Legal contributors
Authors
Alexandre Omaggio
Alexandre Omaggio is a partner at French law firm FTPA. He specialises in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions work and securities law.
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Candy Ikokwu
europe.editorial@globallegalpost.com
Candy Ikokwu is a reporter for the Global Legal Post
Carl Johan Af Petersens
Carl Johan Af Pedersen is a partner at Swedish law firm Vinge and specialises in the TMT sector.
Daniel Hart
Daniel Hart is ‘of counsel’ in the litigation and dispute resolution group at the London office of US-headquartered global law firm Mayer Brown
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David Reader
David Reader is a partner in Washington law firm Keller and Heckman LLP. He is a specialist in corporate and commerical law and prior to his current law firm worked as a Tax Law Specialist at the Reorganisation Branch of the Corporation Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service. He contributes to the Beyond Telecom Law Blog.
Dawn Damschen
Dawn Damschen is a lawyer at Keller and Heckman LLP, practising in the area of telecommnunications. She advises corporate clients and trade associations with legal and regulatory matters including those before the Federal Communications Commission.
Dr David Cowan
davidcowan@globalcitymedia.com
Dr David Cowan is Editor-At-Large of The Global Legal Post
Federico Hernandez Arroyo
Federico Hernandez Arroyo is a partner at Mexican law firm Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa (BSTL). He heads up the telecommunications law practice at BSTL. Prior to that he worked at the Federal Telecommunications Commission in the department of Legal Affairs and was Director of Regulatory Affairs in 2001.
George Bull
George Bull is Chair of the Professional Practices Group, Baker Tilly Tax and Accounting.
Gregory Kunkle
Gregory Kunkle is a specialist in telecommunications, particularly legal and regulatory matters before the Federal Communications Commission. He is also a Director of the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC).
James Barnes
JamesBarnes@globallegalpost.com
James Barnes is a staff reporter at the Global Legal Post.
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Jon Gregson
Jon Gregson is an associate in the Employment Team who specialises in complex, high value, sensitive employment tribunal claims. He acts for FTSE 100 companies and advise on a wide range of employment issues, provides client training and a regular employment tribunal advocate.
Lindsay Cook
Lindsay Cook an associate at London-based specialist intellectual property global law firm Rouse
Lisa Richman
Lisa Richman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the firm's Washington, DC office. She focuses her practice on international arbitration matters.
Nazar Chernyavsky
Nazar Chernyavsky is partner at Sayenko Kharenko specialising in banking, capital markets, secured and structured financie.
Nick Redfearn
Nick Redfearn is a partner at London-based specialist intellectual property global law firm Rouse
Rahul Matthan
Rahul Matthan is a founder partner at Indian law firm Trilegal, specialising in all aspects of technology and telecommunications law. He is author of 'The Law Relating to Computers and the Internet.'
Ronnie Barnes, Kristin M. Feitzinger and Amir Rozen
Shamiza Ratansi
shamiza.ratansi@adeptchambers.com
Shamiza Ratansi is a partner at Adept Chambers and focuses mainly on banking and finance, corporate M&A, corporate restructuring, competition, telecoms and mining.
Simon Kerr-Davis
Simon Kerr-Davis is an associate in the London headquarters office of global law firm Linklaters
Thayne Forbes
Thayne Forbes is joint managing director of London-based brand valuation consultancy Intangible Business
Bloggers
Abdulali Jiwaji and Becca Hogan
abdulali.jiwaji@signaturelitigation.com; becca.hogan@signaturelitigation.com
Abdul Jiwaji is a partner at Signature Litigation, a specialist law firm focused on commercial litigation and arbitration. Established in 2012, the practice handles complex multi-jurisdictional disputes for clients, typically in the banking and financial services sector.
Becca Hogan is a solicitor at the same firm and specialises in all aspects of commercial litigation and contentious regulatory work, including advising on external investigations by the FCA and representing clients in financial services disputes.
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Alberto Saravalle
Alberto Saravalle was a founding partner of Italian law firm Bonelli e Associati in 1992, which evolved into BonellieErede. His work focuses on corporate law, M&A, capital markets and international arbitration. He is a member of the New York Bar and the Italian Bar, and is associate professor of EU law at the University of Padua.
Amanda Recknell
Amanda Recknell is Canon's European and UK customer marketing expert for the legal sector.
Amber Melville-Brown
Amber Melville-Brown is a media and reputation management partner at London-based international law firm Withers
Andrew Priest
Andrew Priest is a partner in the IP and Technology Group of London law firm Davenport Lyons.
Andrew Marsh
Andrew Marsh is a financial services lawyer based in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's London office. Having been a partner at a US firm and worked as an in-house lawyer with a hedge fund, he now focuses on new developments in law and regulation, interpreting them for the firm and clients.
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Andy Ellis
Andy Ellis is the owner of costs consultancy Practico. A lawyer with over 20 years' experience in civil costs, Mr Ellis has led Practico's development from conventional costs drafting to full service costs management consultancy.
His own practice continues to involve strategic and hands-on consultancy on the costs issues flowing from high profile cases, including the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception litigation for Linklaters and the landmark case of Mitchell v NGN for Simons Muirhead and Burton.
Andy Ellis & Deborah Burke
Andy Ellis, Managing Director, Practico - Andy has more than 25 years' experience in the costs industry. Andy is the go-to costs lawyer for many leading law firms and general counsel who value his incisive input and direction on what are often complex technical and strategic issues arising within high value costs litigation.
Deborah Burke, Managing Associate, Practico - Deborah is a dual-qualified solicitor and costs lawyer and is a prominent figure in the industry. She is chair of the Law Society’s Civil Litigation Section Committee and is a member of the Society’s Civil Justice Section Committee.
Ashley Winton
Ashley Winton is a partner in the corporate practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises on technology, telecommunications, cyber security, intellectual property and antitrust matters, with particular emphasis on European regulatory issues.
Barry Fishley
Barry Fishley is head of the technology and intellectual property department at the London office of New York-based global law firm Weil
Bob Gogel
Robert (Bob) Gogel has over three decades of experience as both a provider and purchaser of global outsourcing, technology and consulting services. He is a proven senior executive of high-value services businesses and has held a number of CEO roles in global outsourcing organisations. He has worked closely with and for private equity firms, multinational companies and the public sector, and is a recognised industry thought leader.
Brian Taaffe
Brian Taaffe is Business Intelligence Product Manager - LexisOne™, LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions.
Bruce Lubin
Bruce Lubin is a senior managing director of Lippman Jungers LLC, a global legal recruiting firm. With more than 10 years’ experience as a legal recruiter, he has placed groups and individual partners at top-tier law firms around the globe.
Carlo Montagna and Francesca Secondari
Carlo Montagna is a partner at Italian law firm BonelliErede and specialises in capital markets, luxury and real estate. Francesca Secondari is a managing associate at the same firm.
Carolyn Holmes
Caroline Holmes is Business Development Executive at commerical litigation funding brokers, The Judge.
Catherine Thomas
Catherine Thomas is a top international divorce lawyer and senior director of Vardags. She joined Vardags in 2011 as a director, having been made a partner at her previous firm in Lincoln’s Inn at 26 years of age, making her one of the youngest ever partners at that level of family law.
Chris Smith
Chris Smith is an investment manager at Bramden Investments, a leading Isle of Man-based private equity fund, and also holds a business development role at Vannin Capital.
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Chrissie Lightfoot
Chrissie Lightfoot is the author of Tomorrow's Naked Lawyer and CEO of EntrepreneurLawyer.
Christiaan Segura
Christiaan Segura is an assocate with Keller and Heckman. He practices in the area of telecommunications, assisting corporate clients and trade associations with various legal and regulatory matters including those before the Federal Communications Commission.
Christopher Coughlan
Christopher Coughlan, an Associate in the Commercial Team at Ashfords. He specialises in data protection and privacy, regularly advising clients on all aspects of data protection including compliance and complex data transfer arrangements.
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Christopher Bogart
Christopher Bogart is chief executive officer of Burford Capital, a global finance firm focused on law and the world’s largest publicly-traded provider of litigation finance.
Christopher Bogart and Craig Arnott
Christopher Bogart and Craig Arnott are, respectively, chief executive officer and managing director of Burford Capital, a global finance firm focused on law and the world’s largest publicly-traded provider of litigation finance.
Christopher Dancey & Vanessa Fermil
chris@augmentgc.com; vanessa@augment.com
Chris Dancey is a dually-qualified English/Australian lawyer and the founding director of Augment General Counsel. He has worked within some of the world's leading international law firms, and is former GC of a UK FTSE 250 company and a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. For the past 8 years he has worked in Sydney and Singapore as a general counsel, risk, compliance and governance professional helping support and grow businesses throughout the Asia Pacific region. His work in the region was recently acknowledged by the Legal 500 in its GC Power List Asia Pacific.
Vanessa Fermil is a commercial attorney current working at Augment General Counsel. She is a graduate of the Phillipines' Ateneo de Davao University.
Ciarán Fenton
Ciarán Fenton is a consultant and the director of Fenton & Co, a London-based career management practice.
Claire Nilson
Claire Nilson practices with the Immigration & Global Mobility Team at Faegre Baker Daniels. She is a U.S. immigration attorney with substantial experience in immigrant and non-immigrant visas. She is also qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales, as well as an attorney at law of Trinidad and Tobago. Nilson has been working in the field of immigration law for nearly 15 years. She has lived and practiced immigration law in all three of the countries in which she is qualified as a lawyer.
Colin Glass
Daniel Jones
Dan Jones was called to the English bar in 1994 and advises on a spectrum of criminal cases. He also has a business background, and has particular expertise in social security, child support law, and regulatory work
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Daniel Hall
Daniel Hall is a director and co-head of Burford’s global corporate intelligence, asset tracing and enforcement business. He is a UK qualified solicitor who practised for Stephenson Harwood and after leaving the law spent a number of years in the investigative sector, latterly as a partner at a leading risk-management consultancy. He spent ten years investigating fraud and financial crime before founding legal investigation firm Focus and has particular experience in sovereign disputes.
