Avocats – England

Donna Sharp

Partner

KPMG Law

Donncha Sexton

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Donovan Lindsay

Partner

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Dora Toderas

Associate Partner Solicitor specialising in cross-border Family, Civil Litigation, and Immigration matters

Wildcat Law

Doreen Reeves

Doreen is an senior associate solicitor in the employment law department at Slater and Gordon in London. Doreen has specialised in employment spanning over two decades, and joined Slater and Gordon in 2016. Her experience covers the full range of employment law, including discrimination and harassment, unfair and wrongful dismissal, and whistleblowing. She regularly advises on post termination restrictive covenants, share options, contract reviews, interim injunction, bonus and contractual disputes and has represented clients in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal. She acts for senior executives within the financial services, bankers, regulated professionals, HR professionals, solicitors, healthcare professionals, NHS consultants, and directors across various sectors in media, IT, marketing, education and central and local Government. Doreen is a strategic, pragmatic and highly technical lawyer and litigator who achieves the best outcome for her clients. As a skilled negotiator, she has successfully resolved workplace disputes resulting in high value and confidential settlements and exit packages. Doreen has managed complex and multiple claims up to millions of pounds and has led the national employment law service for the RMT, Unite and CWU union where I handled high profile litigation cases in the national media. She appeared as a speaker on the BBC and more recently on Sky News discussing equal pay and has also provided legal comments in the national press.

Slater and Gordon

Dorota Beange

Consultant Solicitor - Family

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Dorothea Thompson

Dorothea is a Partner working across all areas of the commercial music and entertainment practice at Bray & Krais. Dorothea began her training at London media and entertainment law firm Davenport Lyons, before moving to Bray & Krais in 2014. Drawing on previous experience as a Trade Mark Attorney, Dorothea leads the Branding & Trade Marks practice, advising on the protection, enforcement and exploitation of trade marks, copyright, designs, and domain names (contentious and non-contentious) and the development and exploitation of emerging and established brands including by way of endorsement, sponsorship, and other commercial partnerships. Dorothea also continues to provide commercial music advice including on recording and publishing matters and other rights exploitation, as well as bespoke advice on new and innovative models and other business arrangements. She is based in London but has eyes and ears on the scene outside the capital, including connections to the north of England. Dorothea has been recognised as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ by the Legal 500 and in her free time writes for various publications and speaks at events on issues related to music, entertainment, copyright, branding and trade marks.

Bray & Krais

Dorothy Flower

One of the leading medical malpractice lawyers in the UK, Partner Dorothy Flower heads up RPC's Medical/Life Sciences team. Dorothy's practice is far reaching. She regularly defends private sector organisations and individuals in clinical negligence cases, acts for manufacturers and suppliers of medical devices and pharmaceuticals involved in product liability claims, and defends CROs involved in injury claims in connection with clinical trials. She also represents properly interested persons at inquests, often in connection with potential litigation. The regulatory side to her practice sees Dorothy assisting individuals investigated by the General Medical Council, Health and Care Professions Council and other regulatory bodies. She also advises organisations on Care Quality Commission regulation. For insurers, she regular advises on policy coverage and helps to draft policy wordings.

RPC

Dorothy McMahon

Wordley Partnership

Dorothée Giret

Director

KPMG Law

Dost Malik

Senior Consultant

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Doug Ealey

Doug’s main areas of expertise are in computer technology fields (including hardware and software), consumer electronics, camera, display and VR technologies and mobile telephony. Doug has had experience both in private practice and industry drafting and obtaining patent applications worldwide. His private practice clients have included major consumer electronics companies, as well as research groups and start-ups. Doug also has a keen interest in wearables, 3D printing and IoT applications.

D Young & Co LLP

Doug Irvine

Doug is a Partner in the property department with over 15 years’ experience working in property with particular experience acting for buyers and sellers in the London residential market. Doug has acted for high net worth individuals, foreign investors and private banks. He also has experience in acting for purchasers of new build development and has acted for several developers in the acquisition of land for residential development.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Doug Robertson

Doug has considerable experience in all aspects of insolvency, with a particular specialism in property insolvency. He acts for banks, insolvency practitioners and businesses in relation to any situation requiring insolvency or restructuring advice. Doug also has a large and successful practice dealing with both bulk/Fixed Charge LPA Receivership instructions and also bespoke and high-value LPA/Fixed Charge Receiverships and property recovery from a number of high street banks and other lenders.

Irwin Mitchell

Doug Rofe

Doug’s practice covers both corporate and banking work. He advises public and private companies and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures, commercial agreements lending and other financing arrangements, as well as general corporate and securities law issues. Doug’s client base spans a number of industry sectors including financial services and insurance, life sciences and healthcare, and real estate. He has considerable experience of cross-border transactions and regularly advises US and other overseas clients on doing business in the UK and Europe, helping them to understand and manage the differences in corporate law practice between North America and Europe. Doug has authored a number of industry publications, including the UK chapter of the American Bar Association guide to international share purchase transactions and the ABA guide to international asset purchase transactions.

Keystone Law

Dougall Molson

Partner

Fieldfisher

Douglas Highet

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Douglas Howie

Douglas is a corporate lawyer who specialises in providing both transactional and regulatory advice on transactions relating to the insurance markets. He acts for insurers, insurance intermediaries, and buyers of insurance. He has been involved in many outsourcing arrangements and has assisted in various start-ups and authorisations. He regularly advises on regulatory matters, particularly in the insurance sphere. He has a strong track record of persuading regulators to modify their position to a client's benefit. Most of his work is for businesses active in the London insurance market (or those which buy commercial insurance in the London insurance market). That market is international so many clients are either based, or owned by people, outside the UK so he has extensive dealings with non-UK clients, particularly people in South-East Asia (Singapore and Hong Kong), Europe (Germany, Switzerland and France), USA and Australia. In addition to his UK-based international experience, he has practised as a solicitor in Hong Kong for two years.

Keystone Law

Douglas Marshall

Partner - Commercial National

Weightmans LLP

Douglas McDonald

Principal Associate

Mills & Reeve LLP

Douglas Silas

Director

Douglas Silas Solicitors

Douglas Smith

Douglas is our Technical Tax and Trust Counsel with over 30 years’ experience in estates, tax and trusts law. He joined Foot Anstey from Thrings in April 2020, having previously been a partner at Blake Morgan for most of his career. Qualifying initially as a barrister and subsequently re-qualifying as a solicitor, Douglas has considerable experience at advising on how to make the most of available tax reliefs and trust structures when dealing with property, business shares and other assets. His clients appreciate his clear and sensible advice on questions around stamp taxes, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and many other aspects of the UK’s taxation regime as they relate to the purchase, sale or gifting of assets. Douglas has administered a number of highly complicated estates, including those with assets in multiple jurisdictions, and is well placed to support families with a deceased relative’s affairs. With a special interest in heritage property, Douglas is also highly knowledgeable of the law in this niche area. Clients regularly seek his counsel on how to manage heritage assets and benefit in particular from his experience of dealing with HMRC’s heritage property team. Douglas also has experience in drafting prepaid funeral plan trusts for funeral directors who wish to establish funeral plan businesses and ensuring that the trust provisions are consistent with the plan agreement and that both documents are so far as possible drafted in the most tax efficient way. Douglas is also able to provide any additional advice that may subsequently be required in connection with the administration of the trust (including an application for membership of the Funeral Planning Authority) . Douglas also provides UK tax advice to clients who are resident and/or domiciled abroad (i.e. individuals, trustees of offshore trusts and person’s responsible for other offshore entities).

Foot Anstey

Douglas Wass

Doug acts on a wide range of substantial international and domestic arbitration, litigation and adjudication matters. He has particular expertise in complex construction, engineering and real estate claims and related professional negligence issues, although his practice also encompasses more general commercial disputes. Doug has advised a wide range of clients, including large developers, project companies, professional consultants, contractors and sub-contractors. His experience includes office, residential, hotel, industrial, hospital, university, school, power plant, airport and roads projects. Doug’s arbitration work has included major international ICC and LCIA arbitrations. Doug also regularly advises clients in relation to mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Doug has an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from King’s College, London and is a member of the Society of Construction Law, the Adjudication Society and the Property Litigation Association. Doug is also a Solicitor-Advocate. Doug is co-author for the chapter on UK construction law for the International Comparative Legal Guide to Construction & Engineering.

Macfarlanes LLP

Dov Black

Managing Partner and Head of Corporate Dov is the Managing Partner of BBS Law and Head of the Corporate Finance Department. Dov has been working in corporate law since he qualified in 1998. Dov loves his work and very much enjoys the challenge that each day brings. Dov specialises in a broad range of Corporate Finance and has a particular expertise in transactional work. Over the last three years Dov has developed a specialism in EOT transactions and now also acts as a Trustee for a number of EOT’s across the country. Dov works with clients across a number of sectors but his particular focus is on acting for entrepreneurs and smaller owner managed businesses. Dov’s clients often comment on his ability to stay calm in a transactional situation where challenges can often arise. Recent experience Advising a national based project management company on a series of acquisitions followed by a large investment from an international competitor. Acting for a series of companies in relation to the sales of the companies to an Employee Ownership Trust. Acting for an angel investor who has carried out a series of private investments into a broad range of UK private limited companies. Working for a number of group companies in respect of reorganisations and demergers. Providing advice to joint venture parties and guiding them through the process of the setting up of the joint venture vehicle. Advising throughout and preparing all relevant documentation to deal with the partnership and joint venture created. Advising clients on the creation of the relevant structure and vehicle needed for the particular investment to be made by the client and in particular very often bringing a commercial solution to the challenges created. Acting for an international freight logistics and express courier specialist in relation to a £15 million investment by a growth capital investor. Dov’s particular expertise lies in providing clients with constructive commercial advice which is focused and clear despite the complexity of the instructions and situation. Dov’s clients are looking for a high level of service which he provides with a calm, friendly and responsive approach to each situation.

Orwins