FENWICK ELLIOTT - Key Persons


Adam Whitton

Job Titles:
  • Disclosure Manager
Adam has worked at Fenwick Elliott for 10 years, starting in litigation support as a clerk, subsequently moving to a paralegal role and latterly as Disclosure Manager specialising in document production, disclosure and edisclosure.

Adele Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Adele specialises in construction, engineering, and energy dispute resolution at both a domestic and international level, with a focus on avoiding, managing and resolving disputes for clients as efficiently as possible.

Andrew Davies

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Advising in dispute avoidance and dispute resolution in the construction, engineering and energy sectors, Andrew's practice focuses on domestic disputes throughout the construction supply chain and he was recommended as "impressive" in The Legal 500 UK 2013 guide.

Andrew Jeffcoat

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Andrew is a transactional construction specialist with extensive experience advising on technically complex development projects across energy, infrastructure, retail, office, and residential.

Andrew Pert

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant
  • Director of Client Partnerships
As a senior consultant, Andrew supports Fenwick Elliott's continued international expansion especially within the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia territories.

Ben Smith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Ben is a technically strong construction disputes lawyer and adept problem solver with a particular interest in project advisory and risk management in the context of large-scale, complex disputes.

Bianca Castellucci

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Bianca has a range of domestic and international experience in energy, construction and engineering disputes with a particular focus on international arbitration.

Chetan Raghwani

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Chetan is a non-contentious construction specialist advising on a broad range of transactions from inception to post-completion with experience working across a breadth of sectors including built environment, technology and clean energy.

Christina Lockwood

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Christina Lockwood is dual-qualified as a lawyer in Germany and England, with a PhD in German law from the University of Trier. She practices in general commercial disputes, disputes between funeral directors and customers, and landlord/tenant and property disputes.

Claire King

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Claire is a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 for International Arbitration and listed as a recommended lawyer in Who's Who Legal: Global Leaders for Construction Law.

David Bebb

Job Titles:
  • Partner
David specialises in domestic and international construction and engineering projects. He has advised on a broad range of projects including high-value residential development/refurbishment, offices, universities, laboratories, football stadia, data centres, hotels, art galleries and hospitals. David is a regular speaker at Fenwick Elliott's seminars and provides in-house seminars and training for clients and industry bodies such as the CIOB. He also speaks at industry events which have included Sweet & Maxwell's Construction Law Conference, IBC's International Construction Contracts and Conflict Management conference and LexisNexis Bonds and Guarantees Webinar. A number of David's articles and conference papers are available on the Fenwick Elliott website.

Dr Stacy Sinclair

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Stacy leads Fenwick Elliott's technology and innovation initiatives, overseeing the development and implementation of new legal technologies, as well as collaborating and engaging with clients on new digital technologies in the construction and legal industries.

Edward Farren

Job Titles:
  • Partner - Business Development
Edward has worked within construction law for almost 35 years, the last 25 years of which have been with Fenwick Elliott.

Edward Foyle

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Edward specialises in the resolution of disputes arising from construction and infrastructure projects around the world in areas such as offshore wind, renewables, the power sector, offshore oil and gas, aviation and port developments.

Emily Blanshard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Emily specialises in dispute resolution in the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Farrukh Karim Qureshi

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Farrukh specialises in contentious and non-contentious banking, construction, engineering, infrastructure, project finance and energy-related matters He has substantial experience of international commercial arbitration, including before the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment.

Gemma Essex

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Gemma has acted in energy, construction and engineering disputes, advising clients including employers, contractors and subcontractors, on issues arising from the design and construction of infrastructure projects.

George Boddy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
George has experience of a wide variety of construction and engineering disputes and specialises in all forms of dispute resolution, including court proceedings in the Technology and Construction Court, adjudication, arbitration and mediation.

Gilbert Hakim

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Gilbert provides advice in relation to complex and high value disputes throughout the construction, real estate and oil & gas sectors.

