Gordons Partnership - Meet The Team
We have a reputation for never being stuffy, and always taking a practical approach. We have a reputation for never being stuffy, and always taking a practical approach.
Grant, Partner Neil | 01483 451900 neil@gordonsols.co.uk Bowker, Solicitor Lucy | 01483 397618 lucy@gordonsols.co.uk has worked as a regulatory lawyer in the health and social care sector for over Neil five years, developing a national reputation in dealing with complex large-scale twenty often involving multiple agencies such as the Care Quality Commission, local enquiries and the police. authorities approach is both strategic and evidence based, aimed at resolving and improving Neil’s in the interests of service users, providers and other stakeholders. Although Neil matters acts for providers, not regulators, commissioners or service users, his advice is only by having acted in the past for inspectorates and other public bodies at a very informed level. He also has a particular interest in Regulatory Policy and how it impacts on senior sector, not always benevolently. the terms of operational matters, Neil is experienced in dealing with all types of regulatory In contractual action taken against providers, including cancellation of registration, and regulatory prosecutions, safeguarding and commissioning disputes. and above his litigation experience, Neil is also a non-contentious lawyer who can Over on technical registration issues and undertake due diligence as part of advise transactions. Timely and informed legal advice is essential to the successful commercial of any operation but particularly in the care sector. Please feel free to call Neil running today for a preliminary chat. Hunneyball, Consultant Susan | 01483 451900 susan@gordonsols.co.uk is a solicitor with considerable experience in advising healthcare clients. She Susan Gordons from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP in September 2019. joined professional discipline matters Susan represents pharmacists in proceedings before In General Pharmaceutical Council, and advises on appeals from that body to the High the She represents healthcare professionals in conduct issues involving NHS England. Court. also has expertise in relation to appeals to the First Tier Tribunal. She is regularly Susan in applications for inclusion in the Pharmaceutical List (market entry instructed and appeals to NHS Resolution, acting as solicitor advocate in the latter. applications) advises on legal issues for care homes; including CQC requirements and Susan management issues. She advises on inquests, public and administrative law medicines judicial review) and acts for healthcare clients in relation to prosecutions, (including high value fraud, brought by the CPS and other prosecuting agencies. Susan has mainly also had involvement with fatal accident claims and HSE investigations. 2015 Susan was appointed to an MHRA advisory board (Advisory Board for the In of Homeopathic Products) and has since also been appointed to the MHRA Registration Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group. did a History and Society degree at the University of Exeter before converting to Lucy and undertaking her LPC. Law worked in law firms in Oxford and London as a Paralegal before moving to She and joining Gordons’ Healthcare Department in February 2019. She now Guildford works as a paralegal specialising in regulatory law in the health and social care sector.
Bull, Solicitor Ben | 020 7421 9421 benjamin@gordonsols.co.uk Barter, Partner Jude | 020 7421 942 jude@gordonsols.co.uk Gordon, Partner James | 020 7421 9421 james@gordonsols.co.uk is a history graduate who converted to law prior to joining Gordons as a paralegal Ben September 2016. Ben commenced his training contract in 2017 and qualified as a in solicitor in March 2019. He is based in our London office. advises clients as part of our Corporate and Commercial department as well as Ben for providers as part of the Health and Social Care department. acting works on both contentious and non-contentious commercial issues from advising on Ben acquisitions and disposals, commercial contracts and company financing, to company representing clients at hearings before the High and County Courts. regulatory practice has seen him represent providers in the health and social care Ben’s on matters ranging from; cancellation of registration, safeguarding and sector commissioning disputes, inquests and non-contentious registration issues. studied law at Oxford University before spending two years at one of the big four James securities houses. He trained at Linklaters and subsequently worked for them in Japanese New York and Tokyo. In 1994, he left Linklaters to become one of the founding London, of Gordons. As well as being a solicitor since 1988, he was admitted as an partners attorney and counsellor at law at the Bar of the State of New York in 1990. is a highly rated corporate and banking lawyer based in our London office. His James is in banking, securities, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, joint expertise and commercial tie-ups generally. He is much sought after by clients for the ventures of his expertise, knowledge and experience, along with his ability to match the depth service provided by the ‘bigger guns’ of the corporate world. completed her first degree in Drama and Comparative Literature at the University of Jude She spent a number of years working in the financial sector before converting to Kent. She joined Gordons as a trainee in 1998, qualified in 2000 and became a partner in law. She is based in our London office. 2007. specialises in company, commercial and employment law. Her particular commercial Jude is in dealing with venture capital, private equity investment and acquisitions expertise disposals. She also practices in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious and law. She provides day to day support for a number of large employers and employment her measured, patient advice is appreciated by employers and employees alike.
