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Alison Fernandes

Partner / Head of Sheffield

Hall Brown Family Law

Alison FitzGerald

Partner

Bennett Jones LLP

Alison Garrett

Specialises in the field of complex multi-million pound construction and engineering disputes. Advises a wide variety of clients involved in the construction and engineering industry including employers, contractors, consultants and insurers. Acts in mediations, adjudications, litigation (mainly in the Technology and Construction Court) and arbitrations.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Alison Geter

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Alison Gilson

Alison is a corporate partner and head of the firm’s Edinburgh office. She has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, investments, disposals and joint ventures. She also has significant experience advising on shareholder arrangements, group reorganisations and corporate governance matters. Alison acts for clients across a wide range of sectors and has developed particular expertise working with businesses in the healthcare, technology, transport and media sectors. Her transactional experience includes advising: Extreme E, an international racing series that brings off-road electric racing to remote parts of the world to highlight climate change, on a range of corporate matters including the recent strategic investment into Extreme E by Formula E; Electric Sea Racing Limited on its launch of the "E1 Series" and its partnership with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia whose investment will enable them to create the world's first electric powerboat racing championship; national commercial vehicle hire business MV Commercial Limited on various share and business acquisitions and disposals; Sandbox International on edtech acquisitions in Brazil, Spain and the US; digital tech business Engine B on its funding rounds; Carewatch Care Services Limited on a series of acquisitions in Scotland, England and Wales and then on the sale of various divisions in a complex transaction that required the completion of 6 transactions within 4 weeks.

Shoosmiths

Alison Goldney

Partner Alison has almost exclusively specialised in running brain and spinal cord injury claims since qualifying in 2007. She has particular experience in claims arising from the delayed diagnosis of spinal abscesses, injuries resulting from mismanagement of spinal injury, cauda equina and spinal surgery claims. Alison is committed to securing excellent results for her clients and recognises the importance of early access to rehabilitation following a life changing injury. This has led Alison to pioneer access for clients to support networks from the outset of the case. Alison knows the importance of getting to know the individual client and their families during the lifetime of a case and focuses on a collaborative approach to ensure that compensation is tailored, as far as possible, to enable clients to fulfil their future goals and aspirations. Notable cases: Alison has recovered over £7.3m in capitalised damages for a 39 year old who suffered a severe brain injury following the negligent insertion of a shunt. The Claimant was left with significant cognitive, behavioural and emotional impairment. A six figure interim payment was obtained which enabled the Claimant to move from an assisted living facility into his own property with the assistance of support workers and a team of therapists. The claim settled on the basis of annual payments for care and remainder by way of a lump sum. The Claimant’s family hope that the compensation will enable the Claimant to lead as fulfilling and independent a life as possible. Recovered damages with a capitalised value of over £7m in relation to a catastrophic brain injury case relating to the mismanagement of anti-platelet medication leading to the claimant having a stroke. Recovered damages for a 74 year old claimant who was rendered tetraplegic following negligent spinal surgery. The damages were awarded by way of annualised payments for care for the rest of his life and a lump sum for the remainder of the damages, with a total capitalised value of £3m, Acted for a horse enthusiast rendered an incomplete paraplegic following the delayed diagnosis of a spinal abscess. Damages of £3m were recovered which assisted the claimant to return to her passion for riding. Secured a seven figure settlement for a brain injured client in relation to the delayed diagnosis in A&E of a subdural haematoma following an assault. Recovered damages of £2.6m for a 56-year-old claimant with cauda equina syndrome Recovered damages of £1.49m for a 39-year-old claimant with cauda equina syndrome. The settlement reflected significant litigation risks as liability remained in dispute. Recovered damages of £1.2m for 83-year-old tetraplegic with four year life expectancy. Alison has also been involved in significant judgments which have been widely reported in medical negligence arena including Read (whereby the court dismissed the defendants’ application for an extension of time to serve their defence to allow time for an early medical examination, a helpful judgment for claimant practitioners who are often placed under pressure by defendants to allow early examination of claimants) and Dee (a successful interim payment application where causation remained in dispute).

Stewarts Law LLP

Alison Grounds

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Alison Haggerty

Alison Haggerty advises issuers and investment banking firms in capital markets transactions, with a focus on initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, and convertible debt offerings in growth industries. Alison serves a mix of companies and financial institutions in connection with complex equity and debt securities offerings. She brings particular experience handling capital markets transactions on behalf of all of the major US investment banks and leading innovators in technology, healthcare and life sciences, and retail and consumer products. Alison also regularly counsels publicly traded companies on general corporate and securities law matters, including governance issues, reporting obligations, and stock exchange rules and requirements.

Latham & Watkins

Alison Hanstead

Partner

White & Case LLP

Alison Harden

Partner

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Alison Hardiman

Alison is a dedicated consultant in the Climate and Environment practice at Philip Lee. She is a qualified barrister with extensive knowledge of planning and environmental law and a particular focus on delivering sustainable strategic infrastructure within the evolving requirements of EU and Irish law and policy. In March 2024 she completed a PhD on ‘Reconciling the Objectives of Environmental Protection and Climate Mitigation in EU Law: The Problem of Renewable Energy Project Authorisation’ and this issue centrally informs her strategic and advisory based practice in Philip Lee.

