Over the past couple of years the UK legal market has seen a revolution in the delivery of legal services, but as the Co-operative Group’s legal arm’s half-year results confirm, it is the nature of revolutions not to run smoothly. The results have revealed a £5.1m loss in the 26 weeks up to 5 July, […]
Kirsty Barnes helps clients with leveraged finance, real-estate finance and corporate lending transactions. Her approach is commercial and pragmatic, always seeking the best outcome for her clients. Her wealth of experience in national and international financing transactions helps her to pre-empt issues and provide clear, practical advice. Working with a wide range of financial institutions […]
James Gordon helps clients to resolve their disputes in the most cost-effective manner. He provides clear, no-nonsense advice on risk management, helping clients to avoid liabilities and disputes arising in the first place (particularly in contract termination situations) and, if they do arise, advising on the most cost-effective method of concluding them. If a business […]
Stuart Young gets deals done with the minimum of fuss. He is a seasoned M&A lawyer with more than 20 years of transaction experience. He uses that experience to provide commercial and pragmatic advice and to get deals done. Our clients appreciate his commercial approach, which allows them to focus on the most important and […]
Cerryg Jones helps clients to enforce their intellectual property, to defend their business from intellectual property infringement claims and to identify potential risks around trademarks, copyrights, designs, trade secrets and confidential information. Jones is an intellectual property partner with more than 20 years’ experience of advising clients on litigation, risk management, mediation and dispute resolution, […]
We are one of the UK’s largest dedicated commercial teams, ranked fifth in the list of commercial advisers to the FTSE 250. In-house legal teams can outsource commercial contracts of all sizes, description and complexity to our expert team, which has worked with the likes of Marks & Spencer, AstraZeneca and Premier Foods on meeting […]
We have an expert team that handles large, complex projects, anywhere in the world. Specialisms include domestic and international infrastructure, defence, energy, health, aerospace projects, alliancing agreements, PFI and PPP. Click here for more information on projects.
This team of 30 experts advises private and public sector clients, both as customers and suppliers, on the full range of outsourcing needs, including information technology, business processes, facilities management and logistics. Some of the world’s most complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional outsourcing deals have been made possible because of us. Click here for more information on […]
The team handles high-level complex insurance and reinsurance matters for major domestic and international insurers and reinsurers. Click here for more information on insurance.
Our team works with vendors and purchases to mitigate risk, resolve issues and achieve good deals on information technology (IT) projects. Applying in-depth knowledge of the industry, we take an innovative approach to software licensing, cloud computing, e-commerce and online business, open source software, data protection and privacy and procurement. Click here for more information on […]
This multi-award-winning team of specialists represents clients around the world. This high-profile practice advises on brands, trademarks, patents, design rights, registration, enforcement, domain names, copyright, defamation and advertising, marketing and sponsorship. Click here for more information on intellectual property.
We are a centre of excellence in public law, with a strong track record in creating regulatory frameworks and a reputation for showing companies how to successfully navigate their way through them. The team provides a complete service in regulation, public administrative law, constitutional law, human rights and judicial review for central and local government, […]