Our People

Mohammed Saqub
Partner & Head of Islamic Finance
Mohammed Saqub
Partner & Head of Islamic Finance
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Mohammed is a real estate finance and islamic finance specialist with considerable experience in dealing with a range of high-value and complex property investment, finance and development transactions.
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Languages:
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English
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Urdu
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My Recent Articles
- We support new Muslim youth mentoring scheme

Naomi Tudor
Partner & Head of Banking & Financial Services
Naomi Tudor
Partner & Head of Banking & Financial Services
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Naomi and her team work together with funders and their customers to ensure a smooth path to completion of a transaction where all parties are satisfied with the terms.

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.

Chris Gayle
Partner
Chris Gayle
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Chris acts for institutional and individual lenders, as well as borrowers lending or borrowing debt finance for acquisition, working capital, refinance or capital release.

John Rice
Partner
John Rice
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
John works with lenders and borrowers on a wide range of property finance transactions including acquisition, refinancing and development loans.
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My Recent Articles
- Financial challenges and opportunities ahead for the FE/HE sector

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.

Russell Jarvis
Partner
Russell Jarvis
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau London
Corporate banking specialist Russell Jarvis has more than 30 years’ experience acting for a wide spectrum of lenders including major banks, sponsors and debt funds across a wide number of sectors focusing particularly on the commercial, SME and mid markets space.
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My Recent Articles
- Shakespeare Martineau boosts south team with triple hire

Vicki Simpson
Partner
Vicki Simpson
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Vicki is renown for providing commercial real estate advice (including funding and recovery) with particular expertise in the education and charity sectors.
She has expertise of advising clients on safeguarding and related disciplinary matters

Victoria Bovington
Partner
Victoria Bovington
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Victoria undertakes real estate finance work representing lenders and borrowers with a focus on development funding and healthcare transactions.
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Languages:
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English
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French

Hannah Pickering
Legal Director
Hannah Pickering
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Hannah provides a professional and knowledgeable service for her real estate finance clients.

Ruth Thoms
Solicitor
Ruth works with a range of high net worth individuals, developers and business owners to provide proactive solutions in order to achieve clients objectives.

Anita Chaudhary
Associate
Anita Chaudhary
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Anita works with a broad range of high net worth individuals and business owners to fulfil their commercial property requirements.
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Languages:
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English
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Punjabi

Hannah Awcock
Associate
Hannah Awcock
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Hannah advises clients on a wide range of commercial property matters to achieve effective and efficient outcomes.