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This list showcases the top London based Partner operating in the Law Enforcement space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Simon Fulbrook
Partner of Goodwin Procter
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About Goodwin Procter: Goodwin Procter provides corporate law and litigation services.
Richard Lever
Partner of Goodwin Procter
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About Goodwin Procter: Goodwin Procter provides corporate law and litigation services.
Bryony Widdup
Partner of DLA Piper
Bryony Widdup has over ten years’ experience in the financial markets sector and has spent time working in-house at a major European bank as well as in private practice. Bryony has lived and worked in London and the Cayman Islands. She has experience in fund finance, securitisation and leveraged debt, international lending platforms, crowdfunding and token based fundraising activities. She has particular expertise with financing aspects of offshore fund and issuer structures and managed accounts.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Martin Bartlam
Partner, specialising in Structured Finance and Securities and Global Co-chair Fintech of DLA Piper
Martin Bartlam is the International Group Head of Finance and Projects at DLA Piper. He advises on international structured deals and in particular the application of FinTech and new financing techniques to businesses, including, ICO’s, securitisation, capital markets products and derivatives. Martin Bartlam is recognised as one of the world’s leading FinTech lawyers applying technology solutions to traditional funding structures. Martin is at the forefront of alternative investment strategies and products including applying new financing techniques to suit the development of smart infrastructure and real estate development. Martin has helped clients to build and fund many new platforms involving digital solutions for real estate infrastructure, in the UK and cross-border. Martin is advising a number of businesses on Initial Coin Offerings and related financial structures including addressing regulatory and practical issues in raising funding and issuing tokens and presents a masterclass on blockchain and ICO issues and has presented to industry bodies such as the LMA, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Insurance industry groups, the Global ABS conference and at various other finance industry events.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Alan Cunningham
Partner of DLA Piper
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
James Connor
Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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About Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: Orrick is a global law firm that focuses on serving technology, energy, infrastructure, and finance sectors.
Shawn Atkinson
Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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About Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: Orrick is a global law firm that focuses on serving technology, energy, infrastructure, and finance sectors.
Daniel Wayte
Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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About Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: Orrick is a global law firm that focuses on serving technology, energy, infrastructure, and finance sectors.
Nick Collins
Partner of Baker Botts
Nick Collins is a partner in the Global Projects department at Baker Botts and specializes in the project development and project financing of energy and natural resources projects. Nick has extensive experience advising borrowers, sponsors, export credit agencies, commercial banks, multilateral lending agencies and Islamic finance institutions on complex, large-scale energy and natural resources projects around the world (including LNG projects) – principally in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Russian Federation. In addition to his project development and project finance experience, Nick also advises clients on banking and finance, debt capital markets and Islamic finance transactions.
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About Baker Botts: Baker Botts is a full-service international law firm in the energy, technology, and life sciences sectors.
Nick Collins
Partner of Baker Botts
Nick Collins is a partner in the Global Projects department at Baker Botts and specializes in the project development and project financing of energy and natural resources projects. Nick has extensive experience advising borrowers, sponsors, export credit agencies, commercial banks, multilateral lending agencies and Islamic finance institutions on complex, large-scale energy and natural resources projects around the world (including LNG projects) – principally in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Russian Federation. In addition to his project development and project finance experience, Nick also advises clients on banking and finance, debt capital markets and Islamic finance transactions.
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About Baker Botts: Baker Botts is a full-service international law firm in the energy, technology, and life sciences sectors.
Simon Toms
Partner of Skadden Arps
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About Skadden Arps: Skadden Arps is a law firm that offers legal services to corporate, industrial, and financial entities.
Neel Sachdev
Partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Neel Sachdev is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neel represents financial sponsors and their affiliates on the financing of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Neel advises on a wide range of complex financing transactions including sponsor led leveraged financings, asset backed lending and securitisations, commercial paper and capital markets deals and derivatives.
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About Kirkland & Ellis LLP: Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides financial support to non-profit, charitable, and law-related organizations.
James Learner
Partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP
James Learner is Partner at Kirkland & Ellis International. He is also a member of HGGC’s Policy and Investment Committee. HGGC is a middle, market private equity fund based in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to joining HGGC, Learner was a partner with the international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. During his 25-year career at K&E, Learner principally represented private equity funds in connection with their acquisition, divestiture, financing and fund formation activities. Based in London the last 12 years, he was in charge of the firm’s European operations and was a member of Kirkland & Ellis’ 15-person Firmwide Management Committee. Learner graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School in 1987.
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About Kirkland & Ellis LLP: Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides financial support to non-profit, charitable, and law-related organizations.
Anthony Lee
Partner of Rosenblatt
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About Rosenblatt: Rosenblatt is a professional legal services provider firm.
Sean Donovan-Smith
Partner of Locke Lord
Sean Donovan-Smith is a Partner in the London office of Locke Lord LLP and a member of the Investment Adviser and Alternative Funds section of the Private Equity and Venture Capital practice. Sean is a financial services lawyer with almost 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having acted for a range of clients including funds, managers, advisers, and institutional investors. Sean focuses his practice in financial services and markets regulatory advice, regulatory enforcement and investigations, advising on regulated and unregulated funds and the international marketing of funds, and other financial products. Sean has developed a broad range of experience dealing with complex financial services matters including regulatory interventions/transactions, derivative and futures products, regulatory compliance, risk management, FSMA/FCA requirements and cross-border regulatory issues. Prior to entering into private practice, Sean was Associate Director of Business & Legal Affairs for INVESCO Asset Management Limited’s offshore division, and a management consultant at a specialist financial services consultancy firm. Sean is recognised in the Legal 500 for Investment Funds and speaks frequently on financial services regulatory and compliance issues. He recently served as Commissioner and Counsel for an independent commission established by the UK Cabinet Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to examine expanding the UK’s regime for dormant assets.
