Avocats – England

Louise Madiment

City-trained Louise joined Keystone’s Dispute Resolution team in October 2015 and advises on a range of contentious trust and probate matters including Inheritance Act claims and trust litigation. In addition, her extensive commercial expertise means that she is often called upon to deal with professional negligence issues arising out of contentious trust and probate matters. Louise often advises beneficiaries on claims brought by surviving spouses and co-habitees, adult and minor children, and other dependants and has acted for executors facing such claims. She has also advised testators at the will-drafting stage on considerations to avoid a potential claim in the future, and has advised clients as to whether a will is invalid as a result of the deceased’s lack of testamentary capacity, their lack of knowledge and approval, undue influence exerted by third parties, fraud, lack of due execution, and revocation. In addition to advising private individuals, Louise also advises commercial clients on a wide range of contractual disputes including breach of agency agreements, shareholder agreements and partnership disputes, and has extensive experience in professional negligence claims against surveyors, financial advisors, solicitors and professional trustees. Louise is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS).

Keystone Law

Louise Mansfield

Bevan Brittan LLP

Louise Miller

Louise leads the Private Wealth team in the Newcastle office and provides advice in relation to wills, trusts and estate administration work across the North of England. Louise provides a fresh approach to helping her clients to put their affairs in order and her goal is to make the process easy for her clients. Louise has been complimented on her ability and willingness to listen. She wants to know what is important to her clients and offers clear, sensible solutions. Louise advises on all aspects of estate planning including wills, trusts, probate, powers of attorney and Court of Protection matters in England and Wales. She works closely with her colleagues in the owner managed business and family law teams to ensure that the advice that her clients receive is complete and that the process, for them, is effortless. Louise has particular experience and interest in guiding trustees and executors through the process of trust and estate administration. She has considerable experience in dealing with high net worth estates and those containing substantial property portfolios.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Mutch

Louise joined Weightmans in 2006 and is a Partner in the Large Loss team. She specialises in catastrophic personal injury including traumatic brain injury, spinal injuries and amputation. Louise especially enjoys diversity of the work as she deals with a wide range of motor, employers' liability and public liability catastrophic personal injury claims. She is known for her pragmatic approach. Her role is client focused and she tailors her approach to meet her client's specific requirements.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Neave

Louise has extensive experience of advising in relation to UK and international financial services regulation and best practice. She joins Weightmans LLP from DLA Piper LLP where she was a Legal Director with responsibility for the firm’s consumer finance practice. Louise focusses on providing consumer finance legal and regulatory advice to a diverse range of clients including high street and challenger banks, finance houses, high street retailers, motor finance providers/manufacturers, point of sale lenders, store card providers, brokers and debt managers/collectors. She typically advises on the development of innovative credit/hire products; requirements for becoming and being FCA authorised and regulated to undertake various consumer credit related activities, including consideration of exemptions; how to compliantly enter and operate credit/hire agreements; drafting of credit/hire agreements; due diligence and funding arrangements involving portfolios of regulated credit/hire agreements; brokerage agreements; affinity agreements; financial promotions and advertising clearance; regulatory changes; FOS complaints; and FCA investigations. Louise has also held various in-house legal advisory and management roles in the UK financial services sector, including at RBS Insurance, where she headed a legal team servicing the legal needs of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Insurance Division businesses (including Direct Line Insurance plc, Churchill Insurance Limited, NIG, Privilege Insurance) and a senior policy role in a leading market financial services regulator in the Middle East, where she was responsible for developing the regulatory framework for Banks, Insurers and Asset Managers and for promoting international cooperation.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Nelson

Louise Nelson is a partner in the Wills, Probate, Tax & Trusts team at Blandy & Blandy.

Blandy & Blandy LLP

Louise Nettle

Louise is a Partner who specialises in Court of Protection and Compensation Protection Trusts. Louise has over 12 years of experience dealing with clients who lack the necessary mental capacity to deal with their own property and financial affairs and the complex issues that often surround mental capacity. Louise specialises in managing compensation awards for clients who either have a Deputy appointed through the Court of Protection or whose award has been settled into a compensation protection trust (PI Trust) and managed by Trustees. Louise works closely with her colleagues in the clinical negligence and personal injury teams often becoming involved with the client and their family whist litigation is ongoing. During this period Louise will work to build a trusted relationship with the client and their family helping to put a team of multi-disciplinary professionals in place to ensure that the client’s quality of life is maximised, whilst the claim is ongoing and for many years after settlement. Louise deals with all aspects of managing Compensation awards: Applications to the Court of Protection including Deputyship appointments, gift applications, Statutory Wills Advising on Compensation Protection Trusts Purchasing and adapting properties Forecasting and budgeting Liaising with Independent Financial Advisers to obtain tailored advice on investing large sum awards Liaising with Case managers and therapists in order to create a tailored MDT for the client

RWK Goodman

Louise Oliver

Louise advises on all aspects of residential property with a particular emphasis on residential investment, development and funding, high value conveyancing, landlord and tenant work (including rights of first refusal) as well as portfolio acquisitions, disposal and subsequent management issues.She has particular experience with high-end London residential property and currently acts for property investment companies, developers, private individuals, leaseholders and lenders in the residential property sector. Over the past year she has dealt with over £50m of Prime Central London new build property.

