Avocats – England

Winston Penhall

Winston is an experienced funds lawyer who advises clients on investment management law and regulation with an emphasis on alternative investment funds, their investment managers, investors and service providers. Institutional investors and pension schemes turn to him for advice in connection with their fund allocations, co-investments, fund-of-one structures and bespoke arrangements. Winston also assists both institutional investors and investment managers with non-structured discretionary investment management and structured managed account investments across asset classes Winston’s clients include UK investment managers, US investment advisors, UK pension schemes, US State Plans and investment banks.

Keystone Law

Wonu Sanda

Senior Associate

CM Murray LLP

Wunmi Adenekan

Paralegal

Birketts LLP

Wyn Jones

Legal Director

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Wyn Morgan

Wyn is an experienced family lawyer with specific expertise in advising clients upon the complex issues and consequences of relationship breakdown. She worked as a financial advisor prior to qualifying as a solicitor and she has extensive knowledge in resolving complex financial arrangements/disputes. Wyn has particular expertise in relation to advising upon private children issues, which include residence and contact disputes (Child Arrangement Orders), the removal of children from jurisdictions, relocation disputes and child abduction. Wyn is also able to undertake her own advocacy in court.

Keystone Law

Xanthy Papageorgiou

Senior Associate & Mediator, Family department Xanthy advises on all areas of family law, including divorce/separation, complex financial disputes, pre and post nuptial agreements, as well as private children matters. Mediation Xanthy is also a Resolution trained mediator and is registered with the Family Mediation Council. Xanthy offers mediation to couples assisting them in exploring and working out arrangements for finances and/or their children cooperatively following separation. Mediator and Senior Associate in the Family Team, Xanthy Papageorgiou, has contributed to a podcast collaboration between Resolution’s National Dispute Resolution Committee and National YRes Committee. You can listen to the podcast here: https://resolution.org.uk/podcast-in-conversation-with/in-conversation-with-the-national-dispute-resolution-committee-and-the-national-yres-committee/

Sinclair Gibson LLP

Xavier Nicholas

Partner and Head of Private Client

Forsters LLP

Xinlei Zhang

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Xinru Jia

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Xu Yan

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Xueying (Laurel) Zhang

London based Partner Xueying (Laurel) Zhang heads up the firm’s China and Far East desk. Laurel is a native Mandarin speaker, originally from Beijing, who graduated in law with first-class honours from one of China’s top universities. She received a number of prizes for her academic achievements including the State Scientific Research prize for Law for Jiangsu Province, China. Laurel moved to the UK from mainland China to complete an LLM in International Business Law at UCL, before embarking on qualification as a Solicitor, and came to Sherrards from a boutique City law firm. Laurel has worked on a number of cross-border Corporate Chinese-related deals, and focuses on assisting our Chinese and Far Eastern corporate clients coming into the UK and Europe, by way of inward investment, as well as assisting our UK client base with their interests overseas, across China and the Far East. For example on a recent transaction, Laurel has involved in acting for Haier in the acquisition of the "cold chain” business and assets of Labtech International Limited and Verity Control Limited. Laurel has also had a number of academic legal articles published in the China National Social Sciences Journal, including one article published in the most prestigious Chinese journal: Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index, which is part of the China National Social Sciences Database, and also carried by Princeton University Library (ISSN: 1671-511X, Issue S2, pages 151 - 158).

Sherrards Solicitors LLP

Ya Yuan

Paralegal

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Yael Selig

Partner

Osbornes

Yagmur Ekici

Yagmur is a partner in our Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team. She advises and represents individuals in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases. Yagmur regularly acts for adults and children who have suffered catastrophic and life-changing injuries. In the last two years, Yagmur has settled claims worth an aggregate total of over £30 million, on a capitalised basis. Recent cases include high-value settlements for a child with cerebral palsy, an adult who received a seven-figure settlement arising out of an Occupier’s Liability Claim, a case for a woman who sustained significant and life-changing fourth degree tears during labour, an upper limb amputee, and a young adult whose professional career was derailed following a serious accident at work. Yagmur is named in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom in both Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Litigation, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Junior Lawyer of the Year category at the Law Society’s Excellence Awards.

