He specialises in company commercial work, especially private companies internationally owned or active overseas, companies limited by guarantee and chartered bodies, charity and sports related transactions.

Mike has considerable experience in dealing with all issues surrounding charitable and other not-for-profit organisations.

Mike is the former Secretary General of the Association of European Lawyers.

She has established a solid reputation as an innovative and dynamic lawyer, and is recognised for her ground breaking work in bringing banks and the legal profession together to agree common protocols in the real estate finance industry; for creating simple but effective processes to manage legal risk; and for being the driving force behind the launch of the Loan Market Association’s pathfinder loan facility agreement for the real estate finance market in the UK (the LMA is the authoritative voice of the European market).

Lesley has a depth of experience that transcends various technical sectors, including, leveraged, project and real estate finance law and the loan markets. She is also experienced in leading significant change management programs at the bank. Lesley is regularly sought out to chair, and is herself a regular panelist on a wide range of technical and market conferences; and is also a judge for various legal awards in recognising the achievements of law firms and lawyers in the legal profession.

She is a fierce champion for several charitable causes including Through The Looking Glass (City of London professional work experience for disadvantaged young people), and Suited & Booted (a City based charity set up to help vulnerable men and men on low incomes source suits for interviews). A huge advocate for progression of women in the workplace, she created the successful “Breakthrough Mentoring” program for LBG that has grown to over 10,000 members.

Prior to joining LBG, Lesley worked in several private practice roles, including at Allen & Overy and Norton Rose in London and at Russell McVeagh in New Zealand.

Martyn’s experience is fairly unique in that it combines both the commercial and the legal. He has worked across a broad spectrum of practice areas, from civil and family law, through to property, and this has allowed him to gain a perspective of the sector that is both broad and deep. Martyn helped to grow Jennings Legal Services (later named Jennings Costs Consultants) to one of the UK’s Top costs drafting firms and, three years ago, established debt recovery specialists Jennings Law LLP. His expertise with respect to seeking out innovative solutions that enable law firms to respond to the changing landscape of legal costs and debt recovery is well-established.

As a client facing CE, Martyn is very focused on high quality working relationships, which he believes have been fundamental to Burcher Jennings becoming a market leading practice. This is combined with recognition that the business must also nurture its own internal structure to ensure continued excellence in service delivery. As a result, the firm has opened new offices in London and Exeter and periodically recruits hand picked talent to broaden the scope of its offering even further.