Farrer & Co

Farrer & Co is a successful law firm with a distinguished reputation built up over many years, based on the goodwill of numerous close client relationships, outstanding expertise in niche sectors and a careful attention to personal service and quality. We have around 300 staff, including 150 lawyers some 62 of whom are partners.
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Baker & McKenzie

Baker & McKenzie is the world's leading global law firm. We have provided sophisticated legal advice and services to many of the world's most dynamic and global organizations for more than 50 years.
With a network of more than 3,000 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 38 countries, we have the knowledge and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services required for both international and local clients – consistently, with confidence and with sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences.
The more than 8,500 lawyers, supporting professionals and staff of Baker & McKenzie share common values of integrity, personal responsibility and tenacity in an enthusiastic client-service culture. We are still guided by the enduring entrepreneurial spirit and demanding standards of our founders.
Ours is a diverse and welcoming culture with a global mindset. The lawyers and other professionals in our firm are citizens of more than 60 countries. We speak more than 65 languages. English is our common language.
Our teams are supported by advanced technologies and sophisticated management systems. These include a single, shared global technology platform, including client intake, financial and billing systems, e-mail, intranet and client extranets as well as global practice standards, a quality audit program and a worldwide conflicts policy.
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Lee & Pembertons

We are a long established firm with a progressive approach to solving legal problems. The firm's principal areas of practice are Agricultural, Charities, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Matrimonial & Family, Property and Trusts, Probate & Tax Planning. We are recognised as leaders in four of these areas.
Our lawyers are specialists in their chosen fields. They are quick to advise clients as to changes in the law and the impact of such changes on their position, whether in a personal or business capacity.
We believe that our clients require prompt, cost effective and practical advice in dealing with their affairs. Our aim is to achieve this and to provide the best possible solutions to meet our clients' needs. The size and structure of our firm enables us to ensure that our clients receive a personal service from experienced lawyers. All this is paramount to any successful partnership between clients and their professional advisors.
Over the years we have developed an approach that meets all our clients' legal requirements and enables us to provide a truly client-based service.
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Mischcon de Reya

Mishcon de Reya is a commercial law firm, run by lawyers who understand business. It is an energetic, open and innovative practice committed to providing intelligent and creative legal advice. Unusually, instead of a senior partner the firm has appointed established and respected businessmen to serve as chairman and deputy chairman. Their collective experience helps reinforce our understanding of the business world and its priorities.
Types of work undertaken:
The firm's work falls into four main departments; Litigation, Corporate and Commercial, Property and Family. The firm has also developed specialist groups to meet the demands and opportunities of a constantly evolving business environment.
The Corporate and Commercial Department advises on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, MBOs, takeovers, flotations, joint ventures, venture capital and corporate finance. General commercial advice includes commercial contracts, strategic alliances, distribution agreements and licensing. The Betting & Gaming and Media Groups focus on betting and gaming, convergence, digital delivery, publishing, music, advertising and marketing, television and radio carriage, film and TV production, theatre and computer games. Other areas of work include competition and EU law, non-contentious employment, media, IP and information technology. The Financial Services Group specialises in transactional work in this sector, and in the US and European regulation of financial institutions with expertise in derivatives, hedge funds, secured lending, cross-border transactions and structured products. The Immigration Group provides strategic and individual advice on business immigration issues and the establishment of businesses in the UK.
The Commercial Litigation Department is internationally respected for its work, which includes brand protection, reputation management, defamation, corporate disputes, employment law, fraud and all contentious media. The department acts for both high profile individuals, and institutions. Other niche contentious practices include art, design, financial services and sport. Consideration is always given to Alternative Dispute Resolution.
The Property Department acts for a broad spread of clients. Among them are publicly quoted companies, developers, pension funds, banks, house builders, as well as private investors and occupiers. It has a growing reputation in the retail and leisure sector and in urban regeneration. Work ranges from major site assemblies, sale and purchase of investment portfolios, joint venture structuring, secured lending, planning and environment, construction, pre-lets and plot sales.
The highly respected Family Department advises on complex money and tax issues emanating from both domestic and international divorce and separation, together with conflicts arising over children which require sensitive and creative solutions. Other key areas of expertise inclu...
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Lawrence Graham

With one of the largest private client teams in the UK, Lawrence Graham services the very highest end of the private capital market, meeting the legal needs of the world's wealthiest families together with the financial institutions who service them."
Winner: Private Client Law Firm of the Year, High Net Awards, 2004
While other City firms wind down their services to individuals, however wealthy they may be, our practice continues to expand. Judged by any criteria, but particularly the quality of our clients and the calibre of our partners and staff, we are a leading firm in this area. The two main legal directories, "Legal 500" and "Chambers", both list us as one of the leading firms in this field. Focusing on high net-worth individuals, our London and Monaco offices offer a personal, partner-led service. We are especially strong internationally in offshore and institutional private client work, particularly in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Far East.
Our clients
We provide a full range of tax, trust and private client services for:
# individuals # trustees (corporate, professional and non-professional) # institutions servicing the private client # companies # partnerships and # estates
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Withers

Pre-eminent private client law firm
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Charles Russell

Charles Russell is a top 50 full service City legal practice with offices in London, Cheltenham, Guildford, Oxford and Geneva. We have the expertise and size to advise on complex, cross-border transactions and to project manage the input of our international networks of major law firms. Our clients range from international, FTSE and AIM-listed businesses to governments, not-for-profit bodies, private individuals, trustees and intermediaries.
We have a simple strategy – to help clients achieve their goals through excellent servic
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Finers Stephens Innocent

There are 2 approaches to the law: the literal and the creative. The former applies the law as a rigid set of regulations. The latter uses skill and ingenuity to achieve a solution.
At Finers Stephens Innocent we thrive on converting an intellectual challenge into a practical solution for our clients. Our ethos is underpinned by an emphasis on quality, inspiration, excitement and dynamism which is reflected in our clients, our people, our service and the work we do.
FSI is a mid sized law firm in the business of providing legal services to institutional UK, international and entrepreneurial clients. Our international strategy is based on our membership of Meritas, a law firm alliance of leading independent law firms worldwide.
Our clients do not follow straight lines, nor do we in providing commercial solutions.
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Rooks Rider

Rooks Rider is a long established London firm servicing UK and International Businesses and high net worth individuals. Our strength is the ability to identify and address the tax planning opportunities of all transactions.
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Hunters Solicitors

Hunters is an integrated partnership providing expert legal advice for today’s clients. The partners work together to give an efficient and comprehensive professional service.
We concentrate on looking after our clients’ individual needs. A partner is personally responsible for every client and this special relationship, often built up over many years, is the bedrock of our practice.
For over two hundred years Hunters has practised from its seventeenth century premises in Lincoln’s Inn, a mark of stability and permanence. This continuity is reflected in the lasting service given to our clients, old and new.
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