Solicitor for Grant Agreements and Monitoring in London Found 8799

Practice Areas

William has over 20 years’ experience of advising on a variety of real estate transactions but specialises in acting for house builders, commercial developers, care providers, investors and land traders in connection with the acquisition, disposal and promotion of development sites and has a reputation for being one of the regions’ leading development lawyers.

He also advises on planning and infrastructure agreements, joint venture arrangements and acts for funders and borrower in connection with secured lending.

William is head of the Development & House Building team and also oversees the Plot Sale Group. He also advises high net worth individuals with property affairs.

“William’s enthusiasm for fighting our corner and meeting (and often exceeding) our expectations is a credit to himself and his team. He has played a key role in helping us conclude many transaction transactions and helped with our growth and success”.

Care Provider/London Developer

“William and his team always impress. Their commercial approach combined with a rapid and user-friendly service has enabled us to meet deadlines and secure deals which we would have certainly otherwise missed out on. They are people that just get the job done.”

Regional Housebuilder

Career

Will is a corporate partner at Brodies LLP, specialising in domestic and cross-border M&A and Private Equity transactions. He has over 25 years’ experience, practising in the UK and France, and is co-chair of the international Private Equity Committee of the American Bar Association.

He has particular sectorial expertise in tech and life sciences. With a previous career in intellectual property, he is now heavily focused on tech M&A/PE deals. He advises a number of US and European PE/VC funds, as well as high growth companies and multinationals. His corporate clients include software “unicorns” and listed companies, as well as sectorial leaders in technology, biosecurity, life sciences and energy.

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William has 30 years' experience in leading clients through the many issues arising on the breakdown of their relationships, however difficult and however personal. He does so with dignity, wisdom and common sense. He steers clients through what is often a very troubling time with firm support and realistic advice in a way that maximises early resolution and minimises collateral damage.

William is a Partner at Farrer & Co and heads the Family team. He has specialised in family law and relationship breakdown since 1991. He has huge experience in resolving both financial issues and disputes relating to children. He is particularly well known for his ability to resolve situations where the family's financial situation is complex and where there are difficult issues that might, for instance, involve trusts, private companies, tax, overseas assets, pensions and assets that cannot be realised. Many of his cases involve international considerations.

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WILLIAM LONG is global co-chair of Sidley’s highly ranked Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and heads the European Data Protection group. He is also a member of the firm’s top ranked Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. He also serves on the firm’s AI Working Group. William advises international clients on a wide variety of AI, GDPR, cyber incident, data protection, privacy, information security, social media, e-commerce and other regulatory matters.

William has been a member of the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and on the DataGuidance panel of data protection lawyers. He is also on the editorial board of e-Health Law & Policy and also assists with dplegal (“data privacy” legal), a networking group of in-house lawyers in life sciences companies examining international data protection issues.

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Clients rely on William Hooker for his strong advocacy and pragmatic, strategic approach. With his experience handling over 50 arbitration matters across the globe, Will welcomes the challenge to take on the most complex, multi-layered disputes. Will focuses his practice on complex commercial and investment arbitrations. He regularly represents clients in arbitration matters under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, LMAA, ICSID, LAMC, and UNCITRAL, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. Will’s practice is global in scale, representing clients on every continent. With his broad range of experience spanning over a decade, clients trust Will to help them navigate high-stakes and high-value disputes. Will’s experience includes handling cases with over $1 billion in matter value.

Will has represented companies across industries such as oil and gas, financial services, telecommunications, mining, and energy. In particular, he has extensive knowledge and expertise in disputes between joint venture partners and in arbitration claims stemming from M&A deals. Additionally, Will has significant experience acting as an advocate before the English and DIFC courts in arbitration-related matters.

His goal is to always achieve the best results for his clients, working in tandem to provide meticulous counsel with their business objectives in mind.

Work Highlights

Senior Tax Counsel in the successful defence at trial and in the Court of Appeal of a high-value professional negligence claim concerning film finance tax avoidance schemes; the claim being brought by a group of claimants in managed litigation: McClean v Thornhill [2022] EWHC 457 (Ch); [2023] EWCA Civ 466

A solicitor, in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, in the defence of alleged Code of Conduct breaches arising from the Money Laundering Regulations: SDT 12481 / 2023 Clyde & Co, Mills-Webb

King's Counsel and Junior Counsel in the successful defence at trial of professional negligence and conspiracy allegations brought by their former client concerning their conduct of a Commercial Court trial: King v DWF & Ors [2023] EWHC 3132 (Comm)

a firm of solicitors in the successful defence at trial of a claim concerning the terms on which the law firm agreed to hold substantial funds on client account: Raffeisen Bank International AG v Asia Coal Energy Ventures Ltd & Ashurst LLP [2020] EWCA Civ 11*

The Civil Aviation Authority in an important decision concerning the scope of Legal Advice Privilege: Civil Aviation Authority v Jet2.Com Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 35*

on the successful strike out of references to Without Prejudice communications from a pleading in Briggs v Clay [2019] EWHC 102 (Ch)*

* prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills