Lawyers in England

Phillip D’Costa

Phillip is a commercial disputes partner, head of the IT and IP disputes team and co-head of the India group at Penningtons Manches Cooper. He has over 20 years’ experience of complex, high value commercial litigation and arbitration, often with a cross-border element, and regularly advises on commercial, technology, financial services and civil fraud disputes, as well as enforcement and asset recovery. Phillip has acted on a number of board and shareholder, banking and IT disputes and represents a range of private sector clients. He assists businesses and individuals with insolvency and regulatory compliance issues, and has a particular interest in contentious and transactional work involving India, having acted on several English law disputes involving Indian parties.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Phillip Eddowes

Police Station Representative

Stuart Miller Solicitors

Phillip Hope

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Phillip Richardson

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Phillip Tunney

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Phillip Vallon

Phillip is a Partner specialising in Employment and Immigration law. He has a wealth of experience in handling a broad range of employment and immigration cases with particular expertise in resolving intricate HR issues and providing advice on sponsor licence and corporate visa applications. Phillip’s work has covered matters arising out of recruitment, employee absenteeism, whistleblowing, TUPE transfers, business reorganisation, employee grievances, disciplinary proceedings, dismissals, and the enforceability of post-termination restrictive covenants. Alongside his Employment experience, Phillip also provides expert Immigration advice. He regularly advises on sponsor licence applications and supporting visa applications for individuals whom businesses wish to recruit. Clients come from a diverse variety of sectors, including manufacturing, IT, charities, retail, and professional services. Phillip regularly represents SMEs and large corporates, as well as senior individuals negotiating their exit. Below are some recent examples of Phillip’s work: Advising on and negotiating the settlement of a proposed constructive dismissal claim of a senior employee Supporting a business with an application for a sponsor licence and the subsequent visa application of their new COO and his wife Advising and negotiating a settlement on behalf of a senior employee following the unfair termination of his overseas secondment and subsequent proposed redundancy from his substantive UK role Supporting with the management of a sponsor licence following a change in corporate structure and the resulting changes, which required a new licence and transfer of migrants to the new licence.

Druces LLP

Phillipa Bruce-Kerr

Partner, Head of Team

HCR Law

Phillippa O'Neill

Partner specialising in Commercial Dispute Resolution including extensive experience of High and County Court litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of ADR as well as interim applications. Type of work undertaken: breach of contract disputes, warranty claims, shareholder actions, partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, breach of restrictive covenants and confidentiality cases. Clients include: Food Connections Limited, Pinnacle International Freight Limited, O.Kay Engineering Services Limited, Casepak, Bericote Properties Limited. Sector experience: manufacturing, engineering, financial services, retail and construction.

Birketts LLP

Phineas Hirsch

Phineas is a Partner in the Private Client department. Phineas advises domestic and international (including US and European) individuals and families on their succession and tax planning using sophisticated wills, trusts and other structures. He has expertise dealing with a wide range of UK and cross-border personal tax, residence and trust issues and acts for trustees and beneficiaries in relation to the creation, governance, and taxation of their trusts and international asset holding structures. Being a fluent French and Spanish speaker, Phineas has developed significant experience working closely with a network of local advisors in Continental Europe in dealing with foreign assets and estates. In this context, he also advises on complex multi-jurisdictional probate and succession matters as well as the international tax issues that arise from cross-border legacies and high value property transactions. Phineas has advised frequently on the establishment of international asset holding structures for families and business owners, often with multi-generational beneficiaries resident in several jurisdictions. In a personal capacity, Phineas acts as Trustee and Treasurer of US private family foundation, that funds non-profit organizations to facilitate progressive social change in the areas of homelessness and criminal justice reform. He is also a proud father with strong family values. In 2017 he was nominated as one of eprivateclients’s “Top 35 under 35” private client advisors. And in 2017 and 2019 he was recognised as “One to Watch” by Private Client Global Elite.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Phoebe McLarty

Phoebe McLarty is a Partner (Australian qualified) in the Construction Group in Real Estate. Phoebe has extensive experience advising on non-contentious construction matters including: preparation and negotiation of construction and documents for various projects, including advice on various procurement strategies and whole-of-life considerations for the developer and investors to the work and completed asset; and broad transactional experience supporting the real estate, corporate and finance teams, including significant portfolio acquisitions, ongoing management and disposals. Phoebe helps clients mitigate interface risk in complex multi-contract projects, for both development and high-profile investment transactions, across an array of sectors – such as commercial and residential real estate, student accommodation, hotels and logistics and retail parks. Her work has also included varied work in the mining, water, gaming and public health sectors. Phoebe acts principally for developers, landlords and funders, and her clients have included advising Brookfield, Brookfield's Student Roost, Standard Life, Blackstone, Shaftesbury Capital together with various private clients – see further details on the next tab. Phoebe also leads the team's practice transformation initiatives, increasing the adoption of new technologies to improve service delivery.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Phoebe Turner

Regional Director, London & East Anglia

Stowe Family Law LLP

Pia Eames

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Pia Mithani

Partner Pia is a general commercial litigator. She has particular experience in high-value multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery cases, acting for clients in both civil cases and those with criminal exposure. Pia also focuses on cases involving misuse of confidential information. Pia is a solicitor advocate, with trial experience in both the High Court and appellate courts. Pia advises high net worth private clients and corporate clients, both domestic and international. Pia works with clients in a diverse range of sectors, from foreign public institutions, through to hedge funds and partnerships. Many of Pia’s cases involve multiple jurisdictions, especially in her civil fraud practice. Pia also has an interest in cases involving misuse of confidential information. Cases in which Pia has acted in include: Advising a technology corporate and senior executive on allegations of misuse of confidential information, and related injunction applications Advising an Italian company on a breach of contract claim Acting for the estate of a high profile individual in a civil fraud claim against a Russian state owned airline Acting for three high net worth individuals in relation to a complex hedge fund partnership dispute involving fraud allegations Acting for Standard Life in a case involving conspiracy allegations and other economic torts Acting for a public institution in relation to a large fraud and corruption investigation, across multiple jurisdictions and parallel criminal proceedings Advising a US client in an ICC arbitration involving breach of trust allegations against a trustee Advising both individuals and corporates in relation to financial criminal exposure and related investigatory work

Stewarts Law LLP

Pierre Dutton

Pierre is a senior associate in the commercial real estate team and has strong links to the Thames Valley and London. He works with a broad range of clients: developers, landowners, charities, institutional and private lenders, and landlord and tenants. He prides himself on being able to deliver clear and commercial advice to his clients. Pierre also works closely with our corporate team, providing assistance on their transactions which involve real estate. Before joining Clarkslegal, Pierre trained at a law firm in Reading and then qualified into real estate in 2016. Pierre is a bilingual dual national and has lived in France and England; as such he assists any French speaking clients. Experience Acquisitions and disposals Acts for both sellers and buyers of commercial property, both freehold and leasehold, including single to multi-let properties or mixed-use properties. Landlord and Tenant Pierre has significant experience acting for both landlord and tenants, and provides clear advice to clients taking on or granting leases of industrial, office, retail and office space. He also advises on pre-let agreements, including contracts conditional on planning and / or substantial or minor works. Development Frequently advises developers on acquisitions or options over potential residential and commercial development sites, and landowners on disposals of their land for development. Secured Lending Assists lenders, both private and institutional, by investigating and reporting on a borrower’s title and obtaining security on commercial property, including land for development.

Clarkslegal LLP

Pierre Valentin

Consultant

Fieldfisher

Piers Barclay

Piers is the head of private client. Piers specialises in succession, tax and estate planning advice for individuals and their families as well as related advice to trustees and other private client service providers, such as family offices. In addition to UK-based clients, much of his work has an international element, including structuring multi-jurisdictional estates, using trusts in civil law and Shari’a law countries and advising non-UK trustees on tax and fiduciary matters. He has experience in UK pre-arrival planning for non-domiciliaries, remittance basis advice and the implementation of trusts, wills and associated mechanisms on arrival, both for entrepreneurs and for other high-net-worth individuals. Piers is also involved in the post-death administration of estates, both in the UK and in the international context. Before becoming a partner, Piers spent six months on secondment in the trusts department of a leading international law firm. Piers is ranked as a Tier One adviser in the UK and Global editions of the independent Chambers guide and as a leading individual in the UK Legal 500 guide. He has been recognised in the eprivateclient 2021 50 Most Influential list and is recommended in the 2021 Private Client Global Elite guide.

Macfarlanes LLP

Piers Leigh-Pollitt

Piers advises a mixture of corporates and individuals on a wide range of HR/employment law matters and data protection issues (mainly from an HR perspective). Piers is also the firm’s internal compliance officer and handles all regulatory and internal compliance matters. He also heads up the firm's Data Privacy team and holds the Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (GDPR).

Doyle Clayton

Piers Rake

- Partner - Piers is the head of Astraea’s intelligence & forensic investigations team, and leads multidisciplinary engagements on behalf of clients who are navigating complex special situations. Piers is a Solicitor (20 years PQE), a CEDR Accredited commercial Mediator, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and Forensic Investigator. With a background in commercial litigation, Piers has 20 years of experience helping clients to manage risk, resolve disputes and investigate and respond to allegations or instances of financial wrongdoing and non-financial misconduct. In this time, Piers has lived and worked in the Middle East, and has conducted cross border engagements spanning Europe, the Middle East and North & Sub-Saharan Africa. He has particular experience investigating economic crime and advising regulated businesses on their legal and regulatory obligations, having been global head of financial crime Investigations at Barclays Bank Plc. Piers has led investigations into organised crime networks, high-end money laundering and fraud, in relation to drugs and human trafficking, ‘shadow-banking’ schemes, trade-based money laundering, cash-funnelling, investment and accounting fraud, cross-border corruption, tax evasion and sanction circumvention. Piers is a former investigator and adjudicator for one of the UK’s main political parties, where he undertook investigations relating to complaints against party members in a voluntary capacity.

Astraea

Piers Warne

TLT

Pieter Boodt

Pieter is a partner in the real estate team. He advises developers, investors, charitable organisations and private individuals based in both the UK and abroad on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including site assembly, development, the acquisition and disposal of investment assets, landlord and tenant matters, and real estate finance.

Russell-Cooke LLP

Pietro Grassi

Pietro is a Counsel at Signature Litigation with significant experience in public international law, investor-State arbitration, and international commercial arbitration. He has advised and represented corporations, individuals, and States on matters of public international law before national and international courts and tribunals, as well as arbitral tribunals constituted under major arbitration rules (e.g., ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, and UNCITRAL). He is also often engaged in pro bono litigation involving human rights issues. Highlights of his career so far include securing US$455 million for a US-based bottle maker in an ICSID claim against a Latin American State, and successfully obtaining provisional measurers for a politically prosecuted South American individual proceedings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Pietro is admitted to practice in both Brazil and Portugal, and he is a Registered Foreign Lawyer with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) in England and Wales.

Signature Litigation LLP

Pippa Allsop

I am a Partner in the Family team and a member of the Firm’s Private Wealth Sector. I have worked at Michelmores for over ten years, joining as a trainee in 2012 and qualifying into the Family team in September 2014. I act for a wide range of clients. The majority of my work is advising in relation to high net worth matters with a focus on wealth protection in the context of a relationship breakdown. I also deal with a large number cases where difficulties have arisen in relation to the appropriate arrangements for children after separation. My clients often have very complicated and/or sensitive personal and financial matters to address in the context of their family matters. I take great pride in being able to assist with navigating people through the difficulties which may arise on their path to resolution. My primary objective in every case is to develop a bespoke strategy from the outset which is focussed on ensuring my clients’ interests are protected. Areas of Expertise Defamation & Reputation Management for Businesses Defamation & Reputation Management for Individuals Divorce Family International International Children Law International Divorce International Divorce Maintenance International Private Wealth MiVentures Private Wealth Pippa Allsop - Partner - Family | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Pippa Allsopp

I am a Partner in the Family team and a member of the Firm’s Private Wealth Sector. I have worked at Michelmores for over ten years, joining as a trainee in 2012 and qualifying into the Family team in September 2014. I act for a wide range of clients. The majority of my work is advising in relation to high net worth matters with a focus on wealth protection in the context of a relationship breakdown. I also deal with a large number cases where difficulties have arisen in relation to the appropriate arrangements for children after separation. My clients often have very complicated and/or sensitive personal and financial matters to address in the context of their family matters. I take great pride in being able to assist with navigating people through the difficulties which may arise on their path to resolution. My primary objective in every case is to develop a bespoke strategy from the outset which is focussed on ensuring my clients’ interests are protected. Areas of expertise Defamation & Reputation Management for Businesses Defamation & Reputation Management for Individuals Divorce Family International International Children Law International Divorce International Divorce Maintenance International Private Wealth MiVentures Private Wealth Pippa Allsop - Partner - Family | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Pippa Garland

Pippa is a partner in the charity and social business team. She advises charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations on all aspects of charity law. Pippa combines a strong general practice advising on governance, fundraising and trading, mergers and grant making (including overseas), with a particular expertise in philanthropy, where she advises both individuals and businesses on their giving. She has helped establish a number of family and corporate foundations.

Russell-Cooke LLP