Avocats – England

Julia Thomas

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Julia Tobbell

Partner

Forsters LLP

Julia Woodward-Carlton

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Julian Balson

Partner

Ernst & Young LLP

Julian Barker

Julian is a partner and head of the banking and capital markets team. The team is recognised in Chambers 2015 as 'of the highest standards' when it comes to acting for borrowers. He advises on all aspects of finance made available to registered providers, including bond issues (wholesale and retail, secured and unsecured), private placements, syndicated and bilateral loans, the funding of LSVTs, PFI funding, intra-group funding and interest rate derivatives and related security. He also advises on security trustee arrangements in connection with the group funding arrangements of registered providers. Notable transactions include acting for numerous registered providers on their own name bond issues, including Circle Anglia, Genesis, London and Quadrant, Notting Hill, Moat, Amicus Horizon, Hyde, Saffron Housing Trust, Clarion, Great Places, Radian, Together Housing Group, WM Housing Group, Southern Housing, BPHA, Thrive Homes, Yorkshire Housing and Swan, acting for A2Dominion Group on its unsecured retail bond issues and wholesale bond issues; acting for Catalyst Housing Group, Bromford, Newlon, Suffolk Housing Society, Regenda, Waterloo, Aldwyck and Orbit Group on their private placements; advising numerous registered providers on funding for lending loans and borrowing from THFC and Affordable Housing Finance plc, acting for numerous registered providers in connection with their group refinancings. A natural sciences graduate from Durham University, Julian completed his legal training at Simmons and Simmons. From there he went on to a role in the general banking groups at Allen & Overy and then to Eversheds’ Cambridge office where he acted for both banks and borrowers on various acquisitions, MBOs and property financing transactions.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Julian Bentley

Julian is a Partner in our Media and Entertainment team. Julian has specialised in entertainment and commercial law for more than 30 years and his clients include independent record companies, music publishers, recording artists, composers, record producers, advertising agencies and comedians. Prior to joining Hamlins, Julian was a founding partner of commercial law firm, Swan Turton, which he joined from Simkins Partnership where he was an Equity Partner. His early career embedded his understanding of and commitment to the entertainment industry. Julian initially worked as a tour manager overseeing the live performances of musicians in the UK and Europe, before moving into management, guiding the careers of recording artists, actors and comedians.

Hamlins LLP

Julian Blake

and employee engagement; ii) socially-focused business; iii) public services commissioning, procurement and subsidy control from a public benefit perspective; and iv) public policy and charity law innovation. He is dedicated to the development of: Social Enterprise; Social Finance; Social Value; and Social Impact. He works particularly in relation to: Community Transport; Education; Health and Social Care; Rehabilitation; Renewable Energy; and Youth Services. He works closely with E3M, a group of pioneering chief executives running mature social enterprises and associated groups of progressive commissioners and social investors (see www.e3m.org.uk). He has developed innovative quasi in-house partnership arrangements, with social enterprises, including Catch22 and Energy4All. Having written and edited books on charity law, his co-authored publication “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement” (2016) opened the way to collaborative commissioning and relational contracts in public services, which he champions, including through co-authored Local Government Association guidance on the relationships between councils (2024) and the public benefit sector and through the VCSE Crown Commissioner’s Advisory Panel to Government.

Stone King LLP

Julian Boswall

Advises on planning, highways and compulsory purchase. Particular experience in transport, regeneration, energy and waste. Market leading NSIP experience, advising on numerous projects throughout the process, into construction and operation.

Burges Salmon LLP

Julian Bremner

Partner and financial arbitrator, Julian concentrates on resolving financial disputes involving high net worth individuals and families with significant wealth held in a variety of different structures and jurisdictions. Julian also has extensive experience in family law dealing with a broad spectrum of matters including divorce , financial matters , children matters , separation agreements, cohabitation agreements, prenuptial agreements , postnuptial agreements and financial provision for children of unmarried couples or civil partnerships and gay marriage. Julian understands that divorce and separation is a difficult time in an individual's life and does his best to ensure that his advice and approach assists and does not inflame a tricky situation. His approach is best described as "aggressive pragmatism". He believes his ability to review cases and impose a workable strategy is what assists his clients achieve their objectives which is increasingly to negotiate a fair and reasonable settlement. Julian is the lead partner at the Hampstead and London Bridge offices.

