Lawyers in England

Sebastian Briggs

Sebastian is a partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, financing and joint ventures. He has particular expertise in the energy sector. He has acted on transactions for the sale, purchase, financing or investment in more than 75 renewable energy projects with a combined capacity in excess of 5GW, including RWE Npower’s groundbreaking Zephyr transaction. His experience includes onshore and offshore wind, biomass, wave and tidal, waste to energy, geothermal, combined heat and power, solar and energy storage projects. In addition to his transactional experience, Sebastian advises corporate clients on governance and other risk and compliance related matters. He regularly presents seminars on these subjects.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Sebastian Cussons-Mercado

Managing Associate Sebastian has particular expertise in assisting clients with matters relating to taxation. Sebastian advises on a range of private client issues, including trusts, succession planning, complex Wills, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, income tax, probate, powers of attorney and domicile. In addition to being qualified as a Solicitor, Sebastian is also qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser, which enables him to provide in-depth advice on the tax implications of trusts and other structures. Sebastian takes a thorough approach to all aspects of work, identifying the best opportunities to mitigate tax and to deliver the best possible result.

Orwins

Sebastian Daly

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Sebastian Orton

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Sebastian Price

Sebastian advises on the full range of commercial arrangements, covering every aspect of clients' purchasing, production, marketing, selling, infrastructure, outsourcing, technology and e-commerce requirements. He has particular experience of tailoring support for in-house legal teams, working closely with them. He has worked on secondment with clients, including time at a major retail bank. He has particular legal specialism in IT outsourcing, software licensing and development, IT systems acquisition, facilities management, electronic trading and other IT related matters; and he is identified as a leader in the field of Information Technology by Chambers and Partners. His focus is on helping clients meet their commercial objectives by using his legal knowledge and expertise and acting as part of the client team.Sebastian’s experience includes advising: the leading supplier to the health sector of safety related software on its licencing and distributorship arrangements worldwide; retailers on online sales, distance selling and other e-commerce issues; a Police Force on its procurement of a new ERP system; universities on research and teaching collaborations, and on a range of other arrangements for making use of university know-how and IP; a leading residential mortgage providers on mortgage sales and procurement of a new IT system; a US credit card company and personal finance lender on its operations in the UK; credit card issuers on affinity arrangements, merchant acquiring and card schemes; a top 4 UK housebuilder on the contracts to set up an arrangement to assist first time buyers obtain mortgage finance; the UK’s leading travel company on a range of outsourcings and business critical contracts; and the world’s leading car hire company on its UK rental and fleet management arrangem

Shoosmiths LLP

Sebastian Prichard Jones

Sebastian specialises in advising wealthy families on tax and succession issues. Much of his work has an international dimension and many of his clients have no connection with the UK. He advises on the creation and operation of asset-holding structures and family offices. He also advises on tax investigations and litigation involving family trusts. Sebastian advises many UK and non-UK based families on their tax position, both in the UK and internationally. In 2003 he spent six months on secondment with the trusts and estates group of a leading New York law firm and, as a result of this experience, much of his work has a US dimension. Sebastian has lectured in the UK, the US and further afield. Sebastian became senior partner on 1 May 2020.

Macfarlanes LLP

Sebastian Reger

Partner

Fieldfisher

Sebastian Sayer

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Seetal Modi

My job is to help people raise finance or lend against assets, no matter how unusual the asset class nor how challenging the circumstances – I am here to assist you and achieve your aims. My 20 years’ industry experience and proactive, ‘can do’ attitude means that I will always be a valuable member of your advisory team. I am experienced, engaged, hard working, available, responsive and genuinely lead from the front. My aim from the outset is to understand your needs and pressures and work with you side-by-side to meet those needs and alleviate those pressures – your problem will most definitely become mine until we find a solution.

Fladgate LLP

Sejal Patel

Associate

Irwin Mitchell

Sejal Raja

Partner - EPI Leeds, London, Manchester & Birmingham

Weightmans LLP

Selena Arbe-Barnes

Selena is a senior associate at Family Law in Partnership. She advises on a wide range of issues associated with the breakdown of marriage and relationships, including complex children and financial matters. Selena’s children cases often involve multi-layered child arrangement issues, including those where the most serious allegations have been made against parents. On financial matters, she assists clients at all stages of their divorce or separation with an approach tailored to their needs and circumstances – be it engaging in negotiation, alternative dispute resolution or court proceedings. In her work, Selena is highly regarded for her client care and emotional intelligence, as well as for her sharp technical skills. She is particularly attuned to the relational aspects of separation and divorce, having undertaken training on systemic thinking with the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust; she is able to draw on these ideas to help clients to secure considered and favourable outcomes for themselves and their children. Selena is committed to resolving matters in a proactive and sensitive manner, considering all options to achieve a solution that is both sensible and fair. When this is not possible and court proceedings become unavoidable, Selena will take a robust approach to protect her clients’ interests. Selena is ranked as a Rising Star by Legal 500 2023, and was named as a Rising Star by Legal 500 UK 2022 and 2021. The 2023 and 2024 editions of the UK Best Lawyers guide have also named Selena as ‘One to Watch’. Selena is a fluent Spanish and French speaker. She uses her language skills to assist clients going through court proceedings abroad by working closely with local lawyers and liaising with third parties.

Family Law in Partnership Ltd

Selica Khan

Senior Associate

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Selina Cullen

Selina is a Senior Associate and manages the Client Services Department based in Thames Valley. The team are responsible for dealing with all new enquiries for the Private Advisory Division, from signposting leads to the relevant departments, to undertaking client and matter inception, and compliance checks. Having joined in 2001, Selina has over 15 years’ experience leading teams in a customer service environment.

Shoosmiths LLP

Selina Hinchliffe

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Seray Kitchingman

Seray is a Principal Associate in the firm’s corporate department, based in the London office. Seray specialises in advising on corporate transactions including share and asset acquisitions and disposals, equity investment, group reorganisations, shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, articles of association and general company law advice. Seray also acts for a number of commercial lenders providing advice on all aspects of secured lending, including real estate finance, development finance and acquisition finance matters.

Weightmans LLP

Serena Eddy

Serena is a Senior Associate in the London R&I team and leads on the contentious asset recovery offering.

Irwin Mitchell

Serena Nicholls

Serena provides advice to corporate, institutional and senior executive clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. Her work includes advising in relation to the conduct of employment litigation (including discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal claims), disciplinary and grievance procedures, settlement agreements, team hires and restraints of trade, and redundancy. Serena's employer clients include media organisations, charities and academic establishments. She also has a wealth of experience providing bespoke advise to high-net-worth clients on their staff arrangements.

Farrer & Co

Serena Sandhu

Senior Associate

Osbornes

Seth Collins

Partner.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Seth Roe

Seth has over 15 years of experience helping media and technology businesses with their HR needs. “I’m passionate about my clients and the businesses they run. I provide practical and effective solutions to the executives, managers, in-house lawyers and HR teams that I work with as well as regularly dealing with complicated employment disputes. I will not stop until I’m confident the best possible result has been achieved. Recent work highlights include successfully defending a number of highly sensitive Employment Tribunal claims related to whistleblowing and discrimination (including achieving sizeable costs awards against the claimants), and strategising and advising on a number of large scale business restructurings. I recently chaired a Film and TV industry working group analysing the developments in holiday pay law and their implications for productions, and regularly deliver workshops and training to clients and industry bodies on a variety of topics, from TUPE to harassment prevention. I previously led our team’s work in relation to HR-related Covid-19 advice during the pandemic which involved advising all our major US studio and SVOD clients in this area.”

Wiggin LLP

Seva Singh

Seva has considerable experience in dealing with maximum severity personal injury cases arising out of all classes of business but predominantly, road traffic accidents, employers' liability and public liability claims. Seva's caseload largely consists of high value personal injury litigation relating to claims involving severe irreversible brain and spinal cord injury and amputation cases. Seva also handles cases involving insurance contract and indemnity disputes. Seva has been involved in a number of cases involving contentious issues such as the provision of state funding in personal injury cases, periodical payments and indexation and he has presented training sessions to insurers on these topics. Seva has a particular interest in brain injury cases where capacity is in dispute. Seva has also been involved in a number of cases where he has successfully defended Applications for substantial interim payments in maximum severity injury cases. Seva is a trained mediator.

Weightmans LLP

Seán Lavin

Seán led the firm’s employment group for over a decade and has over 25 years’ experience advising employers on all aspects of employment law. Seán advises corporate clients on TUPE, collective and union issues, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, team moves and restrictive covenants, boardroom and executive disputes and Employment Tribunal claims.

Macfarlanes LLP

Shabina Hussain

Blaser Mills Law