Lawyers in Scotland
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Navi Atwal
Navi is a Senior Associate based in our Milton Keynes office and provides strategic and commercial advice on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Navi advises a wide range of national clients, including a number of commercial household brands, in a range of sectors including, logistics, retail, higher education and energy. Whilst Navi primarily advises employers, she has supported individual employees in successfully negotiating settlements and advising on post-termination restrictions. Navi manages a number of complex employment tribunal claims for employers, which includes defending allegations of unfair and constructive unfair dismissal, holiday pay and discrimination claims. Navi has a particular interest in employee data protection matters and is a member of employment data protection team. Navi prides herself in knowing her clients’ businesses and building strong relationships with HR teams. This provides her with valuable insight into the business, enabling an understanding of a client’s preferred outcomes and for Navi to provide pragmatic, tailored advice. Navi’s recent experience includes: successfully negotiating a complex, multi-claim disability discrimination claim which had been running for over three years for a logistics client, avoiding a 12 day Final Hearing. This involved working as an extension to the Legal and HR Team in providing strategic advice in relation to a claimant who had raised over 15 grievances, and five separate claim forms; advising a global finance software technology platform in the management of a TUPE-related, business merger and subsequent redundancy process; robustly defending disability discrimination claims for a higher education institution, with a valuation by the claimant close to £1 million; providing strategic day-to-day advice on a number of employee relation issues, including, long-term absence issues, disciplinaries, grievances and redundancies; working to protect clients' business interests in connection with the exits of senior employees and team moves, including successfully negotiating exits for key employees; regularly carrying out advocacy in the Employment Tribunal, successfully representing clients at case management and substantive preliminary hearings in relation to jurisdictional issues; supporting and working closely with corporate colleagues in relation to the employment aspects of national and global sales, acquisitions and investments, including advising on contracts/service agreements, restrictive covenants and settlement agreements; drafting employment agreements and policies and ensuring compliance with all aspects of employment legislation; and advising businesses on a range of employee data protection issues, including managing complex data subject access requests. Navi regularly writes and delivers training to clients on a range of employment law issues and is a regular speaker at Shoosmiths’ national employment seminars, and contributor to articles published by the firm. Navi has been elected as the Milton Keynes Employee Representative and regularly advises and supervises on a pro bono basis through the Milton Keynes’s Citizens Advice Bureau and the Midlands Employment Law Clinic. Navi is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Shoosmiths
Neeraj Thomas
Partner
CMS
Neil Addis
Neil acts for clients involved in all aspects of real estate work, ranging from occupier clients (retail and business space) to clients acquiring and selling both investment and development property. In terms of development work, Neil has recently been involved in acquiring a number of sites for care homes and student accommodation, as well as for food retail. On the investment side, Neil has a number of very active clients who have been involved over the last few years in a many acquisitions and disposals, ranging from a multi-use development in the North of Scotland (Hotel/retail and pub) to a large office investment in the centre of Edinburgh. In terms of occupier work, Neil acts for some well know high street names in the retail and restaurant trade. In addition, he represents a highly acquisitive care home operator having completing numerous deals for them over the last few years. Neil looks after the firm's property finance team, and has dealt with some high profile funding deals, across all sectors including care homes, shopping centres, student accommodation, garden centres, office space and retail. He maintains a high profile with most major funders in the property finance sector and regularly acts for The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Santander and Svenska Handelsbanken, to name a few.
Addleshaw Goddard
Niall Fanning
Niall is a Senior Associate real estate lawyer with wide experience of acting for and advising registered providers in relation to real estate transactions and securitisation of stock. His practice includes the purchase of land and schemes under s106 agreements and the subsequent sale and lease of outright and shared ownership properties. He has experience assisting private developers on the set up and sales of residential schemes. Niall qualified in 2002 and has been a solicitor in Shoosmiths' real estate practice since 2015.
Shoosmiths
Niall Mackle
Niall is a senior associate in the Corporate Finance team, based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, who specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, corporate structuring and commercial contracts. He has advised clients in a broad range of sectors including technology, renewable energy, hospitality and food and drink. Within the renewable energy sector, Niall has advised on transactions involving onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydro and battery storage. Niall’s work on equity investments has included advising start-up and scale-up companies throughout their whole life cycle, from incorporation and seed investment, through each of their fundraising rounds and on their eventual exits. Niall also regularly advises VC firms and PE funds on their investment activity into UK high growth companies. He has undertaken secondments to BayWa r.e. UK, a UK wind energy developer, and William Grant & Sons, a global drinks company, and was ranked as a Leading Associate in Legal 500 2026.
