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Top-ranked by leading legal directories, Ahsan Rizvi is the Senior and Managing Partner of our affiliated firm, RIAA Barker Gillette and globally recognised as a leading international corporate lawyer.
Ahsan has expertise in drafting statutory enactments and regulatory frameworks. He has held a number of prominent positions, including director of the Karachi Stock Exchange, and Chairman of the Committee on Cyber Laws Legislation and IPR of the Ministry of Science & Technology of the Government of Pakistan.
Ahsan has advised on Project Finance and Corporate Finance transactions exceeding USD 15 billion in aggregate value, M&A transactions of more than USD 5 billion and privatisation transactions including Pakistan Telecommunication Company, Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation, Pakistan State Oil and Pakistan Petroleum.
Ahsan is one of only a handful of lawyers to receive the prestigious Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) from the President of Pakistan.
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Alex is the Managing Partner of RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP. His practice covers commercial dispute resolution, corporate, commercial and employment law. He started his professional career in 1992 as a barrister and re-qualified as a solicitor in 2001. Alex joined RIAA Barker Gillette in 2005 having formerly been a partner at Amhurst Brown Colombotti and Howard Kennedy.
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Ben forms part of the corporate commercial team at RIAA Barker Gillette. Prior to becoming a solicitor, he gained a first class degree in History before achieving a distinction and commendation on the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course, respectively.
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Carly has worked as a paralegal since 2008 and gained her law degree from the Open University in 2017, having studied at weekends and after work for six years. This commitment and fortitude is typical of Carly’s dedication and approach to work. Carly starts her legal practice course with University of Law in January, after which she hopes to qualify as a solicitor in 2018.
Carly largely works in our dispute resolution department, where she proficiently supports partners and solicitors alike with their preparation and research needs.
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Christine qualified as a solicitor in 2005, and having had her interest piqued, went on to complete a masters degree in employment law and industrial relations.
Since then Christine has specialised in employment law, utilising her extensive and much expanded knowledge to advise both businesses and HR professionals on all aspects of employment law, including recruitment, contracts and policies, major restructuring and redundancy exercises and tribunal litigation.
Having worked as an in-house lawyer for one of the UK’s largest charities, Christine has inside knowledge of not only working for a large charitable organisation, but of understanding the employer/employee relationship and its complexities from an internal business perspective. Christine has advised on all types of working relationships, including employees, contractors and volunteers.
Christine is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) and the Industrial Law Society (ILS), the leading forum for debate and understanding of employment law and its applications.
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Daniel’s practice encompasses a wide variety of property and commercial litigation matters. He has considerable experience; qualifying as a solicitor in 2005. Daniel has particular experience of disputes arising out of leasehold interests such as rent and service charge recovery. Daniel receives regular instructions from commercial and residential landlords and tenants, and has acted in many possession claims during his career.
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Daniela undertook her degree in European Legal Studies at the University of Westminster. As part of her studies, Daniela spent a year in Italy, following which she attended the College of Law in London to complete her Legal Practice Course, joining RIAA Barker Gillette in 2015.
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Evangelos studied Political Science and Public Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, whilst working for the Greek Government.
Subsequently, Evangelos moved to the UK and completed his law degree at Sussex University. He then went on to do his Masters in International Commercial Law at University College London.
Evangelos joined RIAA Barker Gillette’s Real Estate team in January 2017, where he worked full time as a paralegal. That autumn Evangelos began, and subsequently completed, his Legal Practice Course at City University whilst continuing to work part time; demonstrating real commitment and dedication.
In August 2018, Evangelos commenced his training contract and currently sits within the firm’s corporate and commercial team.
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Garry has over 30 years’ in the real estate industry, advising on all types of commercial and residential property transactions, including purchasing and financing of sites, lettings, and sales. His main area of expertise is the purchase and sale of developments.
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James is the Head of Private Client. Over the years, he has expanded his practice from primarily family law to wills, probate and trusts, estate planning, tax, elderly client matters (including mental capacity issues) and contentious probate.
James prides himself on spending sufficient time with clients at the outset of a matter in order to understand fully their position, needs and objectives. James is committed to resolving disputes in a cost-effective manner, frequently using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with court litigation being a last resort in view of its costs and uncertainty. In connection with his family practice, James is a member of Resolution and strives to comply with their Code of Practice and similarly, with regard to probate and trust disputes, he advises clients of the benefit of complying with the ACTAPS code.
James is also a member of Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) and the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP).
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John is one of the founding partners of what is now RIAA Barker Gillette. Initially he aspired to be a litigation lawyer (and he still likes to “troubleshoot”), but circumstances conspired to lead him into the transactional world, where he has been practising for over 30 years.
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Joseph acts for a wide range of clients on the full spectrum of commercial property transactions from investment to development, landlord and tenant and finance. Joseph began his career as a property lawyer at Herbert Smith and Eversheds before joining RIAA Barker Gillette in 2015.
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After achieving his undergraduate degree at the University of Birmingham, Kane Robin went on to obtain a Commendation in both his Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Courses. He qualified as a solicitor in 2015 and joined the real estate team at RIAA Barker Gillette in November 2017.
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Karen provides pragmatic contentious and non-contentious employment law advice and has a wealth of experience advising a variety of businesses across a range of industry sectors as well as individuals employed at all levels of seniority.
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Karthiga completed her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law before qualifying as a solicitor in 2011. Karthiga joined RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP in 2014 and practices in both residential and commercial property law, including developments and plot sales. Karthiga’s clients therefore unsurprisingly range from property developers and investors to individuals.
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Lalita qualified as a solicitor in 2016 and joined our private client team in 2017.
