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HomeOur Lawyers

Our Lawyers

Our Senior Management Team

Matthew
Claughton

Managing
Director

Stacey
Mabrouk

Commercial
Director

Ruth
Peters

Business Development Director

Our Partners

Laura
Baumanis

Matthew
Corn

Richard
Cornthwaite

Gareth
Martin

David
Philpott

Zita
Spencer

Toby
Wilbraham

Our Senior Associates

Nicola
Bruce

Alex
Close-Claughton

Kathryn
Lloyd

Anne-Marie
Nicholls

Martha
Whitehead

Our Associates

Saskia
Abbot

Helen
Buxton

James
Claughton

Martha
Odysseos

Hannah
Poole

Nathalie
Potter

Jack
Tomlinson

Our Lawyers

David
Abbott

Connor
Brylczak

Aimee
Darbyshire-Ellison

Sonia
Dias Lourenco

Rebecca
Dimond

Eleanor
Harris

Simone
Isaacs

Maria
Koukou

Jane
Novas-Morell

George
Odysseos

Isobel
Phillipson

Hope
Rea

Our Business Support

Maria
Douglas

Janet
O'Keefe

Jake
Greenhalgh

Specialist Criminal Defence and Regulatory Lawyers

Olliers Solicitors is firmly established as one of the UK’s leading criminal defence and regulatory law firms specialising in the defence of individuals, businesses and other organisations across a broad range of corporate and financial crime, regulatory breaches, serious crime, sexual offences professional discipline, inquests and public inquiries.

The firm also has expertise in pro-actively representing clients during the pre-charge investigative stages of a criminal allegation. Nationally, few firms can match our experience and expertise. We are based in Manchester with facilities in London and our client base is nationwide.

In 2024 Olliers won the award for Crime Team of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards for the seventh time, retaining the title from 2023. In 2022 we were awarded Law Firm of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards for the second year in a row.  

Our senior lawyers are all leaders in their field. Olliers is ranked as a top tier law firm by both the leading guides to the profession – the Legal 500 2025 and Chambers Guide 2025. We are a Times Best Law Firm 2025.

Our Managing Director Matthew Claughton is the 2023 Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Criminal Lawyer of the Year. Matthew is also the only two-time Partner of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards most recently in 2021. Seven of our lawyers are singled out for mention by the Legal 500.