Bindmans LLP

Yana Chekavska

Yana is a dual-qualified solicitor (England & Wales and Ukraine) and specialises in acting for clients in international commercial litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. As a fluent Ukrainian and Russian speaker, Yana has been representing clients from the UK, CIS, and Eastern Europe in high-value multi-party and multi-jurisdictional disputes in both the High Court and various arbitration institutions, such as LCIA and ICC. Her expertise spreads across a number of sectors, including Shareholder Disputes, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing, Human Rights, CIS Disputes and Employment Law. Before commencing her training contract and qualifying at CANDEY, Yana obtained an MBA from BPP University, a PhD in Environmental and Natural Resources Law and developed a strong commercial mindset through working in an investment management company in London.

CANDEY

Yanoulla Kakoulli

Senior Associate Solicitor

Judge & Priestley LLP

Yasmin Hoque

Consultant Solicitor

Jurit LLP

Yasmin Khan-Gunns

Yasmin is an award-winning family lawyer who advises on all aspects of private family law, particularly when the situation is complex, international and/or high stakes. Typically, Yasmin advises on the division of finances on divorce primarily between high-net-worth and high-profile couples, including assets located in multiple jurisdictions, overseas pensions, and complex income and bonus structures. She also specialises in drafting wealth protection agreements, including cohabitation agreements, separation agreements and pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, including advising clients when they or their partner live in another jurisdiction; to date, she has advised clients with a connection to Thailand, Lithuania, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, USA, France, India and Greece. Yasmin’s clients range from successful business professionals, celebrities and lawyers, to stay-at-home mothers, expats, international clients and ‘silver separators’ of 70+. Yasmin runs a successful legal Instagram account under the handle @londonfamilysolicitor.

Keystone Law

Yezdan Izzet

Partner, Head of Property Dispute Resolution| Property Dispute Resolution Team I advise residential and commercial property owners, investors and developers on a wide range of complex issues with a view to avoiding disputes where possible. I also help clients to navigate around and find practical solutions to resolve disputes when they arise. I cover a broad spectrum of property matters including residential and commercial landlord and tenant, possession claims (including claims against tenants, occupiers, squatters), adverse possession, rent and service charge recovery, breaches of lease and commercial and residential statutory lease renewals. Yezdan frequently work with developers, freeholders, landlords and leaseholders in connection with development disputes. This includes advising on airspace and rooftop development, party wall and boundary disputes, as well as right-to-light, for both claimants and defendants. She works closely with the firm’s Real Estate team on many types of property matters. In particular, she advises on issues relating to option and overage agreements and taking steps to secure vacant possession of commercial units and warehouses for redevelopment.

SA Law LLP

Yi-Shun Teoh

Partner

RPC

Yitong Guo

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Yoann Rousseau

Yoann is a chartered UK trade mark attorney with extensive knowledge of trade mark and copyright law. Prior to joining Venner Shipley, Yoann was in-house IP Counsel for a well-known, pan-European, telecom retail company for several years. He brings a commercial approach to provide both practical and proactive advice to clients. Yoann advises on all aspects of trade mark law and practice, including management and organisation of IP portfolios, clearance for use and registration of new marks, prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights. He has extensive experience in contentious trade mark proceedings, such as oppositions and cancellation actions before the UK and EU Intellectual Property Offices, including trade mark hearings before the UK Intellectual Property Office. Yoann also advises on domain name disputes (before ICANN and Nominet) and has particular expertise in drafting and negotiating trade mark licences and assignments.

Venner Shipley LLP

Yogesh Patel

Consultant

DKLM Solicitors

Yogesh Patel

Freemans Solicitors