Meet the team

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

Qualified 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.

Emma Clist

Associate

Emma originally qualified as a Solicitor and has worked for a local firm for over a decade before deciding it was time to put her family first and focus on working flexibly. Clearly Business Law is clearly different and that means for our team as well as our clients. Working from our Farnborough office Emma will be helping our clients with their business law needs so that they can grow and succeed.

Outside of work Emma’s young family keep her busy. She enjoys dog walks with Summer the Labrador, playing board games with Callia aged 9, keeping Leo aged 2 out of mischief and relaxing with a glass of red with her husband. When time allows Emma loves to read and has a new found love for jigsaw puzzles. Emma loves holidaying with family and friends, and although she appreciates exploring new places, she has a weakness for a trip to Disney.

Rebecca Pugh

Senior Associate

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.

Being an animal-lover, Rebecca enjoys long walks in the countryside with her own rescue dog, as well as boarding trainee guide dogs for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Sara Mayhew

Employment Lawyer

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.

Rebecca Severn

Head of Operations

Rebecca supports the team and runs the operational side of Clearly Business Law, which covers finance, IT, internal processes and general support. She has a corporate background spanning over 15 years in the travel industry.

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.

Outside of work, John is a traveller, reader, and guitarist.

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 has strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, which she can apply to a wide range of types of agreements, and is adept at assuring that contracts which are provided to her clients by a third party are made fit for purpose for her client, their business and mitigation of their contractual risk.

She is also very good at identifying business and regulatory risk and is a natural problem solver. 

Rida Malik

Paralegal

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Andrea Dundas

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Mandy Hargun

Data Privacy Solicitor

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