PROSPECT LAW - Key Persons

Alice Boyle

Job Titles:

Solicitor
SENIOR SOLICITOR, IMMIGRATION

Alice Boyle is a solicitor with extensive experience in all areas of immigration law. She qualified in 2000 at Norton Rose and has specialised in immigration since 2003. Alice has been accredited as a Senior Caseworker at Level 2 and a Supervisor under the Law Society's Immigration accreditation scheme since February 2005. She was a director and a head of the immigration department at Duncan Lewis from 2007 until 2014. Alice can assist both corporate and individual clients with any immigration, nationality or asylum matter. Alice has substantial experience of challenging UK Home Office decisions, regularly representing clients in appeals at both the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal and also by way of Judicial Review applications in both the Upper Tribunal and UK High Court. Alice has a Masters Degree in Refugee Studies from the University of East London and has also been seconded to the Danish Refugee Council in Tajikistan, training government officials on international law and best practice procedure. Alice is also part of the practice's ESG team and advises on and participates in ESG audits for clients.

Alice Mutch

Job Titles:

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING MANAGER
Communications and Marketing Manager

Alice Mutch is a seasoned Communications and Marketing Manager with over six years of experience and a first-class honours degree. She leads Prospect's marketing campaigns and press releases, while also managing the operations and surveys of the ESG Audit, showcasing its benefits to clients. Alice Mutch brings over six years of experience as a Communications and Marketing Manager, focusing on promoting sustainable practices within the renewable energy sector. With a first-class honors degree and a passion for renewable energy, Alice leads Prospect's marketing campaigns and effective communication strategies. Her expertise in marketing and communications, coupled with her understanding of the renewable energy landscape, allows her to drive impactful campaigns that highlight the firm's commitment to their clients and sustainability. In addition to her marketing responsibilities, Alice plays a pivotal role in managing the operations and audits of the ESG Audit at Prospect Law. She is actively involved in showcasing the benefits of the ESG Audit to new clients, assisting them with inquiries, and ensuring the smooth operation of the audit process.

Andrew Waite

Job Titles:

SENIOR SOLICITOR, ENVIRONMENTAL
Solicitor and Specialist

Andrew Waite is a solicitor and specialist in environmental, health and safety and public law, advising on regulatory and liability issues for a broad range of industries. He defends prosecutions for breaches of environmental and health and safety legislation, deals with regulatory appeals, judicial reviews and civil litigation and advises on environmental issues relating to projects and transactions. He deals with all the main areas of environmental law including waste, energy, nuclear, contaminated land, pollution controls, environmental permitting, water rights, flooding, climate change and nature conservation. He has been listed as a leading expert in the legal directories for many years. He joined Prospect Law after sixteen years as a partner of Berwin Leighton Paisner and more recently a consultant with Ashurst. Andrew is a graduate of Oxford University and is a former Lecturer in Law at Southampton University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Georgia (USA). He is the leading author of Waite and Jewell, Environmental Law in Property Transactions, 4th ed (2016) and editor of the Environmental Law Handbook, 4th ed (2013 ). Andrew is also part of the practice's ESG team and advises on and participates in ESG audits for clients.

Ashley Bowes

Job Titles:

BARRISTER

Ashley Bowes is a barrister specialising in all aspects of planning, property, licensing and local government law. He is ranked as a leading practitioner by Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 and by ‘Planning' magazine. Ashley has experience of acting for developers and planning authorities at public inquiries, and has acted for both claimants and defendants at all stages of planning litigation, including to the Supreme Court. He was shortlisted by Chambers & Partners as Environment/Planning Junior of the Year 2018 and is a member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the UK Government in his areas of specialism. Ashley is also the General Editor of Sweet & Maxwell's Journal of Planning & Environment Law and the author of Oxford University Press' A Practical Approach to Planning Law, as well as a contributor to Butterworths' Planning Law Service and to the Routledge Handbook of Comparative Planning Law. In 2019, Ashley was co-opted to the Planning & Environment Bar Association Committee.

