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This year's North West 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

  • Paul Johnson

    Paul is a partner in the corporate department and deals with a wide range of corporate matters including Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity, acting for management and institutions.

    Paul regularly acts for owner-managed businesses and has a particular interest in family-owned companies.

    Contact Paul

  • Sean FitzGerald

    Sean is a Corporate Partner with more than 30 years’ experience advising on a wide range of deals. He provides legal advice to clients undertaking transactions including sales, acquisitions, mergers, investments and private equity deals.

    Contact Sean

  • Caroline Shafar

    Caroline has over 20 years’ experience of acting primarily for employers in both the private and public sector.

    Caroline’s expertise is in supporting Boards and HR teams with strategy, difficult employees, challenging situations, investigations and complex and high value litigation in the Employment Tribunal, Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal. Her focus is on finding alternative and creative solutions for her clients to avoid unnecessary and costly disputes.

    Contact Caroline

  • 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

  • Laura Darnley

    Laura is a Partner in our Employment department. She has extensive experience in advising clients in relation to all of their “people” related needs . She specialises in advising on business immigration issues to help clients recruit and retain the best talent from across the world.

    Contact Laura

  • Margaret Evans

    Margaret has acted and advised a wide range of clients for over 25 years in all aspects of corporate legal work with particular focus on corporate transactions for owner managed businesses.

    Contact Margaret

  • Lesley Fairclough

    Lesley has over 30 years’ experience in development work and specialises in commercial and residential development including joint venture and regeneration projects and has co-ordinated several complex site assembly transactions.

    Contact Lesley

  • Susan Honeyands

    Susan is a commercial solicitor with over 30 years’ experience working with a wide range of clients across all industry sectors, although she specialises in supporting clients in the leisure and retail sectors.

    Contact Susan

  • Matthew O’Brien

    Matthew is a partner in the Real Estate team acting for a range of clients in the fields of development and investment, asset management and real estate finance.

    Contact Matthew

  • Nick Wells

    Nick is a commercial litigation specialist, highly ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, with significant experience and expertise in complex commercial contract disputes.

    Contact Nick

  • Melanie Yeomans

    Melanie is a partner in the Corporate department. She specialises in venture capital work as well as regularly advising clients on M&A and corporate restructuring matters.

    Contact Melanie

  • Grahame Love

    Grahame is a partner in our Corporate Recovery & Insolvency team.

    Contact Grahame

  • Sonia Burgess

    Sonia is a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with significant experience in respect of intellectual property matters.

    Contact Sonia

  • Oliver Bagnall

    Oliver specialises in all areas of non-contentious real estate, with a particular emphasis on residential property development.

    Contact Oliver

  • Charlotte Nuttall

    Charlotte is a legal director specialising exclusively in employment law. Charlotte has over 12 years’ experience of acting predominantly for employers within the private sector, with particular experience in the manufacturing, leisure & hospitality, tech, storage and care sectors.

    Contact Charlotte

  • David Burrows

    David is an Associate in the Matrimonial Team. David receives instructions from clients seeking advice on a wealth of issues which can arise following the breakdown of a relationship. David also advises clients in relation to fertility law, particularly connected with surrogacy.

    Contact David

  • Rachel Clarkson

    Rachel is a Director in our Corporate team. Rachel regularly advises owner-managed businesses, SMEs and family companies across a broad spectrum of industry sectors in dealing with a range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and investments and company re-organisations, restructures and refinancing.

    Contact Rachel

  • Emma Collins

    Emma is a Managing Associate in our Real Estate Team. Emma acts for a wide range of clients across all sectors. She advises on Landlord and Tenant, Real Estate Finance and Acquisitions and Disposals.

    Contact Emma

  • Fameeda Shafiq

    Fameeda is an experienced regulatory lawyer with particular expertise in professional discipline and court of protection matters.

    Fameeda has extensive experience in advising regulatory bodies and those who are regulated, particularly within the healthcare and social care sector. She regularly advises NHS clients in relation to court of protection and medical treatment matters.

    Contact Fameeda

  • Rachael Longman

    Rachael Longman is an associate in our Family & Matrimonial team. Rachael provides advice and assistance in relation to divorce, associated financial matters, and issues relating to children.

    Contact Rachael

  • Melissa Munday

    Melissa works in general commercial dispute resolution and has over 20 year’s experience in her particular specialism of commercial, marine and insurance litigation.

    Contact Melissa

  • Phil Parker

    Phil is a Legal 500 recognised Director in our property litigation team with over 20 years experience advising and acting in relation to commercial property disputes and the management of risk associated with land occupation and ownership.

    Contact Phil

  • Nik Patel

    Nik has over 15 years of experience in insolvency law with an emphasis on contentious insolvency.

    Contact Nik

  • Sarah Crawford

    Sarah is a Solicitor in the Family and Matrimonial team. Sarah advises on a wide variety of cases including divorce and civil partnership dissolutions, the financial aspects of a separation, drafting pre-nuptial, post nuptial and cohabitation agreements, private children disputes and surrogacy and fertility law.

    Contact Sarah

  • Mridvika Elliott

    Mridvika is a Solicitor in the Commercial team, who assists clients with a broad range of commercial matters.

    Contact Mridvika

  • Danny Costello

    Danny has been at Ward Hadaway for over 8 years and has previously worked in our plots sales team acting for national and regional housebuilders disposing of new build homes.

    More recently Danny has moved into our land acquisitions and development team where he acts for residential and commercial developers on residential, commercial and mixed use development projects.

    Contact Danny

  • Mia Armstrong

    Mia is a trainee solicitor, currently working in our employment team.

    Contact Mia

  • Lucy Evans

    Lucy is a paralegal in our corporate team.

    Contact Lucy