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Jill Chamberlain

About Jill

Head of Haddletons Business

Solicitor - Qualified 1989

Legal Areas of Expertise:

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Data Protection & Cyber
  • Risk and Compliance

Bio:

Jill is a highly experienced commercial lawyer with a successful track record in business. With substantial in-house legal experience, working as Legal Counsel in the telecommunications/IT, financial services and distribution sectors. Jill heads up Haddletons Commercial and Business Support and is responsible for the strategic business growth of our comprehensive suite of business support services.

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Dawn Coupe

About Dawn

Matter Expert - Non-Solicitor

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Risk & Compliance
  • Health & Safety
  • Trading & Advertising

Bio:

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Simon Cox

About Simon

Solicitor - Qualified 1980

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Advisory

Bio:

Simon is a highly respected and experienced corporate lawyer. Simon has advised on a wide range of UK and international corporate projects.

Simon’s work has included both IPO’s and secondary market equity issues as well as issues of convertible and non-convertible debt securities.

Moreover, Simon has extensive experience advising boards on corporate governance compliance as well as advising on relationships with major shareholders and on reacting to shareholder activism.

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Jason Curtis

About Jason

Solicitor - Qualified 2004

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Risk & Compliance

Bio:

Jason is a senior commercial solicitor with over 20 years’ experience, mostly gained working in-house. He has worked in the travel and retail sectors and is a former Legal & Compliance Director at Mamas & Papas. Jason is experienced across the range of commercial legal matters from consumer terms and conditions to large, complex agreements, taking a commercially pragmatic approach to the work that he undertakes. He also provides training on dealing with commercial legal matters and compliance issues and strategic legal advice to businesses small and large.

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Karen Eckstein

About Karen

Solicitor - Qualified 1990

Chartered Tax Adviser

Legal Area of Expertise

  • Tax Disputes

Bio:

Karen has 30 years experience of defending claims against professionals, mainly solicitors, accountants and tax advisers and has acted for firms from sole practitioners through to magic circle and global firms, gained at national market leading firms. She is also a Chartered Tax Adviser and has a national reputation in the taxation field. As well as acting in contentious tax matters across the whole range of taxes, Karen frequently advises professionals about risk management and is a published author on the topic as well as having passed the IRM exams.

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Karina Gaertner

About Karina

Solicitor - Qualified 2012

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Risk & Compliance

Bio:

Karina is an experienced commercial and corporate solicitor. Having worked at a large commercial firm, in private practise and in house amongst businesses, she adopts a practical approach to commercial and governance needs. She specialises in a wide range of commercial contracts, corporate governance, risk & compliance and insurance. She has a particular interest in the hospitality sector and has industry experience advising businesses in a whole range of fields including life sciences, technology, hospitality, distribution and manufacturing.

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Hugh Goulbourne

About Hugh

Solicitor - Qualified 2004

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Data Protection
  • Risk & Compliance

Bio:

Hugh is a Senior Commercial Solicitor with 14 years legal experience In House and in Private Practice. Having qualified with a top ten international law firm, Hugh has extensive experience in data protection, commercial contracts and corporate governance across a range of sectors including energy, entertainment, financial services and insurance. Hugh’s excellent legal skills are enhanced by his experience of income generation, strategy development and team management in a range of senior leadership roles since 2011.

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Bryony Green De Barros

About Bryony

Trainee Solicitor

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Data Protection & Cyber
  • Disputes
  • Intellectual Property
  • Risk and Compliance

Bio:

Bryony is a trainee solicitor at Haddletons. Prior to commencing her traineeship, Bryony spent eight months in the firm’s Business Services Team providing corporate governance and company secretarial support to clients. Prior to joining Haddletons, Bryony gained in-house legal experience working as a paralegal at a digital marketing agency where she assisted on commercial matters. Bryony is bilingual and is fluent in Portuguese.

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James Haddleton

About James

CEO

Solicitor - Qualified 1994

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Data Protection & Cyber
  • Risk and Compliance

Bio:

James worked for 25 years at two major commercial law firms and then as Group Legal Counsel and Company Secretary at an AIM-listed pharmaceutical company. There, he developed a legal team and led projects to reduce risk and improve the quality and efficiency of its contracting, governance and compliance systems.

James is CEO of Haddletons, as well as a senior lawyer.

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Keith Jackson

About Keith

Professional Advisor

Legal Area of Expertise

  • Boardroom Support

Bio:

Keith, a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Director, is a successful senior executive with a wealth of experience in CEO, Executive Director, Interim and Non-Executive Director roles. The Institute of Directors UK Director of the year 2016, he has a proven history of vision, strategic foresight and strong governance that has enhanced board performance. Keith deploys his expertise to help your board develop and effectively manage the governance cycle, looking at aspects such as foresight, strategic thinking, supervising management and accountability to stakeholders. He will work with you to enhance board performance and make board meetings much more strategically focused.

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Shereen Lloyd

About Shereen

Solicitor - Qualified 2003

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Property

Bio:

Shereen has over 15 years' commercial property experience, having worked in both private practice and in-house. She advises on a wide range of commercial property transactions across a broad range of sectors. Shereen will work with you to deliver pragmatic, commercially viable solutions to all of your property needs.

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Debbie Mactaggart

About Debbie

Solicitor - Qualified 1984

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Disputes
  • Employment

Bio:

Debbie has over 30 years’ experience as a trusted advisor and a solicitor working in-house and at several large, commercial law firms. She spent 4 years as head of a commercial legal team. Debbie deals with commercial disputes and employment issues. Her particular strengths include good relationships with her clients, empathy and people skills. She has experience of developing and delivering training for clients and lawyers covering complex legal issues in an accessible way.

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Helena Orwin

About Helena

Solicitor - Qualified 2005

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Data Protection & Cyber
  • Risk & Compliance

Bio:

Helena is an experienced commercial and IT lawyer with over 14 years’ experience in both private practice and in house. Having spent 6 years at one of the Big Six private practice law firms, Helena moved into an in-house legal role at a world leading engineering company. There, Helena’s role included leading the compliance function as well as dealing with a wide range of commercial matters. Having widened her expertise beyond legal and into sales and operations, Helena headed up the service and repair division of the UK business giving her senior executive experience. More recently, Helena has acted as legal counsel at a Leeds based award winning IT consultancy.

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Ailsa Pemberton

About Ailsa

Solicitor - Qualified 1999

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Intellectual Property

Bio:

Ailsa is a highly experienced solicitor, specialising in Commercial and Intellectual Property law. Ailsa advises businesses on matters such as IP agreements, IP audits, trademark registrations, confidentiality agreements and is also an expert is matters of contentious IP. 

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Sarah Podesta

About Sarah

Solicitor - Qualified 2000

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Competition Law
  • Risk & Compliance

Bio:

Sarah is a solicitor with 20 years’ experience in commercial and competition law, mostly gained in-house with large multi-national businesses. Sarah has industry experience in many sectors including retail, FMCG, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Sarah is experienced at advising and collaborating on solutions at all levels of an organisation, including the Board. Her focus is on using legal, compliance and risk management tools to solve problems and maximise value for your business.

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Helen Roberts

About Helen

Solicitor

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial Contracts
  • Risk and Compliance

Bio:

From her experience as GC for Sanofi, Novartis and Head of Legal for Abbott EMEA, Helen has significant life sciences and compliance experience in legal risks associated with launch and exclusivities of medicines and their supply chain.

She also has a strong expertise in Product Lifecycle Contracts, digital marketing & apps for Pharmaceutical Products & Devices in Europe, and regulation & reimbursement of Orphan Indications & Medicines.

As a past member of a UK regulatory authority, she has first-hand experience of compliance & penalties for Promotion of Medicines & Devices and in risk management of online promotion.

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Rowena Summers

About Rowena

Solicitor - Qualified 1998

Legal Areas of Expertise

  • Employment & HR

Bio:

Rowena is an employment solicitor with over 18 years experience gained at three large, commercial law firms and on secondment as part of an in-house employment legal team. Rowena provides commercially focused advice, representation and project support. She is an experienced presenter and has had a number of articles published in legal and industry journals.

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Our Business Services Team

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Claire Ashcroft

About Claire

Business Services Manager

Bio:

Claire brings over 25 years' of high level business services experience to the team. With a proven track record of providing expert support for her clients, Claire worked as in-house company secretary, as well as providing PA services to the directors, for an international bank for the last 19 years.  Claire combines a thorough and insightful knowledge of business with clear and practical advice for her clients.

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Lesley Haigh

About Lesley

Business Services Manager

Bio:

Lesley's background is as a Legal Assistant in commercial law practices.  With over 20 years’ experience in the legal sector she has a deep and detailed understanding of what her clients need. Lesley's particular areas of expertise have been predominantly in finance and restructuring but more recently she has been working on matters of professional negligence and risk management. Lesley maintains a high level of customer service to all her clients.

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Sarah Johnson

About Sarah

Business Services Executive

Bio:

Sarah brings with her 10 years' experience in residential property as a sales negotiator and PA to the director. This experience has proved to be a great platform for her work at Haddletons. As well as providing a valuable range of business services for our clients, Sarah is responsible for client take-on procedures and providing vital support to the legal team. It is Sarah's extensive experience across various business sectors that drives her goal for optimal client service provision at Haddletons.

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Rachael Schofield

About Rachael

Business Services Manager

Bio:

Rachael has a proven track record of providing corporate administration and secretarial support to her portfolio of companies, predominantly in the tech and healthcare sector, spanning over 15 years. Having most recently worked for an investment company Rachael is well versed in Company secretarial and legal matters surrounding investments. Rachael prides herself on providing practical and useful guidance to the Companies she supports and their stakeholders.  

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Michelle Smith

About Michelle

Business Services Executive

Bio:

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Our Linchpins

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Erica Hill

About Erica

Communications & Relationship Manager

Bio:

Erica has over 25 years' experience of working across a variety of industries; including financial, education and technology. She has a broad background in design, marketing, communications and IT. 

In her role as communications and relationship manager at Haddletons she does pretty much exactly that. Builds relationships with our clients and develops our communications - whether that is through the website, social media, digital print or simply by talking to people.

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Suzanne Ibson

About Suzanne

Team Administrator

Bio:

Suzanne has over 12 years' experience as a director, resourcer and administrator. She has assisted start-ups & high growth companies and has hands on experience of the day-to-day running of a small business. Suzanne is the team administrator at Haddletons, she is a key linchpin in the smooth running of our dynamic working environment.

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Mel Sabberton

About Mel

Financial Controller

Bio:

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Susie Marshall

About Susie

Operations & HR Manager

Bio:

Susie brings over 25 years’ experience of business and HR administration to the Haddletons team; having worked in both large and small organisations previously. Before joining Haddletons she worked in the public sector, the construction industry and the charity sector. She is highly organised and an adept problem solver.

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Jacques Haddleton

About Jacques

Administrator

Bio:

Jacques recently graduated from the University of Birmingham in Human Biology. Jacques re-joined Haddletons in August 2021 following a successful Summer Placement in 2020. There, he was responsible for managing the day-to-day needs of a portfolio of growing Science and Tech companies, ensuring compliance and interacting with directors. Jacques has a passion for the Life Science sector and brings an in-depth understanding of the technologies utilised by many of our clients. Jacques is helping us with projects relating to our operations and compliance whilst offering vital support to our Legal Team.

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