Lilly Toop is an experienced Private Client solicitor specialising in Trusts, Wills, Wealth Planning and Estate Administration.

Lisa works with business owners and stakeholders to help them achieve their growth strategies.

Louise assists clients to bring forward development, working with landowners, promoters and developers to deliver results.

Lucy specialises in Residential Development and Strategic Land.

Mark is an energy specialist having advised clients in the UK energy markets since the restructuring and privatisation in the early 1990s and has extensive experience of energy markets internationally.

Mark is a 35 year qualified Dispute Resolution solicitor with a focus on Corporate disputes. He has worked for clients in a broad range of industry sectors. Mark’s main areas of expertise are shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice proceedings; warranty claims; professional negligence; and general contractual claims including commercial disputes in relation to breach of contract and breach of confidence, partnership disputes, declaratory relief and judicial review proceedings.

Mark is a Partner in our sector leading education team, advising on education collaborations and governance. Mark is recognised by Legal 500 and has spent all of his legal career advising in the education sector.

Mark is a trusted business adviser providing practical and, above all, commercial advice to individuals and companies in relation to business matters.

Martin is known for his flexible thinking to resolve challenging situations for clients including developers, corporate occupiers, owners and investors.

Martin works with teams to ensure project goals are realised by engaging development partners and other key stakeholders.

Martyn is a commercial energy and contracts lawyer. He works in our specialist Commercial Energy and Utilities team, with a particular focus on gas and LNG.

Matt specialises in corporate finance; advising public and private companies, individuals and institutions on domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity investments, IPOs and secondary fund raisings, restructurings and joint ventures.

Matt’s expertise cover all areas of Employment law. He has considerable experience of advising clients on complex employment litigation, senior hires and exits, large-scale redundancy exercises and complicated TUPE issues.

Mauro has over 25 years’ experience in advising clients on contentious and non-contentious intellectual property related issues.

Michael is a corporate lawyer who brings clients’ goals to the fore, understanding their objectives and meeting their aims in a thorough, timely and pragmatic manner.

Michael has been at the forefront of our professional negligence work for over 10 years. Recommended in the Legal 500 2023, he has worked on numerous cases throughout his career for clients ranging from individuals through to SMEs and blue-chip companies. He has extensive experience in dealing with high-value and complex cases – particularly property and finance issues.

Natalie is a Partner and Head of Securitisation at Shakespeare Martineau.

Nick has over 25 years experience of working in Bristol as a specialist employment lawyer, dealing with all aspects of employment law. Whilst he predominantly acts for business owners, employers and senior executives he also assists employees with the difficult issues that they can face in their employment.

Insolvency expert Nicola has over 10 years’ restructuring and insolvency experience having worked with a wide variety of clients ranging from insolvency practitioners and litigation funders to corporates and their directors. She advises on a variety of restructuring, recovery and insolvency issues and has extensive experience in contentious insolvency work. Nicola is also a qualified insolvency practitioner having obtained a first time pass in the Joint Insolvency Examination Boards (2014).

Paul is a Partner and Head of the Corporate team in the Bristol office. He trained and has worked in Bristol and Bath over many years and has a deep understanding of the issues affecting SME businesses and their owners.

Paul is a specialist planning solicitor who focusses on delivering practical solutions for his clients and joint leader of the legal planning team.

Peter prides himself on delivering results for clients, who value his commercial experience as much as his real estate legal expertise.

Peter works tirelessly to ensure first and foremost that his clients’ objectives and deadlines are met.

Rhys helps employers manage their staff and HR issues by providing clear and pragmatic advice to find the resolution required.