Lawyers in England

Susannah Lloyd

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Susannah Lopez-Bernal

TLT

Susannah Marsh

Susannah is a partner and heads up the firm’s Financial Services Litigation team. She assists major lenders and mortgage providers with complex residential and commercial possession claims, professional negligence, real estate litigation (including title rectification), fraud and debt recovery claims. She provides clients with effective solutions and the necessary support and guidance to help them recover their money as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. She provides a level of personal service based on not only legal expertise, but also a detailed understanding of her clients’ business priorities. Susannah has been involved in some of the most influential cases involving unfair relationships, secret commissions and bribery in the last few years – cases which have had a direct impact upon the industry.

Moore Barlow

Susannah Sheppard

Susannah advises on all aspects of EU and UK competition law and has regulatory expertise in technology, travel, air transport, financial services and telecommunications. She has considerable experience in both the public and private sectors, having worked for the European Commission, the UK Cabinet Office and the European Court of Justice prior to working in private practice. Susannah’s areas of expertise are EU and UK merger clearances, acquisitions and joint ventures; market investigations and competition enquiries; anti-competitive agreements and practices (such as price fixing, market sharing, information exchanges, cartels and restrictive practices); abuse of dominant market position; copyright and intellectual property issues relating to competition law; competition compliance programmes and training; strategic and behavioural competition and regulatory advice; competition law strategy and compliance in the context of standardisation; media and telecommunications and travel and air transport. Susannah’s key achievements include: (i) acting for Guardian Care Homes on the competition law aspects of the leading libor case against Barclays (ii) acting for or advising clients on competition follow on damages cases including air cargo and LCD (iii) defending an equities trading exchange against claims of abuse of dominant market position; (iv) advising and representing client in relation to OFT investigation into outdoor advertising; (v) advising major on-line services provider on competition compliance, and on the use of competition law in commercial negotiations with dominant suppliers; (vi) advising UK regulatory authority on the application of EU and UK regulation to the fulfilment of its core regulatory and review functions; (vii) advising on and project managing the regulatory approval process for the EEA business expansion of a major multinational travel provider; (vii) advising on and restructuring the EEA regulatory licensing requirements for a major on-line services provider.

Keystone Law

Susanne Hartigan

Susanne trained and worked at one of the UK’s leading law firms, Simmons & Simmons. She later moved to specialist employment and partnership firm CM Murray LLP where she went on to become the firm’s Director of Knowledge & Compliance. Susanne has extensive experience in advising on employment and partnership law, and has been recommended in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories. She advises both senior executives and corporations. Susanne’s experience includes advising on partnership appointments and exits, including team moves, discrimination and restrictive covenants issues, with a particular focus on equity law firm partner departures. She has also advised extensively on high value and complex senior executive matters (up to CEO level) often including discrimination, whistleblowing and restrictive covenant aspects. Susanne joined Bellevue Law in January 2022.

Bellevue Law

Sushma MacGeoch

Sushma MacGeoch is Head of Insurance Disputes at Womble Bond Dickinson, leading the national team based in London, Bristol and Southampton. Sushma has over 25 years’ experience as a professional indemnity and construction specialist. She is an expert in the defence of complex high value claims against solicitors, valuers, accountants, brokers and construction professionals, to include architects engineers and contractors. Sushma also regularly acts as coverage counsel. Sushma’s clients include major Insurers and construction companies. Sushma is ranked as a Leading Individual in Legal 500. Legal 500 2020 refers to Sushma as "a stand-out partner.. [she] has enormous courage and steely determination which is matched with poise and finesse" and that she "is an exceptional professional; her knowledge, style, resilience and personality are what set her aside and ensure she is the leader of this impressive and growing team." Recent experience includes: defending solicitors in £130m claim arising from credit hire litigation handled on behalf of Insurers; defending accountants in £15m film finance litigation; defending groundworks contractor in multiparty £12m claim arising from failure of floor slab in warehouse distribution centre resulting in landmark decision in Co-Op Group Limited v Birse Developments Limited and others on limitation in claims against construction professionals; defending architects on £40m claim arising from failure of commercial complex; acting as coverage counsel on block notification by brokers with potential claim value exceeding £80m. Sushma MacGeoch was shortlisted for Women in Finance Insurance Leader of the Year Award 2019. Under Sushma's leadership, the Womble Bond Dickinson Insurance Disputes team has won a number of accolades to include Insurance Team of the Year 2017 Legal Business Awards; Shortlisted for Insurance Firm of the Year 2017 Post Claims Awards; Highly Commended in FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2017 for Private Edge Product developed with AIG: Winner of Commercial Insurance Law Firm of the Year UK – 2018 Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards; Legal 500 award for Insurance Firm (Specialism) of the Year for our expertise in professional negligence in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Sushma Maharaj

