Quiet counsel for consequential matters — commercial litigation, corporate counsel and private wealth, practised with the precision of a well-set page.
Disputes of scale and sensitivity, argued with restraint. We prepare every matter as though it will be tried — which is precisely why most never are.
Standing counsel to boards, founders and family offices. Advice rendered before the question becomes a problem, in language a board can act upon.
The long view, written down. Succession, trusts and estates for families whose affairs span generations and jurisdictions — drafted once, drafted well.
Where matters cross oceans, counsel should not multiply. One firm, one voice, coordinating trusted correspondents in the jurisdictions that matter.
For nearly a century the firm has held to a simple discipline: know the matter more completely than anyone else in the room, and say only what advances it.
We accept a deliberately small docket. Every engagement is led — not merely supervised — by a partner, from first conference to final order.
Settlements favour the side that is genuinely ready to try the case. Our files are built to be argued; our opponents tend to notice.
An opinion from this firm is drafted to be read in ten years' time and found correct. We would rather be slow and right than quick and quotable.
Called 1994, silk 2011. Thirty years before the Commercial Court; appears in the matters she accepts, and accepts few.
Formerly general counsel to a FTSE 100 board. Advises founders and directors the way he wished outside counsel had advised him.
Trusts and succession across four jurisdictions. Drafts instruments intended to outlast the families who sign them — gracefully.
The premises and the instrument — both kept since 1928, both maintained to the same standard.
in disputed value resolved for clients over the past decade
of litigated matters concluded before trial, on our clients' terms
of a single family's estates entrusted to the firm without interruption
of continuous practice from the same address at Chancery Court
Chambers & Partners — Band 1, Commercial Disputes · The Legal 500 — Top Tier, Private Wealth · Who's Who Legal — Thought Leader, Arbitration
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London WC2A 1AL
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