Avocats – England

Chris Weaver

Chris is a Partner in the Employment department and specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. Chris’ practice involves advising both employers and employees on matters relating to the departure of directors and senior executives, redundancy consultation exercises and business reorganisations, disciplinary investigations and procedures, performance management, employee grievances, managing ill health and return to work, maternity and family friendly rights, restrictive covenants, TUPE and the transfer of undertakings, the negotiation of severance terms, service agreements, employment policies and procedures, discrimination law, whistleblowing and post-termination restrictions. He is regularly involved in complex Employment Tribunal litigation. He also advises on all aspects of UK data protection law, the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 compliance, including data mapping organisations’ data processing activities; carrying out audits of organisations’ data protection compliance; advising on data controller and processor obligations; identifying the appropriate lawful bases for processing personal data and conditions for processing special category (sensitive) personal data and criminal convictions data; drafting privacy notices, consent forms, data protection policies, data breach policies and data retention guidelines; advising on the requirements when appointing third party data processors or sub-processors, data transfers and data sharing between data controllers; the requirement to maintain a record of processing activities; cross border transfers of personal data; data subjects’ rights and complying with requests made by data subjects (including data subject access requests); reporting and record keeping requirements following data breach incidents; and the requirements when carrying out direct electronic marketing. Chris provides support to the Corporate Department on employment issues across the full range of transactional work including acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations and the transfer of undertakings (TUPE). Specifically, this comprises conducting employment related due diligence and preparing due diligence reports, advising on warranties and indemnities in the sale and purchase documentation, advising on restrictive covenants, severance terms and redundancy situations, TUPE related consultations and notices, the preparation of new employment and consultancy agreements and related employment matters. Chris regularly writes articles on employment law matters and has provided comments in the local and national press, including the Financial Times, Daily Mail, the Telegraph and City AM. He has also provides training for clients and has presented seminars on matters such as TUPE and data protection, including for the Beauty Companies Association (BCA), the Royal Society of Biology and architects at de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Chris Webb-Jenkins

Partner leading Weightmans’ Safeguarding practice. Specialism in defending Social Care and Safeguarding claims, in particular against local authorities, education providers, sports clubs and sports governing bodies. Often these claims are high profile, and of great sensitivity to all parties involved. Particular expertise in issues relating to duty of care, vicarious liability, human rights, mental health, data protection, defamation and judicial review. Particular sectoral expertise in the legacy insurance market. Also provide advice on Safeguarding governance and regulation, and in relation to public inquiries. Clients include Zurich Insurance, Municipal Mutual Insurance, AIG, Travelers, Gallagher Bassett, QBE, RSA, Barnardo’s, and many local authorities and local authority consortia. Notable cases: North Wales Children’s Homes Group Action; South Wales Children’s Homes Group Action; Staffordshire Children’s Homes Group Action; NA v Nottinghamshire County Council; JB v Leicestershire County Council.

Weightmans LLP

Chris Webber

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Chris Whitehouse

Of Counsel. Chris specialises in a wide range of commercial disputes with emphasis on high value civil fraud, banking and financial services disputes, shareholder disputes and emerging technology disputes. Chris is widely recognised as an expert in the field of cryptoassets and a founding member of the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery Network. Much of Chris's work has a strong international dimension, and has involved multiple jurisdictions in Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Middle East. He also advises on proceedings in the English High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, as well as on arbitration proceedings

RPC

Chris Wilkinson

Chris has considerable experience in advising companies, investors and management teams on corporate finance matters including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has a particular expertise in the pharmaceutical wholesale and retail sector for Pan-European and regional companies.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Chris Wilkinson

Partner - Regulatory Police Core

Weightmans LLP

Chris Willison

Chris works with both lenders and borrowers, advising on all aspects of financial facilities. His regular clients include asset-based lenders, finance houses, banks, trade financiers, platform funders and their clients. Chris is experienced in asset-based lending, supply chain finance, factoring, invoice discounting, commercial lending, syndicated lending, trade finance and back-to-back finance. He is an expert in documenting financial facilities, securing these financial facilities, bespoke documentation relating to them, their structuring and variation. Additionally, Chris also assists SMEs with business funding for sales and purchases, as well as offering general commercial contract advice. He has particular expertise in issues relating to finance in the recruitment sector. Chris is also an experienced litigator and has a wealth of experience of enforcing financial facilities, fraud containment and asset recovery.

Keystone Law

Chris Wilson

Chris joined the Private Client team as a solicitor in 2016. Joining the Private Client team in 2016, Chris brings his expertise with over ten years of experience. Practice areas Chris has particular knowledge within the following areas: domestic and international tax planning the establishment and administration of trusts, wills and lasting powers of attorney the administration of estates including those with international elements.

