Lawyers in England

Anna Hatt

A “chemistry ace” according to commentators, Anna Hatt impresses clients with her “sharp mind”, careful forward planning and firm technical grasp. Her skills are on show in a variety of fields, from aquaculture to semiconductors. Anna is a patent specialist with a background in chemistry which has blossomed into wide-ranging industry experience. Experienced in drafting, prosecution and opposition advice before the EPO and UKIPO, she is particularly valued by clients for a level of thoroughness and expertise that means they “really feel safe that everything and all angles of a case will have been properly considered.” Patent expert Anna enjoys handling a wide variety of subject matter, including food production and packaging, aquaculture, printing materials, polymers and semiconductor manufacture. Coming from a medical family, she also has a particular interest in medical devices. Anna assists clients with patent drafting, prosecution and opposition work and provides advice on patent infringement and validity. As market commentators have noted, she has an impressive success rate in opposition and appeal hearings, where her skill in finding gaps in the argumentation is invaluable. She is also highly experienced in representing clients at the EPO and UKIPO, where she’s demonstrated a keen understanding of the EPO’s new arrangements for videoconference hearings adopted under Covid. Her clients, many of which are based in the Nordic region, include companies from start-ups to household name multinationals, as well as an NHS trust. Anna also has a notable interest in patent education. A regular contributor to the CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts, the standard reference text for UK patent attorneys, she edits a monthly update on UK patent case law for the CIPA journal and has been recognised for this with a CIPA Journal Editor’s Award. In addition Anna designs and runs training courses on patent skills for the patent department of an important client and presents webinars on UK and European Patent law for specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Beck Greener LLP

Anna Iceton

Anna is a Partner in the firm’s market leading property disputes team with almost 20 years’ experience in all areas of contentious real estate. She has a particular focus on disputes in the telecommunications sector with several highly reported cases in this area. Residential claims are also of particular interest, including all aspects of service charge management and structuring. Although disputes are sometimes unavoidable, she works closely with clients to find commercial and pragmatic solutions to issues deploying a solution based and risk avoidance outlook to all matters including exploring all available ADR options. Anna joined Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (now Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP) on qualification as a solicitor, where she was promoted to Associate Director in 2021. She's also a member of the Property Litigation Association and Women in Property. Outside of work she loves spending time with her family and all the activities that come with having two active children (football, rugby, Guides and aerial skills to name a few) plus getting outdoors whether that’s walking the dog, gardening or the latest DIY project.

Moore Barlow

Anna Jemmison

Anna Jemmison is an experienced criminal defence solicitor who works tirelessly to achieve the best outcome for her clients. She offers specialist legal advice at each stage of a criminal allegation from investigation through to trial. Anna acts for individuals accused of sexual offences including allegations of rape and sexual assault, violent crime, drug possession and supply, robbery, dishonesty offences, driving matters, weapons offences, harassment, and allegations of controlling and coercive behaviour. Anna understands that being accused of a crime is distressing and daunting and impacts every aspects of a person’s life. Anna’s empathetic approach ensures she brings her clients along with her to ensure she achieves the best result possible, no matter what the severity of the allegation.

Hickman & Rose

Anna Jones

Anna Jones is an Associate in Vardags’ Cambridge office, advising on a broad range of family law matters. She is described as a “first-rate solicitor with excellent skills,” and praised for her “thorough and clearly explained” advice. Anna is particularly recognised for her work in children cases and complex financial arrangements, including those involving farming interests, property portfolios, and international assets.

Vardags

Anna Leathley

Anna’s area of expertise is in biotech. She has a current focus on cell therapy, and carries out European patent prosecution of a large portfolio of patent applications in this rapidly developing and complex field. Innovation in the cell therapy field comes in many forms, and in addition to this diverse field Anna also works with clients in many other technology areas. In particular she has extensive experience in the areas of protein therapeutics, diagnostics and platform technologies. She has worked with clients of all sizes and types to develop and execute their IP strategies. At all stages, she focuses on building effective working relationships to ensure that clients’ objectives are fully understood. She has extensive experience of drafting patent applications, as well as prosecuting these and other applications at the EPO, and coordinating global patent portfolio prosecution. Running alongside her drafting and prosecution work, is her advice and contentious work. She has considerable experience of oppositions and appeals at the EPO, and supports clients with a variety of advice, including freedom to operate analysis and due diligence exercises. The technical expertise that Anna acquired in her studies and during her time as a patent attorney means that irrespective of the specific technology, she is able to think creatively and solve problems. Anna always looks for the bigger picture, but without losing sight of the technical detail.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Anna Lewis

Anna specialises in the sale and purchase of all types of residential property, predominately within London. She also works on the granting and taking of leases and tenancy agreements. Anna is a member of the Leasehold Enfranchisement Group advising landlords and tenants on statutory lease extensions and collective enfranchisement. She has recently dealt with a number of “de-envelopments” following changes to inheritance tax and ATED legislation. This involves overseas companies that own high value properties being liquidated. On liquidation, the property is transferred to its beneficial owner(s).

