Avocats – England

Richard Read

Rick is ranked as a leading individual in London for corporate occupier representation. He acts for international and UK clients on their UK real estate requirements. He has extensive experience in acting for global corporates, international investment and sovereign wealth funds, investment companies and ultra-high net worth individuals. His expertise covers a number of asset classes from City offices to portfolio management and hotel and leisure investment, financing and development. Rick heads of the firm’s Hotels and Leisure practice group and sits on the firms Executive and International Committees.

Burges Salmon LLP

Richard Reichman

Richard is a partner specialising in corporate crime, regulatory investigations (including ESG compliance) and financial crime. He has extensive experience representing companies and individuals in relation to the most serious, complex and high-profile contentious matters. He is instructed from the early stages of cases to provide proactive advice regarding crisis management, large internal and external investigations, regulators’ powers, corporate co-operation, interviews under caution, prosecutions and associated proceedings such as inquests. He advises regarding a broad range of offences, such as corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, health and safety, food safety and hygiene (acting for Michelin starred restaurant groups and high street name food businesses), environmental (he advised in relation to the largest ever investigation by the Environment Agency), fire safety and trading. He also advises regarding financial offences such as fraud, bribery, insider dealing (he represented a defendant in the largest and most complex investigation into insider dealing ever conducted by the FCA), market manipulation and money laundering. He is frequently instructed in cases which require technical expertise in overlapping areas of business crime and regulation, for example joint police and Health and Safety Executive investigations and allegations of regulatory breaches combined with financial crime such as food and environmental fraud. The nature of his cases often involves the exercise of regulators’ powers (e.g. dawn raids, compelled document requests and enforcement notices). His caseload includes matters being investigated and prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, Local Authorities, Fire and Rescue Authorities, Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, Information Commissioner’s Office and Crown Prosecution Service.

BCL Solicitors LLP

Richard Reuben

I specialise in real estate development and finance, investment work and corporate occupiers. I am here to help clients find solutions to their problems and to deliver their transactions. My approach is to look for pragmatic answers and to implement them with as little complication as possible. Clients need a calm and reassuring helping hand as they engage in deals which can be very stressful for them. I collaborate with lawyers across the firm to provide this and deliver inventive and practical solutions.

Fladgate LLP

Richard Rigg

Richard is a Partner in our family team. An experienced lawyer, he handles all aspects of family law with a focus on divorce and financial settlements arising from the breakdown of marriages. He advises in complex financial proceedings often involving business interests, shareholdings, assets held outside the jurisdiction, family trusts, tax issues and complicated pension provisions. Richard regularly deals with wealth protection work such as pre-nuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements, as well as resolving financial issues arising from the relationship breakdown of an unmarried couple or cohabitees, often involving proceedings regarding the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (ToLATA). Richard works on behalf of a wide range of clients – most notably acting both for and against high net worth individuals – and is often praised for his client-focused, pragmatic approach. He also advises on complex private law Children Act work involving child arrangements, internal and external relocation, parental alienation, allegations of harm and abuse, change of residence, international child abduction and financial provision for children.

Brabners LLP

Richard Roberts

Richard is a Partner and leads our investment and property management team. He's a specialist in the acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold business premises, commercial property management and non-contentious landlord and tenant law, including practice and procedure under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Richard has considerable expertise in multi-site transfer or regear projects, sub-sale and leaseback transactions as well as the acquisition and disposal of going concerns. Richard acts for national multiple retailers and major landowners, as well as manufacturing and supply chain businesses.

Brabners LLP

Richard Roth

Richard is a Real Estate partner who specialises in commercial real estate and helps clients develop and use their commercial property to maximum benefit. Richard covers all aspects of commercial real estate but largely specialises in investment and development work. Richard acts for institutional investors, national developers and occupiers in connection with investment and development work alongside their other property requirements such as landlord and tenant. His experience includes working with family offices and personal investors as well as fund work and representing larger scale landowners/occupiers and developers. Richard's work highlights include: sale of the Pirelli UK site in Carlisle following the development of additional factory space and associated lease regears pre-let and forward sale, with development funding, of 1 College Square, Bristol freehold acquisition and development of a new Sainsbury’s supermarket in Wombourne various investment acquisitions and disposals for institutional investors and pension funds advising on the major mixed-use regeneration scheme for Bristol Harbourside representing various corporate occupiers in connection with HQ relocations and general tenant matters