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Daniel Sutherland
Daniel Sutherland is a member of Fox Williams' professional practices group. He specialises in advising businesses in the professional services sector, with a focus on the formation and running of limited liability partnerships, partnerships and M&A. He also advises individuals and teams of professionals on issues relating to their partnership, such as their recruitment, retirement and treatment while a partner or member.
Daniel Santiago Acevedo
Daniel Santiago is a Colombian attorney specialized in Innovation, Business Architecture, Project Management & Process Improvement applied to the Legal Services Industry. His articles and conferences about the future of legal services are well known in Latin America. Right now, Daniel is the Head of the Business Transformation Division on Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta Abogados, a Colombian top-tier Law Firm.
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David Corker
David Corker is a partner at white collar crime firm Corker Binning and specialises in acing for clients implicated in criminal or regulatory investigations, many of them international.
David Moran
As the senior director of Data Management and Analytics at Wolters Kluwer TyMetrix, David Moran is responsible for leveraging state-of-the-art technology to cut through the complexities of managing big data related to legal billing, claims and payments
David Greene
David Greene is a past President at the London Litigation Solicitors Association and a senior partner at Edwin Coe.
David Holme
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David Kendall
David Kendall is a partner in US law firm Cooley’s London offices. His practice focuses on all aspects of insurance and reinsurance, with cases including insurance coverage disputes, reinsurance disputes, insurance/reinsurance run-off and insolvency, arbitration and Commercial Court litigation. He is also immediate past chairman of the British Insurance Law Association.
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Deok Joo Rhee
Deok Joo Rhee is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. Her practice covers all areas of EU law, public law and human rights law, with a particular focus of on EU economic and social policy including public procurement, state aid, free movement, immigration and asylum, employment and public international law.
Dez Derry
A former Yell marketing executive, Dez Derry is CEO of mmadigital a young, full-service digital marketing agency with offices in Manchester and Birmingham. As well as working for a number of retail clients and small business across a number of sectors, the firm also specialises in law firm marketing.
Dominic Carman
Dominic is acknowledged as ‘a leading legal journalist, researcher and author’ who also executes bespoke projects for international law firms and investment banks. More information about his work can be found at dominiccarman.com
Dr George Beaton
george.beaton@beatonglobal.com
Dr George Beaton is executive chairman of Beaton Research + Consulting, a Sydney and Melbourne-based professional services consultancy
Dr Mohamed Bahaa Eldin Abou Shoka
Dr Mohamed Bahaa Eldin Abou Shoka is a Cairo-based lawyer at Abou Shoka Law. His firm specialises in crime, white-collar crime anti-corruption and corporate governance law
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Dr Nikos Skoutaris
Dr Nikos Skoutaris is a lecturer in European Union law at the University of East Anglia. His research lies in the intersection between EU law, comparative constitutional law and conflict resolution. His current research focuses on the constitutional accommodation of ethno-territorial conflicts in Europe.
Dr Samantha Pegg
Dr Pegg is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Law School, part of Nottingham Trent University.
Edwin Moore-Gillan
Edwin Moore-Gillan is a solicitor in the firm’s IP & Technology Group of London law firm Davenport Lyons
Emilie Woolley
Emilie Woolley is a senior solicitor at London-based litigation costs business Costs Advocates
Evans Monari
Evans Monari is a partner at Bowmans in Kenya. Evans is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He is a past member of the Council of the Law Society of Kenya and currently a co- vice chair of the International Bar Association Africa Forum. He also represents the Law Society on the board of the Council for Law Reporting. Evans has recently been appointed as Adjunct Professor of Law at the Kenya School of Law. Evans is a highly rated senior litigation lawyer in Kenya. He has handled complex commercial, civil, judicial review and constitutional matters as well as high profile criminal briefs.
Fiona Czerniawska
Fiona Czerniawska is co-founder of Source Information Services which specialises in researching the management consulting industry.
Frank Conley
Frank Conley is the SEO strategist for multiple sites, in charge of all operations and strategies related to SEO. He works closely with Google and Bing guidelines to deliver results, always staying on top of the latest changes.
Fredericka Argent
Gareth Harris
gareth.harris@bakertiily.co.uk
Gareth Harris is a restructuring expert in the Leeds office of Baker Tilly.
Gary Tierney
Gary Tierney is Category Director, Printing & Personal Systems Group, HP (UK & Ireland)
Geraldine McCool
geraldine.mccool@mphsolicitors.co.uk
Geraldine McCool is a civil and military aviation claim specialist partner at Manchester-based law firm McCool Patterson Hemsi
Giulietta Bergamaschi
Giulietta Bergamaschi is a founding partner at Lexellent, an Italian boutique specialising in employment and labour law. The firm is a member of Ellint, an international network of specialised employment and labour law firms.
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Gordon Dobie
Gordon Dobie is a partner at Winston & Strawn, specialising in trial and appellate cases.
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Graham Huntley
Graham Huntley is a founding partner at Signature Litigation, a London-based law firm specialising in commercial litigation. He has 30 years' experience in commercial litigation and acts for banks, fund managers and life assurers in relation to M&A disputes, public and private investigations and shareholder and joint venture disputes, as well as a range of economic tort claims.
Greg Wildisen
Greg Wildisen is a qualified lawyer and legal technology expert. Based in the UK, he is international managing director at Neota Logic, an AI-based Expert Systems Platform.
