Avocats – England

Ashlea Theaker

Solicitor - Dispute Resolution

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Ashlee Campbell

Ashlee is Head of Immigration and Partner with many years’ experience in all aspects of Immigration law. Her experience includes Corporate Immigration acting for employers and education providers. She also has widespread experience in dealing with appeals before the First Tier and Upper Tier Immigration Tribunals, Judicial Reviews, Court of Appeal applications and European Court of Human Rights applications. Ashlee often deals with complex immigration matters for clients which include advice on the Points Based system, family applications, spouse/unmarried partner/civil partner visa applications, dependent relative visa applications, British citizenship, Asylum and Human Rights applications. When representing asylum clients she practices mainly with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, domestic abuse cases/ trafficking cases and accepts referrals from various Local Authorities.

Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP

Ashleigh Carr

Ashleigh is a partner in our Dispute Resolution team. She advises UK and international clients on high value and complex disputes. She has particular expertise in contentious trusts including advising on trustee powers, breach of trust claims, applications for the removal and replacement of trustees and disputes involving protectors and the variation of trusts. Probate disputes also form part of Ashleigh’s practice including advising on will challenges, 1975 Inheritance Act claims as well as disputes between executors and beneficiaries. Ashleigh is co-chair of ConTrA (the Contentious Trusts Association).

Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP

Ashleigh Kelly

Associate Partner - Wills & Probate

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Ashleigh MacCormack

SA Law LLP

Ashley Avery

Ashley is an expert in advising clients on complex data privacy and confidentiality issues, brand protection and exploitation and software development and licensing matters. She has previously worked with a number of high-profile clients across the technology, pensions, retail and financial services sectors and was seconded to Ambassador Theatre Group and Deliveroo.

Foot Anstey

Ashley Fairbrother

Ashley is Head of Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud.

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ashley Greenbank

Ashley advises on the full range of corporate tax issues, but particular specialisations include the corporate tax aspects of UK and cross-border corporate finance and M&A transactions, group tax planning and dispute resolution. Ashley also advises companies on group structuring and strategic tax planning (including corporate residence, permanent establishment, transfer pricing and CFC issues) and assists our private client group on corporate tax aspects of structuring issues for substantial privately held groups. Ashley also has broad experience in handling disputes with tax authorities. He is a Deputy High Court Judge, a Deputy Judge in the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery) and a CEDR accredited mediator. Ashley is a former chair of the Tax Law Committee of the Law Society and a member of its Corporation Tax Sub-Committee. In that capacity he is active in making representations to and in consultations with Government and tax authorities on changes to existing legislation and new policy proposals. He is also a member of the committee of the British Branch of the International Fiscal Association and the organising committee for the IFA Congress in London in 2019.

Macfarlanes LLP

Ashley Hill

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Ashley Irons

Ashley has specialised in advising hospitals (in the public and private sector) in relation to mental health issues and practical ways of addressing them for over 25 years. He is one of the country’s leading mental health solicitors, as is recognised in the Chamber’s directory. He is regularly involved in a wide range of mental health challenges, in relation to policies and procedures, claims, Tribunals, Judicial Reviews and Inquests. In the last 4 years has advised on over 80 homicide investigations on behalf of SHAs, hospital providers and investigation teams. Out of 40 Judicial Review challenges in the last 10 years, he has been successful in all, save once. In the last 20 years he has defeated, every Judicial Review challenge to policies written by him (by correct application of proportionality to mental health and human rights law). He is an advocate at Mental Health Review Tribunals, 90% of which concern Personality Disorder. Most recently concerning-Ian Brady in 2013 – a public hearing. He has won 3 out of 3 cases in House of Lords [mental health cases]. All 3 involved Human Rights, ECHR and UK case law. He obtained a House of Lords Order in 2002 that the Daily Mirror disclose the source of the leak of hospital records to that paper. This is the leading authority on clinical records confidentiality. He has had several JRs regarding compulsory treatment. Ashley has been involved with many of the most important mental health cases over the years, including the Broadmoor “right to search” case, which led to the Code of Practice being changed. In 2005 the House of Lords supported his client, Mersey Care NHS Trust, in their appeal against the Court of Appeal decision in B where it was said that a patient could not be treated except for a classified disorder. Ashley also represented the Hospital in Munjaz, the new leading authority on the status of the Code of Practice and departure from it. Ashley has advised on and taken part in lengthy Public Inquiries including representing Ashworth (each over a year) in the Fallon Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit (Report of Committee of Inquiry into Personality Disorder Unit, Ashworth Special Hospital 1999), and at the Blom Cooper Inquiry at the same hospital before that (Report of the Committee of Inquiry into complaints about Ashworth Hospital 1992).

Capsticks LLP

Ashley Mitchell

Partner, Head of Housing Development and Regeneration

Gowling WLG

Ashley Norman

Bevan Brittan LLP

Ashley Pigott

I am a Partner in the Construction and Engineering team based in Exeter. I joined in May 2024. I was Articled at Macfarlanes and joined Wragge&Co (now GowlingWLG) on qualification in 1986. I am experienced in all forms of dispute resolution on all types of construction and engineering contracts. I have been an Adjudicator on TeCSA’s panel for over 20 years and regularly act as an Adjudicator which helps my clients when presenting their cases. I have represented parties in some of the leading cases in construction law I acted for the successful claimant in Harmon CFEM v House of Commons (the leading procurement case), for Morrison Construction in the first Adjudication enforcement case (Macob), for the JV of contractors building the M6 Toll Road in a series of Adjudications, three TCC cases and one Court of Appeal (a leading case on Equivalent Project Relief in a PFI contract), Hyder on adjudication enforcement versus Carillion (leading authority on what constitutes a decision) and Interserve v Safeway (no greater liability in collateral warranties). Other notable projects I have acted on include New Sadlers Wells Theatre, Spinnaker Tower, and the Olympic Stadium in London. I have been ranked in Band 1 for Construction in the Midlands in Chambers for over 20 years and am in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for the West Midlands. Chambers quotes include ” intellectually second to none” and “he demonstrates strong experience and a great client manner”. I have also been listed as a leading practitioner in the Who’s Who Legal: Construction 2024 report, which provides in-depth analysis to the world’s elite construction lawyers and experts. I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, The Society of Construction Law, and TeCSA

Michelmores LLP

Ashley Reeback

Ashley Reeback acts on corporate transactions in both the public and private arenas, including M&A, IPOs, MBOs and MBIs. He is a partner and Head of the Corporate department at Howard Kennedy. Ashley assists clients on the full spectrum of corporate and capital markets transactions. He is a solicitor with a particular focus on mid-market M&A, as well as, public company transactions. He advises on both the purchase and sale of private companies including by way of Management Buy Outs and Management Buy-Ins. On the capital markets side of his practice, Ashley acts for clients on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and has advised on over 40 AIM IPOs (some by way of reverse takeover), acting for both issuers and Nomad/brokers. Ashley also advises on public takeovers, as well as, early stage and pre-IPO funding rounds.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Ashley Williams

Partner and Co-Leads the Technology Transactions Group

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Ashton Carter

Ashton is Head of the Corporate and Commercial Department and Partner at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP. Ashton is particularly interested in corporate, commercial, company and partnership work, including specialising in corporate transactions involving both share and assets sales/purchases, mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, corporate reorganisations and restructures. Ashton also has a passion for working with charities and undertakes a considerable amount of charity work as well as providing independent legal advice in relation to business finance arrangements, mortgages and guarantees.

Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP

Ashton Davies

Ashton has over 25 years of experience and is a contentious trust and probate specialist, dealing with trust and estate disputes. His practice covers a broad range of matters, including challenges to the validity of wills, maladministration of trusts and estates, 1975 Inheritance Act claims, financial abuse of the elderly and the vulnerable by attorneys and deputies, misappropriation of estate and trust assets, and applications for removal of trustees and executors. Ashton acts for both professional and lay clients including trustees, executors, attorneys, deputies and beneficiaries in different sectors including private HNW individuals, charities and the financial services industry.

Keystone Law

Asif Patel

Asif is a Partner at Devonshires and the head of the non-contentious Construction, Engineering & Procurement team. Asif provides strategic advice to our clients from pre-planning through to project completion and onward sale. He is the ‘go to’ person on transactional construction matters, assisting clients with all forms of construction procurement, including (but not limited to) traditional, design and build, modular construction, joint venture, management contracting and construction management. Asif’s experience and expertise covers: (1) advice on the procurement approach for construction projects, (2) drafting and negotiating all forms of industry specific construction contracts, bespoke construction contracts, development agreements, professional appointments, collateral warranties, deeds of novation, deeds of variation, performance bonds, parent company guarantees, asset management and facilities management contracts, (3) setting up tax efficient public sector development vehicles, (4) providing strategic advice on the delivery of distressed projects or projects in delay or over budget, (5) advising on contractor insolvency, and (6) advising on all forms of construction insurance. A few testimonials from his clients: ‘Asif Patel is very personable, makes everything simple to understand, delivers on promises, responds quickly, and makes the whole process very straight forward’ ‘Asif Patel has a highly pragmatic approach to contract drafting. He has a highly measured and engaging approach.’ ‘Excellent responsive service, completes tasks in line with agreed timescales, excellent advice provided, and looks for solutions to suit all.’

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Askandar Samad

Consultant Solicitor

Jurit LLP

Asraa Hassaan Noor

Senior Associate

Simons Muirhead Burton

Astrid Stanley

Astrid Stanley is a partner specialising in commercial real estate and is a co-lead of the student accommodation group. Astrid has established herself as a go-to solicitor in the practice and advises developers, investors and HNW individuals across real estate development and investment transactions. Her strength is her deep understanding of the real estate market and provides her clients with strong commercial and strategic advice throughout a transaction. Her practice covers student accommodation, living, mixed-use, office, industrial and logistics, hotels & leisure, sectors. Astrid's expertise is in development and finance and she has an ability to advise on large scale and complex transactions, with a strength in client relationships management. Astrid has broadened her experience in the development team, advising investors, landlords and occupiers on commercial acquisitions for lease and development acquisitions for sale and forward funding.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Astrid Welch

Trainee Solicitor

Roe Lawyers

Astrid Westphalen

Astrid Westphalen is counsel in Gide's International Arbitration team in Paris. She specialises in international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Astrid advises and represents companies, state entities and governments in international, institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, as well as before the French courts in arbitration-related disputes. She has acted in over 25 commercial and investment arbitrations relating to infrastructure and construction projects, investment protection and contractual disputes in a wide variety of sectors, including energy and natural resources, cement, insurance and reinsurance, defence and public service concessions. Astrid is currently representing a reinsurer in a dispute relating to the performance of reinsurance treaties and a North African industrial group in a dispute relating to the construction of a cement plant. She recently acted for two public entities in North Africa in shareholder disputes. Astrid is Vice-President of Paris Arbitration Week and Co-Chair of the Society of Construction Law France's Dispute Resolution Committee. Member of the Paris Bar since 2013 and a Solicitor at the Bar of England and Wales since 2017, Astrid is a graduate of the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master II in International Trade Law) and of King's College London (Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in English and French Law).

Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP

Ateeq Ahmed

Member

Freeths LLP