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Victoria Tester
Partner & Managing Director
Victoria Tester
Partner & Managing Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Victoria sits on our Main Board and is responsible for our Life & Business, business unit.
Keith Spedding
Senior Partner
Keith Spedding
Senior Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Keith advises public and private companies, partnerships, and their owners on all aspects of corporate and partnership law.
Andrew Taylor
Partner & Head of Restructuring
Andrew Taylor
Partner & Head of Restructuring
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Andrew is a highly regarded and experienced restructuring lawyer.
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Languages:
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English
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French
Andrew Whitehead
Partner & Head of Energy
Andrew Whitehead
Partner & Head of Energy
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Andrew is a specialist energy regulatory and contracts lawyer, who works with a range of utility and developer clients and funders to help them manage regulatory and legal risk in a fast moving and complex environment.
David Browne
Partner & Head of Employment Law
David Browne
Partner & Head of Employment Law
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
David is Head of Employment Law and the lead employment partner for the firm’s education clients and provides sector specialist advice to universities and colleges. His exceptional clarity in explaining complex solutions and strategic advice has earned recognition in the Legal 500.
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.
Jayne Gardner
Partner & Head of Debt & Asset Recovery
Jayne Gardner
Partner & Head of Debt & Asset Recovery
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Jayne has over 25 years’ experience in both debt collection and credit management.
Michael Hibbs
Consultant
Michael Hibbs
Consultant
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Mike provides solutions to the employment problems faced by employers.
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
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.
Nicholas Briggs
Partner & Head of Intellectual Property
Nicholas Briggs
Partner & Head of Intellectual Property
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Nick helps UK and international clients enforce and protect their intellectual property rights, and defends those accused of infringing IPRs.
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Languages:
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English
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French
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German
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My Recent Articles
- Court Of Appeal Invalidates “Uncertain” Patent and Rejects “Schrödinger’s Patent Infringement” Claim in Dual Outlet Electric Shower Dispute
- UK Court of Appeal Victory for Triton in Defending Patent Infringement Action Brought by Kohler Mira
- Getty Images vs Stability AI: The Copyright Battle Set to Shape the Future of AI
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.
Aasha Choudhary
Partner
Aasha Choudhary
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Aasha specialises in the financial aspects of divorce and relationship breakdown with high-value or complex assets, often with an international element.
Alan Hamblett
Solicitor
Alan Hamblett
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Alan handles complex and high value disputed debt claims.
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Languages:
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English
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French
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German
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Spanish
Amarysia Aujla
Business Development Business Partner
Amarysia Aujla
Business Development Business Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Amarysia is a Business Development specialist working with our teams in Birmingham, London, Milton Keynes, Bristol and International Desks. She works with partners and teams to drive growth, strengthen client relationships and deliver strategic business development initiatives. With regional insights and a commercial approach, Amarysia helps to translate opportunity into action, ensuring our legal services align with evolving client needs and market demands.
Andrew Adams
Partner
Andrew Adams
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Andrew works with teams to achieve the best commercial and strategic outcome to complex commercial disputes.
Andrew Smith
Partner
Andrew Smith
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
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.
Anna Cartledge
Partner
Anna Cartledge
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Anna has 15 years’ experience advising on all aspects of planning, compulsory purchase and highways law, and is joint head of our legal planning team.
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.
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My Recent Articles
- Green Campus Report
Claire Burrows
Partner
Claire Burrows
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Claire is highly regarded for her straightforward and commercial advice and is entrusted by clients to steer them through difficult and often sensitive matters through her hands on and empathetic approach.
Debbie Irwin
Partner
Debbie Irwin
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Debbie works closely with her clients to ensure that she understands the required outcomes and works pragmatically to achieve them.
Eddie Flanagan
Partner
Eddie Flanagan
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Eddie works with a highly skilled team to deliver industry specific advice to the asset finance and leasing sector.
Emma Joy Smith
Partner
Emma Joy Smith
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Emma is head of the firm’s affordable housing team and is passionate about what her team can achieve, working together to benefit the needs of clients.
Esther Maxwell
Partner
Esther Maxwell
Partner
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Esther is an experienced and trusted advisor to the firm’s education clients and supports universities, FE colleges and schools in dealing with a range of sensitive and complex employment and education related issues. As well as being a solicitor, she is a qualified workplace mediator, using her mediation skills to help nip workplace issues in the bud. She also regularly undertakes investigations into matters involving both staff and students.