Avocats – England

Geraldine McCool

National head of military claims. Geraldine works on serious personal injury claims, specialising in military work and aviation (military, commercial and general). Key cases: Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Piper Alpha oil rig disaster (1988); Pan Am bombing Lockerbie (1988); British Midland crash at Kegworth (1989); Chinook Mull of Kintyre crash (1994); Swissair crash off Canada (September 1998); Korean Airlines crash at Stansted (December 1999); inequest into death of Sgt Stephen Roberts in Iraq (first soldier fatality); three military Puma crashes (2007).

Irwin Mitchell

Gerard Cukier

Gerard has been advising high-profile individuals in the political, sports and media world, along with high-net-worth individuals, for over 30 years. A trained litigator and experienced commercial lawyer, Gerard is extremely well placed to advise clients on a range of issues from defamation, blackmail and extortion to sponsorship agreements and music licensing deals. Gerard also enjoys advising on high-profile international commercial disputes often leading to international arbitrations and enforcement of international judgments and awards. Gerard’s reputation in the market has led to clients from across the world (in particular, Monaco, France, the US and Israel) turning to him to protect their business and personal affairs. Gerard is UK-based but he speaks fluent French and frequently travels to meet with clients.

Keystone Law

Gerard Hanratty

Browne Jacobson LLP

Gerard Heyes

Gerard specialises in managing and resolving disputes and contentious regulatory issues in the asset management, investment funds and wealth management sectors. Through a dedicated focus on the commercial and regulatory environment in which clients involved in these sectors operate, he helps clients to prevent contentious issues arising and to resolve those that do in a way that maximises value and reflects clients’ goals and sector considerations.

Farrer & Co

Geri Paja

Stuart Miller Solicitors

Gerrard Tyrrell

Gerrard is a partner and head of the firm’s media and information practice. Gerrard is widely regarded as the leading lawyer in information protection, privacy and defamation. He acts for many household names both in the UK and globally, including senior members of the Royal Family, as well as other foreign royalty, heads of state and former prime ministers together with world-leading names in the IP, tech and entertainment worlds. Gerrard also acts for a number of leading family offices of leading UHNW individuals, global investment funds and leading “world” brands. Gerrard was awarded for ‘Outstanding Legal Achievement’ by Spear’s in 2017. He has also been listed in the Spear’s 500 index of top recommended reputation management solicitors from 2017 to 2024.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Gerry Kennedy

Gerry is a commercial and intellectual property partner with over 25 years’ experience gained in senior in-house and advisory roles across multiple sectors. Prior to joining Keystone, Gerry served as the UK General Counsel for Lonza, a global supplier to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and specialty ingredients industries. Gerry specialises specifically in the life sciences sector, where he has spent more than two decades advising on complex commercial, intellectual property, and technology matters. He is experienced in negotiating development and manufacturing agreements, overseeing international manufacturing projects, advising on gene expression technology licensing, and supporting clients with research and collaboration agreements. His clients include multinational pharmaceutical companies and early-stage biotech businesses.

Keystone Law

Gervais Green

Partner

Schjodt LLP

Ghazal Hill

Solicitor

TV Edwards Solicitors LLP

Giacomo Francioni

Partner

Belluzzo International Partners

Gianna Lisiecki

Gianna is an experienced family lawyer and trained mediator who advises on all family-related issues including divorce, financial relief, cohabitation, schedule 1 applications, and complex children disputes. She has expertise in navigating complex situations, including dealing with narcissistic personalities in divorce and children proceedings, divorces with substantial assets, and addressing children cases involving domestic abuse, alienation, and alcohol and drug abuse. Gianna’s clients are largely based in the Cheshire and Wirral regions and she has a diverse range including business owners, medics, lawyers, bankers, stockbrokers, and former partners of sportsmen.

Keystone Law

Giao Pacey

Giao is a corporate lawyer experienced in dealing with a broad range of corporate and corporate finance work, both in the private and public arenas. She is highly experienced in dealing with fundraisings and listings on the UK public markets, predominantly on AIM and PLUS, and regularly advises private and public companies and other advisers on raising funds through equity financing, such as private placings, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and tax incentive schemes, as well as through debt financing. In addition, her corporate and commercial experience covers the gamut of private company transactional and advisory work including mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and reorganisations, joint ventures, and general commercial contracts.

Simkins LLP

Gideon Benaim

Gideon is a lawyer specialising in reputation protection for high-profile individuals and companies. He has extensive expertise in the areas of defamation, privacy, harassment and copyright. Gideon is a partner and heads up Simkins’ reputation protection team. Gideon represents a number of the world’s leading companies from sectors including financial services; food and drink; and television. A long-term advisor to JK Rowling, Gideon has represented many high-profile private and corporate clients including Mondelez UK, Syco Entertainment, Lions Gate UK Ltd, Canary Wharf Group plc, Braeburn Estates Limited Partnership, The Law Society, Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Ltd, Las Vegas Sands Corp, Naomi Campbell, Lance Armstrong, Roman Polanski, Nicole Kidman and Gordon Ramsay. Gideon also received the prestigious award for ‘Partner of the Year’ at the 2008 Lawyer Awards. Gideon sits on the Law Society’s Reference Groups for Libel Reform and Privacy. He was on the Civil Justice Council’s Working Party on the draft Defamation Bill. Gideon has given evidence to the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions, and has overseen the provision of evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and to a number of Parliamentary committees. He has also spoken at the Cambridge and Durham Unions on the issue of reputation protection and the press.