RWK Goodman

Chris Woodthorpe

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Chris Worrall

Chris Worrall is a partner and head of the competition team at Burges Salmon. Chris has worked on numerous high profile antitrust matters and specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including antitrust investigations, cartels, abuse of market power, and merger control. Chris has extensive experience across a range of sectors, including financial services, media, transport, healthcare and retail.

Burges Salmon LLP

Chris Worthington

Chris advises property investors, housebuilders, strategic land professionals, property traders and property occupiers. He has worked with a wide range of clients, from small independent property companies to multinational listed corporations. For housebuilders and developers, Chris deals with option agreements, conditional contracts and planning agreements. He has particular experience working with small and medium-sized developers on deals with larger, more established landowners. For property investors, Chris deals with purchases, sales, asset management and assists with property strategy. Chris has worked with a wide range of investor clients, from large listed regeneration specialists to small pension scheme investors. For occupiers, Chris handles the acquisitions of leases, freehold purchases, and disposals, and assists with property strategy. He has worked across numerous sectors but has particular experience in the insurance, aviation and consumer electronics sectors. Chris is equally comfortable advising household names and small, single-site occupiers.

Keystone Law

Chrisa Tsompani

Partner

Davitt Jones Bould

Christalla Christodoulidou

Senior Serious Injury Lawyer

Thompsons Solicitors LLP

Christi Hufford Jackson

Partner and Head of the US Practice

Laura Devine Immigration

Christian Boney

Partner; Christian has a broad corporate practice, with particular experience in public and private M&A, joint ventures and equity capital markets work. Christian advises corporates across the full spectrum of their lifecycle, from start-ups to some of the largest companies in the FTSE 100.

Slaughter and May

Christian Bull

The Birmingham office’s lead real estate-education lawyer helping with the property needs of a range of education clients from the higher, further, academies, studio schools and university technical colleges sectors. Also the Birmingham real estate lead on helping commercial property organisations and businesses with the legal aspects of their estate. Specialises in all areas of real estate law in England and Wales for education institutions and companies. Christian is Mills & Reeve’s North America desk.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Christian Charles

Partner

Fladgate LLP

Christian Charlesworth

Christian is an insurance lawyer who typically acts for insurers and large corporates. He specialises in subrogation across a broad range of claims relating to property & construction, casualty, financial lines, and travel.

RPC

Christian Cockcroft

Christian is a data, privacy and regulatory lawyer whose practice spans a broad spectrum of data governance, data regulation (antitrust, privacy and sectoral) and cybersecurity related work. Christian is versed in a multitude of privacy laws, including GDPR, the PECRs (and related cookie-law), CCPA and PIPEDA, while his wider regulatory experience involves advising on antitrust, data governance and market access laws, law enforcement access & lawful intercept, and sector/industry-specific laws and codes of practice (including HIPPA, SOX, DORA, ISO information security standards and PCI-DSS). This mix of experience makes Christian uniquely placed to assist multi-national organisations in navigating a range of cross-border compliance issues, from implementing global privacy programs and advising on cross-border data breaches, complex strategic or transactions matters (such as outsourcing or digital transformation global), as well as advising on novel or higher-risk technologies (e.g., MarTech, AI-regulation, blockchain, crypto-tech, NFTs, metaverse etc.). Christian trained and practised in the Brussels office of a US law firm, before moving in-house, most recently as General Counsel & Data Protection Officer for an international security organization, before joining Shoosmiths in 2021. Representative engagements include: Assisting multiple organisations in navigating data transfer compliance, including Schrems II compliance, model clauses and docking arrangements, transfer risk assessments (having conducted over 20 TRAs in 2022) and negotiating supplementary security measures. Advised a number of organisations in the acquisition of Binding Corporate Rules, including acting on one of the UK’s first post-Brexit standalone BCR applications for a leading Ed-tech provider. Conducted an international data mapping and compliance project for a Japanese automotive manufacturer. Assisted a large timeshare and resort provider with its global privacy & data compliance efforts, including data mapping, vendor management, revision of existing privacy and information security policies, use of MarTech and cookie compliance. Advising on multiple intra-group data transfer arrangements for companies spanning a broad range of sectors (e.g., banking, social media, telecommunications, heavy industry, automotive etc.). Advised a global bank on a $100m+ outsourcing arrangement with an edge-to-cloud provider, including negotiating contractual arrangements with vendors, drafting information security schedules and advising on associated data transfers issues. Advised a major social networking company on both privacy and antitrust aspects of its acquisition of a popular OTT messaging platform. Advice to a global credit rating agency on a range of privacy matters, including the use of AI-enabled decision-making technologies. Advice to various telecos, ISPs and digital advertising agencies on PECR compliance, use of location data and compliant data monetization strategies. Working with a multitude of automotive manufacturers on a range of privacy matters associated with connected car technology and law enforcement access to data. MarTech and privacy advice to a range of industry leaders, publishers and digital advertising agencies on TP cookie sunsetting. Advice to a leading provider of coworking on its global use of AI-enabled CCTV. Advised a global electronics manufacturer in a global data incident involving regulatory filings in over 30 jurisdictions.

