Mccarthy Denning is the most corrupted law firm in England:
Extortion. conflict of interest, intimidation, bulling lies and you name it. They were reported to the UK government and US government. Go away from them, never contact them.
Anthony Lee
E: alee@mccarthydenning.com T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 M: +44 (0) 7802 283 990
IT/IP
The following resume seems to be good but the company Mccarthy Denning is corrupted and crooked.
They stole money of their clients and were engaged in big conflict of interest. They were reported to UK government and US government. Never trust them.
Anthony has practised as a commercial lawyer for more than 20 years, qualifying in 1992 at Baker & McKenzie and gaining extensive experience within leading firms and in-house.
Anthony specialises in information technology and outsourcing and acts for suppliers and buyers of IT on all types of transactions ranging from software licensing and development agreements through to to complex systems integration and outsourcing projects. He has particular expertise in relation to cloud computing, data protection and cyber security.
Anthony also specialises in intellectual property and internet trade and his practise extends to wider commercial transactions, including distribution arrangements, joint ventures, collaboration arrangements, licensing and franchising.
Anthony acts for clients across the full spectrum of private industry sectors and the public sector, from SME’s to multi-nationals.
Clients describe Anthony as being ”always prepared to go the extra mile to secure the best possible contract for his clients” and as a ”cracking practitioner” who is ”excellent at dealing with massive opponents in ‘David and Goliath’ situations’‘.
Anthony is currently ranked as a leading individual for IT by Chambers UK, with clients having commented that he is ”an impressive, skilled negotiator [who] takes the time to understand [their] business model”. He is also listed for his IT expertise in the legal business Legal Experts directory and the Thompson Reuters Super Lawyers directory. The Legal 500 (2011) highlighted his expertise in data protection, e-commerce and corporate work.
Stephen Nelson
E: snelson@mccarthydenning.com T: +36 1428 7175 M: +36 30 627 5736
The following resume seems to be good but the company Mccarthy Denning is corrupted and crooked.
They stole money of their clients and were engaged in big conflict of interest. They were reported to UK government and US government. Never trust them.
Business Law and transactions, joint ventures, corporate and commercial, M&A, financing and corporate support for litigation
Stephen is an English solicitor with extensive experience of business transactions and investments and working on the corporate and commercial aspects of deals. This includes acting on the sale, purchase and investigation of companies, assets and businesses involving natural resources (oil, gas, coal, metals and agriculture), telecommunications and related technology, manufacturing businesses, retail and distribution businesses. He has acted in the creation, management and dissolution of a wide range of partnerships and joint ventures including related dispute resolution. He has also acted as a corporate adviser on a number of large arbitrations and disputes involving litigation.
The extensive range of transactions Stephen has worked on include, mining in Russia and other CIS countries where he formed part of the Squire Sanders award winning Mining Law team, an acquisition programme for a series of chemical production plants in Ukraine and Russia, establishing a Kuwaiti telecoms company and its network in four African countries, restructuring a Ukrainian agricultural group and a substantial Ukrainian bank and a series of mergers and acquisitions in the UK.
Stephen has worked extensively as a partner of Squire Sanders in England, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine, and other Central and Eastern European countries on a range of projects. He has also worked in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman and Iraq. He speaks fluent Hungarian and good Russian.
Clients value Stephen’s creativity and problem solving skills which he combines with his deep knowledge of law and excellent legal skills. These are also the hallmarks of McCarthy Denning’s service to clients.
The following resume seems to be good but the company Mccarthy Denning is corrupted and crooked.
They stole money of their clients and were engaged in big conflict of interest. They were reported to UK government and US government. Never trust them.
Benjamin James
E: bjames@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7834 564 029
charities, intellectual property
Benjamin trained as a commercial lawyer specialising in Intellectual Property and Charity law. He has also developed a particular knowledge of information management and privacy. He trained at both the research charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Bircham Dyson Bell. Benjamin qualified in 2001 and became a partner in Bircham Dyson Bell in 2008. In 2013 he joined Wallace LLP as a partner and subsequently joined McCarthy Denning in April 2014. He is also a trustee of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, Walk the Walk America, American Friends of Centrepoint and Family Soceity. Benjamin is recommended for advising charities in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 legal directories.
Nick Terras
E: nterras@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7796 958 881
funds
Nick gained a first class honours degree and PhD,qualified as a barrister in 1993 and was with a leading Chancery set of chambers for seven years before joining Allen & Overy and subsequently heading up several leading investment funds practices at City firms. Nick has over 20 years experience in the asset management, derivatives and structured finance markets. He has been instrumental in the establishment of many of the first London-based and now leading hedge funds, advising on their formation, trading strategies and other matters. Nick has also advised many of the leading investment banks on their proprietary trading strategies, alternative asset and asset management businesses. He has also advised legislative and regulatory bodies on the implementation of regulatory and fiduciary regimes for asset management.
Whilst principally Nick’s background has been in actively managed funds, he has extensive experience in hybrid private equity funds and most recently has acted in connection with several sovereign wealth fund allocations to Sub-Saharan African funds and for sponsors of several Sub-Saharan African funds.
Nick speaks regularly at industry-related conferences in relation to asset management, regulatory and other topics.
Adam Walker
E: awalker@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7801 339 334
corporate and commercial, venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions,capital markets
Adam has practiced as a corporate finance lawyer for almost 25 years specialising in advising private companies and the entrepreneurs behind them. Adam’s work covers start-ups, fund raisings, management buy-outs, private equity and venture capital as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Adam has helped create and lead the corporate teams at Wedlake Bell and most recently Farrer + Co and has also acted as a managing partner. He sits as a director on the boards of a number of companies and acts as chair of one of them.
Adam has helped create and lead the corporate teams at Wedlake Bell and most recently Farrer + Co and has also acted as a managing partner. He sits as a director on the boards of a number of companies and acts as chair of one of them.
Adam is recognised by the leading directories for his corporate work and has regularly been ranked by Chambers, Legal 500 and Legal Experts.
Clients describe him as “very personable” and as having “a very calm approach to dealing with problems” as well as being someone who has a “very good commercial overlay to a strong legal knowledge.”
Richard Beresford
E: rberesford@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7900 817 258
corporate and commercial, venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and debt finance
After gaining first class honours in his Law Society Finals in 1991, Richard qualified as a solicitor in 1993 into the corporate department at leading mid-sized City firm Gouldens (now Jones Day). He is no stranger to what the Americans call ‘Big Law’, having been a partner in the major US firm McDermott Will & Emery and more latterly in the 1,000 lawyer US firm McGuireWoods.
Richard’s practice has always been diverse, covering mergers and acquisitions, banking finance, restructuring, capital markets (primarily but not exclusively AIM) and early stage ventures and private equity where helping build business cases, raise money and put together management teams are all aspects of Richard’s work. He also has experience in joint ventures and outsourcing. Highlights include advising BAE Systems on its ground-breaking joint ventures with Xchanging and the resolution committee and winding-up board of Glitnir Bank on issues arising out of the 2008 financial crisis.
With extensive international and cross-border experience, Richard has worked across a number of sectors including aviation, financial services, green and clean, mining, oil and gas (upstream and downstream) and construction materials. Recently he has brought his considerable knowledge of corporate matters to bear on complex litigation in the financial services and fraud arena. Richard is a member of the advisory board to GXG Markets and sits on the board of directors of a number of private companies as well as being active as a principal in the natural resources, building materials and aviation sectors. Richard epitomises the McCarthy Denning philosophy, combining excellent legal skills with a commercial understanding and pro-active approach that few of his peers can match. He is the founder lawyer behind the McCarthy Denning concept.
