PAUL FRIEDMAN

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PAUL FRIEDMAN

PARTNER - LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION | HEAD OF ISRAEL DESK

PRACTICE AREA

EDUCATION AND BIOGRAPHY

Paul is a highly regarded English qualified dispute resolution lawyer. His expertise is in advising on litigation, arbitration and mediation. Paul also provides strategic consulting to his client network of companies, funds, ultra high net worth families, family offices and trust companies.

His clients describe Paul as “commercially minded and results-oriented”, “hugely talented” and “a tough operator” who “thinks outside the box”. Peers commend him as having “one of the best legal minds in his field” and “a great business brain” also considering him to be “absolutely brilliant” and “a great tactician.” 

Paul has three decades of experience at the highest levels leading complex international cross-border investment disputes, acting both for and against the largest global banks, sovereign wealth funds, corporates, trust companies and ultra high net worth families and assisting with complex hostile negotiations. Paul began his career at Clifford Chance before becoming a partner for many years first at Baker McKenzie and then at Clyde & Co. Widely acknowledged and respected for his skilled use of strategy and tactics, he specialises in advising on cross-border litigation, international arbitration, banking and finance disputes and major fraud claims. He has been involved in complex and groundbreaking claims before the English courts, arbitral tribunals as well as in tribunals in Europe, the USA, India, offshore jurisdictions and in the Middle East. Paul is pragmatic and commercial and always focused on finding innovative solutions to best meet his clients objectives.  He is also highly responsive and unflinchingly loyal to his international client base He operates from Israel as a consultant with the status of partner to boutique London based law firm, W Legal, allowing Paul the ability both to call on the resources of a much larger team where required or simply provide the highest partner level advice, including to assist other professional advisors and law firms in advising their own clients.

He is equally at home helping parties resolve family and company disputes in a cost effective and commercially sensible manner, whether in his role as a legal advisor to one of the parties or in the capacity of mediator for both parties. 

Paul is qualified as a Solicitor, England & Wales and as a Solicitor Advocate, Higher Courts (Civil Proceedings).

W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited.  The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.

Education and Biography

Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has also successfully challenged decisions made by different prosecuting authorities in judicial review proceedings and under the victims right to review scheme.

In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.

Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.

W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited.  The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.

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CHRISTINE JUDGE

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Founder and CEO

JEMIMA KOWALSKI

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Attorney Assistent

ELLIOT SHEAR

MANAGING DIRECTOR

LISA MCKINNON-LOWER

PARTNER 

EGZONA MUSTAFA

OFFICE MANAGER

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