Gordon Harris helps clients to enforce and protect their valuable intellectual property (IP) rights, and particularly patents and designs. Harris conducts litigation in all UK and European courts for clients seeking to protect their IP, or those who have been accused of infringing other people’s rights. He is known as a fighter who will explore […]
Quentin Poole helps clients to get the best possible service from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co by taking the time to understand their needs and developing the firm’s strategy to meet their demands. Poole is senior partner of the firm and as such is responsible for leading the business and shaping it around the bigger […]
Patrick Duxbury helps clients to research, develop and sell pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device products, using his extensive experience of structuring and executing transactions in the life sciences sector. Duxbury was a microbiologist and geneticist before re-qualifying as a lawyer in 1993, and he now specialises in all aspects of transactional intellectual property in the […]
Julian Henwood helps clients to successfully project manage and complete significant corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (both private M&A and public company takeovers), joint ventures and asset purchases and disposals. These multi-faceted transactions demand the skills of a lawyer who has years of experience of working seamlessly with the client’s in-house transaction team and […]
Glyn Ryland helps clients to manage their strategic and practical pensions law issues by acting as a trusted adviser to trustee boards and employers. Ryland finds solutions and avoids pensions complexity by helping clients understand the complexities and navigate ways around them wherever possible. With people’s livelihoods and a company’s financial strength at issue, pensions matters […]
Anthony Thompson helps clients to protect their personal and business assets for the current and future generation. Thompson advises international high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) on estate planning. Typically, a HNWI will have significant personal and/or business assets built up over many years. He/she wants to ensure that, to the extent possible, they are protected for the […]
Richard Bate helps clients to acquire and dispose of all manner of residential and mixed-use development schemes, in particular large-scale consortium developments and strategic land in all forms, regardless of diversity or complexity. Bate also helps clients to secure all planning and infrastructure agreements required to implement these developments. He is at the forefront of […]
Christopher Hunt helps clients to acquire, dispose of and manage occupational real estate in an efficient, cost-effective way, by first building the best possible understanding of the strategic commercial drivers behind every transaction. For many businesses, real estate is an important issue — in some cases, in the retail and leisure sectors, for example, it is […]
Lee Nuttall helps clients to understand the tax implications of their projects. With no unpleasant surprises, they’re free to focus on what they do best. Where there’s an unnecessary tax cost (now or in the future), Nuttall can give his clients the best advice on re-engineering their project in a commercially sensitive manner. He’s not afraid […]
Richard Miles helps clients to acquire, develop, asset manage and dispose of real-estate assets, with a particular focus on advising real-estate investors and developers. Miles is a specialist in commercial and mixed-use real-estate matters and spends a significant amount of his time advising on all aspects of retail real estate, including development, acquisition, leasing and […]
Allen & Overy’s Smart Start Experience has become the first work experience programme in the UK legal sector to be accredited by City & Guilds, the internationally recognised vocational education business. Smart Start is the firm’s award-winning scheme to broaden access to the legal profession in the UK. Over the past six years, it has provided more […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda legal advice to The Carlyle Group in relation to the acquisition of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) for approximately $4bn (£2.5bn). OCD, formerly a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is a provider of solutions for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and confirming diseases. The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager […]