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This year's North East Fastest 50 Awards were a great success and it was fantastic to see so many of you attend the ceremony.

Many of the Ward Hadaway team were in attendance at the awards and thoroughly enjoyed meeting you. They are available to continue any conversations you were having or to answer any of your queries. Below we have provided some mini profiles to help you put faces to names.

If you would like to connect with any other attendee from the awards, we would be more than happy to facilitate an introduction. Please email events@wardhadaway.com and we will be in touch.

Ward Hadaway attendees

  • Damien Charlton

    Damien is a highly experienced lawyer, who has been advising businesses on company and commercial matters for over 20 years. He is the Head of the Commercial Department and advises clients on a national basis.

    Contact Damien

  • Nick Gholkar

    Nick is the Executive Partner for our Newcastle Office and a partner in our Built Environment team.

    Nick advises on all aspects of Real Estate matters. Nick has extensive experience in acting on acquisitions, disposals, development, leasing and financing of Real Estate assets.

    Contact Nick

  • Richard Butts

    Richard has been at Ward Hadaway for over 20 years, the last 12 of which as a partner.

    He has extensive experience in advising on the full range of corporate transactions, but with a particular specialism of advising growing business on funding matters and advising fund managers on investment transactions, including advising on fund structures and associated documentation.

    Contact Richard

     

     

  • Imogen Holland

    Imogen is a Partner in the Corporate department at Ward Hadaway. She qualified in 2003 having trained at Ward Hadaway.

    She advises on banking, funding and corporate matters and has provided advice to both lenders and borrowers in a range of areas including acquisition finance, development and project finance. Imogen also advises on corporate matters including acquisitions and disposals and private equity transactions.

    Contact Imogen

  • James Nightingale

    James is a Partner in the Corporate team with over 15 years of experience of advising on all aspects of corporate finance work with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investments, reorganisations and restructurings.

    Contact James

  • Graham Vials

    Graham is a Partner and heads up the Education team at Ward Hadaway, leading a large team of lawyers across our offices who are dedicated and passionate about providing a full range of legal services to the education sector.

    Contact Graham

  • Gillian Chinhengo

    Gillian is a Partner in our Employment Unit. Gillian is an experienced and trusted employment lawyer, working across a broad spectrum of employment law matters, including TUPE, large scale reorganization/redundancy, discrimination issues and unfair dismissal.

    Contact Gillian

  • Paul Scope

    Paul is an experienced employment lawyer who deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment issues, focusing on pragmatic and commercial solutions wherever possible.

    Contact Paul

  • Jamie Gamble

    Jamie is a partner within the Employment Team and head of the Newcastle employment unit at Ward Hadaway, he has specialised in employment law since 2002.

    Contact Jamie

  • Lesley Fairclough

    Lesley specialises in commercial property development work.

    Since qualifying as a solicitor in 1992, Lesley has worked in the Commercial Property Team at Ward Hadaway dealing with all aspects of commercial property work, but in particular development work (residential, commercial and mixed use schemes) acting for either landowners or developers.

    Contact Lesley

  • Matthew Cormack

    Matt is a Partner in the commercial team at Ward Hadaway, based in the Newcastle office, and acts for a wide range of clients from large multi-national corporate clients to early stage businesses.

    Contact Matthew

  • Richard Arnot

    Richard specialises in licensing and regulatory law, and heads our licensing team.

    Contact Richard

  • Tom Pollard

    Tom is a Partner in the Corporate department advising clients on acquisitions, disposals, investments, MBOs/MBIs, corporate structures and reorganisations.

    Contact Tom

  • Steven Roper

    Steven is a Partner in the commercial team. His practice covers a wide range of business clients, from local businesses to household-name multinationals, advising on commercial contracts and corporate governance issues. Steven also leads Ward Hadaway’s Transport and Infrastructure team.

    Contact Steven

  • Robert Eldon

    Robert is a senior and experienced litigator having over 20 years of expertise handling a wide range of disputes for private, commercial, and public sector clients, and is recognised in Legal 500 as a leading individual

    Contact Robert

  • Russell Ward

    Russell is an experienced commercial litigator of over 15 years’ experience, and who splits his time between Ward Hadaway’s Newcastle and Leeds offices.

    Having trained with the firm and qualified into the commercial litigation team in September 2006, Russell has risen through the ranks and joined the Partnership in May 2015.

    Contact RussellÂ