Lucy Frazer QC MP was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice on 9 January 2018. Lucy was elected the Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire in 2015.

Her ministerial responsibilities include court services and reform, legal aid, family justice, and criminal law.

Lucy has previously sat on the Education Committee (Jul 2015 – May 2017) and the Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee (Nov 2015 -  Sept 2016). 

Lucy practised as a barrister and was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2013.

Simon Davis is a senior litigator at the London office of Clifford Chance after qualifying in 1984.

He joined the firm in 1982 and made partner in 1994.  He was the firm’s recruitment partner between 1995 and 2000, and spent a year as president of the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association.

He won the 2017 presidential election and will be the first magic circle solicitor to take office since John Wotton, a consultant at Allen & Overy, who served in 2011-12.

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Dominic is a barrister and has been the MP for Beaconsfield since 1997.  He was the Shadow Attorney General from 2003-09, Shadow Home Secretary from 2008-09 and Shadow Justice Secretary from 2009-10.

Under the Coalition Government Dominic was the Attorney General for England and Wales and the Advocate General for Northern Ireland until July 2014. 

Dominic was educated at Westminster School and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied Modern History. Then he studied Law. He was called to the Bar in 1980 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2008. He is a bencher of his Inn of Court, the Middle Temple.

During the 1980s, Dominic served as a local councillor in Fulham. He was Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers between 1992 and 1997.

Dominic was elected Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee in September 2015.  He has been a Member of the Standards and Privileges Committee and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers from 2015 to 2017. He is the President of the Franco-British Society and Vice-Chairman of the Franco-British Council. He is Honorary Recorder of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, a member of the Council of Management of Ditchley Park and a Trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

Dominic is bilingual in French.  Married to Caroline, a barrister. They have two adult sons: James and Hugo.

Lord Thomas read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the University of Chicago Law School and was called to the bar by Gray’s Inn.   He practiced at the Commercial Bar in London from 1972 to 1996, becoming a QC in 1984. He was appointed to the High Court of England and Wales in 1996. He was successively a Presiding Judge in Wales, Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, a Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Queen’s Bench Division and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2013 - 2017). He was  a founder of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary and its President from 2008-2010.  He is currently Chairman of the Commission on Justice in Wales,  Chairman of the London Financial Markets Law Committee and President of the Qatar International Court. He also sits in the House of Lords. He has returned to Essex Court Chambers where he practices as an arbitrator. He is Chancellor of the Aberystwyth University. He is a founder member of the European Law Institute and is currently a member of its Executive Committee.

Jonathan Djanogly has been Member of Parliament for the Huntingdon constituency since 2001.  He qualified as a solicitor, joining City law firm S J Berwin LLP, becoming a partner specialising in corporate law and corporate governance.

Before election to Parliament, Jonathan served as a Councillor on Westminster City Council.  In the Commons, Jonathan served on the Select Committee for Trade and Industry and was appointed Shadow Minister for Home, Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Shadow Solicitor General and also Shadow Minister Trade and Industry with specific responsibility for corporate governance and employment law.

During the Coalition government, Jonathan served as a Justice Minister with responsibility for the courts, legal aid and civil law.   Jonathan is now a member of the Committee on Exiting the European Union, joint Chairman of the Corporate Responsibility, Chairman of the Corporate Governance and co-Chairman of the Legal and Constitutional All Party Parliamentary Groups.

Jonathan became co-chair of the Task Force Europe section of the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce (BSCC) in 2015 and Chairman of the British Shooting Sports Council (BSSC) in 2017.

Bernardine Adkins is Head of Gowling WLG's EU, Trade and Competition practice.  Consistently recognised as a 'leading individual' by the legal directories, Bernardine is described in Chambers as a "heavyweight antitrust specialist", and has been named as one of The Lawyer's "Hot 100".  A graduate of the College of Europe, Bruges, she has a wealth of some 30 years' EU, trade and competition law experience in both Brussels and London, successfully guiding transactions through the European Commission and UK competition authorities.  In November 2017, Bernardine was invited to give evidence to the International Trade Committee of the House of Commons on the Trade Bill.  She also enjoys a reputation as an innovative litigator, acting on a range of high-profile and complex cases before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court; last month winning the Global Competition Reporter's award for 'Competition Litigation - Cartel Defence 2018' in relation to the Air Cargo $ billion claim.  Bernardine was recently named as a leading expert in Euromoney's Women in Business Law and is also on the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum, at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, a member of the EU Competition Policy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union.

Alison is the Society’s President and Chair of the Board.  Alison was previously Convenor of the Client Protection sub committee and she recently retired as Partner at Lindsays,  During her time at Lindsays, Alison dealt  with a variety of clients using her natural ability to guide them through complex areas of the law including property and agriculture, Business and Agricultural Relief for large estates, sales of Fishings and Trusts relating to small business succession and legal rights claims with complicated calculations.  She enjoyed helping families, dealing with every generation, and providing expert direction through all of life’s challenges.

During her first six months as President, Alison has been involved in promoting the Profile of the Profession Survey; contributing to the Roberton Review on the Regulation of Legal Services and discussing this with the Scottish Government; pressing for changes to payments for legal aid work as part of the overall Legal Aid Review, and meeting stakeholders and members to promote the work of the Law Society in Scotland and to hear members’ views.

Things Alison likes to do when not working - walking, skiing, music particularly opera, reading and travelling.

Rebecca Bailey-Harris was academic for thirty years before changing career to family law practice. She taught law at Lincoln College Oxford and the University of Adelaide before being appointed as Foundation Professor and Dean of Law at the Flinders University of South Australia. Rebecca was a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.  In 1994 she returned to England for family reasons and was appointed Professor at the University of Bristol, where she became Dean of Law. Rebecca was called to the Bar in 2000, practiced part time since 2002 and full time since 2005 from 1 Hare Court, Temple. Rebecca specialises in international jurisdictional disputes, financial remedy and cohabitation cases.  She has been counsel in a number of reported decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal in jurisdiction disputes both within the EU and worldwide. Rebecca is a member of the Brexit & Family Law Group which represents the FLBA, Resolution and the IAML. She gave oral evidence to the House of Lords EU Justice Sub- Committee on 6 December 2016 for the Report Brexit: justice for families, individuals and businesses? (HL Paper 134) and again on 22 May 2018. Rebecca is an editor of the Family Law Reports, a case commentator for Family Law and a consultant editor of International Family Law.

Eric Benedict leads the UK business of AlixPartners, the global consulting firm which helps companies address their most urgent challenges. Eric and the UK team support the boards of clients such as FTSE100 companies and leading global private equity and law firms to navigate their way through the current unprecedented change and uncertainty. Eric took the helm of AlixPartners in the UK in 2015 and carries responsibility for the topline growth and the profitability of the UK Practice. The London Office is the largest in the AlixPartners worldwide network with some 400 employees.

Eric joined AlixPartners in 2008 and set up the AlixPartners Practice in the Middle East, based in Dubai. Since returning to the UK in 2012, he has played a leading role in the successful integration of Zolfo Cooper and is now focused on driving strategic growth in key sectors of AlixPartners’ expertise, such as TMT, retail, consumer goods, aerospace and defence, and industrials. AlixPartners has turnaround, business improvement, regulatory affairs and digital transformation experts based in London and Manchester. Eric draws on more than 28 years’ experience as a turnaround and performance improvement professional, in both advisory and line management roles. He collaborates with management, boards and financial sponsors, firstly, to diagnose causes of underperformance, and then to work hands-on to improve operating and financial health. He has worked extensively across sectors and geographies. Eric regularly speaks at conferences and panels on a range of business matters, recently including the future of TMT and how best to share expertise between corporates and PE.

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Dr Anna Bradshaw is a Partner in the Business Crime team at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP, where she advises on all aspects of financial crime and economic sanctions enforcement and compliance.  She is experienced in cross-border investigations and regularly represents clients who are the subject of mutual legal assistance and extradition requests, as well as INTERPOL notices.
 
She has been a member of the Law Society’s EU Committee since 2011 and has in that capacity provided oral evidence to a number of Parliamentary select committee inquiries on topics related to EU criminal law.  Her doctoral thesis explored the impact of EU anti-money laundering legislation on the legal profession in England and Wales.

Mark is a Partner in the Derivatives & Structured Products Group in Linklaters' London Office. He previously worked in the Firm's Hong Kong and Tokyo Offices. Mark has over 25 years’ experience in the field of structured finance and derivatives. Mark acts as counsel to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association on the legal and documentary aspects of Brexit and is advising a number of banks on the impact of Brexit on their derivatives businesses. He is a regular speaker at conferences on the legal implications of Brexit.

