Sundeep Bamrah – Partner, Property Department
Mail: ssb@mvllp.co.uk
Sundeep is a Partner of the business but also manages the Property Department with extensive experience in residential and commercial property law. Having joined Matwala Vyas LLP in 1998 and qualified as a solicitor with the firm, he has built a strong reputation for delivering practical, client-focused advice.
He acts for a broad range of clients, including first-time buyers, investors, developers, landlords, tenants, and companies. His expertise covers residential and commercial conveyancing, property investment and development, refinancing, business tenancies, and landlord and tenant matters.
Languages: English, Punjabi & Hindi.
Davinder Sehmi
Email: ds@mvllp.co.uk
Tel: 020 8597 5097 ext 208
Background
Davinder was admitted as a Solicitor in August 2003. He worked at Matwala Vyas LLP until May 2006 and then joined another specialist family practice in East London.
Davinder returned to Matwala Vyas LLP in December 2008 as a Partner and is Head of the firm’s Public Law Children Department.
Profile
Davinder is a specialist Family Solicitor undertaking work in all aspects of family law including divorce, separation, financial proceedings and both Private & Public Law Children matters. He is a member of the Law Society Children Panel and is regularly instructed by parents, guardians and children in complex proceedings.
Davinder represents husbands, wives, civil partners and interveners in financial proceedings following divorce/dissolution of civil partnerships and specialises in cases involving high net assets, family businesses, trusts, tracing assets in foreign jurisdictions, pre-nuptial/separation agreements and cohabitation disputes between unmarried couples.
Davinder undertakes his own advocacy in the majority of his cases and regularly appears in the Family Court at all levels and the High Court.
Davinder Speaks fluent Punjabi and conversational Hindi and Urdu.
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Surinder Chana
Surinder was admitted as a Solicitor in July 1992.
Profile
Surinder has in recent years specialised in all aspects of advising clients in Family Law.
Surinder is a member Resolution and committed to promoting a constructive approach to family issues that consider the needs of the whole family. She has experience in obtaining and defending against injunctions where there are allegations of violence by one partner against the other.
Surinder represents parties in financial proceedings following divorce/dissolution of civil partnerships as well as interveners.
She is a member of the Law Society Children Panel and is regularly instructed by parents, Guardians and children and undertakes the majority of her own Advocacy at all levels of Court.
Surinder is a fluent Punjabi and conversational in Hindi and Urdu.
Michael Sawali
Email: ms@mvllp.co.uk
Tel: 020 8597 5097 ext 214
Background
Michael qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and was made a salaried partner in a local law firm. He joined us in 2009.
Michael practises in most areas of civil litigation, with an emphasis on property and commercial matters, acting for both individuals and companies.
Michael also receives instructions in divorce matters, primarily dealing with the assets of the marriage.
Michael has come through the rank and file, having worked in the West End and Central London for over 10 years and has been involved in a number of notable reported international cases.
Michael’s cases are: Hunt v. Abbresse (1996), Courtney Lodge Management Ltd v. Blake & Others (2004) All ER 30 and a recent case is E.surv v. Rahman & Others (2006), which involved a multi-million pound asset recovery claim, freezing and search orders in an allegedly multi-party mortgage fraud.
Michael moved to this area in 1994 and has developed a client base locally and internationally.
Waqqas Malik
Email: wmalik@mvllp.co.uk
Tel: 020 8597 5097 ext 202
Background
Waqqas has an outstanding academic background and joined the firm in 2007. Waqqas deals with both family and criminal law cases and is fluent in Urdu.
Family law
Waqqas has represented clients at all levels and specialises in the following areas:-
- Public and Private Law Children Act
- Divorce and Financial Proceedings
- TLATA
- Injunctive relief
Waqqas has represented parents, wives, husbands and unmarried couples in a wide and diverse range of family law cases.
Criminal law
Waqqas has experience of defending a wide range of offences in single and multi-handed cases, including sexual offences, serious violent assaults, drug supply, dishonesty and fraud, child abuse/neglect and road traffic law.
Waqqas has defended a diverse variety of people including youths, parents, partners, people in positions of trust, vulnerable clients with mental health problems, gang members and celebrities.
Over the years Waqqas has developed particular expertise in complex sexual cases and serious violent assaults. He has defended cases of multiple rapes, historical sexual allegations involving family members, offences concerning children and numerous cases involving serious violence including appeal work in murder cases.
Personal
Waqqas has advised and assisted Redbridge Action Against Domestic Abuse (RAADA) and is a Mentor at the ReachOut charity organisation working with young people.