Lawyers in England

Barnabas Finnigan

Partner

Conyers

Barnaby Stokes

I trained at Lewis Silkin and have been working for creative and innovative businesses for more than a decade. I am a corporate lawyer and deal with most stages in the lifecycle of a private limited company including equity and debt investment, joint ventures, asset acquisitions and disposals, share acquisitions and disposals, day-to-day corporate governance, and director and shareholder disputes. I advise clients across a broad range of sectors but have particular experience in advertising and media & entertainment.

Lewis Silkin

Barney Laurence

Commercial Litigation Partner

Excello Law

Barny Croft

Partner

Birketts LLP

Barry Adamson

Barry is a private individual lawyer with over 30 years’ experience. His practice focuses on advising high net worth individuals and their families how best to arrange their affairs to best protect and organise them for future generations. This often involves advice on tax planning, wills and trusts (including their planning, creation, administration and winding-up). Barry also deals with the administration of substantial estates, often with an international element.

Keystone Law

Barry Donnelly

Barry has more than 30 years' experience in international disputes and investigations, involving banking, finance, financial services, fund and asset management, trusts, insolvency, fraud and financial crime. He has been approved as a Skilled Person by the Financial Conduct Authority and has conducted numerous business critical regulatory reviews in both the UK and overseas. Barry has particular expertise in large scale financial litigation and arbitration, and regulatory investigations and proceedings. He represents clients in connection with investigations and proceedings involving both UK and overseas regulatory bodies and government agencies, including the London Stock Exchange, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office, the Department of Justice, the SEC and the CFTC. He frequently advises and conducts internal investigations for financial institutions and other regulated investment businesses; examples include matters involving failings in systems and controls, conflicts of interest, internal fraud, the alleged manipulation of LIBOR, precious metals, FX and commodities trading, market abuse, insider dealing, misleading statements, money laundering, bribery and corruption, and failure to prevent economic crime. Barry's representation of clients has included complex, often cross-border, disputes and investigations involving the co-ordination of proceedings or the obtaining of evidence abroad, as well as information requests from international courts, regulators and government agencies, such as under the Hague Evidence Convention or the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003. Overseas jurisdictions have included the Cayman Islands, the BVI, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, France, Italy, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Brazil, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Mauritius, Indonesia, Greece, Ireland, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.

Macfarlanes LLP

Barry Fisher

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Barry Gibb

Barry is a solutions focused pensions lawyer who is instructed by employers and independent trustees to ‘trouble shoot’. He is innovative and responsive when advising clients. He has been involved in a number of high profile matters including: • Advising Stobart Group on the pensions issues of the proposed takeover of Flybe. • Assisting Swissport GB Limited in respect of a complex scheme merger project for three of its final salary schemes. • Providing advice to the Trustees of the PJKI Pension Scheme in relation to a ‘PPF plus’ buy out exercise. • Advising Vynova Runcorn Limited on a complex re-write of the rules for two pension schemes following a double scheme closure.• Advising numerous trustee boards on scheme restructurings: • Trustees of the Veryards Limited Pension Scheme, putting in place a flexible apportionment arrangement (FAA) and funding guarantee; and• Trustees of the MWH UK Limited Pension & Life Assurance Plan, agreeing an FAA together with three guarantees and cash mitigation with the Canadian parent company. Barry is the training partner for the Manchester office of Hill Dickinson and sits on the Training Committee as he is passionate about the next generation of lawyers at Hill Dickinson.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Barry Goodall

Barry is a Partner and leads our construction team. Barry acts for contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, developers and employers. He has advised on major projects including Hinkley Point C and also the new Mersey Gateway Bridge, two of the largest infrastructure programmes in the UK.

Brabners LLP

Barry Jervis

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Barry O\'Leary

Barry O’Leary is one of the UK's leading immigration practitioners and has been a partner at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP since 2006. His practice covers the full range of immigration and nationality issues, with a particular emphasis on applications by spouses and civil partners, and asylum on the basis of sexual identity. Barry is also well-known for his work in advising intended parents on UK immigration and citizenship issues for children born through international surrogacy arrangements. In his spare time, he works as a volunteer lawyer for the Rainbow Migration and a Director of Micro Rainbow. He has taught courses for the Immigration Law Practitioners Association for a number of years.

Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP

Barry O’Leary

Barry O’Leary is one of the UK's leading immigration practitioners and has been a partner at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP since 2006. His practice covers the full range of immigration and nationality issues, with a particular emphasis on applications by spouses and civil partners, and asylum on the basis of sexual identity. Barry is also well-known for his work in advising intended parents on UK immigration and citizenship issues for children born through international surrogacy arrangements. In his spare time, he works as a volunteer lawyer for the Rainbow Migration and a Director of Micro Rainbow. He has taught courses for the Immigration Law Practitioners Association for a number of years.

Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP

Barry Shaw

Partner specialising in commercial and residential property matters.

Solomon Taylor & Shaw LLP

Barry Stimpson

Barry heads up Shoosmiths’ Investment Funds practice and is recognised in Chambers & Partners as a notable practitioner, with clients describing him as being "very responsive and highly knowledgeable of the sector", adding that he is "pragmatic and an excellent negotiator." His drafting skills and knowledge of hedge funds are further acknowledged in the Legal 500 directory. Barry’s experience as a funds specialist with City and international law firms extends to more than 30 years in advising clients on establishing real estate, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds and other investment structures, as well as on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other corporate work. His work includes advising fund managers, investors and professional services firms on limited liability partnerships and partnership agreements and mergers. Barry was previously an investment banker at UBS, gaining experience in the real estate and listed funds sectors to bring an understanding of both the financial and legal drivers behind projects. Barry’s experience includes: • Advising a UK real estate manager on establishing 3 real estate funds • Acting for a UK asset advisor on over 20 real estate club deals • Establishing a private equity fund for a family wealth office • Establishing a credit fund for a UK and EU lending institution • Establishing 2 crypto currency funds in the Cayman Islands • Establishing a series of 3 BVI hedge funds on behalf of a UK fund manager

Shoosmiths LLP

Barry Sully

Browne Jacobson LLP

Bartholomew Dalton

Bartholomew Dalton is a solicitor who provides expert advice in relation to all stages of criminal cases, from investigation through to trial and appeal. He has represented clients accused of a wide range of offences including murder, firearms offences, robbery, rape, people trafficking, large scale drugs supply and multi-million pound frauds. He is an experienced representative at the police station, advocate in the Magistrates’ Court and litigator in both the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Bartholomew understands the severe impact that a criminal investigation and case can have on his clients’ lives, regardless of the seriousness of the allegations. He takes pride in his diligent case preparation and is acknowledged as a persuasive and tenacious advocate who achieves the best possible results. He is experienced at guiding professionals through the criminal process and has an excellent record of persuading prosecuting authorities to discontinue cases at an early stage.

Hickman & Rose

Basil Dixon

Basil advises individuals, trustees, family offices and estate managers on a wide range of complex tax, trust, estate and succession planning and philanthropic issues. Basil's practice is broad-based and encompasses the whole spectrum of private client onshore and offshore work. He frequently advises on ultra-high net worth matters with his clients ranging from landed estates with the deepest of roots in the UK to those with no connection with the UK at all. Basil advises on issues concerning onshore and offshore tax planning, the establishment and use of trusts and other structures, US/UK planning, family governance, philanthropy and conflict of laws. Basil works closely with trustees, lawyers and other advisers in a number of jurisdictions including France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Channel Islands, the Caribbean, Singapore, India, the Middle East, the US and Canada.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Basiru Terry

Basiru is an Associate in the Large Loss department, based in the London office. Basiru joined Weightmans in 2015 and initially worked successfully within the Disease department (handling claims including mesothelioma, HAVS/VWF, NIHL) before moving to Large Loss in May 2020. Basiru has extensive experience in defending motor, public and employers' liability claims on behalf of UK insurers and local authorities. Basiru is also adept at defending claims that involve fraud. Basiru specialises in catastrophic personal injury cases including severe brain injury, spinal injury, amputation and fatal accident claims. Basiru is also the Weightmans lead on BAME-related issues, supporting and promoting BAME agendas and initiatives firm wide.

Weightmans LLP

Basmah Sahib

Solicitor, Public Law and Human Rights. Basmah has represented clients in relation to a wide range of legal issues with a particular focus on advocacy in the Mental Health Tribunal, advising bereaved families after a death in custody and associated public law issues. Basmah also has experience of representing unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in age disputes in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber). She has assisted on wider policy-related judicial review challenges, including against the imposition of a new contract on junior doctors in 2015 and PPE-related policy challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bindmans LLP

Beatrice Bass

Senior Associate

DMH Stallard LLP

Beatrice Caldwell

Beatrice is an Associate in the Family department. Beatrice has expertise in a full range of family related matters including divorce, pre and post-nuptial agreements, financial settlements and children matters. She has experience of resolving matters both by agreement and through litigation.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Beatrice Lewers

Beatrice is a Solicitor in Private Client.

Lee Bolton Monier-Williams

Beatrice Russ

The focus of Beatrice's practice is the finance and development of projects in the shipping, offshore, travel and aviation sectors taking projects from the planning and construction phase through to full operation. Having spent time in-house with UKEF, she also has particular expertise with ECA or other state backed projects and their implementation within domestic and international frameworks. Her clients are some of the leading owners, operators and contractors, as well as some of the major financiers to the industry, including banking syndicates, banks, funds and other alternative finance providers.

Wikborg Rein

Beau Borg

Associate Solicitor.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP