Avocats – England

Natalie Hounslow

Costs Lawyer

KB Legal Costs Services Limited

Natalie Keyes

Natalie has over a decade of experience in both contentious and non-contentious construction matters. Natalie assists a wide variety of clients, including international, national and regional contractors, sub-contractors, consultants, employers, and insurers, and has experience across diverse sectors including leisure and educational buildings, infrastructure, energy, groundworks, piling, roofing, mechanical and electrical, on commercial, residential and public developments. Natalie’s non-contentious experience includes review, negotiation and drafting of build contracts, appointments, collateral warranties and framework agreements, particularly using the JCT and NEC forms of contract. Natalie’s contentious/dispute experience includes advising clients in relation to commercial resolution of disputes through negotiation, mediation, adjudication, and, where necessary, Court proceedings, particularly in the Technology and Construction Court and Natalie has experience in the conduct of multi-million pound disputes. Natalie regularly writes legal briefings and legal update newsletters and has presented numerous legal update seminars both to clients and on behalf of other organisations such as the University of Leeds, Constructing Excellence, CECA, ICE, and CIAT. Feedback from clients: “Again thank you for all your assistance below. You did a brilliant job given the time frames, time zones and lack of documentation and everything else. Much appreciated. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you.” “Thank you for your efforts and congratulations for reaching such a good settlement” “Well done Natalie, a tall order and nailed right on time!” “Thanks again for all of the excellent advice and support.” “If I can just express my gratitude for all your assistance and advice. I think we may well have given up the fight long ago if it wasn’t for your persistence and patience in the matter which is hugely appreciated.” “Thanks again for the service. We got exactly what we wanted out of the process.”

Weightmans LLP

Natalie Lai

Associate (Hong Kong Qualified)

Shoosmiths LLP

Natalie Lemonides

Natalie works as a Partner in the family department, specialising in all aspects of the breakdown of family relationships, with a particular focus on resolving complex financial issues for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals. Natalie joined the London team in 2020 and prior to this worked at another Legal 500 West-End law firm. Natalie is known for her creativity, determination and strives to achieve excellent results for all her clients. Natalie has been shortlisted for Associate of the Year 2020 and has been ranked in the Citywealth Future Leaders Top 100 2020. Some of her peers have described her as a “formidable family lawyer” and “Absolutely superb professionalism”. Natalie has specific experience of cases involving pre-acquired and post separation wealth. The majority of her work often has an international element involving substantial assets including trusts in multiple and competing jurisdictions. She also has experience of cases involving complex company structures. As well as advising clients on divorce, she has experience in drafting and negotiating pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements. In addition, Natalie also advises on child related matters including issues of residence and contact, leave to remove from the jurisdiction and financial provision for unmarried parents.

RWK Goodman

Natalie Lloyd-Nash

Natalie supervises multiple teams within the firm’s debt recovery practice, managing workflow, reporting, and client communication for several of Flint Bishop’s largest clients. She ensures teams are aligned to project objectives and provides day-to-day guidance on complex cases, acting as the primary contact for clients and embedding efficient, commercially-minded processes across the department.

Flint Bishop

Natalie Loader

Natalie is a partner in our Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Team. Natalie advises companies and private clients, giving practical expert advice to help them achieve their immigration aims. Many of Natalie’s clients have complex applications which require utilisation of the full ambit of immigration law in a strategic manner. She has particular expertise in work-route immigration matters, providing commercial solutions and clear long-term advice to individuals and organisations. She also has a specialism in cases involving international surrogacy and adoption matters. Natalie expertly guides businesses and individuals on a range of matters including: Sponsor licence applications and sponsorship visas, including Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility and Expansion Worker visas HR advisory in relation to sponsor compliance and right to work Sponsor audits and training Sponsor licence re-instatement following a suspension or revocation by the Home Office Non-sponsored work-route visa applications such as UK Ancestry, Global Talent, and Innovator applications Indefinite leave to remain Citizenship applications Family-based visa applications

Bindmans LLP

Natalie Macdonald-Spence

Partner Solicitor specialising in Cross Border, Family, Civil and Private Office matters