Rayden Solicitors

Julian Chamberlayne

Partner, Head of Aviation and International Injury Julian has a rare dual speciality of acting for clients who have sustained life-changing or fatal injuries in an international context. He has successfully recovered more than £160m for clients injured in the UK and across the globe. In the latest edition of the Chambers UK, Julian is the only lawyer acting for Claimants in International Personal Injury to be designated a Star Individual. Julian also has an important firm-wide role at Stewarts as Risk & Funding Partner, which involves developing and implementing improvements to the legal services Stewarts provides to all of its clients, including innovative cost and funding options like the Stewarts Litigate insurance facility. Julian fought the case of Harding v Wealands up to the House of Lords, who agreed the assessment of damages for this Australian accident should be in accordance with English law. Not only did that lead to Mr Harding recovering £5.5m compensation for his spinal cord injury, it also set a precedent which helped countless others injured in accidents abroad to recover full compensation. Another example of Julian’s work is acting for the family of Jules Bianchi, who died nine months after suffering a severe brain injury during the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix in 2014. Julian acts for claimants who have sustained spinal cord and severe brain injury, amputations, and for the families of fatal accident victims. In addition, Julian specialises in the costs, insurance and funding of high-value and complex litigation across all of Stewarts practice areas.

Stewarts Law LLP

Julian Ciecierski-Burns

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Julian Connerty

Julian has over 30 years of experience in handling the litigation, arbitration and mediation of international large scale commercial disputes, with particular expertise in international fraud, insurance industry disputes and regulatory investigations. In the area of commercial disputes Julian specialises in fraud and asset recovery actions. He has acted for and against governments, banks, insurers and individuals, and against the police and the Serious Fraud Office in matters arising out of bribery and corruption, theft, fraud, dishonesty, money laundering, and insider dealing. He has obtained and resisted freezing and restraint orders, and acted in extradition cases and requests for mutual judicial assistance. In the area of financial regulation, he has acted for regulated firms and individuals, and for and against the regulators, including the FCA and the PRA. Cases handled include breaches of the FCA principles, market abuse, perimeter breaches, fit and proper persons investigations, and disciplinary and authorisation cases, both before the High Court and the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee.

Signature Litigation LLP

Julian Gill

Partner acting for insolvency practitioners, banks, asset-based lenders and companies in formal and advisory roles, such as restructuring and turnaround, including manufacturing, retail, hospitality, energy, real estate and service industries with particular expertise in contentious asset recovery cases.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Julian Gray

Partner

Jurit LLP

Julian Hamblin

Julian is a highly skilled technology lawyer, having been involved with technology law since 1998. Julian’s main areas of practice are in information technology and e-commerce, including the development and licensing of software, outsourcing, online and cloud services. He also advises on data protection issues, usually relating to the use and transfer of customer data in IT implementations, and on intellectual property rights, particularly in the context of open source software and website/software development.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Julian Harris

Consultant and Founder Julian co-founded Harris Hagan with John Hagan in May 2004. He came to specialise in this sector representing the Gaming Board for Great Britain (the then British regulator) for five years early in his career. Specialising in all aspects of online and land-based gambling law, and with over 30 years’ experience of gambling law, Julian is recognised as a leading gambling lawyer by operators, suppliers and regulators throughout the world. He advises many of the world’s largest land-based and online gambling businesses (B2C and B2B), as well as many start-ups, investors and leading law firms. Julian has extensive gambling legal, regulatory and licensing experience advising on legal classification, non-remote and remote operating licence applications, casino competitions and premises licensing, personal applications, change of corporate control applications, transaction due diligence, corporate investments and transactions, complex group restructuring and the rationalisation of group licences. He also has extensive compliance and enforcement experience advising on general compliance and reporting requirements, compliance assessments, regulatory investigations, corporate evaluations, operating and personal licence reviews and developing associated remedial compliance programmes and action plans. Julian has also advised a number of government and regulatory authorities on the drafting of gambling legislation (primary and secondary). Julian is a regular conference speaker and contributor to industry and specialist legal publications. He is also co-editor of Chambers Global Practice Guide to Gambling and Thomson Reuters Practical Law Global Guide to Gaming Law and co-author of the UK chapter of the same publications. Julian is recognised by The Legal 500 as “highly experienced” and his “knowledge in the UK market is highly regarded and he is the go-to option for this field”.

Harris Hagan

Julian Harvey

Head of Corporate and Commercial, Partner. Julian specialises in all areas of corporate and commercial law with a particular focus on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint ventures, including shareholder and LLP agreements. He is also experienced in franchising and share option schemes. Julian has advised on numerous acquisitions and disposals, especially in the SME sector and for family owned businesses. He also has considerable international experience. He works with clients in a range of different industry sectors, including technology, franchising, healthcare, property development, automotive and leisure.

