Lawyers in England
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Richard Eaton
Partner, Head of Property Litigation
Birketts LLP
Richard Egan
Richard Egan qualified in 1990 and has been working in criminal law in London ever since. Richard has developed a reputation for excellence throughout his career and has been instructed in some of the most serious criminal cases to come before the courts. Highlighted cases include representing Wayne Couzens in relation to the murder of Sarah Everard, acting for the “Speedboat killer” Jack Shepherd in his trial at the Old Bailey and successfully acted in the acquittal of Tania Clarence who was tried for the murder of her 3 disabled children. Richard was voted Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year when defending the man wrongly accused of training the 9/11 pilots against attempted extradition to the United States. He also acted for defendants accused of conspiracy to murder in the transatlantic airline ‘liquid bomb’ plot and the lead defendant accused of attempted murder in the London/Glasgow bomb plots. He has had a successful practice in defending high profile private clients. He is on retainer for a leading London Premier League football club and he recently represented footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in an allegation of common assault and criminal damage securing a caution and also acted for Manchester City player Kyle Walker in a police investigation into indecent exposure securing an out of court settlement. Richard has acted successfully in defending a number of army courts martial proceedings and currently acts for a large number of ex British Army soldiers accused of murder in historical Northern Ireland Legacy investigations by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Richard is regularly instructed in extremely serious and high profile cases requiring media management and has significant experience in dealing with the additional burdens that close media scrutiny may present. His work has been profiled in The Times, The Daily Mail and The Guardian newspapers.
Egan Meyer
Richard Elliott
Richard advises on M&A and joint ventures, corporate finance, real estate finance and structuring for private clients particularly with an international focus. His practice includes advising on asset finance matters, specialising in the sale/purchase, financing and structuring of aircraft assets, including business jets and helicopters, as well as luxury yachts. Richard also works across the sports and media sectors, advising businesses and UHNW individuals on corporate and commercial matters.
Boodle Hatfield LLP
Richard Ellis
Richard heads up our Family law team which is independently recognised as a Tier 1 practice in the South West in independent legal directory, The Legal 500 UK. Richard trained at RWK Goodman and became a partner in 2000 where he has always specialised in family law. He has a particular interest in cases where mental health and learning disabilities are an issue and has often been appointed by the Official Solicitor to represent vulnerable parties. His child protection work includes representing children, guardians, parents and other individuals involved in care proceedings. He has considerable advocacy experience in Magistrates, County and higher courts and has been involved in a number of reported cases. The Legal 500 UK describe Richard as having “considerable legal knowledge“, and praises him for his ability to “manage court proceedings well and engage with children and their parents in a way that endeavours to represent the child’s welfare and enables parties to fully understand what is happening within the proceedings“.
RWK Goodman
Richard Etherington
Richard Etherington is a Senior Associate and Higher Courts Advocate in the Regulatory & Corporate Defence team. He represents clients across the full spectrum of criminal and regulatory matters, providing clear guidance and continuity of representation from police station interviews to Crown Court trials. He also defends military personnel at Courts Martial and university students in misconduct proceedings, particularly where allegations of sexual misconduct are involved.
Flint Bishop
Richard Fidler
Works with investors, developers and funders on development projects, financing and development schemes, property tax issues, town and country planning and investment work.
Thrings LLP
Richard Fletcher
Richard advises financial institutions and corporates on a range of financing matters. He focuses on fund finance, speciality finance and structured finance including the structured finance and debt capital markets aspects of project finance, infrastructure finance and restructurings. His work includes advising on: leverage facilities and investor call bridge facilities; receivables financing, asset based lending and speciality finance; structured financings and structured products; RMBS, CMBS, CLOs / CDOs and whole business securitisations; debt capital markets issues, including bonds, MTNs, high yield bonds, convertibles and exchangeables; project bonds and infrastructure financings; and refinancings and restructurings.
Macfarlanes LLP
Richard Follis
Richard Follis was appointed Shoosmiths first General Counsel on 1 May 2021. Reporting to the CEO, he has particular responsibility for compliance, quality and risk. He is the firm's Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and Money Laundering Compliance Officer. He is also tasked with scoping the firm's GC function and establishing a team to oversee governance and enterprise risk management in support of the firm's ambitious growth plans. Richard joined Shoosmiths in 2006 as a Partner and head of clinical negligence. He became a board member in 2013 on appointment as Practice Group Head of the firm's Access Legal consumer offering. Latterly Richard became head of our Personal Advisory Division. For very many years a noted practitioner in the field of clinical negligence, he was ranked as 'Senior Statesperson' in the 2020 edition of Chambers UK. Richard served as President of the Birmingham Law Society in 2006 and, having been an AvMA panel member since 1991, was appointed an Honorary Panel Member in 2021.
