Our team
Find out more about the team at Clearly Business Law
Tad Ostrowski
Owner / Managing Director
Tad is the Managing Director of Clearly Business Law and is a corporate and commercial lawyer. He is keen to work with companies to provide them with a new kind of legal service, helping them to grow and develop. He is renowned for his commercial focused and pragmatic advice.
Born in England, Tad has dual nationality, British and Polish. He is a keen cyclist and sports enthusiast. He loves spending time with his wife and two children and loves to travel.
Alison Morjaria
Director
Alison is a Director at Clearly Business Law and is a commercial solicitor. Having worked for many years in a business environment, she likes to develop relationships with clients and provide clear jargon-free commercial legal advice.
Outside of work, Alison is a busy working Mum who loves spending time with her husband and three sons. She loves holidays, running and entertaining friends.
Dallia Appleton
Solicitor
Dallia is a qualified solicitor with a commercial and corporate background. She has been qualified for 28 years, and has extensive experience in both private practice and in industry. Dallia’s expertise is mainly in commercial, IT, finance and corporate.
Any spare time, Dallia loves to play tennis.
Emma Clist
Solicitor
Emma is a qualified solicitor with over 15 years’ experience in general commercial law and civil and commercial litigation. Since joining Clearly Business Law in 2020 Emma has focussed on non-contentious commercial matters, specialising in a range of legal services for small and medium sized businesses. Having a background in litigation, she has an excellent appreciation for risk management when approaching any commercial work. Emma enjoys developing collaborative and long standing relationships with her clients and achieves this by providing clear, jargon-free, solutions-focused, commercial legal advice.
Outside of work Emma enjoys spending time with her husband and two children . She loves holidays, dog walks and socialising with friends.
Sam Cozens
Solicitor
Sam is an experienced corporate and commercial solicitor with over 15 years experience across private practice and in-house environment. Sam prides herself on possessing a common-sense, commercial and business focused mindset.
Her key specialisms include: Corporate – mergers & acquisitions, investments, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, cross-border financings, group restructurings and corporate governance.
Commercial – advising on a range of commercial contracts including supply agreements, T&Cs, agency agreements, NDAs.
Sam enjoys playing racquet sports and going to the theatre. She is also a qualified psychotherapist and mediator.
Mandy Hargun
Solicitor
Mandy is an experienced compliance solicitor specialising in SRA regulatory compliance, data privacy and anti-money laundering (AML).
Her key areas of expertise include EMEA and global data privacy compliance, DSARs, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), and APAC data privacy, with particular experience in China and South Korea.
Mandy also advises on AML compliance and regulatory risk, including firm-wide and business-wide AML risk assessments, SRA compliance requirements, AML policies and procedures, client and matter risk, and the implementation of proportionate, risk-based compliance frameworks.
Outside of work, Mandy is a huge Harry Potter fan, enjoys getting lost in a good crime thriller, and is always on the lookout for her next Netflix series.
Sara Mayhew
Solicitor
Sara is an employment lawyer and spent six years’ experience working in a global role for the world’s largest publicly traded oil services company. Her employment specialities include terms and conditions of employment, staff handbooks, settlements, negotiation, unfair dismissal discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE and identifying and managing risk.
Sara is a keen property developer and has recently finished building her own house to her own design. She is happiest when out and about enjoying the great outdoors with her daughter, enjoys travelling and has recently taken up sailing.
John Pegg
Solicitor
John is a qualified solicitor, admitted in Australia and advises on both corporate and commercial matters.
His expertise includes leading on M&As, funding rounds, corporate financing, and strategic restructuring. He can also help with all commercial agreements, for example partnership, shareholder, and distribution agreements. He also specialises in compliance and governance.
John’s portfolio covers a vast range of sectors – from telecommunications and cyber security to financial services and medical practices.
John loves to travel, read and play the guitar.
Rebecca Pugh
Solicitor
Rebecca is a qualified solicitor with a commercial and corporate background. She has over 15 years of experience, spanning both the private and public sectors, working in private practice and in-house at a university and a local authority. Rebecca has substantial experience of problem-solving, advising and supporting colleagues at all levels of organisations.
Miranda Riddell
Solicitor
Miranda is a senior solicitor qualified in England and Wales and New Zealand with over 15 years´ experience specialising in investment funds, financial services and general commercial law.
Miranda is known for advising in plain language with practical and business focused solutions and advice. She advises clients of all sizes in a variety of industries and has a good appreciation for how regulatory issues impact businesses, products and services.
Miranda is also very good at identifying business and regulatory risk and is a natural problem solver.
Andrea Dundas
Finance Manager
Andrea is Clearly Business Law’s Finance Manager, and she is responsible for all the monthly and annual financial reporting, accounting and budgeting.
Andrea qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Cape Town. She has worked predominately in Financial Services, in London and Edinburgh.
When not at work Andrea is a keen paddleboarder, but never alone – there is usually a child and at least 1 dog on board!
Rida Malik
Paralegal
Rida is Clearly Business Law’s paralegal. She helps support the team with our retainer clients, as well as being a huge support when completing matters, assisting with documents and setting up matters.
Rida has two young daughters that keep her busy out of work.
Rebecca Severn
Head of Operations / Marketing
Rebecca supports the legal team and runs both the operational and marketing side of Clearly Business Law. She is heavily involved in the day to day running of the business.
Rebecca loves travel, languages and reading new fiction.
Trusted by growing businesses
Real feedback from business owners using Clearly Business Law for practical, approachable legal support.
“Clearly Business Law has supported our marketing agency for many years, providing practical legal advice that fits our needs perfectly. Emma, our main contact, is extremely approachable and has a real talent for making complex legal matters easy to understand. The retainer means we always have support available when we need it, whether that’s a quick call to discuss a legal question, detailed feedback on a contract or more in-depth work on business documentation.
That level of support helps keep the commercial side of our business operating smoothly and I would highly recommend Clearly Business Law.“
Adam Blackford-Mills, Director MRS Digital
“Clearly Business Law played a vital role in helping us complete our most recent funding round smoothly and on schedule. Their team brought a clear, commercially minded approach to every stage of the process, giving us confidence that the legal fundamentals were in expert hands. Their responsiveness, practicality, and understanding of our business made them an invaluable and trusted partner. We’re grateful for their support and look forward to continuing the relationship as Relode expands its Power Park network across the UK.”
Mikey Clark, CEO of Relode
“I can highly recommend working with the team at Clearly Business Law. They offer a personal and friendly service tailored to clients’ needs, including clear and relevant advice at competitive rates.”
Michael Boaden, Specialty Haus
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