Michael Burd is the Chair of Lewis Silkin and a partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward department. He also sits on the Executive Committee of Ius Laboris, the global alliance of human resources law firms of which Lewis Silkin are the UK member.

He advises on many aspects of employment and partnership law, with a particular focus on the resolution of high level disputes (including through mediation and arbitration), senior level departures, boardroom issues, business transfers and restructuring.  He also provides advice aimed at preventing employment disputes and ensuring compliance with statutory regulations.

Much of his work has an international element to it, dealing with both UK clients’ employment law needs globally and with UK issues for clients in numerous other jurisdictions.

He has been consistently listed as a leading individual in the Employment and Senior Executive fields in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners directories.  He is listed in the top five Thought Leaders by Who's Who: Labour and Employment 2017, for receiving the highest number of nominations by peers, corporate counsel and other market sources; and is also recognised for the 10th consecutive year in The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom 2018 for Employment Law. Michael is also listed in the 2019 edition of The Spear’s 500 guide.

He contributes articles to various publications and regularly speaks at client and industry conferences and seminars.

Gary Campkin, Managing Director, External Relations & Strategic Issues. He joined TheCityUK in 2013 as Director, International Strategy.  From 2016 he was Director, Policy & Strategy, taking over this new role in 2018.  He has led work on multilateral and bilateral trade and investment, government support for business overseas, CSR, human rights and globalisation issues. Gary has extensive experience of international negotiations and delegations, governance and reputational issues. His leadership roles in international business organisations have included 8 years as Chairman of the Multinationals and Investment Committee of the Business, and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD.  Prior to TheCityUK, Gary gained wide business experience with over 25 years working at the CBI, including 15 years as Head of the International Group, and as an independent consultant.

Kurt is Head of Legal, Europe, at Standard Chartered Bank, where he has led the legal and regulatory workstreams for Brexit preparations. He has extensive experience in financial services, with a background in derivatives, structured products and cross border projects. Before joining Standard Chartered, Kurt worked at UBS and a number of European banks.

Stephen Denyer is Director of Strategic Relationships at The Law Society of England & Wales. He is responsible for all the Society’s strategic relationships with leading stakeholders in private practice, in ‘new law’ enterprises and working in-house as well as with local law societies, governments, universities and law schools in the UK and internationally; and for promoting London as a global legal hub. 
 
Prior to joining the Law Society in 2014, Stephen spent more than 36 years with Allen & Overy.  During his career with that firm he was responsible for establishing, expanding or managing 11 of the firm's international offices and had management responsibility for teams comprising several hundred fee earners and support staff from many different countries. His experience with the firm encompassed downsizing and spin offs as well as growth and integration. He oversaw mergers and associations with other law firms some of which involved multiple offices comprising large legal teams. Throughout his career Stephen has been at the forefront of the globalisation of legal services. With an extensive track record of creating bonds with lawyers and law firms from different jurisdictions and cultures, he played an instrumental role in the internationalisation of both Allen & Overy and of legal practice. He is also an author, commentator and strategic advisor as well as a respected manager and leader.
 
Stephen is a member of the Management Board of the International Bar Association.  He is also a member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Robert Elliott is Chair of the Brexit Law Committee. Robert completed a five-year term as Chairman and Senior Partner of Linklaters LLP, the global law firm in October 2016 after a 25-year career at the firm specialising in banking and corporate restructuring work. He continues part time with the firm as Chairman Emeritus and Partner. Prior to joining Linklaters in 1990, Robert was a solicitor with Wilde Sapte where he was promoted to partner in 1981. He became Chairman of Permanent TSB, the listed Irish retail and SME bank, from the end of March 2017 and was appointed Chairman of Saranac Partners, the wealth management advisory firm in 2017. Robert also serves as a non-executive director on a number companies and charities.

