Avocats – England

Matthew Yip

Matthew is a Senior Associate in the Patents department, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and a Registered Representative before the Unified Patent Court.

Maucher Jenkins

Maud Lepez

A dual-qualified lawyer, Solicitor of England & Wales and French Avocate, Maud specialises in cross-border personal injury litigation and assists her clients both in England and in France. She is based in the London office. Maud has joined RWK Goodman in February 2024, after 13 years developing the Claimant practice at niche firm Pierre Thomas Law. Specialisms: Road traffics accidents abroad Ski and snowboard accidents Accidents in a public place abroad Holiday accidents Criminal injury compensation Aggravation claims under French law Brain injuries Complex orthopaedic injuries Dental and maxillo-facial injuries Multiple and catastrophic injuries Fatal injuries Maud always has her clients’ interests at heart and is a good listener who understands clients’ needs and goals. She communicates complex issues of foreign law and procedure in an intelligible way and in the client’s own language and is proactive in finding solutions.

RWK Goodman

Maureen Kelly

An experienced intellectual property and information technologysolicitor, Maureen works across a wide variety of sectors including life sciences, information technology and education. She specialises in facilitating knowledge transfer between research organisations and industry. In addition to her experience in private practice, Maureen spent three years in-house with Cancer Research Technology. Having been a member of the PraxisAuril training committee for 10 years, she continues to provide training on PraxisAuril’s knowledge transfer courses.Maureen is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional

Keystone Law

Mauro Paiano

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Max Anwar

Freemans Solicitors

Max Baird-Smith

Max Baird-Smith is a partner and Head of the Corporate department. Max advises on a broad mixture of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, private-equity investments and fund raisings. He advises across a range of sectors, including consumer and retail, education, energy, financial services, infrastructure, media & telecommunications, natural resources, property and technology. He has represented sovereign wealth funds, significant groups and private capital funds across his career and brings this experience to the firm’s family office and high-net-worth client base. He has extensive experience handling complex cross-border matters, regularly working across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Africa. Max speaks French and is qualified in England and Wales (solicitor) and a member of the French bar (non-practising). A partner since 2013, Max is a graduate of Oxford University and qualified at Slaughter and May in 2005.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Max Campbell

Partner

Brett Wilson

Max Craft

Max is a consultant in our employment team. He has specialised in advising in employment law matters for over 20 years. Recognised as a leader in his field by Chambers, Max heads a team which advises clients on all aspects of employment and pensions law. He has built a national reputation for his work in this field. He still practices as an advocate and has represented the firm’s clients before employment tribunals and the EAT. He has also advised extensively on the transfer of undertaking of regulations, outsourcing issues and education. He remains actively involved in community affairs in Portsmouth where he has lived for 37 years. Max has managed and successfully represented clients in some of the Employment group’s most complex and demanding cases before the employment tribunals, including a number of high profile cases involving the Transfer of Undertaking Regulations (TUPE).

Blake Morgan LLP

Max Morrison

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Max Robinson

Max is an expert commercial litigation and dispute resolution lawyer with substantial experience in a diverse range of matters, frequently acting for well-known private clients and companies and often with an international element. Max has particular expertise in all aspects of commercial litigation, in particular commercial fraud, claims for breach of fiduciary duty and/or dishonest assistance, claims for professional negligence and also substantial commercial debt recovery claims. Max has also developed a sub-speciality in private client litigation to include contested trust and probate claims, wills and probate claims, claims arising under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, and domicile and tax disputes.

Keystone Law

Maxine Chenoweth

Maxine is a commercial lawyer with significant experience in a broad range of Real Estate matters. She has experience dealing with a variety of clients including granting and taking leases, acquisitions and disposals, development, retail, joint ventures and property portfolio management.

