Avocats – England

Rebecca Sawbridge

Partner and head of employment in Freeths’ Birmingham office. Advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, including wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination law, executive terminations, TUPE, large scale reorganisations, employment aspects of mergers/acquisitions/outsourcing and litigation in the Civil Court and employment tribunal. Regularly speaks at HR seminars and provides bespoke employment law training.

Freeths LLP

Rebecca Sherry

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Rebecca Smith

Senior Associate Rebecca is a highly experienced aviation lawyer, specialising in complex high-value, catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims from both a domestic and international perspective, including the application of the Montreal Convention. She has been involved in a number of large group action claims in the USA and Nigeria, which include the recent Boeing tragedy. She brings a pragmatic approach borne of dealing with complex cases involving jurisdictional and applicable law issues. Experience Key roles leading complex aviation claims in the high-profile Shoreham Air Show, Germanwings and Boeing tragedies, resulting in significant awards of damages Leading multi-jurisdictional actions involving working with co-counsel in Europe, Africa and the USA Experience in the application of different laws for the purposes of determining damages, including French, Spanish, Maltese, Afghan, Nigerian and US law Development of case law interpreting the Montreal Convention, see Labbadia v Alitalia (2019)

Stewarts Law LLP

Rebecca Standing

Rebecca assists on a wide range of commercial property matters including acquisitions and sales, landlord and tenant matters, and on-going property management. Her clients range from property funds, private and public companies to livery companies, charities and schools. Rebecca works closely with other teams around the firm to ensure that clients receive the best and most comprehensive advice to meet their needs.

Farrer & Co

Rebecca Steer

Rebecca is a Partner specialising in commercial, intellectual property, and technology law. She advises on commercial contracts, intellectual property strategy, protection and exploitation, technology, e-commerce, and supply chain arrangements. Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience negotiating complex, high-value and strategic customer, supplier, subscription, and licensing agreements, often with cross-border elements. Her clients include owner-managed businesses, SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups, portfolio companies, and privately owned and multinational organisations. She also supports clients on a fractional GC basis. She advises across a range of technology sectors, including deep-tech, AI and SaaS, e-commerce, food and beverage, fashion and brands, and the digital and creative industry sectors.

Keystone Law

Rebecca Stojak

Rebecca is a Senior Associate solicitor in the Dispute Resolution team. She has experience dealing with a wide range of disputes, including disputes relating to; business, contracts, theft of confidential information, franchise agreements, charity, education and the healthcare sector, this also includes complex injunctions. Specialising in equine law, Rebecca acts for individuals, professional riders and large equestrian companies and international charities as well as writing for several well-known publications on all matters relating to horses and the law and is a keen horsewoman. Rebecca has advised large automotive sporting companies together with national and international sporting professionals and Olympians on a range of sporting and competition disputes. Rebecca advises individuals, organisations, sports professionals, celebrities, political parties and politicians on a range of defamation matters. Rebecca is well regarded for her straightforward, commercial and personable approach.

Geldards LLP

Rebecca Stratton

Rebecca Stratton is an Associate in the Commercial Dispute Resolution Team, specialising in insolvency and restructuring matters. Rebecca advises insolvency practitioners, directors, business owners and individuals on all aspects of formal and informal insolvency and restructuring matters. She provides advice to corporate clients looking to explore restructuring both in order to optimise and future-proof their business and in the event of financial distress. Rebecca often advises directors on the impact of insolvency prior to formal proceedings being commenced. She also provides support to clients navigating situations where proceedings have been issued and acts for creditors, business owners, debtors and insolvency practitioners. She has significant experience in assisting clients within the retail & hospitality sector on complex corporate restructures.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Rebecca Tester

Partner

Constantine Law Limited

Rebecca Tew

Rebecca works with clients ranging from startups to multinationals and has experience across the full range of contentious and non-contentious trade mark services. She has particular expertise in the management of global portfolios, trade mark clearance, brand protection, policing and enforcement strategies and in anti-counterfeiting procedures. Rebecca has also worked with enforcement officers and with HMRC in the pursuit of civil and criminal prosecutions. Her sector expertise includes electrical goods and components, pharmaceutical and clinical testing, fashion, luxury brands, financial services, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), sports, security and physical safety.

