Meet the Team

Sally Addis – Director

Sally Addis is a versatile business lawyer with a background of working in the City of London and Hong Kong. She has more than 24 years of experience in corporate, commercial and IT law.

Sally started her legal career in London working for top city law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. She then moved as an Associate to Deacons, a leading international firm in Hong Kong where she developed a deep understanding of Chinese business culture. On her return to London in 2000, Sally headed up the legal department at IPD, now MSCI.

Sally set up Addis Law in 2011 in Oxford with IPD as its first client. Addis Law advised the shareholders of IPD on the sale of their shares to MSCI (for £82 million) in 2013.  Addis Law has continued to flourish and currently acts for a wide range of clients: large corporates, SMEs, charities and private individuals.  Addis Law supports M&A and other transactions but also handles a wide range of commercial contract work covering all sectors but with a focus on IT and healthcare.

Sally lives in Oxford and is married with 3 quite grown up children. She is the Chair of Governors at a new large local secondary school and likes to travel when time permits.

Lisa Guppy – Solicitor

Lisa was originally admitted as a lawyer in Australia and practised for over 8 years in Brisbane and Sydney in top commercial law firms, with extensive experience in property and commercial matters.  In 2002, she moved to London and worked in one of the City’s top legal firms, specialising in banking and property.

Lisa has been working with Addis Law for over 6 years, with a varied commercial practice involving mergers, acquisitions, IP licensing, shareholder agreements, distribution agreements … in fact all manner of arrangements which can be reached between or with companies. Lisa’s strengths are commercial advice, working to time pressures and deadlines and communication with the client.  Recently Lisa has also further developed her relationship with individual clients by various secondments to act as in-house counsel.

To achieve a work life balance Lisa enjoys yoga, baking and helping with the school community.

Felicity Decker – Solicitor

Felicity Decker is a business solicitor who is qualified in the UK and Australia.  After qualification, she worked for a commercial law firm in Melbourne and then in-house for a utility company and a university.  She has also worked as a tax adviser in a Big 5 Accountancy practice.

Since joining Addis Law, she has been involved in a range of corporate and commercial matters including business acquisitions and re-organisations, sales and distribution agreements, IP licensing, shareholder agreements and the development of website T&Cs. Her advisory work has focused on regulatory and governance matters, data protection and competition law.

She has an interest in data privacy law, and much of her recent work has involved assisting clients of various stripes (from large Data Processor businesses to small on-line merchants) prepare for the introduction of the GDPR.

Jane Innes – Solicitor

Jane Innes is a tax lawyer with over 20 years of experience in advising businesses on tax issues. Having started her professional life as a barrister, she trained in tax at a big 4 Accountancy firm and has advised at a leading technology specialist firm as well as practiced as a partner at a large London firm.

Jane has extensive experience in advising businesses from start up, through growth and expansion, right through to preparing for and executing  an exit from a business.  She regularly advises on the tax matters which arise on achieving tax efficient investment, the holding, buying and selling of property, incentivising employees (including share scheme arrangements) and planning and implementing sales and purchases of businesses.  She also assists in more bespoke tax matters.  She advises on all business taxes, including VAT, Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Land Tax.

Outside work Jane travels extensively, often to follow Scotland play football and rugby.

 

Sangeeta Bahl – Practice Manager

Sangeeta has joined Addis Law recently as a Consultant Practice Manager. Her previous roles as Practice Manager of various GP surgeries within Oxfordshire has provided her with a skill set to use in different business sectors.