Avocats – England

Hongjun (John) Tan

Associate Solicitor

Wildcat Law

Hope Rea

Trainee Solicitor

Olliers

Houman Shaikh

Senior Associate

Westkin Associates

Howard Barrie

Senior Partner, London office

Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP

Howard Barrie

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Howard Corney

Howard heads the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group. He undertakes a broad range of M&A work with a particular focus on cross-border M&A and private equity. Howard also established and leads our Africa practice and is the lead corporate and M&A partner in our industrial and manufacturing sector group.

Macfarlanes LLP

Howard Crossman

Partner, Head of International Construction

Greenwoods

Howard Davison

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Howard Dellar

Howard is Senior Partner and Head of Education and Ecclesiastical.

Lee Bolton Monier-Williams

Howard Freeman

Freemans Solicitors

Howard Freeman

Howard is Head of our Residential Real Estate team. With nearly 30 years’ experience, he represents private clients, property developers, investors and commercial lenders on residential transactions including conversions, mixed-use developments and land acquisitions. Howard has considerable expertise advising on all types of transactions from freehold and leasehold properties to commercial property, including real estate finance. Howard is highly experienced in developing strong and enduring relationships with his clients through his proactive and responsive approach. His down-to-earth, pragmatic attitude ensures transactions are completed in line with clients’ tight deadlines and expectations.

Seddons GSC LLP

Howard Gill

Partner

Forsters LLP

Howard Hymanson

Howard is a partner with a leading reputation for conducting high-value contentious employment disputes, both in an internal disciplinary setting and externally in the Employment Tribunal and High Court. Howard pursues a strategic lead approach, working closely with clients across a wide variety of industry settings, including financial and professional services, sport, and media and entertainment. Dealing with reputational management issues is a key feature of much of the work Howard undertakes and as well as dealing with discrimination and harassment claims he has also a particular expertise in cases involving workplace bullying, burn out and stress. In recent years, Howard has been advising on a number of the most high profile internal misconduct investigations that have dominated the news headlines. This continues to be a growing area of work and combines reputation management with employment law advice in high pressured situations. A cross-over area of legal work in which the firm is uniquely well placed to advise.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Howard Sands

Managing Partner

Boult Wade Tennant LLP

Howard Taylor

Howard is a Partner in the Corporate department and specialises in private company M&A, including the sale and purchase of companies and businesses, private equity transactions and joint ventures. He also advises on a wide variety of other corporate law matters, including company reorganisations and refinancings, shareholder agreements, private company investments, fundraisings and lending and security documentation. Howard works with both domestic and international clients across a range of business sectors, including technology, financial services, professional services, insurance, hotels and leisure, food and beverages, manufacturing and chemicals. His clients include companies, business owners, family offices, trustees and individuals.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Howard Waterman

Howard is an experienced finance lawyer with a diversified practice that includes banks and financial institutions throughout the world, borrowers and other users of banking products, fund managers and funds. He deals with structured finance and derivatives, banking transactions, the provision of finance to support overseas projects, export credit-supported financings and trade finance, as well as other complex transactions of this type. The majority of his work focuses on international and cross-border transactions where the documentation has an English-law element, one or more parties are established in England, or the transaction is funded in the London financial markets. More specifically, he acts as a transactional lawyer for clients across a range of matters. Howard has published articles and spoken at seminars and conferences over the years, primarily on subjects in the field of trade finance.

Keystone Law

Howard Watt

I am a corporate transactional partner with a particular focus on UK and European venture capital. My practice is built on providing commercial, pragmatic advice and efficient deal execution to all players in the European venture capital ecosystem. I have significant experience and expertise in venture capital transactions, having spent time both in-house and in private practice. My deal experience ranges from early/seed stage investments spanning the full life cycle of Series A-D and through to M&A and IPO exits for venture backed companies. I am recognised in the latest Legal 500 and Chambers guides as a leading individual in my field. I advise angels, founders, companies and many of the leading early stage and growth venture capital funds operating in Europe. My transaction history has covered a wide variety of sectors including fintech, gaming, medical and health tech, SaaS, ad-tech, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, consumer tech, cryptocurrency and blockchain. The investor side of my practice is particularly strong which no doubt can be traced to my 6 years as in-house counsel to a major European growth venture fund. I am often asked to act as ‘outsourced’ general counsel to many of my investor clients for transactions all over the world.

Fladgate LLP

Howard White

Partner

Fox Williams LLP

Hugh Beattie

Partner

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Hugh Butler

Partner - Wills & Probate

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Hugh Dunlop

Hugh is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, Certified IP Litigator, EUIPO Representative, Irish Trade Mark Agent and Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court.

Maucher Jenkins

Hugh Gardner

Hugh specialises in finance particularly debt (senior and mezzanine), private equity and M&A. He is the author of ‘Buying and Selling Private Companies’ in ‘CBI Corporate Finance Handbook’ (1st and 2nd editions).

Marriott Harrison LLP

Hugh Goodfellow

Hugh is the Senior Partner at Carpmaels & Ransford and a Partner in the Life Sciences team. He has a large prosecution practice, spanning Europe and beyond, and he is a regular visitor to the European Patent Office (EPO), handling many oppositions and appeals. He has pan-European expertise in the filing and prosecution of supplementary protection certificates nationally, as well as considerable experience before the European Court of Justice, including the widely cited Queensland (C-630/10), Neurim (C-130/11) and Abraxis (C-443/17) referrals. “Managing partner Hugh Goodfellow is a notable member of the team with significant expertise in representing both well-established and growing biotechnology companies in prosecution proceedings” (The Legal 500, 2025). He has an “expansive practice” (IAM Patent 1000) with clients ranging from large and long-established global companies (e.g. Janssen, Takeda, Bristol Myers Squibb, Regeneron and Vertex) through to growing biotech companies (e.g., Akari, Radius Health, Hubrecht Organoid Technology, Translate Bio and Westway Health). During his career, he has been responsible for establishing the filing strategy and generating IP portfolios for a number of start-ups, guiding some of these clients all the way from early conception, through financing rounds and subsequent public flotation. His particular area of current focus includes biologics – in particular, therapeutic antibodies, complex immunology, biosimilar defence work and stem cell technology. Collectively, these experiences have developed Hugh’s ability to consistently and successfully protect foundation intellectual property and forecast potential future problems from the viewpoint of both IP generation and freedom to operate. Hugh has been noted as a “top-tier advisor” who “seamlessly links the firm’s prosecution division with its dispute resolution arm” He is cited as a “trusted IP adviser with valuable global insight” whose ability to navigate the complexities of the patent landscape makes him an invaluable source of knowledge and an excellent leader of the practice. (IAM Patent 1000).

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Hugh Johnson

Partner & Head of Medical Negligence

Osbornes