Mathys & Squire LLP

Rebecca Thomas

Rebecca Thomas is a Director in the Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence departments at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She supervises a team of solicitors, trainees and paralegals who are all dedicated to obtaining the best possible outcome for their clients. Rebecca is also responsible for risk assessing all of the clinical negligence and personal injury claims handled by Duncan Lewis. Rebecca has significant experience in dealing with severe and complex clinical negligence and personal injury cases, including claims involving birth injuries, brain injuries, surgical injuries, orthopaedic injuries, delays in diagnosis, and misdiagnosis. She also has extensive experience in representing clients in ophthalmic cases including retinal detachment and laser surgery claims. One of Rebecca’s most recent cases involved obtaining a six figure award of compensation on behalf of a client against two NHS Trusts in a complex case following an appendectomy. She also obtained substantial damages against a national firm of opticians on behalf of a client who permanently lost all sight in one eye as a result of the optician’s failure to recognise that the client was suffering from retinal detachment.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Rebecca Thornley-Gibson

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Rebecca Tinham

With almost 15 years’ experience, Rebecca joined Keystone’s litigation team in 2015. A commercial dispute resolution expert, she started her career at A Banks & Co before going on to hold consecutive partnership positions at two leading Kent-based law firms. Acting in a wide range of commercial dispute resolution and litigation work, Rebecca’s expertise includes advising businesses on trading disputes, intellectual property litigation, corporate defamation, shareholder and partnership disputes, and joint venture disputes.

Keystone Law

Rebecca Tollervey

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Rebecca Toman

Rebecca is a partner at Carter-Ruck. She acts for UK and non UK HNW and UHNWIs, politicians, entrepreneurs, celebrities and high profile business people providing both contentious and non-contentious advisory services concerning business and personal assets. She protects their welfare and livelihoods through the provision of discreet legal guidance on a myriad of complex and sensitive reputation protection, dispute resolution, data and cyber security issues. She is also very experienced in dealing with complex multi-jurisdictional matters. Rebecca is highly recommended within the industry having obtained significant damages, secured numerous injunctions, takedowns, apologies, corrections and securing the removal of digital content. Rebecca works with her clients to help devise personal, private office and commercial strategies and security policies to protect their businesses and reputation from attack. This includes working with her clients’ existing public relations and in house communication teams and effective external consultants and organisations when necessary. Rebecca’s practice encompasses:​ defamation and privacy –pre and post publication and broadcast matters including the obtaining of injunctions all aspects of media law reputation protection, risk & crisis management digital and data privacy - including internet takedown work dispute resolution non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) asset protection employment advice including confidentiality provisions within settlement agreements.

Carter-Ruck

Rebecca Walker

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker is a Partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency team. Rebecca has worked at various top City and regional practices. She has also completed a 6-month secondment to a hedge fund and a short secondment to a German law firm. Rebecca handles complex restructuring and insolvencies, often involving an international or regulatory element. She is experienced in insolvency transactions (including pre-packaged administration sales), providing strategic advice to companies and their directors in financial difficulty and advising secured lenders on the enforcement of their security. She also regularly advises on how to structure corporate transactions and commercial arrangements to protect against counterparty insolvency risk. In addition to the above, Rebecca is well known for her expertise in solvent restructurings, including section 110 demergers and members’ voluntary liquidations.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Rebecca Wheatcroft

Managing Associate in Commercial Property.

TWM Solicitors LLP

Rebecca Wong

Partner

RPC

Rebecca Wyke

Rebecca Wyke is an associate solicitor specialising in commercial dispute resolution. Rebecca advises corporate and private clients in the UK and internationally on commercial disputes across a range of sectors.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Rebecca Young

Rebecca is a Partner at JMW and heads up the Media and Reputation Management team. Rebecca’s team provide specialist media and reputation management advice to clients predominantly based in the UK. The team is known for working collaboratively with clients’ PR teams and key stakeholders to manage, often at short notice, reputational or privacy issues. The team has considerable experience in dealing with the Media and in injunctive matters. Rebecca is known for being dedicated to assisting her clients to enforce their legal rights, to defend their legal position and to achieve positive outcomes.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Rebekah Carrier

Associate Solicitor

Miles & Partners LLP

Rebekah Fender

Solicitor

Hall Brown Family Law

Rebekah Gershuny

Freemans Solicitors

Rebekah King

Senior Associate

Hall Brown Family Law