Philip Lee LLP

Alison Hartley

Partner

Hugh James

Alison Hawes

Consultant in Family law, all financial issues with particular niche in complex assets and businesses including farms, landed estates and corporate valuations. Experienced in asset protection for families and family businesses – pre and post marital agreements.

Burges Salmon LLP

Alison Hayes

Handles complex financial remedy cases together with all aspects and types of work involving children, often with an international element, managing a high level of emotion. Alison is experienced at drawing up all types of agreements, between people wishing to regulate their relationships, whether married or not. Alison does not need to litigate; she is a Resolution accredited mediator, and is also able to directly consult with children in mediation. She is a collaborative lawyer working in both London and Kent.

Levison Meltzer Pigott

Alison Heathcote

Alison is a construction lawyer who specialises in non-contentious building procurement matters. Her experience includes work for both the private and public sector organisations. Alison has experience and expertise in drafting and amending building and engineering contracts, including all versions of the JCT suite of contracts and NEC and institutional forms of contract. She also advises on the drafting and amendments of consultant’s appointments (industry standard and bespoke), warranties, bonds, guarantees, development and funding agreements, agreement for leases, novation agreements and ancillary project documentation. Alison has previously spent five years working in the public sector for two different County Councils. Her experience there includes advising on public procurement procedures and issues such as state aid, internal governance, and the setting up and operation of framework agreements.

Freeths LLP

Alison Hills

Alison Hills is the head of the pensions team at Penningtons Manches Cooper. Alison has a broad range of pensions experience and provides her clients with well-reasoned, practical advice, having taken into account the relevant technical complexities and important reputational, commercial and personal factors. She is based in London but also works out of the Guildford and Basingstoke offices. Advising on all aspects of pensions law, her clients range from individuals and small self-administered schemes to trustees and sponsoring employers of large defined benefit multi-employer schemes with assets in excess of £350 million. Alison is well versed in advising overseas clients who may be less familiar with their UK pension obligations. Areas of particular specialism include advising on governance, pensions aspects of corporate restructurings/transactions including employer scheme-exits, section 75 debts, implementing flexible apportionment arrangements, member disputes, maladministration claims, implementing scheme benefit structure changes (including closure to accrual), liability management exercises such as pension increase exchange and enhanced transfer exercises, auto-enrolment compliance and salary sacrifice implementation. She is an associate of the Pensions Management Institute and a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers’ Education and Seminars Committee.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Alison Hunter

Alison is a partner at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP. Her practice covers all areas of immigration and nationality law, with a particular emphasis on the European Settlement Scheme and immigration law in international adoptions.

Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP

Alison Johnson

Alison handles a wide practice covering the full spectrum of clinical negligence matters but with an emphasis on complex neurology cases, oncology, general practice, gynaecology and maternal injury, and paediatric claims. She is very focused on client care and ensuring that clients are looked after during the investigation process and then fully compensated. Alison has advised on a number of maximum severity claims recovering damages settlements of £10 million+, but she also has considerable experience of managing mid-high value claims, including fatal claims, often on a conditional fee agreement basis. Alison is an accredited solicitor with both the AvMA and Law Society specialist clinical negligence panels and receives enquiries through them. She is also a trained AvMA helpline volunteer and speaker. Alison is a mental health champion and culture and welfare partner for the personal injury and clinical negligence team and splits her time between the Basingstoke and Oxford offices.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Alison Jones

Alison is an aviation solicitor with both private practice and in-house experience, having worked at two international law firms and three major airlines in the Middle East and Asia. Her main area of expertise involves advising airlines on all aspects of their aviation business including purchases, banking and asset finance matters, such as pre-delivery financing, the purchase, financing and leasing of aircraft/engines and all related onboard equipment and technology. Alison also advises on a range of aviation contracts: procurement-related contracts (including GDS/IT-related), ground handling, catering, jet fuel supply, security agreements. Alison also has experience in advising on passenger regulatory matters and customer relations matters.

Keystone Law

Alison Kaye

Director & Solicitor

Switalskis Solicitors

Alison Kelleher

Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Alison Keyse

Allison is an experienced corporate partner who specialises in acting for management teams and founders in connection with private equity transactions. She has over 20 years’ experience advising senior managers, founders and companies on the complexities of buy-outs, equity incentive plans, reorganisations, and other corporate activities. Allison also has significant experience acting for high-net-worth individuals and family offices on a broad range of corporate matters, including investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and exits. Her practice spans a variety of sectors including financial services, luxury brands, technology, and consumer.

Keystone Law

Alison Leroy

Before joining UGGC Avocats, Alison Leroy worked for 7 years at Carakters, then at Franklin from 2020, and recently at Bersay, where she opened the “Life Sciences, Biotech and Pharma R&D” department. Alison Leroy has developed solid expertise in preventive risk management and the support of industrial and real estate projects, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector. She has advised pharmaceutical laboratories, CROs, biotechs, healthcare establishments and companies in the perfumery-cosmetics and agri-food sectors. Her experience covers regulatory affairs, site and production unit management, and the negotiation and management of R&D contracts. Among her achievements, she assisted a French pharmaceutical laboratory, in partnership with an American company, in the creation of a unique incubator in Europe made up of shared laboratories, and supported senior residences in innovative projects. Alison Leroy now wishes to concentrate on innovation and industrialization projects, aimed at bringing new products, services and technologies to market in a variety of fields including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, perfumery-cosmetics and agri-food.

UGGC Avocats

Alison Lewandoski

Associate

DLA Piper LLP (US)