Wildcat Law

Natalie Maye

Natalie is a specialist non-contentious construction lawyer with over 13 years’ experience working in the construction industry advising a range of clients including contractors, employers and developers across a wide variety of sectors including infrastructure, energy, commercial development and PFI/PPP. Recent project experience includes: advising one of the UK’s largest contractors on its bids for the £6.6 billion High Speed 2 Civils Package tenders. Natalie was the lead lawyer for this bid which involved her negotiating and agreeing complex terms of a joint venture agreement with JV partners and advising the board on the terms of the construction contract with HS2, leading to the successful award of two civils works packages worth approximately £1 billion each; advising the contractor on the £5 billion bid to run the next Wales and Borders Rail Franchise and to build the next phase of the Metro where she negotiated terms of a JV agreement with proposed JV partners and advised on the terms of a complex franchise agreement with Transport for Wales; advising the Employer in its Ofgem-regulated sale of offshore transmission construction assets on one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms to a third party purchaser as part of Ofgem’s OFTO regime; advising an international renewable energy client on its procurement contracts with key contractors for its offshore wind farm projects; advising leading UK developer clients on the building contract, collateral warranties and consultant appointments for various projects including the expansion of a holiday accommodation business at various UK sites and for a new hotel to form part of its UK hotel chain; advising the Authority on the construction contract and ancillary documents relating to the design, build, operation and management of a £125 million Energy from Waste Facility; and advising employers, developers, contractors and consultants on standard form and non-standard form construction contracts (including JCT, NEC, ICE, GC Works, Alliance contracts, PPC2000 and TPC2000), consultants' appointments, collateral warranties, letters of intent and agreements for lease.

Shoosmiths LLP

Natalie Minott

HCR Law

Natalie Mulholland

Legal director in the Commercial Real Estate team, dealing with all aspects of commercial property transactions, specialising in real estate investment and asset management within the retail, office and industrial sectors. Natalie acts for a range of individuals and businesses involved in real estate investment and development from institutions such as M&G, AEW and Kennedy Wilson to individual private investors and corporate occupiers. Natalie is often praised for her professional manner, efficiency, approachability and clear, straightforward, practical advice.

Cripps

Natalie Nero

Senior Associate

Stowe Family Law LLP

Natalie Payne

Natalie is a highly experienced private client solicitor who specialises in advising on complex domestic and international estates. As a partner in the Private Client team, Natalie’s practice encompasses the creation and administration of Trusts, complex estate administration and powers of attorney. With expertise gained since her call to the Bar in 2008, she handles complex domestic and international estates, focusing particularly on inheritance tax mitigation and lasting powers of attorney. Having cross-qualified as a solicitor in 2010, Natalie brings a unique perspective to private client matters. She takes pride in supporting clients and their families through sensitive legal processes, combining technical expertise with genuine care. As a former Head of Private Client at a central London firm, Natalie particularly excels in handling high-net-worth estates involving cross-border issues, property portfolios, and challenging family dynamics. Her experience includes: Estate planning for UHNW client Advising a Ultra High Net Worth client on estate planning, including significant lifetime gifting to ensure their estate was protected from challenges whilst also working with other professional advisors on IHT planning Complex dual estate administration Assisting executors on the administration of two estates affected by deaths in quick succession. The complex estates consist of strained family relationships which we manage, numerous artifacts, a timeshare and assets benefit from business property relief Estate planning for elderly HNWI Complex estate and wealth planning for a High Net Worth elderly client, ensuring his £10-£15 million estates in both England and France will be distributed according to his wishes and will be protected from any future adverse claims Wealth planning for a £25 million estate Wealth planning and protection of assets advice, including succession planning regarding a business and how best to protect a long-term partner and children. Additional advice on lifetime gifting, discretionary trusts and life interest trusts provided Awards Natalie’s expertise has been consistently recognised by leading legal directories and industry awards. She was awarded ‘Lawyer of the Year – Wills & Probate’ and ‘National Private Client Lawyer’ at the Modern Law Private Client Awards 2025 and received Highly Commended for ‘Best Probate Lawyer of the Year’ at The Probate Industry Awards 2024. She is currently ranked as Up and Coming in the 2024 Chambers & Partners High Net Worth Guide.

