Lawyers in England

Ryan Mowat

Ryan is a Partner in Kingsley Napley's Dispute Resolution team, where he leads the highly rated Contentious Trusts and Probate team. He frequently acts in high value and complex litigation, particularly involving trusts and estates. Ryan’s cases often involve allegations of fraud and serious wrongdoing and many of his clients have a public profile. He has enjoyed notable successes in the Supreme Court in the cases of Ivey v Genting Casinos (2017) and Crown Prosecution Service v Aquila Advisory (2021). Ryan also acts in disputes in the Court of Protection and many of his cases are multi-jurisdictional.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Ryan Myint

Partner in the private client team specialising in international wealth structuring, trusts and succession planning. Advises entrepreneurs, business owners, fund managers, property developers, international families, offshore trust companies and private banks on a range of private client matters. His practice includes ultra-high net worth Asian clients from Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as UK resident non-domiciled clients, some of whom have UK-US tax issues.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Ryan Pixton

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Ryan Steed

Ryan qualified as a solicitor in September 2017 and was promoted to Legal Director in May 2023. He works within the Real Estate practice group based in the London Office. Ryan has experience acting for landlords, tenants and portfolio holders in the acquisition and disposal of both freehold and leasehold properties. Ryan has gained experience in a wide range of real estate matters, including: assisting on the due diligence of a portfolio acquisition of over £100 million for a property investment client; subsequently acting in aspects of portfolio management for the above mentioned client including acquisitions, disposals and lease renewals as we retained this work following the acquisition; acting for a range local pension scheme providers and their clients in the acquisition/sale and lease-back of numerous properties; and acting for a number of significant occupiers in the United Kingdom in respect of its property portfolio, including lease renewals.

Shoosmiths LLP

Ryan Vince

Partner

Russells Solicitors

Saad Khan

Associate

Briffa

Saadia Bhatty

Saadia Bhatty is a Partner and Co-head of Gide's International Dispute Resolution team in London. She specialises in international arbitration and public international law. Saadia has more than 15 years' experience (including in Paris, New York and London) advising private and state entities in cross-border disputes, in particular in international arbitration proceedings (commercial and investment), governed by the rules of various institutions (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, HKIAC, VIAC, CAS and OHADA rules), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), subject to the laws of both civil and common law jurisdictions, particularly in the energy, oil and gas, and construction sectors, notably in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Saadia also advises governments on the drafting/reform of their investment treaties, national legislation and state contracts, and in proceedings before the Internationl Court of Justice Saadia sits as an arbitrator on several arbitration panels: the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (EDAC), the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Organisation pour l'harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires (OHADA) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). She is also a member of ICC UK's International Arbitration Committee. Saadia also regularly teaches international arbitration in universities across the world. Saadia is a graduate of Harvard, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 2010 and to the Paris Bar in 2018.

Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP

Sabah Siddiq

Sabah Siddiq is a Senior Associate in our Planning & Environment team. Sabah is an experienced planning and environment solicitor advising on all aspects of planning and environmental law. Sabah advises on contentious and non-contentious matters, including advising and negotiating on complex s106 agreements, nitrates mitigates agreements, highway agreements, and biodiversity net gain. Community Infrastructure Levy, advising and negotiating on judicial review and planning statutory appeals, listed building, and planning enforcement. Sabah is an experienced planning solicitor, having worked for both local planning authorities and private practice.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Sabina Ahmed

Sabina is a family partner with over 12 years’ experience in the family law field. She has particular expertise in advising and representing clients in relation to a full spectrum of financial matters and private law children work. Sabina regularly advises on complex financial matters involving mid to high-net assets which involve businesses, pensions, overseas assets, and property portfolios. Her experience covers financial issues arising from the breakdown of a marriage, a civil partnership, or a cohabiting relationship. She also has experience in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), guiding and representing clients through arbitration, mediation, and private FDRs. Sabina advises on all aspect of private law children matters, having acted for clients in highly contentious and complex cases which have involved applications for relocation, removal to non-Hague countries, specific issue applications relating to the schooling of the child, and intricate child arrangement orders. Many of her cases have involved the instruction of a Guardian and expert psychologists.

Keystone Law

Sabina Popescu

Stuart Miller Solicitors

Sabrik Dhamu

Senior Solicitor

Bark&co

Sabrina Furneaux-Gotch

Sabrina is a Partner in the Real Estate Litigation department. Sabrina advises on a wide range of property related disputes and management issues. Sabrina regularly deals with commercial landlord and tenant disputes and management issues for both landlords and tenants, including: claims for possession, forfeiture, dilapidations claims, lease renewals, rent review; break options, service charge liability; and dealing with landlord or tenant insolvency. Sabrina advises landowners including property developers, education institutions and private individuals, on matters including: misrepresentation, trespass, nuisance, boundary disputes, restrictive covenants, easements, and claims to title by adverse possession. Sabrina acts for a number of private individuals in relation to beneficial interest disputes between cohabitees and other trust of land (TOLATA) claims.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Sabrina Umrani

Associate

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Sacha Pickering

I’m a Partner in the Banking, Restructuring & Insolvency team and a member of the Firm’s International Trust Advisory Group. I’m ranked as a notable practitioner in Chambers and Partners, and a leading individual in The Legal 500. I have over 20 years’ experience as a specialist insolvency and restructuring solicitor. I deal with all types of restructuring and insolvency issues, including business and asset sales and purchases, antecedent transaction advice and recovery, and all aspects of appointment holders’ and directors’ duties, powers and responsibilities. I advise on the full range of insolvency procedures from administrations through to complex individual voluntary arrangements and bankruptcy. I advise both insolvency practitioners and directors, companies and other stakeholders. In addition, I advise high-net-worth individuals, trust funds and corporates in relation to financial distress, pre-emptive structuring and contingency planning. I have advised office holders generally (including KPMG, PwC, BDO, Duff & Phelps and FRP Advisory) in relation to many matters including business and asset sales including by way of pre-pack; realisations by trustees in bankruptcy; directors’ duties; extensions and exits from administrations; recovery of significant and complex book debts; and misfeasance proceedings against directors. Expertise Accelerated M&A International Restructuring & Insolvency Sacha Pickering - Partner - Banking, Restructuring & Insolvency | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Sacha Schoenfeld

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Sacha Sokhi

Sacha provides pragmatic solutions for her clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious workplace issues and advises on all aspects of Employment and Professional Discipline law. Sacha is focussed on achieving the best outcome for her clients through strategic and practical advice. Sacha is regularly instructed by senior executives to negotiate high value exit agreements, and to advise on the enforceability of restrictive covenants and other contractual disputes. Sacha represents individuals bringing claims in the Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing detriments. Sacha also assists her clients with breach of contract claims in the civil courts. Sacha is experienced in advising regulated individuals from a range of sectors on professional discipline issues, including supporting clients through disciplinary and regulatory proceedings.

Irwin Mitchell

Sacha Wilson

Sacha is a commercial and regulatory lawyer with particular expertise in advertising, digital and data privacy. He is head of the firm’s cross-departmental advertising practice. He advises clients from a variety of sectors, including some of the world’s best known brands, agencies and platforms. He is ranked for advertising and digital media in both The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading advertising lawyers. Sacha advises on a range of commercial transactions and has particular expertise in advertising-related agreements (such as creative agency, media planning and buying, production and brand partnerships). He is particularly well known for his expertise in digital marketing and adtech. He also has expertise in general advertising compliance (including prize promotions, native advertising and influencer marketing) as well as ecommerce and online consumer regulations. Sacha also works within the firm’s retail and technology practices and regularly advises well-known retail brands on a range of retail-focused commercial agreements including distribution, licensing, and franchise agreements, as well as clients across a range of industries on tech focused agreements such as software development, SaaS, and IT services contracts. In relation to data privacy, Sacha has advised on all the key compliance areas, and has worked with a large number of clients on their data protection compliance programmes. He has particular expertise in the data privacy aspects of marketing, adtech and digital media. He frequently advises on the compliance aspects of adtech vendor arrangements, programmatic advertising, and mobile apps. He also has expertise in the legal issues associated with AI, particularly in the context of advertising and marketing. He regularly advises clients on the privacy, IP, contractual and regulatory issues associated with the use and deployment of AI for a range of purposes in the advertising and marketing industries.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Sacha Wooldridge

Partner

Birketts LLP

Sadak Miah

Sadak leads our Commercial Recoveries Team and specialises in debt recovery and litigation with a particular focus on the finance sector. As Head of the Commercial Recoveries Team, Sadak advises on all aspects of debt recovery, landlord and tenant possession claims and litigation. Clients range from businesses which might instruct Sadak a few times a year (perhaps on very high value matters) to businesses which send Sadak thousands of cases each year. The work undertaken in the team ranges from multi-party injunction claims to volume debt and possession claims. Sadak’s practice involves a particular focus on the finance sector and his experience in this market has been built on strong relationships with finance companies and debt purchasers. Sadak’s clients include captive motor finance companies (all of which are household names), a number of debt purchasers (mainly purchasers of consumer debt) as well as many businesses in other sectors including IT, retail and utility. The team also has a substantial landlord and tenant possession practice acting for insurers and private landlords.