Conservative MP for Harborough 1992-2017; House of Lords 2018-. Called to the Bar 1976; Northern Ireland Bar 2010; Queen’s Counsel 1995; Crown Court Recorder 1998-2015; Bencher of the Middle Temple 2001; Bencher Northern Ireland Inn of Court 2010. He practises as a Media and Information Law, International Human Rights & Corporate Criminal Law specialist from 1 Brick Court, Temple, London EC4Y 9BY, where he is Head of Chambers. He is also a Consultant with DLA Piper. Visiting Parliamentary Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford 1996-97. Member of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee 1992-1994; Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to the Attorney General and Solicitor General, and to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: 1994-97.
Shadow Minister, Lord Chancellor's Department 1997-99; Shadow Attorney General 1999-2001; Shadow Home Affairs Minister 2005-07; Shadow Justice Minister 2007-09; Shadow Attorney General 2009-10.
HM Solicitor General 2010-12. Knighted 2012. Privy Council 2015.

Sarah is an experienced litigator with particular expertise in conflict of laws, state immunity issues and EU laws, representing clients in High Court litigation and arbitration proceedings. Sarah is a key member of Allen & Overy's Brexit team and has been heavily involved in advising clients on the legal implications of Brexit. Sarah sits on Allen & Overy’s Global Legal Opinions committee. Sarah is Chair of the Law Society's EU Committee and sits on the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, chaired by Lord Mance. Sarah edits the Forum Chapter of Butterworths' Encyclopaedia of Banking. In 2013 Sarah set up Putney Ladies’ Netball Club. 

Lord (Peter) Goldsmith QC, PC, is London Co-Managing Partner and Chair of European and Asian Litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton. Lord Goldsmith served as the UK’s Attorney General from 2001–2007, prior to which he was in private practice as one of the leading barristers in London. 

Lord Goldsmith acts for a variety of clients, alongside his role as chair of the firm’s European and Asian litigation practices, in arbitration and litigation in the United Kingdom and other countries. He is a QC and appears regularly in court as well as in arbitration.

Consistently acknowledged for his prominence, The American Lawyer states that “[he has] the advocacy skills of one of the finest barristers of his generation.”

Simon works in the legal team supporting Deutsche Bank AG’s investment banking business. Since joining the Bank in 2005, Simon has worked on foreign exchange, prime brokerage, structured finance, regulatory and contentious matters. This has included work on derivatives (OTC and securitised), repo, credit derivatives, loans and bespoke investor solutions. More recently Simon has been focused on regulatory implementation matters alongside his work advising on sales and trading related matters, including the FX Global Code, EMIR Margin Rules, MIFID2 implementation and Brexit related matters. This has included work on regulatory analysis, proposing changes to draft regulation and implementing the repapering of thousands of clients.

Simon’s areas of know-how interest include the practical application of law and regulation to sales and trading business, regulatory implementation more generally, repapering and electronic acceptance of contracts, security interests over dematerialised investment securities, netting, set off, guarantees and characterisation analysis of title transfer arrangements. He is also a member of various ISDA and AFME working groups as well as participating in Financial Markets Law Committee working groups from time to time. Simon contributed to the recent FMLC report on the Robustness of Financial Contracts after Brexit, addressing contract continuity issues.

David qualified in 1980, becoming a partner at Edwin Coe in 1984.  He became Senior Partner of the Firm in 2011.  David is a litigator.  He is a claimants’ practitioner and has specialised in Group claims of all natures for over 25 years in the UK and the USA.  Although in that context David undertakes some personal injury work his main focus is on commercial claims including competition claims and claims on behalf of shareholders.  He is Head of both the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and the Group Action Litigation department.
 
David is Deputy Vice President of the Law Society.  He is Chair of the Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee and the International Committee.  
 
David is well known for his work on Brexit.  He acted for one of the two claimants in the Article 50 litigation.  He also chairs the Law Society Task Force on Brexit.  As such he has written and lectured in the UK and Europe on the issues that arise in relation to Brexit and civil justice.  He has also provided evidence to the Commons and Lords on those issues.
 
David has been a member of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee and the Civil Justice Council. 
 
He is the author of and contributor to various books on civil justice and is consultant editor of the New Law Journal.

 

Chris joined Travers Smith in 1983 and was made a partner in 1987.  Chris became the firm's Senior Partner on 1 July 2013 having been Head of Corporate since 2003.  He founded the firm's Private Equity Group, one of the constituent parts of Corporate, in 1996.  Chris is a regular contributor to various legal journals and lectures, notably at Oxford University, on company and private equity related subjects.  
As Senior Partner, Chris' responsibilities include chairing and running the firm's Partnership Board and other aspects of the firm's governance, chairing the firm's Brexit Working Group and playing a leading role in the Travers Smith overseas network.  He takes a special interest in diversity and CSR matters.