Morr & Co LLP

Natalie Pilagos

Natalie specialises in advising on disputes in relation to a wide range of construction projects including energy, manufacturing, retail, offices, hotels, infrastructure, student accommodation, stadia and commercial/private residential development. She is experienced in all forms of dispute resolution including adjudication, mediation, arbitration and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court. Clients she has advised include end users, developers, contractors, consultants, local authorities, SPVs, private clients and investment companies/funders. She proactively works closely with her transactional colleagues and clients to anticipate issues before they arise and prevent disputes from escalating. In addition to her contentious experience, Natalie also has previously gained many years of valuable non-contentious construction experience. She has previously been involved in reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of construction documents including development agreements, project agreements, building contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, parent company guarantees, bonds, consultant appointments, interface agreements and collateral warranties. This experience bolsters her skills as a contentious construction lawyer by providing her with in depth working knowledge of a wide range of documentation related to construction projects.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Natalie Powers

Natalie is a Senior Associate in the Media Disputes department. She works across a variety of media law matters including defamation, harassment, infringement of privacy and data protection. Natalie advises on both pre- and post-publication matters, including in respect of issues relating to online publications and social media. Natalie acts for a broad range of clients comprising high profile individuals, sports agents and senior politicians, including in respect of their unlawful information gathering claims against both Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and News Group Newspapers (NGN). Natalie is also part of the Lead Solicitor team in the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation against NGN. Natalie has experience in general civil litigation matters including commercial contract disputes, shareholder disputes and fraud. Natalie previously trained at a London based firm and qualified into their litigation practice in 2020. Natalie joined Hamlins in September 2022. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA in History, before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law. In 2018, Natalie completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP University (London), achieving a Distinction.

Hamlins LLP

Natalie Puce

Legal Director - Regulatory Core

Weightmans LLP

Natalie Redfern

Natalie is a Principal Associate in our Corporate group based in Leeds. Natalie has significant experience on a wide range of corporate transactions including, private equity and venture capital transactions, private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, joint ventures and general corporate advisory. Natalie specialises in private equity transactions (acting for both institutions and management teams) across a variety of sectors. Recent experience includes: advising real estate fund, Moorfield Group, on its £125 million joint venture and investment with Allegra Care; advising LDC on its £221 million sale and subsequent co-investment with Francisco Partners in ByBox; acting for August Equity on its divestment of the Aspirations Group to Elysian Capital, by way of secondary buy-out; advising Moorfield Group on its £100 million joint venture with Stor-Age Property REIT, a real estate investment trust that operates self-storage sites in South Africa and the UK; advising Yorkshire Wildlife Group on its £38 million debt and equity raise from Lloyds Bank plc and BGF; and advising WM Morrison Supermarkets plc on the acquisition of three superstores from Co-operative Gro

Shoosmiths LLP

Natalie Rimmer

Natalie is an Associate in the Intellectual Property team.

Farrer & Co

Natalie Sutherland

Partner

The International Family Law Group LLP

Natalie Sutherland

Partner and Head of Modern Families

Burgess Mee

Natalie Swales

Natalie is a Partner in our Leeds Banking Team who specialises in non-contentious transactional finance work. Natalie primarily specialises in social and affordable housing finance (including sustainability-linked lending) and project finance. Natalie has a breadth of experience advising borrowers, lenders, private bond arrangers and trustees on a range of financial arrangements, including private bond issues, secured and unsecured lending, facility restructurings, sustainability-linked lending, intra-group funding agreements, joint venture arrangements, group re-financings emanating from merger/group re-organisations and interest rate derivatives. In addition to negotiating facility/bond documentation, Natalie also advises on security arrangements, working closely alongside the Property Charging Team.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Natalie Thorpe

Senior Associate

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Natalie Todd

Partner

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP

Natalie Wade

Corporate Finance and Commercial Health Partner. Natalie advises health and care sector clients and other corporates to make deals happen. She has an exciting and varied workload from volume acquisition programmes for multinationals (over 200 dental practice acquisitions) to drafting innovative national contracts for the Department of Health. Natalie also acts on M&A transactions and company law advice across all sectors.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Natalie Ward

Senior Associate.

Thrings LLP