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Susie Al-Qassab

Susie is a highly experienced employment lawyer who supports both individuals and organisations through complex and sensitive workplace issues. She offers clear, strategic advice across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters, with a particular focus on senior professionals and C-suite executives in sectors including finance, media, advertising, professional services, education and the public sector. She is particularly adept at dealing with complex and emotionally charged situations where individuals are facing restructuring, disciplinary proceedings (including cross-over regulatory and criminal matters) or grappling with long-running and unresolved grievances and whistleblowing disclosures, often in high-stakes environments where reputations and careers are on the line. She also advises on contract negotiations, amicable exits and the resolution of workplace grievances. Susie has a strong track record of representing under-represented groups in internal processes and litigation, regularly handling discrimination cases at the highest levels of private business, educational institutions and the public sector (particularly within the NHS). Her approach is both robust and empathetic, grounded in a deep understanding of what’s at stake for her clients. Alongside individual representation, Susie supports organisations with investigations, complex grievances/disciplinaries, reorganisations and Tribunal litigation. She has conducted several high-profile investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, reporting directly to boards and advising on follow-up action. Her advice is practical, ethical and values-led, balancing legal risk with organisational integrity. Clients consistently value Susie’s ability to listen, understand and collaborate. One described her as “a strong strategist and nimble tactician,” with “an almost photographic memory of key documents” and “the ability to form sound partnerships with clients.” Others have praised her “commercial, practical and very calm” style, highlighting her clarity of thought and costs transparency. Susie has over 15 years’ experience in private practice, including roles at Finers Stephens Innocent, Howard Kennedy, and as Partner and Head of Department at social justice firm Hodge Jones & Allen. Before qualifying as a lawyer, she was a senior manager at Procter & Gamble in Geneva. She is ranked in Chambers UK 2025 for her work with senior executives and is a regular adviser to listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Money Box. “Susie is a strong strategist and nimble tactician. She has a rapid appreciation of complex fact patterns as well as being astute, intellectually strong and flexible. She forms sound partnerships with clients.” – Chambers UK 2024 “Susie is excellent at the work she does, providing all possible support and being willing to listen to my viewpoint.” – Chambers UK 2024 “I was very happy with the service provided by Susie Al-Qassab. Susie is intelligent, commercial, responsive and empathetic, and the service she provided was excellent value for money.” – Testimonial from Client Feedback Survey, 2025 “I recommend Susie wholeheartedly, with whom I had the privilege of working during my executive exit. Susie demonstrated exceptional legal acumen in our case. Notably, her ability to link all provided relevant evidence into a cohesive and incontestable argument was pivotal in the successful outcome of our case. One of the standout moments was when Susie skillfully demonstrated and formalised a powerful and robust strategy. This move strengthened our position and left no room for contestation from the opposing side. Throughout our collaboration, Susie maintained the highest professionalism and ethical standards. Her communication was always clear, timely and effective. I confidently recommend Susie as a thoughtful and reliable lawyer who brings expertise and a strategic mindset to her case.” – Testimonial from Chief Technology Officer, 2024

Bellevue Law

Susie Dryden

Susie is a very experienced commercial litigator who has advised on a broad range of matters over a number of years. She has been the lead partner on a number of cases involving significant and complex litigation or arbitration, including commercial contract disputes, procurement disputes, IT disputes, engineering disputes, fraud cases and professional negligence claims. In recent years, much of her work has been in the health and I.T. sectors, in which she has specialised. Her expertise in undertaking detailed investigations and in asset recovery cases enhances her regulatory work, where she has acted for many years as Intervention Agent for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) into interventions into solicitors’ firms. Susie is also an accredited mediator, both acting as mediator and representing parties at mediation.

