INIGO PLACE, 31 BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, WC2E 9EY, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7240 0521
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7240 9457
- DX:
- 40037 COVENT GARDEN-1
- Web:
- www.mackrell.net
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Award winning full-service law firm with offices in London and Surrey. This practice provides a full service in litigation, commercial, employment, property and private client matters, including family and wills, trust and probate. As a founder member of Mackrell International, a grouping of over 80 independent law firms with 110 offices and 4,200 lawyers around the world, much of its work has an international dimension.
The firm: John Mackrell founded the firm in 1845 in Lincoln’s Fields and today the ‘John Mackrell Prize’ is still awarded every year to the student attaining the highest overall score in the Legal Practice Course. Having moved to the City, the firm was bombed out of its offices during the Second World War and moved to its current offices in Covent Garden, London in 1943. The firm Mackrell & Co merged with Turner Garrett, a well-established four office Surrey firm, in 1987. The firm currently has 11 partners in three offices.
The firm is active in many sectors, and a small sample of clients and their sectors include property (The William Pears Group and Pearl & Coutts/Structadene Group), finance and hedge funds (Indus Capital LLP, Pentagon Capital Management PLC and Pretium Securities Ltd); financial services (KBC Bank NV & US Mortgage Finance LLC); information management (AFD Software Ltd); IT security (Blue Cube Group); property consultants (Robert Irving Burns); hotel and leisure (Grupo Pinero and Marina Hotels); manufacturing (Egger UK); green technology (Memphis Biofuels LLC and Carbon 350 Ltd); motor (JLC Ltd Jaguar and Land Rover and Imperial Carriages Ltd); catering and food (Do & Co, Sketch and Marco Beverage Systems Ltd); publishing (Graspo AS and Financial-i); design consultants (Space Projects) transport (Croome European Express Ltd) and entertainment (Wainscott Studios and East Hampton Studios NY).
The firm also has considerable experience in regulatory work, specifically in relation to the Financial Services Authority (including, for example, insider dealing), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (including carousel fraud claims) and SOCA and SFO (particularly international freezing injunctions).
Through Mackrell International, the firm has a very international outlook, acting for clients in many cross-border issues. It also has specialist experience in offshore matters, including offshore trust and company structuring. It acts for a considerable number of high-net-worth clients in matters both offshore and onshore, corporate and property, tax and estate planning.
Notwithstanding the size or complexity of a matter, clients benefit by using one law firm to address all of their needs both at home and abroad. The practice is small enough to provide a personal service but large enough to maintain expertise in many fields.
The dispute resolution team was recently awarded a prestigious award for ‘Dispute Resolution Excellence in England’, and the firm holds ‘Recommended Firm’ status awarded by Global Law Experts. In addition, its corporate team was recently awarded ‘Dealmaker of the Month’ award by Dealmakers Monthly magazine. The firm is also the formally appointed ‘Legal Doctor’ to the membership of the London Chamber of Commerce.
The practice is willing to carry out agency work on behalf of other solicitors and from other jurisdictions.
Types of work undertaken: Mackrell Turner Garrett is a full-service law firm with core areas of work being litigation, company and commercial, business, residential and commercial property, intellectual property private client (including matrimonial work, and wills, trusts and probate), tax and estate planning, immigration, travel and tourism, and regulatory work including white-collar crime.
Having expertise in these areas the firm is, for example, able to offer a corporate client not only advice on restructurings, flotation’s, AIM and Plus market (formerly OFEX) listings and contracts, but also employment issues; the sale and purchase of property, development of the same, intellectual property and all other matters which may become an issue.
For the individual, the firm is able to assist with, for example, wills, probate, employment, tax and estate planning, conveyancing, advice on separation, divorce and cohabitation and all forms of litigation.
Other offices: Knaphill
Breakdown of work %
Litigation 35
Commercial/corporate 25
Property 20
Family 10
Wills/probate 5
Employment 5
Number of UK partners 11
Number of other UK fee-earners 20
Above material supplied by Mackrell Turner Garrett.