Avocats – England

Becca Hird

Becca is an Associate in the Mishcon Private department.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Becca Hogan

Becca specialises in high‑value, complex commercial disputes, with a particular focus on banking and financial services, securities litigation and group actions. She also advises on contentious regulatory matters, including FCA investigations. Her recent work includes representing a group of institutional investors pursuing claims exceeding £560m against Barclays Plc under FSMA s.90A, arising from alleged fraud and misconduct linked to Barclays’ liquidity dark pool. She has a long track record in securities litigation, notably acting for a large institutional and retail claimant group in the groundbreaking s.90 proceedings against the Royal Bank of Scotland and its former directors. Becca is a lead partner at Signature defending Renault in the unprecedented NOx Diesel Emissions Group Litigation. In 2024, a Group Litigation Order was made in respect of Renault—one of 14 GLOs in the Pan‑NOx Emissions Litigation, which encompasses claims by more than 1.5 million claimants against multiple manufacturers. A 10‑week technical trial is listed from October 2025. The case involves highly complex issues regarding diesel engine design and operation and requires close collaboration between Signature’s London and Paris teams. She has also acted in substantial fraud and conspiracy matters, including defending the former management of a Thai renewable energy company in a US$2bn dispute over a 19‑week trial.

Signature Litigation LLP

Becket McGrath

Partner

Euclid Law

Becki Smith

Becki is an Associate in our family team. Becki assists clients with all aspects of family law including divorce and separation, financial remedies, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, variation of maintenance, cohabitee disputes, injunctions, and private children law. Becki trained as a Solicitor at Weightmans and qualified in 2020, with over 6 years’ litigation experience prior to qualification. Becki is an active member of Resolution and sits on the Merseyside Resolution Committee. Becki is part of the winning team named Family Law Firm of the Year at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards.

Weightmans LLP

Becky Baty

Becky qualified in 2000 and joined Weightmans in 2001 working in the large loss and catastrophic team. She is currently an associate in the motor team specialising in defending civil claims for compensation against insurance companies and handles claims up the value of £500k.

Weightmans LLP

Becky Cutler

Solicitor

Wilson Solicitors LLP

Becky Gray

Becky is a Senior Associate in the Commercial team at Shoosmiths, based in the Thames Valley. She advises on a wide range of commercial and privacy matters across different sectors, including: supply agreements for goods and/or services; distribution agreements; contract variations; consultancy agreements; confidentiality agreements and general privacy work and advice. Whilst training, Becky undertook seats in Real Estate, Commercial and Employment. Prior to her training contract, Becky worked as a paralegal for Panasonic Europe Ltd in a small in house legal team, providing practical and timely advice directly to business stakeholders on broad commercial matters. This experience has given her an invaluable insight into the type of legal assistance required by in-house legal teams and business, and the necessity for providing pragmatic and focused legal advice. Becky’s recent experience includes: reviewing various types of IT agreements, including software licensing, software development, support and maintenance, SaaS and systems implementation agreements; drafting a suite of documents for an innovative new car booking app, including both business and consumer terms of use, and a privacy policy for a local start-up company; drafting an agreement for the supply and ongoing support for a revolutionary new 3D printing solution for a UK university; undertaking an in-depth GDPR compliance audit for a known brand retailer business, producing and discussing with the business an onward action plan to enable the company to work towards GDPR compliance; working with an international construction company to review and update its GDPR compliance programme, including drafting and amending numerous policies and procedures and data transfer and sharing agreements; general privacy work including UK breach reporting, compiling cross jurisdictional Article 30 records, conducting DPIAs, drafting and amending data processing agreements and contract clauses, and reviewing and amending general data protection policies to ensure compliance with data and privacy legislation; and drafting a range of agreements facilitating the supply of products for UK brand name on an international basis; advising on a clothing donation, recycling and reuse agreement for large multinational retailer, maintaining direct communication with the business to progress finalising the agreement; and drafting a suite of documents for a start-up nanny agency business, including consumer facing terms and conditions.

Shoosmiths LLP

Becky Madden

Becky Madden is a senior associate in Flint Bishop’s Employment team and Training Manager. She advises employers on employment law matters including restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, and terms and conditions of employment. She also oversees the design and delivery of employment law seminars, e-learning modules, and bespoke training sessions.

Flint Bishop

Becky Spears

Becky is a Legal Director in our property team. She is an experienced commercial property lawyer who specialises in commercial lease transactions (acting for both landlords and tenants), property acquisitions and disposals (both freehold and leasehold) as well as general portfolio management work. Becky acts for a wide range of clients including household name retailers, large property investment firms, small owner-managed businesses and individual investors.She also advises on renewals and procedures under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. In addition, Becky works with colleagues on various retail and manufacturing-based projects.

