Avocats – England

Daniel O’Brien

Browne Jacobson LLP

Daniel O’Gorman

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Daniel Polden

I specialise in a range of commercial property work for clients based in the UK and also overseas. The matters I handle for clients include investments, developments, finance and co-ventures. To paraphrase from Legal 500 2021; I am regarded as a “superb lawyer”. What makes me stand out within the industry is my highly commercial and entrepreneurial approach both to legal advice and to relationships. From a deal point of view, it is my creative approach that helps navigate through tricky roadblocks. From a relationship point of view, I will see potential business connections between clients and contacts and make them happen. This brings an enormous amount of additional value to clients and, I think, colleagues. I have worked in the world of real estate for over 36 years. My clients are based in the UK as well as overseas. Some are private families (or individuals) and others are institutions. They carry-out a range of transactions – commercial and residential; development and investment; lenders and borrowers; short-term and long term strategies; principals and their investors. I understand my clients and their objectives and make myself available to my clients to talk about and guide them through the issues and opportunities that arise.

Fladgate LLP

Daniel Portch

Partner

Elkington + Fife LLP

Daniel Preiskel

Current position: senior partner. Specialist area of practice: telecoms and IT. Daniel is a co-founder of PREISKEL & CO LLP and has over 20 years’ experience working in the telecoms sector, advising across the industry and globe. He has been ranked for over 16 years in major independent research guides as one of the world’s leading communications lawyers. He is particularly recognised for commercial and regulatory work in the UK and overseas. Together with his international team of lawyers that he heads up, he provides an outside global-counsel service to clients on a range of legal issues spanning the globe, quite a number of which have no connection with the UK or indeed English law. Daniel recently co-founded the International MVNOx Association and advises MVNOs as well as MNOs from the Far East, Middle East, Europe and Africa, as well as North and South America (sometimes including strategy). He also advises clients on international acquisitions, investments and occasionally on telecoms privatisations. Other types of clients include a major global Korean handset manufacturer, various OTT providers, a major international WIFI provider, mobile data clearing houses, telecoms data centres, minutes’ exchanges and various telecoms resellers. He also advises on cloud issues and software as a service agreements, including a major one recently with BBC Worldwide. Daniel Preiskel is a regular speaker at prestigious international telecoms conferences and was on the Steering Committee of the MEF Privacy in Apps Programme (www.appprivacy.net) that attracted a fair amount of coverage in the press. MEF is the mobile content industry leading forum and Daniel is now on the MEF Global Mobile Money Steering Committee. Daniel plays an important legal role in other leading industry associations: ITSPA (Internet Telephony Service Providers Association), ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) and the Lexing Network of Emerging Technology Lawyers and FCS (Federation of Communication Services).

Preiskel & Co LLP

Daniel Pugh

Dan is an associate in Shoosmiths' Manchester corporate team and advises on all areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholders' agreements, venture capital, private equity transactions, investments, and general corporate advisory matters. Recent transactional experience includes: acting for a leading UK specialist real estate investment management company on a number of high value disposals of international target companies; acting for both individual sellers and corporate buyers on numerous disposals and acquisitions of SMEs in a wide range of sectors; IPO experience - primarily assisting private limited companies on the conversion to public and ultimate admission to AIM. Primary role includes due diligence, verification and the drafting of articles of association, share dealing code, board committee terms of reference, the admission document and various requisite ancillary documents; and carrying out group reorganisations involving private companies limited by shares (to include numerous share for share exchanges), private companies limited by guarantee and charitable incorporated organisations.

Shoosmiths LLP

Daniel Purcell

Bevan Brittan LLP

Daniel Purcell

Experience Daniel has spent his career handling disputes and investigations for the regulators, commissioners and providers of public services. His experience includes large-scale commercial dispute resolution, fraud response, procurement challenges and reputation management, often in highly regulated, high-profile sectors. Expertise Daniel is a recognised leader in the regulatory sector. He advises statutory regulatory bodies on the investigation and prosecution of complex and sensitive misconduct cases. Daniel leads Capsticks’ work for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, our own regulator. Daniel has been described in recent directory entries as “particularly impressive…he has a very measured and very calm presence”, and a chief executive client described him as “my ‘wise counsel’ and really invaluable to me”.

Capsticks LLP

Daniel Robin

Daniel is a Partner and Head of our Property Disputes team. He acts in commercial disputes and real estate disputes for both corporate clients and individuals. He conducts matters of particular complexity in the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court, First tier Tribunal, and Upper Tribunal and also acts in arbitration proceedings in the ICC. He is a specialist in matters concerning cross border jurisdiction, landlord and tenant law and real estate law. Recent experience includes: Representing a shareholder in a company owning and running a chain of nightclubs in a dispute with other shareholders; Obtaining and enforcing an High Court injunction against a Landlord who restricted access to leaseholders in a residential development; Successfully challenging jurisdiction of the English Courts in a claim concerning Saudi Arabian assets; Advising on complex rights of first refusal issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.