Wedlake Bell LLP

Anna Lockett

Anna Lockett – Solicitor/Crown Court Supervisor

SVS Solicitors

Anna Lowe

Anna is legal director who has a wide range of property experience with particular expertise in acting for retail and investor clients as well as representing various well known occupational and industrial tenants, landlords and portfolio holders since qualification in 2002. She has a pragmatic and commercial focus enhanced by several in-house secondments during the course of her career. Her clients value her committed approach to client care combined with her can-do attitude. Her recent project experience includes: acting on the first phase of a £100 million mixed use retail and leisure scheme which, when completed, will be one of the biggest retail parks in the UK. Over the course of 2016 and 2017, Anna led the client team in relation to this scheme, dealing with the majority of lettings and acting as the main client point of contact. Anna is now instructed on the next phases of the scheme scheduled to PC late 2020; acting for the UK's leading independent energy and multi-utilities service provider and running a bespoke team servicing this growing client; acting for a luxury retailer as part of its ambitious expansion plan onto the UK high street and into shopping centres over the next two years; working with a PRS REIT in relation to the housing developments it has earmarked for purchase this year; and advising a regional airport on all of its property requirements in relation to what is a complex and multi-tenanted site. One of her key client’s has recently commented “Anna is our “go to” person at Shoosmiths … not only is she technically very able, but also diligent, committed, organised, easy to deal with, hard-working and efficient. She always goes the extra mile for us and can be depended upon to get things done when she says she will…”. Anna also considers corporate social responsibility to be a vital part of her work. One of Anna’s pro bono clients (a hospice with a number of retail units) has recently commented “The legal work that you do starts the whole process off by giving us the opportunity to make the shop the success that it has turned out to be, but ultimately it helps to fund the doctors and nurses who provide direct patient care. Whilst it might be another day in the office doing legal work, hopefully you can be heartened that the fruits of that labour is helping to support many patients and their loved ones in the most difficult time of their lives.”.

Shoosmiths LLP

Anna McGill

Anna is a corporate solicitor with a wide range of experience in corporate transactional work, including M&A, fundraisings, joint ventures and group reorganisations. She also provides governance advice, as well as advising on commercial contracts and terms and conditions. Anna works with a range of different businesses and intermediaries such as accountants, IFAs, SMEs and start-ups.

Keystone Law

Anna McKibbin

Anna is a commercial lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in the communications sector. She has particular expertise in subsea cables/digital infrastructure and is regularly instructed on sole build, consortium (capacity-based/open cables) and branch build projects – and advises across all project documents, including supply contracts, landing party agreements, C&MAs/JBAs and arrangements for backhaul, colocation and maintenance. Anna also advises on terrestrial network roll-outs and network sales. Recent subsea experience includes advising on matters relating to AAE-1, Havfrue, Havhingsten, 2Africa, Africa-1, IAX, IEX, SMW5, SMW6 and PEACE. Anna’s clients are based internationally and include submarine cable owners, network operators and cable consortia. Prior to joining Keystone Law, Anna spent four years with WorldCom (Verizon) with responsibility for supporting international network roll-out and all network-related sales transactions. She also acted as in-house lawyer to submarine cable system Gemini (WorldCom/C&W joint venture) and held Head of Legal positions at Abovenet and Easynet.

Keystone Law

Anna Moore

Partner

Leigh Day

Anna Moore

Professional Support Lawyer

Mills & Reeve LLP

Anna Mudge

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Anna Mullins

Partner

Forsters LLP

Anna Naylor

Anna is a regulatory defence lawyer specialising in advising organisations on health and safety, food safety, coroners’ inquests and Public Inquiries. She assists clients who are being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive, Local Authorities, Environment Agency and Police following serious incidents. She represents companies in enforcement notice appeals, fee for intervention disputes and prosecutions of companies and individuals for a range of regulatory offences. Anna also provides advice and support for directors and senior managers on regulatory compliance. Anna assists clients in getting to grips with forthcoming changes to legislation and provides training on a wide variety of health and safety, food safety and inquest related topics. Anna undertakes advocacy on behalf of defendants charged with regulatory offences in the criminal courts and a large part of her practice involves acting for Interested Persons at Inquests. Her inquest experience spans workplace fatalities, prison deaths, motor incidents and healthcare matters. She is described by the directories as having great experience and being tireless in her determination to achieve results for her clients. Anna is also recognised by Legal 500 for being 'patient, industrious and very hard working'. Anna qualified as a lawyer in 2003 and joined the regulatory team at Weightmans in 2019.