Blake Morgan LLP

Susie Labinjoh

Susie Labinjoh is a Head of the Civil Liberties & Human Rights practice at Hodge Jones & Allen. She specialises in civil actions against the police and public authorities and related Human Rights Act claims, as well as in bringing compensation claims for victims of miscarriage of justice and public law challenges related to these areas. Susie is renowned for her dedication to using the power of the law to fight for what’s right and secure justice. She has devoted her career to fighting for those who have suffered injustice, training at Hodge Jones & Allen from 1997 and being promoted to Partner in 2005 based on her dedication to her work and her clients. As an expert in her field, Susie has a strong track-record in complex cases, including representing bereaved families at inquests and civil claims arising out of deaths in custody. She represents families in relation to prison deaths, police restraint deaths and police pursuit deaths. Susie is also well-known for her commitment to securing compensation for victims of miscarriage of justice. She has dealt with multiple high profile cases involving serious accusations such as murder, including the M25 Three and the Bridgewater Four. Susie also has extensive experience in representing protestors, often those involved in major political and social demonstrations. She has represented a number of protestors in claims arising from many recent protests, including anti-DSEI, anti-EDL, BLM, XR Autumn Uprising and XR Lambeth Bridge. Since 2005, Susie has held a position on the advisory board of the Miscarriage of Justice Support Service, a division of the Royal Courts of Justice Citizens’ Advice Bureau – a service that provides free legal advice and assistance for victims of miscarriage of justice. She is also a member of The Police Action Lawyers Group and The Miscarriage of Justice Lawyers Group.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Susie Murray

Partner and Head of the Residential and Rural Property Conveyancing team

Ashfords LLP

Susie Rogers

Experience Susie is a Partner in the Housing team at Capsticks, specialising in security charging, stock rationalisation, void disposal programmes and governance within the housing sector. Susie is an expert in commercial property arrangements and in public sector funding and powers, including revenue and capital grants. Expertise Susie leads on Capsticks’ security charging, stock rationalisation and void disposal projects. Her practical approach, contacts and understanding of what is “market norm” mean Susie and her team are able to deal with large projects with minimal fuss – hitting deadlines and ensuring capital receipts are received on time to support your business case objectives.Susie also deals with all aspects of commercial property, from dealing with new headquarter/anchor leases to the disposal of garage portfolios, and everything in between. Susie regularly advises housing sector clients on governance, grant funding and regulatory issues. Notable projects • Dealing with the security charging to support a £150m private placement from a US investor• Charging 725 units (including commercial units) to secure a £50m facility from an oversees investor, new to the UK housing market• Advising on an innvoative co-housing scheme for the over 50s in London, involving two registered housing providers and a co-operative• Ongoing project for the acquisition of circa 70 street properties per annum for affordable rent/shared ownership use• Numerous capital grant funding projects for supported living schemes• Managing a review of 175 leases to establish responsibility for health and safety matters• £220m Nottingham Treatment Centre• £65m Brent Emergency Care and Diagnostic Centre (“BECaD”)• Various LIFT projects

Capsticks LLP

Susie Wakefield

Susie Wakefield is head of commercial insurance and specialises in commercial litigation, arbitration and (re)insurance. She also advises clients in the energy and commodities sectors and has represented clients in complex, multimillion-dollar disputes with multijurisdictional aspects. Susie has practised in New York, Bermuda and London and has advised clients in litigation in federal and state courts in NY, the Supreme Court of Bermuda, and the High Court. Susie has also handled disputes under the Arbitration Act 1996, the Federal Arbitration Act, the Bermuda International Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1993 and the UNCITRAL Model Law as well as ad hoc arbitrations and under various institutional rules in the UK, Europe, and the US. Susie advises on a broad array of claims and coverage disputes, including issues arising in connection with Bermuda Form policies and reinsurance arrangements involving captives and segregated account companies. She has advised on complex policy wording reviews; significant P&C losses; claims involving allegations of fraud, misrepresentation and nondisclosure; breach of warranty claims; claims for contribution from co-insurers; and insolvency-related matters. Her work spans many lines of risk including: CGL, property, business interruption, construction, energy, space, marine cargo, financial lines including D&O, E&O/PI, financial institutions PI, pensions trustees liability, POSI and liability including product liability, product recall, public liability, employers’ liability, IT, media, IP, and cyber. Susie qualified in the UK in 1997, New York (2003) and Bermuda (2008). Susie co-authored the ‘Lloyd’s and London Market’ chapter of volume seven of the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition, 2012. Susie is ranked in both Chambers UK and Chambers Global 2021 where she is described as “very responsive, detailed and picks up on issues quickly" and "really enjoyable to work with-clients are better for having her involved". Susie is listed in the International Who’s Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers and Women in Business Law. .

Shoosmiths LLP

Suzanna Baker

Partner

Osbornes

Suzanna Eames

Associate

Farrer & Co

Suzanna Harvey

Head of the Private Wealth Sector and partner in international tax and trust unit of Private Client Services department. Specialises in international tax and estate planning for UK and non-UK clients. Advises non-UK domiciliaries on the income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax implications of UK residence, and about international estate planning. Provides UK tax advice to financial institutions, for example advising on the UK tax implications of their products. In addition, provides trust advice to numerous international trust companies and individuals, including drafting trust documentation, advising on general trust law issues and advising on policy documentation.

Burges Salmon LLP

Suzanne Brooker

Suzanne is one of the leading insolvency and turnaround specialists in the South East dealing with all aspects of corporate and individual insolvency, restructuring and refinancing including, but not limited to, contentious and non-contentious issues arising in administrations, receiverships, liquidations (solvent and insolvent), bankruptcies, voluntary arrangements. Suzanne's assignments are not sector specific and frequently include security issues, restructuring and refinancing projects as well as advice to one or more class of key stakeholders. She is a licensed Insolvency Practitioner. Suzanne's clients include funders, investors, management (directors), shareholders, creditors (customers and suppliers), landlords and insolvency and turnaround practitioners. Chambers 2021: Clients praise her professionalism and technical knowledge, saying she “Not only is she a first-rate lawyer with sublime business acumen, but she is also a very effective tactician who knows how to run substantial litigation for her clients.” Legal 500 (2021) : - "Suzanne Brooker and her team took a calm and pragmatic approach to their engagement. At all times they displayed great competence and a work rate second to none. They were a pleasure to work with during what were trying circumstances. I couldn't have had anyone better un my corner. Suzanne Brooker was the lead partner on the project. She was supportive, calming and reassuring throughout, with a degree of competence that I have found hard to match elsewhere." "Suzanne Brooker has an excellent understanding of the law providing commercial answers to difficult situations." Specialties: Insolvency & Restructuring Turnaround Debt Recovery, asset tracing Fraud Invoice Discounting, factoring and asset based lending.

