THOMSON SNELL & PASSMORE - Key Persons
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- Paralegal, Court of Protection
Adeline graduated in 2011 and then went on to work as a paralegal in a national Court of Protection team for 5 years, in both Birmingham, then London.
Alan was a partner in Thomson Snell & Passmore from 1994 to 2012 and rejoined the firm as a Consultant in 2019.
As an experienced probate lawyer he readily identifies with grieving clients and aims always to provide sensitive and sympathetic support and assistance, but he is also able to draw on earlier litigation experience to help resolve difficulties which occasionally arise.
Alan handles a wide range of estates, which sometimes include business or agricultural property and/or tax-saving investment schemes.
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- Head of Trust & Tax Management
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- Partner, Residential Property & Conveyancing
- Specialist
Alastair is a specialist residential property Partner in the Residential Conveyancing and Property department at Thomson Snell & Passmore. Alastair has extensive experience with over 36 years of dealing with all aspects of Residential Property transactions.
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- Client Story / Baumit 's Expansion into the UK
- Client Story / Chatham Maritime Trust
- Partner, Real Estate
Alex is a real estate lawyer based in Thomson Snell & Passmore's Thames Gateway office, specialising in commercial property investment and asset management matters.
Alex joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2011 and was listed as a ‘Rising Star' in Super Lawyers London under ‘Commercial Property' in 2013 before being promoted to Partner in 2018. Prior to joining Thomson Snell & Passmore, he was at City-based law firm Speechly Bircham (now Charles Russell Speechlys) where he had also trained.
Alex has written articles and hosted round-table discussion events about issues affecting the regeneration of the Thames Gateway (North Kent) region, and between 2012 - 2021 was an external governor at North Kent College (including serving a maximum two terms as Chair).
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- Paralegal, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury
Alex's personal injury experience includes all aspects of road traffic accidents, injuries suffered abroad, and employer's, product, and occupier's liability claims, including cases involving:
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- Trainee Solicitor, Dispute Resolution
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- Client Story / Acting for Growing Restaurant Chain, Sticks' N ‘ Sushi
- Client Story / Advising Restaurant Chain Sticks ‘N‘ Sushi for over a Decade
- Partner, Real Estate
Alisa is an experienced Real Estate Partner who heads up our Food and Drink sector at Thomson Snell & Passmore. She has approximately 30 years of experience of advising a variety of clients on all aspects of real estate but particularly on Landlord and Tenant matters.
Alisa enjoys cultivating a close working relationship with clients guiding them through the world of Real Estate to help them achieve their commercial objectives enabling them to focus on their day to day business.
Alisa enjoys attending industry events in order to understand the pressures that clients face and is a solicitor with a particular interest in the hospitality world as a member of the Leisure Property forum. Alisa is also a member of Women in Property.
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- Paralegal, Residential Property & Conveyancing
The work Alison is involved with in the Residential Conveyancing and Property Department has a primary focus with secured lending which includes working for borrowers and lenders on both buy to let and general residential mortgages. Alison also assists with transfers of equity.
Alongside secured lending, Alison is also able to assist with lease extensions and lease variations for both Landlord and Tenant.
Before becoming a trainee paralegal, Alison worked within the Residential Conveyancing Department as a Legal Secretary for 19 years, assisting one of the Equity Partners. During her secretarial training, she undertook A-Level Law and a Legal Secretarial National Diploma.
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- Partner, Real Estate Disputes
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- Finance Assistant, Court of Protection
Amanda has predominantly worked in the finance industry, with a wide range of skills from working at Accountancy firm as a Tax Assistance, to a Financial Solutions company as a Pricing and Data Analyst. Amanda joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in March 2019, in the Court of Protection department to preparing annual accounts and provide administrative support for their vulnerable clients.
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- Senior Associate
- Executor Fights Claim Against Siblings Who Ignored Will
- Member of ConTrA
- Senior Associate, Will, Trust & Estate Disputes
Amy is a Senior Associate in the Will, Trust & Estate Disputes team. She joined the team in 2016 and has a wealth of knowledge and experience. Amy helps private clients with all aspects of this area of work and mainly represents executors, trustees and beneficiaries as well as those excluded from wills.
Amy is a member of ConTrA, a network for Contentious Trusts Associates, and The Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). She is also named as a ‘recommended lawyer' in The Legal 500 2023.
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- Solicitor
- Consultant, Corporate & Commercial
Having both had to instruct and be instructed as a solicitor Andrew has a deep understanding of what it is that clients need and want from their legal advisers.
Andrew has worked with a wide variety of firms from large international companies to nimble start-ups. Roles have included providing sole legal counsel roles to firms without in-house advisers, supporting GCs and running large projects.
Having worked in front office roles in investment management for public and private equity funds, financial and business professionals appreciate Andrew's understanding of transactions from their perspective alongside his legal experience.
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- Client Story / Dealing With Foreign Assets on Divorce
- Client Story / Instructing Experts in Relation to Pensions and Foreign Assets on Divorce
- Senior Associate, Family
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- Trainee Solicitor, Real Estate
Annie-Kate joined the firm in September 2024 as a Paralegal in the Real Estate department. In September 2025, Annie began her contract as a Trainee Solicitor.
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- Associate, Court of Protection
Annika joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2020, having trained with a regional firm in East Sussex where she gained over 2 years post-qualified experience advising on matters concerning children and adults with acquired brain injuries as well as elderly and vulnerable clients.
Annika specialises in supporting clients with brain injuries, and their families, to live as independent lives as possible, by assisting with the management of their financial affairs. Annika Manages high value clinical negligence and personal injury damages awards on behalf of clients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury, including cerebral palsy.
Annika works to build collaborative relationships with all her clients, their families and their wider multidisciplinary teams, in order to achieve outcomes which are in their best interests. Annika helps to put in place therapies, accommodation and equipment which will help improve client's quality of life.
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- Partner, Corporate & Commercial
- Trainee Solicitor, Corporate & Commercial
Anthony is a banking and finance lawyer who has significant expertise in Corporate M&A and Real Estate Finance. He has extensive experience of working with lenders and borrowers across a range of complex banking and finance transactions both domestic and international. He advises on work across the capital structure including corporate finance, leveraged acquisition finance, asset-based lending, structured finance, debt finance, secured lending, refinancings, restructurings, MBOs and private equity.
Before joining Thomson Snell & Passmore in September 2025, he spent a number of years with Pinsent Masons as a partner in its banking and finance practice, where he advised on cross border financing and international projects, with predominantly London-based clients. Prior to that he spent six years at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in both London and Frankfurt, as well as time at US law firm Milbank LLP and Magic Circle firms Linklaters LLP and Allen & Overy LLP
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- Senior Associate, Corporate & Commercial
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- Partner, Corporate & Commercial
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- Solicitor, Corporate & Commercial
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- Partner, Corporate & Commercial
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- Senior Associate, Corporate & Commercial
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- Head of Corporate & Commercial
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- Associate, Corporate & Commercial
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- Consultant, Corporate & Commercial
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- Solicitor, Corporate & Commercial
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- Corporate Tax Consultant, Corporate & Commercial
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- Trainee Solicitor, Corporate & Commercial
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- Solicitor, Corporate & Commercial
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- Associate, Corporate & Commercial
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- Associate, Corporate & Commercial