Solicitor for Intellectual Property Law in London

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Jane headed the family department from 2006 until 31 March 2022, when she stepped down as a partner and became a senior consultant in the firm. She is a recognised expert in high value divorce finances with many years’ experience of cases involving trusts, inherited wealth, complicated remuneration structures and assets overseas. Her expertise includes the preparation of pre nuptial and post nuptial agreements. Jane is also a recognised expert in cases involving unmarried couples and has contributed to a number of significant practice guides to the law in this area. Many of Jane’s cases have an international dimension and she is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL), a worldwide association of practising lawyers who are recognised by their peers as the most experienced and expert family law specialists in their respective countries.

Jane has played a leading role in the development and practice of family law for 40 years. She is a former chair of Resolution, the leading organisation of family justice professionals in England and Wales. She was the first private law solicitor member of the Family Justice Council, which advises the government on family policy issues, and chaired its private law Children in Families Committee for six years. She is an active member of Resolution’s Cohabitation Committee, which campaigns for reform of the law to provide protection for vulnerable cohabitants. Jane has represented clients involved in some of the country’s leading reported cases, including T v T, a case relating to jurisdiction in European family disputes and Grey, one of the leading Court of Appeal decisions on the impact of cohabitation on maintenance claims for wives and former wives.

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Nick Cotter represents clients in high-value antitrust and regulatory litigation, and has been involved in a number of the groundbreaking cases in the competition sphere in the English High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Nick also has particular experience acting for telecom companies in proceedings in the English courts, from the High Court up to the Privy Council, and in various Caribbean courts dealing with interconnection fees, market access, and anticompetitive practices. In addition, Nick regularly acts for clients in general commercial disputes in litigation and arbitration.

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Sarah is a Partner in the Family team at Michelmores.

She is a family lawyer committed to resolving issues in a forward-thinking, collaborative and family-focused way.

Her experience covers a broad range of family issues, from complex financial arrangements on divorce and cohabitation breakdown, to wealth protection, premarital agreements and arrangements for children.

Sarah was the first lawyer in England and Wales to successfully shorten the mandatory 20-week "cooling off" period introduced by the Government as part of the new "no-fault" divorce process, for a client with life-limiting issues.

Sarah regularly advises clients who live outside of the UK and whose cases involve international elements.

She is Collaboratively-trained and a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Complex Financial Remedies and Children Law.

A keen family law commentator, Sarah is known for her thought leadership in Family Law. She has her own blog, regularly writes for legal publications and is often quoted in the press on current family law issues.

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Dr. Lincoln Tsang, partner and head of Ropes & Gray’s European Life Sciences Practice, qualified as a lawyer and a pharmacist with post-graduate training in toxicology and cancer pharmacology, concentrates his practice on UK, EU and cross-border regulatory compliance and enforcement, including litigation, internal investigations and public policy matters affecting the life sciences industry. Lincoln advises clients on research and development strategies, product life cycle management, product acquisition, and risk and crisis management. He also regularly represents clients before various regulatory bodies on a wide range of matters, including clinical trials, product approval, advertising and promotion, manufacturing, safety vigilance, and health technology appraisal relevant to pricing and reimbursement decision-making for medicines and medical devices. He has also appeared before various legislatures as an independent expert on product approval and market access of medical products. He is the first lawyer outside the United States to testify in a congressional hearing before the United States Senate as an expert on matters concerning access to treatments for rare diseases.

Before entering private practice, Lincoln was head of biologicals/biotechnology and a senior official at the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority, where he developed a number of UK and European policies governing medicines regulation, including advanced therapies, biologicals and drug/device combinations. He represented the EU and the UK on a number of international regulatory cooperative initiatives. He chaired the Gene Therapy Expert Group and the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Expert Group of the European Medicines Agency and served as an advisor to the European Commission, the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines, the Council of Europe, the British Pharmacopoeia Commission, and the World Health Organization, among others. He was appointed by UK Ministers to serve as a non-executive board member of a number of governmental organizations. A thought leader in his field, Lincoln has authored numerous articles and speaks frequently at industry events.

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Alasdair is a very experienced disputes lawyer with a stellar reputation in the media dispute resolution field. He is now a consultant to the firm, continuing to oversee various cases and to work on selected others.

His media practice involved many of the leading cases in the field. He has secured six figure libel damages and multi-million-pound settlements in commercial litigation cases.

Alasdair’s approach is to avoid legal and/or arbitration proceedings where possible, but if they are necessary, vigorously to pursue them with the aim of achieving a satisfactory settlement. He has taken many cases to trial when a sensible settlement has not proved possible.

MEDIA DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Alasdair has undertaken a great deal of pre-publication work often with threatened coverage on television programmes, newspaper and online. He works closely with public relations consultants, including in house advisers and external agencies.

Alasdair has also undertaken a very considerable amount of work on the internet securing the removal of online material or reducing its visibility. This is with all the main search engines and platforms. For clients he has succeeded in having multiple articles and hundreds of links taken down, making a real difference to the online profile of his clients.

He has also undertaken numerous complaints about third party ‘Know Your Client’ due diligence and other such reports.

Alasdair is used to dealing with the media from around the world, especially in the United States, South Asia and the Middle East.

Alasdair’s practice encompasses dealing with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), among other such organisations.

COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Alasdair has had very successful Commercial Dispute Resolution practice. This has included actions for claimants (a) in relation to pension, private equity release, film finance and option award schemes; and (b) over property transactions, as well as other professional negligence claims, and most recently the successful defence of an action bought by a private equity investor claiming over ?10million in interest. His success is against solicitors, accountants, independent financial advisers, banks and others.

Alasdair continues to be a key senior member of the firm’s team which is handling one of the largest and most complicated ICSID arbitration ever brought.

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Jules is known for his work on construction and engineering contracts, with a focus on infrastructure and energy. Jules says “I have a really broad practice and wide range of expertise and experience”. His work is typically focused on drafting and negotiating contracts for infrastructure and energy clients, as well as infrastructure projects.

Jules also advises on risk management, contract interpretation, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution. His clients tend to be developers or contractors and specialty subcontractors and suppliers.

“Jules is a construction oracle – he is extremely knowledgeable on all matters and is very good at explaining things very clearly.”

When pressed to describe his strengths, Jules lists dedicated, conscientious and tenacious – characteristics which help him to rapidly understand the key commercial drivers within a project and collaborate to secure a mutually agreeable resolution.

And when it comes to client work, Jules is extremely committed. “I will work tirelessly to secure the best possible result for my client” he says. Attention to detail is important to him, but, “identifying and prioritising key points” is a skill he’s honed over the years and which allows him to work efficiently and to tight deadlines.

Fortunately, this is no hardship for Jules, who really enjoys getting to know his client’s business, many of whom have been instructing him for over ten years – which is testament to his collaborative and approachable style.

This approach to client work also means he feels very at home at Walker Morris, where everyone sits in the same office and multi-team collaboration is absolutely the norm.

Being part of a team to deliver an exciting new project is still a real highlight of the job for Jules, especially when he gets to see innovative technology or complex engineering operating in real life. “Every project is different and I enjoy understanding the logistics or practical aspects of a project to make sure my advice is focused and relevant”.

Reaching agreement during deals with multiple stakeholders can be challenging, but Jules is confident he can make it happen and he cites remaining calm, courteous and commercial as the secret to his success.

“Construction and Engineering, particularly infrastructure and the energy sector are constantly evolving, so my work is always varied, challenging and enjoyable”.