Heiko Ziehms, Erik van Duijvenvoorde and Edmond Richards
heiko.ziehms@accuracy.com; erik.van.duijvenvoorde@accuracy.com; edmond.richards@accuracy.com
Heiko Ziehms is a partner in Accuracy’s Forensics, Litigation & Arbitration practice. His expertise includes post-deal and joint venture-related disputes, in particular forensic accounting and completion mechanisms in sale and purchase agreements and quantum.
Erik van Duijvenvoorde is also a partner in Accuracy’s Forensics, Litigation & Arbitration practice. He has over 25 years’ experience in financial advisory services and has conducted investigations in the context of disputes, fraud, transactions and restructuring throughout his career.
Edmond Richards is a manager at Accuracy with a focus on financial modelling and analysis.
Howard Revens
Howard is head of DRS's London office and has 25 years experience in high level solutions sales within IT and software. He has set up and grown a number of start-ups and small businesses over the past ten years.
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is head of IP legal at CPA Global, an intellectual property management and technology company.
James Stewart
James Stewart is a leading family lawyer at Penningtons Manches. He is editor of Family Law, published by Thompson Reuters.
James Merklinger
James Merklinger is vice president and chief legal officer at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
Janet Taylor-Hall
Janet Taylor-Hall, Chief Executive Office of Cognia Law has worked at Ernst & Young, Clifford Chance, and Integreon, and has 18 years of industry experience in legal, consulting, implementation and outsourcing.
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Jeff Catanzaro
Jeff Catanzaro is Managing Director, Huron Legal.
Jeff has more than eight years of experience in providing legal process outsourcing solutions to corporations and law firms relating to litigation, corporate transactions, contract management, and due diligence. He also has business development, supply chain management and experience building LPO centers in Asia and India.
Jemma Sherwood-Roberts
Jemma Sherwood-Roberts is a lawyer at Corker Binning,specialising in white-collar crime, investigations and regulatory work.
Jennie Sumpster
Jessica Pryce-Jones
Jessica Pryce- Jones is joint founder and partner of the iOpener institute for People & Performance which offers a range of robust and proven solutions to help organizations maximize workforce performance, productivity and happiness of business-critical employees.
Jessica Pryce-Jones
Jessica Pryce- Jones is joint founder and partner of the iOpener institute for People & Performance which examines the factors that contribute to resilience and how it can be maintained.
Jim Thorp
Jim Thorp is the clinical head, programme director and lead therapist at JT Ethos, having previously served in the RAF Regiment and had a career as a professional rugby player with Sale. He has a degree in sport and exercise science, and specialises in postural correction and restoration of normal function to the whole body.
Joe Tirado, Daniel Meagher and Shree Majithia
Joe Tirado is partner and co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s international arbitration practice. Daniel Meagher is a senior associate at the firm and Shree Majithia is a trainee solicitor.
John Kettle
John Kettle is head of McCullough Robinson's International practice. Prior to that he was London managing partner of Dublin law firm Mason Hayes & Curran.
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Juan Ignacio Tuero
AVOA is a law firm based in Argentina specializing the internet & technology industries, consisting of lawyers who have worked in a variety of legal fields, including Argentina's most important law firms, Argentine courts and academia.
Julia Chain
jchain@huronconsultinggroup.com
Julia Chain is Managing Director of Huron Legal. An ex-general counsel of T-Mobile and a member of its executive board, she was previously managing partner of Garretts. She was also first female managing partner in the UK of a top 100 law firm, an equity partner at Andersens, worked at Shearman & Sterling and Herbert Smith and was deputy chair of the Commission for Racial Equality.
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Kathryn Bradbury
Kathryn Bradbury is a partner specialising in immigration matters at Payne Hicks Beach.
Kathryn's full profile can be viewed here: http://www.phb.co.uk/cv/partners/127/Kathryn-Bradbury
Kevin Evans
My name is Kevin Evans and I have been practicing law for over 28 years. Prior to starting my own firm in 2003, I was an equity partner at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (now Hogan Lovells). I have been fortunate in my career to have been involved in a number of large and exciting litigation matters, and plan to share with you the benefit of my experience on a range of topics. My practice includes white collar defense and internal investigations (for which I am top ranked in Chambers), as well as SEC enforcement and False Claims Act litigation. I also routinely represent the owner of several professional sports teams, the United States Olympic Committee, and Olympic athletes on a range of litigation matters. You can find out more about my firm and me at www.s-elaw.com.
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Khawar Qureshi QC
Khawar Qureshi is a QC at Serle Court Chambers and McNair Chambers Qatar. He specialises in commercial litigation, international arbitration and regulatory matters and was an “A” Panel UK Government Treasury Counsel from 1999-2006. He has held a number of teaching posts and has also been chairman of TheCityUK Legal Services group, which is designated by the UK Ministry of Justice as the lead organisation to promote UK legal services internationally.
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Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts is an experienced employment law practitioner at American law firm King & Spalding and advises across the full range of employment matters both contentious and non-contentious. She also advises on data protection and privacy issues and specialises in advising cross border European clients on their data privacy obligations, including obligations when transferring data between the EU and the US.