RWK Goodman

Richard Sagar

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Richard Sallybanks

Richard Sallybanks, a partner in BCL for over 20 years, specialises in complex business crime and regulatory defence work, and has been involved in numerous UK and international business crime investigations and prosecutions. Clients describe him as “very wise, with a cool head, an enormous ability to master the detail of a case and a great tactical brain, an invaluable asset to any defence”. His core practice is defending senior executives who are suspects in investigations, and his current and recent SFO experience includes the Petrofac, Airbus, Barclays Qatar, Alstom and Kaupthing Bank investigations as well as leading the team which successfully defended Tesco’s former Commercial Director on charges involving an alleged £250m accounting fraud. In the financial sector he has acted for bankers, brokers, traders and senior executives in criminal and regulatory investigations, by the FCA and overseas authorities, including in relation to allegations of money laundering, insider dealing and market abuse. He also advises companies and individuals in their capacity as witnesses to matters under investigation. Many of his cases are cross-border and Richard is experienced in managing and co-ordinating teams of lawyers in multi-jurisdictional investigations, including the US, France, Switzerland and India. Many of his clients are High Net Worth Individuals / International Private Clients who Richard advises in connection with the implications of overseas criminal investigations, including the mutual legal assistance regime, extradition and Interpol. Richard is ranked by Chambers UK in: Financial Crime: Individuals – London (Band 1); Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals – UK (Band 1); and POCA work and Asset Forfeiture (Band 1): "Richard is a superb solicitor," say his clients. "He's very calm and you get a real sense that everything is under control and they can stop panicking. He has a very serious understanding of the law and the client." "He has an unusual background in both commercial law and serious crime, so if you need a solicitor to act in an SFO corporate crime raid, he is your man; he knows everything about companies and everything about criminal cases…" “He’s thoughtful, exceptionally intelligent and he has a forensic eye for detail without losing the bigger picture……He’s strategically extremely astute, he has great judgment under pressure and he’s also very commercially savvy.”

BCL Solicitors LLP

Richard Sandford

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Richard Santy

Richard is a partner in the employment team based in Birmingham. Whilst Richard advises clients on all aspects of employment law, he is considered to be a litigation specialist. Richard conducts his own advocacy in tribunal and has represented a number of major clients in high profile cases over the past 12 months. This has included two hearings in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Richard Saunders

Having practiced at the Bar, Richard joined Moon Beever in 2003 and worked in the Insolvency & Business Recovery Department. He has spent many years in dealing with contentious insolvency acting for clients from all the major firms and has built a reputation as a strong and tenacious litigator. He has particular experience and expertise in acting in large, complex multi-jurisdictional fraud matters not only in this country but also in numerous offshore jurisdictions. He frequently obtains freezing injunctions and search orders for clients and is a seasoned trial lawyer. He joined Wedlake Bell in July 2021 when the firms merged.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Richard Scorer

Richard is a Principal Lawyer and Head of Abuse Law and Public Inquiries. He has many years’ experience dealing with serious injury and child abuse cases, acting for victims in high profile cases such as Jimmy Savile, the child sexual exploitation scandal in Rochdale, John Worboys and the football abuse cases. He has particular expertise in cases involving abuse in religious organisations such as the Catholic Church, the Church of England, mosques and gurdwaras. He acted for a large number of victims and survivors in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), has taken cases to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, and has achieved many landmark settlements. Richard writes and lectures widely on abuse law and public inquiries and is a regular media commentator. Richard’s book ‘Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis’ was published in 2014. He also co-authored the APIL Guide to Child Abuse Compensation Claims, third edition published in 2020. He was a Chapter contributor to Justice for Children: A developmental approach published by Royal College of Psychiatrists/CUP in 2019. In addition to his legal work he holds a visiting research fellowship at the University of Kent, where he leads an international review of legal and policy responses to abuse in religious settings. Richard wrote the book ‘Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis’ which was published in 2014. He also co-authored the APIL Guide to Child Abuse Compensation Claims published in 2011. Chapter contributor to Justice for Children: A developmental approach published by Royal College of Psychiatrists/CUP in 2019.

