We know how important it is for you to have the right person working with you.
It’s not just about their legal expertise but also their market experience
and the right personality fit. Whatever you need, we achieve it together.
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Clive Read
Partner & Head of Birmingham
Clive Read
Partner & Head of Birmingham
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Clive has been advising universities and colleges on the management and development of their campuses for 30 years.
Smita Jamdar
Partner & Head of Education
Smita Jamdar
Partner & Head of Education
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Smita leads the team that works to shape the universities and colleges of the future by providing strategic advice and sector specific insight across all their legal needs.
Allawee Albaghdadi
Partner
Allawee Albaghdadi
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Allawee has led multi-disciplinary teams for over 10 years both within private practice and whilst in-house.
Andrew Hartshorn
Partner
Andrew has over 20 years of experience in helping clients successfully deal with IT, telecoms and data protection matters.
David Browne
Partner
David is the lead employment partner for the firm’s education clients and provides sector specialist advice to universities and colleges.
Jordan Glackin
Partner
Jordan Glackin
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Jordan has experience working with healthcare operators and education clients for some 15 years.
Joseph Soul
Partner
Joe is a commercial real estate lawyer with over 20 years experience working with healthcare operators and has particular expertise in the funding, ownership and development of care homes, new medical centres and private medical hospitals.
Justine Ball
Partner
Justine enjoys engaging and working with her clients to successfully realise their aims in relation to their property issues.
Kate Onions
Partner
Kate Onions
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Kate’s focus is on preventing disputes where possible and seeking commercial resolutions which align with her client’s goals when disputes do arise.
Martin Edwards
Partner
Martin is known for his flexible thinking to resolve challenging situations for clients including developers, corporate occupiers, owners and investors.
Simon Stanion
Partner
Simon Stanion
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Simon leads an experienced and energetic national team of planning lawyers dealing with all aspects of town and country planning.
Tom Long
Partner
Tom is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2021 edition.
Tom works with employers to prevent and resolve people issues, to ensure their organisations continue to work efficiently and effectively.
Esther Maxwell
Legal Director
Esther is an experienced and trusted advisor to the firm’s education clients and supports them in dealing with a range of sensitive and complex employment and education related issues.
Geraldine Swanton
Legal Director
Geraldine works with the higher and further education sector solving problems and minimising risk. She makes complex law easy to understand and apply.
Helen Hughes
Legal Director
Helen is an experienced employment lawyer, who works proactively with clients to identify solutions to complex HR issues.
Joanna Forbes
Legal Director
Joanna’s deep affinity for the education sector is reflected in her responsive approach and her practical, applied and thorough advice.
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French
Marie-Therese Harper
Legal Director
Marie-Therese Harper
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Marie-Therese advises businesses and their owners on a wide variety of corporate transactions and complicated reorganisations to help them achieve their objectives.
Mark Jones
Legal Director
Mark Jones
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Mark works collaboratively with teams across the firm to ensure client’s goals are achieved. Mark has a highly commercial and efficient approach to transactions developed by acting principally for major pension funds and institutional investor clients.
Tijen Ahmet
Legal Director
Tijen works with global UK businesses advising on strategic international recruitment and supports with immigration compliance facilitating assignments and relocation.
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Languages:
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Turkish
Uddalak Datta
Legal Director
Uddalak Datta
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Udi provides advice on all aspects of commercial law, including procurement and state aid law.
Abigail Halcarz
Associate
Abigail works with clients to achieve commercial solutions to all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law.
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Languages:
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French
Anieka Sheppard
Associate
Anieka assists education clients to realise their goal and resolve their problems.
Alex Reid
Solicitor
Alex works with employers to prevent and resolve employment issues and ensure their organisations continue to work in an effective and efficient manner. Primarily this work is in the higher education sector, but does also involve working with clients in the private and third sectors.
Natasha Jasinska
Paralegal
Natasha is a paralegal in our Employment Team, working within our specialist Employment/Education Team, assisting with our education clients and supporting the wider Employment Team.
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17 Jun
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Ban on evicting commercial tenants extended
16 Jun
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Ending soon – the consultation on Audit and Corporate Governance Reform
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