Avocats – England

Claire Clarke

Claire has extensive experience in advising listed and private companies, funders and private individuals in a wide range of company corporate finance and commercial matters from start-up and spin-out through funding rounds and acquisitions to flotation or trade sale. Claire has also advised on and established various types of fund structures using limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships as well as company vehicles. In addition to her mainstream corporate practice Claire has extensive experience of advising higher education institutions and other public sector bodies on various corporate matters including spin-outs, mergers and collaborations.

Mills & Reeve LLP

Claire Clarke

Claire Clarke is a partner in the Family Law team at Blandy & Blandy.

Blandy & Blandy LLP

Claire Cleary

Team Leader Partner, West Midlands

Stowe Family Law LLP

Claire Collings

Legal Director

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Claire Cooke

Partner; Claire has a broad international financing practice covering acquisition and bid finance, general bank finance, debt capital markets and financial restructurings.

Slaughter and May

Claire Cosgrove

A partner in our property team, undertaking a wide range of property tranactions with particular emphasis on acquisitions amd disposals and landlord and tenant work, Claire was originally a trainee at the firm and qualified into the property and construction team in 2005. She was promoted to senior associate in 2008 and partner in 2011. She has particular expertise in acquisitions and disposals and landlord and tenant work. Particular areas of specialism include: bulk disposals and acquisitions investment acquisitions including retail parks and shopping centres acting for tenants in the retail sector - Claire has acted for national retailers since qualification in all aspects of their property portfolios

Hill Dickinson LLP

Claire Cross

Claire Cross is a Partner, specialising in all areas of white collar fraud. Claire has considerable and proven experience in complex FCA and CMA regulatory investigations, insider dealing, market manipulation and cartel cases, misleading statements and corruption. Recent work includes providing legal support to FCA investigation teams, prosecuting multi-handed criminal insider dealing and misleading statement cases, policy work on issues relating to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, Corporate Liability, Disclosure, and Victims Rights, developing intelligence lead cases to capture Competition Act breaches and Enterprise Act offences, conducting an independent review of the proposed prosecution of a large multi-handed criminal cartel and acting as lead lawyer in numerous cases involving insider dealing, market abuse, breaches of Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Listing Principles, and SYSC, APER and FIT issues. Prior to joining Corker Binning, Claire acted as a Senior Lawyer at the Financial Conduct Authority, in the Criminal Prosecution Team. From October 2015 to July 2016, she also acted as the Assistant Director in the Cartels and Criminal Group for the Competition and Markets Authority.

Corker Binning

Claire Dawson

Partner

Brahams Dutt Badrick French LLP

Claire Dean

Claire is a senior family solicitor, practising since 1990 and a partner in the family team at Geldards LLP. Claire is head of Geldards children team and sits on the local Family Justice Board in respect of children matters, and is a renowned expert in complex private children cases. Her reputation is as a strong and determined advocate for clients. She is frank but fair and will go the extra mile to ensure her clients get the right outcomes. Claire is also head of Geldards agricultural team and acts for farmers and land owners in the very niche area of family law that applies to them on separation and divorce. Claire drafts pre nuptial agreements and cohabitation contracts to help protect farms, land and business’ from the consequences of a divorce. Claire is an experienced mediator and advocate of alternative dispute resolution wherever appropriate. Claire will always try to find a resolution for her clients that wherever possible avoids the need for protracted and expensive litigation. Claire is a trained domestic violence advocate and adviser. She is a member of the national Resolution Domestic Abuse Committee a. Claire has more knowledge that almost all other lawyers of the impacts of controlling relationships and can help clients move forward in very frightening situations. Claire’s financial practise is extensive and she specialises in high net worth cases and financial planning on and after marriage. Claire will try and find a financial outcome for clients that is fair.

Geldards LLP

Claire Dyer

Claire Dyer is partner in the Family team at Blandy & Blandy. She is experienced in all aspects of divorce and separation, financial remedy and disputes in relation to children. She advises both married and unmarried individuals, at all stages of their relationship. Claire has worked on complex cases involving trusts, business assets, international elements, third party interveners, injunctions and appeals. She is also experienced with separation and nuptial agreements. Claire has advised in children cases acting for parents, grandparents and families with complex needs. She also practices as a collaborative lawyer and mediator, having completed her training with Resolution, the family lawyers’ association which aims to resolve Family Law matters through a constructive approach.

Blandy & Blandy LLP

Claire Evans

Senior Associate, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Claire Fountain

Partner in Residential Property

TWM Solicitors LLP

Claire Fulton

Claire is Partner in our international Cayman and BVI practices. She has significant experience advising on a broad range of banking and finance, and debt restructuring transactions, with an emphasis on special situations financing and cross-border restructuring matters. Claire's practice advises major international financial institutions, credit funds, sponsors and borrowers with a focus on realising value in distressed situations, including security enforcements, special situations, debt restructurings and voluntary liquidations, and she is regularly approached to advise on offshore statutory merger regimes and schemes of arrangement. Claire also has extensive experience acting on cross-border leveraged and acquisition financing, real estate financing, take-private transactions and pre-IPO financing.

