Lawyers in England

Charlotte Miller

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Charlotte Morgan

I work in a dual role as a Managing Knowledge Lawyer and a Senior Lawyer in our rockhopper team. Prior to this I was a Managing Associate in the employment team, having qualified into the team over a decade ago. As Managing Knowledge Lawyer, I work in a team of specialist lawyers, keeping colleagues and clients up to date on the latest and upcoming developments to employment law and policy. My role includes providing internal training, supporting with technical legal queries, writing and editing articles and supporting with podcast content and production I have a particular interest in TUPE and have experience advising employers throughout corporate transactions and outsourcings. This focus has continued in my knowledge role, where I regularly provide TUPE updates to the employment team, maintain know-how documents and have supported in responding to government consultations Recent areas of focus in my work have been on neurodiversity, zero hours contracts, holiday pay and the right to disconnect. I have previously been on secondment to both a US bank, working in the EMEA employment legal team, and to an international law firm, working in the HR team.

Lewis Silkin

Charlotte OMara

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Charlotte Otton

Associate Partner - Wills & Probate

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Charlotte O’Loughlin

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Charlotte Padmore

Conveyancing Executive - Property

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Charlotte Plowman

Senior Associate Solicitor

Family Law Partners

Charlotte Pollard

Charlotte is a private client lawyer and a full member of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) with specific qualifications in advising vulnerable clients. Her work includes wills, estate planning, lasting powers of attorney (LPAs), probate, and both will and lifetime trusts. Committed to finding tax-efficient solutions, Charlotte works with tax advisors and IFAs to provide holistic advice. She acts as executor and trustee, court-appointed independent administrator, as attorney and on behalf of attorneys in LPAs, and she represents executors and beneficiaries. Charlotte administers estates of varying size and complexity, including intestacies. She has experience in unusual grant of probate applications and re-sealing overseas grants of representation for international clients with UK assets. Before qualifying as a lawyer, Charlotte worked for 12 years as a freelance television Production Manager and Line Producer. With her media background, she writes about private client issues with an unusually creative perspective.

Keystone Law

Charlotte Razay

I’m a Senior Associate in the Agriculture team, having qualified into the sector in 2014. I specialise in all aspects of contentious agricultural work but with a particular focus on agricultural tenancies, farming partnerships and real property disputes. I have a keen interest in recovering possession of development land, succession, proprietary estoppel claims and advising on complex residential disputes, including regulated and protected tenancies. Not only do I act for individuals and farming businesses, but also estate clients who are based nationwide. From a junior lawyer I have been involved in some of the team’s most high profile cases at the cutting edge of the law. I have had vast experience acting in Court proceedings (up to the Court of Appeal and applications to the Supreme Court), Tribunal and Arbitration proceedings. I have experience in drafting complex settlement documentation as well as drafting a wide range of deeds and agreements relating to the letting of land, succession planning and partnership agreements. Expertise Agriculture Farming Partnerships Land Use & the Environment Landlord & Tenant Sustainable Agriculture & Agri-Tech Sustainable Economy Charlotte Razay - Senior Associate - Agriculture | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Charlotte Reeves

Director & Solicitor

Switalskis Solicitors

Charlotte Round

Partner

Fieldfisher

Charlotte Simm

Partner in private client department. Charlotte's areas of work include: estate, tax and succession planning including advice as to appropriate structures to hold and pass on wealth, mitigation of capital taxation, planned giving strategies, creation, reorganisation and termination of trusts, wills, administration of estates, post-death planning, powers of attorney and capacity issues.

