Avocats – England

Robert Burrows

Robert specialises in patent litigation. He has a PhD in molecular genetics and is particularly active for clients within the life sciences sector. Many of the patent and SPC cases Robert has managed in recent years have required the coordination of parallel proceedings in the UK, EPO and other jurisdictions within Europe and elsewhere in the world. He therefore has in-depth knowledge of European litigation and, alongside appearing for clients in the High Court and Court of Appeal, has attended preliminary injunction and main action proceedings in multiple countries within Europe and overseen inspections of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes in India and Japan. Alongside the assessment of validity and infringement issues, his recent cases have included a damages enquiry, a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the availability of Arrow declaratory relief. Robert regularly advises clients on the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court and, in more recent times, on the impact of Brexit. He also advises on other IP rights and is one of a small number of lawyers who have acted in matters concerning plant variety rights. In addition to his litigation experience, Robert assists clients with freedom to operate opinions and due diligence on the intellectual property aspects of commercial transactions. Robert is one of the founding editors of Bristows’ Biotech Review publication.

Bristows LLP

Robert Byk

Partner; Robert advises on a wide range of banking, finance and corporate transactions, including acquisition and bid finance, structured finance, debt and equity capital markets and general banking and corporate work.

Slaughter and May

Robert Capper

Robert is a commercial partner with over 25 years’ experience known for his expertise within the manufacturing sector including advanced manufacturing. With a specialism in partnership work, Robert acts for professional partnerships and individual partners. He also has particular experience in acting for doctors’ practices. Robert works with businesses of all sizes and nature, ranging from SMEs to multi-national corporations and also professional partnerships. He is contract specialist and advise on all aspects of commercial deals, especially strategy, providing real practical solutions to enable businesses to focus on what they do best without having to worry about the legal issues. Robert also provides industry expertise by speaking at and also chairing various external and internal conferences and seminars. As well as his commercial work, Robert sits on as an advisory board member at Worcester University’s Business School.

HCR Law

Robert Collard

Rob specialises in employee share schemes and incentives and heads up the Macfarlanes remuneration practice. He advises both listed and unlisted clients on the design, operation and implementation of option plans and other employee share schemes (including the tax and regulatory aspects). Rob also advises management teams and deals with the share schemes aspects of M&A transactions. Rob has a wide range of clients but has a particular focus on the financial sector. His team covers all aspects of law relating to employee share schemes and incentives, including employment, tax, trust law and regulatory issues. He has particular experience in tax efficient plans, including SAYE option plans, EMI options, CSOPs and SIPs. Rob also advises on the share schemes aspects of high profile international transactions. Rob is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group.

Macfarlanes LLP

Robert Coombe

Robert is an experienced commercial property lawyer who specialises in property development work including promotion agreements, options, rights of pre-emption, and overage and clawback provisions. He advises and assists developers in acquiring sites conditional on obtaining, or with the benefit of, planning permission, and advises on strategic land development projects. Additionally, Robert frequently represents landowners who are approached by promoters or housebuilders seeking to promote their land for residential development or to secure new sites through options. Robert also advises companies and businesses acquiring and disposing of premises as well as landlords and tenants in relation to commercial leases and other property management work.

Keystone Law

Robert Craig

Robert Craig is a solicitor specialising in wills, trusts, charities, estate planning, probate, estate litigation and partnership. He regularly advises private individuals, business people, and well-known authors, artists and actors on estate planning. Alongside his estate planning practice, Robert advises clients on a wide range of charity law matters, including the formation and operation of charities and non-profit bodies (cultural, religious, welfare and philanthropic charities). He also advises on partnerships and co-ownership disputes. Robert gives sound and pragmatic advice to clients without a lot of legal jargon. Robert is a qualified and experienced mediator. He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Charity Law Association, and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Robert Creighton

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Robert Daniell

Rob specialises in derivatives, securities finance and prime brokerage. He has considerable experience of trading, custody, brokerage and clearing agreements for derivative products, repos/stock lending and physical commodities. Rob advises brokers and buy-side clients across a wide range of asset classes, and on the associated regulations and issues of market practice. Rob advises investment and hedge funds, banks, pension funds and insurers, high-net-worth individuals and corporates on a broad range of documents and transactions. These include equity and credit derivatives, OTC derivative clearing and exchange-traded derivatives, prime brokerage, repo and securities lending, custody, margin financing, FX and commodities. Prior to joining Macfarlanes, Rob worked for investment banks in London for 17 years, most recently for UBS, where he was a Managing Director and Head of the European Equity Derivatives and Prime Brokerage legal teams. Prior to UBS, Rob worked for Nomura International and Lehman Brothers; and for the New Zealand Securities Commission prior to arriving in the UK. Rob has been involved in contributions on numerous regulatory initiatives, including OTC derivatives clearing, short-selling, safe custody, client money and shadow banking. Rob has been the lead drafter of a number of industry-standard OTC derivatives template documents that are now widely used by market participants.

Macfarlanes LLP

Robert Dillarstone

Greenwoods

Robert Dransfield

Partner in the Medical Negligence department. Robert assists clients with catastrophic injuries arising from medical negligence. He has a particular expertise in high-value spinal cord injury and brain injury claims. Robert has also secured substantial awards for clients with cauda equina.Robert has recently settled claims for clients with high cervical spine injuries and serious brain injury. Robert has acted for individuals based internationally in countries including Cyprus, Balearic Islands, Ireland and Canada. Experience Robert acted for the claimant in one of the leading cauda equina cases, Oakes v Neininger [2008] EWHC 548 (QB). This remains a particular interest, with substantial awards obtained for clients with cauda equina. Robert acted for the claimant in the leading cauda equina case, Oakes v Neinninger. He has obtained more than £28m in damages for clients since 2010, £9.2m of which were obtained in 2016.

