Avocats – England

Grant Eldred

Grant is a partner in the banking and finance team. He specialises in finance law including bilateral and syndicated secured and unsecured lending, trade finance and banking regulation and compliance. He has particular expertise in advising the London branches of overseas banks on a broad range of operational, regulatory and transactional requirements. He also has specific expertise in ship, yacht and structured finance work.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Grant Esterhuizen

Grant is a partner at Lester Aldridge who heads up the firm’s Commercial Group and Corporate Team. He is dual-qualified UK solicitor and South African attorney and has specialised in company and commercial law since qualifying in the UK. Grant has over 20 years’ experience advising on commercial and corporate matters. His advisory scope includes joint ventures, commercial agreements and corporate transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border corporate transactions, having closed transactions involving buyers or sellers based in foreign jurisdictions such as China, Australia, Canada, USA, Brazil, French Polynesia and Europe. Grant has clients across a number of SME sectors and has specific specialism in advising clients in the software development, software licensing, manufacturing and export sectors. His clients regard him to be commercial yet tenacious in his approach.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Grant Gordon

As the firm’s Executive Partner, I am responsible for the development and execution of the firm’s overall strategic and partner recruitment objectives. When not doing that, I have a long-standing and highly active client base in the technology, betting & gaming, sport, leisure and resources sectors advising those clients on achieving their business and personal objectives through the delivery of strategic, value-added and solution-orientated structuring, corporate (public and private) and commercial advice. I have been at Fladgate since 2008, having joined from my own firm which I set up in 2005. Initially starting out as a media & entertainment lawyer, I then switched to corporate law where, because of my initial experience with intellectual property (IP) matters, most of my clients emanated from “IP rich” industries such as technology, gaming, leisure and sport. I advise on both the IP and corporate aspects of a transaction in structuring, protecting and exploiting IP assets so as to drive enhanced value-add for my clients. Whilst advising primarily on corporate transactions for clients (spanning everything from seed investments, private and growth capital, initial public offerings (IPO) and mergers & acquisitions), an increasing part of my work has been in advising on the structuring of corporate and private assets internationally including building out private investment and family office structures for clients.

Fladgate LLP

Greg Allan

Partner, Head of Independent Healthcare

Birketts LLP

Greg Barnbrook

Property litigation specialist Greg advises on a wide range of both commercial and residential property disputes. Together with his general commercial property litigation work such as 1954 Act lease renewals, forfeiture and dilapidations, Greg is an expert in the casual dining industry and works with large national restaurant chains and landlords in the sector. This has included specialist advice to retail and leisure landlords relating to the effect of the Coronavirus Act 2020 on rental income and enforcement, and negotiating and drafting rent variations across large portfolios. His advice also includes property development issues such as conditional contracts, rights to light and retention of deposits. In relation to residential property, Greg assists with landlord and tenant issues, high-value land disputes, rights of way, adverse possession, residential possessions and professional negligence claims against property professionals. Greg is also experienced in beneficial interest TOLATA claims including multi-million-pound claims across national and international portfolios. Greg uses alternative dispute resolution wherever possible to resolve cases and has extensive mediation experience. Greg is a qualified solicitor-advocate with Higher Rights of Audience (civil), with rights of audience in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Keystone Law

Greg Burgess

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Greg Campbell

Greg is a Partner in the Employment department, with over 20 years' experience in employment law. He provides advice to both employers and senior executives across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on Financial Services, LLPs and partnership disputes. His clients range from public companies, banks and major accountancy practices to PLC directors, senior banking executives and partners in law firms. Greg is experienced in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, advising employers on workplace disputes, defence of whistleblowing and discrimination claims, major restructures and day to day queries. He works with senior executives on the terms of their engagement and departure in addition to disputes and regulatory issues. Greg has a particular specialism advising on major disciplinary investigations, acting for employers as well as for senior executives accused of misconduct whether by their employer, or the FCA/PRA, or other regulators. He regularly operates at the intersection of employment law and regulation. Within the financial services sector he regularly advises on Remuneration Code issues and the Senior Manager Regime. Greg has also been involved in conducting gender pay audits for corporate clients who will be subject to proposed employment regulations and reporting requirements.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Greg Clark