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Kristin Hausler
Kristin Hausler is a Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and leads research projects on international law matters. She is also a member of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the International Law Association and a consultant for Geneva Call on a project seeking to engage armed non-state actors in the protection of cultural heritage.
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Lesley Graves
Lesley Graves is the founder and managing director of Citadel Law. A personal injury solicitor, Lesley has litigated, consulted and lectured in all aspects of personal injury litigation during a career spanning 20 plus years.
Lisa Rickard
Lisa Rickard has served as president of the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform since March 2003, from which she is involved in the Coalition to Curb Global Forum Shopping, which seeks to stop the import of foreign lawsuits to US courts and to stem the export of US-style litigation features to other countries. Since March 2010, she has also served as executive vice president of the US Chamber. Previously, she was a vice president for federal and state government affairs at the Dow Chemical Company. Ms Rickard was also previously a partner at Washington DC law firm Akin Gump
Lorcan Tiernan
lorcan.tiernan@dilloneustace.ie
Lorcan is Head of Dillon Eustace's corporate and commercial department. His main areas of practice are financial services, corporate finance, corporate insolvency and mergers and acquisitions.
Luke Paterson and Tim Williams
lpaterson@jacmac.com.au; twilliams@jacmac.com.au
Luke Paterson is a partner at Perth-based law firm Jackson McDonald, a member of the Globalaw network. He is a commercial and corporate lawyer with a particular focus on M&A, corporate transactions and private business.
Tim Williams is a senior associate at the same firm and is a corporate lawyer with a particular focus on corporate and commercial law in the mining and resources sector.
Mark Engelman
Mark Engelman is a leading barrister in the area of IP law and has acted on a variety of high-profile cases, including against Intel in the ECJ defining the principle of trade mark dilution for Europe. He was in-house counsel to Dunlop Slazenger and head of IP for The Body Shop International Plc before joining Hardwicke chambers. He has been standing counsel for a number of floated multi-national companies and SMEs, including Specsavers, Monsoon and Oxford Brookes University. He is also a mentor for the Department of Law and is an advocacy trainer at Kings College London.
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Mark Lomas
Mark Lomas is a partner and chairman of UK-headquartered law firm Ashfords and leads its IP team. He has over twenty five years in practice and his work includes technology sector contracts, joint ventures, tech transfers and R&D agreements, as well as acquiring, licensing and enforcing patents, copyright, designs, databases, information rights and trademarks.
Mark Srere and Robert Dougans
Mark Srere is the leader of the White Collar Defense & Investigations / Securities Enforcement and Litigation Client Service Group in the Washington office of Bryan Cave. He defends individual and corporate clients that are targets of criminal prosecution and counsels corporate clients on compliance issues and internal investigations. In addition to his SEC practice, Mark defends clients in government investigations in major fraud matters.
Robert Dougans is a Solicitor Advocate and a partner in the London office of Bryan Cave. He has thorough experience of heavily-contested High Court litigation, including Freezing Injunctions, as well as trials and appeals, usually involving high-value commercial disputes and/or allegations of serious fraud. Robert has extensive experience in defamation and privacy work and of conflicts of law arising from cross-border litigation.
Mary Heaney
Mary Heaney is the editorial director of Global City Media, the publisher of the Global Legal Post
Matt Rhodes
Matt’s role at Quiss is primarily to expand the hosted solutions division of the business and to liaise with software vendors to help them develop their Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.
Matt's other responsibilities include new business development of the Support and Maintenance solutions that Quiss offer, alongside the resale of all IT hardware and software. Having come from a technical background Matt has a great understanding of the technologies that businesses are now starting to adopt.
Matthieu le Roux
Matthieu.Leroux@mirandalawfirm.com
Matthieu Le Roux is Of Counsel at Miranda Correia Amendoeira and head of the firm's Francophone practice.
Maxine Park
Maxine Park is a qualified solicitor and practiced commercial litigation before becoming co-founder and co-director of DictateNow, the UK's largest dictation outsourcing company.
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Michael Redman
Michael Redman is a director and co-head of Burford’s global corporate intelligence, asset tracing, and enforcement business. He began his career in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market and later worked in West Africa in the diamond industry. He has worked in the investigations sector for over a decade and has held senior positions in Moscow and London at leading global commercial intelligence companies. Mr Redman has advised on many high value disputes in the natural resources, financial services and pharmaceuticals sectors.
Mr Redman holds degrees from University College, London and Cambridge and went on to qualify for the English Bar. He is fluent in Russian.
Michael McParland
Michael McParland, Barrister at Quadrant Chambers
Barrister, England & Wales and the BVI
Attorney at Law, State Bar of California
Michael Hatchwell
Michael Hatchwell is a senior corporate lawyer at Gordon Dadds whose expertise covers all areas of commercial law including M&A, international work and white collar crime fraud. He is also a director and immediate past president of Globalaw, a worldwide network of over 110 law firms.
Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a retired Dublin-based solicitor who, after 30 years of practice, moved into mediation. He is the author of ‘Serving the People? The need to reform the Irish Legal System’, published this year by Liffey Press.
Michael Wells-Greco
Michael Wells- Greco is a partner in the Swiss office of Speechly Bircham. He specialises in family law, particularly cross-border disputes.
Michael Sandys
Michael Sandys is a partner and head of the commercial department at Jackson & Canter Solicitors.
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Mike Willis
Mike Willis, The Professional's B(r)and-Aid, is Director of F Mike Willis Ltd Solicitors, specialising in professional risks.
Monica Burch
Monica.Burch@addleshawgoddard.com
Monica Burch is the senior partner and head of the intellectual property department of London-based law firm Addleshaw Goddard. Her experience includes contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, passing off, use of confidential information, and copyright disputes. She also practised at a New York-based US law firm, and is currently a non-executive director of UK broadcaster Channel 4, and was appointed to the English judicial bench as a civil recorder in 2010
Nagib Tharani
Nagib Tharani is the Director of International Expansion for Clio, a Cloud based practice management system for lawyers.
Neil Foster
Neil Foster is a partner in the London office of Baker Botts and an expert in the legal structuring and negotiation of CVC transactions. Neil’s practice covers mergers & acquisitions, venture capital & private equity and corporate finance.
Neil Gerrard
Neil Gerrard is a partner at Dechert LLP and deputy chair of Dechert's global litigation team.
Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans is a partner and parliamentary agent in the Government and Infrastructure department at Bircham Dyson Bell.
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Nick Rowles-Davies
nrowlesdavies@burfordcapital.com
Nick Rowles-Davies is a well-known legal commentator and figure in the litigation funding world. He is a managing director of Burford, the largest litigation funder in the world, leads its business in the UK and is responsible for its global expansion outside the Americas. He is also a qualified lawyer in England, Wales and the British Virgin Islands and for several years was a partner in a London-based boutique commercial law firm.
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is an environmental lawyer and pro bono co-ordinator in Weil’s London office. He specialises in dealing with environmental issues in mergers & acquisitions.
Nigel Cannings
Nigel Cannings qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and went on to work at London-based law firms Withers and Slaughter and May. He was also in house at US technology business NCR and general counsel at BEA (now part of Oracle). Since, he has invested in niche technology firms and is currently chief technology officer at Chase ITS, a London-based voice recognition and compliance analysis business
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Nonkululeko Mkhwanazi
Nonkululeko Mkhwanazi is an Associate in the Employment & Benefits Practice at Bowmans law firm. She graduated with an LLB degree from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in 2013 and joined Bowmans as a Candidate Attorney in 2014. Nonkululeko was promoted to Associate in 2016.
Nonkululeko has a keen interest and passion for employment law and has a particular interest in advising on restraints of trade, the employment consequences of commercial transactions; the disciplining of employees, unfair dismissals and unfair labour practices, dismissals for operational requirements, section 197 transfers, unfair discrimination in the workplace and employment equity.
Nonkululeko Mkhwanazi is an Associate in the Employment & Benefits Practice at Bowmans law firm. She graduated with an LLB degree from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in 2013 and joined Bowmans as a Candidate Attorney in 2014. Nonkululeko was promoted to Associate in 2016.
Nonkululeko has a keen interest and passion for employment law and has a particular interest in advising on restraints of trade, the employment consequences of commercial transactions; the disciplining of employees, unfair dismissals and unfair labour practices, dismissals for operational requirements, section 197 transfers, unfair discrimination in the workplace and employment equity.
Oliver Foerster
Oliver Foerster is a partner at German law firm Huth Dietrich Hahn, a member firm of the Globalaw network. He is admitted to both the German Bar and State Bar of California, and focuses on commercial and corporate law, tax law and litigation.
Panos Kakaviatos
Panos Kakaviatos works as spokesman and media relations officer for the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg, France-based 47-member intergovernmental European organisation whose mission is to promote human rights, the rule of law and democracy. Born and raised in Washington D.C., Panos holds both Greek and American citizenships and is also a professional wine taster. Opinions he expresses in this blog may not always reflect official Council of Europe views.
Paolo Beconcini
Dr. Paolo Beconcini, Managing Partner, Beijing Office, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP
Patrick J. McKenna
Patrick McKenna is one of the world's top legal consultants. Author of a number of best-selling books on management, he regularly speaks and teaches law firm leaders.
Paul Tweed
Paul Tweed is the senior partner of Belfast and Dublind-based media law specialist firm, Johnsons Solicitors, which also has an office in London
Phil Beckett
Phil Beckett is managing director at Proven Legal Technologies, which specialises in corporate forensic investigation and e-disclosure.
Pieter Van der Merwe
Pieter Van der Merwe is managing director of South African law firm VDMA, part of the Globalaw network. He advises clients on a range of business matters including acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring and trade transactions.
PJ Kirby QC
PJ Kirby is a Queen's Counsel at Hardwicke Chambers. He is a Deputy District Judge in the London county courts and was appointed as Bar Council assessor on High Court costs appeals. Kirby specializes in banking and professional negligence.
Professor Bashar Malkawi
Bashar Malkawi is a Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Sharjah. He holds an LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona and SJD from American University, Washington College of Law.
Professor Malcolm McDonald
Rebecca Fisher
Rebecca Fisher is an estate planning and wills partner at Russel-Cooke.
