Lawyers
Alex Ferrari
Consultant Solicitor
Alex has a diverse litigation practice derived from his practical underwriting experience in the City and commercial background in retail prior to qualifying as a solicitor. His practice covers various sectors and encompasses both domestic and international disputes and arbitrations.
Andrew Bretherton
Partner
Andrew is an experienced UK and US qualified corporate and commercial lawyer who advises on UK and international capital markets, M&A, private equity and venture capital investments / exits.
Andrew Niblock
Partner
An experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, Andrew advises a wide range of clients from business start-ups to large multinational companies. He has considerable experience in running corporate transactions and negotiating commercial contracts of all sizes, with particular focus on intellectual p...
Antony Colman
Partner
Antony is a highly experienced commercial and product liability specialist, handling primarily disputes that arise from international trade. His practice focuses on acting for insurers and manufacturers in product liability claims.
Audrey Williams
Partner
Employment law expert Audrey has over 30 years’ experience advising employers, employees, and working with leading expert bodies such as ACAS, CBI and CityHR. Her work often involves sensitive HR issues, senior executive appointments and exits, restructuring, and redundancies.
Catherine Williams
Partner
Catherine is a corporate lawyer with over 25 years’ experience and has a particular focus on advising management teams and investors of venture-backed, high-growth companies from first fundraise through to exit. Her clients are private limited companies and individuals. She also advises on sharehold...
Cordelia Rushby
Consultant Solicitor
A specialist insurance, personal injury and health lawyer with 30 years’ experience.
Dan Cowley
Partner
Dan is a commercial property solicitor who specialises in property development work, acting for landowners and developers. He regularly advises on legal agreements relating to planning, such as conditional contracts, option agreements, promotion agreements, and joint venture agreements.
Denis Uvarov
Partner
Denis is a corporate lawyer with over 30 years of experience. He specialises in cross-border private M&A transactions, strategic joint ventures, and business reorganisations. His work often involves complex, multi-jurisdictional deals requiring regulatory, finance, and sector-specific expertise.
Fiona Nicolson
Partner
Fiona has been advising clients on intellectual property and commercial law for over 30 years as a Scottish and English qualified lawyer. Throughout her career, she has represented clients across sectors including life sciences, IT, industrial markets, academia, and consumer products.
Gerry Kennedy
Partner
Gerry is a commercial and intellectual property partner with over 25 years’ experience gained in senior in-house and advisory roles across multiple sectors. Prior to joining Keystone, Gerry served as the UK General Counsel for Lonza, a global supplier to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and specialty in...
Greg Scott
Partner
Greg has over 25 years’ experience in acting on M&A, investment, joint ventures, and equity capital markets transactions, advising companies from start-up through to mid-market, to IPO or sale, with fundraisings at all stages and ultimately, exits, including public takeovers. He also has a parti...
James Tumbridge
Partner
James is an intellectual property litigation lawyer with a specialism in data protection, and has litigated all IP rights before the courts of several countries. He is known especially for his patent, trade mark & copyright work as well as digital compliance.
Jennifer Donohue
Consultant Solicitor
Jennifer is a lawyer, notary public, archaeologist, and mathematician, whose practice focuses on legal and technical developments in the financial services markets. This includes the development of generative AI and machine learning, the maturity of digital assets and decentralised finance for her b...
Jessica Bent
Partner
A highly experienced intellectual property (IP), technology, and commercial lawyer, Jessica advises start-ups, SMEs and global businesses on a range of commercial matters, IP protection and commercialisation, and IT and services contracts.
Jonathan Chibafa
Partner
Jonathan specialises in internal investigations, financial crime, ESG compliance and supply chain risk management, whilst also being a highly regarded anti-bribery and corruption risk expert.
Karen May Fong
Partner
Karen is a specialist intellectual property (IP) and commercial lawyer with an abundance of international experience. Karen has advised international IP owners as well as start-ups and creative individuals on all aspects of the protection and exploitation of IP rights in the UK and internationally i...
Laurence Relton
Partner
Laurence has broad national and international experience handling commercial support, company sales and purchases and corporate restructuring. He previously advised McDonalds on its first UK acquisition of Café Aroma Ltd. Laurence is a specialist in the rapid production of shareholder agreements for...
Lee McIntyre-Hamilton
Partner
Lee is a tax specialist (non-lawyer) who has advised on global mobility and employment tax matters for more than 25 years. He provides employment tax support to employers in respect of their globally mobile employees and their UK-based employees. He also provides personal tax advice to globally mobi...
Marcus Collins
Partner
Marcus is an intellectual property lawyer of 30 years’ experience with a particular focus in the fields of UK, EU and international trade mark prosecution, trade mark portfolio management, branding, and infringement matters. He also advises on internet domain name, industrial design, copyright, defa...
Matt Dennis
Partner
Matt is a corporate partner with over 35 years of experience in advising on all aspects of corporate law in particular domestic and international M&A, equity financings and venture capital, joint ventures, and group reorganisations.
Maureen Kelly
Partner
An experienced intellectual property and information technology solicitor, Maureen works across a wide variety of sectors including life sciences, charity, education and information technology. Her practice spans a broad range of commercial and research agreements. Maureen specialises in facilitatin...
Patricia Collis
Partner
Patricia is a highly experienced brand protection lawyer, specialising in the strategic growth, management, and exploitation of trade mark and design portfolios. She works with clients across a variety of sectors, including technology & telecommunications, retail, sports, food & beverage, an...
Patrick Graves
Partner
Patrick is a corporate lawyer with over 35 years’ experience, with a practice covering all aspects of private and public company mergers and acquisitions, equity capital market transactions, and corporate finance and growth solutions for family and entrepreneurial businesses.