Our People
Meriel O’Loughlin
Legal Director
Meriel O’Loughlin
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Meriel adopts a proactive and commercial approach to drive transactions forward to completion quickly, ensuring her clients interests are protected.
Michael Young
Legal Director
Michael Young
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Michael has been at the forefront of our professional negligence work for over 10 years, working on numerous cases throughout his career for clients ranging from individuals through to SMEs and blue-chip companies.
Midhika Joseph
Legal Director
Midhika Joseph
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Midhika advises on academic partnerships, commercial collaborations and regulatory matters.
Monica Ghai
Legal Director
Monica Ghai
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Monica practices in all areas of family law and has developed a reputation for providing practical, thorough and clear advice. In particular Monica has particular interest and expertise in representing individuals where there are cultural and/or international elements of family law.
Nicola Lediard
Legal Director
Nicola Lediard
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Nicola works with clients to resolve a broad range of disputes in an effective and thorough manner, and to find sensible, long-term solutions to their legal problems.
Nicola Storey-Wood
Legal Director
Nicola Storey-Wood
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Nicola provides a professional and knowledgeable service to real estate clients and financing institutions. Nicola works for a range of clients, including individuals, corporate entities, banks, Islamic finance institutions and short term lenders.
Paul Greatrix
Director of Higher Education Consultancy
Dr Paul Greatrix is Director of Higher Education Consultancy and joined Shakespeare Martineau in August 2025 after over 35 years working in the HE sector including 18 years as Registrar of the University of Nottingham.
Paul McMaster
Legal Director
Paul McMaster
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Paul uses his technical expertise to come up with bespoke solutions on all aspects of private client law.
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My Recent Articles
- Last Words That Matter: What to Include in Your Will
Pia Eames
Legal Director
Pia Eames
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Pia is a highly effective lawyer focussing on resolving all types of commercial property disputes for her clients.
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Languages:
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English
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Hindi
Rebecca Fox-Jones
Legal Director
Rebecca Fox-Jones
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Rebecca works in our real estate and energy team with a focus on high-volume transactions for utilities clients.
Robert Mander
Legal Director
Robert Mander
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Sheffield
Robert has extensive experience in the full range of commercial property work.
Ruo Wu
Legal Director
I am a Legal Director specialising in charity and social enterprise law, with over 20 years of experience advising a wide range of charitable organisations, philanthropists, and not-for-profit entities.
Sheena Tandy
Legal Director
Sheena Tandy
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Sheena provides pragmatic and commercial advice within the field of both corporate and personal insolvency
Simon Coghlan
Legal Director
Simon Coghlan
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Simon provides a professional and knowledgeable service for real estate finance clients.
Stephen Lane
Legal Director
Stephen Lane
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Stephen has over 25 years’ experience in real estate finance, with particular experience in development and health funding.
Steven Skiba
Legal Director
Steven Skiba
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Steven is a straight-talking lawyer who works with clients to resolve disputes.
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My Recent Articles
- Business Interruption Insurance | Our fixed fee support
Stewart Argo
Legal Director
Stewart Argo
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Stewart advises clients on a wide variety of IT, technology, data protection, IP and commercial contract issues.
Tamsin Walker
Legal Director
Tamsin Walker
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
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.
Vicci Faulkner
Legal Director
Vicci Faulkner
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Vicci is a CILEX conveyancing practitioner with over 18 years experience within residential property.
Alexandria Davis
Associate
Alexandria is an associate within the firm’s employment team specialising in advising education clients, including further and higher education institutions, schools and academics.
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My Recent Articles
- Employment Case Law Update | Spring 2025
Anita Chaudhary
Senior Associate
Anita Chaudhary
Senior Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Leicester
Anita works with a broad range of high net worth individuals and business owners to fulfil their commercial property requirements.
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Languages:
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English
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Punjabi
Anna Morris
Associate
Anna Morris
Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Stratford
Anna advises private individuals, trustees and charities on disputes relating to contentious trusts, probate and Court of Protection matters.
Anton Letten
Senior Associate
Anton Letten
Senior Associate
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Anton handles a variety of disputes including contractual and professional negligence matters.
Ashley Bhandari
Associate
Ashley Bhandari
Associate
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
- The Climate Change Challenge for Property