Black Letter Law Directory | 2015 | Partners in the UK Top 100 Law Firms

Leona Ahmed is a partner and the Divisional Managing Partner (DMP) in the Real Estate team at Addleshaw Goddard. Leading a team of over 30 partners and more than 110 fee earners, she is the firm's first female DMP.

Leona has extensive experience across all sectors of the investment...

Hammad Akhtar is a partner in the financial institutions group at the London office of Ashurst. He moved from Herbert Smith Freehills to Ashurst in 2012. He has experience of a broad range of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations advising clients in the financial...

Yogi Amin became a partner at the Sheffield office of national law firm Irwin Mitchell in 2007. Yogi won the Social and Welfare Lawyer of the Year title at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards ceremony in December 2008. He has handled several cancer drug dispute cases hitting the national...

Vinita Arora is a partner in the Employment Department at global law firm DLA Piper. Her practice focuses primarily on employment issues within the hospitality/leisure and retail sectors, although she also advises clients in the IT, telecommunication and media sectors. The Legal 500...

Parya Badie is a partner at Magic Circle law firm Allen and Overy and specialises in derivative and structured finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on structured credit/equity derivatives, insurance-capital market cross-over products and regulatory capital-driven structures. The Legal...

Satinder Bains became a partner at national law firm Irwin Mitchell in 2011 and is based at its Birmingham office. She joined the firm in 2005 and began her career specialising exclusively in asbestos-related disease claims - including mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis and pleural...

Ramatu Banga is partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse with more than18 years’ experience advising clients on commercial property matters across the hotel, leisure and retail sector, along with the public sector. She advises on acquisitions, disposals, property-led business sales and asset...

Zahra Bardai is a partner in the commercial real estate practice at Berwin Leighton Paisner. She has a broad range of experience in transactions, including structured disposals and acquisitions utilising a variety of tax efficient vehicles, join ventures, real estate aspects of property finance...

Nick Basi is a partner at the Birmingham office of international law firm DAC Beachcroft and specialises in property and construction insurance. His experience is in acting for property insurers and handling medium to high value property damage claims. Nick has particular specialism in acting for...

Ranajoy Basu is a partner at Reed Smith. He is dual qualified in England and India with practice areas that include structured finance, securitisation, derivatives, debt capital markets and debt restructurings. Ranajoy has advised a wide range of clients, including arrangers, originators,...

Kiran Bhogal is a partner and Head of the London Healthcare Advisory Department at the national law firm Weightmans, which has offices in Birmingham, Dartford, Knutsford, Leicester, Liverpool, London and Manchester. She joined the law firm in January 2009, having previously been a partner at DAC...

Farmida Bi has been a partner at international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s London office since 2008. She has specialised in capital markets transactions for almost two decades and has advised on English and New York law debt and equity capital markets transactions (including...

Addleshaw Goddard considered it a coup when they hired Shoosmiths’ Manchester head Harold Brako to join the firm’s northern finance litigation practice in 2017.

Harold founded and headed up the Shoosmiths’ Manchester office in 2009 and drove its growth from a staff of three to a...

Paul Bugingo has been a partner at international law firm Simmons & Simmons since 2014. His particular specialism is African projects with energy and infrastructure sectors working with governments, utilities, regulators and private companies across the...