Spencer West LLP

Suzanne Burrell

Suzanne is an experienced pensions lawyer advising both trustees and employees on a wide range of pensions issues. Suzanne has experience advising on both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes of all sizes ranging from under £10m to schemes in excess of £1bn. Suzanne has particular experience advising clients in the co-operative sector and is familiar with the typical pension scheme structure in that sector. Additionally, she advises schemes run by charity sector employers and is well versed in the pensions issues facing charity employers. Suzanne’s recent experience includes: advice to employers on the implementation of auto-enrolment including amendments to a pension scheme rules for a defined contribution scheme to ensure compliance with the automatic enrolment legislation; advice on redesign of pension benefits including capping pensionable salary and introduction of career average benefits and draft scheme documents to implement the changes; advice in relation to the closure of a pension scheme to future accrual including the setting up of an escrow account and security over the scheme sponsor’s assets in exchange for a decision to defer winding up of the pension scheme; pensions aspects of corporate transactions including advice on a flexible apportionment arrangement and review of a clearance application to the Pensions Regulator where the target company was to be de-linked from the group pension scheme; negotiations between trustees and scheme sponsors on employer covenant issues around, and pension scheme funding including the drafting and negotiation of contingent asset documents including parent company guarantees (including pension protection fund compliant guarantees); advice on interpretation of scheme rules including advice on whether historic changes have been properly implemented; review and advice on agreements with third party providers including agreements on employer covenant review, administration agreements and investment management agreements; internal dispute resolution procedure and ombudsman cases on a wide range of disputes including a challenge by a member on the way his pension is increased. Suzanne also advises clients on public sector pensions issues. This includes advice on steps to be taken by private sector employers on the transfer of employees with public sector benefits, whether on the setting up of a broadly comparable scheme or the review and negotiation of admission agreements.

Shoosmiths LLP

Suzanne Caveney

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Suzanne Duff

Suzanne's work at the firm has been varied, including liability management exercises (scheme closures, modifying accrual, implementing cash balance schemes, buy in and buy out annuity policies), merger projects, advising on corporate restructuring for employers in financial difficulties, clearance applications for merger and acquisition work, scheme documentation projects, pension ombudsman claims and other litigation matters. Her regulatory expertise has been of significant use to many of the team's company and trustee clients and she works closely with the firm's Corporate Recovery Team on matters which may involve the Pension Protection Fund.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Suzanne Farg

Director

Fieldfisher

Suzanne Gill

Suzanne specialises in advising commercial property occupiers and investors, particularly office, retail and telecommunications premises. Her expertise includes advice to high net worth individuals on investment in and disposal of properties in the UK, both residential and commercial. She represents business occupiers on new premises and the structuring of existing property portfolios, and acts for occupiers and investors in the acquisition, management and disposal of properties. Suzanne also advises developers on complex site acquisitions.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Suzanne Hardy

Client Training Manager

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Suzanne Hooks

Suzanne has risen through the ranks since joining Bristows as a trainee, gaining experience across the full range of transactional real estate matters. She has spent two separate stints in-house in lending institutions, and a few years working in private practice in Northern Ireland. Exposure to the demands on in-house lawyers and the intricacies of another jurisdiction have enabled her to become a versatile and commercial lawyer with a common-sense approach to transaction management. Having forged close relationships with a number of tenant representatives from the leading London agencies, she has a steady flow of instructions from corporate occupier clients relocating to new office premises. Her experience in-house means she is well placed to act on property finance matters on both borrower and lender side. In recent years, she has acted for new entrants to the UK real estate market and guided them through the jurisdictional nuances of investing in property in England. She has a wealth of experience acting for retail clients trading from out of town centres, and has advised them from the development stage of new premises through the whole life cycle to exit. Suzanne has experience advising charities on the compliance issues arising from the disposal and financing of their property interests. She also regularly forms part of a wider Bristows’ transaction team acting on the acquisition of spin out companies in the life sciences and technology sectors, and often supports these companies when they scale up their business requiring additional space. Suzanne’s work highlights include: Acting for an offshore investor acquiring a mixed-use asset in central London for £30m. Acting for a publishing house purchasing its first central London office premises. Advising a leading garden centre operator since 2012 on its acquisition and financing of several new sites around England and Wales and subsequent asset management issues. Advising a European bank on regearing its leasehold interest at its City HQ. Acting for a Middle Eastern bank on refinancing a residential portfolio in Battersea Power Station. Acting for a number of professional services firms securing new premises on a pre-let basis. Advising a pharmaceutical company on the disposal of a contaminated land site. Advising a research institute on the statutory compensation procedure under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Advising charities on compliance issues arising from property disposals.

Bristows LLP