Avocats – England

Rajah Thavalou

Gulbenkian Andonian Solicitors

Rajas Chitnis

Solicitor

Freeman Harris

Rajea Sultana

Partner

Miles & Partners LLP

Rajeev Joshi

ajeev has extensive experience of real estate investment, development and finance work for institutional investors, foreign investors, asset managers, financial institutions, family offices and entrepreneurial property companies. He acts regularly for lenders and borrowers on real estate secured lending transactions as well as acquiring and disposing of high value portfolios of investment properties as well as providing advice to developers on large scale developments. Rajeev also has particular experience in the hotel sector where he acts on the acquisition, development, leasing and financing of hotels. He also acts for entrepreneurial developers on residential development schemes.

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Rajesh Bhamm

Partner

Tank Jowett Solicitors

Raji Bartlett

Raji is a Partner in our Real Estate Finance department with over 30 years' experience working on transactions acting for both lenders and borrowers in matters with deal values ranging from £10 million to £500 million. Raji advises financial institutions, corporates and sponsors/funds in relation to arranging and documenting domestic and international bank facilities and structured financings. He has a broad range of finance experience, with particular expertise in advising borrowers and lenders in relation to syndicated real estate investment and development finance and acquisition/leveraged finance transactions.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Rajinder Rai

Senior Associate Solicitor.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Rajiv Joshi

Rajiv has experience in a variety of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Rajiv is a supervisor of Employment Tribunal work amongst other matters. Rajiv’s work includes unfair dismissal, discrimination, jurisdictional matters and the employment aspects of corporate transactions. He also drafts and advises on directors’ service agreements, employment contracts, staff handbooks and settlement agreements.

Blake Morgan LLP

Rajiv Malhotra

Partner

B P Collins LLP

Rajvinder Jagdev

Rajvinder advises clients on a range of IP matters, particularly in the electronics, telecommunications and computer software sectors. Rajvinder’s expertise in computer science and electronics means he can quickly grasp and analyse technically complex patents and hone in on the pertinent details. His in-house experience and general commercial knowledge of the IT, electronics and telecommunications sectors assists in providing legal advice in a commercial context. Rajvinder regularly advises on and coordinates multi-jurisdictional matters, in particular where there are parallel proceedings in the German Courts and also in the US (both in the District Courts and before the ITC). In addition, Rajvinder routinely advises at the pre-action stage on litigation strategy to help formulate efficient and effective IP enforcement campaigns. Rajvinder has worked on patent cases involving Blu-ray laser technology, mobile telephony standards, mobile data streaming and caching, user interface design, networking protocols, medical imaging devices and audio-visual network streaming protocols and codecs.

Powell Gilbert LLP

Rakeebah Rahim

Rakeebah Rahim is the managing partner at the firm. Described as ‘tremendously capable’ in the legal 500 2012, Rakeebah has been practising as a solicitor with the firm since 1989. The 2013 The Legal 500 noted that Rakeebah Rahim ‘works tirelessly, and is very efficient’. As managing partner, Rakeebah is able to draw upon over 20 years’ experience in crime, property and compliance. She has overseen the firm’s growth in recent years and was at the forefront of some of the firms significant panel work. She has been described in The Legal 500 2014 as ‘committed, and excellent with clients' and is best known for her experience in ‘high-value, complex cross-border disputes’.

Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP

Ralph Bullivant

Ralph is a partner in the property litigation team and advises on all types of property disputes, specialising in landlord and tenant, tenant default and lease renewals. He acts for a wide range of clients including high street retailers, NHS trusts, developers and landlords, and provides advice on issues arising out of tenant default, achieving vacant possession and lease renewals. Ralph is a member of the Property Litigation Association and is a regular presenter to the RICS and clients on contentious property issues. He also has extensive experience in advising and obtaining vacant possession of commercial lease premises whether or not with the benefit of protection under the 1954 Act and is an acknowledged expert on the recovery of commercial rent arrears. He acts on behalf of one of the country’s largest firms of certificated bailiffs and over the last 12 months has spoken to approximately 2,500 of their clients on the implementation of commercial rent arrears recovery (CRAR).

Hill Dickinson LLP

Ralph Lovesy

Ralph is a consultant in our Banking & Finance team. He has a wealth of expertise in financial services regulation, including consumer credit, regulated mortgage contracts, payment services, insurance intermediation and fintech products. He has advised a wide range of clients, from established retail banks and credit card lenders to SMEs and start-ups. Ralph was previously the Head of Legal at a private bank and Lead Counsel at a high street retail bank. He also has extensive experience advising senior executives on a range of risk and compliance matters at a separate bank and a major credit card issuer. Expertise: General financial services regulatory compliance (FCA Handbook) Regulated mortgage contracts (FCA MCOB sourcebook) Consumer credit (Consumer Credit Act) Payment services (PSD2) Insurance intermediation and administration activities (ICOBS)

Acuity Law

Ralph McClelland

Partner and finance and investment specialist with 9 years’ experience in the pensions arena. Ralph is the lead fee earner for a range of clients on both the general pensions and finance and investment side. He is a senior member of the firm’s Finance & Investment Group and its Public Sector Unit. Ralph is frequently involved in project work. He also has a strong Local Government Pension Scheme practice and currently advises a number of administering authorities on their investment matters.

Sacker & Partners LLP

Ralph Wehrle

Partner

Briffa

Raman Thandi-Bal

Bevan Brittan LLP

Ramatu Banga

Partner

Fieldfisher

Ramez Moussa

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Ramona Derbyshire

Partner heading up the debt and asset recoveries team and the business growth sector and specialising in commercial litigation. Clients include corporate entities, directors, shareholders, institutional clients and clients with motor industry, financial services and insurance-related interests. She has a pragmatic approach to commercial disputes, including using alternative forms of dispute resolution. She takes the lead in client relationships for key commercial clients to include working closely with in-house legal teams and board members.

Thrings LLP

Ramona Mehta

Ramona is a Consultant in Mishcon Private. Ramona acts for high net worth clients and their businesses in times of crisis. She is a specialist commercial litigator and is regularly called upon to advise on an urgent basis in matters involving breach of privacy or threatened publication of defamatory allegations. Ramona regularly advises members of leading Royal families and multi-jurisdictional corporates, high-profile international individuals and family offices. The advice focusses on dispute resolution, using the most commercially effective means to achieve swift results with minimum fuss. Much of her work is international. Ramona has extensive experience of advising organisations on how to protect themselves from internal and external bribery and corruption risks. She also assists them to devise strategies to minimise reputational exposure when such risks materialise. She is known for deftly handling the most sensitive of matters. Ramona works with clients and their advisors to obtain time efficient and cost effective solutions in the most complex disputes. Legal 500 has highlighted Ramona's "strong and decisive" approach. Chambers and Partners ranks her as a "key individual" for Defamation/Reputation Management. Peers note that "she's very perspicacious, she has a very calm manner, but she can most certainly be tough." Clients are especially keen to highlight "her excellent judgement." and, "her creative and results-focused approach".

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Ramsay Monime

Partner

Briffa

Raoul Lumb

Senior Associate

Simons Muirhead Burton

Raoul Parekh

Raoul Parekh is a Partner at Littler and leads the firm’s international practice. He has a particular focus on assisting international clients with their UK and EMEA employment law challenges. Raoul has significant employment tribunal litigation experience, as well as High Court employee competition matters. He is also experienced in day-to-day HR support, including dealing with employee grievances and consultation processes, terminations and drafting contracts and policies. Raoul acts for several “professional employer organisations” (or PEOs) and “employers of record” (or EORs), advising them on their UK and international employment compliance strategy and other issues. He has been invited to speak to the UK and European Employment Lawyers Associations about the employment law issues raised by these innovative sectors. Raoul was a founding co-chair of ELA’s Race Equality Committee. He also leads our internal Pro Bono and CSR programme and volunteers at the University House Legal Advice Centre’s employment law clinic.

Littler

Raphaela Kohs

Senior Associate

Bivonas Law LLP