Our People

Selica Khan
Associate
Selica Khan is an experienced Associate Solicitor with significant expertise in complex land disputes, including restrictive covenants, easements, and boundary issues. She acts for commercial developers and landowners, offering strategic guidance and effective solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Sonal Panesar
Associate
Sonal Panesar
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Sonal is a Solicitor within our Social Housing and Development Team with a strong Property background.
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Languages:
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English
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Gujarati

Sophie Hunter
Associate
Sophie Hunter
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Sophie deals exclusively with transactions for Registered Providers such as leasehold schemes for the elderly, shared ownership, right to buy/acquire, staircasing, single unit disposal, purchases and many more.

Sundeep Bilkhu
Associate
Sundeep Bilkhu
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Sundeep is an Associate Solicitor, with a significant number of years experience in dealing with a whole range of property related disputed, with high degree of complexity and value. He has a particular expertise in actions involving the discharge of restrictive covenants, enforcement of easements, interpretation of property related contracts and forfeiture actions. He acts for a wide range of clients including high value land owners, consortiums, landlords and tenants.
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My Recent Articles
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Tenant Terminates Lease for Landlord Breach
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Tom Riley
Associate
Tom Riley
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Tom is a solicitor with over five years of restructuring and insolvency experience, who advises clients on a wide variety of non-contentious and contentious matters, including:
– Insolvency Litigation – bringing or defending high-value complex claims from insolvency practitioners (Trustees in Bankruptcy/Liquidators/Administrators) or litigation funders.
– Turnaround, restructuring, and recovery of distressed businesses.
– Director disqualification – advising directors subject to investigations/proceedings brought by the Insolvency Service.

Victoria Kirkpatrick
Associate
Victoria Kirkpatrick
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Victoria is an Associate in the Commercial Litigation team and works closely with each of the Partners in both running cases and supporting client relationships.

Amy Richardson
Solicitor
Amy Richardson
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Amy is a Solicitor within the firm’s Employment Team specialising in advising education clients including schools, academies, higher education institutions and universities.

Anthony Chan
Solicitor
Anthony is a solicitor working in the Residential Development Team.

Ashley Bhandari
Solicitor
Ashley Bhandari
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Ashley is a Solicitor working in the Residential Development team assisting with the acquisition and disposal of development land.
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My Recent Articles
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The Climate Change Challenge for Property
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Asmee Dutt-Choudhury
Solicitor
Asmee Dutt-Choudhury
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau London
Asmee Dutt-Choudhury is a Solicitor in the Commercial and IP team.

Charlotte Boyes
Solicitor
Charlotte Boyes
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Lincoln
Charlotte specialises in agricultural property law

Clare Hopkins
Consultant Solicitor
Clare Hopkins
Consultant Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
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.

Ellen Abrahall
Solicitor
Ellen Abrahall
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Ellen is a Trainee Solicitor in the Employment team, assisting with a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.
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My Recent Articles
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Managing employee absence over peak periods
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Ellis Pugh
Solicitor
Ellis Pugh specialises in advising social housing providers, charities, other not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises with a particular interest in governance matters.

Emily Sleight
Solicitor
Emily Sleight
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester

Esme Barker
Solicitor
Esme Barker
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Esme is a Solicitor who specialises in Rural Property and Agricultural Law.

Fiona Miller
Solicitor
Fiona Miller is a solicitor within the charities team at Shakespeare Martineau. Since qualifying as a charities solicitor in 2019 Fiona has advised on a wide range of charity law and governance matters, gaining significant experience in the sector.

Francesca Saunders
Solicitor
Francesca Saunders
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Francesca works exclusively with Registered Providers in relation to all aspects of residential property transactions.

Imran Ilias
Solicitor
Imran Ilias
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Imran is a Solicitor specialising in Litigation and Corporate Restructuring. He advises on a variety of restructuring, recovery and insolvency issues, including contested insolvency work.
Imran is skilled in providing innovative and cost-effective legal solutions to both commercial and individual clients, with a wealth of experience gained working at several international and national law firms, including working within an in-house capacity for a blue chip automotive company. Imran has advised clients ranging from private individuals to FTSE 100 companies.

Isaac Murdy
Solicitor
Isaac Murdy
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Isaac is a solicitor with almost a decade of experience working with electricity, gas and water companies. He is a member of our specialist commercial energy and utilities team, and has a passion for the ongoing transformation of the energy and water sectors.

Jack Randall-Barsby
Solicitor
Jack is a specialist planning solicitor win our legal planning team

Jacob Hanson
Solicitor
Jacob Hanson
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau London
Jacob acts on wide range of property matters and advises on all aspects of property law.

Jing Wang
Solicitor
Jing Wang
Solicitor
Shakespeare Martineau Bristol
Jing Wang is a solicitor in the corporate and commercial team, based in the Bristol office.

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