Our People

Danielle Humphries
Associate
Danielle Humphries
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Danielle assists with our further and higher education client queries.

Emma Noble
Associate
Emma Noble
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Emma is a Solicitor within the firm’s Education team specialising in employment advice for education clients including independent schools and academies, as well as both further and higher education institutes

Joe Davies
Associate
A solicitor in our Residential Development Team, Joe assists on complex promotion agreements and option agreements and manages the disposal and acquisition of sites for residential development. Joe has experience of acting for developers with a particular focus on disposals to Housing Associations. Joe also deals with complex lease transactions from both perspective of Tenants and Landlords.

Jonathan Hill
Associate
Jonathan Hill
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Jonathan is an associate solicitor in the Corporate team at Shakespeare Martineau, supporting clients across a range of sectors, with a particular sector expertise in healthcare focused on dental practice acquisitions and disposals.

Lubna Laheria
Associate
Lubna Laheria
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Lubna is an experienced employment solicitor who advises a wide range of businesses on their HR issues. Lubna also specialises in tribunal litigation.

Paul McMaster
Associate
Paul McMaster
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Paul uses his technical expertise to come up with bespoke solutions on all aspects of private client law.

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.

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.

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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Sophie Plant
Solicitor
As a solicitor in our core Education team, Sophie helps our further and higher education clients on a wide variety of student-related and corporate governance matters including complaints and appeals, discrimination and equality law issues, policies and procedures and regulatory compliance.

Zoe Carney
Solicitor

Anne Tromans
Consultant
Anne Tromans
Consultant
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Anne has over 30 years’ experience in protecting clients’ wealth through wills and trust structures. She will always go the extra mile to ensure they and their family’s objectives are achieved as tax efficiently as possible.

Caroline Bird
Chartered Legal Executive
Caroline Bird
Chartered Legal Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Caroline Bird is a Senior Conveyancing Executive in the Building Communities team within Social Housing.

Chloe Fellowes
Chartered Legal Executive
Chloe Fellowes
Chartered Legal Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Chloe Fellowes is a proactive Paralegal with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry.
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My Recent Articles
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Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) Ltd v Simply Construct (UK) Llp
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Clare Seel
Senior Paralegal
Clare Seel
Senior Paralegal
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Clare is responsible for the infrastructure aspect of schemes looked after by our development team.

Dominic Suffolk
Chartered Legal Executive
Dominic Suffolk
Chartered Legal Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Dominic specialises in non-contentious construction with a focus on delivering an efficient service centred around the needs of his clients.

Emily Cupi
Early Ambitions Development Adviser
Emily Cupi
Early Ambitions Development Adviser
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Emily is passionate about developing people who are in the early stages of their career and helping them to achieve their potential within the firm.
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We are thrilled to welcome our largest ever trainee cohort
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Jodie Simkins
Senior Conveyancing Executive
Jodie Simkins
Senior Conveyancing Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham

Julie Tromans
Head of Member Services
Julie Tromans
Head of Member Services
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
As Head of Member Services, my role is to ensure that we provide a bespoke service to our Membership in all matters relating to them being a member of Ampa Holdings LLP. This is from their joining to their retiring and their journey in between. As a team we look after member capital, drawings, profit share distributions, taxation and current accounts. We also deal with their onboarding, off boarding and any changes arising from promotions within the membership. We endeavour to be a trusted advisor to our membership and to be their ‘go to’ as much as possible, signposting them as necessary to our colleagues across Ampa Group Services.

Kelly Byrne
Client Care Team Leader
Kelly Byrne
Client Care Team Leader
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham

Noreen Khan-Ghalib
Chartered Legal Executive
Noreen Khan-Ghalib
Chartered Legal Executive
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Noreen works for a range of clients including institutional and individual lenders, as well as funders and their customers in respect of their banking transaction.