Member Profiles

Druces LLP (known as Druces & Attlee prior to conversion to an LLP) has been a respected name in the City since 1767. Our core client base includes investors and entrepreneurs, banks, other significant businesses, charities and the independently wealthy. The firm has a strong industry focus on property, banking & finance, care, fashion, retail and charities and has strong international links. We were the founder members of the Alliance of Business Lawyers, a worldwide network of law firms enabling us to provide a seamless cross-border service for our clients.

Having advised on around 200 MW of renewable energy in the UK and elsewhere Tessa Laws is delighted to be viewed as an expert in negotiating on energy contracts, power purchase arrangements, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operation & maintenance (O&M) agreements.

Frances Coulson is Head of Insolvency & Litgation at Moon Beever LLP. She is a Past president of R3 (The Association of Restructuring Professionals) and a Council & Policy Group Member. She runs a substantial team of insolvency professionals at all levels used to dealing with a wide variety of domestic and cross border insolvency issues for office holders, creditors, directors, lenders and individuals.

Complex Corporate transactions involving technology and IP Fintech and Payments Technology: API Licensing / Blockchain / PSD2 / FS Apps FS Reg: Consumer Credit, PPI, FCA/PRA, PSD2, FCA Handbook, ICOBS Aviation/Travel Tech: MaaS, PSS, GDS, IFE, On-board WiFi, Satellite connectivity Outsourcing / Cross-border transactions IT&T Contracts Intellectual Property: structuring and enforcement Data Protection / GDPR / Data Privacy Media & Advertising Law Defamation Consumer and competition law Commercial and Insurance Disputes

XABIER heads up the firm’s corporate-commercial and sports law departments at our North Row, Mayfair office. Xabier has built up an international practice representing a wide range of clients including  individuals such as a former G20 Head of State, Nelson Mandela’s authorised biographer, a best-selling author with over 170 million books sold, World Cup winning footballers, rugby players, World Champion boxers and a Bake-off Professionals winner to corporates varying from successful insurance or health drink start-ups in the UK to medical insurance companies and auto-industry corporates in France and quoted steel manufacturers and energy sector corporates in Spain.  Xabier adopts a pragmatic and commercial approach to all legal matters and focusses on advising on multi-million Seed, Angel and Series A fund raises, all shareholder and board matters and numerous complex company sales of over $50 million dollars or secondary and tertiary listings.  As part of Xabier’s advice to UK and international corporates, Xabier also advises on IP disputes, numerous High Court claims and mediations and Finance documentation including the issue of Bonds, Notes and other debt and equity instruments.  Xabier speaks and works in French, Spanish and German having previously worked in banking at Dresdner-Kleinwort Benson (later Wasserstein & Commerzbank) in London and Hamburg as well as Daimler Chrysler Aerospace in Munich and law firms Clifford Chance LLP and Allen & Overy LLP in their London, Madrid and Paris offices.  Xabier’s passion for sport also led him to found Division X Sports., a Sports Agency focussing on representation and negotiation of footballer’s contracts from the Premier League, English Football L https:// eagues and La Liga to France, Argentina, Cyprus, Poland as well as advising in Premiership Rugby and World Title boxing contests.