Weightmans LLP

Anna Nice

Consultant

Miles Preston

Anna Pask

Anna is a Senior Associate Solicitor and an APIL accredited Senior Litigator. Anna deals with cases involving brain injuries and complex orthopaedic injuries, including amputations. Anna is also a member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers and represents victims of child abuse in cases being brought against both individual abusers and institutions including schools, the church and local authorities.

Irwin Mitchell

Anna Phillips

Anna leads the firm’s charity property practice which advises charities, social enterprises, RP’s and healthcare organisations in solving property related problems including title issues, freehold disputes, commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, business leases renewals and property related professional negligence. Anna is passionate about the not-for-profit sector and is driven by making a positive difference to the organisations she represents. Anna also applies her deep subject matter expertise in solving complex property issues to assist the firm’s receivership clients. Anna approaches her work with clients as a partnership – working closely with them and other parties involved to get the right result. Often this means ensuring that property problems are resolved in an efficient manner so that funds are received more quickly or at a higher level of recovery.

Foot Anstey

Anna Reid

Partner, Solicitor

D Young & Co LLP

Anna Richardson

Anna is a Principal Associate in the banking & finance team, based in the Solent Office. Anna undertakes all aspects of banking work with a focus on leveraged acquisition finance and with experience in asset and property finance as well as general corporate lending and portfolio management. Anna works for borrowers and lenders including corporates, individuals, high street and challenger banks and other (corporate and PE) financial institutions. Anna has experience working on bilateral and syndicated transactions, both nationally and internationally and is familiar with the LMA as well as most bank standard form finance documents. As well as corporate lending, Anna works with a number of our clients and their in house teams in preparing and maintaining standard form finance documents. Anna’s recent project experience includes: advising a high street bank in relation to a £20 million lend for the acquisition by a PE funder of a software company; advising a challenger bank in relation to circa £10 million of funding for two acquisitions of financial planning businesses; advising a leading venture capital house in relation to loan documentation, security packages and intercreditor arrangements to facilitate investment into growing businesses, in particular those with a focus on healthcare; advising a borrower on the English law elements of a €100 million loan from a syndicate of banks; and working with a bank client’s in house legal team to prepare and advise on a new standard form loan agreement.

Shoosmiths LLP

Anna Rothwell

Anna specialises in business crime, general crime and extradition. She has considerable experience of representing individuals accused of bribery, corruption, money laundering, false accounting and fraud offences, and has advised on numerous domestic and cross-border investigations brought by the Serious Fraud Office, National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service. Anna has negotiated with the SFO and other prosecutors on behalf of defendants under The Attorney General’s Guidelines on Plea Discussions in Cases of Serious or Complex Fraud and agreements under sections 71-75 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, and has advised witnesses facing interview under the SFO’s compulsory section 2 powers and companies served with section 2 and disclosure notices. Anna also has extensive experience of advising in relation to international law matters and complex extradition cases, as well as regulatory and criminal matters under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority, such as misleading the market and insider dealing. Anna has also advised and represented individuals in a number of complex and lengthy asset forfeiture, cash seizure, restraint and confiscation matters. She also has experience of advising on matters involving the US Department of Justice, advising both witnesses and those whose extradition is sought for prosecution, and challenging Interpol red notices. As well as business crime, Anna also has years of experience of advising in the police station and in relation to Magistrates’ and Crown Court trials, including representing individuals facing prosecution for sexual offences including rape, sexual assault and historic offences, offences against the person involving serious violence and public order offences, drug supply offences, causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in a public office.

Corker Binning

Anna Sella

I have advised (and negotiated on behalf of) clients on a wide range of employment law issues for over 10 years. I also frequently undertake investigations. I work with large multinationals as well as smaller companies and individuals in a variety of sectors including retail, law, manufacturing, media and technology. I have a particular interest in and knowledge of disability discrimination and reasonable adjustments, TUPE transfers, pensions automatic enrolment and holiday pay matters. Alongside regular handling of Employment Tribunal claims, I provide strategic advice with a focus on practical solutions that achieve my clients' goals. I am a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) and, separately, volunteer my time pro bono or as a reading mentor when I can.

Lewis Silkin

Anna Shadbolt

Partner advising on all aspects of family law, particularly financial issues arising upon divorce or separation of cohabiting couples. She advises on a range of complex legal issues, including financial provision for children of unmarried parents, claims in respect of property owned by cohabitees, pre and post nuptial agreements, the treatment of non-disclosure by one party and cases involving a significant asset base. She is also experienced in international cases including advising on complex issues of enforcement in other jurisdictions, securing financial provision for parties who have obtained an overseas divorce, the treatment of offshore trusts or other international assets, and multifaceted jurisdictional issues concerning competing legal proceedings in other countries.

Dawson Cornwell LLP

Anna Shaw

Excello Law