Irwin Mitchell

Louise O’Driscoll

Associate Solicitor

Richard Nelson LLP

Louise Pitts

Private Client Lawyer

Curzon Green Solicitors

Louise Pitts

Private Client Lawyer

Curzon Green Solicitors

Louise Power

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Louise Prince

Director

Schillings

Louise Purcell

Senior Associate

Osborne & Wise

Louise Reardon

Associate

Ashtons Legal

Louise Robling

Bevan Brittan LLP

Louise Robling

Bevan Brittan LLP

Louise Scholes

Louise leads our Liverpool private client team. An experienced and versatile private client lawyer, she works with our clients to ensure that they and their families are prepared for the future — seeking to provide certainty and security for generations to come. Louise deals with will drafting, inheritance tax planning, estate administration, Lasting Powers of Attorney, succession planning and trust work. Louise acts for a wide range of clients including high net worth individuals, different generations of families, elderly clients, business owners and clients lacking mental capacity. In addition, Louise has worked with Camelot lottery winners for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in elderly client and elderly mental capacity work and has specific experience in Court of Protection work acting as Professional Deputy for a number of clients and advising lay deputies. She also acts as professional executor, trustee, charitable trustee, attorney and court appointed deputy. Louise is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) having recently acted as Chair for the branch in Liverpool for a number of years.

Brabners LLP

Louise Scott

Qualified in 2000, Louise brings significant expertise to the Hallinans’ team. She has represented numerous clients charged with the most serious offences in the Crown Court including murder, manslaughter, serious violence, sexual offences and drug importations. She has an established practice in large scale fraud cases and is a Level A VHCC Litigator. Louise is extremely effective at the Police Station, having over 25 years of experience, she provides an exceptional service with a no-nonsense approach to Police investigations, to enable sensible, relevant advice that very often results in matters being discontinued at an early stage. She is known to be thorough, with excellent client care skills, providing robust and practical advice to see clients through the difficult and often dauting process of the criminal justice system. Louise has been instructed in high profile Inquests including for the family of Pte Geoff Gray who died at Deepcut Barracks in 2001 and for the father of a young female officer cadet who died at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2019. ​Louise has taught Criminal Litigation and Skills on the Bar Practice Course, Legal Practice Course and SQE at the University of Law. ​She is a Restorative Justice Facilitator and Director and Co-Founder of The Big Simple, a Community Interest Company running mental health workshops for marginalised groups.

Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott

Louise Singh

Louise joined Weightmans in 2005 and, after completing her training contract, qualified in 2007. As a professional support lawyer, based in the Liverpool office, Louise provides training and technical support to Weightmans’ employment law practitioners across the country, keeping the teams up to date with the latest legal developments. Louise also has plenty of first hand experience of Employment Tribunal litigation. Her experience includes conducting cases involving unfair dismissal, wages, breach of contract and all forms of discrimination. She has also represented respondents, including Royal Mail Group Ltd, as an advocate in the Employment Tribunal.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Sivey

Louise is a Senior Associate in the Public and Regulatory team at Bates Wells, advising both public sector and commercial organisations across sectors including technology, education, health, retail, entertainment, and sport. She draws on experience as an in-house lawyer for regulated entities to provide practical, strategic legal advice tailored to clients’ operational needs. Louise’s work spans public law, regulatory investigations, governance reviews, internal audits, and policy development, including drafting rules, regulations, procedures, and guidance. She also advises on judicial review, procurement litigation, and participation in public inquiries. Louise has a particular interest in emerging regulation, with expertise in tech, content platforms, and social media, and supports clients in navigating complex regulatory frameworks and consultations.

Bates Wells

Louise Snipe

Louise is a senior associate in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team in the Shoosmiths' Birmingham office. Louise advises on all aspects of insolvency and restructuring and her clients include insolvency practitioners, banks, companies and creditors. Louise's experience includes advising on company voluntary arrangements, acting both buyer and seller side in business sales out of administration and advising banks in connection with their security documentation. Louise has advised on a number of retail CVAs including Mucho Mas Ltd T/A Chilango, Elvetham Limited T/A Abokado, Thomas Sabo UK Limited and Polpo Limited. Louise has also assisted with a number of high profile administrations including Oddbins, and ASA Resource Group PLC. In addition to non-contentious work, Louise also advises on contentious matters. Her most recent notable success includes successfully defending an appeal against an order for the repayment of sums held to be preference payments pursuant to Section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Shoosmiths LLP

Louise Taft

Consultant Solicitor

Jurit LLP

Louise Tainton

Louise is a Partner in the Real Estate department, specialising in commercial property. Since joining Mishcon, Louise has primarily advised on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including property investment sales and acquisitions, development projects, landlord and tenant and corporate real estate. She has a full range of management experience relating to landlord and tenant matters acting for both landlords and tenants. Her practice involves acting for institutional investors and private property companies, and her longstanding clients include Rowan Asset Management, Chelsfield and Delancey, advising the latter in relation to the property and asset management aspects of East Village including various financings for development. In addition, Louise has expanded her focus to include real estate finance, advising funds, financial institutions, developers and investors on all aspects of real estate finance transactions, including on investment, development and structured financings. She acts on both the lender and borrower side. Her broader remit sees her working closely with lenders and funds such as PGIM Real Estate, Ahlibank, BLME and Catalina Holdings.

Mishcon de Reya LLP