Thomson Reuters names eight Keystone Law partners in its Stand-out Lawyers Guide 2026
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The Spear’s 500 has listed six Keystone lawyers in its esteemed Corporate, Employment, and Hommes d’Affaires indices for 2025. Fara Mohammad, Richard Fox, Alastair French, Clive Howard, Helen Sherborne, and Jamie Horner were all recognised for their work and expertise in their respective fields.
The Spear’s 500 is the definitive guide to the top private client advisers for high and ultra-high net-worth individuals. Rankings are drawn up based on peer nominations, client feedback, telephone and face-to-face interviews, data supplied by firms, as well as information gathered by the Spear’s editorial and research teams.
Fara is a specialist adviser to international companies and individuals on their inward investments into the UK, Europe and MEA. She advises businesses, funds and private clients on the financing of their investments and often acts as external general counsel for all legal aspects related to the investment.
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Richard has over 25 years’ experience representing employers and employees on a broad range of employment issues. He advises clients on matters including confidentiality and restrictive covenants, executive pay, bonus and severance arrangements, unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and redundancy programmes.
He has conducted and advised on investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace following the rise of the #MeToo movement, and the cases that have followed.
Read Richard’s Spear’s profile here.
Alistair frequently advises senior executives in disputes with banks, hedge funds, asset managers, private equity houses and insurers. He also advises employers in a broad range of sectors on a broad spectrum of workplace matters. Primarily his work for business is non-contentious: drafting and advising on contracts and policies, and putting in place structures to avoid Tribunal.
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Clive is an expert in contentious exits, whistleblowing and discrimination claims. He has advised on numerous high-profile cases, including acting for senior figures in the financial and public sectors. He advised Paul Moore, the famous HBOS whistleblower, in his legal battle with the high-street giant. This resulted in the bank settling and led to interventions from the then prime minister, Gordon Brown.
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Helen is an experienced employment lawyer advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious issues. Her clients include large city corporations and banks as well as executives such as CEOs, board directors, heads of film studios, and television producers. She has represented clients against Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Corporation for more than five years in the UK and the US.
Read Helen’s Spear’s profile here.
Hommes d’Affaires
Jamie is a trusted adviser to the sports, events and entertainment industries. His expertise extends across motorsport, rugby, cricket, golf and football, as well as Olympic sports including athletics, rowing, and alpine and freestyle skiing. He also advises on legal issues connected with a wide range of live events, as well as providing transactional and litigation advice to talent agencies, high-profile actors, television and sports personalities.
Read his Spear’s profile here.
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