PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP International PwC Sites Home Services Issues Our people Who we are Careers Our people Our people are what enable us to deliver on our promises to our clients and make PwC Legal a great place to work. Our wide range of experience, personalities and backgrounds create a vibrant working environment and a compelling combination of technical excellence and commercial application. We’re committed to investing in long-term relationships to allow us to provide the best possible value to your business. You can contact us via the team leaders listed in the relevant service area sections below or call our main office number on +44 (0)20 7212 1616 You can find our people either by name, or by specialism – just click on the relevant tab below to find the person you’re looking for Specialism A-Z - All - Banking and Finance Corporate Employment Entity Governance and Compliance Global Legal Services Transformation IP, IT and Commercial Immigration Litigation Pensions Private Client Real Estate Tax Litigation Banking and Finance Penny Bruce Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1629, Email Penny I’m Penny Bruce, Solicitor and Head of the Banking and Finance team. I have a wealth of experience covering a wide variety of banking and finance transactions. I’ve also worked in-house as general counsel at a major UK bank. Corporate Georgie Blyth Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 5898, Email Georgie I’m Georgie Blyth, Senior Solicitor in our Corporate team. I specialise in advising multinational and large corporates on complex international and domestic corporate restructurings, reductions of capital, share buybacks, due-diligence projects, private mergers and acquisitions and I advise on general corporate law. Shirley Brookes Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1608, Email Shirley I’m Shirley Brookes, senior partner in the UK. The main focus of my work is corporate structuring and M&A. I practice in the mid tier helping privately owned businesses with their corporate structures (reorganising companies and partnership structures, buying and selling businesses, extracting cash for shareholders and advising on arrangements between shareholders) . Cynthia Chan Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1918, Email Cynthia I’m Cynthia Chan, Senior Solicitor in our Corporate team. I specialise in global corporate structuring, general corporate and compliance matters and Chinese inbound investments. Richard Edmundson Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1512, Email Richard I’m Richard Edmundson, Partner and Head of the Corporate and International Business Reorganisations teams, both in the UK and across our global network. I advise large corporate organisations (listed and multinationals) and international organisations on complex structuring and compliance projects. These include pre-sale reorganisations, post-acquisition integrations, intra-group financings and re-financings and business transformation/simplification projects. Leon Flavell Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1945, Email Leon I’m Leon Flavell, Global Legal Services Leader. I specialise in domestic and international corporate and commercial transactions with particular expertise in leading UK and cross-border legal teams on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Sharon Fryer Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1583, Email Sharon I’m Sharon Fryer, Partner in our Corporate team. I specialise in advising on complex multinational corporate structures and group reorganisations. My team and I provide legal advice, documentation and implementation support on such projects. Leading the UK and multinational legal team, I work closely with specialists from PwC LLP in other disciplines (in particular tax) and countries, to design and deliver an coordinated solution. Stuart Hatcher Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 1416, Email Stuart I’m Stuart Hatcher, Partner in the Corporate team. I work with my clients to provide corporate law advice on group reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), shareholder investments and issues, limited liability partnership (LLP) conversions and start-ups and return of value to shareholders (share buybacks, capital returns etc) on a domestic and international basis. Alistair Hogarth Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1921, Email Alistair I’m Alistair Hogarth, Partner in the Corporate team and Head of our Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team. I focus on private companies, acting for buyers and sellers in international and domestic transactions (shares and assets), and advising both private equity house and management teams in private equity transactions and refinancings. I also have considerable experience with corporate structuring work for listed, unlisted, domestic and international corporate groups. Ben Warth Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 2163, Email Ben I’m Ben Warth, Senior Solicitor in our Corporate team. I specialise in mergers and acquisitions, acting for a wide range of clients from major international companies to small, owner-managed businesses. Richard Wood Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 2451, Email Richard I’m Richard Wood, Senior