The Legal 500

Fasken Martineau LLP is a UK commercial law firm and part of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP’s global partnership. The firm is one of the few commercial law firms practising both UK and Canadian law.

The firm: Fasken Martineau is a leading international law firm with almost 700 lawyers in offices across Canada, Europe and Africa. It provides strategic advice in virtually all areas of business law to both public and private companies, providers of finance, government agencies, professional regulatory bodies and entrepreneurs. The firm’s international excellence and broad industry expertise enable it to simplify legal complexities and provide clients with local knowledge in key markets across the world.

Types of work undertaken: AIM: recognised for its expert knowledge of the AIM market and listing procedures; the firm acts for both issuers and nomads/brokers.

Aviation: the team has substantial experience of major claims and has experience advising airlines (both domestic and international), aircraft leasing companies, insurers, service providers, authorities and ground handlers.

Banking and finance: advises on banking issues, capital markets, M&A and securities regulatory matters, and acts for lenders and borrowers in a broad range of transactions.

Competition law: the team has extensive experience in EU and UK competition work, including advising on anti-competitive agreements, dominance, pricing practices, parallel trade, competition and IP, merger referrals and clearances, and major antitrust inquiries and audits.

Construction: advises on all aspects of major projects, including procurement, contract documentation and dispute resolution. The firm has experience in acting for both the public and private sectors in a wide range of industries.

Corporate and commercial: advises on finance and commercial transactions, including complex cross-border M&A, private equity investments, major listings on stock exchanges around the world, joint ventures, restructuring and privatisations.

Dispute resolution: the firm has extensive experience dealing with and resolving complex national and multi-jurisdictional disputes, whether through litigation or arbitration or other forms of ADR.

Employment: advises corporate clients on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues.

Energy, infrastructure and project finance: advises on contentious and non-contentious matters, including project development and finance, oil and gas, LNG, power, utilities, renewables, alternative energy, M&A, private equity, infrastructure funds, corporate lending and finance.

Insolvency and restructuring: advises on refinancings and restructurings, as well as liquidations, administrations, voluntary arrangements and ‘clawback’ litigation.

Insurance: the team has substantial experience advising major international insurers and reinsurers, brokers and service providers on a wide variety of insurance coverage and liability assignments.

IP: advises on patents, copyright, trade marks, design rights, confidential information, passing-off and domain names. Advice is given on both contentious and non-contentious matters.

IT: advises on licensing, software implementation, software development, hosting and/or support, privacy, distance selling, marketing, outsourcing, joint ventures, technology-related financings, M&A and reorganisations.

Life sciences: advises on corporate, commercial, regulatory, IP and dispute resolution issues for a wide range of corporate, public and private sector bodies, from those spun out from universities through to large multinational biosciences, pharmaceutical and medical technology companies.

Mining: rated as one of the world’s leading firms for mining law, the global mining group advises a broad range of companies on the full spectrum of issues that apply to the sector.

Private equity: expertise in all aspects of the investment cycle, from establishing the fund and making investments, to ongoing portfolio assistance, to exiting from those investments.

Property: advises lenders, investors, developers, traders and funders on all types of commercial and residential property transactions.

Reputation management: advises companies, charities and individuals. The firm has vast experience of crisis management, as well as the various dispute resolution processes.

Tax: advises both UK and international clients on tax aspects of corporate transactions, tax planning for high-net-worth individuals and tax disputes and investigations.

Breakdown of work %
Company/commercial 51
Dispute resolution 18
Employment 4
Intellectual property 19
Property 4
Tax 4

Number of UK partners 34
Number of other UK fee-earners 36