People
Thirty-eight lawyers,
eleven of them partners
We recruit slowly and we keep people. The average partner has been here nine years; the shortest route from trainee to partner in the firm’s history was eleven. Direct dials are the switchboard number and the extension.
Portraits
Photographed against the north window of the partners’ room. We do not publish faces; the profile is enough to know who is coming.
01Commercial disputes
9 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Clara Whitfield
Partner
2006
Spanish
207
Gideon Farrar
Counsel
2008
English
214
Marcus Threlfall
Senior associate
2013
German
221
Ivy Chen
Senior associate
2014
Mandarin, Cantonese
222
Theodore Blackwood
Senior associate
2016
English
229
Joel Adeyemi
Associate
2020
Yoruba
232
Fergus Traill
Associate
2021
English
236
Bertie Coleridge
Trainee solicitor
—
English
251
02International arbitration
8 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Rosalind Achebe
Partner
2001
French, Igbo
203
Anand Mehta
Partner
2004
Hindi, Gujarati
208
Priya Raghunathan
Counsel
2009
Tamil, French
215
Rafael Duarte
Senior associate
2012
Portuguese, Spanish
223
Helena Strand
Senior associate
2015
Norwegian, German
224
Sofia Marchetti
Associate
2019
Italian, French
231
Lucia Ferreira
Associate
2022
Portuguese, Spanish
237
Ada Wojcik
Trainee solicitor
—
Polish
252
03Art and cultural property
5 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Tobias Lindgren
Partner
2003
Swedish, German
204
Sam Kowalczyk
Partner
2009
Polish, Italian
210
Oliver Pemberton
Senior associate
2013
Italian
225
Piotr Zawadzki
Associate
2021
Polish, Russian
234
Elsa Lindqvist
Associate
2023
Swedish, Danish
240
04Private wealth and trusts
6 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Julian Vane
Partner
1996
German
202
Beatrice Fairley
Partner
2007
Italian
209
Douglas Ainsley
Counsel
2007
English
216
Yasmin Rahimi
Senior associate
2014
Farsi, French
226
Constance Reeve
Associate
2019
English
233
Toby Ferrand
Trainee solicitor
—
French
253
05Regulatory and investigations
7 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Miriam Sassoon
Partner
2002
Hebrew, French
205
Inès Moreau
Partner
2008
French, Portuguese
211
Nadia Bekhti
Counsel
2010
French, Arabic
217
Callum Bright
Senior associate
2016
English
227
Meera Sundaram
Associate
2020
Tamil, Hindi
235
Zainab Qureshi
Associate
2022
Urdu, Punjabi
239
Ngozi Balogun
Trainee solicitor
—
Igbo
254
06Reputation and media
3 lawyers
NameTitleAdmittedLanguagesExt.
Henry Okonkwo
Partner
2005
Yoruba
206
Amara Ndiaye
Senior associate
2015
French, Wolof
228
Nathaniel Orme
Associate
2021
English
238