Ben Robinson

Job Titles:

HEAD of EDUCATION & TRAINING
Training and Development Consultant

Ben Robinson is a training and development consultant with over 20 years' experience in the energy, infrastructure and IT sectors. He has worked with major employers in the development of training programmes designed to address key skills shortages, and competence requirements. A Cambridge University economics graduate, Ben has extensive knowledge of how to assist organisations to identify and map their training needs, to specify, design and develop training solutions and to manage the successful delivery of training programmes. Ben has led the scoping, design and development of several flagship workforce development programmes to meet major skills shortages in the energy and IT sectors. He has been involved with training programmes across a range of levels, including graduate development programmes, engineer and technician development programmes, apprenticeship programmes, conversion training programmes and new entrant training. Ben's approach to driving excellence and continual improvement in training provision extends not only to learner experience, but also to identifying how programme delivery can adapt to evolving learning technologies, to changing skill requirements and to the changing contexts in which they are applied. Prior to joining Prospect Law, Ben spent the preceding nine years with EA Technology working with employers across Energy Networks, as well as the Renewable and Nuclear Energy, Defence, Government, Transport, Infrastructure, Engineering and Manufacturing sectors.

Ben Ticehurst

Job Titles:

Head of Local Government Services
Interim Executive
Specialist

Ben Ticehurst is a highly experienced interim executive and turnaround specialist with 40 years of work in and with local government organizations. He leads the development of Prospect's new services for local authorities, including confidential governance and ESG Audit projects, and offers valuable insights into risk mitigation for local authority commercial ventures. Ben Ticehurst has worked in and with local government organisations for 40 years and is a highly experienced interim executive and turnaround specialist. He is leading the development of Prospect's new range of services for local authorities, including confidential governance and ESG Audit and assurance projects which aim to provide councils with the insight and clear action steps they need to avoid the sorts of reputational problems that have affected so many in recent times. Ben also works within Prospect's risk mitigation and risk transfer team on a number of projects across a range of sectors. Ben started his career in local government as a community development worker in Oxford, where he became Assistant CEO. He subsequently took on a series of executive interim assignments, specialising in major change programmes. By way of example, Ben has worked closely with investment managers and city lawyers to design a highly successful public private partnership for the regeneration of a city centre site that had been considered ‘impossible' for the past 35 years. The relationships Ben has formed within the local government sector, and the expertise he has gained helped him to establish the Local Government Mutual project in 2015 which became a partnership with the Local Government Association. Ben's insight into the risks and oversights that affect local authority commercial ventures is highly valued in the sector, and he is developing a unique shareholder representative service within Prospect that equips councils with the knowledge and skillsets needed confidently to oversee companies, partnerships and joint ventures through affordable packages that dovetail expertly into assurance frameworks and governance arrangements. Ben is a non-executive director for a local authority trading company, a member of the Independent Monitoring Board for two prisons, and a trained dispute resolution mediator.

Chris Kaye

Job Titles:

NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING LIABILITIES CONSULTANT
Nuclear Specialist and Senior Commercial Executive

Chris Kaye is a nuclear specialist and senior commercial executive with over 40 years experience in negotiating, managing, and assuring the performance of multi-billion pound strategically and technically complex contracts, to Board and Ministerial level, within Government and private sectors. From 2006 and prior to joining Prospect Group in 2017 Chris was a function head of a major UK Non-Departmental Public Body. There he was responsible for assurance and oversight of all the UK private sector nuclear operators' decommissioning strategies, plans and costings on behalf of the UK Government where a third party or the taxpayer has an interest in funding and risk. This work was directed at the UK's most modern nuclear power station fleet and associated spent fuel liabilities, with a total value of almost £20bn. Chris has also advised the UK's Department of Energy on their development of the liabilities funding framework for the UK's new nuclear build programme, and subsequently led the assurance on behalf of that department of all three of the UK's new nuclear power plants' decommissioning plans and cost estimates in order to support the Government's decision on whether or not to approve this first of a kind development. Prior to this Chris worked in a variety of roles in the private energy and consulting sectors for UK, Swedish, Canadian, Asian, and Swiss clients, including waste management, strategic procurement, supply chain partnering, contract negotiation and management. For 12 years he led the negotiation and management of all the contracts for the supply of uranium, new fuel, and spent fuel management services for the UK's private sector nuclear fleet. Chris has been a ‘high risk projects' reviewer for the UK Cabinet Office Infrastructure and Projects Authority involving major government infrastructure schemes, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

