Lawyers in England

Sian Leonard

Sian specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency whether it is acting for the officeholder, director, bankrupt, lender, creditor, or other stakeholder in the insolvent estate. Sian’s work also involves a lot of front-end work in her advisory role and with transactional work, meeting very short timescales, addressing whatever issues are thrown at her, and ultimately delivering great results for her clients. Sian is also the main point of contact for some of Birkett’s lender clients. Sian has been awarded the 2019 winner for rising star – SME at the Insolvency Practitioner Association awards. Sian is also heavily involved in R3 as a committee member of the Eastern Region of R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and a member of the R3 London Women’s Group. This allows her to understand, appreciate and hopefully promote the insolvency industry to everyone effected by insolvency.

Birketts LLP

Sian Morgan

Sian is a Partner in our Medical and Life Sciences team. She acts on behalf of healthcare organisations, care homes and healthcare professionals. Sian is a specialist in defending medical malpractice claims as well as representing clients in inquests, CQC prosecutions and fitness to practise proceedings.

RPC

Sian Rogers

Sian is a Partner solicitor in the Southampton Real Estate team. She advises on a wide range of commercial property matters including: Portfolio management, acquisition and investment Secured lending All aspects of non-contentious landlord and tenant work Distressed property realisations Acquisitions and disposals (including portfolios and pension funds)

Lester Aldridge LLP

Sian Rose

Browne Jacobson LLP

Sian Scanlon

Partner

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Sian Scanlon

Sian is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial team. Sian's practice includes private company M&A, business acquisitions and disposals, investments & fundraisings, private equity transactions, joint ventures, reorganisations, shareholders' agreements, LLPs and partnerships, corporate governance and advisory matters and commercial contracts across a range of sectors including manufacturing, software, life sciences, professional services and technology. Sian's extensive experience in advising both owner managers in selling their companies and buyers on the acquisition trail means she has a strong pedigree in helping business and individuals make the most of their opportunities and she has a pragmatic, focused and accessible style. In addition, Sian has particular experience in advising professional service LLPs and partnerships on their partnership agreements and member governance.

Wilsons

Sian Walker

Sian’s practice covers the full range of property disputes across both residential and commercial property interests, acting for property owners, investors, developers and occupiers. In relation to commercial property Sian advises on a range of landlord and tenant issues, including lease renewals and breaches of obligation such as dilapidations. Her residential practice includes advising on contractual and real property rights and obligations, easements, covenants, neighbourly and boundary matters and a range of landlord and tenant disputes including possession claims, service charge issues and disrepair. Sian looks to explore the various options available to clients outside of formal litigation, in particular to explore settlement through alternative dispute resolution. Sian qualified as a solicitor in 2021.

Farrer & Co

Sian Webber

Partner

Cripps

Siddharth Kusumakar

Partner specialising in patent litigation in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices fields. Provides strategic advice in large scale multi-jurisdictional disputes with parallel European, US, UPC and European Patent Office actions, and particularly known for managing and coordinating pan-European litigation strategies for international clients. Has successfully acted in some of the most high-profile patent cases to come before the UK courts in recent years, including in two landmark UK Supreme Court decisions (Warner-Lambert v Actavis and Regeneron v Kymab). As a UPC legal representative, is currently acting in some of the first cases to be brought before the new Unified Patent Court.

Powell Gilbert LLP

Siddique Patel

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Siena Gold

Siena advises individuals and family offices, trustees and financial institutions representing them on wealth and succession planning, family governance, philanthropy and cross-border tax. She has particular expertise in assisting internationally mobile individuals and helping clients with a presence in multiple jurisdictions who have substantial interests in Europe, North America and the Middle East. She especially enjoys helping clients address particularly complex issues or difficult family dynamics where they are looking to avoid litigation. Siena won the UK rising star of the year award at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards in 2021. The judges noted she “continues to establish herself as one of the London market’s leading private wealth lawyers” with their sources saying she is “absolutely one to watch; she is really fantastic.”

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Siiri Duddington

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Silke Petzold

Silke is a Senior Associate in the Patents department, a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney.

Maucher Jenkins

Silvia Bocchetti

Partner

Belluzzo International Partners

Silvia D\'Amico

Silvia is an Associate in Rosling King’s Dispute Resolution Team. She qualified as an Italian lawyer in 2011, and thereafter she moved to London where she practised as a Registered European Lawyer in England and Wales, before qualifying as a Solicitor in 2020. Silvia has extensive experience in commercial cross-border disputes and multi-jurisdictional cases. She specialises in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including contractual disputes, civil fraud claims, professional negligence claims, and enforcement of foreign judgments in England. Due to her fluency in English and Italian, Silvia has worked on documents and advised clients in both languages throughout proceedings.

