Our People

We bring rich expertise, fresh thinking and a genuinely collaborative spirit to every relationship. Meet the team behind Fladgate’s unique approach to partnership.

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  • Partner 97
  • Senior Associate 45
  • Associate 57
  • Paralegal 13
  • Consultant 12
  • Director of Business Strategy - Walgate Litigation Management, a division of Fladgate LLP 1
  • Head of Strategy, Walgate Litigation Management, a division of Fladgate LLP 1
  • Head of Walgate Family Office Services 1
  • Client Service Director 1
  • Chief Operating Officer 1
  • Knowledge lawyer 3
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  • Art 7
  • Banking and Finance 6
  • Betting & Gaming 13
  • Business Immigration 2
  • Capital Markets 15
  • Charities & Philanthropy 23
  • Charities & Philanthropy 23
  • Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery 32
  • Commercial Contracts 24
  • Commercial Law 19
  • Commercial Litigation 44
  • Competition and Regulatory 4
  • Construction & Engineering 23
  • Construction & Engineering Disputes 11
  • Construction & Engineering Law 13
  • Construction Projects 14
  • Contentious Trusts 9
  • Corporate Law 60
  • Corporate Real Estate 21
  • Data Protection, Cyber Security and Operational Resiliency 9
  • Debt Finance 10
  • Dispute Resolution 60
  • Distribution and Logistics 4
  • Employee Advice 1
  • Employee Incentives 3
  • Employment 10
  • Estate & Trust Administration 14
  • Family Law 12
  • Finance 17
  • Financial Services 33
  • Financial Services & Regulatory Disputes 6
  • Fintech 18
  • Funds 7
  • Funds, Finance & Regulatory 18
  • Green Energy 40
  • Group Litigation 16
  • Health & Safety 2
  • Hotels 20
  • Immigration 2
  • Insurance 14
  • Intellectual Property 15
  • International Arbitration 28
  • International Protection 2
  • Investment Funds 8
  • Leisure 35
  • Life Sciences & Healthcare 21
  • Litigation Funding 10
  • Luxury Assets 11
  • Media 16
  • Mergers & Acquisitions 48
  • Online and e-commerce 14
  • Personal Immigration 4
  • Planning & Environment 3
  • Private Banking 4
  • Private Client 20
  • Private Credit 8
  • Private Wealth Disputes 12
  • Professional Practices 15
  • Projects & Infrastructure 19
  • Real Estate 62
  • Real Estate Development 28
  • Real Estate Finance 18
  • Real Estate Investment 27
  • Real Estate Investment Funds 6
  • Real Estate Law 49
  • Real Estate Litigation 11
  • Real Estate Occupiers 14
  • Real Estate Tax 4
  • Regulatory 3
  • Residential Real Estate 4
  • Restructuring & Insolvency 33
  • Retail 29
  • Sports & Esports 18
  • Tax 9
  • Technology 16
  • Technology, Outsourcing & Procurement 8
  • Transactional Tax 3
  • Trust & Tax Planning 18
  • Venture Capital 33

Team members

  • Ollie Clark

    Associate

    I am a commercial dispute resolution lawyer, specialising in a wide range of contentious matters.

    Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
    International Arbitration
  • Patrick Buck

    Associate
    I advise clients on a broad range of private family law matters, including: the financial implications of all types of relationship breakdowns; pre- and post-nuptial and civil partnership agreements; and matters relating to arrangements for children.
    Dispute Resolution
    Family Law
  • Poppy Jones

    Associate

    I am an Associate in the Family Law team, advising on all private law family matters including the financial implications of relationship breakdown, nuptial agreements and matters relating to children. 

    Private Client
    Family Law
  • I focus on advising high net worth clients in relation to tax and estate planning.
    Estate & Trust Administration
    Trust & Tax Planning
  • I advise on a variety of matters relating to commercial contracts, intellectual property, sports and technology.
    Data Protection, Cyber Security and Operational Resiliency
    Technology, Outsourcing & Procurement
  • Rian Razzaque

    Associate

    I am contentious construction solicitor. 

    Construction & Engineering Disputes
    Construction & Engineering Law
  • I am a corporate associate specialising in private mergers and acquisitions. I also act on private equity transactions, venture capital investments and group reorganisations, as well as providing general corporate advice to shareholders and directors.
    Construction & Engineering
    Life Sciences & Healthcare
  • Romily Ariyo

    Associate
    I am a associate in the Funds, Finance and Regulatory department at Fladgate.
    Financial Services & Regulatory Disputes
    Funds, Finance & Regulatory
  • Romy Cross

    Associate
    I specialise in commercial disputes, including those relating to breaches of contract, shareholder disputes, professional negligence and fraud.
    Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
    Restructuring & Insolvency
  • I am a corporate lawyer specialising in private M&A.
    Life Sciences & Healthcare
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Shivani Kerai

    Associate
    I am an associate in the Family Team and have varied experience in all areas of family law ranging from child arrangements through to complex financial remedy matters with international aspects.
    Family Law
  • I am an associate in the Corporate team, working across the full alphabet of deals – M&A (both public and private), Equity Capital Markets and Restructuring & Insolvency for good measure.
    Restructuring & Insolvency
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • I advise HNW and UHNW clients on tax and wealth planning.
    Private Client
    Tax
  • Yana Bychkova

    Associate

    I am an associate in the dispute resolution team, advising on complex commercial disputes before the English High Court and in international arbitration. 

    Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
    International Arbitration
  • Zevi Wulwick

    Associate
    I advise HNW and UHNW clients on a range of matters including estate planning and UK and offshore trusts.
    Trust & Tax Planning
    Tax
  • Anish Patel

    Paralegal
    I am a Paralegal sitting within the Family Team.
    Family Law
  • Cassie Grace

    Paralegal
    I am a paralegal working within the Corporate team.
    Restructuring & Insolvency
    Mergers & Acquisitions
  • I am a corporate paralegal supporting M&A, corporate governance and a broad range of transactional matters. I assist with due diligence, Companies House filings, board and shareholder documentation.

    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Corporate Real Estate
  • Hamza Gallo

    Paralegal
    I am a third-year solicitor apprentice, who has both undertaken contentious and non-contentious areas of work at Fladgate.
    Dispute Resolution
  • James Velati

    Paralegal
    I am a Paralegal currently working in the Immigration team.
    Construction & Engineering
    Life Sciences & Healthcare
  • Joel Crisp

    Paralegal
    I am a Paralegal in the Real Estate Disputes team, where I support clients in a wide range of residential property litigation matters.
    Real Estate Litigation
    Real Estate Law
  • Kenisha Smith

    Paralegal

    I am a paralegal in the real estate department specialising in asset management. 

    Real Estate Development
    Real Estate Investment
  • I am a paralegal in the Real Estate department.
    Real Estate Finance
    Real Estate Law
  • Miles Simpson

    Paralegal

    I am a Paralegal in the Real Estate team where I support clients on a range of commercial property matters, with a particular focus on asset management and real estate finance.

    Real Estate Development
    Real Estate Investment
  • Raihan Ahmed

    Paralegal
    I am a solicitor apprentice who has undertaken work in both contentious and non-contentious areas of law at Fladgate.
    Funds, Finance & Regulatory
    Real Estate Litigation
  • Rima Panesar

    Paralegal
    I am a paralegal in the non-contentious side of the Construction team at Fladgate.
    Real Estate Development
    Construction Projects
  • Robbie Howe

    Paralegal
    I am a Paralegal working in the Real Estate team.
    Real Estate Law
    Real Estate
  • Anna Izbicki

    Client Service Director
    I am Client Service Director at Fladgate.
  • Avram Kelman

    Consultant
    I am a multi-national corporate lawyer with over 35 years’ experience helping dynamic and innovative Israeli clients navigate corporate and commercial activities in the UK. I specialise in managing complex transactions across capital markets and lower-mid market M&A with deals ranging from…
    Capital Markets
    Venture Capital
  • Clive Garston

    Consultant
    I am an experienced corporate lawyer specialising in equity capital markets transactions and public and private M&A in many diverse sectors. In particular, I have wide experience of the AIM market both as a City lawyer working in this market and as a company chairman/director. I am a consensus…
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Employment
  • Daniel Polden

    Consultant
    I specialise in a range of commercial property work for clients based in the UK and also overseas. The matters I handle for clients include investments, developments, finance and co-ventures.
    Real Estate Development
    Real Estate Investment
  • Edward Parkes

    Consultant

    I am a dispute resolution solicitor with a background in both commercial litigation and private client disputes.

    Estate & Trust Administration
    Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
  • Ellen Livett

    Business Development Manager
    I am a Business Development Manager for the Corporate department at Fladgate, specifically working with the commercial teams.
  • Emma Whitcomb

    Business Development Manager
    I am the Business Development Manager for the Funds, Finance and Regulatory team at Fladgate.
    Funds, Finance & Regulatory
  • Glen Atchison

    Consultant
    I am an experienced Tax and Private Client lawyer. My breadth of experience ranges from advising owner managers from start-up to exit, through to succession planning and complex international tax and asset protection structures.
    Estate & Trust Administration
    Charities & Philanthropy
  • Helen Griffiths

    Head of Business Development
    I am the Head of Business Development at Fladgate.
  • Jane Leech

    Knowledge lawyer
    I provide know-how, research and training support to the dispute resolution department.
    Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
    Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Jane Mayfield

    Knowledge lawyer
    I am a knowledge lawyer specialising in corporate law, training and knowledge management.
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Capital Markets
  • Janet Keeley

    Consultant
    I am an experienced dispute resolution lawyer, helping clients resolve problems across a wide range of corporate, commercial and private matters, as disputes often do not fall neatly into any single category.
    International Arbitration
    Charities & Philanthropy
  • Julian Lewis

    Consultant
    I specialise in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, private equity and the structuring of transactions in the hotel and leisure, renewables and real estate and co-working sectors. Since 2019 I have combined a busy practice with being the firm’s finance partner.
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Corporate Real Estate
  • Kelly Eastman

    Senior Business Development Manager
    I am the Senior Business Development Manager for the Dispute Resolution team at Fladgate LLP.
    Dispute Resolution
  • Kim Lansdown

    Chief Marketing Officer

    I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Fladgate.

  • Mark Buckley

    Consultant

    I am a disputes lawyer working in litigation and arbitration, including international commercial, intellectual property and sports disputes.

    International Arbitration
    Commercial Litigation
  • I am an associate in Fladgate’s Private Client and Tax Team.

    Trust & Tax Planning
    Private Client