning, and tax efficiency, including using corporate vehicles, partnerships, and life policies. Paul advises on a wide range of tax issues, including for resident non-domiciliaries on the use of trusts, the remittance basis and reliefs such as Business Investment Relief; income tax planning strategies, including using Trusts and corporate structures. He has considerable experience advising on capital tax planning – including inheritance tax planning using business property relief, having agreed with HMRC that the relief applies in a number of difficult cases; and capital gains tax planning, including the use of Double Tax Treaty relief, Entrepreneurs' relief and trust structures. Paul also advises on wealth protection including structuring trusts, foundations, partnerships, corporate structures and pre-nuptial agreements, and has been involved in the restructuring of many such structures, to meet the changing requirements as families grow up, businesses develop, and the law and tax rules change. He has written a number of articles and spoken at various seminars in London, the Channel Islands, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Baltic States, Luxembourg, Israel and the US on different aspects of tax and international estate planning. Ranked in the Chambers & Partners HNW guide for Private Wealth, Paul is also included in the Citywealth Leaders List, which notes his expertise in tax, estate planning and non-contentious trusts.
Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP
Paul Wigham
Paul specialises in acquisitions and disposals of companies and businesses for both owner managed business and large corporate clients. He advises on private equity investments, particularly in relation to early stage companies, and provides general funding advice to companies, including advice on banking facilities and security documentation. In addition, Paul provides general corporate governance advice to companies and directors and assists companies with their annual compliance and statutory obligations under the Companies Act. Paul provides advice to all organisations within, or who interact with, the education sector, including schools and academies (including free schools, alternative provision academies and university technology colleges), further education corporations and universities. In relation to schools and academies, Paul has significant experience in providing advice to academy trusts on expansion through the sponsorship of other schools and re-brokering of existing academies (including advising trustees on their duties in connection with expansion), and major capital build projects. He also advises academies on compliance with the financial handbook and governance handbook, and on the establishment of trading subsidiaries and other group structures. Within the maintained sector Paul has advised on federation and de-federation issues, as well as the establishment of charitable companies providing opportunities for collaborative practice, shared learning and other professional development opportunities for clusters of schools. Paul forges strong relationships with clients underpinned by his focus on making things happen. He has an excellent project management track record and an enviable breadth of knowledge in connection with DfE policy and cutting edge academy work. Recent experience Advising a corporate client in relation to a $80,000,000 syndicated multicurrency banking facility involving group companies in 7 jurisdictions. Acting for both further and higher education institutions on term loan and revolving credit facilities totalling in excess of £45.5 million. Acting for a charity and one of the North East’s most visited tourist attractions on the restructuring of its banking facilities. Acting for bank on the provision of acquisition finance in relation to the management buyout of a precision engineering company. Acting for bank on the provision of development facilities for the construction of care homes. Paul also provides advice to Further Education colleges on a whole range of matters including: The merger of further education colleges following the government’s area review process; The establishment of shared services companies and associated advice to governors; The establishment of trading subsidiaries and the acquisition of training providers by further education colleges; Large finance projects including development and working capital banking facilities; Paul also advises universities on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters including: University spin outs and subsequent venture capital fund raising; Banking and finance including significant term loan and development finance facilities; The establishment of university technology colleges and collaboration with schools and academies; Mergers and acquisitions within the sector (including advising on the disposal of a HE campus to a further education college); Advice on constitutional issues.
Weightmans LLP
Paul Williams
I am a UK and European Patent Attorney and representative before the EU Unified Patent Court, and have been working to protect client's technical innovations since joining the profession in the early 1990s. After obtaining a Masters degree in Chemistry from Oxford University, I immediately trained with a firm of private practice patent attorneys in London before moving to the intellectual property department of a US-based global chemical company. After qualifying as a patent attorney, I rejoined private practice with a boutique patent and trade mark firm, subsequently joining Lewis Silkin in 2019. With a background in chemistry, I specialise in handling patents in the chemical and life sciences sectors. In particular, I advise clients with drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications, in the UK, Europe and globally, as well as with post-grant oppositions, infringement and validity matters, and freedom-to-operate opinions. I also have a wide experience of advising on and filing registered designs.
Lewis Silkin
Paul Wordley
Partner
Wordley Partnership
Paul Worth
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Paul de Cordova
Consultant Solicitor
Jurit LLP
Paula Abrahamian
Paula’s expertise is in real estate investment, development and finance. She specialises in the acquisition and disposal of multi-let properties across all asset classes for institutional clients, property companies, developers and private individuals. Paula works closely with her landlord clients to manage and maximise the value of their real estate investments. She also advises a broad range of corporate occupier clients ranging from established household names to innovate start-ups.
Keystone Law
Paula Barnes
Paula Barnes joined our firm as a consultant in December 2022 working within our Clinical Negligence team. She has over 25 years of experience in clinical negligence, community care and public law matters. She undertakes clinical negligence claims at all levels, including catastrophic brain damage cases, cerebral palsy and acquired brain injury and spinal injury cases. Paula is a trustee at Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity and has extensive experience supporting families with community care advice to help them access the services they need. She has clients throughout the country but retains a professional presence in both the SW and Southampton. Paula Barnes - Enable Law
Foot Anstey
Paula Barrett
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Paula Bartlett
Paula head's up the firm's UK commercial team (which incorporates five sub-teams: commercial contracts & supply chain, competition, data & privacy, intellectual property and technology). She specialises in commercial contract law and has extensive experience of advising on and negotiating complex contractual arrangements for clients in various sectors. Paula also has strong project management skills with extensive experience of leading large cross office, multidisciplinary teams in the delivery of major projects.
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
Paula Butterworth
Partner and collaborative lawyer, Paula Butterworth places importance on supporting the individual client and her aim is to work from the outset to establish a close and supportive working relationship with an emphasis on excellent customer service and satisfaction. Paula aims to assist all clients to explore the possibility of an early settlement but also has experience of taking cases to a final hearing which is sometimes necessary.
Rayden Solicitors
Paula Chan
Partner
Brahams Dutt Badrick French LLP
Paula Flutter
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, Trademark Attorney
EIP
Paula Gaddum
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Paula Hamer
Paula has over 20 years’ real estate experience with particular expertise in complex development projects. Paula is praised by clients for her “professionalism and commitment to understanding our requirements”, whilst other solicitors welcome “her willingness to try to find solutions that work”. Paula acts for clients from both the private and public sector and specialises in development, regeneration and investment transactions.
Browne Jacobson LLP