As you’d expect from a leading commercial firm, we offer a comprehensive range of legal services to our clients. Our services are grouped into broad practice groups which encompass contentious and non-contentious disciplines. Our lawyers work in teams based within specific practice groups for organisational purposes, but often work in cross-group teams on specific projects. Our six practice groups and the disciplines they contain are briefly described below, but you can find more detailed information in Expertise.
Banking and International Finance
Our Banking and International Finance group handles a range of acquisition finance, asset finance, capital markets and asset-backed securities, corporate recovery and project finance work.
Commercial
Our Commercial group encompasses a very wide range of contentious and non-contentious services, including advertising and marketing, charities, competition and European Community law, financial services, intellectual property, employment, pensions, immigration, IT/telecoms and technology.
Corporate
As you would expect, our Corporate group contains our specialists in corporate finance, cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity/management buyouts and privatisation. It also houses our corporate and international tax lawyers.
Energy, Projects and Construction
As the name suggests, this group has specialist teams in Energy work, including oil & gas, electricity, nuclear and renewables, Projects work, including PPP and PFI, and Construction work, both contentious and non-contentious.
Insurance and Reinsurance
We assist a wide range of insurers and re-insurers, especially in defending claims across a range of professional indemnity and directors’ and officers’ liability claims. We also provide advice on a range of regulatory and product development issues.
Real Estate
As one of the UK’s leading (and Central and Eastern Europe’s largest) Real Estate practices, our lawyers handle property transactions on behalf of investors, developers, and a range of occupiers including retailers and leisure operators. The Real Estate Group also contains our planning specialists and Real Estate disputes experts.
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