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Addleshaw Goddard LLP

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Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Addleshaw Goddard LLP

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Provided by Addleshaw Goddard LLP
UK

Senior Partner: Aster Crawshaw

Managing Partner: Andrew Johnston

UK Offices: London, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen

International Offices: Dublin, Madrid, Luxembourg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Singapore, Dubai, Muscat, Doha, Riyadh

Strategic Alliance: Hashidate Law Office (Tokyo)

Contacts:  

Corporate & Commercial: David Kirchin

Finance & Projects: Steve Mackie

Litigation: Mark Molyneux

Real Estate: Nancy McGuire

Firm Details Addleshaw Goddard is a global law firm trusted by over 3000 major organisations, including 51 FTSE 100 companies, to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations and mitigate risk.

The firm's work spans more than 50 areas of business law, paving the way to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients across multiple industries.

Appointed time and again, the firm helps clients to do business, operate and grow - effectively and safely - in over 100 countries worldwide. And while the challenges clients bring to firm may vary, it approaches and solves them with the same, single-minded focus: finding the smartest way to achieve the biggest impact.

The firm has a track record of innovation in the design and delivery of legal services. It's award-winning approach is a fusion of smart people, flexible resourcing, savvy technology, innovative processes and strategic consulting, providing a platform for new thinking, beyond pure legal advice. The inherent flexibility in its approach lets Addleshaw Goddard customise the firm’s response by combining relevant expertise, with appropriate resource, the right tools and smart technology in either an integrated or stand-alone package.

The range and scale of Addleshaw Goddard’s work is compelling, and encompasses high-value strategic advice to the everyday. It means the firm is able to attract talented, like-minded individuals who love what they do, are committed to clients’ success, and strive to build valued partnerships through their collective energy and expertise.

The firm is proud of its culture too. A culture that means Addleshaw Goddard is good to work with and for, and where everyone expects the best of each other. Where the firm doesn’t have offices, it works with firms well known to it, to deliver an international capability whenever and wherever required.

The firm’s client portfolio is testament to its strength and range of expertise, including financial institutions, public sector bodies, successful businesses and private individuals. It is a market leader across its chosen sectors: financial services, energy and utilities, health, industrials, retail and consumer, real estate, sport, technology and transport.

Main Areas of Practice Addleshaw Goddard is a leader across a broad range of specialisms including business support and restructuring, commercial services, competition and regulation, corporate, crime, dispute resolution, employment and incentives, finance, financial regulation, infrastructure, projects and energy, IP, pensions, private capital, professional practices, public sector and local government, real estate and tax.

Commercial Services:  

The firm deals with IP/patents/trade marks, sport, IT, procurement, new media and e-commerce, outsourcing, media, competition and trade regulation, data protection and procurement.

Employment & Incentives: 

The firm has a national and international reputation for dealing with aspects of employment relationships, with specific expertise in handling complex, business critical matters.

Corporate:  

The firm focuses on the upper to mid-market sector in: M&A, Stock Exchange flotations, corporate finance, public to privates, joint ventures, management buy-outs, private equity, corporate restructuring, tax, partnerships, insurance, corporate, regulatory and venture capital.

Dispute Resolution:  

The firm deals with finance, real estate/construction, product liability, commercial litigation, arbitration/mediation/ADR, media, pensions, insurance/reinsurance, IT/outsourcing, defamation and corporate crime.

Finance & Projects: 

A practice with a breadth of expertise advising banks, financial institutions and corporates on all areas of finance including general bank lending, acquisition finance, asset finance (including aviation), capital markets, securitisation and structured finance, islamic finance, leveraged finance, project finance, property finance and trade finance. A leader in the PFI and projects field acting for banking clients as well as project sponsors, it also has a leading reputation in the building society sector. The firm’s business support and restructuring group advises a portfolio of blue-chip clients.

Private Capital: 

The firm also has one of the most significant private capital groups in the UK with trusted advisors to clients including corporates, high net worth individuals and charities on personal financial planning, trusts, contentious trusts and tax.

Real Estate:  

The real estate practice is one of the largest and best regarded in the UK, providing all of the relevant expertise in one team: mainstream real estate, corporate, structuring, tax, planning, construction, construction litigation, environment, real estate disputes and funding.

Ranked Offices

Provided by Addleshaw Goddard LLP

UK - Head office
UK
  • Aberdeen
    1st Floor North, Kingshill View, Prime Four Business Park, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, UK, AB15 8PU
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    Edinburgh
    Exchange Tower, 19 Canning Street, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK, EH3 8EH
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    Glasgow
    Cornerstone, 107 West Regent Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, UK, G2 2BA
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    Leeds
    3 Sovereign Square, Sovereign Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, LS1 4ER
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    Manchester
    One St Peter's Square, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M2 3DE
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Contributions

Latest contributions provided by Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Global Practice Guide
Gorvinder Pannu
Rachel Hill
Lucy Melville
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Gorvinder Pannu, Rachel Hill, Lucy Melville
Article • Aug 2024
Global Practice Guide
Rachel Hill
Gorvinder Pannu
Lucy Melville
Authored by
Rachel Hill, Gorvinder Pannu, Lucy Melville
Article • Aug 2024
Global Practice Guide
James Herring
David Wigg
Nathalie Allen
Authored by
James Herring, David Wigg, Nathalie Allen
Article • Jul 2024

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Enforcement of Judgments 2024 | Introduction
Authored by: James Herring
Global Practice Guide Jul 2024 Article

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Banking & Finance: Fund Finance
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Banking & Finance: Fund Finance
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Jeremy Cross
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Banking & Finance: Lenders: Mid-Market
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Alex Dumphy
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Commercial and Corporate Litigation
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Commercial and Corporate Litigation
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Mark Molyneux
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Lauren Hamilton
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Maria Frangeskides
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Competition Law
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Rona Bar-Isaac
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Al Mangan
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Paul Chaplin
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Caroline Pope
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Jonathan Tattersall
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Andrew McVeigh
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Julia Court
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Alex Hirom
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