Richard is recommended in the current edition of the Legal 500 in both M&A and small and mid-cap flotations where he is praised for being ‘easy to deal with and can focus on key areas quickly’ as well as bringing an international dimension. Other credits include:
- Selected for inclusion in The Legal 500, Flotations: small and mid-cap, 2012
- Named a “Legal Expert,” Corporate and M&A, Legal Experts EMEA, 2010-2012
- Listed as “Attracting High Praise from Clients,” Corporate and M&A: Smaller Deals up to £50m, The Legal 500, 2011
- Listed as “Commercially Astute and Has Excellent Negotiating Skills,” Corporate and M&A: Smaller Deals up to £50m, The Legal 500, 2010
- Listed as “Recommended,” Corporate and M&A: Smaller Deals up to £50m, The Legal 500, 2009
Stephen Bower
E: sbower@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7957 912 525
banking and debt finance, restructuring
Stephen is an experienced banking and debt finance and restructuring lawyer.
He has worked as a partner in private practice (for Cameron McKenna, Theodore/Addleshaw Goddard and subsequently Mayer Brown) as well as General Counsel for two high net worth family trusts with substantial UK assets. He has also previously held the position of deputy head of legal at a major bank.
His clients include UK and international banks, corporate borrowers and issuers, high net worth individuals and family offices, and funds.
His areas of expertise range from acquisition and real estate finance to asset and media finance including all types of debt structures (including bilateral and syndicated loans, conduit programmes, securitisations, bond issues, and derivatives). Stephen’s skill set also includes restructuring, litigation advice, and debt portfolio sales and acquisitions.
Recent transactions include acting for:
- The Tchenguiz Family Trust on its claim against the estate of Kaupthing Bank for circa £1.5bn, the successful court actions and subsequent settlement negotiations
- A substantial family trust on the negotiations with lenders, possible restructuring and protective strategies and standstill arrangements of a group of companies with assets in excess of £3bn as well as advising on their potential sale
- A family trust on its claim against an insolvent Icelandic Bank to have various assets returned to it with a value in excess of £300m
- A managed fund on on the acquisition of two loan portfolios totalling circa 200m of debt
Previous transactions have included acting for a variety of banks in relation to the financings of:
Phillip Rees
E: prees@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7740 924 812
IT/IP
Phillip has a 30 year ‘blue chip’ career in Technology, Intellectual Property and Privacy Law. He was for many years the founding head of legal of Citigroup’s, Operations / IP and Technology functions in Europe and it’s Chief Privacy Officer for the region. He also has extensive experience of US ‘top drawer’ private practice having been head of IT/IP and Outsourcing at McDermott Will and Emery and Pillsbury/Shaw Pittman in London from his return to private practice in 2000. Phillip also brings experience at the ‘sharp end’ of business. He founded and is CEO of the leading Enterprise Legal Technology solutions provider Altea Consulting Limited.
Clients instruct Phillip on a wide range of issues, strategic and transaction management advice on Outsourcing projects, Global Privacy Compliance, IP litigation strategies. He leads from the front on TMT transactions and IP/IT dispute resolution. He has very recent experience as a key advisor in the current ‘smartphone ‘ wars. His range of work has encompassed institutions, investors, start-ups and global corporates. Recent experience covers work with Citi, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo. He has negotiated and led Outsourcing transactions in excess of £4bn in recent years.
His industry and board level experience is extensive; sectors include: TMT, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Digital Media, Sport, Infrastructure Projects and Retail. He sits and chairs a number of industry and academic committees, is a visiting fellow at the University of Wales and a trustee of a leading children’s educational charity. Legal 500′s lead client comment on Phillip is ‘very experienced; pragmatic, commercial with a great depth of knowledge’.
Jayne Adams
E: jadams@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7713 572 507
charities
Jayne’s clients are charities and not-for-profits of all types, forms and structures and she has over 10 years’ experience advising them on charity law, governance and best practice.
Her extensive experience includes governance and constitutional advice, restructuring, collaborative working and mergers, board composition and management structures, trust matters, permanent endowment and specie property, trustee duties, regulatory requirements, legacies (contentious or otherwise), UK cross-border issues, regulatory inquiries and investigations and the formation and dissolution of organisations.
Jayne’s skills are greatly enhanced by her considerable practical experience at board level: she is Vice Chair of the Governing Body of Walthamstow Hall (an independent girls’ school in Sevenoaks, Kent), a trustee of UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (a museum in Washington DC) and a trustee of St. Andrew’s Club (the world’s oldest youth club, in Westminster).
