Avocats – England

Suki Chhokar

Partner Suki primarily deals with group actions against UK based tour operators, or single party actions against defendants in foreign countries (often working with foreign agent lawyers). His team currently handles in excess of 2000 clients and handle a range of different cases against major U.K. tour operators. Some of the cases where large numbers of people have fallen ill on holiday are the largest of their kind ever pursued in the U.K. and have resulted in multi-million pound settlements.

Irwin Mitchell

Suki Harrar

Partner

Constantine Law Limited

Suki Samra

Suki Samra is a Partner in the Real Estate team. Suki acts for a broad range of commercial clients including companies, financial institutions, high net worth individuals and household names, advising on their property requirements. He has a strong focus on landlord and tenant work and enfranchisement, acting for landlords and property investors with a wide portfolio of commercial property. Suki and his team also provide volume property services to financial institutions on their secured lending work to telecom companies on their infrastructure projects and housebuilders on plot sales.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Suki Tonks

Browne Jacobson LLP

Sulema Jahangir

Partner who undertakes all aspects of domestic and international family law including child abduction, child custody and the financial consequences of divorce and separation. She also acts for the victims of forced marriages, abandoned spouses and honour based violence. She has acted in several reported cases in superior courts in both England and Pakistan.

Dawson Cornwell LLP

Sumaira Choudary

Partner - Corporate

Weightmans LLP

Sundeep Rathod

Partner

Edwin Coe LLP

Sundeep Sandhu

Sundeep is a Senior Associate in our Commercial & Civil Dispute Resolution team, specialising in will, trust, and estate disputes, contractual disputes, property and land disputes, and professional negligence claims. She manages complex litigation for a wide variety of clients, including individuals, companies, financial institutions, charities, and government departments. Sundeep is known for her practical, empathetic approach and for exploring alternative dispute resolution options where possible, while fully prepared to take cases to court to protect her clients’ interests.

Flint Bishop

Sung-Hyui Park

Sung-Hyui Park is a Partner in the Charity and Social Enterprise team, and the Co-Lead of Development Finance at Bates Wells. She works with investors, charities, non-profits and mission-driven businesses seeking positive social or environmental impact. Her practice focuses on equitable and innovative funding structures across impact investment and international financing, including a wide range of debt, equity, quasi-equity and blended finance arrangements. Sung-Hyui also advises major charities, NGOs and foundations on charity law, governance, regulatory matters and commercial arrangements. She additionally works with purposeful businesses, including B Corps and social enterprises, to integrate mission and purpose into their structures and operations.

Bates Wells

Sungjin Park

Sungjin is one of the leading employment lawyers for multinational Korean companies in the UK, with a particular sector focus on Technology and Financial Services. Sungjin advises employers on redundancies, disciplinaries and grievances as well as dismissals. His particular strength lies in conducting successful cases in Employment Tribunals as well as negotiating settlements for employers in the Technology and Financial Services sectors. Sungjin has a broad advisory practice in other sectors including Media, Energy & Natural Resources and Shipping. This includes assisting with employment contracts, consultancy agreements and staff handbooks. He also advises on restrictive covenants, discrimination and whistleblowing issues. Some of Sungjin’s major clients include: LG Electronics UK Swidch HS Ad Innocean KEB Hana Bank Woori Bank IBK Bank Hyundai Heavy Industries Hyundai Engineering and Construction SK Energy SK Lubricants SK Shipping Europe Sungjin acts as legal counsel for the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the UK.

Keystone Law

Sunil Kakkad

Consultant

Gowling WLG

Sunil Mohindra

Sunil is a Consultant Solicitor here at Slater Heelis. Sunil has taken part in numerous DTI and other trade delegations and over the years has established a large network of overseas contacts, particularly in India. Sunil’s work has focused on commercial transactions including banking, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions, especially between the UK and India. Sunil is a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 law directory and was a Partner until 2021 when he stepped into a Consultant position.

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Sunil Patel

Sunil is a Director in the Litigation department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. His areas of expertise include commercial and civil dispute resolution. Sunil's main practice areas include: Corporate insolvency such as representing former directors of insolvent companies facing allegations of unlawful trading and breaches of duties. Personal insolvency which may involve high value petitions some of which relate to complex financial arrangements. Multi-Track litigation such as contractual disputes between commercial entities, partnership disputes, contentious probate such as challenging capacity, disputes over the beneficial ownership of property and high value and complex debt recovery. Construction disputes.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Sunil Sheth

I am Fladgate's Senior Partner, with overall leadership of the firm. This involves ensuring that the partnership achieves its strategic goals while focusing on engagement and communication both internally and externally. I also co-lead the India Desk with Mythily Katsaris, and I am recognised for my expertise in advising Indian companies, and overseas companies wanting to do business in India, as well as high net worth clients from the Indian diaspora. I have been dealing with companies and entrepreneurs in India since the mid-1980s, and under my leadership, Fladgate’s India team has established a market reputation as leading advisers to Indian companies and high net worth individuals. My clients benefit from my wider knowledge of international tax and estate planning, wealth management and private funds. I have a wealth of contacts in India, not just with intermediaries such as lawyers and accountants, but also with promoters and controlling shareholders of significant companies. I advise clients in sectors including financial services, real estate, infrastructure, hotels and hospitality. I am passionate about leveraging resources and influence to meet the needs of vulnerable people in societies, and have led major philanthropic efforts to do so. I have chaired the disability rights charity Sense International since 2011 and been a trustee since 2004. I am also the Chair of Anti-Slavery International, a UK charity established in 1839 and regarded as the oldest human rights organisation in the world. I am a trustee of The Hospice Biographers, a charity which offers terminally ill patients the chance to have their life stories professionally recorded on audio for their pleasure and relief, and for their families to hear their voices and memories for generations to come. I was a trustee of One World Media Trust and a trustee of Victim Support, where I acted as Vice Chair from 2007-2010 and was also Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee. I was also a Founder of the Society of Asian Lawyers, and was Chair of the organisation for many years.