Solicitor in our Corporate practice. I specialise in corporate advisory work, advising UK groups and UK subsidiaries of international groups on all aspects of UK company law. In particular, I have substantial experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, joint venture transactions and corporate structuring work, both in the UK and internationally. Employment Natalie Dye Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 3346, Email Natalie I'm Natalie Dye a Senior Solicitor in our Employment practice. I work with my clients on the broad range of employment issues that arise throughout the employment life cycle with a particular expertise in diversity issues. Tilly Harries Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 4104, Email Tilly I’m Tilly Harries, Barrister and Senior Manager in our Employment team. My specialities include general employment law and employee relations. This means advising clients on day-to-day employee relations issues such as discrimination, unfair dismissal, redundancy, breach of contract, parental rights, whistle blowing, transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) (TUPE), discretionary bonus schemes, restrictive covenants, trade union disputes, Working Time, holiday pay, flexible working, unlawful deduction from wages and disciplinary and grievance procedures. Chris Perkins Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 7100, Email Chris I'm Chris Perkins, Senior Solicitor in our Employment practice. I advise a range of clients in a variety of industry sectors on all aspects of labor law and am particularly experienced in managing global projects and advising clients on the HR legal aspects of international compliance. Ed Stacey Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 3116, Email Ed I’m Ed Stacey, Partner and Head of our Employment team. I have experience in all aspects of employment law on both a national and multi-jurisdictional basis. I regularly work alongside employers on major restructuring programmes and the resolution of work place conflicts through mediation and arbitrations. I’ve advised on the exit of senior executives, assisted numerous individual hires and advised on team moves involving the enforcement of restrictive covenants in the UK and internationally. Nick Willis Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1659, Email Nick I’m Nick Willis, Partner in our Employment team. I’ve been an employment lawyer for over 20 years and have advised clients in the private and public sector across the whole range of employment issues. I have particular experience in human resources transformation projects including outsourcing and offshoring. These projects often involve working with colleagues across the whole PwC Legal network of firms which has employment lawyers in over 75 countries. Entity Governance and Compliance Andrew Casey Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 3598 , Email Andrew I’m Andy Casey, Senior Manager in our Entity Governance and Compliance team. I help general counsels and company secretaries in multinational companies to reduce cost, avoid risk and improve subsidiary governance. I specialise in large-scale outsourcing projects, implementing and improving director training programmes and helping clients make better use of technology. Kate Elsdon Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 5103 , Email Kate I’m Kate Elsdon, Director in our Entity Governance & Compliance team. I specialise in advising boards of directors on matters of corporate governance, particularly listed company governance. I also work with large multinational companies (often those in the financial services sector), assisting them to review, design and implement effective international governance frameworks. Jonathan Gibson Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 8038, Email Jonathan I’m Jonathan Gibson, Partner and Head of our Global Entity Governance and Compliance team, a group of corporate secretarial specialists located across the PwC network of firms and spanning over 100 countries around the world. We provide coordinated legal entity governance consultancy and legal entity management services to UK headquartered and multinational clients. Lee Johnson Tel: +44 (0) 20 7804 3069, Email Lee I’m Lee Johnson, Director in our Entity Governance & Compliance practice. I work with clients to help them review and enhance their Company Secretarial function and their approach to global legal entity management. IP, IT and Commercial Jonathan Nugent Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 2060, Email Jonathan I’m Jonathan Nugent, Senior Solicitor in our IP, IT and Commercial team, specialising in intellectual property, information technology, commercial contracts and data protection. I also have experience of environmental law. Latika Sharma Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1574, Email Latika I’m Latika Sharma, Partner in our IP, IT and Commercial team. My practice covers several different areas but my main focus is on intellectual property (IP) and what we call value chain transformation (VCT) projects. VCT projects involve transforming a group’s entire operations and so draw on the full range of areas we cover. Immigration Anjali Greenwell Tel: +44 (0)20 7 212 3357, Email Anjali I'm Anjali Greenwell a Partner in the Immigration