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Lovells welcomes press enquiries about cases, transactions and current legal issues and, wherever possible, will respond promptly with information and comment.

The following is a list of contact names for the main areas of legal practice, key management functions and the firm's international network.  If you need help identifying an appropriate contact, or if someone is not available when you call, please telephone the press office in London.

Press Office

Stephen Rowe
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7296 2780
Email: stephen.rowe@lovells.com

Fred Banning
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7296 2860
Email: fred.banning@lovells.com

Nuala Kane
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7296 2539
Email: nuala.kane@lovells.com

Karen Snell
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7296 2076
Email: karen.snell@lovells.com

Head of Corporate Communications

Chris Hinze

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7296 2745
Email: chris.hinze@lovells.com

All reside at:

Lovells LLP
Atlantic House
Holborn Viaduct
London, EC1A 2FG

Competition and EU Law
Competition: Susan Bright
Competition Disputes: Matthew Levitt
EU Law: Christopher Thomas
Freedom of Information:  Paul Dacam
Public Law and Policy:  Paul Dacam
Public Procurement: Ciara Kennedy-Loest
State Aid: Jacques Derenne

Corporate
Advertising and Marketing: Andrew Skipper
Commercial Law: Andrew Skipper
Consumer Finance: Emily Reid
Corporate Governance: Richard Ufland
Corporate Insurance: Charles Rix , John Young
Environment and Climate Change:  Christopher Norton
Equity Capital Markets: Richard Brown
Financial Services: Rachel Kent
Health and Safety : Magnus Burrough
Mergers and Acquisitions: Andrew Pearson, Nigel Read , Richard Ufland
Private Equity: Alan Greenough
Regulatory: Andrew Skipper
US Securities: Katherine Mulhern

Dispute Resolution
General Dispute Resolution: Patrick Sherrington
Corporate and Commercial Bank Disputes: Jon Holland
Financial Services and Regulatory Disputes: Ailbhe Edgar
Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes: Christian Wells
International Arbitration:  Michael Davison
International Fraud and Insolvency:  Crispin Rapinet
Investment Bank and Fund Disputes:  Graham Huntley
Pension and Trust Fund Disputes:  Angela Dimsdale-Gill , Nicholas Heaton
Product Liability:  John Meltzer , Rod Freeman
Professional Indemnity:  John Trotter

Employment and Employee Share Incentives  
Employee Share Incentives: Louise Whitewright
Employment: Thomas Ubber

Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
Building and Engineering Projects:  John Gerszt
Energy Disputes:  David Moss
Energy Regulatory:  Richard Tyler
Energy Transactional Work and M&A:  John Cooper
Oil and Gas:  Richard Tyler
Power:  Tony Marshall
Refineries, Petrochemicals and Process Plants:  Andreas Meyer
Utilities:  Steven Bryan

Finance  
Banking: Matthew Cottis
Business Restructuring and Insolvency:  Robin Spencer
Capital Markets and Securitisation:  David Hudd
Islamic Finance:  Rahail Ali
Leveraged and Acquisition Finance:  Matthew Cottis
Project Finance:  Adrian Walker
Structured Commodities and Export Finance:  Andrew Gamble

Intellectual Property  
Brands and Trade marks:  Verena von Bomhard
Copyright and Databases:  Quentin Archer , David Latham
Domain Names:  David Taylor
Intellectual Property Disputes:  Andreas von Falck
Intellectual Property Transactions:  Stephen Bennett
Patents:  Robert Anderson , Stephen Bennett
Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences: Adam Cooke Nicholas Macfarlane

Pensions
Pensions:  Jane Samsworth

Real Estate  
Commercial Real Estate:  Robert Kidby , Michael Stancombe
Planning:  Michael Gallimore
Real Estate Disputes:  Nicholas Cheffings

Tax  
Direct Tax:  Philip Gershuny
Indirect Tax:  Greg Sinfield
Tax Disputes: Greg Sinfield

Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Defamation:  Paul Dacam
E-commerce:  Quentin Archer
Media and Entertainment:  Paul Dacam , David Latham
Privacy and Data Protection:  Quentin Archer
Technology Contracts and Outsourcing:  Quentin Archer
Technology Disputes: Conor Ward
Telecoms:  Conor Ward


Management Issues
Strategy:  David Harris
Partnership issues:  John Young
People Development:  Ruth Grant
Graduate Recruitment:  Lawson Caisley
Training : Christopher Stoakes
Career Development : Clare Harris
Human Resources : Kay Willis
Pro Bono: Crispin Rapinet

Regions
Asia:  Crispin Rapinet
Continental Europe:  Christoph Kueppers
UK:  Andrew Gamble
USA:  Marc Gottridge

Offices

Asia
Beijing:  Robert Lewis
Dubai:  Nick Parden, Rahail Ali
Hanoi:  Greg Buhyoff
Ho Chi Minh City:  Nasir PKM Abdul
Hong Kong:  Allan Leung
Shanghai:  Douglas Clark
Singapore:  James Harris
Tokyo:  Lloyd Parker

Continental Europe
Alicante:  Verena von Bomhard
Amsterdam:  Klaas Bisschop
Brussels:  Jacques Derenne
Dusseldorf:  Erhard Keller
Frankfurt:  Hans-Peter Loew
Hamburg:  Eckard Schwarz
Madrid:  Jose Maria Balana
Milan:  Marco Rota Candiani
Moscow:  Oxana Balayan
Munich:  Stefan Schuppert
Paris:  Philippe Thomas
Prague:  Miroslav Dubovsky
Rome:  Fulvia Astolfi
Warsaw:  Beata Balas-Noszczyk

UK
London:  Andrew Gamble

USA
Chicago:  David Linder
New York:  Pieter Van Tol

Associated Offices
Budapest:  Laszlo Partos
Zagreb:  Tin Dolicki