Fladgate LLP

Sunita Mehta

ABV Solicitors

Sunjay Versani

Sunjay Versani is a Director of Crime and Prison Law at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. He is responsible for these practice groups, as well as Motoring and Regulatory Law, at the firm’s City of London and Harrow offices. Sunjay is a highly-regarded criminal defence specialist and has been part of Duncan Lewis since 2009. He manages a formidable team of lawyers whose high calibre work is perennially recognised with industry quality hallmarks and by the independent legal directories. Sunjay was Called to the Bar in 2007 and Admitted to the Roll in 2008. As such, he is counted amongst the small cadre of English lawyers able to both appear before and conduct litigation in all courts and tribunals throughout the jurisdiction. Beyond which he is also licensed to practice in the British Indian Ocean Territory. This vertical integration of skills has allowed him to act in many thousands of contested cases across the gamut of English and international criminal law. Sunjay is well-versed in the cut-and-thrust of adversarial proceedings and in the conduct of work of public importance. He has stood before the highest courts in the land and has been instructed in sensitive, complex and voluminous litigation on behalf of a multitude of individuals and entities, across borders and languages. During his career, Sunjay acted in the well-known Waya litigation, which led to a landmark Supreme Court judgement casting a much-needed sea-change in proceeds of crime jurisprudence. As sole instructed counsel, he defended a multi-million-pound insider fraud upon the NatWest bank at the Old Bailey and successfully managed to reduce a lengthy sentence in one of the very first cases to be televised live in the 100-year history of the Court of Appeal. Sunjay secured a favourable outcome in a case involving the stalking of musician Rita Ora, and negotiated a discontinuance for a member of Elton John’s staff falsely accused of misuse of computers. He also led the defence of a high-profile client wrongly implicated in the 'Putney Bridge Pusher' investigation – an internationally-publicised incident of a jogger pushing a female pedestrian into the path of an oncoming London bus. Sunjay has an enviable track record in defending cases involving alleged sexual wrongdoing, white-collar and social security fraud, as well as sundry violence, dishonesty, narcotics, and road traffic prosecutions. Sunjay also undertakes specialist extradition work (routinely dealing with international requests under both parts of the Act). He advises those with discrete legal needs which often arise in parallel to criminal proceedings. He has assisted professional clients in navigating workplace investigations and disciplinary/regulatory issues with their overseeing bodies.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Supinder Singh Sian

As a Partner in the Immigration & Global Mobility teams, I support clients across all areas of UK business, high-net worth immigration and global mobility co-ordination. I focus on the Sport, Technology, Financial Services, Engineering, Charities and Pharma sectors. I advise corporate clients on outbound and UK in-bound immigration and global mobility programs. I advise on immigration following complex company restructures or M&A. I specialise in all aspects of the UK's Points Based (Immigration) System and support sponsor licence holders with Home Office audits and assurance calls. I also specialise in applications under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) and I have developed a niche expertise in Global Business Mobility – Service Supplier (previously T5 International Agreement Contractual Service Supplier) sponsorship. I am a member of the Immigration Lawyers Practitioners Association (ILPA).

Lewis Silkin

Suraj Desor

Associate Solicitor

Poppleston Allen

Suraya Tegally

Suraya has been advising on international asset finance and leasing for over 13 years, particularly within the aviation sector where she has additional insight and expertise gained from having been the in-house counsel for Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. During this time she advised on a wide range of matters and guided the Treasury and Fleet Planning teams on structured transactions, asset, cross-border, Islamic, unsecured and sustainable financings, and a number of corporate projects. Suraya’s experience also includes working with civil aviation authorities across key jurisdictions and advising companies in the aviation sector on a wide range of commercial aviation matters, such as pilot/crew training, catering, airport and technical service agreements. Suraya advises airlines, banks, lessors and other financial institutions on a broad spectrum of matters including the financing, purchase and sale of aircraft, engines, helicopters, corporate jets, military aircraft and simulators.

Keystone Law

Surbhi Shah

Surbhi is an employment lawyer for health sector clients and her clients in the health sector include national NHS bodies (Department of Health and NHS England) Acute NHS Trusts, NHS Mental Health Trusts, Ambulance Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups. Surbhi is frequently asked to advise on matters where specialist knowledge of the NHS is required, including high profile disputes with very senior managers and medical staff, complex senior level terminations and the management of complex internal disputes. Surbhi also frequently advises clients on organisational change and TUPE including outsourcing arrangements. Surbhi undertakes her own advocacy at Employment Tribunals.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Surekha Gollapudi

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Suresh Bhatt

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Suriya Edwards

Partner

Freeths LLP

Susan Anand

Susan is a real estate lawyer specialising in both commercial and residential property. Her client base consists, largely, of retail owners, landlords and tenants. With fifteen years’ experience, Susan is well placed to deal with a range of complex commercial property matters. Susan is also a Notary Public and can advise on all aspects of notarial work including authenticating company and business documents and transactions, certifying company documents, and witnessing signatures on contracts for the purchase or sale of land abroad.

Keystone Law