The people
Four partners, two counsel and a small team of associates. You will know their names, and they will know your file.
The people who answer for your matter.
Every partner here has spent years on both sides of a dispute or a deal. Each one leads a practice and takes a small number of matters at a time.
Write to a partnerElena Varga
Commercial disputes and trial. Leads bench and jury trials and the urgent hearings before them.
Write to ElenaTomas Achterberg
Corporate and transactions. Acquisitions, financings and shareholder terms for owner-managed companies.
Write to TomasMiriam Okafor
Shareholder and partnership disputes. Deadlock, exclusion and contested exits.
Write to MiriamJonah Pell
Employment counsel. Senior hires and departures, covenants and workplace investigations.
Write to JonahRuth Castellane
Real estate and construction disputes. Delay, defects and payment claims, from adjudication to trial.
Write to RuthSamuel Idris
Private clients and family business. Succession, trusts and family governance.
Write to SamuelAssociates and the people behind them.
Each partner works with one associate who knows your file as well as they do, so you are never waiting on a single diary.
Ada Lindqvist
Senior associate Commercial disputesFelix Mbeki
Associate Corporate and transactionsClara Hesse
Associate Shareholder disputesOwen Tarrant
Associate Employment counselNadia Selim
Trainee Disputes and propertyMarcus Venn
Practice manager Billing, reports and conflict checks
Two names on every file, never twelve.
Small teams know the facts. They also cost less, because nobody is being paid to catch up.
One partner
Signs every piece of advice and attends every hearing that matters.
One associate
Handles the daily work and is your first call for quick questions.
Shared bench
Specialists join for a defined task and leave the file when it is done.
Working at Halden Row.
We hire rarely and train carefully. Associates run their own hearings early, sit in on client calls from the first week and are never measured on hours alone.
We welcome letters from lawyers with two to six years of disputes or corporate experience, and from trainees in their final year. Write to us with a short note and a CV.
Tell us what is at stake. A partner replies within one working day.
A short note is enough to begin. We run a conflict check first, then call you to talk it through, without charge and without commitment.
- 01 A few lines on what happened and when
- 02 The names of the other parties, for the conflict check
- 03 Any date that cannot move: a hearing, a closing, a deadline