Stewarts Law LLP

Robert Drewett

Senior Counsel Robert has extensive experience of acting for a range of both individual and institutional farmers and landowners in relation to agricultural and rural matters. These include estate management issues, landlord and tenant matters, sales, purchases and lettings and a particular bias towards acting for landowners wishing to maximise development opportunities and to secure other income streams from land.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Robert Edge

Robert represents an array of clients from a variety of sectors based both within the UK and internationally in respect of debt recovery, commercial disputes and insolvency proceedings. Such work encompasses contractual disputes, securing and enforcing Judgment, Retention of Title claims, together with Bankruptcy and Winding-Up proceedings by single or volume instruction and subsequent liquidations, Voluntary Arrangements and Administrations. With over 20 years’ experience specialising in Debt Recovery and an associate member of both the Institute of Credit Management and R3 (the Association of Business Recovery Professionals), Robert oversees much of the Department’s work and the full range of recovery services provided for both secured or unsecured debts.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Robert Elvin

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Robert Emmett

Partner - Family

Weightmans LLP

Robert Farrell

Robert advises on all aspects of banking and finance with particular focus on real estate finance (investment and development). He also often acts on growth capital lending, corporate M&A and corporate banking, whilst many of the transactions he works on have a cross-border element to them.

Irwin Mitchell

Robert Ganpatsingh

Robert is a highly experienced commercial disputes lawyer with broad-ranging experience in resolving complex and multi-layered disputes. As a seasoned litigator, Robert has extensive expertise in all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and adjudication with the aim of settling before court litigation. When litigation is required, he regularly handles cases before the courts, including those involving worldwide freezing injunctions in high-value disputes. In addition to advising clients across a wide range of commercial disputes, Robert has specialist knowledge and experience in relation to intellectual property and disputes affecting shareholders and company boards. His expertise in intellectual property disputes includes High Court litigation and wider advice relating to design rights, trade marks, copyright, database rights, passing off and patents. Robert also has specialist knowledge and experience of construction disputes, including advising on high-value adjudications.

Keystone Law

Robert Gray

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Robert Griffiths

Partner

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Robert Grove-Smith

I have over 10 years’ experience in the field of Tax, Trusts and Estate law. I gained experience working for the Trusts & Estates division of a Private Bank before moving to Irwin Mitchell in 2016. My expertise includes the following areas of work: Preparation of Wills Estate Planning (including Inheritance Tax planning and succession planning) Obtaining Grants of Probate Inheritance Tax calculations and completion of Inheritance Tax returns Estate Administration, including administration of complex and high value estates Preparation of Declarations of Trust and advice and assistance with setting up or winding up Trusts created by Wills Advice on and preparation of Deeds of Variation to alter the distribution of an estate after death. I gain a detailed understanding of my clients’ circumstances and needs to ensure complex situations are solved effectively. My advice and assistance is explained and presented in a manner which is clear and easy for my clients to follow. Where necessary, I also work closely with colleagues in other departments in the wider firm (including Residential Property, Family Law and Trust & Estate Disputes) to ensure all of my clients’ legal needs are met at often critical stages of their lives. I deliver regular presentations to members of the public (like hospital staff, local and national charities and parents of children with disabilities) on subjects relating to Wills, Estate Planning and Estate Administration.

Irwin Mitchell

Robert Hartley

Robert is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department and specialises in the resolution of tax disputes. He has been a practising tax lawyer since 1999. Robert's practice is split between direct and indirect tax disputes relating to both corporate and individual clients. Many of the cases that he works on are resolved without the need for a formal hearing, with successfully resolved cases ranging from personal taxation matters to the largest of transfer pricing enquiries. Robert advises clients across a number of sectors and, in particular, those in real estate, financial services, retail and leisure.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Robert Harvey

Robert is a consultant in the Dispute Resolution team with over 15 years' experience running large-scale commercial litigation and white-collar criminal investigations for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) and companies, including companies in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. Robert has a track record of delivering significant value as a result of early adoption of innovative litigation models, rigorous analysis of legal positions, creative problem solving, and identifying commercial and legal pressure points. Robert is experienced in the application of all forms of dispute resolution including mediation, expert determination, arbitration, and litigation (including appeals to the Court of Appeal and petitions to the House of Lords/Supreme Court). He has undertaken many successful mediations, but also has extensive trial experience including cases which were identified as among the "top ten" cases to come to trial in the English courts in 2006, 2010, and 2011.

Keystone Law

Robert Hickford

Partner

Ashtons Legal

Robert Hill

Robert has worked in our Dispute Resolution department since qualifying at Freeths in 2010. He has a broad range of litigation experience and of cases covering a varied range of different legal areas. Robert has acted for a wide breadth of clients, from private individuals through to large commercial organisations (including the public and not for profit sectors). This means that he is well placed to understand not only the needs of his own clients, but, significantly, those of the other parties to the dispute. Robert is a keen advocate of developing case strategy at the initial stages of litigation and providing a clear route to achieving client outcomes. Robert can provide helpful and practical advice from the outset, with a particular focus on how to resolve disputes in a cost-effective and timely way. He is sensitive to the needs of each client, focussing on the commercial and practical realities of the dispute. Having specialised over recent years, Robert’s case load now primarily focuses on disputes concerning contracts, estates, land, probate and trusts. He has dealt with a number of large contractual disputes, property disputes (including jointly owned property) and he has a busy caseload in relation to disputed estates, lifetime gifts and disputed trusts.

Freeths LLP

Robert Horsey

Partner and Head of the Wills and Inheritance Disputes team

Ashfords LLP