David Gudopp

Job Titles:

HEAD of RISK MITIGATION and TRANSFER

As the Head of Risk Mitigation and Transfer in our Insurance, Mutuals and Risk Management division, David brings over 20 years of experience to the table. His focus is on providing clients with an independent assessment of their risk transfer arrangements and driving targeted outcomes. David has acquired multi-class experience over a 20-year career and across a wide range of insurance and reinsurance roles, primarily with an underwriting or account management focus. David has been based in different parts of the world, including New Zealand, Australia and the UK, and he has worked with a number of leading global insurance firms such as Aviva, Allianz, AXA and Tokio Marine. David has spent the past 14 years with Regis Mutual Management, a company which specialised in the formation, management and operation of discretionary, hybrid and group company mutuals in the UK and Australia. David's work with Regis ranged from the underwriting and management of existing mutuals, through to the development of new mutuals which encompassed both public and private sector applications. David's expertise involved all the stages of a mutual's creation and development from first contact with potential clients through to the design, build, launch and operation of the mutuals, and David has utilised the range of his underwriting background, and his wider insurance and reinsurance knowledge in order to achieve an optimal blend of risk transfer and targeted client outcomes.

David McIntosh

Job Titles:

Solicitor
SENIOR SOLICITOR, LIFE SCIENCES, IP and NUCLEAR ENERGY

David McIntosh was admitted as a solicitor in 1988 and is a highly experienced commercial projects lawyer who has advised clients in a number of different fields including intellectual property, data privacy, procurement law (both public and private), manufacturing, distribution, information governance, and general regulatory matters covering both the nuclear and pharmaceutical sectors. David joined Prospect Law in 2021 having worked as a Senior Legal Counsel for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) where he was the in-house legal member of the Competition Teams, which were responsible for all four of the public procurement competitions, amounting to approximately £32 billion. These competitions were conducted by NDA to appoint parent body organisations to own the shares in its nuclear site licence companies (SLCs), and to be responsible for their nuclear decommissioning operations. David has a strong understanding of the nuclear regulatory landscape, and the dynamics of government and stakeholder relationships. He has advised on procurement, regulatory, security and nuclear transport matters affecting NDA and its SLCs and subsidiaries. He has contributed to lessons-learned exercises after each of these competitions in order to produce and generate best practice and to learn from what went well, and what didn't, from a government/contracting authority, perspective. EXPERTISE Company Secretarial Corporate & Commercial Law Data Protection Law Intellectual Property Law Life Sciences Law Nuclear Energy

Dominic Whittome

Job Titles:

Analyst
ECONOMIST

Dominic Whittome is an economist, and graduated with BA and MA degree qualifications from Exeter University. He has 25 years of commercial experience in oil & gas exploration, power generation, business development and supply & trading. Dominic has served as an analyst, contract negotiator and Head of Trading with four energy majors (Statoil, Mobil, ENI and EDF), first joining the industry in 1990. His tasks included the start up and management of UK and European trading activities and handling arbitration & expert determination cases relating to terminated long-term contracts. As a consultant, Dominic Whittome has advised government clients (including the UK Treasury, Met Office and Consumer Focus) and various private entities on a range of energy origination, strategy and trading issues. Recent assignments have included advising on UK market entry and regulation, and the optimisation of renewable energy assets through storage and direct access to trading markets. Dominic has established a network of government and industry contacts across the oil and gas sector, and he also assists British manufacturers as the elected representative of the Energy Intensive Users Group on the Nord Pool power exchange.