Burges Salmon LLP
Nick Little
Nick is a principal associate and has considerable experience in all aspects of corporate transactions, but particularly mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring, joint ventures and private equity led transactions. Recent highlights include acting for a property investment company on its £50m acquisition of a limited company which comprised of a mix of properties, including nine health & leisure clubs.
Shoosmiths
Nicola Gonnella
Nicola is a partner in our corporate and commercial team, based in Glasgow and working closely with our national commercial team on general commercial work, IP, media and technology matters, outsourcing/contract management, procurement and data protection. Nicola has extensive commercial contracts and negotiation experience in a range of sectors — both public and private and worked across various jurisdictions, in the UK and globally. Nicola is also a member of Weightmans Digital, technology and data, and sports law team. Nicola has widespread experience of representing major brands, high-value companies, partnerships, public authorities, sport bodies, educational institutes and charities, along with a sound background of working in highly regulated sectors and managing risks across a broad range of legal issues.
Weightmans LLP
Nigel Watson
Nigel heads the firm’s Share Plans and Incentives practice. With over 20 years’ experience, he specialises in employee share plans and incentives, advising both listed and unlisted companies on the design, operation and implementation of reward structures and tax efficient remuneration. He also advises companies and management teams on the share plan aspects of M&A transactions. Nigel is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group.
Burges Salmon LLP
Nina Oliver
Nina is part of Shoosmiths' Construction team, based in the Edinburgh office and working with colleagues nationally. She has experience with both contentious and non-contentious construction matters, acting for developers, contractors and subcontractors across multiple jurisdictions on high value transactions dealing with large volumes of documents. On the non-contentious front, Nina is highly competent at drafting and reviewing building contracts (under English and Scottish law), appointments, warranties and bonds for projects ranging from large developments to small works. Nina also has experience advising on the risks of the assignment/assignation with cross jurisdictional considerations. Nina is also experienced in contentious construction matters such as mediation, litigation, adjudication and arbitration (on an international basis) for claims of a minor value to multi-million dollar disputes.
Shoosmiths
Noel Ferry
Noel is a solicitor advocate based in our Glasgow office specialising in Scottish family law. In expert guides he has been described as "exceptionally good". According to clients, he provides 'outstanding' service, is 'absolutely committed to the case', and has 'exemplary' knowledge. Noel has extensive experience in high-net-worth divorces, cohabitation claims, prenuptial agreements and child relocation cases. He has also conducted many cases as a fully trained collaborative lawyer. Noel attracts glowing recommendations from clients - 'I cannot praise the service I received highly enough'; 'I found him to be outstanding and very understanding to my case'. He did "a fantastic job representing me". "I felt sad for [my ex partner] when he was on the stand... being cross-examined by Noel". Noel continues to be a leader in the field of family law. He has recently been involved in a number of difficult divorces where the sums at stake have been several millions of pounds. In addition, he has prepared a number of pre-nuptial agreements for some of the highest profile individuals in Scotland, including international sporting stars as well as members of the Sunday Times 100 Richest people. He has also successfully litigated and negotiated several complex cohabitant claims both on separation and on intestacy. Noel also successfully obtained an order for a father to retain his son in a groundbreaking relocation case which attracted widespread publicity in newspapers and TV not only across the UK but also abroad. Noel’s strong grasp of the law inspires confidence in clients and commands respect from fellow practitioners. The complex financial nature of the cases he is in involved in demands not only technical expertise but also innovation and creative solutions. Noel is exceptionally good at thinking outside of the box. Noel has extensive experience in all areas of family law. As well as having extensive litigation experience he is also noted for his strong negotiation skills and commercial pragmatism. Noel’s people skills in dealing with clients going through highly emotive situations are second to none. Noel’s easy-going and likeable nature really puts clients at ease. His ability to explain often complex legal and financial issues in a straightforward and understandable way takes a lot of the stress off the client’s shoulders. Noel's clients regularly confirm their high regard for the work he has undertaken on their behalf. As well as being a solicitor advocate with rights of audience in the Supreme Courts, Noel is a trained Collaborative lawyer and member of Consensus. He is also a member of the Family Law Association, having served as Treasurer and a committee member on the Family Law Association Committee for 9 years. He also contributed a chapter on Financial Aspects of Divorce for the Family Law Association's handbook. Noel has had numerous articles published in the Law Society Journal and Family Law Bulletin as well as in several publications and broadsheets such as the Scotsman and Herald newspapers. Noel previously ran Professional Competence Courses for trainee family lawyers on behalf of the Law Society of Scotland and is still actively involved in preparing and presenting seminars for the Law Society of Scotland, Family Law Association, STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), Various Solicitors’ Groups and Central Law Training. He has presented seminars on Divorce, Pensions; Cohabitation laws; Pre nuptial Agreements and Children’s cases to solicitors across Scotland. He was also formerly a member of the panel of solicitor reporters for West Lothian and the former Vice Dean of the West Lothian Faculty of Solicitors. Noel is part of the winning team named Family Law Firm of the Year at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards. Noel is also a member of the International Bar Association.