Giuseppe Franco

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Giuseppe is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in international arbitration and litigation before the Italian courts.

Huw Wilkins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Huw has a broad range of experience of construction and engineering law and specialises in dispute avoidance and resolution.

James Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Partner
James has a broad range of experience in various dispute resolution procedures and industries, including aviation, electrical power generation, infrastructure, oil & gas and rail.

Jatinder Garcha

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Jatinder has vast amount of experience in non-contentious domestic and international construction and projects work. He acts for the full spectrum of clients involved in the development process advising from inception and procurement strategies to project completion.

Jeremy Glover

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Specialising in construction, energy and engineering law for most of his career, Jeremy advises on all aspects of projects both in the UK and abroad, from initial procurement and strategic project advice to dispute avoidance and resolution.

Jon Miller

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Jon specialises in construction and engineering law and has practical on site experience developing his understanding of complex matters. He has also been listed in The Legal 500 UK and Chambers and Partners UK as a recommended construction lawyer.

Karen Gidwani

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Having practised construction law since qualification, Karen specialises in dispute resolution and avoidance for a wide range of domestic and international clients. Karen regularly advises and represents clients in litigation, arbitration, mediation and adjudication.

Katherine Butler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Katherine has experience of both domestic and international construction and engineering disputes and advises both contractor and developer clients.

Laura Bowler

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Laura has experience in major energy, construction and engineering disputes gained through litigation, arbitration, adjudication and various forms of dispute resolution. She has acted for domestic and international clients, including employers, contractors and subcontractors.

Leonie Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Leonie specialises in international arbitration, with a particular focus on contentious construction, energy, and infrastructure projects.

Lucinda Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Lucinda's contentious and non-contentious experience (in-house and in practice) covers standard form and bespoke contracts and the spectrum of issues they raise including contract formation, delay, defects, variations and termination. Lucinda advises employers, main contractors, specialist subcontractors and suppliers about how to avoid, manage and resolve disputes (using litigation, adjudication and ADR as appropriate) throughout the life-cycle of their construction and engineering contracts.

Lyndon Smith

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Lyndon specialises in the resolution of construction and engineering disputes through the courts, arbitration (both domestic and international) and adjudication proceedings. He is also experienced in resolving disputes using alternative dispute resolution procedures, in particular mediation.

Marina Samountry

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Marina is a New Zealand qualified solicitor with experience in contentious construction issues.

Mark Pantry

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Mark specialises in advising on domestic and international construction, engineering and infrastructure projects.

Martin Ewen

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Martin has extensive experience in acting for main contractors, subcontractors, employers and consultants in the construction and energy sectors. He advises on all aspects of dispute avoidance and resolution.

Matthew Simson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Matthew has extensive experience of energy, construction and engineering disputes gained through litigation, international arbitration and adjudication. He acts for domestic and international clients, including employers, contractors and subcontractors, in disputes regarding process plants and other large-scale infrastructure projects.

Mr Kyung Hee Rhee

Job Titles:
  • Korean Representative

Natalie Mackay

Job Titles:
  • Associate - Middle East and Africa
Natalie has acted on several disputes arising out of a number of major international infrastructure projects in the Middle East including in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the Sultanate of Oman.

Neil Elliot

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Practice Manager
As Practice Manager, Neil's primary role is that of financial management. In addition, he is also heavily involved in other areas, such as risk management, quality control, client care, human resources, marketing, advertising, facilities management, purchasing and IT.

Nicholas Gould

Job Titles:
  • Partner
A highly regarded construction law specialist by numerous legal guides and within the profession, Nicholas conducts contract drafting, strategic project advice and dispute resolution work. He acts in a wide range of construction sectors in the UK and abroad.

Oliver Weisemann

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Oliver has a range of experience acting for employers, contractors, sub-contractors and manufacturers of construction products in both domestic and international disputes.