Mourant

Claire Gardner

Senior Associate

Hanne & Co

Claire Gill

Claire is a partner at Carter-Ruck and has over 20 years’ experience as a High Court litigator. Claire’s practice focuses on defamation and privacy, in addition to data protection and protection from harassment. Claire also undertakes complex High Court commercial litigation, including claims for professional negligence and financial mis-selling. MEDIA Claire recently led the ground-breaking litigation against Google which established the so-called ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ in England and Wales. The court ordered Google to delist results about a man’s past conviction from searches against his name, upholding his claim for breach of data protection rights and misuse of private information. The case addressed what the judge called ‘novel questions which have never yet been considered in this court.’ For this, Claire was named ‘Lawyer of the Week’ in The Times newspaper. Claire has worked on a wide variety of cases, including complex libel litigation to trial and in the appellate courts (for example Berezovsky v Fridman, in which a jury awarded Mr Berezovsky £50,000 in damages and Berezovsky v Terluk (in which Mr Berezovsky was awarded £150,000 in libel damages), defending a Twitter libel, and numerous claims against various national newspapers and broadcasters. Recently, Claire acted for Impresa Publishing SA, a leading Portuguese publisher defending a libel claim brought by a Portuguese-Angolan national whose claim was struck out as an abuse of process. Claire’s clients include politicians, celebrities, business people, professionals and academics. She likes to work with her clients to find practical solutions to their problems. She has considerable experience in reputation management, providing urgent trouble-shooting advice pre-publication or pre-broadcast and, often working alongside PR advisors, she gives discreet advice to companies and high-profile individuals on how to deal with unwanted media scrutiny generally. Claire maintains a broad media practice extending to advice on passing off and trade mark infringement and regularly gives lectures and conducts seminars on the subject of defamation and privacy and reputation management. COMMERCIAL Claire has acted on behalf of a large number of individuals and businesses against banks relating to the mis-selling of derivative products. In 2014, she acted for a company in liquidation in a claim for professional negligence against the company’s former solicitors, which resulted in a payment in damages of £10m. Claire is a member of the business advisory board of the School of Business and Law at the University of East London.

Carter-Ruck

Claire Gilroy-Scott

Partner

Edwin Coe LLP

Claire Gordon

Claire enjoys a diverse client base and an extensive caseload involving all aspects of family law for high net worth individuals, covering divorce, financial settlements, private law children matters, enforcement, civil partnership matters and unmarried couples. She also has considerable experience of drafting and advising upon pre and post-nuptial agreements. Her cases regularly include very complex financial, business and international matters, often involving offshore assets and trusts. Claire is a collaborative lawyer and a mediator and regards both practices as valuable alternative means of settling disputes.

Farrer & Co

Claire Graham

Partner

TLT

Claire Green

Partner and Co-Lead of Technology Transactions Group

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Claire Hamilton

Partner

Fieldfisher

Claire Haverfield

Claire is an experienced partner and helps businesses and individuals deal with and find effective resolutions to a wide range of disputes. Her clients are both businesses and individuals who come to her for advice regarding commercial disputes, professional negligence claims, intellectual property, and disputes arising out of wills, inheritance and trusts. Businesses of all sizes come to Claire for advice concerning contract disputes, warranty claims and IT disputes. She also advises clients on claims against solicitors or other professionals who have been negligent. Claire has acted on behalf of clients in relation to intellectual property disputes concerning copyright, patents, trademarks, passing off, and breach of confidence. She also advises private clients who have disputes arising out of wills, intestacy and trusts. In particular, Claire advises clients on claims against executors/trustees, will validity disputes and claims under the inheritance (provision for family and dependents) act 1975. Claire provides businesses and individuals with plain speaking advice on the options available to them, advises them on the best way forward, and supports them throughout the process.

Moore Barlow

Claire Hayes

Claire is a Principal Associate in the Real Estate team. She has experience of a wide range of transactions, particularly specialising in residential development work. Claire has extensive experience of acting for developer clients on immediate and strategic development sites pursuant to conditional contracts and options, often including overage arrangements. She also acts for landowners. Claire's experience includes: acting for a number of well known house builders in the acquisition of land for both strategic and immediate development, advising developers on the disposal of affordable housing to registered providers, advising landowners in relation to promotion agreements to enable the possibility of development of sites; and working on site assembly and negotiating agreements for key infrastructure required to serve the London 2012 Olympic Park.

Shoosmiths LLP

Claire Hewitt

ABV Solicitors

Claire Higham

Associate Partner - Family

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)