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About Locke Lord: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP was founded in 2011
Melissa Fogarty
Partner & Co-head of Corporate, London of Clifford Chance
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About Clifford Chance: Clifford Chance is a multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Simon Gleeson
Partner of Clifford Chance
Simon Gleeson specialises in banking and financial markets law and regulation, clearing, settlement and derivatives. Simon’s experience includes advising governments, regulators and public bodies as well as banks, investment firms, fund managers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory issues. He is described by all of the major legal directories as one of the world’s leading experts in financial services and banking regulation, capital markets and derivatives. He is one of the lead legal advisors to the main UK banking and financial services industry bodies regarding Brexit. In addition to his private practice, Simon is heavily engaged in the development of law and policy in finance. He chairs the Institute for International Finance’s cross-border resolution committee, and is generally regarded as one of the intellectual leaders in the post-crisis reform of financial regulatory and resolution law, having worked with national and international bodies to develop the “bail-in” concept. He has been called to give evidence to UK and EU parliamentary committees, and has worked closely with other legislators around the world (including G-20 governments). He advised the World Economic Forum on its 2009 Report on The New Global Financial Architecture, and was involved in the establishment of the UK’s Banking Standards Board. Simon has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, and at King’s College London, the LSE and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary Westfield London. He is currently a visiting Professor at Edinburgh University, a member of the bank resolution project of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has been elected a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College Oxford.
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About Clifford Chance: Clifford Chance is a multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Thomas Jameson
Partner of CMS
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About CMS: CMS is a commercial law firm that provides clients with advice in a wide range of law and tax matters.
Brian Sher
Partner, Co-head of Competition and Trade, UK of CMS
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About CMS: CMS is a commercial law firm that provides clients with advice in a wide range of law and tax matters.
Gary Green
Corporate Partner & Head of Global Equity Capital Markets of CMS
Gary Green is a Corporate partner and Head of Equity Capital Markets. He has extensive experience of a wide range of corporate law matters including corporate finance, domestic and cross-border M&A, restructurings and joint ventures and has often been involved in the largest and most complex transactions. Gary advises a large number of quoted companies both on the main market and on AIM. Gary also advises unquoted companies on a variety of corporate transactions. He has advised many of these companies over a long period and is regarded as a trusted business adviser. Gary is recommended in legal directory Chambers for M&A and in Legal 500 for IPOs and equity capital markets.
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About CMS: CMS is a commercial law firm that provides clients with advice in a wide range of law and tax matters.
James Shaw
Partner of Withersworldwide
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About Withersworldwide: Withersworldwide is the largest law firm in the world dedicated to the needs of successful people.
Daniel Tozer
Partner of Keystone Law
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About Keystone Law: Keystone Law is a full service law firm that helps companies receive a proactive and personal legal service.
James Daglish
Partner of Keystone Law
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About Keystone Law: Keystone Law is a full service law firm that helps companies receive a proactive and personal legal service.
Eitan Jankelewitz
Partner of Sheridans
Eitan is a partner from Sheridans, a leading technology, media and privacy law firm established in 1956, operating from London. Eitan has been advising digital marketing and advertising companies for over 10 years, dealing with all aspects of their commercial contracts, data compliance, investments and business strategy. Clients include tech and data providers, networks, agencies, publishers, advertisers and industry bodies, from small progressive startups to huge industry giants. Eitan testified as an expert witness at the DCMS Fake News enquiry on the use of personal data in advertising and he works closely with the IAB, assisting their development of compliance frameworks and codes of practice.
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About Sheridans: Sheridans is a leading media law firm whose lawyers combine the in-depth legal knowledge and breadth of expertise
Philip James
Partner of Sheridans
Philip leads Sheridans’ Technology and Data Group and advises clients on commercial data strategy, brand integrity, innovation and IP asset growth. Philip is an expert on data privacy, cyber risk and fraud prevention and speaks regularly on the opportunities, challenges and trends posed by use of data assets, including big and open data, AI, automation, behavioural targeting and cyber risk. Sheridans’ is a leading media technology law firm and advises clients on IP/data licensing frameworks, brand strategy, SaaS platforms and cloud computing. Sheridans has particular expertise in the Retail, E-commerce, Hospitality, InsureTech, Advertising, Sports/eSports, Games and Media sectors.
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About Sheridans: Sheridans is a leading media law firm whose lawyers combine the in-depth legal knowledge and breadth of expertise
Adam Bates
Partner & Head of Investigations of Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC
Adam Bates is the Partner & Head of Investigations at Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP.
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About Deramore Six, Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC, Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC: Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC is a law firm providing integrated and bespoke solutions to complex disputes including various litigations.
Ian Lynam
Founding Partner of Northridge Law
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About Northridge Law: Northridge Law is an independent law firm that focuses on the most complex and important sports-related issues.
Alex Denoon
Partner of Bristows
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About Bristows: Bristows works with leading clients from across the sectors and offers a true spectrum of legal expertise, both contentious.
Brian Cordery
Partner of Bristows
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About Bristows: Bristows works with leading clients from across the sectors and offers a true spectrum of legal expertise, both contentious.
Brian Cordery
Partner of Bristows
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About Bristows: Bristows works with leading clients from across the sectors and offers a true spectrum of legal expertise, both contentious.
Helen Brooks
Partner of Doyle Clayton – Workplace law and advisory
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About Doyle Clayton – Workplace law and advisory: Doyle Clayton is a specialist employment law firm that deals with all legal and related issues concerning people in the workplace.
Richard Lampert
Partner of Eversheds
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About Eversheds: Eversheds is a corporate law firms, with a proven track record of delivering consistently high quality legal services.