Slater and Gordon

Richard Scott

Partner

Elkington + Fife LLP

Richard Shelton

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Richard Singleton

Richard is an experienced litigator who consistently achieves success for clients across a broad range of commercial disputes. He acts primarily for clients in the High Court and international arbitrations, and has extensive experience in relation to injunctions, IP & IT, partnership disputes, shareholder and share sale disputes, civil fraud and trust claims, professional negligence and restraint of trade.

CANDEY

Richard Smaller

Solicitor Richard specialises in disputes that arise when a person dies. I deal with a wide range of cases and each one is different to the next . People seeking to challenge the validity of wills on grounds of undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity or issues with formalities, and have experience in defending such claims too. Richard has also worked on bringing and defending claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 when someone’s unhappy with the inheritance that they’ve received under a will or the intestacy rules.

Irwin Mitchell

Richard Smith

Partner; Richard is co-head of our Corporate and M&A Group. His principal areas of work are in public and private M&A, joint ventures and equity capital markets work.

Slaughter and May

Richard Spink

Heads the firm’s Corporate and Financial Institutions Department. Has continued to advise on a variety of UK and cross-border deals this year, acting for a range of corporates, institutions and individuals. Richard continues to be a member of the firm's international committee.

Burges Salmon LLP

Richard Starkie

Richard has dealt with almost every type of medical negligence claim. he bulk of his cases concern the following: Brain injuries sustained at birth and shortly thereafter Surgery to the brain and spine Complex orthopaedic surgery, including joint replacement and reconstructive surgery Delays in diagnosing cancer and other serious illness Richard also has considerable experience in medical product liability claims and has led several large group actions. He also conducts a number of professional negligence claims, against other firms of solicitors, concerning the management of clinical negligence and personal injury actions. Richard manages a team of solicitors based in the York office. He is responsible for the screening of the firm's new cases, and also for its reponse to the recent reforms to the recovery of legal costs. Richard’s practice largely consists of the following: Birth injury and neonatal brain injury claims Spinal surgery cases, including cauda equina syndrome claims Complex orthopaedics, including joint replacement, limb reconstruction, bone cancer and amputation cases Cases concerning delays in diagnosing cancer and other serious illnesses Richard led a successful group action of 400+ product liability claims against a multinational orthopaedic device manufacturer, concerning hip replacements He led a successful group action against a French manufacturer of ankle replacements He led a successful clinical negligence group action against a number of surgeons and NHS Trusts concerning the use of mismatched hip replacement devices

Switalskis Solicitors

Richard Stirk

Bevan Brittan LLP

Richard Sutton

Richard is a consultant and works advising developers, investors and tenants on commercial property transactions. He enjoys building relationships with clients and familiarising himself with their business and objectives. Richard has advised on a number of high profile multi-million pound projects. His personal favourite was advising on the acquisition and development of the former Berkeley Nuclear Laboratory site at Berkeley Green in Gloucestershire, by South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

Foot Anstey

Richard Swain

Richard Swain is a Partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Southampton Corporate team specialising in acquisitions, MBOs and mergers/demergers.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Richard Swaine

Richard has a broad range of experience advising both UK and international clients, including both listed and private companies as well as high net-worth individuals, on corporate and commercial issues. He has represented clients on private acquisitions and disposals, business start-ups and joint ventures, management buy-outs, AIM listings, fund raising and financing/refinancing arrangements (both debt and equity). Richard’s clients operate primarily in the technology and life science sectors but his experience includes advising clients who operate in a wide variety of sectors and industries including manufacturing industry, financial services, media, consumer products and leisure industries. Richard also advises on corporate insolvency matters where he has advised the directors of companies in financial distress, creditors and insolvency practitioners. Richard specialises in advising charity and not-for-profit clients, including a number of membership associations, on issues relating to their formation and governance.

Bristows LLP

Richard Swallow

Partner; Richard is Head of our Disputes and Investigations Group. Areas of particular expertise include corporate crime and sanctions investigations, group/class action litigation (competition, mass tort and securities claims), and banking litigation and investigations. With over 25 years of experience of a wide range of complex and substantial disputes and investigations, Richard has represented clients in high-value, multi-jurisdictional, proceedings and significant global regulatory and criminal investigations. Richard spent three years working in our Hong Kong office advising on a range of commercial disputes throughout the South East Asia region. He is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and as a Solicitor of the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Slaughter and May