Simkins LLP

Gideon Dabby-Joory

I specialise in real estate investment and complex development work. My expertise spans property finance, asset management and landlord and tenant. I act for a wide range of clients. These include private equity real estate funds, institutional investors, property companies, banks, family offices, operational businesses and entrepreneurs. Many of the clients for whom I act are based overseas. Clients tend to regard me as a trusted advisor and often turn to me for advice which is more commercial in nature and outside my stated specialist area. This is a true compliment and is something that I really enjoy as it enables me not just to avoid thinking as a lawyer but also to be part of the client’s key commercial decision making process. The investment and development asset classes I deal with range from offices and business parks to hotels and leisure taking in specialist ones such as urban markets and cultural as well as heritage landmarks. In recent years, I have also been involved with what in the US is referred to as “multi-family” and in the UK is termed the PRS and BTR sectors. Whilst much of what I do involves acting for investors or landlords, this is not my sole focus and I also act for business occupiers, advising them on their space requirements and expansion programmes. These include headquarters’ relocations, acting for the providers of shared office space and advising high-end retail occupiers.

Fladgate LLP

Gideon Sanitt

Gideon specialises in tax litigation but has a background in transactional tax work. His tax litigation work has given him experience at all levels of the UK Courts and the European Courts. Gideon has worked on disputes and investigations involving complex corporate and financial transactions for a variety of multinational and FTSE listed companies across both direct and indirect tax, as well as dealing with investigations involving high-net-worth individuals. Gideon also has significant experience in high value regulatory investigations as they relate to tax issues. Gideon takes a particular interest not just in advising on disputes but in managing the risks of transactions, so that the extent of any such dispute is minimised, and in seeking solutions outside of the Courts, whether through well-run compliance or effective settlements. With a transactional background covering, in particular, M&A and finance, as well as matters with a significant international dimension, Gideon also has experience of how some of the most complex tax rules apply in practice. Such expertise is invaluable in managing the risks of those transactions, advising on any disputes that may arise and finding the most effective solutions.

Macfarlanes LLP

Giles Bark-Jones

Giles Bark-Jones has defended clients in many of the largest white-collar crime and fraud cases of recent times. His impressive track record and wide experience includes representing individuals in prosecutions and investigations brought by the SFO, the FCA, HMRC and other bodies. Giles’s track record includes the SFO investigation into Rolls-Royce, acting for a number of key individuals; R v Asil Nadir (an SFO prosecution involving allegations of theft from Polly Peck International); the Adoboli case (involving a US$2.3bn trading loss fraud at UBS); and R v F & ors, described by prosecution counsel as the ‘biggest case ever’ involving carbon trading fraud. Other recent highlights include acting for three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker in relation to criminal charges brought by the Insolvency Service following his bankruptcy, and acting for the Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus in connection with the Polly Peck/Asil Nadir case. On the tax side, Giles has a similarly impressive record including an appeal against a £60m+ conviction for alcohol tax evasion; a complex matter involving payroll companies that allegedly failed to pay tax on behalf of the companies for which they acted; and a £100m multijurisdictional matter described by KPMG and the Daily Telegraph as “one of the biggest direct tax frauds in UK history”. He also assisted a number of clients in National Crime Agency and SKAT investigations into a £1.5bn fraud against the tax authorities in a number of countries, and has defended in large-scale money laundering SFO investigations. Giles is an expert in serious general crime as well as criminal fraud, and his practice includes high-profile murder/manslaughter cases, sexual offences cases, and cases involving offences under anti-terrorism legislation.

Bark&co

Giles Chesher

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Giles Clifford

Partner

Gowling WLG

Giles Orton

Consultant

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Giles Parsons

Browne Jacobson LLP

Giles Peaker

Partner specialising in housing, public law and residential and commercial leasehold disputes.

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Giles Salmond

Giles is a leading and well-known tax disputes lawyer with over 25 years of experience, across a range of UK taxes. He has a particular specialism in complex VAT litigation. The focus of his practice is acting for large corporates in high value VAT, custom duties and other indirect tax disputes against HMRC. Giles has represented clients in litigation before the tax tribunals through to the UK Supreme Court. He has appeared as an advocate for many clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Throughout his career he has specialised on the EU law aspects of indirect taxes and since Brexit has advised many businesses on its impact. Giles was at the vanguard of UK tax mediation, is a CEDR trained meditator and has successfully resolved many tax disputes without the need for litigation. Giles advises on all aspects of VAT and indirect taxes. He has acted for multinationals and private companies across financial services, TMT, hospitality and leisure as well as the government sector and smaller businesses. Giles advises overseas businesses on doing business in the UK, particular in the e-commerce sector. He has specialist knowledge of how HMRC and its lawyers within the Solicitor’s Office, the judges of the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal operate.

Stewarts Law LLP

Gill Edwards

Partner

Hugh James

Gill Mansfield

Gill Mansfield is a full-time commercial mediator. She has over 25 years’ experience of negotiating deals and successfully dealing with and resolving difficult commercial disputes and complex cross-border and international litigation in the UK, Europe, the USA and across Asia. Her experience spans a number of different sectors and she mediates a wide range of business, commercial, financial and corporate disputes. She is recognised as a leading mediator in the UK by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Clients consistently praise her as ‘very effective”, “easy to work with”, “highly skilled”, “thorough’ and “well prepared” and as a mediator who “understands the commercial dynamics”. She has a reputation for quickly building rapport with clients “putting the parties at ease from the start” and for creating “a rapport conducive to settlement”. As one mediation client recently commented “Gill has an innate ability to understand what really matters to the parties at a mediation, and to forge a meeting of minds between them”. Gill is a Fellow of Civil Mediation Council and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of several international mediation panels including the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals in New York and the WIPO panel of IP neutrals and the WIPO domain name disputes panel in Geneva.

IPOS Mediation