Downs Solicitors LLP

Julian Hawkhead

Senior Partner

Stowe Family Law LLP

Julian Hayes

Julian is an experienced partner in BCL’s white collar crime and regulatory team. He provides expert advice to individuals in relation to the full range of financial offences, including fraud, bribery, insider dealing, tax offences, and money laundering allegations. Where necessary, Julian is able to draw on his specialist expertise in information law, particularly with regard to law enforcement access to electronic evidence where his knowledge encompasses data protection laws and state agency surveillance / interception powers. Julian’s individual clients include prominent business people, C-suites executives and other senior corporate employees involved in high profile investigations by the SFO, FCA and HMRC. His recent SFO experience includes the investigations of Rolls Royce and Greenergy. Many of his cases involve cross-border aspects, requiring close co-ordination with lawyers and experts in other jurisdictions including the US, India, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Greece. A number of his clients are high net worth individuals, and his experience includes advising on the implications of overseas criminal/regulatory investigations, mutual legal assistance, extradition and Interpol. He is a contributing author to GIR’s handbook ‘Guide to Cyber Investigations’. Julian writes regularly for national media, principally on emerging issues relating to the highly specialised intersection between law enforcement and information law. He lectures in the UK and overseas on legal developments relating to electronic evidence, sanctions, and data protection.

BCL Solicitors LLP

Julian Hindmarsh

Advising commercial occupiers, with a focus on retail and leisure, Julian Hindmarsh is a partner, Chair of the Real Estate Department and Head of the Real Estate Sector. Julian is a solicitor specialising in commercial real estate, particularly in acquisition (i.e. roll-out programmes), asset management and disposal work, including both freehold and leasehold particularly in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors. His wider experience includes investment, development and distressed property work. Julian's clients range from high-profile well established national and international brands, as well as, up and coming fashion, restaurant, hospitality, and health and fitness brands to luxury labels including jewellery, eyewear and fashion retailers. Many of his clients have operations worldwide, with stores, concessions, distributors and warehouses found across all of the key markets.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Julian Hoskins

Bevan Brittan LLP

Julian Lewis

I specialise in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, private equity and the structuring of transactions in the hotel and leisure, renewables and real estate and co-working sectors. Since 2019 I have combined a busy practice with being the firm’s finance partner. Currently I am an active partner in our corporate and mergers & acquisitions practice, as well acting as the firm's Finance Partner, and between September 2019 and March 2021 I held the role of acting Chief Operating Officer. My practice now focuses on the hospitality sector, in particular advising on hotel acquisitions, disposals, funding, joint ventures & structured real estate transactions as well as general mergers & acquisitions particularly for management owned and controlled businesses. My experience and expertise comes to the fore when I am advising the entrepreneurs and decision makers behind any deal. I have acted on the sale of numerous family owned and management controlled businesses. I have considerable experience of structuring and negotiating joint ventures especially in the property development space. Whilst working at Betterware I structured and negotiated a joint venture with Avon Products the well-known global direct selling business. We established ventures in Central and South America and Eastern Europe to sell housewares using the Betterware territorial based direct selling system. I acted for Tomkins selling off most of their industrial businesses in the UK. More recently, I was instrumental in finalising negotiations between a family office client and the GLA for a major residential-led riverside development in London. In addition to practising law in private practice, I have also spent four years running a high net worth private office, whilst acting as Group Legal Counsel to the family controlled listed business Betterware PLC. Subsequently, I was one of three directors who then took Betterware private in a £126m deal with funding from Bridgepoint and CSFB. This unique combination of experience allows me to fully understand the client perspective (having been one for 8 years!) and I bring my unusually diverse experience to the table to close transactions calmly and efficiently.

Fladgate LLP

Julian Maitland-Walker

Maitland Walker LLP

Julian Mathews

Julian's practice covers corporate, M&A, private equity, venture capital and related financings. Julian also brings significant international deal experience, having spent time in a couple of DLA Piper’s European offices. Julian would describe his practice as being focused on hospitality and leisure and upon private equity, especially in the Technology and FinTech sectors. In the hospitality and leisure sector, he has a strong focus on hotel and restaurant transactions, Julian has acted for a range of hotel owners and operators, from five-star prominent London brand hotels to budget operators.

Wedlake Bell LLP