Avocats – England

Vicky Stanborough

Vicky Stanborough is a Partner in the Commercial Property Department. Vicky joined Hamlins as a trainee solicitor in 1993 and became a partner in 1998. Vicky is experienced in all areas of commercial property including acquisitions, lettings and disposals and landlord and tenant issues. She has particular expertise in the leisure and parking sectors.

Hamlins LLP

Vicky Tomlinson

Vicky plays a key role in leading corporate transactions in the independent health and care sector. Vicky has worked with a number of private sector health and care clients on all areas of corporate work including share, business and SPV property acquisitions and disposals, group reorganisations and general company law matters including shareholder agreements, constitutional and corporate governance issues. Vicky’s clients include integrated retirements communities, care home developers and operators, private hospitals, health tech and medical device companies, domiciliary care providers, fertility clinics, children’s services and specialist care providers. Vicky works with companies at all stages of their journey, from start-ups and buy and build platforms to large care groups and internationally listed companies. Out of work, Vicky is busy looking after her toddler, she plays the violin and sings in a band, and has recently represented England winning a gold medal in the Touch Rugby European Championships.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Victor Lui

Victor is a dual-qualified Associate in the Dispute Resolution department and advises on a broad range of commercial disputes. He has extensive experience in advising both corporate and private clients in complex commercial and Chancery litigation, with an emphasis on company, insolvency, shareholders’ disputes, civil fraud, injunctive relief, estates disputes, cases with contractual and trust elements, and financial services.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Victor Mmegwa

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Victoria Abbott

Victoria is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team, specialising in project finance with a particular focus on energy (renewables, including wind, solar, gas and waste) and infrastructure projects. Victoria’s clients are drawn from across the full spectrum of the energy and infrastructure sector and include sponsors, borrowers and lenders, including many of the leading banks and financial institutions in the market. In addition to her core specialism, Victoria has considerable experience in acquisition finance, asset finance, general corporate finance and insurance finance.

Burges Salmon LLP

Victoria Atkins

Associate

Farrer & Co

Victoria Baron

Victoria joined Bristows’ media disputes team in February 2021. She regularly advises online intermediaries on high profile privacy and data protection cases. Victoria acted on the first “Right to Be Forgotten” claims to be determined at trial in the High Court. She has also acted for mainstream media entities, including representing a leading international broadcaster and online content provider on a breach of confidence claim following its reporting on information contained in a mass data leak. Victoria also advises clients in all sectors on data protection disputes, including in relation to threatened group actions following alleged data breaches.

Bristows LLP

Victoria Bentley

Expert in relation to issues facing clients moving into ‘smart’ or digital industry, Victoria is praised by clients for her pragmatic and strategic thinking. With over 17 years' experience, she has a strong specialism in patent litigation. Clients benefit from Victoria’s technical background in software development, enabling her to advise on high tech patents and other IP issues in complex technology sectors. Her skill in quickly grasping diverse subject matter is highlighted and she has particular expertise in patent and FRAND issues within wireless communications and other standards-based industries. Unusually, Victoria also has considerable experience in life sciences patent litigation and a specialism in medtech and digital health. Experienced in providing FTO analysis and opinions, Victoria helps pharma and medtech clients bring products to market including through co-ordinating complex, cross-border patent and SPC cases. Speaking fluent German, Victoria provides a seamless service on matters with a German aspect. For clients outside Europe, she adds strategic value in leading multi-jurisdictional patent matters across Europe. Experience includes: acting for a major US wireless communications company in one of the largest patent actions before the UK courts, involving 35 patents declared 'essential' to 3GPP standards relating to wireless technology; acting in a major patent and FRAND case in relation to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology and patents declared essential to IEEE standards, including a trial of two patents in January 2019; advising a client moving into digital health on issues relating to connected devices from R&D and technical standards through to FRAND licensing and strategies for enforcement; acting for a generic pharmaceutical company in its successful revocation of a Supplementary Protection Certificate for a dual-combination drug used for the treatment of HIV; supporting a client in patent licence negotiations including a review of a patent portfolio; and acting for clients in disputes relating to copyright in software, where an ability to understand the source code has been important; acting in successful defence of an action to revoke a pharmaceutical client’s patent for its blockbuster drug, achieving settlement on the first morning of a 13-day trial.