She regularly advises clients including entrepreneurs, business owners and multi-generational family businesses on succession planning with particular focus on inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning. Rebecca fully understands the unique challenges that family businesses face.
Rebecca has considerable experience advising family lawyers and their clients on the tax implications of separation and divorce. The Legal 500 (2016) notes that Rebecca “stands out for her international and domestic tax and trust planning advice for families during marital breakdown”.
Reuben Guttman
Reuben Guttman is a founding partner in the Washington, DC-based firm of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks. His practice involves complex litigation, the representation of whistleblowers, employment and civil rights. He has represented whistleblowers under the False Claims Act in cases returning more than $5 billion to the US government and various states. He is a founder of the website whistleblowerlaws.com and is a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law.
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Richard Price
Richard Price leads the Winston & Strawn London IP practice. He advises on all aspects of contentious IP and has a focus on patents, trade dress, trade mark, passing off, and copyright matters. Although working across all sectors, hehas particular expertise in working for companies dealing with medical devices, GM crops, consumer products, electronic equipment, carbon emissions, water purification and computer technology.
Richard Burcher
Richard Burcher is a specialist in legal pricing, A former lawyer, he is managing director of consultancy Validatum. www.validatum.com/
Richard Kemp
Richard Kemp has 30 years as a technology law practitioner, representing many of the top companies.
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Richard Harwood QC
Richard Harwood QC specialises in planning, environment and public law, acting for developers, landowners, central and local government, individuals and interest groups. He appears in the courts, inquiries, examinations and hearings, including frequently in the Planning Court and appellate courts.
His public law work includes local government, procurement and funding decisions, and he has appeared before Parliamentary committees on the last three railway Bills. He also deals regularly with art law, particularly with a regulatory focus.
Robert Glennie
Robert Glennie is executive director of NewGalexy Services.
Robert Rutherford
Robert Bell
Robert Bell is partner at Bryan Cave LLP and head of the firm's EU & UK Competition practice group.
Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams is Baker Tilly's Head of London and South Professional Practices Group.
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Roy Russell
Mr Russell is the founder and CEO of software provider and consultancy Ascertus Limited. In 1992, he co-founded a software distribution company responsible for introducing the first legal document management systems into the UK marketplace and has spent the last 18 years advising corporate in-house legal departments about their use of technology to improve productivity, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. He has also held senior management positions at PC DOCS Group, CompInfo and Hummingbird.
Sarah Priestley
Sarah Priestley is a corporate tax partner at the London office of US law firm Weil, having originally trained at magic circle law firm Allen & Overy.She leads the firm's maternity coaching in the London office, as well as a range of other issues affecting women, in conjunction with the office's other women partners and professional development team
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Sarosh Zaiwalla
Sarosh Zaiwalla is Senior Partner of Zaiwalla & Co Solicitors. Sarosh was the first Asian to set up a city law firm in London. His clients have included The Gandhi’s, The Bachchan’s, the Dalai Lama, TATA, Godrej, amongst other Indian companies.
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Sebastien Le Coeur
Sébastien Le Coeur is an attorney at French labour and employment law specialist MGG Legal, a member of the international network ELLINT. He started his career at Francis Lefebvre in 1998, then worked for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and McDermott Will & Emery. He joined MGG Legal in 2013 and currently provides in-house training to employers and works councils.
Sergio Barozzi
Sergio Barozzi is Managing Partner of Lexellent, an Italian law firm specialising in employment law. He offers advice on both litigation and out-of-court matters, and has a particular interest in special projects such as negotiations with trade unions. His articles on Employment Law have appeared in a variety of publications, including several Italian newspapers.
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Shamilah Grimwood
Shamilah Grimwood heads the Bowmans Infrastructure Sector Group. She acts as counsel to developers, sponsors, commercial banks, multilateral finance institutions, development finance institutions, utilities and government institutions on a range of large-scale energy and infrastructure-related matters. Shamilah’s practice extends across several sectors including power, transportation and PPPs. She co-drafted the Standardised Public Private Partnership Provisions, published in March 2004, for the South African National Treasury. This remains the principal practice guide for the procurement of PPPs and negotiation of concession agreements by departments, institutions and other entities within the national and provincial governments of South Africa.
Sharon Daboul
Sharon Daboul is a registered UK and European trademark attorney at EIP in London. She can be contacted at +44(o)20 7440 9510 or sdaboul@eip.com.
Simon Thompson
simon.thompson@changeharbour.com
Simon Thompson is a partner at the Venturis Consulting Group with more than 25 years of experience in information technology. Fomerly, he was the global chief information officer and the chief operating officer at London-based magic circle law firm Linklaters
Simon Price
Simon Price is managing director of Recommind's UK operations. Based in London, he has worked with many of the world's largest professional services and corporate organisations.
Simon Harper
Simon Harper is a co-founder of Lawyers On Demand, the original alternative legal service.
Simon Bailey
Simon is an experienced business leader, business consultant and brand specialist. He advises CEOs & senior business leaders on how to use their brands to drive business growth.
Simon was formerly the European CEO of Interbrand; prior to that he was the UK CEO of WPP agency the Brand Union. Simon has successfully led several businesses turn-arounds, helping to restore both profitability and market reputation. His agencies have twice been awarded ‘Agency of the Year’ by Marketing Magazine.