Glenn joined Norton Rose Fulbright in 1992 and qualified into the Corporate Department in London, becoming a Partner in 2001. From 2002 Glenn spent five years as a resident partner in our Hong Kong office, returning to London in 2007. Glenn has acted for investment banks, corporates, financial investors and governments on a wide range of transactions including public and private M&A, IPOs, joint ventures and privatisations, as well as strategic advisory work for the Boards of various U.K. and international companies. Glenn left the firm in 2016 on his appointment by the Prime Minister as Special Adviser to the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In September 2018 he returned to the firm to lead our U.K. Government Relations and Public Policy practice. As Special Adviser, Glenn acted as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State advising him on strategic and policy issues across the Department’s portfolio including Brexit, the future of the UK’s regulatory architecture, corporate governance, consumer and insolvency reform, company law, state intervention in M&A, including the proposed new National Security and Investment regime, the formulation and implementation of the UK’s Industrial Strategy, the Matthew Taylor Report on Modern Working Practices, and the full range of energy policy, including the Clean Growth Strategy, the Helm Review, the Energy Price Cap Act and New Nuclear policy.

Paul Hardy, DLA Piper's Brexit Director, is able to provide in-depth analysis on the political, policy and legal implications of Brexit, and translate what they mean for commercial and public sector clients. Before joining DLA Piper in April 2017, he was Counsel for European Legislation in the House of Commons and EU Legal
Adviser in the House of Lords for eight years. He was previously a legal adviser in the European Commission in Brussels and a UK barrister. He has an expert understanding of how each piece of the jigsaw of EU policy and legislation fits together, an insider’s knowledge of the political and administrative processes of the negotiations, and considerable experience of how UK legislation is enacted.

Jane is an Executive Director of Aon based in the London Global Broking Centre. Jane provides risk management and loss prevention advice to Aon’s clients, in particular large international U.K. and U.S. law firms.
 
Jane is an English solicitor who has twenty-seven years' experience of working on insurance-related matters. She practised as a defendant professional indemnity and insurance policy wording lawyer before moving into law firm management in 2001. Her managerial roles at Bird & Bird LLP and in the London office of legacy U.S. firm, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP (now Squire Patton Boggs), comprised responsibility for insurance strategy and purchase, internal claims handling, regulatory and compliance and risk management issues.  

Jane has worked at Aon since 2011.  She is a frequent speaker on risk management issues and in 2014, she was a contributing author to the Globe Law and Business publication of "Risk Management in Law Firms: Strategies for Safeguarding the Future" a project of the International Bar Association.  Jane is also a qualified business coach.

Debbie is the General Counsel of Eversheds Sutherland International with responsibility across Eversheds Sutherland’s UK, European, Middle East and Asia offices. She runs the firm’s Risk & Knowledge function, including responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance, conflict management, risk and internal audit, insurance and PI claims handling and the in-house counsel team and the firm’s knowledge management and information professionals.

Debbie has been part of Eversheds’ Sutherland Brexit project team since 2016, focussing on the impact on the structure of Eversheds Sutherland’s businesses in the EU and the way the firm services its clients across the EU.

Debbie has been with the firm since a trainee. She was a Partner in the Commercial team for many years, advising on commercial relationships such as joint ventures, outsourcings, long term supply contracts and standard documentation before becoming Head of Risk & Knowledge for the Company and Commercial Practice Group and also the firm's Head of Knowledge.

Baroness Sarah Ludford has been since 1997 a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, where she is currently the party’s Europe spokesman. She was a Member of the European Parliament for London from 1999 to 2014, working mainly on EU security, justice and human rights issues and on EU foreign affairs including as vice-chair of the EP delegation to the US. A qualified barrister, Sarah Ludford has worked in Whitehall, in the European Commission and in the City for Lloyd’s of London and American Express. Sarah was a local councillor for 8 years during the 1990s in the London Borough of Islington.

Hugh practises from Essex Court Chambers in London/Singapore and Alphalex Avocats Brussels.  He was called to the Bar in 1985, took silk in 2008 and is a Bencher of Middle Temple.

He specialises in litigation involving issues of EU law, public or private international law, foreign law and public law before courts and arbitral tribunals§ in the UK, the CJEU and other EU Member States. He is involved in all main areas of litigation involving EU issues including UK Supreme Court re power of CJEU to bind national courts; Southern Rail strike; follow on competition law damages claims; Brexit challenges etc.

Chair of European Lawyers Committee, CCBE; Chair of Brexit Working Group, Bar of England and Wales; Leader of the European Circuit, a network of advocates in the EU providing advice and representation in court in cross-border cases (www.europeancircuit.com).  Chair of the CCBE Permanent Delegation to the Court of Justice of the CJEU, 2010-2015.  Co-Author, European Civil Practice, an article by article commentary on the Brussels Regulation on Jurisdiction and Judgments.

Bob Neill was born on 24th June 1952 and educated at Abbs Cross Grammar School, Hornchurch. He went on to study Law at the London School of Economics, which led to a successful career as a barrister specialising in criminal law.

After serving as a councillor in Havering, and later as a London Assembly member - during which time he led the Conservative group - Bob was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bromley & Chislehurst in a by-election in June 2006, following the sudden death of The Rt. Hon. Eric Forth. 

Shortly after entering Parliament, Bob served on the Justice Select Committee and was appointed as the Shadow London Minister, joining the Shadow Communities & Local Government team. In 2008 he was made Shadow Local Government Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. In January 2009, Bob also took over the shadow planning brief.

In May 2010, Bob was elected for a second term as MP for Bromley & Chislehurst.  He served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government until September 2012, with responsibilities for the Fire Service, Thames Gateway, the Olympics, local government and planning.  In September 2012, he was made Vice Chairman of the Conservative party for Local Government.

Bob was re-elected for a third term in May 2015, shortly after which he was elected on a cross-party basis as Chairman of Parliament’s Justice Select Committee. Following the General Election on 8 June 2017, he was returned by his colleagues to this important role. 

Bob is a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple Inn, and continues to chair a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups in Westminster, including the APPG for London and APPG for Gibraltar. 

Perkins serves as Chief Executive of the Financial Markets Law Committee (“FMLC”).  Before joining the FMLC in 2004, Joanna worked for the Law Commission and managed a project on unfair contract terms.  She has held lectureships at Durham University, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Université de Paris and Birkbeck College, University of London.  She has published articles on, inter alia, financial law, financial markets regulation and the conflict of laws, participating in a number of expert panels on these subjects at the invitation of H.M. Government and the E.U. Commission.

After completing a Doctorate in Law at Oxford University, where she worked as a college lecturer, Joanna was called to the Bar in July 2001.  In 2014-2015 she served as a Non-Executive Director of ICE Benchmark Administration Ltd and Chair Person for the Oversight Committee of ICE LIBOR.

Yasmin Qureshi MP is the Shadow Minister for Justice. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton South East in the May 2010 general election, and re-elected in 2015 and 2017.

Before becoming an MP, Ms Qureshi practised law as a Barrister. She began her legal career with the Crown Prosecution Service, prosecuting on behalf of the Crown in numerous criminal cases. She then headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo  and was selected as co-ordinator of the Criminal Legal Unit there from 2000-2001.

Since entering parliament, Ms Qureshi has sat on a variety of Select Committees including the Foreign Affairs Committee (Jul 2015 – Oct 2016), the Home Affairs Committee (Nov 2013 – Mar 2015), the Privacy and Injunctions Joint Committee (Jul 2011 – Mar 2012) and the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (July 2011 – Dec 2011).

Ms Qureshi became the Shadow Minister for Justice in October 2016.  Her responsibilities in this role include: Court Services and reform; Parliamentary matters arising from the Queen’s Speech (including the Draft Domestic Violence & Abuse Bill); Victims; Supporting the Secretary of State for Justice on EU Exit & international business; Criminal justice; Human rights; and Family justice.

Nick Rollason is a partner and head of Kingsley Napley's business immigration team, which is ranked in the top tier of leading UK directories as a “superb team of immigration lawyers” with “enormous experience and great depth of practice”. The team's dedicated immigration specialists advise clients on all areas of UK immigration and provide strategic advice to businesses on their UK, global and compliance needs. The team represents clients across a wide range of sectors including financial services, law, media, energy, consulting and technology, with clients ranging from start-ups to household-name multinationals. The team also has extensive experience in advising Tier 1 investors and entrepreneurs, internationally famous people and other high-net-worth clients and their families, including in the most complex of cases.

