Avocats – England

Helen McCann

Helen was admitted as a solicitor in 1997 and joined Weightmans in 2000, becoming an associate in 2006. Helen specialises in personal injury litigation and has extensive experience in defending higher value multi track employers' liability claims for major insurers and their insureds, particularly in the logistics, construction and manufacturing sectors. She has conducted several cases of particular sensitivity due to the nature of the claim and the potential fraud concerns. Helen also handles disease claims including noise induced hearing loss and work related upper limb disorders.

Weightmans LLP

Helen McDowell

Managing partner, and partner in the business crime department. Helen specialises in all areas of financial crime, with particular emphasis on representing individuals and corporate clients facing criminal and regulatory investigations in the UK and internationally. Helen has a broad range of experience in dealing with fraud and regulatory matters. She represents clients facing prosecution or investigation by a range of authorities, including the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Competition and Markets Authority. Helen’s highlight cases include ‘Versailles’ where she was involved in the investigation stage and the early part of the prosecution by the SFO; she represented Cliff Stanford, the first person to be prosecuted for illegal interception of e-mails under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. More recently she successfully defeated the Russian Federation’s attempt to extradite Mikhail Tyurin, headed up teams who successfully stopped two recent prosecutions in the run up to trial and acted for Ben Sullivan, the former President of the Oxford Union accused of rape.

Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

Helen McGhee

Helen is a Partner in the Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen contentious tax team specialising in UK and international tax disputes. She is a Solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser, a member of the Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners and is a CEDR accredited mediator. She has recently been included in the City Wealth Leaders List Top 100 Private Client lawyers, is included in the Private Client Global Elite Directory 2023 and appears the Tatler Address Book 2023. Helen writes prolifically for numerous tax publications and is an active committee member at the Chartered Institute of Tax and the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers. Helen advises both individuals and corporates either engaged directly or as a consultant to an extensive network of professional firms and financial institutions who repeatedly call upon her expertise. Helen has trained under both Ray McCann and also Peter Vaines when she was the lead associate in R (on the application of Gaines-Cooper) v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.) She has successfully run numerous residence and domicile cases but will also turn her hand to a wide variety of contentious and advisory tax matters. Helen is an industry leading specialist at running highly technical COP9 investigations where she has a proven track record of successfully negotiating very favourable settlements. Helen frequently writes for Tax Adviser, Tax Journal and other tax publications. She also edits chapters for the acclaimed Bloomsbury Professional publication Revenue Law: Principles and Practice. Clients say of her: Her judgement is razor sharp. Under immense time pressure and navigating complex rules, she speedily formed her opinion, liaised with hostile opposition, and closed the deal in a smart and flexible manner. The advice Helen provided me with on my technical international tax issues was unbelievably thorough. It put my mind at rest that she did not leave any stone unturned. HMRC interviews were never stressful as Helen was always completely in control.

Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP

Helen Mead

Associate, Family & Divorce

Hanne & Co

Helen Mead

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Helen Miles

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Helen Miller

Managing Partner, North West

Stowe Family Law LLP

Helen Miller

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Helen Monson

Helen Monson is a Senior Employment Lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience advising both individuals and organisations across the full spectrum of employment law matters. She is known for her clear, commercial advice and pragmatic, jargon-free approach — supporting clients through both day-to-day issues and high-stakes strategic challenges. Helen has worked in the legal profession since 1997 and has held senior roles at a number of leading law firms across London and the Thames Valley. Her client base spans large listed companies, SMEs, charities and senior executives, including professionals in highly regulated industries and senior leaders based in the City. She advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including redundancies, TUPE transfers, employee exits and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. Helen also has significant experience in employment-related insolvency work and is adept at handling complex queries where legal and operational considerations intersect. Helen particularly enjoys working in partnership with employer clients to help shape their team structures, scale their businesses, and manage legal risk with confidence. She has advised on a wide range of matters — including drafting employment and secondment agreements for a listed company with international operations, and supporting a multinational communications business through a multi-country redundancy and TUPE process. Her individual advisory work includes discrimination claims — notably involving gender reassignment — and senior-level exits involving complex restrictive covenants, confidentiality concerns and post-termination obligations. Helen is consistently recognised for her thoughtful, responsive and commercially minded approach. She has been recommended in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Directory and is described by clients as being “quick and responsive” having “excellent client care” and adopting “a highly commercial outlook.” Whether advising on a complex dispute or providing day-to-day HR support, Helen combines deep expertise with clarity, reliability and a genuine commitment to helping clients move forward with confidence.

Bellevue Law

Helen Morgan

Helen is a Senior Associate in the corporate team and has experience advising on all aspects of corporate work. Helen specialises in complex group reorganisations often involving capital reduction demergers, dividends, capital reductions, intra-group business and asset transfers, reorganisations of share capital, share-buybacks and s.110 schemes and leads the team in this area. Helen also has experience providing technical company law advice, advising on the corporate aspects of Family Constitutions and advising registered societies, LLPs, property management companies and companies limited by guarantee.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Helen Morris

Helen is a highly experienced media litigator who has specialised in this field since 2002. She has acted for claimants and defendants in high profile defamation, privacy and harassment cases including obtaining and resisting injunctions. Helen has provided pre and post publication advice to a broad range of clients including celebrities, politicians, companies, pressure groups, regulators, newspapers and publishers. She also provides advice on intellectual property, data protection and contempt.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Helen Mulcahy

Partner

Fieldfisher

Helen Mutucumarana

Partner- Commercial Real Estate

HCR Law

Helen Mycroft

I'm an Associate Solicitor on the Tax, Trusts & Estates team in Sheffield. I specialise in preparing Wills, Declarations of Trust, Powers of Attorney and Deeds of Variation. I also advise clients on Nil Rate Band Discretionary Trusts within Wills. I deal with complex estate matters and I particularly enjoy compiling estate accounts. I qualified as a solicitor in 2006.

Irwin Mitchell

Helen Newnham

Freemans Solicitors

Helen O\'Dwyer

Helen leads the delegated authority claims handling team in Nottingham. This handles a high volume (thousands) of claims a year for FTSE 250 insurers specialising in professional negligence, D&O, public liability property damage and employment practices liability insurance. Helen has particular experience handling claims against non-traditional professions in the SME market ranging from letting agents, wedding photographers to funeral directors. Helen also has good experience of policy coverage investigations and disputes.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Helen Otty

Helen is a Partner in our litigation team. An experienced commercial litigator, she advises on commercial and company disputes including shareholder and partnership disputes, procurement law and breach of warranty claims. Helen acts for private companies, public sector organisations and individuals, regularly advising clients in the education, food and drink and retail sectors. She has specialist expertise in media law including defamation claims, intellectual property disputes and reputation management. Helen also advises on claims pursuant to the Equality Act, professional negligence claims, company restorations, judicial review and directors’ disqualifications.

Brabners LLP

Helen Parrott

Helen is a Legal Director real estate lawyer with experience of a wide range of property work including investment acquisitions and disposals, portfolio management, leasehold transactions (acting for both landlords and tenants) development and project work. Her main clients include investment funds, retailers and leisure operators. Her recent experience includes: the disposal of a portfolio of multi million pound investment properties for a large investment fund client; assisting in advising a household name retailer in relation to a long running planning and development dispute in Birmingham, achieving exchange of the related disposal within two weeks; the acquisition of a multi-million pound portfolio of six investment properties for a household name retailer; and advising a national retailer on the development and subsequent leasehold acquisition of new build pharmacy premises in various locations around the country.

Shoosmiths LLP

Helen Penfold

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Helen Poulter

Helen is an principal associate in the real estate team. Helen advises on all aspects of commercial property including acquisitions, disposals, lettings, developments, strategic land and financings. Helen acts for developers, investors, landlords and tenants principally in the student, residential and leisure sectors. Helen is a lead transaction lawyer for Select Property Group and advises on the acquisition and funding of complex sites for development as student and residential accommodation. Helen advises on all aspects of a transaction from the acquisition and funding to restructures, disposals, ground rent sales and commercial lettings. Helen's clients include Urban Splash, Muse, James Hall, Hallam Land and HSBC. Helen is known to clients for being “friendly, tenacious, calm under pressure and a pleasure to deal with”.

Shoosmiths LLP

Helen Prandy

Litigation and procurement disputes lawyer with experience in all aspects of contentious work before courts and tribunals as well as international arbitration. Specialising in particular in contentious procurement work Helen has advised on a number of high profile cases and took the first case to the High Court on the nature of the automatic suspension under the Public Contracts (Amendments) Regulations 2009. Helen advises both contracting authorities within the firm’s key sectors of health and education and those bidding for public contracts. Helen also advises a variety of commercial clients on matters ranging from warranty claims to breach of confidence; on-line gaming and breach of contract and has been involved in a number of cases with an international element. Helen also blogs and speaks on a variety of contentious procurement subjects.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Helen Ratcliffe

Consultant

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Helen Revill-Wyles

Helen has a wealth of experience in family matters having been at Irwin Mitchell in the family team since 1995. Helen deals with all aspect of Family Law, including; Divorce Cohabitation issues Financial matters arising from separation Children disputes, including acting for parents and grandparents Pre- and post-marital agreements Living together agreements Separation agreements Civil partnership disputes.

Irwin Mitchell

Helen Richardson

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP