Avocats – England

Grace Mitchell

Grace is a Senior Associate in Shoosmiths’ planning and environmental team with experience in acting for both public and private sector clients including local authorities, landowners and developers. Since qualifying with Shoosmiths she has gained experience of advising on a wide range of planning and highways matters including the drafting and negotiation of section 106 agreements, assisting on CPO matters and advising on and negotiating various infrastructure agreements.Grace has also gained experience in aspects of environmental law, and assisted in advising developers and operators of infrastructure, real estate and other businesses on transactional, regulatory and contentious issues, working alongside the corporate, real estate, commercial, and regulatory teams.

Shoosmiths LLP

Grace Wood

Associate Solicitor

DKLM Solicitors

Graeme Bradley

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Graeme Cushion

Partner

Poppleston Allen

Graeme Danby

Director

Freeths LLP

Graeme Fearon

Partner leading team specialising in intellectual property, IT law and data protection. Workload covers both contentious and commercial work for stand-alone clients and support for other teams within the firm. Specialises particularly in protection and enforcement of brands, also advises on e-commerce, technology and know-how.

Thrings LLP

Graeme Hughes

Graeme is a Partner and leads our charities, not-for-profits and social enterprises team. An experienced charity lawyer, Graeme has practised exclusively in charity law since 2010. He advises on all aspects of charity law especially the establishment and management of charities, the incorporation of unincorporated charitable trusts and associations, compliance/administrative matters, governance issues, charity mergers, restructures and reorganisations. He also advises on fundraising matters, charities’ relationships with commercial organisations and trading by charities and their subsidiaries. In addition, he is experienced in dealing with the Charity Commission, advising trustees and interim managers on regulatory issues. Graeme acts for charities of all sizes operating both domestically and overseas including museums, research organisations, grant-making foundations, religious organisations, hospices and other care providers, educational institutions, registered providers of social housing, youth and community centres. He is also part of our sports sector team and acts for professional sports clubs, sports personalities and other charities operating in the field of sports (including community amateur sports clubs). He regularly speaks on legal matters affecting charities and delivers training courses for both charity trustees and staff. He is a member of the Law Society, the Charity Law Association and also sits on the Non-Contentious Business Committee of Liverpool Law Society.

Brabners LLP

Graeme Hydari

Partner specialising in serious crimes and Head of the Sexual Offences Team. In particular, Graeme specialises in representing those with disability including Autism and Learning Disability; all sexual offences including Rape and internet Cybor sexual offences; and serious and complex fraud. He is one of the leading criminal defence solicitors in the country specialising in representing those with mental health and learning disabilities. Graeme was awarded the Criminal Defence Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award 2017 for his specialist work on behalf of vulnerable Autistic defendants and suspects. Recent cases include:- Client tried for a £3million Conspiracy to Defraud involving the sophisticated defrauding of numerous internationally based Film Equipment Companies (Operation Willsbridge). Representing Compliance Officer in a firm of Solicitors, charged with Conspiracy to defraud the Legal Aid Agency out of £4 million pounds by making false claims. She was acquitted. Murder cases. Mentally ill man who murdered his mother in violent attack with a weapon and a gang member who with others was involved in the murder of a rival gang member. Graeme successfully appealed the case of Chez Copeland an autistic man charged with terrorism offences all the way to the Supreme Court, where the Court overruled the trial Judge and stated that his obsessional collecting and experimenting could be a defence to making and possessing explosives and being in possession of material that may be of use to those involved in terrorism. Graeme has represented high profile criminal offenders including the paedophile and child killer Sidney Cooke and professional clients such as an Accountant in the music business charged with fraud; theft and false accounting involving high profile bands including Suede and Primal Scream.