Blake Morgan LLP

Sadie Thomson

Sadie is an Associate in our regulatory and professional conduct team. A criminal litigation and regulatory law specialist, Sadie works across coroner inquests, criminal defence, private prosecutions, public inquiries and professional misconduct proceedings — with a strong background in police misconduct. Sadie has represented clients facing criminal prosecution for serious offences brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office, Trading Standards, HMRC and private prosecutors. Sadie also has experience of representing both individuals and organisations in bringing private prosecutions. Sadie’s clients span a range of sectors including leisure and hospitality, housing solutions and healthcare. She’s experienced in handling professional conduct matters in the education and public sector and has extensive experience representing police officers — up to the level of Superintendent and Deputy Assistant Commissioner — facing both criminal and gross misconduct proceedings, as well as teachers facing misconduct proceedings before the Teachers Regulation Agency. Her clients value her approachable and transparent communication style. She fosters an open dialogue with clients where they’re free to ask questions about their case and the legal process generally. Sadie keeps clients updated with the prospects and progress of their case with honest yet sensitive discussions about any difficulties that they face.

Brabners LLP

Sadiq Tajbhai

I have been working for creative, marketing and technology businesses for over a decade. I am a corporate lawyer and deal with most stages in the lifecycle of a company including equity and debt investment (growth and private equity), joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions (from both a buyer and seller perspective), and day-to-day corporate advisory and governance. I advise clients across a broad range of sectors, but have particular experience in advertising & marketing, media & entertainment, healthcare, and technology.

Lewis Silkin

Sadiq Vohra

Sadiq is a senior employment lawyer and practice group leader at Slater and Gordon Lawyers. He leads the employment team in Manchester. He specialises in advising on employment law for a range of employees, including senior executives, on a wide range of workplace issues including grievances, disciplinary issues, severance packages, discrimination and unfair dismissal. Sadiq also has extensive experience advising on collective issues including conducting group litigation. Sadiq speaks Gujarati and some Hindi/Urdu and regularly comments on employment law matters in the media including BBC Radio.

Slater and Gordon

Safia Daud

Safia is an Associate in the Real Estate department at Bates Wells and deals with a wide variety of property transactions, ranging from the acquisition and disposal of both freehold and leasehold properties, the granting and letting of leases, assignments, underlettings, alterations and refinances acting for both borrower and lender. She acts for both commercial and charity clients as well as high net worth individuals.

Bates Wells

Safiya Sinclair

At the start of her career, Safiya trained with Bark&co to qualify as a Solicitor. After some years, she then returned to us in November 2021 as a Consultant, and has been an integral part of the team again ever since. Safiya’s work mainly involves her representing suspects at the police station, Defendants in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, and appeals against conviction and/or sentence where appropriate. She accepts instructions for both legal aid and privately funded work. She is renowned for the excellent rapport she has with her clients and her meticulous case preparation, which many colleagues comment on and are highly appreciative of. Her experience spans from representing those accused of murder, to those accused of ‘petty crime’. No matter the seriousness, she recognises that any brush with the Criminal Justice System can have a massive impact on her client’s lives, and therefore strives to give her utmost attention and time to every case she is instructed on. Recent Cases: K – no further action taken in relation to an allegation of attempted murder. The client was arrested in the vehicle involved in the alleged incident approximately half an hour after the incident was said to have taken place. M – no further action taken in relation to an allegation of conspiracy to commit GBH despite the complainant describing the person that stabbed him as M. R v C – case of possession with intent to supply drugs over a sustained period of time dropped by the CPS before trial. The client raised a defence of Modern Day Slavery. Safiya instructed two experts to compile reports in support of his account which the CPS took into consideration when discontinuing the case. R v A – client received a 2 year suspended sentence following a guilty plea to possession with intent to supply class A drugs. The starting point on the sentencing guidelines is 4.5 years immediate custody. R v P – case dropped by the CPS four months after the client was charged with aggravated burglary and allegedly cell sited in the vicinity of the incident. Safiya instructed a telephone/cell site expert to analyse the telephone data in this case and test the strength of the case against her client. R v B – client received a suspended sentence for a third possession of a knife offence. The Sentencing Guidelines state (not verbatim) that a court must impose a sentence of immediate imprisonment, a minimum of 6 months, for any second knife offence, unless it would be unjust. Robust mitigation and careful preparation on this case achieved an impressive result. R v M – client acquitted by the Jury following a £33,000 fraud which was proved had taken place. R v T – client acquitted by the Jury after approximately 30 minutes of deliberation following a successful defence of necessity.

Bark&co