Our People
Paul Bird
Chief Financial Officer
Paul is our Chief Financial Officer and plays a significant role in Shakespeare Martineau’s strategic leadership through an extensive knowledge of growing and managing UK and international businesses.
Helen Bowns
Partner & Head of Family Law
Helen Bowns
Partner & Head of Family Law
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Helen works with clients to ensure that they are sensitively guided through the complex area of family and relationship breakdown.
Duncan James
Partner
Duncan James
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Duncan works with fast growing family businesses and entrepreneurs to ensure they are successful and to help them achieve their goals through acquisitions, funding lines and exit and succession planning.
Heledd Wyn
Partner
Heledd Wyn is a Partner specialising in private client & long-term care. Based in Bristol Heledd has a great deal of experience across a range of future planning, private wealth and Court of Protection work.
James Hawkeswood
Partner
James Hawkeswood
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Southampton
James leads the firm’s corporate offering from our Southampton footprint, providing commercially relevant and astute advice in relation to shareholder and financing issues and generally on corporate governance matters.
James Myatt
Partner
James Myatt
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
James Myatt is a director, head of the family department and personal legal services, based in the Bristol office. James has over 40 years of experience in family and private client law.
Jonathan Stork
Partner
Jonathan is a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution team with a broad range of experience and expertise. His particular areas of focus lie in contested trust and probate work, disputes within the agricultural sector and commercial litigation.
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My Recent Articles
- Flood defence provision: what landowners need to know
Kit O Brien
Partner
Kit O Brien
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
Kit is a partner in the family team at Shakespeare Martineau. She has been a specialist family lawyer since 1991 and also a trained mediator and qualified collaborative lawyer
Lesley Davis
Partner
Lesley Davis
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Lesley works closely with her clients to assist and guide in all aspects of complex estate planning and asset protection including trust and estate administration after death, Wills and Powers of Attorney.
Mark Thompson
Partner
Mark Thompson
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Mark is a trusted business adviser providing practical and, above all, commercial advice to individuals and companies in relation to business matters.
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My Recent Articles
- Getting investment-ready: 7 tips for start-ups
Nick Jones
Partner - Employment
Nick Jones
Partner - Employment
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
Nick has over 25 years experience of working in Bristol as a specialist employment lawyer, dealing with all aspects of employment law. Whilst he predominantly acts for business owners, employers and senior executives he also assists employees with the difficult issues that they can face in their employment. He has extensive experience of advising employers on the strategic employment law issues affecting their businesses, including TUPE, redundancy, collective consultation, executive severance and HR support.
He also advises on employment law aspects of business acquisitions and conducts employment law litigation in the courts and employment tribunals, with particular interest in defending claims. Nick is a Member of the Employment Lawyers Association, Bristol Law Society and is Company Secretary of the West of England Aerospace Forum.
Nick also works with business owners on business immigration issues, including obtaining sponsor licences for work visas, including Skilled Worker and Global Business Mobility routes. He also advises on employee incentives, including establishment of employee share schemes and EMI options.
Specialties: Business Advisory and Strategic Solutions, Employment Litigation Defence, Business Immigration, Union Recognition, TUPE, PHI, Discrimination, PIDA.
Roy Botterill
Partner
Roy Botterill
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Roy is a corporate lawyer whom clients use when they need a pragmatic and no nonsense approach. He has a creative approach in finding solutions to problems.
Simon Robinson
Partner
Simon is a commercially focused and entrepreneurial real estate expert known for his calm, practical and commercial approach.
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Languages:
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English
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French
Susan Wallace
Partner
Susan Wallace
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Works from Home
Susan Wallace is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute and a Partner here at Shakespeare Martineau.
Verity Kirby
Partner
Verity Kirby
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Verity provides families and individuals with practical, tailored advice as they plan for the future to ensure that their families, friends and loved ones are looked after.
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Languages:
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English
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German
Dipika Mistry
Legal Director
Dipika Mistry
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Solihull
Dipika provides clear advice from the outset. Her financial cases involve substantial assets, property division, investments, protecting pension interests and businesses. She is particularly adept in understanding the emotional complexities in matrimonial disputes and the impact this will have on reaching resolutions.
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My Recent Articles
- Understanding Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
Emma Carr
Legal Director
Emma Carr
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Lincoln
Emma really enjoys building long lasting relationships with her clients and spending time getting to know and understand their individual circumstances. This in turn enables her to provide advice that is tailored to the specific needs of her clients which she always endeavours to deliver in a professional but sensitive and supportive manner.
Sarah Ben-Tarifite
Legal Director
Sarah Ben-Tarifite
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Sarah is a solicitor and trust & estate practitioner. She has a wide range of experience, advising clients on all aspects of private client law including wills, trusts, probate, powers of attorney, court of protection, inheritance tax and succession planning. She acts for a wide range of businesses, organisations and individuals.
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My Recent Articles
- Inheritance tax in the spotlight again
Sonia Bachu
Legal Director
Sonia Bachu
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Sonia is a key senior member of our family team in Leicester, with a wealth of experience gained over more than 30 years.
Victoria Taylor
Legal Director
Victoria Taylor
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Vicky helps individuals put plans in place for the future by means of Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, and other estate Planning.
Alex Wensor
Associate
Alex Wensor
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Lincoln
Alex specialises in agricultural property law and has been working within the agricultural sector since he qualified as a solicitor.
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My Recent Articles
- The importance of registering your land with the Land Registry
Monica Ghai
Associate
Monica Ghai
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Monica practices in all areas of family law breakdown and has developed a reputation for providing practical, thorough and clear advice.
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My Recent Articles
- Asian Divorces – Unveiling The Fallout
Stephanie Kyriacou
Associate
Stephanie Kyriacou
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Stephanie deals with all aspects of relationship breakdown to include complex divorce cases, children matters and resolving high net worth financial cases which involve disputes regarding business interests, pensions and taxation issues.
Alice Gibson
Solicitor
Alice Gibson
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
Alice Gibson joined GL Law in 2022 prior to the merger with Shakespeare Martineau in October 2022. Alice is is a solicitor specialising in all family law matters including divorce & financial remedy, child arrangements matters and cases involving domestic abuse.