Seddons GSC LLP

Daniel Robin

Deputy Managing Partner

Fenchurch Law

Daniel Rutherford

Partner - Casualty Police Claims 3

Weightmans LLP

Daniel Schaffer

Partner; Dan is a partner in our Pensions Employment & Incentives Group. He joined the firm in 2017. He has over twenty two years of partner experience. His practice is transactional, general advisory and contentious. He advises employers and trustees. Dan’s experience includes preparing for a sale process, benefit redesign and covenant and funding solutions.

Slaughter and May

Daniel Scognamiglio

Daniel leads our travel team based in Southampton. He is a specialist in multi-jurisdictional disputes, travel insurance litigation and tour operator liability and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Attorney at Law (non practising) New York. He has a particular specialism in handling travel insurance and foreign personal injury matters, advising insurers and the public as a result of accidents that have happened abroad; dealing with general insurance litigation and commercial disputes with an international or multi-jurisdictional element. Daniel also advises travel agents and tour operators as to the Package Travel Regulations, ATOL and CAA.

Blake Morgan LLP

Daniel Shaw

Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney

J A Kemp

Daniel Sheehan

Partner

Fieldfisher

Daniel Shilvock

Dan is a Partner in the Corporate team and specialises in private equity transactions acting for PE sponsors, management teams and investee companies. He also focuses on M&A transactions (buy-side and sell-side) for a number of corporate clients and has experience across a variety of sectors. Recent experience includes advising: Livingbridge on its investments into Quorum Cyber and Nourish Care; GEMS Education on various transactions, including the disposal of its international schools based in Singapore and Malaysia respectively; the shareholders of Bramble Foods Limited on its sale to LDC and subsequent reinvestment; Mutares on its acquisitions of Alan Dick Communications and Special Melted Products; Cow Corner on its investments into Dayshape and Mitchell Charlesworth.

Shoosmiths LLP

Daniel Simon

Senior Partner of Collyer Bristow and a partner in the Tax and estate planning team.

Collyer Bristow LLP

Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is a Solicitor in the Dispute Resolution team. Daniel joined the firm in 2015 as a paralegal after graduating from Oxford Brooks University and completing the Legal Practice Course in Oxford at the University of Law. Daniel’s training has had a significant focus on property, having spent a year in the Residential Conveyancing team. He undertook seats in Residential Conveyancing, Property Litigation and Commercial Property through his training contract. Daniel qualified as a Solicitor in the Dispute Resolution team in January 2020.

Gardner Leader LLP

Daniel Spendlove

With over 20 year’s experience, Daniel specialises in complex and high value commercial litigation, often with an international focus. He represents both claimants and defendants in the High Court English litigation and international arbitrations. Daniel’s clients include corporations, investment banks, investment funds, bondholders, industrial groups and high / ultra high net worth clients. Daniel has particular experience in M&A disputes, litigation involving funds and other investments, joint venture and shareholder disputes, and professional negligence claims. He is particularly experienced in disputes emanating from the CEE region and the USA. Daniel has been, and continues to be, involved in some of the most significant and high profile ‘bet the company’ cases in the London litigation market, several of which have been featured in The Lawyer’s “Top 20 Cases of the Year”. In recent years, he has handled a number of prominent group claims, and he is well versed in bringing and defending claims backed by litigation funders. Daniel has published articles and delivered talks on a number of topical issues, and regularly comments in the trade and legal press. He is a Contributing Editor of “Getting the Deal Through: Complex Commercial Litigation”.

Signature Litigation LLP

Daniel Stepanov

Trainee Solicitor

Sterling Law

Daniel Stern

Daniel is a Partner and Head of the Property Litigation team in the Manchester office. He has expertise in commercial, insolvency, banking, and real estate litigation, advising both national UK and overseas clients on a wide range of residential and commercial property-related contentious issues. He is known for his clear, pragmatic, and cost-effective solutions to complicated issues and his proactive approach to resolving disputes. His client base ranges from FTSE companies to SMEs, high-net-worth landlords and investors.

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Daniel Sullivan

Associate Daniel has extensive experience in all aspects of trade mark prosecution, including selecting, registering and protecting brands worldwide. He enjoys working with clients of all sizes, from multi-nationals through to SMEs and start-ups, helping them build and maintain strong brandportfolios.

Reddie & Grose LLP

Daniel Sutherland

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Daniel Toop

Daniel is head of the Court of Protection team. He mainly supports those who have suffered catastrophic injuries as a result of medical negligence or personal injury and have been awarded substantial compensation to meet their future needs. With a particular interest in acquired brain injury, Daniel advises on a broad range of Court of Protection and personal injury trust issues for both professional and lay deputies and trustees. His area of specialism is working with and supporting the litigation process, both in clinical negligence and personal injury claims. This knowledge is essential in ensuring that the compensation, which can take many years to secure, is properly protected and managed, either through a personal injury trust or a deputyship.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP