Catherine has over 20 years’ experience advising charities, social enterprises and not for profit organisations.

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.

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.

Selina is the head of the commercial services team – home to all the IP, tech, data, commercial contracts and energy lawyers.

Andrew is a corporate lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience working with clients including start-ups, SMEs and multinational companies on a variety of business matters.

I am delighted to join as a Commercial Property Partner in the Lincoln office. After relocating from London in 2023, I’m excited to bring my expertise in commercial property law to a firm whose proactive and commercially minded approach I’ve long admired from working opposite them on various transactions.

As a corporate lawyer, Catherine supports her clients by ensuring that their legal and commercial needs are met with timely practical and creative solutions.

Daniel is a highly regarded experienced specialist commercial litigator and defamation expert.

Daniel is a corporate transactional lawyer, who supports his clients with their corporate and commercial needs across the full lifecycle of their businesses from start-up fundraising to private or public market exits and global reorganisations.

David Adams is a partner in the Banking Team at Shakespeare Martineau. David brings a wealth of experience to the role, having worked in the East and West Midlands market places for over 25 years.

Dean works with owner managed businesses and larger corporates on a wide range of corporate deals/transactions, domestic and international business reorganisations, and corporate governance matters.

Gemma has been working in the healthcare sector for over 15 years and has acted for dentists, pharmacists, opticians, care home providers, domiciliary care agency providers, fostering agencies and specialist care providers in a wide range of transactions.

Grant heads up the banking practice in Scotland and has more than 32 years’ experience in the banking sector.

Helen leads the company secretarial team in the London Office, which provides board support, entity management and statutory compliance support to large and small private and publicly listed companies.

Jake Holmes leads the firm’s banking and financial services offering from our Southampton hub.

Jody leads on substantial transactions including acquisitions, disposals, management buy outs and private equity investments with a particular focus on the UK mid-market with values of circa £5m – £100m across a variety of sectors.

Jonathan has worked in the healthcare sector since 2006. He really enjoys getting to know clients well and building long-term relationships with them.

Jordan has experience working with healthcare operators and education clients for some 15 years.

Justine handles the full range of disputes that can arise in respect of property interests.

Katie is a Partner in the Corporate team at Shakespeare Martineau. She supports clients across a range of sectors, with a specific expertise in the healthcare sector (in particular in the pharmacy, dental and childcare sectors).

Mark advises on education collaborations and governance, having spent all of his legal career advising in the education sector.

Martyn is a commercial energy and contracts lawyer. He works in our specialist Commercial Energy and Utilities team, with a particular focus on gas and LNG.

Matt specialises in corporate finance; advising public and private companies, individuals and institutions on domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity investments, IPOs and secondary fund raisings, restructurings and joint ventures.

Matt’s expertise cover all areas of Employment law. He has considerable experience of advising clients on complex employment litigation, senior hires and exits, large-scale redundancy exercises and complicated TUPE issues.