practice. Specialising in financial services, IT and the energy sector across multiple jurisdictions I assist clients with sponsor licence models, complex Tier 5 sponsorship, as well as strategic immigration planning for start-ups and individuals. I also design innovative multi-disciplinary short term business traveller projects. Stephen Judge Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1094, Email Stephen I’m Stephan Judge, Senior Manager in our Immigration team. I specialise in global immigration advice, immigration coordination and business visitor tracking. Frederique Montalti Tel: +44 (0)207 212 4340, Email Frederique I’m Frederique Montalti, Senior Solicitor in our Immigration team. I have over 15 years experience providing global immigration advice. Julia Onslow-Cole Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 7252, Email Julia I’m Julia Onslow-Cole, Partner and Head of our Global Immigration team. The PwC immigration network consists of more than 600 practitioners in 116 countries. I’m the co-editor of several leading textbooks on immigration law and currently represent the International Bar Association as a core stakeholder to the UK Border Agency. In 2005, I was appointed a member of the Advisory Board to the UK Minister on Naturalisation and Immigration. Litigation Jonathan Isaacs Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 6675, Email Jonathan I’m Jonathan Isaacs, Senior Solicitor in our Commercial Disputes practice. I have extensive experience of a full range of litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution matters including commercial contracts, professional indemnity, contentious insolvency, IT, financial services, commercial agency and boardroom/shareholder disputes. Agnes Quashie Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 1511, Email Agnes I’m Agnes Quashie, Partner and the joint Practice Group Leader of our Litigation practice. I lead our Commercial Fraud and Business Ethics team as well as our Dispute Resolution team. Pensions Oliver Reece Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 1472, Email Oliver I’m Oliver Reece, Partner and Head of the Pensions team. I have significant experience in advising clients on all aspects of running pension schemes including employer covenants, group restructuring and merger issues, offshore planning, large in-bound schemes and regulatory clearance issues. Public Sector Sarah Brooke Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 0261, Email Sarah I’m Sarah Brooke, Head of Public Sector at PwC Legal. I specialise in public sector procurement and can advise both public and private sector organisations on how best to navigate the public sector environment. I joined PwC from the Department of Health where I worked for 10 years advising on major build, IT and telecoms projects Real Estate Simon Hardwick Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 3266, Email Simon I’m Simon Hardwick, Partner and Head of the Legal Real Estate Team. I advise on a broad range of real estate transactions with a focus on complex deals including tax structuring, acquisitions, disposals, lettings and multi-jurisdictional property due diligence. I also advise corporate occupiers on all aspects of their real estate portfolios, including cost reduction, liability management, and asset realisation. I’m the PwC Legal representative on the PwC LLP Real Estate Industry Leadership team. I also represent PwC Legal LLP on the PwC LLP Global Real Estate Deals team. Tax Litigation David Anderson Tel: +44 (0)161 245 2990, Email David I’m David Anderson, Partner in the Tax Litigation team. I specialise in all aspects of indirect tax - VAT, customs duty, excise duty, hydrocarbon oils, landfill tax, aggregates levy and other environmental taxes. I have represented appellants in courts all the way to the Court of Justice of the European Union in a wide variety of industry areas - manufacturing, catering, financial services, social housing, telecommunications and transport. Mark Whitehouse Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 1455, Email Mark I’m Mark Whitehouse, Partner and Head of the Tax Litigation team. I specialise in handling disputes with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) with a focus on direct tax. I act for clients who have tax disputes before the Tax Tribunals and Higher Courts, but a large part of my practice is working with clients and HMRC to settle tax disputes before they reach Court. I’m an accredited mediator and have been involved in a number of very high-value negotiations settling some billion pound plus disputes. Home Services Issues News Our people Who we are Careers Email to a colleague Print-friendly version Tweet Office Contact us Site map © 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal. All rights reserved. "PricewaterhouseCoopers" and "PwC" refer to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL). Each member firm is a separate legal entity and does not act as agent of PwCIL or any other member firm. Neither PwCIL nor any member firm is responsible or liable for the acts or omissions of any other member firm nor control the exercise of another member firm's professional judgment or bind another member firm or PwCIL in any way. Privacy statement Cookies info Legal disclaimer About site provider Provision of services