Fieldfisher

Victoria Bovington

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Victoria Burrows

Senior Associate Solicitor

Family Law Partners

Victoria Callicott

Associate

Squire Patton Boggs

Victoria Cassidy

Victoria has recently returned to Weightmans having spent four years working in a local authority as a Senior Solicitor for litigation and Safeguarding and then as the Special Educational Needs Team manager. Victoria completed her training contract in local government and has over 25 years of litigation experience specialising in public law matters relating to child and adult protection, community care, mental health and education. Her career has been spent supporting local authorities dividing her time between managing a caseload of complex litigation and providing advice to senior managers and decision making panels. She is familiar with the respective statutory duties of public bodies, their governance arrangements and their decision making processes. Victoria enjoys case analysis and problem solving and promotes mediation as an alternative, cost effective method of dispute resolution. She had delivered training to a variety of different audiences on the operation of the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and the Children and Families Act. She has advocacy experience in the Court of Protection, the Magistrates, the Family Court, the First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care) and the County Court. Victoria constantly strives to develop her legal knowledge and understanding and has post graduate qualifications in mental health law, local government law and is currently completing her LLM. She works on the local government adult and child out of hours’ emergency advice line. Notable cases: A Local Authority v Z & The Official Solicitor [2004] EWHC 2817 (Fam) [2005]

Weightmans LLP

Victoria Cole

Senior Associate

Ashtons Legal

Victoria Coleman

Senior Associate, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Victoria Douglas

TLT

Victoria Du Croz

Partner and Head of Planning

Forsters LLP

Victoria Duddles

Victoria is a Legal Director who is both a solicitor and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She advises on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, including redundancy and reorganisations, TUPE, changing terms and conditions, discrimination, disciplinary matters, and contractual issues. Victoria deals with clients from a range of sectors covering, amongst others, manufacturing, education, engineering, local authorities with much of her work advising police forces on employment law matters. Victoria regularly creates and presents employment training courses on a wide variety of employment law topics for clients and has presented on various employment law topics for the Birmingham Branch of CIPD as well as carrying out other public speaking activities. In addition, Victoria is experienced in carrying out investigations for clients on grievance and harassment complaints. Victoria is Vice Chair of Birmingham Law Society Employment Law Committee.

Weightmans LLP

Victoria Dunstall

Partner in insolvency and dispute resolution

Excello Law

Victoria Edwards

Legal Director - Casualty Commercial 1

Weightmans LLP

Victoria Fairley

Victoria is a partner in the private wealth team based in London. She advises clients on estate, tax and succession planning including the preparation of wills, probate and administration of estates and the setting up and management of trusts. Victoria also manages the preparation of powers of attorney and Court of Protection work and provide formation and management advice to charities.

Cripps

Victoria Fellows

Partner - Head of Birmingham Family

HCR Law

Victoria Francis

Partner

Newton Kearns LLP

Victoria Gofton

Victoria is Joint Head of Medical Negligence for London and Cambridge. She is a highly-regarded and respected litigator with more than 13 years’ experience handling a multitude of different cases including traumatic brain injury, spinal injuries as a result of surgery, amputation, anaesthetic awareness, misdiagnosis of cancer and birth injury claims. Victoria has acted in a range of cases involving those against GP’s and hospitals. She sensitively handles claims involving fatalities of loved ones and cases involving foreign doctors practicing in this jurisdiction. Her most challenging case to date settled for just under £6 million and her current caseload consists of cases of a similar high value and with technical legal arguments. Victoria is prepared to take on cases that are complex and challenging. She believes justice should be available for all, especially those that have been devastated after sustaining a serious injury. She understands that this situation not only changes the injured person's life but also has a huge impact on their family and friends.

Slater and Gordon

Victoria Green

Legal Director

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP