Blake Morgan

Manging Partner: Mike Wilson 

Chair: Helen Bunker 

Number of Partners: 96 

Number of employees: 528 

UK offices: Cardiff, London, Oxford, Reading, Southampton

Contacts 

Administrative & Public Law:Eve Piffaretti

ADR:Chris Potts 

Agriculture & Estates:Oliver Sowton

Banking:Meera Jansen 

Charities:Ben Brice 

Competition:Simon McCann 

Commercial Litigation:Sarah Rees (London) Chris Potts (Thames Valley), Dan Geddes (South Coast), Lee Fisher (Cardiff)

Construction:Richard Wade 

Corporate & Commercial:Simon Staples & Penri Desscan

Data Protection:Elisabeth Bell 

Debt Recovery:Sadak Miah 

Education:Matthew Smith 

Employment:Ron Burgess, Rajiv Joshi

Environment Law:Amardip Healy 

Family: Simon Burge 

Government:Penny Rinta-Suksi 

Health & Safety:Claire Rawle 

Health & Social Care:Bruce Potter, David Hill, Eve Piffaretti

Insolvency & Business Recovery:Paul Caldicott

IP:Lee Fisher 

IT:Elisabeth Bell 

Judicial Review:Joanne Thompson 

Mental Health:Eve Piffaretti 

Outsourcing:Simon McCann 

Partnerships:Andrew Miscampbell 

Pensions:Ron Burgess 

Planning:Amardip Healy 

Private Client: Paula Shea 

Procurement:Simon McCann 

Professional Regulatory:Clare Strickland

Public Law:Eve Piffaretti 

Publishing:Lee Fisher 

Real Estate:Oliver Sowton 

Real Estate Litigation:Zoe Wright (England), Siãn Jones (Wales)

Residential Property:Lorna Munro 

Retail & Leisure:Oliver Sowton, Penny Rinta-Suksi

Social Housing:Siãn Jones 

Tax:Rob Thomas 

Travel:Daniel Scognamiglio 

The Firm 

Blake Morgan has a reputation for building life-time relationships with its clients helping them to navigate through the commercial affairs and business challenges that affect their organisation as well as advising them on a range of personal issues. As a full-service law firm with offices across the UK and a wealth of expertise with 96 partners and 528 staff, Blake Morgan uses its unique blend of technical expertise, broader experience and commercial realism to get the best results possible for its clients – be they small businesses, corporates, individuals, families, government, or not-for-profits. The firm is trusted by many of the leading players within the areas in which it specialises. This includes international and national corporate organisations, 20 local authorities, central government departments as well as devolved regional government, four major high street and corporate banks, and leading supermarkets. Blake Morgan also advises over 100 schools, academies and universities on a wide range of legal issues.

Blake Morgan is known for our experience in advising high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners and families. We offer a wide range of traditional private client services, including wealth preservation, estate planning or administration (including international estates and cross-border matters), Will drafting, cross-border and UK tax planning, as well as issues relating to a loss of mental capacity and other family matters, such as nuptial agreements and sensitive legal issues concerning relationship breakdown and children.

We also act in contentious matters, including Will and succession challenges, Inheritance Act disputes, property ownership disputes involving trusts of land, proprietary estoppel cases, contentious court of protection claims and professional negligence claims arising in the context of succession and estates.

We can help ensure our clients assets are structured to grow whilst making use of valuable reliefs such as Business Property Relief, Agricultural Property Relief and Entrepreneurs’ Relief, to minimise the payment of Inheritance Tax, Capital Gains and Income Tax payable during lifetime or on death. We also provide residential conveyancing and property structuring advice. We take pride in seeing the bigger picture and understand that our clients' lives are more diverse and complex than ever before, so planning their finances and protecting their personal and families' wealth is full of challenges. We have strong links with other professionals, including accountants and financial advisers, whose skills compliment those of the lawyers in the team.