The Legal 500

Addleshaw Goddard has over 160 partners, 625 other fee-earners and a total staff complement of more than 1,200.

The firm: Addleshaw Goddard is the law firm that enables its clients and people to succeed and flourish.

Much of the firm’s work has an international flavour and it has strong, non-exclusive relationships with a small number of independent firms in North America and in some of the emerging markets, and in each of the major European jurisdictions 

Through a commitment to delivering the best advice, all the time, every time, clients and staff benefit from the extraordinary effort that Addleshaw Goddard invests in its relationships.

The firm is uncompromising in its commitment to quality in everything it does and is focused on creating sustainable value for its clients, people and communities.

The insight gained through understanding what really matters to clients and their businesses, together with the technical expertise and valuable experience of its own people, enables Addleshaw Goddard to identify the best course of action for clients to achieve their business objectives.

Addleshaw Goddard fields quality professionals where and when needed for a wide range of clients, including significant publicly listed organisations, financial institutions, public sector bodies, successful businesses and private individuals.

Addleshaw Goddard’s goal is to be a natural choice for talent and it has received a range of high-profile, independent recognition for its commitment to attracting, retaining and developing great people.

Types of work undertaken: Addleshaw Goddard is a leader across a broad range of practice areas, including banking, business support and restructuring, commercial litigation, competition, construction, corporate finance, defamation, employment, IP, IT, pensions, PFI and projects, private client, private equity, real estate and sport.

Commercial: IP/patents/trade marks, sport, IT, procurement, new media and e-commerce issues, outsourcing, media, pensions, competition and trade regulation.

Corporate: focus 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, venture capital.

Employment: a wide range of expertise to deal with people issues, unexpected contractual matters and employment claims that are high-value, serious and have the potential to affect business relations.

Litigation: finance, real estate/construction, product liability, commercial litigation, arbitration/mediation/ADR, media, pensions, insurance/reinsurance, IT/outsourcing, defamation.

Finance: building societies, general bank lending, project finance, property finance, corporate restructurings, acquisition finance, asset finance (including aviation), securitisation and structured finance, PFI, insolvency and corporate recovery.

Real estate: in addition to mainstream property advice: property litigation, tax, property joint ventures, construction, planning and environment.

Private capital: trusted advisers to clients including corporates, high-net-worth individuals and charities on: personal financial planning, trusts, contentious trusts and tax.

Breakdown of work %
Corporate 19
Finance and projects 23
Contentious and commercial 34
Real estate (including private capital group) 24

Number of UK partners 163
Number of other UK fee-earners 625