Shoosmiths LLP

Christian Cockroft

Christian is a Principal Associate, data, privacy and regulatory lawyer whose practice spans a broad spectrum of data governance, data regulation (antitrust, privacy and sectoral) and cybersecurity related work. Christian is versed in a multitude of privacy laws, including GDPR, the PECRs (and related cookie-law), CCPA and PIPEDA, while his wider regulatory experience involves advising on antitrust, data governance and market access laws, law enforcement access & lawful intercept, and sector/industry-specific laws and codes of practice (including HIPPA, SOX, DORA, ISO information security standards and PCI-DSS). This mix of experience makes Christian uniquely placed to assist multi-national organisations in navigating a range of cross-border compliance issues, from implementing global privacy programs and advising on cross-border data breaches, complex strategic or transactions matters (such as outsourcing or digital transformation global), as well as advising on novel or higher-risk technologies (e.g., MarTech, AI-regulation, blockchain, crypto-tech, NFTs, metaverse etc.). Representative engagements include: Assisting multiple organisations in navigating data transfer compliance, including Schrems II compliance, model clauses and docking arrangements, transfer risk assessments (having conducted over 20 TRAs in 2022) and negotiating supplementary security measures. Advised a number of organisations in the acquisition of Binding Corporate Rules, including acting on one of the UK’s first post-Brexit standalone BCR applications for a leading Ed-tech provider. Conducted an international data mapping and compliance project for a Japanese automotive manufacturer. Assisted a large timeshare and resort provider with its global privacy & data compliance efforts, including data mapping, vendor management, revision of existing privacy and information security policies, use of MarTech and cookie compliance. Advising on multiple intra-group data transfer arrangements for companies spanning a broad range of sectors (e.g., banking, social media, telecommunications, heavy industry, automotive etc.). Advised a global bank on a $100m+ outsourcing arrangement with an edge-to-cloud provider, including negotiating contractual arrangements with vendors, drafting information security schedules and advising on associated data transfers issues. Advised a major social networking company on both privacy and antitrust aspects of its acquisition of a popular OTT messaging platform. Advice to a global credit rating agency on a range of privacy matters, including the use of AI-enabled decision-making technologies. Advice to various telecos, ISPs and digital advertising agencies on PECR compliance, use of location data and compliant data monetization strategies. Working with a multitude of automotive manufacturers on a range of privacy matters associated with connected car technology and law enforcement access to data. MarTech and privacy advice to a range of industry leaders, publishers and digital advertising agencies on TP cookie sunsetting. Advice to a leading provider of coworking on its global use of AI-enabled CCTV. Advised a global electronics manufacturer in a global data incident involving regulatory filings in over 30 jurisdictions.

Shoosmiths LLP

Christian Dingwall

Christian qualified as a solicitor in 1986 and joined Browne Jacobson in 2019 as a partner in its Commercial Health team. He advises health and social care clients, including many NHS trusts, foundation trusts, commissioners and other bodies, about commercial and corporate law, governance, compliance and regulation. Christian specialises in organisational and service transformation in the NHS and wider health sector, including, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, integrated care partnerships and reconfiguration. Legal directories rate him as a top lawyer for health transactions.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Christian Dwyer

Partner

Schjodt LLP

Christian Hansen

Partner, Housing and Public Law Christian often acts for large residents’ groups in claims against developers, freeholders, and landlords. He has particular expertise in fire safety claims against developers and freeholders requiring the replacement of unsafe cladding, insulation, and cavity barriers, and requiring significant payments of damages. Christian has a strong public law practice representing individuals, campaign groups, and charities, with particular expertise in homelessness, community care cases for social services users, and welfare benefits. He represented clients in the Supreme Court in both 2017 and 2018. Christian has over two decades’ experience in acting for clients at all court levels. He often acts for vulnerable clients, including those without capacity to litigate. He is frequently instructed by the Official Solicitor. He continues to advise and represent clients across all residential landlord and tenant matters, including disrepair, unlawful eviction, possession, harassment, and all tenancy related disputes. Christian is co-chair of the Law Society Housing Law Committee.

Bindmans LLP

Christian Hunt

Bevan Brittan LLP