Shoosmiths LLP
Richard Follis
Richard Follis was appointed Shoosmiths first General Counsel on 1 May 2021. Reporting to the CEO, he has particular responsibility for compliance, quality and risk. He is the firm's Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and Money Laundering Compliance Officer. He is also tasked with scoping the firm's GC function and establishing a team to oversee governance and enterprise risk management in support of the firm's ambitious growth plans. Richard joined Shoosmiths in 2006 as a Partner and head of clinical negligence. He became a board member in 2013 on appointment as Practice Group Head of the firm's Access Legal consumer offering. Latterly Richard became head of our Personal Advisory Division. For very many years a noted practitioner in the field of clinical negligence, he was ranked as 'Senior Statesperson' in the 2020 edition of Chambers UK. Richard served as President of the Birmingham Law Society in 2006 and, having been an AvMA panel member since 1991, was appointed an Honorary Panel Member in 2021.
Shoosmiths LLP
Richard Foss
Richard has wide ranging expertise and specialisms and advises on contractual disputes, directors’ duties, civil fraud, insolvency, professional negligence, injunctions and financial services disputes. He acts for organisations in a variety of commercial disputes and also advises private individuals and entrepreneurs. Richard has particular expertise acting for and advising directors and management teams in relation to civil litigation. He is experienced in both obtaining and defending injunctive proceedings, including Freezing and Search Orders. His focus is on achieving commercial and cost effective results and often advises on risk management approaches and strategies to avoid pursuing a dispute through the courts. Richard has been appointed by the High Court to act as a Supervising Solicitor in relation to the execution of Search Orders.
Kingsley Napley LLP
Richard Fox
Richard is a hugely experienced employment practitioner who has specialised in representing employers and employees on a broad range of employment issues for the last 25 years. He advises clients on matters including confidentiality and restrictive covenants, executive pay, bonus and severance arrangements, unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and redundancy programmes. He is frequently asked to advise in situations involving allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace following the rise of the #MeToo movement, and the cases that have followed. This includes conducting (as investigator) and advising on investigations into such conduct.
Keystone Law
Richard Foyster
Partner and Head of Personal Injury
Ashtons Legal
Richard Freeth
Richard has over 23 years’ experience in advising schools and local authorities on a wide range of education issues including admissions, exclusions, SEN, disability discrimination and other Equality Act issues. His advice has covered both state-funded and independent schools. Richard also has significant experience in SEND law and other local authority education issues such as transport, school re-organisation, legal challenges and complaints. Richard has supported schools on a range of complex issues including advising on: Admissions – including on compliance with the legislation and School Admissions Code 2021; challenges to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator and/or ESFA complaints; removal from boarding; and judicial review challenges; Admission Appeals – advising on and clerking admission appeal hearings; provision of training to admission authorities and appeal panel members; advising on and representing admission authorities in complaints made to admission appeal processes from the ESFA or Local Government Ombudsman; Exclusions – advising on compliance with the statutory exclusions guidance and advising on responses to behavioural incidents at school generally; clerking GB review meetings and Independent Review Panels; and training schools and panel members on exclusions; Equality Act issues – supporting schools on a range of complaints and claims made in respect of alleged discrimination; representing schools on claims arising from disability discrimination in the First Tier Tribunal; SEND – advising and supporting schools on all aspects of SEND legislation and guidance including funding, admissions and the relationship with the local authority and representing the school in relation to complaints being made to the DfE in respect of LA actions; Complaints – advice and representation in respect of complex complaints arising from all aspects of a school/trust’s operations. In addition, Richard is Chair of Trustees at a multi-academy trust in Warwickshire.
Stone King LLP
Richard Frimston
Richard is a consultant in the private client team. He advises clients in relation to their estate planning, wills, probate and tax planning issues and offers Notary Public services. His areas of expertise include cross-border estates and international private law issues. Richard has particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional estates specifically with France, other EU states and India. He is a member of the EU Commission group of experts PRM-III/IV and PRM III considering Regulations on Succession (EU 650/2012) and on Property Regimes (EU 2016/1103 and 2016/1104).