Dr Jacqueline Faridani

Job Titles:

HEAD of ESG

Dr Jacqueline Faridani heads up Prospect Law's fast growing ESG practice. She is an advisor in financial risk management with 20 years of experience in a variety of risk management, compliance and product control roles at Canadian, German, French and Russian banks and life insurance companies, as well as for the Canadian financial regulator (OSFI).

Edmund Robb - Founder

Job Titles:

Co - Founder
DIRECTOR and BARRISTER

Edmund Robb is a barrister and co-founder of Prospect Law. He heads up the firm's ESG and Dispute Resolution practices. He was educated at Oxford University, was awarded a Prince of Wales Scholarship from Gray's Inn and was a barrister at chambers in London where he developed a specialised practice covering the environmental, planning and public law fields at Public Inquiries and at all levels in the Courts. Edmund's case work has been reported widely, and he has been named as a Legal Expert in his field since 2006. Edmund has particular expertise advising corporate, local authority and private clients on energy, infrastructure and other development projects and in High Court judicial review and declaratory relief proceedings. EXPERTISE Dispute Resolution ESG Advisory ESG Audit Planning Law

Edward Austin

Job Titles:

Commercial Real Estate Solicitor
SOLICITOR, PROPERTY

Edward Austin is a Commercial Real Estate Solicitor with over 25 years' experience. After getting a first class honours degree in Law from Manchester University, Edward trained with a major City law firm and then worked for a large regional practice in the South-West of England. During this period he undertook a great deal of commercial property and estate management work for a major port operator and for a national tyre retail chain. He also advised on property secured lending for one of the big four banks as well as landed estate work for the National Trust. In his employment work Edward advises employers and employees on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including in relation to the tax implications of different employment arrangements, and frequently undertakes his own advocacy on defended cases in the Employment Tribunal. Edward has also been General Counsel of the former Birmingham Midshires Building Society, dealing with its entire property portfolio, and its large commercial lending and securitisations book. Edward managed the legal aspects of BM's acquisition by HBOS, becoming divisional company secretary. More recently he was an equity Partner in a high street law firm. He has also worked with and advised public authorities, particularly on development proposals, EU procurement law, commercial contracts, community asset transfers to charitable trusts, and general estate management. Edward contributed to Butterworths ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents', authoring the ‘Sales of Leaseholds' Section, and frequently publishes articles on topical legal issues.

Edward de la Billiere - Founder

Job Titles:

Co - Founder
Director
Senior Solicitor
Solicitor

Edward de la Billiere is a solicitor and co-founder of Prospect Law. He trained at the leading Middle East firm Trowers and Hamlins, working in both their London and Dubai offices, predominantly in the oil sector. On qualification, Edward moved to Magnox Electric as a commercial solicitor, where he was involved in its take-over by the nuclear operator BNFL. He has advised regarding renewable and nuclear energy projects for corporate, governmental and private clients across the UK and internationally. Edward works very closely with the risk management and insurance teams, advising clients in the energy sector on risk transfer mechanisms and the role of insurance, as well as advising individual and major corporate clients in the UK and abroad on requirements for compliance with various international legislative frameworks including in the context of ESG. Edward has advised on Parliamentary Select Committees, been consulted by the SFO on regulatory law matters, and has contributed to numerous publications including Butterworths "Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure".

Elissa Jelowicki

Job Titles:

SOLICITOR, CORPORATE and COMMERCIAL

Elissa Jelowicki, an Edinburgh University graduate, is a Solicitor within our corporate/commercial legal team. Elissa has over ten years experience advising a number of high profile businesses, start ups and individuals from media to the corporate sector. She advises clients across the entire life of a transaction from due diligence, contract negotiations, draft documentation, risk management through to completion. Elissa works closely with clients in order to provide them with practical and cost-efficient solutions to their legal and commercial issues. Her commercial work focuses on drafting and negotiating commercial documents for clients ranging from MSA's, Heads of Terms, confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements, and bespoke shareholders agreements.