Hodge Jones & Allen

Graeme Moore

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Graeme Orchison

Partner

TLT

Graham Aaronson KC

Graham Aaronson KC is a founding partner of Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP and chairs the firm’s tax disputes team. During his time as a member of Pump Court Tax Chambers he established a reputation as one of the leading tax advisers and advocates of his generation. He has advised or represented most of the major corporations conducting business in the UK, appearing in many landmark cases such as BMBF v Mawson. He initiated the EU law challenges to the UK corporation tax regime in the ground-breaking Hoechst case, and since then he has been the lead counsel in most of the EU law based group litigation actions dealing with corporation tax. Since founding JHA, he has focused on helping clients resolve their tax disputes with HMRC or other tax authorities. Where necessary this will include careful preparation and conduct of litigation, but wherever possible his preference is to seek to persuade the tax authorities to accept the client’s position, or to agree a negotiated settlement that achieves the best possible outcome for the client. He specialises in commercial/corporate taxation, with particular sub-specialities in transfer pricing, oil and gas taxation, structured finance, State Aid and EU Law. He also has particular experience and expertise in dealing with football-related tax disputes, representing several very high profile players and agents. NOTABLE ACTIVITIES 2016: Asked by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to examine the allegations of tax avoidance made against him and his family, arising out of the “Panama Papers” revelations. The Prime Minister quoted from his analysis in his personal statement to the House of Commons on 11th April 2016. 2012-13: Appointed by HMRC as chairman of the Interim Advisory Panel for the GAAR, responsible for and co-writing the legally binding Guidelines for the operation of the GAAR. 2010-11: Appointed by the Coalition Government as Leader of the ‘GAAR’ (General Anti-Avoidance Rule) study. His report, recommending and drafting a proposed General Anti-Abuse Rule, was accepted by the Government, and a GAAR based on his report and draft legislation was enacted in FA 2013. 2001-05: Part-time Special Commissioner (equivalent today to a judge of the First Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal). 1995-98: Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association. 1994-97: Appointed first chairman of the Tax Law Review Committee (set up by the IFS, and under the presidency of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Howe). Initiated its study of the UK’s tax legislation, and co-wrote its report recommending a complete re-write of the direct tax statutes (which was accepted by the Government and enacted over the following years). 1987-90: Appointed principal tax policy advisor to the Director of State Revenues, Treasury, Israel.

Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP

Graham Anderson

Graham advises a broad range of clients including national and international businesses, institutional clients, estates, managing agents and private individuals. His practice encompasses all aspects of commercial and residential contentious property work. His commercial practice includes advising landlords and tenants on dilapidations, business lease renewals, forfeiture, service charge disputes and property related insolvency issues. Graham's residential practice includes service charge issues, disrepair and all aspects of enfranchisement. In addition, he advises on other real property disputes such as boundaries, easements, adverse possession and covenants.

Farrer & Co

Graham Archibald

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Graham Ball

Browne Jacobson LLP

Graham Banks

Graham is the head of the Derby office and heads up the Derby Property team. His particular specialism is commercial and residential development acting on behalf of Developer, Landowner and Occupier. Graham’s experience extends to strategic land and short-term development land, with deal size varying from anything from small single-use developments to sites comprising 3000 units. He is known for his good, sound practical advice on how to get from A to B. Graham spends the majority of his time dealing with residential development sites comprising conditional contracts, option agreements, promotion agreements, collaboration agreements and all manner of infrastructure and planning documents. He also undertakes similar work in the commercial sector but including forward funding and investment agreements, joint ventures and project management structures. Clients enjoy discussing ideas with Graham to reach a practical commercial solution.