Lalita works closely with our head of private client, James McMullan, and specialises in wills, tax and trusts, lasting powers of attorney, the administration of estates (both with and without wills) and estate disputes. Lalita’s practice also encompasses family law including financial disputes, cohabitation cases, children disputes and pre and post-nuptial agreements.
Lalita takes the time to really understand her clients’ needs and objectives at the outset of a matter. She understands the emotional stress a client can face when estate planning, being named as an executor or when contemplating a divorce. Lalita explains all the available options to her clients and puts in place an agreed action plan to progress their matter in the most cost-efficient way.
Regarding probate and trust disputes, Lalita complies with the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists’ Code (the ACTAPS Code). Similarly, in relation to her family practice, Lalita strives to comply with Resolution’s Code of Practice.
Lalita is committed to resolving disputes in a cost-effective manner and frequently uses alternative dispute resolution (known as ADR), with court litigation being a last resort in view of its costs and uncertainty.
Lalita is an affiliate member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
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Laura joined RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP in 2010. Before that, she worked at Shoosmiths and BP Collins. Laura specialises in commercial and residential property litigation as well as construction litigation. Further, a substantial part of her practice covers commercial, civil and insolvency litigation.
Laura focuses on providing commercially driven solutions through advice, negotiation and various forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Laura is a member of the member of the Property Litigation Association.
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Michael was educated at Downside and after graduating in law, he trained at Martin & Nicholson in the Temple. After qualifying, Michael set up his own partnership where he remained until he joined the firm in 2000.
Michael believes that until people become involved in a property transaction, most consider it a routine affair. However, as experience has taught him, this is invariably not the case. There are many pitfalls, which the unwary discover to their cost. With this in mind, Michael gives each matter the same high level of attention to detail and importance whether he is dealing with the purchase or sale of a house or flat, or that of a shop, restaurant or other licensed premises, the grant of a commercial lease or the acquisition or sale of a business. Michael was formerly the firm’s Head of Residential Property and was the firm’s Senior Partner.
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Michael joined RIAA Barker Gillette in April 2017 and has over 15 years’ experience dealing in commercial property.
Michael specialises in acquisitions (with related property finance), disposals, landlord & tenant and asset management. Michael acts for property companies, developers, corporate and retail occupiers and high net worth individuals.
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Qaiser is the Head of Dispute Resolution and is a founding partner of RIAA Barker Gillette having joined its predecessor firm in 1981. Qaiser’s practice covers a range of corporate and commercial disputes encompassing the traditional chancery fields. Qaiser has experience in all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) ranging from direct negotiations through to mediation. Qaiser’s clients range from companies and their officers through to insolvency practitioners and high net worth individuals.
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Steven is the Head of our Criminal/Serious Fraud Litigation team and is the firm’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and the Compliance Officer for Legal Practice (COLP). Tutored by Professor Brian Hogan (co-author of Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law) at Leeds University, Steven started his career as a commercial litigator as well as a criminal defence lawyer. He began to specialise in serious fraud and business crime after the formation of the Serious Fraud Office (the SFO) in the late 80’s.
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Stuart undertook his training, to become a partner, in a boutique London law firm and joined forces with RIAA Barker Gillette in 2014. Stuart is a versatile and experienced litigation lawyer who focuses primarily on commercial, property and civil litigation. Over the years, he has successfully conducted many high profile and ground breaking cases in a number of different areas including “big money” ancillary relief cases. The media, on occasion, contact Stuart for his views and opinions. He is a former Times Solicitor of the Week.
Stuart is a member of the Property Litigation Association.
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Veronica heads up the company commercial team. She believes that hiring a good lawyer should increase your profits and is very keen to ensure her clients are as protected as possible from the potentially bumpy “Brexit road” which lies ahead.
Veronica advises a variety of businesses across a range of sectors, including construction, fashion, financial services, marketing, media, mining, publishing and real estate to name but a few.
Her clients include banks and financial institutions, directors, entrepreneurs, joint venture parties, LLPs, members, national and international body corporates, owner-managers, partnerships, PLCs, shareholders, small-medium enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, directors, members, shareholders and many more.
Whether your business is a start-up, an SME or an international business making millions, Veronica offers pragmatic commercial advice which could save you time and money in unwanted disputes, fines and penalties.
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Vinay initially took up practise as a criminal defence lawyer specialising in business crime and serious fraud litigation. Since then, Vinay has broadened his practice to include all forms of civil dispute resolution, particularly those with a quasi-criminal element. With a wide range of skills, Vinay has the ability to manage large-scale cases, and to analyse vast quantities of material. He possesses the aptitude to narrow the field and identify potential issues at an early stage.
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Assistant Solicitor, William Roberts-Phelps, joined RIAA Barker Gillette UK in May 2018, adding his extensive experience and drive to our fast-growing private client team.
A specialist in family law, William works closely with Head of Private Client, James McMullan and financial dispute expert, Stuart Jacobs. William’s practice encompasses all aspects of family law including; matrimonial finances, children cases, injunctive proceedings, divorce suits and pre-nuptial agreements.
William’s key objective is to ensure his clients are provided with expert advice and case strategy to minimise the time and costs required to achieve a successful outcome. Regarding financial matters, William has extensive experience acting for clients of all asset bases. He has particular expertise in high-asset value matters including company structures and property portfolios.
William is committed to utilising Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) options such as the family arbitration processes. However, should litigation become necessary, William is an experienced court advocate who will meticulously prepare his client’s case before representing the same in a concise and persuasive manner.
William is a member of Resolution and strives to comply with their Code of Practice.