Senior Associate

B P Collins LLP

Greg Falkof

Greg is a Partner in the International Arbitration Practice. He has a particular focus on the effective resolution of disputes in the energy, resources, transport, engineering, infrastructure and construction sectors, as well as international investment arbitration and public international law. Greg is a member of the ICC Global Commission for Arbitration and ADR (appointed by the ICC UK committee), the world’s premier multi-jurisdictional forum for advancing the practice of international arbitration. He's the co-founder and a former Director of Delos Dispute Resolution, an independent arbitration institution that promotes quality, flexibility, and time and cost efficiency in the resolution of international disputes. Greg has represented both claimants and respondents in large complex international arbitrations worth billions of dollars, and before major arbitral institutions including the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CIETAC, LMAA as well as ad hoc arbitration proceedings. He also sits as an arbitrator, both as a party-appointee and appointed by the main arbitration institutes as sole arbitrator (in expedited or standard proceedings). Greg has acted for: parties in commercial and investment arbitrations in a range of sectors including construction, energy, infrastructure, transport, commodities, mining and natural resources, real estate, telecoms and international trade; State-State disputes pursuant to public international law, including conducting advocacy before eminent international tribunals; and both investors and State claimants in investment treaty arbitrations. Before joining Mishcon, Greg was a partner in the international arbitration practice of a global law firm. Prior to his legal career, Greg qualified as a construction engineer and worked as a professional project manager on large, complex construction projects in the UK and South Africa.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Greg Gibson

Partner in the commercial services group, advising on commercial contracts, outsourcing, competition law, media and entertainment and sport. Clients include Aviva plc, the Financial Services Authority, Group Lotus and Warner Bros.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Greg Goodman

Greg is a Partner in Clarke Willmott’s Southampton Commercial Property team. He deals with a wide range of commercial property matters including the acquisition and sale of freehold and leasehold properties, securitisation work with experience acting for both lending institutions and borrowers and also deals with property aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Greg has particular expertise in the acquisition of freehold and leasehold ground rent reversion investments and has worked with various investment funds on such acquisitions. Greg re-joined Clarke Willmott from Blake Morgan.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Greg Hughes

Clarke Willmott LLP

Greg Humphreys

Greg joined Gardner Leader in 2000 having emigrated from South Africa where he qualified as an attorney. Greg qualified as a solicitor in 2003 and was admitted to the partnership in 2006 and has led the Real Estate Team for more than 10 years. Throughout his career Greg has worked in the commercial and Real Estate environment. This allows Greg to bring a broad knowledge of commercial law and practice and a commercial approach to the advice that he provides, and he aims for practical solutions to best meet his clients’ needs.

Gardner Leader LLP

Greg Mailer

Solicitor specialising in corporate crime, financial crime and regulatory investigations. Has expertise in relation to investigations and prosecutions by the SFO, the CPS, the CMA, the ICO and the FCA. Experienced in matters involving all types of fraud, bribery and corruption, FCA investigations (insider dealing and market abuse), cartels and price fixing, money laundering, and trading standards. Also specialises in judicial review of the actions of investigators. Has particular expertise in relation to investigations by HMRC, especially with regard to issues of tax avoidance and evasion, often involving the Contractual Disclosure Facility (CDF) and HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service and COP9 teams.

BCL Solicitors LLP

Greg McCurday

Partner

Ashtons Legal

Greg O\'Keefe-Davis

Greg is a senior associate in Carey Olsen's British Virgin Islands (BVI) dispute resolution and litigation team, based in London. He advises on all aspects of commercial and insolvency litigation, and has particular experience in high-value, cross-border insolvencies and restructuring, and high-value contentious probate and trust disputes. Greg has also regularly acted for liquidators and receivers in the BVI, and has advised on both in and out of court appointments. Greg has regularly appeared in the Civil and Commercial Divisions of the BVI High Court, and has also appeared in the Court of Appeal, as well as running appeals up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Carey Olsen LLP

Greg Pooler

Partner

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Greg Scott

Greg is a corporate lawyer with over 25 years’ experience of M&A and equity capital markets transactions and advising companies from start-up through to mid-market, to IPO, with fundraisings at all stages and ultimately, exits, including public takeovers. He also has a particular niche in advising management teams on sales of companies to private equity. Greg’s work encompasses a variety of sectors, but he has particular expertise in natural resources, financial services (including regulatory compliance software) and sports, and his clients include listed/public companies through to private companies, high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Greg also assists overseas law firms who require assistance with transactions which are subject to English law.

Keystone Law

Greg Stewart

Head of Criminal Appeals and Senior Solicitor/Advocate

GT Stewart Limited

Gregg Harris

Gregg is a Senior Associate in the Birmingham corporate team, advising and assisting on all aspects of corporate law including: venture capital, private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business transfers, investments, shareholders agreements, joint ventures and general corporate advisory mandates. Gregg works with a variety of clients including private and public companies, LLP's, institutional investors, management teams and owner managed businesses.

Shoosmiths LLP

Gregory Bacon

Greg is an experienced IP lawyer with a particular focus on patent litigation in the life sciences sector. Greg's extensive scientific background gives him a valuable understanding of technical issues that can underlie IP matters, particularly in the life sciences field. He has advised and represented clients on small molecule pharmaceuticals, biologics (originators and biosimilars), medical devices (hardware and software), as well as in the cosmetics, chemicals, technology, shipping and online publishing sectors. Greg has represented clients in many cases before both the English High Court (including Patents Court) and Court of Appeal. In addition, Greg has extensive experience of strategic multinational litigation in multiple jurisdictions, including at the EPO, through global pharmaceutical product coordination projects for many clients. He has also spent time on secondment to the IP litigation department of a leading IP law firm in the Netherlands as well as the UK legal department of a global healthcare IT company, working on non-contentious IP/IT, regulatory and commercial matters. Greg is a regular contributor to the monthly EPO reports which Bristows produce for the CIPA Journal and writes on UK cases for a number of IP blogs. He is also the editor of our On the Pulse life sciences microsite and one of the editors of our Biotech Review publication which explores key issues and developments in the biotech space, and co-authored the UK chapter of the AIPLA’s International Patent Litigation guide. Example cases: Novartis v Focus, Actavis & Teva – Patents Court and Court of Appeal patent litigation concerning transdermal dosage regime patent for rivastigmine (Exelon®), including global coordination of parallel litigation and EPO opposition Parainen Pearl Shipping v Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi – case on exhaustion of patent rights in a pneumatic cement discharge system for a ship, including a pan-European jurisdiction challenge Orion v SS for Health and Social Care & Ever Neuro – judicial review challenge to decision of MHRA to grant generic marketing authorisation for dexmedetomidine hydrochloride, involving question of whether pre-accession Czech MA was compatible with Directive 2001/83/EC and thus the first MA for the purposes of calculating the term of data exclusivity. Celltrion v Biogen, Roche & Genentech – clearing the way revocation action in the Patents Court in relation to biosimilar rituximab product (MabThera®) Merck Serono v AbbVie – clearing the way revocation action in the Patents Court in relation to biosimilar adalimumab product (Humira®) ConvaTec v Smith & Nephew – long-running case in the Patents Court and Court of Appeal concerning patents and claims to misuse of confidential information in relation to gel-forming wound dressings (Durafiber®), and subsequent damages claim under a cross-undertaking Allergan v Ipsen – patent litigation in the Patents Court on second medical use patents to botulinum toxin (Dysport®) Servier v National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) – successful judicial review of NICE decision not to recommend a client’s osteoporosis treatment (Protelos®).

Bristows LLP

Gregory Brandman

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Gregory Buckley

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Gregory Laming

Gregory has a wide experience acting for individuals in relation to wills, tax and trust matters, including Court of Protection work. Much of his work has involved creating solutions to tax planning problems and giving detailed inheritance tax, income tax and capital gains tax advice in both the onshore and offshore arenas, and more recently in relation to the pre-owned assets charge. Gregory’s recent work includes advising shareholders in a large property investment company on tax and succession planning, wealthy land owners on structuring their wills and property interests to maximise available inheritance tax reliefs, the trustees of farm land how to minimise their tax exposure on the sale for residential development and giving detailed offshore trust advice.

Mills & Reeve LLP