Geldards LLP

Graham Burnett-Hall

Graham is a leading patent litigator, recognised by major legal directories, with over 25 years of experience. He is ‘noted for his ability to handle highly technical mandates’ and loves his work at the interface of technology and the law. He is adept at rapidly assimilating new scientific and technological developments and providing legal advice in a clear and straightforward manner. Whilst in the majority of cases a dispute will be resolved without recourse to the courts, should legal proceedings be necessary Graham ensures that the case is prepared thoroughly but efficiently for trial and always with the determination to secure a successful outcome. Graham ‘has a highly diverse offering’ and his clients operate in all areas of technology, with a strong track record in pharmaceuticals, biotech and medical devices and other fields such as electronics, telecommunications and engineering. Graham studied chemistry before becoming a lawyer and this scientific background is an asset that he puts to good use when working with clients, their R&D teams, and scientific experts. As well as patent issues, Graham frequently advises on other intellectual property rights such as designs, trade secrets and confidential information, copyright and database rights, and on the strategic use of intellectual property assets to achieve commercial goals. The disputes Graham advises upon are frequently multi-jurisdictional and Graham has considerable experience of litigation with parallel proceedings running across Europe and in other important jurisdictions worldwide, such as the USA and China, instructing and coordinating with specialist lawyers in each country. Graham is a solicitor advocate and in appropriate cases he appears as junior counsel, working alongside leading counsel. Examples of Graham’s past cases include: Representing a global pharmaceutical company in UK Patents Court proceedings, part of a multinational patent dispute concerning RSV vaccines based on the RSV prefusion F-protein. Acting for a major Indian manufacturer of trans-catheter aortic heart valves in a multi-national patent dispute, with parallel EPO opposition proceedings alongside proceedings in multiple European courts, including the Unified Patent Court. Conducting UK Patents Court proceedings on behalf of a German client, a leading company in simulation and validation, regarding electronic interfaces used in the testing of electronical control units, in particular in the automotive sector. Acting for a multinational biotech company in patent infringement and revocation proceedings concerning the glycosylation profile of antibodies, with parallel proceedings in the UK and Germany. A technically extremely complex dispute at first instance and at appeal concerning rights under a drug development contract to a candidate drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, including entitlements to milestone payments under the contract. Representing a medical device manufacturer in a patent dispute in the UK Patents Court and Court of Appeal relating to atrial septal occluders, with parallel proceedings in Germany that reached the German Supreme Court. Acting for a UK telecommunications company in multiple patent infringement and revocation proceedings concerning graphical user interfaces. Other past cases have concerned matters as diverse as interleukin-23 inhibitors for the treatment of psoriasis, air fryers, wound dressings, cryptography, insulin-like growth factors and potato harvesting equipment. These include cases that have become legal authorities on issues such as priority rights and indirect infringement. Graham trained and qualified at Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) before joining a specialist intellectual property law firm, where he worked for 20 years, becoming a partner in 2007. He joined Shoosmiths in April 2024. He has been recognised by a number of the leading legal directories, including The Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000, Who’s Who Legal, and is listed as an ‘Patent Star’ by Managing IP.

Shoosmiths LLP

Graham Burns

Graham is the Head of education team and his particular skills include advising on complex public sector procurements (where he has particular expertise in the education and local authority sectors) and major commercial transactions. Graham also offers substantial experience of major and complex public private partnership deals, including completing the largest schools partnership contract in England for Northamptonshire County Council. Graham has a substantial practice in the academies sector, a history that began with him acting for the West London Free School on the very first free school funding agreement. He is also recognised as one of the education sector’s leading innovators having acted for a broad range of sponsors developing Multi-Academy Trusts and Umbrella Trust structures.

Stone King LLP

Graham Dean

Graham has been with Weightmans since 2006 and brings over 20 years' experience in handling disease claims to our national disease unit. He specialises in asbestos related disease claims and acts for many well known run off/legacy insurers providing them with strategic advice. He also regularly deals with NIHL, dermatitis and VWF claims and heads up the Liverpool disease team. He has handled several high profile and widely reported asbestos cases over the years, as well as test case litigation for defendants and their insurers. In addition to this he has presented seminars on the subject and has had articles published in the legal press. He is also the author of a section in Occupational Illness Litigation.

Weightmans LLP

Graham Denny

Partner

Wordley Partnership

Graham Forrest

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Graham French

Graham is a consultant in the property and housing litigation team now working principally on the Public Inquiry and related litigation on behalf of clients affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. Until retiring as a partner in November 2019, in addition to the Grenfell cases he concentrated on residential and commercial property disputes, landlord & tenant, housing, public law and related contractual disputes. He covered all aspects of property and housing litigation acting for landlords, tenants and tenant’s organisations. Graham also worked for housing associations, co-operatives, tenant management organisations and other public and voluntary sector bodies.

Russell-Cooke LLP

Graham Goldspink

Graham is a property lawyer who delivers commercial advice to businesses and high-net-worth individuals/entrepreneurs. He has a broad range of experience with particular focus on investment property, property development and landlord and tenant work.

Keystone Law

Graham Greenfield

Head of commercial litigation department and also head of the insolvency unit, Graham is widely recognised as one of the East Midlands’ leading insolvency lawyers with over 26 years’ experience in this field. He has acted nationally and internationally and has complimentary experience in banking litigation. Graham frequently represents a wide portfolio of insolvency practitioner clients acting regularly for many of the larger firms of accountants as well as the quality smaller firms. Graham’s commercial litigation experience is vast, including representing clients all the way up to the Court of Appeal. He regularly deals with complex, commercial, financial and professional negligence matters and has a depth and breadth of knowledge that is commensurate with his many years of experience.

Freeths LLP

Graham Halliday

Graham is a partner in Marriott Harrison's Venture Capital team. With a sharp interest and understanding of technology-led business growth and evolution, Graham delivers the commercial guidance that both venture capital investors and investee companies seek on acquisition and exit.

Marriott Harrison LLP