CLLS - Key Persons
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- Executive Director, Solicitors Regulation Authority )
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- Jonathan Teacher ( Swiss Re )
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- Clyde & Co LLP )
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Colin qualified in 1984 and was a Partner at Simmons & Simmons for over 33 years. He was the Senior Partner of Simmons & Simmons for 10 years between 2011-21. Also qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong, Colin developed a commercial and financial disputes practice that encompassed both international and domestic dispute. Colin is the author of "Privilege" (Sweet & Maxwell), now in its 4th edition. He was appointed a Deputy District Judge in October 2022.
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- Chairman / Partner, Clifford Chance
David Pudge specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A, public takeovers and stock exchange matters as well as board advisory work, including corporate governance and activism defence. He acts for a broad range of clients and in particular large corporates and financial services groups.
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- Industry Representative
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- Clyde and Co LLP )
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- Clyde & Co LLP )
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- Cann Fitzgerald - Affiliate Member
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- Chairman / Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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- Chairman / Partner, Kingsley Napley
Iain is a partner in Kingsley Napley LLP and leads a team that advises law firms and other legal services providers on their regulation by the SRA and other regulators. This includes SRA investigations and enforcement. He is General Editor of Cordery on Legal Services, (LexisNexis).
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- Vice Chair
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- Clyde & Co LLP )
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- Chief Executive, the Law Society of England & Wales )
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- Chairman / Partner, Hogan Lovells
Jackie has been helping investors, developers, and occupiers with acquisitions and disposals of investments, some held directly, and some held through investment vehicles. Over the last 30 years she has worked with most asset classes, from office, retail, and logistics to hotels, residential, student housing, car auction sites, and bingo halls. She has also aided clients with the development of land sites across the asset classes-from land acquisition, to finance, letting, and ultimate sale. Jackie served for many years as the head of Hogan Lovells' global Real Estate Practice and Industry Sector.
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- Chairman / Restructuring Partner, Allen & Overy
Jennifer specialises in a wide range of work in commercial, banking, restructuring and insolvency law. She advises generally on issues arising in taking and enforcing of security, structuring transactions to mitigate against the effects of insolvency and cross-border restructuring transactions.
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- Bishop & Sewell LLP )
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- Joanna Hughes Solicitor Apprenticeships )
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- Chairman / Partner, RPC
Jon specialises in data protection and cybersecurity, digital technology and consumer law. He has 25 years' experience as a data protection, commercial contracts and technology lawyer. Jon leads the Data Advisory team, part of RPC's wider Data & Privacy group, including specialist Data Disputes and Data Breach teams.
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- Secretary
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- Emeritus
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- Clyde & Co LLP )
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- Chairman / Partner, MacFarlanes LLP
Lois advises corporates, funds, investors, financial institutions and entrepreneurs on a broad range of complex, cross-border commercial and corporate disputes in High Court and international arbitration, with particular expertise in post M&A, shareholder and joint venture disputes, funds disputes, contentious insolvency, contract disputes, and senior executive restraint of trade disputes.
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- Chairman / Partner, Kingsley Napley
Louise represents individuals and companies embroiled in criminal proceedings in the UK. She was part of the team representing Tesco in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) criminal investigation and Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). She is the go-to solicitor for most City traders whenever insider trading or market abuse is suspected, and speaks the language of the City with authenticity. Louise co-heads KN's Financial Services Group.
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- Chairman / Partner, Taylor Wessing
Matthew Rous took up his appointment as Chief Executive of the City of London Law Society in January 2022. He leads the Society's work on promoting City law firms and City solicitors. Prior to that he spent 26 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, with postings in Beijing, Tokyo, Brussels, Jakarta, Baku and Guangzhou. From 2017 to 2021 he served as Chief Executive of the China-Britain Business Council.
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- Chairman / Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Matthew is a partner in HSF's Real Estate division and is Head of Planning in London. He is also joint lead partner for the EMEA Real Estate sector at the firm and is responsible for client relationship and thought leadership initiatives to grow the firm's cross-practice real estate sector expertise. Matthew has 25 years of experience of planning across all aspects of contentious and non-contentious planning and development law.
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- Member of Committee
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- Chairman / Deputy CEO, Hogan Lovells
For almost 30 years, Michael Davison has led Hogan Lovells' Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice, comprising 200 partners and 800 lawyers across around the globe. He also sits as an arbitrator, acts as a mediator, and lectures on arbitration topics.
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- Vice Chair
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- Chairman / Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons
Minesh leads Simmons' Global AI team of over 75 lawyers and data scientists. An industry-recognised leader in AI law, Minesh advises clients including global technology companies, financial institutions and governments on legal, regulatory and ethical issues relating to AI. He is also a published author and regular speaker, lecturer and media commentator on AI law.
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- Chairman / Partner, CMS
- Head of CMS Energy & Climate Change Group
Munir Hassan is the Head of CMS Energy & Climate Change Group. The Clean Energy practice at CMS is a market leader in the renewables sector in Europe, with a vast portfolio of low carbon projects and transactions across all technologies. Munir advises on all aspects of electricity power generation, particularly in the renewables sector.
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- Vice Chair
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- Chairman / Partner, Linklaters
- Global Head of Linklaters' Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group
Nicole is the Global Head of Linklaters' Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. She is based in London and Dublin. She has a strong and influential reputation in the market as a leading competition lawyer. Nicole has led on over 40 significant merger control investigations before the European and UK authorities and coordinates merger control proceedings worldwide on global transactions.
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- Chairman / Senior Partner, RPC
Oliver has over 25 years' experience with particular expertise in commercial contracts, advertising and marketing, regulatory investigations/proceedings, data protection, consumer, intellectual property and digital. He is ranked in the Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" and "Top Ranked" by Chambers and Partners for both commercial and advertising/marketing.
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- Administrator
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- Chairman / Director of Learning, Linklaters
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- Chairman / Partner, Hogan Lovells
Philip advises a broad range of clients on their most difficult tax issues. He has particular experience with finance transactions including securitisation. He advises international corporates on transactions ranging from acquisitions and mergers to group reorganisations.
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- Chairman / Partner, Clifford Chance
Philip has over 20 years' experience dealing with a wide range of commercial, corporate, financial services and banking disputes and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience handling complex, multiparty and frequently cross-border disputes in the courts and in arbitration. Philip co-heads Clifford Chance's contentious insurance group.
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- Chairman / Partner, Clifford Chance
Roger has a wide range of expertise in commercial, corporate, private equity, fraud, banking and financial services disputes. Roger co-heads Clifford Chance's Global Business and Human Rights practice which advises clients across a range of jurisdictions and sectors in connection with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("UNGPs") and related international standards and local legislation. He also increasingly advises on climate change related business risk.
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- Chairman / Partner, Baker McKenzie
Sarah is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Banking and Finance practice group. Her practice is focused on a broad spectrum of finance-related matters, principally financial restructuring of corporate debt, structured finance and securitisation transactions (including restructuring such transactions) and bank regulatory matters, principally involving advice to investors in regulatory capital instruments. She has advised on numerous complex financial restructurings, principally cross-border restructurings, where her focus has principally been on advice to investors and ad hoc creditors' committees.
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- Vice - Chair
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- Clyde and Co LLP )
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- Secretary
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