Nick has extensive expertise across all immigration routes, with a widely recognised breadth of knowledge enabling him and his team to offer clear solutions to complex immigration problems. He is a well-known expert in EU immigration law and has litigated key test cases before the European Court of Justice. He is regularly consulted by the UK immigration authorities on proposed changes to UK immigration rules and policy.

Nick is a regular conference speaker, press commentator and contributor to immigration publications. He is an officer of the Immigration and Nationality Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and a founding member of the European Immigration Lawyers Network (EILN). Nick is listed as a leading immigration practitioner and thought leader in Chambers UK and The Legal 500 UK and Who’s Who.

Tom is the Head of the Commercial Disputes Group at Freshfields. He has a wide-ranging practice based on managing disputes in many business sectors and involving different jurisdictions.

Tom's recent experience includes advising on the legal impacts of Brexit, a subject on which he has written and spoken about widely.  Tom sits on the Brexit Law Committee, which was established to report to HM Government on how Brexit might affect the UK legal systems, to develop Government strategies for maintaining and enhancing the utilisation after Brexit of English law and UK legal services (including all forms of dispute resolution), and to provide a forum and a resource for consideration of and reporting on legal and commercial issues relating to Brexit.

Tom is also well-known for advising on complex commercial litigation and contentious regulatory issues. He has market-leading specialist expertise in challenges to EU legislation and judicial review proceedings.

Phillip Souta is the Head of UK Public Policy and a barrister at Clifford Chance. He specialises in public policy, legislative and regulatory developments that affect financial institutions and corporates in the UK and across the EU.

His experience includes:

• Advising on trade in particular WTO law, Free Trade Agreements and Customs Union.
• Advising on a range of issues relating to Brexit, in particular on complex supply chains of multi-national corporations.
• Advising on the establishment of the Banking Standards Board, created by Sir Richard Lambert to promote high standards of ethical behaviour and competence across the UK banking industry.
• Phillip spent six months on secondment to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), working on the joint FCA/PRA consultation paper and draft rules on improving individual accountability and behaviour in the banking. These rules flow from powers enacted in the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 following the recommendations of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
• Advising the government-initiated Patient Capital Review into boosting funding for scale-up and start-up businesses in the UK.
• Advising financial institutions, corporates, industry bodies and campaigning groups on UK electoral and referendum law.
• Editing and contributing to numerous CC papers on a range of subjects with partners including the CBI, TCUK, AFME and others.
• Phillip has appeared on programmes including BBC Newsnight, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Sky News, BBC Radio Five Live and has commented in publications including the New York Times, the London Times, the Financial Times, the London Evening Standard, le Monde and le Figaro.

Phillip is a member of Chatham House, the Bar European Group, the Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association and is on the UCL European Institute's Advisory Board. He has was called to the Bar at Inner Temple and qualified in 2009.

Dan Tench is a litigator at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP in London specialising in media and public law as well as substantial commercial litigation.  He has particular expertise in data protection and the law relating to governmental and other interceptions of communications.  He acted for News International in relation to the allegations of phone hacking and for the claimants in the landmark Court of Appeal data protection decision of earlier this year in Vidal-Hall & Others v Google.  Many of his cases involved issues of international jurisdiction and governing law.

Alderman Sir David Wootton was the 684th Lord Mayor of the City of London, serving from 2011-2012. He has been an Alderman of the City of London representing the Ward of Langbourn since 2005 and served as Sheriff of the City in 2009-2010. Sir David was a lawyer, a partner in Allen & Overy LLP, the international law firm, from 1979 to 2015. He advised on corporate finance transactions, international and UK, and on law and regulation in corporate governance. He sits on the Brexit Law Committee, in which the judiciary and the legal professions advise Government on aspects of Brexit which affect the legal services sector and the practice of law. He was Co-Chairman of the Board organising the Global Law Summit in London in February 2015. He is on the Board of TheCityUK. He has been President of the City of London Law Society and is President of the City of London Branch of the Institute of Directors. He is a Magistrate on the Central London Bench.