Freeths LLP

May Delaney

May is a managing associate who advises on private client work. May advises UK and international individuals and families on structuring, succession planning and capital taxes. May has particular expertise acting for entrepreneurs, business owners and entertainment clients on their wills, trusts and wider estate plans. An increasing part of May’s practice focuses on working with clients on their philanthropy and charitable giving, as an integral part of their planning, and May is a true expert in this area. May has been named as one of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for the past three years. May has been named as a “Rising Star” by The Legal 500 in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Maya Devi Lal

Senior Associate

Ashtons Legal

Maya Kuchhadiya

Maya is a Senior Associate in our Real Estate team. With a background in asset management, Maya acts for landlords and tenants and assists on a wide range of commercial transactions including freehold and leasehold acquisitions, disposals and refinancing matters. Maya joined Hamlins in July 2021 from national firm, Irwin Mitchell. Maya began her career with Royds Withy King as a paralegal before completing her training and focusing on commercial property law. Maya gained her LLB from the University of Leicester which included a year abroad at La Tribe University in Australia. She achieved her LPC in Law from The University of Law.

Hamlins LLP

Maya Sushila

Maya is a partner in the firm’s medical negligence team, helping clients with complex claims resulting from substandard healthcare and medical practices. As a medical negligence specialist, her clients are those who have sustained orthopaedic, gynaecological, obstetric or brain injuries, often with life changing or catastrophic results. She also has a particular interest in handling cases of cauda equina syndrome. Her clients are often concerned initially about the complexity of the claims process, so she makes sure she guides them through the legal maze and gives them the clarity they need to feel reassured and confident. Maya is approachable and open with her clients and takes the time to get to know them and understand their concerns. She knows that the legal process can be daunting, so she makes it a priority to put clients at ease and let them know that they are in the best possible hands.

Moore Barlow

Maz Rahmati

Maz is a Partner in the Insolvency team specialising in all areas of corporate and personal insolvency. His expertise includes working with Insolvency Practitioners, financiers, creditors and debtors

Clarke Willmott LLP

McConnell Faye

Browne Jacobson LLP

Meadya Haji

Associate Solicitor

DKLM Solicitors

Meena Gupta

Partner

Birketts LLP

Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari is a Family & Childcare Director and Solicitor. She works regionally across our Bradford and Manchester branches, with a wealth of experience in complex children cases with an international element or where the children have special needs. Meena actively encourages parents to resolve disputes regarding their children in a non-confrontational manner. Meena has particular expertise in negotiating medium to high net financial settlements for clients in the course of separation, divorce and dissolution of civil partnership. This is an area of family law which can require a tenacious and proactive approach as well as meticulous attention to detail as failing to address difficult and complex financial issues promptly can lead to lengthy and costly delays. Meena has represented high profile individuals in achieving a beneficial result. Meena believes in adopting a proactive rather than a reactive approach to family law in each of its very different facets and strive to ensure that what is often a very difficult situation for clients is not made more difficult by reason of inaction or lack of foresight. She has a passion for advocacy and represents the majority of my clients’ at every court hearing. She is an active member of the Law Society’s Family Panel (Advanced) and in 2015 Meena joined the Law Society Law management section where she shares her management knowledge and skills amongst other members in the profession. Meena has also trained as a collaborative lawyer. She is passionate about providing a voice to the most vulnerable in society. She has historically set up legal surgeries and clinics to assist these individuals.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Meera Judge

Meera is a Senior Associate within the Milton Keynes Real Estate Team at Shoosmiths. Meera advises a diverse range of clients, including property investors, landowners, institutional landlords, developers and corporate occupiers. Meera also supports the corporate team on the real estate aspects of business sales and acquisitions. Meera's recent projects include: assisting on the management on the acquisitions for Revolution Bars Group PLC on its ambitious bar restaurant roll out programmes, and managing aspects of its property portfolio; acting for private commercial development companies on conditional acquisitions, sub-sales and disposals; and acting on behalf of the Tingdene group of companies, a leader in the park home sector, on the purchase, sale, development and management of mobile home parks, holiday parks and inland marinas.

Shoosmiths LLP

Meera Malde

Meera is a Partner in the firm’s Residential Real Estate Team. She advises all on all types of residential property transactions, including purchases and sales of leasehold and freehold houses and apartments. Meera provides clear advice to her clients to achieve effective results as swiftly as possible, making sure that all parties are kept informed throughout the conveyancing process. Meera has particular experience working on purchases of off-plan and new build apartments.

Quastels LLP

Meera Patel

PartnerAreas of Practice: Property Litigation, Commercial Landlord and Tenant Litigation

Wallace LLP

Meg Heppel

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP