Who we are

Our business is built on the hard work and ingenuity of our lawyers.   

 


Dinesh Raja

Managing Partner

City-trained, with 24 years' experience, Dinesh and his team offer a practical and individual service to clients of any size with commercial briefs from major property acquisitions to offshore corporate structures and international trading contracts.

Dinesh prides himself on his responsiveness to even the most demanding clients and on personal and detailed attention to their business needs.

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Justin Barker

Partner

Justin specialises in the resolution of real estate disputes.  He has broad experience in this field and in advising on contentious issues in land transactions. 

He has expertise in commercial landlord and tenant matters, including lease renewals, dilapidations, service charges, rent reviews, forfeiture and the enforcement of covenants, acting for both tenants and landlords.

 

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Parmjit Bhogal

Partner

Parmjit has been involved with a broad range of corporate work, including share and asset acquisitions and disposals, corporate finance matters and admissions to PLUS.

He also advises on restructurings, shareholder and limited liability partnership agreements and general company matters.

 

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David Downham

Practice Director

David is the firm's Practice Director with wide and varied experience as a tax professional and senior administrator, with a background in both professional and commercial environments.  

David is a Chartered Secretary and Chartered Tax Adviser and with a skilled understanding of diplomatic communication.  David is responsible for the firm's Client Relationship Management, Human Resources, Facilities, IT and logistics. 

 

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Ali Ebrahim

Consultant

Ali advises on life time planning, drafting wills and the administration of estates as well as residential conveyancing and commercial property.

 

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Graham Hirschfield

Consultant

Graham is a Consultant who undertakes commercial and residential property transactions as well as private client work. 

 

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Peter Holland

Partner

Peter advises clients on substantial contractual disputes.  He has represented public bodies on various matters including large building disputes and has advised on professional negligence involving surveyors, architects and solicitors.

Peter appears in Employment Tribunals, Civil Courts and before the Magistrates' Court and at licensing hearings.

 

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Roger Hoque

Consultant

Roger is a commercial real estate lawyer with experience in acquisitions and disposals, asset management, real estate finance and corporate property transactions.

He has acted for property investors, institutional lenders and high-profile end users. 


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Huseyin Huseyin

Partner

Huseyin specialises in all aspects of commercial and residential conveyancing involving freehold and leasehold property. 

 

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Leena Karia

Associate Solicitor

Leena specialises in all aspects of commercial and residential conveyancing, involving freehold and leasehold property.

She has experience in a wide range of commercial property matters, acting for both landlords and tenants, developers and private companies.

 

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Peter Laskey

Partner

Peter has wide experience in all aspects of commercial dispute resolution, with particular emphasis on international litigation and arbitration. 

His work has included international commodity disputes; oil business arbitrations; fraud and asset recovery and international investor disputes.  He has also handled a broad range of matters involving both corporate and personal insolvencies for office holders and creditors; sale of goods disputes; company/shareholder disputes; and bringing professional negligence claims.

 

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Jeremy Lewis

Partner

Jeremy has extensive experience in the residential and commercial property sectors. 

He has worked in London for the whole of his career and has excellent knowledge of the East London market including Docklands and Canary Wharf.

 

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Jane Maton

Consultant

Jane specialises in all aspects of family law including divorce, cohabitation agreements, financial settlements following breakdown of a relationship whether a marriage, civil partnership or cohabitation and issues concerning residence and contact with children.
She can also advise parents who have provided funds to adult children who are now divorcing on how best to protect the money advanced.


Jane has been instructed on numerous high value financial disputes between divorcing couples and encourages a constructive and conciliatory approach to the resolution of disputes, which in turn will minimise upset to all parties, including children.

 

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Andrew Mayor

Consultant

Andrew joined Bowling & Co this year.  He has over 25 years' experience in a wide range of legal work specialising particularly in commercial and residential property.

 

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Ercan Mehmet

Senior Legal Executive

Ercan specialises in all aspects of buying and selling residential property, both freeholds and leaseholds.  He has experience in a wide range of property matters, acting for landlords and tenants, developers and private companies, refinancing and transfer of equity transactions.
 

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Deepak Ohri

Trainee Solicitor

Deepak is currently undertaking a seat in the Litigation department covering a wide range of disputes from debt claims, to forfeiture and employment.


Deepak prides himself on ensuring that client expectations are met and enjoys the supportive environment that comes with working as part of a team.

 

 

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Jyoti Patel

Associate Solicitor

Jyoti is a senior solicitor with 20 years' experience in the West End and the City. Jyoti's caseload comprises property work both commercial and residential, acting for mainly private clients and companies.

She also undertakes licensing work in relation to public houses, restaurants, shops, wine bars, snooker clubs and betting offices.

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Martin Real

Partner

Martin is one of our home grown success stories graduating to the partnership in 2002.


Martin has built a large client base and specialises in seeking injunctions and urgent applications to assist in the protection and welfare of spouses where the marital arrangements have broken down.

 

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Urmilla Seenath

Associate Solicitor

Urmilla deals with all aspects of Family work. She specialises in Ancillary Relief and Private Children cases to include financial provision following the breakdown of a marriage, division of the matrimonial home/property and other assets/money, freezing assets, pensions, maintenance and cases including a foreign element.

 

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Huseyin Youssouf

Partner

Huseyin acts on a wide range of real estate transactions from retail units to care homes, hotels and golf courses.

Huseyin also specialises in real estate finance and has a good following of Turkish clients.



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Nathan Wilkins

Administrative Assistant

Nathan is Bowling & Co's Deeds and Wills custodian and manages the upkeep of the database.

Nathan also assists the management team on ad-hoc administrative projects.





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You can read more about the individual lawyers and find out how to contact them by following one of these links.

>  Justin Barker

>  Parmjit Bhogal

>  David Downham

>  Ali Ebrahim

>  Graham Hirschfield

>  Peter Holland

>  Roger Hoque

>  Huseyin Huseyin

>  Leena Karia

>  Peter Laskey

>  Jeremy Lewis

>  Jane Maton

>  Andrew Mayor

>  Ercan Mehmet

>  Deepak Ohri

>  Jyoti Patel

>  Dinesh Raja

>  Martin Real

>  Urmilla Seenath

>  Huseyin Youssouf

>  Nathan Wilkins