Grant, Partner<br />
Neil<br />
| 01483 451900<br />
neil@gordonsols.co.uk<br />
Bowker, Solicitor<br />
Lucy<br />
| 01483 397618<br />
lucy@gordonsols.co.uk<br />
has worked as a regulatory lawyer in the health and social care sector for over<br />
Neil<br />
five years, developing a national reputation in dealing with complex large-scale<br />
twenty<br />
often involving multiple agencies such as the Care Quality Commission, local<br />
enquiries<br />
and the police.<br />
authorities<br />
approach is both strategic and evidence based, aimed at resolving and improving<br />
Neil’s<br />
in the interests of service users, providers and other stakeholders. Although Neil<br />
matters<br />
acts for providers, not regulators, commissioners or service users, his advice is<br />
only<br />
by having acted in the past for inspectorates and other public bodies at a very<br />
informed<br />
level. He also has a particular interest in Regulatory Policy and how it impacts on<br />
senior<br />
sector, not always benevolently.<br />
the<br />
terms of operational matters, Neil is experienced in dealing with all types of regulatory<br />
In<br />
contractual action taken against providers, including cancellation of registration,<br />
and<br />
regulatory prosecutions, safeguarding and commissioning disputes.<br />
and above his litigation experience, Neil is also a non-contentious lawyer who can<br />
Over<br />
on technical registration issues and undertake due diligence as part of<br />
advise<br />
transactions. Timely and informed legal advice is essential to the successful<br />
commercial<br />
of any operation but particularly in the care sector. Please feel free to call Neil<br />
running<br />
today for a preliminary chat.<br />
Hunneyball, Consultant<br />
Susan<br />
| 01483 451900<br />
susan@gordonsols.co.uk<br />
is a solicitor with considerable experience in advising healthcare clients. She<br />
Susan<br />
<strong>Gordons</strong> from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP in September 2019.<br />
joined<br />
professional discipline matters Susan represents pharmacists in proceedings before<br />
In<br />
General Pharmaceutical Council, and advises on appeals from that body to the High<br />
the<br />
She represents healthcare professionals in conduct issues involving NHS England.<br />
Court.<br />
also has expertise in relation to appeals to the First Tier Tribunal. She is regularly<br />
Susan<br />
in applications for inclusion in the Pharmaceutical List (market entry<br />
instructed<br />
and appeals to NHS Resolution, acting as solicitor advocate in the latter.<br />
applications)<br />
advises on legal issues for care homes; including CQC requirements and<br />
Susan<br />
management issues. She advises on inquests, public and administrative law<br />
medicines<br />
judicial review) and acts for healthcare clients in relation to prosecutions,<br />
(including<br />
high value fraud, brought by the CPS and other prosecuting agencies. Susan has<br />
mainly<br />
also had involvement with fatal accident claims and HSE investigations.<br />
2015 Susan was appointed to an MHRA advisory board (Advisory Board for the<br />
In<br />
of Homeopathic Products) and has since also been appointed to the MHRA<br />
Registration<br />
Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group.<br />
did a History and Society degree at the University of Exeter before converting to<br />
Lucy<br />
and undertaking her LPC.<br />
Law<br />
worked in law firms in Oxford and London as a Paralegal before moving to<br />
She<br />
and joining <strong>Gordons</strong>’ Healthcare Department in February 2019. She now<br />
Guildford<br />
works as a paralegal specialising in regulatory law in the health and social care sector.
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