Rosling King

Silvia Devecchi

Silvia is a Managing Associate in the Family Team in the Private department. Silvia advises on all aspects of family law, including financial relief, divorce and dissolution proceedings, and children matters. Silvia has worked on numerous high-value cases, and is experienced in issues such as non-matrimonial property, the valuation of business assets and multi-jurisdictional assets. Silvia advises on cases with international elements, matters involving multiple trusts and various company structures, issues of serious non-disclosure, and cases involving nuptial agreements. Silvia frequently acts for parents in applications under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, including those featuring non-compliance and enforcement, and has built a substantial practice in international cases, dealing with issues of Schedule 1, relocation, child abduction and jurisdiction. A native Italian speaker, Silvia has assisted Italian clients in numerous high value and complex matters, including cross-jurisdictional disputes.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Simal Govindia

Solicitor

Birketts LLP

Simeon Gilchrist

With both contentious and transactional insolvency expertise, Simeon advises insolvency practitioners, banks, distressed companies and individuals in a wide range of both corporate and personal insolvency matters. His corporate transactional work has an administration bias with the preparation of business sales being a particular specialism. In personal insolvency matters, Simeon has a specialist European Regulation practice, advising individuals, practitioners and creditors on the application of the European Regulation and what is known as COMI shifting or bankruptcy tourism. Simeon has edited and written works on Company Meetings in insolvency proceedings and the disqualification legislation for directors. He also lectures to insolvency practitioners and lawyers both in England and abroad on procedural and substantive elements of insolvency law and practice. Publications of note include Tolley’s ‘Company Meetings’ (editor, ‘Insolvency Meetings’) and Tolley’s ‘Director’s Duties’ (author, ‘Disqualification’).

Edwin Coe LLP

Simeon Spencer

Simeon founded the firm in December 2010 after almost 20 years in big international firms. Simeon’s advice and counselling practice covers all aspects of the corporate, commercial and employment field as well as directors, officers, partnerships and consultancy / independent contractor issues. In the employment field, Simeon is constantly drafting employment contracts, policies, procedures, protocols, restrictive covenants and benefits. He regularly advises and assists corporate clients in drawing up and implementing stock/share option plans such as EMIs and JSOPs. When things get contentious, Simeon leads litigation for corporate clients in minority prejudice, restraint of trade/restrictive covenants, confidentiality and trade secrets, discrimination and general contract disputes. He litigates for and provides the advocacy for clients in the Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeals Tribunal and has acted in some landmark cases over the years. He is adept at bringing these disputes in at a realistic costs budget.

Spencer West LLP

Simon Abbott

Partner dealing with all aspects of commercial property.

Freeths LLP

Simon Adam

Simon is the Team Manager of Litigation London, consisting of almost 30 very capable lawyers and support staff, including 10 partners. He is an experienced insurance litigation solicitor, specialising in defending claims against a wide range of professionals, including engineers, architects, surveyors, valuers, letting agents, financial advisers and insurance brokers. He has acted for clients in professional regulatory matters and advises on policy coverage. He has considerable experience in successfully resolving claims at the Pre-Action stage, in litigation and by way of Alternative Dispute Resolution. In particular, Simon has attended and led numerous mediations, securing favourable outcomes. Simon trained and qualified at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert before spending 13 years at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

Weightmans LLP

Simon Adamson

Simon is a Partner and Head of Personal injury team. He specialises in all aspects of personal injury work, including road traffic accidents, public liability claims, accidents at work and holiday claims. Acts for claimants in mid and high value claims, including fatal accidents.

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Simon Ayrton

Partner specialising in intellectual property litigation. Work covers advising on full range of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyright, designs and confidential information. Cases include Research Corporation’s Patent (licence of right under the SPC for Carboplatin), IBM v Phoenix (trademark infringement and passing off), Rambus v Micron and Hyundai (patent infringement), Gillette v Corsair (passing off), Monsanto and Searle v Merck (patent infringement), Allergan v Pharmacia (patent infringement), Duracell v Round Imports (trade mark infringement), Sony Computer Entertainment v Ball (circumvention of copy protection measures), Aerotel v Telco (business method patents), Dr Reddy’s v Eli Lilly (patent revocation), Philips and Others v Alba (patent exhaustion and competition), Apple v Nokia (patent infringement), HTC v Apple (patent revocation), Unwired Planet v Huawei (patent infringement and FRAND), Vestel v HEVC Advance (FRAND licensing), Seoul Semiconductor v General Electric (patent revocation) and AutoStore v Ocado (patent infringement)

Powell Gilbert LLP

Simon Baigent

Member

Freeths LLP