Olivia Liang

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Olivia has experience advising employers, contractors and subcontractors on construction and engineering disputes across a range of industry sectors, including power and process plants, renewable energy, and transport.

Patrick Stone

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Patrick has significant experience of construction and engineering disputes on major international projects, with a particular focus on the Middle East where he has spent a large part of his career.

Paul Smylie

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Paul has experience acting for employers, contractors and sub-contractors in litigation, mediation and adjudication, as well as providing legal and commercial advice on disputes on live projects.

Philip Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Phillip is specialist construction lawyer and a Chartered Civil Engineer. He acts for all sides of the industry ranging from developers and contractors to consultants and insurers, and has wide experience of the interests of the major stakeholders.

Rebecca Ardagh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Rebecca has experience in a wide range of construction disputes across various dispute resolution forums including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation.

Rebecca Cook

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Rebecca is a specialist construction disputes lawyer with experience across all stages of the project life cycle.

Rebecca Penney

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Associate, Fenwick Elliott / Click
Rebecca has a broad range of experience in construction and engineering disputes, acting for employers, contractors and subcontractors in disputes arising from the design and construction of large-scale infrastructure projects and both residential and commercial developments.

Richard Smellie

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Richard is widely experienced in the resolution of disputes in the construction, energy and infrastructure sectors, both internationally and in the United Kingdom, having successfully led the resolution of numerous substantial disputes.

Roma Patel

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Roma has experience in assisting with a range of domestic and international construction and engineering disputes.

Ruth Leake

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Ruth has a range of both domestic and international experience in construction and engineering disputes.

Sam Cash

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Sam has extensive experience of construction and engineering disputes across a range of international and domestic projects.

Sam Thyne

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Sam has experience advising contractors, subcontractors, developers, government agencies and consultants on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious construction issues.

Sana Mahmud

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Sana acts for domestic and international clients across a wide range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, renewable energy, process plants and other civil infrastructure works. Sana specialises in the resolution of complex, high value disputes arising out of the design and construction of large-scale infrastructure projects. Her practice is focused on international arbitration and litigation.

Shahed Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Shahed is a Senior Associate based in Fenwick Elliott's Dubai office. He has experience in both non-contentious and contentious matters. Shahed previously worked in-house at one of the largest construction conglomerates in the ME region and prior to that, at an international design and engineering consultancy, where he advised on largescale design and build projects often adopting an ‘advisor' role from tender stage up to completion. This involved Shahed drafting and negotiating construction contracts, and preparing ancillary documentation such as subcontracts, collateral warranties, and novation agreements.

Simon Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Simon specialises in construction and engineering disputes and has experience advising domestic and international clients on disputes arising in a range of sectors including energy and commercial and residential property.

Simon Tolson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
Simon specialises in all major forms of dispute resolution in construction and engineering disputes including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation. He is ranked amongst the top construction solicitors in Chambers & Partners UK, The Legal 500 UK, Who's Who Legal, and The Legal Experts guides.

Sonia Ginders

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Sonia is a New Zealand qualified solicitor with experience advising contractors, subcontractors, government agencies and employers in both contentious and non-contentious construction issues.

Ted Lowery

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Ted advises on a wide range of projects in the construction, energy and PFI/PPP sectors including hospitals, schools, roads, utilities infrastructure, hydrocarbon installations and process and power plants.

Thomas Young

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Thomas specialises in the resolution of complex construction, engineering and energy disputes through arbitration, the courts, adjudication and all forms of alternative dispute resolution, with an emphasis on resolving matters before costs escalate.

Toby Randle

Job Titles:
  • Partner
A qualified Barrister, Toby specialises in construction and civil engineering issues. He deals with contract advice and drafting and dispute resolution, including adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation, in relation to building and engineering projects around the world.

Tony Francis

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Ranked among the top construction solicitors in Chambers & Partners UK and The Legal 500 guides, Tony advises in relation to dispute avoidance, dispute resolution and procurement for a broad range of both domestic and international clients.