Hunters Law LLP

Charlotte Skea-Strachan

Charlotte is a Legal Director in the Family department with a wealth of experience in advising clients on all issues arising throughout their relationships that affect them and their children, including pre- and mid-nuptial agreements, divorce, co-habitation, complex financial disputes and jurisdictional issues. She is also well versed in private children matters, including with whom children are to live and spend their time, and applications for leave for children to move to a different country. Many of her cases have an international element and regularly involve high net worth individuals, often with complicated company or trust structures. Cases of interest include: • CA v DR (Schedule 1 Children Act 1989: Pension Claim) (2021) EWFC 21 – acting for an extremely wealthy unmarried father with regard to claims for financial support made by his former partner on behalf of their child, including housing, maintenance (including a carer’s allowance for the mother) and education, and also for pension provision for the mother to make up for the years when she would be caring for the child. Mrs Justice Roberts made suitable provision for the child in the context of the father’s lifestyle and wealth, but declined the application for pension provision. • MY v FY (2020) EWFC 48 (17 July 2020) – acting for the mother in a continuation of Children Act proceedings with regard to unsupervised contact between the father and the youngest son, following an incident between the father and one of the elder sons. • Owens v Owens (2018) UKSC 41 (25 July 2018) Supreme Court – representing the wife, Tini Owens. This case has led to the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, which introduced ‘no fault’ divorce in England and Wales. • Alireza v Radwan & Ors (2017) EWCA Civ 1545 (12 October 2017) (Court of Appeal) – acting for the wife in her successful appeal against a financial remedies order which had allowed her and the children to occupy their home on a time-limited basis only. • Owens v Owens (2017) EWCA Civ 82 (24 March 2017) (Court of Appeal) – representing the wife in an unsuccessful appeal of a first instance decision that the client was not entitled to a divorce, and therefore unable end her marriage. • FY v MY & Ors (2016) EWFC 16 (23 March 2016) – acting for the mother in long running Children Act proceedings in the High Court, following the mother successfully defending the father’s previous application that the children move to live with him in Dubai. • NR v AB, BCO Ltd, MB and LB [2016] EWHC 277 (Fam), (2016) EWHC 277 (Fam) – acting for the wife in a complex financial remedy case in the High Court, including inherited assets, a potential nuptial settlement and significant assets outside England and Wales. • SJ v RA and RF (2014) EWHC 4054 (4 December 2014) – acting for the wife in the final hearing of long running proceedings as to the division of assets after a 40 year marriage, including commercial and residential property, a housing development site and shares in a private family Company. • Shield v Shield (2014) EWCA Civ 1136 (3 July 2014) (Court of Appeal) – acting for the wife on her son’s unsuccessful application for permission to appeal of the judgment in the below case. • Shield v Shield (2014) EWHC 23 - acting for the wife on the hearing of a preliminary issue to determine whether her husband’s shareholding in the family business was held on trust for his son, who was intervening in the proceedings.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Charlotte Sloan

Senior associate

Birketts LLP

Charlotte Smart

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Charlotte Staples

Charlotte is a Principal Associate employment lawyer who advises and provides support to HR teams and In-House Lawyers. She provides commercial and strategic advice on all areas of human resources and employment law from dealing with day to day disciplinary, grievance and performance issues to advising on large scale restructure and redundancy programs. Having worked in private practice and in-house, Charlotte understands the pressures and challenges faced by both local, national and international businesses in today's climate; providing advice to enhance and develop the client's business. Examples of work handled by Charlotte include: advising a large airline on a multiple tribunal claim relating to crew’s rights to holiday pay under the Civil Aviation (Working Time) Regulations; advising a European pharmaceutical company on the effects of TUPE and assisting the client with the legal and practical steps of setting itself up as an employer in the UK; advising a company in the healthcare industry on pursuing a High Court injunction to prevent an employee from breaching their restrictive covenants; conducting an equal pay audit for a large rental car company, advising on the effects of the audit and how to mitigate any liabilities; advising a large retail client in relation to a complex whistleblowing and disability discrimination Tribunal claim; advising a large travel company in relation to the re-sourcing of various support functions and the outsourcing of other support functions overseas; advising clients across different industries in relation to claims brought against them in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal and representing clients in Employment Tribunal hearings. Charlotte also advises senior executives/employees in relation to issues that have arisen during/at the end of their employment and she advises on the terms of settlement agreements. Charlotte regularly writes and delivers training courses and workshops on a variety of topics for managers, HR professionals and in-house lawyers. Charlotte trained and qualified with Shoosmithsin 2006. She undertook a secondment in 2008/09 during which she worked for a global energy company and a further secondment in 2018 during which she worked for the UK division of a global pharmacy led health and beauty company.

Shoosmiths LLP

Charlotte Steele

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Charlotte Stirling

Partner, UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

J A Kemp

Charlotte Stodell

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Charlotte Stringer

Associate Solicitor

Edwards Family Law

Charlotte Symes

Charlotte is an experienced family solicitor, accredited mediator and collaborative practitioner. She deals with complex financial issues arising from divorce and separation and supports parents in relation to arrangements for their children. Her work has a strong international dimension. She speaks French and has particular expertise in advising on matters with a French element. As a director, Charlotte is part of the leadership team at FLiP. She enjoys the variety that being both a family solicitor and mediator brings to her practice and strongly believes these skillsets complement each other. As a family solicitor she advises clients in contested court proceedings as well as through amicable negotiations (see below for examples). As a family mediator she works with couples to reach agreements with mediation sessions taking place either alongside or outside of the court process. Charlotte’s qualifications as a family solicitor, accredited family mediator and collaborative practitioner enable her to genuinely offer the process that is most appropriate for each individual. Charlotte advises on all family law matters including: jurisdiction disputes where individuals may be able to start proceedings in more than one country financial issues arising from divorce, often involving foreign lawyers, dealing with valuations of businesses, properties, pensions and investments, tax issues, and the treatment of trusts property issues arising from the separation of a cohabiting couple financial issues between separating unmarried parents freezing injunctions to protect assets worldwide variation of spousal maintenance orders pre- and post-nuptial agreements cohabitation agreements separation agreements parenting issues involving child arrangements relocation of children within England & Wales or abroad abduction of children to/from England & Wales. Many of Charlotte’s clients are international. She has an appreciation of the legal and practical requirements in different jurisdictions, and a strong network of contacts worldwide to bring into matters, as required. Charlotte speaks French and has lived and worked in law firms in Paris. She is therefore regularly instructed by clients with links to France. She is familiar with the matrimonial property regimes in France and other European countries and is instructed to advise on pre- and post-nuptial agreements for clients needing to meet the legal requirements of both England and another country with a system of matrimonial property regimes. Charlotte is often instructed by owners (or their partners) of businesses and property portfolios with assets in the UK and abroad, within complex corporate or trust structures. Having previously worked as a corporate lawyer, Charlotte draws on her knowledge of company and property structures when reviewing disclosure documents within the divorce context. She also supports separating parents in relation to child arrangements and requests for permission to relocate with children, both within England & Wales and abroad. Charlotte is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in the Legal 500 directory. Feedback includes: ‘I chose Charlotte from personal recommendations and was not disappointed‘ and ‘Charlotte gives great technical advice. Despite it being a very technically challenging matter, Charlotte always remained available to talk to the client and provided clear and pragmatic advice throughout with a reassuring manner for the client in what could otherwise have been an extremely stressful situation‘. Charlotte is also ranked as a Recommended Lawyer in Spear’s exclusive directory for HNW and UHNW clients. The directory notes her ‘diverse and international’ practice and describes Charlotte as a solicitor who goes ‘out of her way to make what can be a painful process as stress free as possible.’

Family Law in Partnership Ltd

Charlotte Tanikal

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Charlotte Thomas

Charlotte is a Legal Director in the Banking and Finance team, based in our Leeds office. Charlotte specialises in acquisition and leveraged finance transactions, as well as having experience advising banks, financial institutions and corporates in relation to general corporate banking and growth finance. She is listed as an Associate to Watch in Chambers and Partners. Charlotte's experience includes: acting for an aerospace group in relation to its debt facilities from a US fund, alongside asset financing from a UK lender, including debt to equity conversion steps; advising the a large venture capital investor on a number of VCT lending matters; acting for a management team in their capacity as junior creditors alongside senior funding provided by a club of banks, as part of a private equity investment into the business; advising the borrowing group on acquisition financing provided by an alternative lender for an MBO; acting for an education group on its banking facilities to fund its acquisitive aims; advising a clearing bank on its financing of the purchase of a Midlands based wholesale foods business by its founders; and acting for a lender in respect of a number of commercial loans to fund customer acquisitions.

Shoosmiths LLP

Charlotte Thornton-Smith

Charlotte is a Partner within the corporate department at Harrison Clark Rickerbys and the Head of the Worcester and Central England Offices at HCR. With almost 20 years’ experience in the corporate legal arena, Charlotte is committed to delivering the best possible service to her clients and giving commercial and pragmatic advice. Charlotte has a wealth of experience in advising clients in connection with M&A transactions, investments and group reorganisations with a particular specialism in acting for clients across the health and social care sector.

HCR Law