Weightmans LLP
Norman Wisely
Partner, head of the oil and gas team
CMS
Oliver Byrne
Oliver is a Senior Associate and joined Shoosmiths in 2021 as a member of the Manchester Real Estate Team. Oliver advises on all aspects of commercial property including acquisitions, disposals, lettings, portfolio management, developments and financings. Oliver's recent experience includes: acting for a borrower in respect of a £43.5 million portfolio refinance; acting for a corporate occupier on a lease of a new office in central London; assisting on the development of a new state of the art global centre of excellence for sustainable manufacture of glass; acting on the disposal of a 200 unit portfolio for a national housebuilder; acting on the acquisition and finance of a £4.1m multi-let site in the north west; assisting on the acquisition of a 15-acre residential development to create 160 new homes;
Shoosmiths
Paman Singh
Paman is an experienced Solicitor Advocate. He is accredited as a dual specialist in Employment Law and Discrimination Law by the Law Society of Scotland and is a leader in his field. Paman has experience across all aspects of Employment Law. He carries out a mix of contentious and non-contentious work and has represented clients in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal for over a decade. With a significant client list, Paman works with and supports employers of all sizes and sectors on issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, transfers, collective consultation and reorganisations, as well as larger strategic matters. He also provides specialised advice in specific sectors. As an accredited mediator, Paman has dealt with a variety of workplace disputes and is available to explore conflict resolution through this avenue. Those who work with Paman comment on his tenacity and ability to provide practical and commercial advice, disentangled from legal jargon. Paman’s focus is on ensuring that his clients’ operations run smoothly and his advice is tailored to the different workplace cultures of his clients. Away from day-to-day work, Paman sits as the Convenor of the Employment Law subcommittee for the Law Society of Scotland and is a member of the Equalities Law subcommittee. He also tutors on the Employment Law module at both the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. More widely, Paman sits on the Employment Lawyers’ Association’s Race and Equality Committee and drives the pursuit for wider access to the profession.
Weightmans LLP
Pamela Stevenson
Pamela joined Weightmans in Glasgow in September 2014 as an Insurance Partner. She has worked exclusively in the personal injury field her entire career. She qualified as a solicitor in 1999 following the completion of her traineeship with Thompsons Solicitors, one of the largest pursuer personal injury practices in Scotland. At Thompsons, she worked within their disease department dealing with a diverse case load including claims for bladder cancer, asthma, silicosis and asbestos related diseases. In December 2001, Pamela moved to bto solicitors, an insurance defender firm, as she was interested in approaching claims from a different perspective. Her caseload was very diverse including all types of employers liability, public liability, disease, motor, fatal, stress/harassment at work, medical negligence, professional negligence and consumer protection claims where there was a personal injury element. In April 2011, Pamela was assumed as a Partner of bto, and headed up their Disease team although her remit also involved running the £50,000 to £500,000 team. Through the work undertaken for one of bto's insurance clients, she managed to secure instructions / nominations from two large insureds to deal with their asbestos cases. Pamela was also part of the Marine Team at bto dealing with personal injury claims arising from accidents or the contraction of illnesses/diseases whilst on board ships or in shipyards. Pamela’s in depth technical knowledge and pragmatic approach has resulted in her being viewed by a number of clients as their "first port of call" both for dealing with claims and providing ad hoc advice. Pamela has been involved in a number of high profile cases, including Amanda Chinn v Cyclacel (2013) where she successfully defended a preliminary proof on time bar in a WRULD claim, and Mair v Amey (2013), where she obtained judgement for her client in an action arising from alleged defects in the road and the defenders failure to inspect and repair. She also recently obtained abandonment for her insurance clients in a Lyme Disease and COPD claims. The Lyme Disease abandonment was a significant result as liability had been admitted and an interim damages payment had been made pre litigation. Pamela is also an active member of FOIL Scotland.
Weightmans LLP
Pamela Turok
Pamela is a senior associate based in our Glasgow office. She advises on all aspects of environmental regulatory compliance and enforcement including waste management, pollution prevention and control issues, and contaminated land. Pamela also regularly provides transactional support to our corporate and property departments. Pamela spent a year on secondment to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency where she advised on all aspects of environmental regulation and enforcement as well as being heavily involved with the training of the new environmental specialist procurator fiscals.
CMS
Paul Caddy
Paul Caddy is Head of Insight at Shoosmiths, having previously practised as a commercial and data protection lawyer, with a particular focus on new technologies. Qualifying in 2000, he has worked in private practice in major law firms, in business and with leading legal publishers, such as LexisNexis (LexisPSL) and Thomson Reuters. Paul joined Shoosmiths in 2019. Paul is a prolific writer and, through thought leadership, is determined to help drive change in the legal sector, not only through the use of legaltech, but by focusing on the human side of legal practice too. Together with colleagues David Jackson and Tony Randle, he has recently published a book on the future of legal practice: Legal Practice in the Digital Age. The book shows how lawyers can embrace technological change through taking a people-centric approach, being creative with technology and innovation, and entrenching forward-thinking new mindsets into their firm’s DNA.
Shoosmiths LLP
Paul Carter
Partner, Real Estate
CMS
Paula Kidd
Partner
CMS
Pav Clair
Pav is a Principal Associate in the Employment team, based in the Birmingham office. Pav has a track record of providing practical and straightforward advice to employer clients within a variety of different sectors. Pav's expertise includes defending Employment Tribunal claims, advising on redundancies & restructures, capability & sickness, and the thorny issue of TUPE. Pav also has extensive experience in advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and on TUPE issues in relation to service provision changes. He has a keen interest in enforcing restrictive covenants and preventing employees from using confidential information. For the businesses which Pav acts for, he describes himself as being an extension to their workforce rather than an external lawyer.
Shoosmiths
Pavan Sumal
Pavan is a senior associate who specialises in immigration law and is based in our Glasgow office. Pavan has specialised in immigration law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2013. Over this time, Pavan has gained a wealth of experience in this field. This includes advising companies of all sizes in relation to the recruitment of international workers, applying for and maintaining sponsor licences, compliance, carrying out right to work checks and challenging civil penalties. Pavan also has significant experience in personal and family immigration matters, from visit visas, spouse visas, ILR and citizenship applications and applications under the EU Settlement Scheme. Pavan also represents clients at the Immigration Tribunal.
Shoosmiths
Phil Gregory
Phil is a partner in the real estate team specialising in development work. He has a particular focus on retail, industrial, mixed use and roadside sector development transactions. Key elements of his experience include: - acting for a number of regional developers focused on mixed use retail and roadside developments across the UK; - acting for a Yorkshire based developer in respect of a long term multi phase mixed use regeneration scheme in the heart of a major city centre; - acting for a high net worth family property fund on investment and industrial development opportunities across the region; - historically acting for Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc and subsequently Lidl Great Britain Limited on their new store acquisition and development programmes;
Shoosmiths LLP
Philip Knight
Philip heads up our litigation practice in Scotland and deals with a broad range of commercial disputes. He acts for a wide range of organisations and individuals in a variety of disputes including a number of well-known blue chip hospitality, leisure and retail clients. His focus is on achieving commercial and cost effective results and often advises on risk management approaches and strategies to avoid pursuing a dispute through the courts. He prides himself on giving straightforward commercial advice. He is one of two solicitors in Scotland to be accredited by the RICS as a mediator. Philip has wide ranging expertise and specialisms and advises on contractual disputes, real estate disputes, insolvency, debt recovery, licensing, regulatory, professional negligence, interdicts and financial services disputes. He is regularly asked to present seminars to the RICS in Scotland and is a member of the Property Litigation Association.
Dentons
Poppy Ball
Poppy is a Principal Associate corporate lawyer advising on all aspects of corporate law, with a wide-ranging experience of private M&A, and a particular interest in public transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraising and takeovers. Her approach to transactions has been described as commercial and pragmatic. Recent experience includes advising: MIP Holdings Ltd on the takeover by way of scheme of arrangement and delisting of French Connection Group plc; an Australian client on the acquisition of a company specialising in patient administration systems; advising the exiting shareholders of two manufacturing process solutions companies on their sale to a UK subsidiary of a French listed company.
Shoosmiths
Rachael McCallum
Rachael is a senior associate member of the Real Estate team who specialises in commercial leasing (both landlord and tenant) and has experience in the acquisition and disposal of commercial properties, including portfolio and development acquisitions. Rachael joined Shoosmiths in 2019. Her experience includes: drafting and negotiating development agreements, leases and lease variations and associated documentation, including advice on contract provisions and lease structure (both landlord and tenant); drafting and negotiating agricultural tenancies and grazing lets; and assisting in the acquisition of a large portfolio of both residential and commercial properties by a small investor, including new lettings, purchases and portfolio management.
Shoosmiths