Brabners LLP

Becky Woodcock

Senior Associate

HCR Law

Belinda Moore

Belinda qualified as a solicitor in 1998 following a career in senior management in the public sector. She acts for police forces and public authorities in defence of civil claims in particular misfeasance cases. Belinda has developed a specialism in applications arising out of legislation aimed at targeting anti social behaviour. This includes applications for ASBOs, crack house closures, football banning orders, sexual offences prevention orders and cash seizures and forfeiture. She has lectured extensively on these areas of law and has provided training in house for the police service.

Weightmans LLP

Belinda Normandale

Weightmans LLP

Belinda Solomon

Belinda has over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial real estate and acts for all types of real-estate clients including property companies, occupiers, joint ventures and funds. She is particularly well known for her occupier experience, acting on all types of premises including offices, retail units, aparthotels, data centres, warehousing and industrial properties. Belinda is also a member of the Model Commercial Lease (MCL) committee which launched in July 2014. She was instrumental in the creation of the “Clearlet Lease” for Land Securities, a product which has proved to be a popular market-leader and forerunner to the MCL.

Keystone Law

Belinda Watson

Belinda Watson is a partner in the Farms & Estates team of our private client department. She specialises in providing strategic advice on all areas of wealth preservation and succession planning, typically to the owners of landed estates, large farms, family businesses and heritage chattels and properties. This involves advising on wills and trusts, lifetime giving, partnerships and the application of inheritance tax exemptions and reliefs (such as agricultural or business property, heritage property and maintenance funds). Belinda represents clients from a wide geographical area across the country including the south coast, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Shropshire.

Wilsons

Ben Acheson

Partner Ben is head of the Real Estate team in our Birmingham office and has more than 15 years of experience in real estate transactions. Ben spent 12 years at City law firm Macfarlanes before taking on the role of head of real estate for the Birmingham office of Irwin Mitchell. He deals with all aspects of real estate work including investment and development transactions, both for commercial/mixed use and residential projects, as well as acting for both landlords and tenants on commercial occupier work.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Ben Adams

I’m a Senior Associate in the Corporate team at Michelmores, based in our Bristol office and working across the Firm’s Bristol, Cheltenham, Exeter and London offices. I have wide-ranging experience advising companies and individuals on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, asset sales, reorganisations, and general corporate governance matters. Areas of expertise Accelerated M&A Corporate Corporate Finance Finance & Investment Private Equity

Michelmores LLP

Ben Amoah

Ben advises both claimants and defendants on all aspects of commercial litigation and dispute resolution. In particular, he has experience of all stages of the litigation process from initial pre-action advice to trial. Ben has assisted on a number of complex civil fraud disputes.

Farrer & Co

Ben Ashworth

Partner

Cripps

Ben Baker

Ben completed his training in the criminal and regulatory field in London and joined Hallinans in 2024. A stellar addition to the team, Ben has brought with him enthusiasm and passion for both the law and achieving the best results for his clients. Ben enjoys advocacy and regularly appears in Magistrates’ Courts across London and the home counties on behalf of his clients. He also has experience in defending clients brought before disciplinary tribunals in the regulatory sector. He has both prepared these matters as litigator and appeared in these proceedings as an advocate. Ben has a keen eye for detail and a sound knowledge of the rules of evidence and disclosure. He is able to quickly identify cases which have been neglected by the prosecuting authorities, using those failures to obtain favourable outcomes for his clients who otherwise would have been negatively impacted at trial. Ben is instructed in cases across the spectrum from domestic matters, sex offences, motoring, drugs, violent crime and is developing his own specialism in regulatory matters.

Hallinan Blackburn Gittings & Nott

Ben Barrison

Partner and Head of Real Estate Disputes

Forsters LLP

Ben Bentley

Ben is an accomplished Partner Barrister working in the firm’s in-house advocacy team since his call to the Bar in 2008. He routinely appears in court to conduct trials, coroner’s inquests and to prosecute on behalf of government regulatory agencies at various tribunals. He is adept at drafting court pleadings, advising on issues of liability and quantum in personal injury matters, and handling complex civil procedure applications. He has had considerable success in employer and public liability matters in court and has also achieved notable victories defending against credit hire claims. He is additionally experienced in dealing with costs matters, particularly in challenging the recovery of after the event insurance premiums. Ben’s education practice also extends to prosecution on behalf of the National College for Teaching & Leadership; and advising and advocating at all levels of Tribunal in respect to Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination matters.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Ben Bentley

Ben is an accomplished Partner Barrister working in the firm’s in-house advocacy team since his call to the Bar in 2008. He routinely appears in court to conduct trials, coroner’s inquests and to prosecute on behalf of government regulatory agencies at various tribunals. He is adept at drafting court pleadings, advising on issues of liability and quantum in personal injury matters, and handling complex civil procedure applications. He has had considerable success in employer and public liability matters in court and has also achieved notable victories defending against credit hire claims. He is additionally experienced in dealing with costs matters, particularly in challenging the recovery of after the event insurance premiums. Ben’s education practice also extends to prosecution on behalf of the National College for Teaching & Leadership; and advising and advocating at all levels of Tribunal in respect to Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination matters.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Ben Boyd

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Ben Brayford

Partner and Head of Hotels

Forsters LLP