Russell-Cooke LLP
Richard Gaffney
Richard is a Principal Lawyer in the personal injury team at Slater and Gordon’s offices in Cambridge. He specialises in claims involving catastrophic and serious injuries. Richard has significant experience in claims involving head injury, multiple orthopaedic, amputation and fatal accident claims. He spent 10 years in the armed forces before becoming a lawyer so has particular experience in dealing with military accident claims. Richard is also Slater & Gordon’s principal lawyer for Cycling UK, the UK’s national cycling charity.
Slater and Gordon
Richard Geraghty
Partner
Irwin Mitchell
Richard Gerstein
Richard is a Partner in the Real Estate department and heads the Construction and Professional Negligence group. He acts for a variety of clients ranging from major developers, property investors, banks and occupiers through to contractors, sub-contractors and consultants on all aspects of dispute resolution arising out of construction contracts. These claims invariably involve extensions of time, loss and expense, entitlement to payment, defects and enforceability of bonds. Richard has a wealth of experience in claims and disputes in the Technology and Construction Courts, having acted on some of the leading cases over the past 25 years, as well as in arbitration and adjudication proceedings. Richard has spent many years advising banks, businesses and individuals on claims against surveyors, solicitors, accountants, construction professionals and financial advisers. His expertise covers negligent valuations, advice on commercial and real estate transactions, tax advice, investment advice, and design specification, and administration of construction projects. In addition, Richard advises on commercial disputes for clients in the real estate sector.
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Richard Giangrande
Richard advises on all aspects of estate planning and personal taxation and focuses on cross-border tax advice. Many of his clients are individuals with a presence in multiple jurisdictions, and who originate from jurisdictions in Europe, North America and the Middle East. Richard also advises on the establishment and management of international asset-holding structures, focusing both on international taxation and asset protection. He has extensive experience in planning for international families, entrepreneurs, finance professionals, and regularly advises clients in relation to complex HMRC enquiries and disputes relating to tax or succession matters. Richard advises individuals, trustees, family offices and investment managers in relation to the tax treatment of complex structures and investment products, and has advised a number of banks and investment managers on the structuring of their investment platforms and the selection of appropriate investments for non-UK domiciled clients. He spent six months in New York on secondment to a leading New York law firm, where he worked alongside US lawyers, gaining an understanding of US tax, trust and estate planning that assists him in advising US clients who are resident in the UK or own UK assets. Richard is a regular speaker at wealth planning seminars and events and has written for Trusts & Trustees.
Macfarlanes LLP
Richard Gillard
Partner
Elkington + Fife LLP
Richard Glover
Partner in the Property Litigation Team specialising in a broad range of commercial and residential property disputes for a variety of clients from large property investment funds to individuals who own residential property. He assists in the running of a growing and talented Property Litigation Team and has a particular expertise in business development.
JMW Solicitors LLP
Richard Glover
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs
Richard Gordon-Brown
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, Design Attorney
EIP
Richard Green
Partner
Gowling WLG
Richard Greenby
Richard is a Senior Associate Solicitor at the Property Department of Lewis Nedas Law having previously worked at firms in Hertfordshire and Hampstead, Richard qualified in February 2009, and specialises in commercial property and residential conveyancing transactions. He also has expertise in Insolvency Law having worked for a top accountancy practice, for 18 months post qualification, on corporate insolvencies and litigation relating to a trading company in Administration. His commercial property work has recently included acting for tenants on acquiring leases in the Covent Garden area, dealings with the Grosvenor Estate, bridging finance on multi-million pound projects and the sale of an Embassy building in Mayfair. His recent residential property work includes; purchases of high value residential properties in the North and Central London postcodes eg the sale of a prestigious penthouse property in North London, the purchase of high value new-build property in Fulham Riverside as well as regular transactional dealings with flats, maisonettes and houses around the London area. His work also incorporates property litigation matters including business lease renewals and lease extension work at the First Tier Tribunal & at the Central London County Court. He also has expertise in Option Work with recent work relating to the potential conversion of residential land in Mill Hill and Hertfordshire, as well as the multi-million pound re-development of commercial land in the old-town Stevenage area.
Lewis Nedas Law Limited