While at Brand Union, Simon managed the global re-branding of Vodafone and was a member of Team WPP Vodafone, helping to coordinate the development of the brand across multiple WPP agencies.
Simon attended Law School and began his career at The Guardian & Observer Newspapers.
Simon has over 18 years’ experience in consulting and business leadership, some of his previous clients include: Argos, Barclaycard, BBC, British Airways, ExxonMobil, GSK, Hays, Nomura, Orange, Philips, Reckitt Benckiser, SAB Miller, Shell, UBS, Unilever & Vodafone McLaren Mercedes.
Simon is a regular speaker and press contributor and has been asked to appear many times on both TV and Radio. Simon is a strong believer in the power of ‘Purpose’, he sees it as an essential part of building successful businesses.
Simone Pasquini
Simone Pasquini is an international legal marketing consultant - with 10 years of experience assisting foreign firms with communicationin Anglo-Saxon markets.
Steve Wardlaw
Steve Wardlaw heads up the Baker Botts London office. He recently returned from Moscow where he was based for the last seven years. He advises leading energy companies, regulatory bodies and governments on projects undertaken in the downstream and midstream energy sector in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is director of the London-based major risks practice at Arthur J. Gallagher, a US-listed global insurance brokerage and risk management services firm with operations in 33 countries.
Steven Friel
Steven Friel is a partner in the litigation and arbitration department at the London office of US law firm Brown Rudnick. The aim of the blog is to offer a claimant's perspective on developments in the trans-Atlantic market in complex and high-value financial litigation
Susanne Foster
Susanne Foster is an employment and partnership law senior associate at London law firm CM Murray
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Suzanne Trask
suzannetrask@boltburdonkemp.co.uk
Suzanne Trask is a partner and head of the medical negligence department at UK law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp. She has specific expertise in claims involving cancer and serious brain injury and is actively involved in campaigns through the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
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Tatyana Talyanskaya and Jayesh Patel
tatyana.talyanskaya@bryancave.com; Jayesh.Patel@bryancave.com
Tatyana Talyanskaya is an associate at law firm Bryan Cave. Her practice is within the areas of general commercial litigation and international arbitration, with a focus on commercial contract disputes and multi-jurisdictional claims.
Jayesh Patel is a trainee solicitor at Bryan Cave.
Theo Solley
Theo Solley is a lawyer at Davenport Lyons specialising in media and commercial litigation and Privy Council appeals.
Thomas Garner
Thomas Garner is an extradition lawyer at Gherson, London. He is an experienced criminal and regulatory law expert and has been involved in a number of high profile cases from investment frauds to international terrorism.
Tina Shah
Tom Kerr Williams
Tom Kerr Williams is an Employment Law and Industrial Relations expert at PwC in London.
Tristan Sherliker
Tristan Sherliker is an associate solicitor and IP law specialist at EIP Europe LLP, London. Tristan advises on IP planning, strategy and enforcement issues, particularly in relation to software, electronics and digital IP.
Vanessa Ganguin
Vanessa Ganguin is a partner and immigration specialist at UK law firm Laura Devine Solicitors. She also heads up the firm's human rights and appeals team.
Vanessa Kitching
Vanessa Kitching has been with Lawyers On Demand (LOD) since 2014 and has just completed an interim GC position with a large entertainment organisation that operates in the UK and Republic of Ireland. For more information about LOD visit ww.lod.co.uk.
Vanessa Friend
Vanessa Friend is a family solicitor and associate at Hunters, incorporating May, May & Merrimans. She advises on issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship, including the financial implications of divorce and separation, private law children disputes and pre-nuptial and pre-civil partnership agreements. She is a member of Resolution.
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Varun Mehta
Varun Mehta is the VP of Legal & Compliance Solutions at professional services firm Clutch Group and works with clients to conduct major workflow overhaul, process re-engineering and cost savings initiatives for their legal and compliance departments. He has also managed global internal investigations relating to channel relationships, internal fraud, and bribery for several major financial services organisations.
Prior to joining Clutch Group, Mr Mehta served in the New Business Development and Technology Assessment departments at Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.
Veta Richardson
Veta T. Richardson is the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a global bar association headquartered in Washington, DC that is dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of in-house counsel in more than 75 nations.
Virusha Subban and Yonatan Sher
Virusha Subban is a partner specialising in Customs, Excise and International Trade at Bowmans, and Yonatan Sher is a candidate attorney at the firm.
Will Moncrieff and Jamie Ogilvie
wmoncrieff@jacmac.com.au; jogilvie@jacmac.com.au
Will Moncrieff is a partner at Perth-based law firm Jackson McDonald, a member of the Globalaw network. He practises in the areas of corporate, commerical and resources law, including M&A, capital raisings and corporate governance.
Jamie Ogilvie is a senior consultant at the same firm. He has recently re-joined the legal profession after operational and senior management roles in the public and private sectors, which included nine years with ASIC's WA office.
William Evans
William Evans is a barrister and consultant with litigation funding company Vannin Capital.
Xolani Nyali
Xolani Nyali is a senior associate in the competition practice of Bowmans South Africa.
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