Ruth Armstrong is a recognised leader in the regulatory field with more than 20 years’ experience of white-collar defence work for businesses and senior office holders across all regulatory disciplines ranging from fatal accidents to fraud and pollution to bribery. Her successes include: Acted for a house builder when an employee who broke his ankle […]
Paul Cliff is the unit head of the national corporate team and specialises in mergers and acquisitions in the private and public company arena, capital markets work and public company advisory work. He heads the firm’s public company and large corporate group and the firm’s manufacturing sector team. Cliff has many years’ experience of working […]
Elizabeth Hassall is a partner and heads the family team in England. She is well known for handling high-net-worth financial settlements following the breakdown of a marriage or cohabiting relationship. Her caseload often involves settlements which address corporate and partnership assets. She is increasingly instructed in prenuptial and cohabitation agreements. She is referred to as […]
Andrew Macmillan is a partner and head of the employment team in England. He is a specialist employment lawyer, with a particular focus on contentious work such as reorganisations, redundancies, employment aspects of insolvency, executive severance, employment relations issues and employment tribunal litigation. Macmillan has more than 20 years’ experience of acting for a range of organisations […]
James Gopsill heads the corporate tax team. Like all members of the team, he advises on all areas of corporate tax, real-estate tax and share schemes. He has particular expertise on the taxation of real-estate investment, real-estate development and urban regeneration. Gopsill is a consulting editor on VAT, stamp duties and stamp duty land tax […]
Michael Collins advises employers and trustees of occupational pension schemes on all aspects of pensions law as well as dealing with pensions issues on corporate transactions. He also provides legal advice to executive pension providers and other pension professionals. He also provides legal advice to executive pension providers and other pension professionals. He is a […]
Andrew Madden leads the banking and finance team at Gateley and is responsible for many of its national panel appointments. He has extensive experience advising on corporate and banking transactions and is regularly involved in complex structured finance and corporate lending deals, including leveraged buy-outs, project finance and restructuring. His clients include many of the […]
Mark Wilson is national head of the firm’s corporate recovery team. He undertakes all aspects of banking, corporate insolvency, turnaround and restructuring, acting for banks, insolvency practitioners and venture capitalists. He has developed a niche practice in defending and litigating against insolvency practitioners. WIlson has undertaken insolvency work for 20 years including some very high-profile […]
James Baird’s experience includes advising lenders on all aspects of banking and asset finance litigation with expertise in fraud, international cross-border recoveries, title disputes, quality disputes, consumer credit litigation and collections consultancy. He regularly advises lenders on and obtains injunctive relief including freezing orders and mandatory delivery up orders and is known for his pragmatic, […]
David Lloyd Jones advises on construction, engineering and energy projects. His work includes drafting client bespoke documents, advice on procurement options, contract drafting, negotiation and risk transfer over a range of transactions from commercial developments to major infrastructure and power projects. Lloyd Jones’s interests go beyond development and construction to take in waste, power and major […]
Michael Ball is a partner in the employment team. He works almost exclusively for larger corporate clients. He concentrates on getting great results for clients in all aspects of their dealings with their people. He is a member of the firm’s retail sector team with a focus on high-street retail and retail leisure in particular. […]
Andrew Piatt is a partner and head of the national planning team at Gateley. He specialises in planning, highways, compulsory purchase and compensation and local government law and is an experienced public inquiry advocate. Piatt acts for an extensive range of clients including landowners, developers, house builders and retailers, as well as public sector bodies. […]