Mishcon de Reya LLP

Executive Chairperson: Kevin Gold

Managing Partner: James Libson

Number of Partners:228

Number of Lawyers: 650

UK Offices: London, Cambridge & Oxford (Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3321 7000)

International Offices: Singapore & Hong Kong

CONTACTS:

Employment: Daniel Naftalin

Dispute Resolution: Hugo Plowman

Mishcon Private: Nick Davis

Corporate: Kevin McCarthy

Real Estate: Stephen Hughes

Innovation: Jeremy Hertzog

ABOUT THE MISHCON DE REYA GROUP:

Founded by Lord Mishcon in 1937, in a one-room office in Brixton, Mishcon de Reya now employs over 1400 people and 650 lawyers in total, across offices in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, and in Hong Kong through their association with Karas So. Mishcon de Reya services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex. Mishcon helps their clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Mishcon appreciates the privilege of sitting alongside their clients as a trusted advisor. They solve their problems, enable opportunities and unlock possibilities for them. Building strong personal connections to these clients and their businesses is important to them. It is for these reasons the company says ‘It’s business. But it’s personal’.

Mishcon de Reya prides itself not only on the diverse range of legal services that it offers as a practice, but also on the diverse range of people who provide those services. The central role played by the Academy, the firm’s in-house place of learning, development and new thinking, and in its active and innovative social impact strategy are buttressed by a range of non-legal services that ensure the firm is filled with the brightest professionals working across multiple disciplines, applying cutting-edge knowledge and technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science.

AREAS OF WORK:

Mishcon de Reya has acted in some of the most high-profile and ground-breaking cases in the industry. Some of our recent experience includes:

• Advising Vision Industries Company, a leading investor and developer of green energy industrial projects and local supply chains, in three concurrent substantial sustainable energy joint venture projects with China-based green energy companies and Renewable Energy Localization Company (RELC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which will build local manufacturing capacity and supply chains for green energy systems in wind power and solar power worth over US$3 billion.
• Advising Wayve on Series C funding round, raising $1.05 billion led by SoftBank Group Corp. with participation from Microsoft and NVIDIA. This deal was reported at the time as being the largest AI fundraising by a European company and ranked as one of the top venture financings in the UK
• Successfully defended Telefonica UK Limited (“O2”) against claims exceeding £1 billion for alleged anti-competitive conduct and collusion in the Phones 4u litigation, with the High Court ruling in favour of the mobile network operators.
• Secured a judgment for the Weiss Technik Group, a leader in environmental simulation and air systems technology, against four former employees for breach of confidence, copyright infringement and breach of contract.
• Obtained a compensation award exceeding £1.6 million – one of the highest whistleblowing awards ever made – for Vladislav Zabelin, following his claims for automatic unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriments.
• Acted for Jenny, The Accidental American (Mandatory Disclosure Regime case). Claims and complaints have been filed in several countries (UK, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg), as well as against financial institutions in connection with systems of automatic exchange of information from the EU to the US (‘FATCA’) and between non-US countries amongst themselves (’CRS’) as well as in connection with new public registers of beneficial ownership which are in the process of being introduced throughout the EU (the UK also has its own public register).
• Advising a pan-African conglomerate with a significant energy business, on developing their ESG strategy, including a detailed ESG review of the business (applying Mishcon Purpose Universal Framework) and a process of stakeholder engagement across the business, resulting in a detailed profiling and gap analysis together with a business ESG strategy and implementation plan.
• Acting for Sky in its dispute with Sky v SkyKick (which has been heard by both the European Court of Justice and UK Supreme Court), widely regarded as the most important trademark case since the EU trademark regime began.
• Advising a UHNW family on the restructuring of their multi-national business interests to segregate their shareholdings in foreign business and real estate for tax and dynastic planning.
• Advising an HNW individual relocating to the UK on his residence and domicile status, pre-arrival tax planning, his ability to claim the remittance basis and tax exposure as a shareholder of various offshore companies.
• Advising a Chinese billionaire property developer on his UK tax and estate planning including how to structure the purchase and ownership of a very high value UK residential property.
• Advised Yinson Production Offshore Pte. Ltd. on its successful closing of a five-year corporate facility loan of up to US$500 million, including accordion – Marine Money's Offshore East Deal of the Year 2023.

FURTHER CONTACTS:

Acquisition Finance: Mark Whelan

Africa: Saul Sender

Art & Cultural Property: Karen Sanig and Amanda Gray

Asia: Gary Miller

Betting & Gaming: Nick Nocton

Charities, Not For Profit & Philanthropy: Chris Willis Pickup

Commercial Contracts: Lewis Cohen

Commercial Litigation: Richard Leedham

Competition: Sarah Houghton

Construction: Richard Gerstein and Adriano Amorese

Contentious Regulatory & Enforcement: Adam Epstein

Real Estate Investment: John Skoulding

Corporate Lending: Sarah Spurling

Corporate Tax: John Skoulding

Cyber Risk and Complex Investigations: Joe Hancock

Data Theft: Robert Wynn Jones

Real Estate Development: Nick Minkoff

Director & Shareholder Disputes: Victoria Pigott

Education: Robert Lewis

Employment: Daniel Naftalin

Employment Tax, Remuneration & Incentives: Stephen Diosi

Entrepreneurs: Chris Keen

Families in Business: Susan Breen

Family: Kate Clark

Fashion & Retail: Sally Britton

Finance & Banking Disputes: Mark Whelan

Flotations & Corporate Finance: Ross Bryson

Fraud: Hugo Plowman

Funds & Financial Services: Charlotte Wilson

Immigration: Steven Bostock

India: Kamal Rahman

Information Technology: Adam Rose

Insolvency & Recoveries: Danny Davis

Insurance Litigation: Richard Leedham

Intellectual Property: Jeremy Hertzog

International Arbitration: Greg Falkof

International Franchising & Brand Extension: Lewis Cohen

Israel: James Libson

Latin America: Adam Rose

Litigation: Hugo Plowman

LLPs & Partnerships: Nick Davis

Mediation: Richard Leedham

Mergers & Acquisitions: Charlie Fletcher

Planning & Environment: Anita Rivera

Private Equity: Nadim Meer

Private Commercial Litigation: Janet Tobin

Professional Negligence: Richard Gerstein

Property Litigation: Daniel Levy

Public Advocacy: James Libson

Real Estate Finance: Nick Strutt

Real Estate Investment: Stephen Hughes

Real Estate Taxation: Jonathan Legg

Recruitment Services: Nick Davis

Regulatory & Compliance: Adam Epstein

Reputation Protection: Emma Woollcott

Residential Property: James Liffen

Shareholder Activism: Saul Sender

Sports: Simon Leaf

Supervising Solicitors: Hugo Plowman

Tax & Wealth Planning: Charlie Sosna

Trade Marks: Sally Britton

Trusts & Succession Disputes: Mark Keenan

White Collar Crime & Investigations: Johanna Walsh

Wills: Charlie Sosna