Jayne trained and practised for the majority of her career at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP. She completed her legal qualifications at the College of Law, Guildford and has a degree in French and Italian from the University of Durham.
Simon Meredith
E: smeredith@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
tax
Simon Meredith has specialised in all areas of corporate taxation since 1990. From 1988 to 1996 he was at the magic circle firm Slaughter and May and from 1996 to 2006 with CMS Cameron McKenna, where he was an equity partner from 2001. His commercial experience includes 9 months in an investment banking team structuring tax-based structured finance products. He has recently been advising on a range of matters from multi-jurisdictional private equity acquisitions to the structuring and establishment of inbound and outbound investment funds, most recently mezzanine loan and development funds for super prime and commercial property.
Clare Regan
E: cregan@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
commercial property
Clare Regan brings commercial property experience from over 10 years at national firms in London and Birmingham. She has regularly acted on sales and acquisitions, major lettings and commercial and residential property development. Clare’s clients have included pension funds, property plc’s and financial institutions as well as office, retail and leisure operators. Her most recent experience has been acting for developers, landowners and occupiers (particularly educational institutions and licensed operators) on town/city centre developments and investments.
Alan O’Doherty
E: aodoherty@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7789 683 724
commercial property, residential property
Alan read Law at University College Dublin before obtaining a Masters in Law at Queens University Belfast. The topic of his dissertation was how the use of digital signatures would affect the role of the Notary Public, which he researched at the University of Oslo, Norway through the ERASMUS program. Alan qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2003 and he also qualified as a Solicitor in Ireland in 2004.
Alan founded the firm Merchant Legal LLP in 2006 where he was the managing partner and his primary practice area was commercial and residential real estate. He currently represents clients with large property portfolios consisting of residential and commercial units, covering acquisitions & disposals, and ancillary issues such as disputes & litigation and landlord & tenant issues.
Recently Alan’s practice has expanded to include clients based in Ireland and USA. Accordingly, he is actively involved in the American Bar Association International Section and the Law Society International Division, along with several cross-border business societies & chambers of commerce.
Ben Slade
E: bslade@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 |
corporate property, residential property
Ben has a wide variety of property experience, including sales and acquisitions of commercial property/business assets, landlord and tenant law and estate management. His clients range from high street office/shop owners to multinational companies with large property portfolios.
A high percentage of Ben’s work involves public houses, hotels, leisure centres and gaming centres/ amusement arcades around the country.
Ben also specialises in agricultural property law and regularly acts on sales and acquisitions of farms, manor houses and agricultural land.
His recent experience includes :
- acquisition of seven motorway service station units around the UK
- acquisition of manor house and agricultural land valued at £7.5million
- portfolio disposal by surrender of 35 commercial high street sites around the UK
- advising a client on the disposal of hotels/public houses located in the South West to YMCA/Wetherspoons
Jon Leggett
E: jleggett@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741 | M: +44 (0) 7823 885 896 |
Jon has practiced as a banking and restructuring lawyer in London for over 20 years and has broad experience in real estate finance, acquisition and other structured finance and project finance (including PFI). His clients include UK and international banks, corporate borrowers/issuers, sovereign wealth funds, high net worth individuals/family offices and infrastructure investors.
Jon has helped to build and lead the London banking teams at Speechly Bircham and McGrigors (now Pinsent Masons), having previously worked at CMS Cameron McKenna. Prior to this, Jon was in-house counsel for a major European bank for two years which provided invaluable insight into both lender and borrower expectations.
Recent transactions include acting for:
- UK bank lending to SPVs owned through a JPUT structure, secured against a UK regional shopping centre
- One of the UK’s largest independent care home groups on the restructuring of £500m of shareholder debt and the reorganisation of the share capital structure of the group
- Development company on its revolving facility for Myatts Field Social Housing PFI Project (c. 1000 homes)
- UK bank on the £25m financing and subsequent refinancing of a portfolio of residential care properties in London
- Sponsor and project company on seven NHS LIFT PFI Projects in 3 years
- Rights-owning company on acquisition financed by senior facilities and equity
- Security Trustee on the bond documents on the NI Roads 2 DBFO project
- Owner/operator of London West End hotel on its refinancing with a UK bank.
Jon is qualified in Ontario, Canada as well as England and Wales and is ranked in Legal Experts.
Keith Gregory
E: kgregory@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
tax
Keith Gregory qualified into the corporate tax department at Clifford Chance and spent several years there before being appointed in 1989 as a partner to head up the corporate tax practice of Cameron Markby, now CMS Cameron McKenna LLP and was an equity partner for 22 years. He has advised on all aspects of corporate tax from buying, selling and merging UK banks to financing Hollywood movies (including James Bond and Harry Potter). He has also been at the forefront of developments in tax based financing, acting for a wide range of businesses from major financial institutions to promoters of independent films.
Mark Nichols
E: mnichols@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
tax
Mark Nichols has expertise in all aspects of UK and international commercial tax matters, including tax planning, transactional and structuring advice. He spent 17 years as an equity partner at CMS Cameron McKenna. He was for several years the firm’s head of tax as well as a member of the management committee of the pan-European CMS tax group and a board member of CMS. He specialises in corporate work (such as M&A, private equity, principal finance and joint ventures) and is very active in the real estate, hotel and funds sectors.
Julian Maitland – Walker
E: jmaitlandwalker@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
EU and competition law, litigation and dispute resolution
Julian Maitland-Walker has been in practice since 1974, specialising in the field of European and Competition law where he is recognised as “undoubtedly the best competition lawyer in the region” by the Legal 500 Directory. Chambers and Partners rank him first in the South for European and Competition law, and describe him as “a first-rate competition lawyer who truly understands EU law.”
He has acted in many leading cases before the EC and UK regulatory authorities as well the English Courts, the European Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice. His cases have related to matters such as beer supply, motor vehicle distribution and the pharmaceutical industry. Other areas of practice include intellectual property, registration and licensing, agency distribution, franchising, joint ventures and R & D agreements. He has practised in London, Brussels and in the provinces.
He is a member of the Solicitors European Group, Centre for International Legal Studies, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and is also a member of the Management Committee for the Centre for European Legal Studies at Exeter University
Hilary Coles
E: hcoles@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
commercial property, residential property
Hilary Coles specialises in commercial property and has a wide and varied client base for whom she carries out both contentious and non-contentious work.
Hilary has wide experience in property dispute resolution, particularly in relation to Landlord and Tenant disputes. She also advises in connection with planning negotiations and planning appeals.
Her clients range from agricultural landowners to multi-national companies.
Her clients range from agricultural landowners to multi-national companies.
Nick Rowe
E: nrowe@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
employment – for senior management, employment – for businesses
Having trained with City firm Charles Russell having obtained a degree in law at King’s College London, Nick was admitted as a solicitor in September 2002. Nick specialises in employment law covering both contentious and non-contentious cases acting for both employers and employees, priding himself on his balanced view of both sides of the relationship.
Nick’s work includes the handling of employment tribunal claims of all kinds and he regularly undertakes High Court litigation for clients with contractual issues arising out of the employment relationship.
Nick regularly drafts employment contracts and policies and engages in general advisory work. Nick is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and is listed by the Law Society as an expert in employment law. Nick is also a qualified and accredited mediator.
Stephen Thomas
E: sthomas@mccarthydenning.com | T: +44 (0) 20 7769 6741
corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and debt finance
Stephen Thomas is an experienced company commercial lawyer. He trained with City Law firm, Turner Kenneth Brown, before working for Legal & General and outsourcing companies, Marlborough Stirling Plc and Hazell Carr Plc. At the latter two companies he held the position of Head of Legal and Company Secretary. He has advised upon a very wide range of commercial contract and corporate transactions including stockholder agreements, reorganisations, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, software licensing and support and outsourcing agreements. Stephen has particular expertise in the financial services sector and outsourcing sector.
He was involved in the flotation of Marlborough Stirling Plc onto the main market of the London Stock Exchange and managed the legal aspects of the sale of Marlborough Stirling Plc (valued at £80M) to United Utilities Plc.
