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.

Helen works with clients to ensure that they are sensitively guided through the complex area of family and relationship breakdown.

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.

Aasha specialises in the financial aspects of divorce and relationship breakdown with high-value or complex assets, often with an international element.

James has over 40 years of experience in family and private client law.

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.

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 is a trusted business adviser providing practical and, above all, commercial advice to individuals and companies in relation to business matters.

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.

Simon is a commercially focused and entrepreneurial real estate expert known for his calm, practical and commercial approach.

Susannah is a partner in our team based out of our London and Milton Keynes offices, within the Commercial Property and Development team, focussing on real estate finance, family offices and luxury assets.

Susannah advises clients on a wide range of real estate finance and property matters, including advising family offices and bridge lenders. Susannah represents both lenders and borrowers on all levels of secured funding, ranging from overdraft facilities of £100,000 to refinances and acquisitions, involving secured, bridge and development finance.

This includes supporting SME and banking clients within the UK residential and commercial property market. Susannah’s experience in this sector is all encompassing for clients on documentation support, and transactional support on both standard and bespoke, complex matters. Transactional representation includes due diligence on titles and supporting documents and reports, searches, raising enquiries, reporting and all registration requirements to ensure security is perfected.

Susannah’s clients typically include family offices and bridge lenders, challenger banks and financial institutions, focussing on the SME real estate borrowing market.

Alistair specialises in contentious trusts and probate. He represents private individuals, charities, trustees and executors in a wide range of matters.

Calum is an immigration law expert and offers advice to individuals and businesses across a variety of sectors including agriculture, manufacturing and sport.

Harman is a trusted adviser to high and ultra-high net worth individuals and business-owning families. Harman specialises in all aspects of tax, trust, estate and succession planning, with a focus on asset preservation and protecting family wealth across successive generations.

Monica practices in all areas of family law breakdown and has developed a reputation for providing practical, thorough and clear advice.

Robert Mander is a Chartered Legal Executive and Legal Director in our Commercial Property Team with extensive experience in the full range of Commercial Property work.

Tamsin specialises in contentious trusts and probate, with particular expertise in disputes involving wills, estates, and trusts. She regularly represents private individuals, trustees, and charities, providing clear, strategic, and practical legal advice tailored to each client’s unique circumstances.

Anna advises private individuals, trustees and charities on disputes relating to contentious trusts, probate and Court of Protection matters.

Deanna practices in all areas of family law breakdown including divorce, children matters and resolving financial issues upon separation.

Esme is a Solicitor who specialises in Rural Property and Agricultural Law.

Rob is a family law solicitor specialising in both financial remedy and children matters. He has experience of high-net worth divorces, pre-nuptial agreements, children contact and residence disputes, applications for leave to remove a child within and out of the jurisdiction, child abduction and protective injunctions.

Sam is a specialist lawyer with many years of experience dealing with divorce and financial remedy, and children matters.

Clare is based in the Bristol office. She has 25 years’experience in private client work and has been with GL Law for 19 years. A former director of GL and Head of Wills & Inheritance, Clare now works with GL Law in a consultative capacity.

Joanne Binks is an experienced, enthusiastic and compassionate STEP qualified Private Client Solicitor with Shakespeare Martineau.