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Natasha Molloy is a Partner and head of the Court of Protection team in the Nottingham office of Freeths LLP. She frequently acts as professional deputy on behalf of vulnerable individuals in her personal capacity or via a trust corporation and specialises in cases involving serious brain injury arising from catastrophic accidents or birth injury, which involves the careful management of substantial compensation awards. She regularly arranges for the purchase and adaptation of property, employs care teams and makes additional court applications for statutory wills, gifts and family care payments. She works closely alongside litigation solicitors to manage interim awards of damages for her clients prior to settlement and frequently acts as an expert witness in litigated cases.

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Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India.

Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its ˆ2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its ˆ5.8 to ˆ6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.

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Bob is an experienced corporate tax lawyer, who regularly advises on high end real estate taxation, corporate reconstructions, the taxation of funds and asset managers, start up / high-growth companies and business owners. He acts for a wide range of clients from some of Scotland's largest real estate developers and investors, to other firms of accountants and lawyers in need of specialist advice.

Bob is recognised by his peers as a specialist in property taxation and LBTT. He is a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Tax Law Sub-Committee; the Stamp Taxes Practitioners' Group; the VAT Practitioners' Group and is on the committee of the Edinburgh branch of the CIOT.

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Rick has over 20 years of experience acting on banking and corporate finance related transactions. He has experience in a very broad range of work acting for financial institutions and for on shore and off shore borrowers of all sizes.

Rick is regularly involved in complex structured finance, real estate development and investment finance, secured finance and restructuring related work. In addition, Rick also advises on bond and surety related financing.