Gemma Shore

Job Titles:

Commercial Real Estate Solicitor
Senior Solicitor, Property

Gemma Shore is a commercial real estate solicitor. She trained at Trowers & Hamlins and qualified in 2007 when she moved to Oxford and worked at Blake Lapthorn as part of the development team in the commercial property department. She advised on a wide range of general commercial property work, including landlord and tenant transactional work; and acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold commercial and industrial premises, industrial estates, office buildings and retail units. She also advised on transactions involving land development. Gemma acted for individuals, partnerships, banks, retailers, investor landlords, corporate users, universities and charities. She also provided support on corporate transactions and has managed large-scale real estate project work involving financing, acquisitions and disposals of commercial property portfolios and the preparation of certificates of title. From 2011 to 2012, Gemma worked as a commercial property manager at Genesis Housing Association. She was employed to review and report on the commercial property portfolio owned by Genesis, reporting on the terms of Leases and Licence Agreements; setting up a database for the commercial properties; advising on Lease renewals and assisting with the management of one of the residential portfolio teams.

James Hoare

Job Titles:

Electrical Engineer
Engineering Council Registered Chartered Engineer

James Hoare is an Engineering Council registered Chartered Engineer (Electrical, Energy & Energy Management) with 35 years experience in utility power systems engineering, of which the last 30 have been in renewable energy systems. He undertook a BSc Electrical Engineering Degree at The City University London, and an MBA at The Open University. He has worked for major energy organisations including CEGB (now National Grid), GEC (now Alsthom), ESB International, Parsons Brinkerhoff, and Solarcentury. James was involved with the grid connection of the UK's first commercial wind farm at Delabole in 1991, and has been extensively involved with solar PV, since 2000, including off grid, domestic, public sector, commercial and large scale projects. This knowledge covers feasibility, design, project management, O&M and verification and validation. James sits on a number of renewable energy technical advisory panels and is an associate for the BRE National Solar Centre. James holds additional technical expertise in Heat Pumps, Solar Thermal and Energy Management. James is an IET Presidents List recommended Expert Witness for PV and HV systems.

John Blackshaw

Job Titles:

SOLICITOR, CONSTRUCTION
Specialist

John Blackshaw is a dual qualified specialist construction law lawyer who worked as a commercial manager, project/programme manager and contracts manager before qualifying as a solicitor. John has worked internationally for in excess of 25 years in North America, South America, and in Western, Central and Eastern Europe on a wide range of projects across the energy, nuclear, roads, rail, marine, infrastructure, automotive, industrial, residential and commercial sectors, both with Employers, and with Tier 1/Tier 2 Contractors as well as in-house. In recent years, John has been appointed to advise clients on a series of primarily contentious matters involving major projects, both internationally and in the UK and including: working as part of the arbitration team on a multi-billion Euro dispute for the OL3 nuclear power station in Finland; working with the joint venture management team to formulate and prosecute a transportation claim against the Government of Canada on the New Champlain Bridge in Montreal; managing a team for the preparation of multiple claims concerning acceleration, extension of time, delay and disruption, variations and additional works on a guaranteed maximum price contract for the JV consortium on the high speed rail link between Cologne and Frankfurt; working with the arbitration team for a German shipyard on claims against both the designer and Russian owner; drafting position papers for a UK contractor on a dispute regarding delays, disruption and additional works to onshore convertor stations for an offshore wind farm; and working with the in-house legal and project team, as well as other support functions, for a UK contractor in prosecuting a successful counter-claim against a nuclear reprocessing company. As well as his involvement in contentious work, John also advises clients on completing contractual and commercial arrangements for construction projects. In recent years this non contentious work has included: assisting with and advising on the formulation of selectivity criteria and dealer contracts for Nissan Europe in compliance with the updated Block Exemption Regulations; formulating contracts for the appointment of designers for a Europe-wide visual identity project on behalf of Honda Europe; and drafting the Works Information for Key Stage 6 of the M4 Corridor around Newport. John regularly advises on "problem projects", which require high level strategic advice, both legal and commercial, which is designed to develop and implement a pathway allowing projects to be brought back on track. John provides training to project members on contract and commercial issues, and he is a fluent German speaker.

John Faulks

Job Titles:

Senior Solicitor, Commercial and Corporate

John Faulks is commercial lawyer with over 25 years' experience in a wide variety of roles in private practice, the not-for-profit sector and in-house as General Counsel. He qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and has a law degree from Oxford University and a Masters in Environmental Law from King's College, London. He was General Counsel at Solarcentury for 15 years and a key player in taking the business from start-up in the UK through leading on acquisitions and through organic growth to a £200m turnover group, active across four continents. This gives him a deep knowledge of what it takes to make renewable energy projects commercially successful, and an excellent understanding of what it takes to keep a fast growth company profitable. John has advised on a wide range of commercial law matters including utility scale energy projects, multi building portfolios and high volume residential programmes, as well as on product development and commercialising innovation. He has had a specific focus on construction and supply chain contracts; sales, marketing, distribution and licensing agreements; and contract manufacturing and joint ventures.

John Ireland

Job Titles:

Energy Specialist and Senior Business Executive
Senior Consultant, Nuclear

John Ireland is an internationally experienced energy specialist and senior business executive skilled in the development, negotiation, and management of businesses and technically complex contracts within both the Government and private sectors. John, a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, has been Chief Engineer advising clients on nuclear new build in Romania and investigating opportunities in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey, and Project Manager for the treatment and management of toxic and radio-toxic chemical wastes in the UK, Japan, and the EU. John has grown complex businesses in Asia and the Middle East, and assisted international organisations to develop business in and from the UK through joint ventures and partnerships. Additionally, his experience also includes fuel supply, transportation, and technical and project management expertise to decommissioning projects in the UK, South Korea and Lithuania. With professional knowledge of the non-nuclear generation market, project financing, and transmission networks John's professional experience also includes inter-Government relations on nuclear issues, contract administration, contract arbitration, and nuclear and non-nuclear project licensing. As past-Chair of the UK Government's Nuclear Export Group and UK Government International Trade Adviser for the Energy Sector, John brings a significant understanding of the complex issues surrounding international trade and related business development.

Mark Tetley

Job Titles:

Senior Consultant, Insurance & Risk

Mark Tetley has wide experience gained from senior positions across the London insurance market as both an underwriter and a broker, in a variety of sectors. He provides advice and assistance on a wide range of insurance and risk issues, including comprehensive nuclear liability and property insurance assistance, complex infrastructure project programme design and review, claims and policy reviews, assistance with project insurance design and implementation in developing countries, and many other aspects of risk mitigation. Mark served as the Managing Director of the Power, Nuclear & Construction division at Lloyd's insurance broker Price Forbes & Partners between 2014 and 2017. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd (the UK nuclear insurance pool) from 2001 - 2014, and before that appointment was a Lloyd's underwriter for the Nuclear Syndicate, for a political risk insurer and for a power generation insurer. He also held other underwriting positions at Lloyd's and was a founding director of the Lloyd's business ventures in Japan and China. During his time at Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd, Mark assisted the UK Government with the nuclear insurance aspects of the changes to the statutory nuclear liability legislation required because of the 2004 Paris Convention revision. He has also worked extensively on the development of new nuclear insurance programmes for Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and China. This work entailed organising technical and legal suitability assessments, policy language development and, ultimately, placing and managing the insurances for these nuclear sites in the international insurance market. Mark is a member of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA), has served as an Expert-Representative of the international nuclear insurance industry at the Nuclear Law Committee of OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, and he continues to serve as a lecturer at both the International School of Nuclear Law and the International Nuclear Law Essentials course. Mark is also involved in various UK renewable energy projects.