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DMH Stallard is dedicated to delivering technical excellence and making its clients the centre of its business, working together as legal and commercial partners. The firm invests in building long-term relationships with clients, so it can support their strategic objectives and deliver solutions that are needs-driven.

The firm: The practice has been developed to provide users of traditional City firms with a genuine alternative. To put it simply, clients benefit from technically excellent advice led by senior partners, while enjoying sensible and transparent pricing structures.

The firm is proud to work with some of the most innovative and successful organisations in the country, including major financial institutions, many FTSE-listed companies, private equity-backed businesses and high-profile public sector bodies. The firm continues to be recognised with prestigious awards.

DMH Stallard provides integrated legal services from offices in London and Gatwick. Its one-firm approach ensures clients have access to technically excellent advice across the board that is efficient, economical and perfectly aligned to their needs. This approach enables the firm to deploy integrated teams that are capable of working on large complex projects that require expertise from multiple disciplines.

It continues to attract some of the best talent in the City wanting to work with the firm, and its approach continues to attract clients looking for a genuine alternative to traditional City law firms.

Types of work undertaken: Banking and finance: working in partnership with national and international banks and businesses on a full range of banking and financial matters.

Corporate and commercial: expertise includes corporate finance; capital markets; M&A; alternative assets such as private equity; and property finance. Focused sectors include infrastructure, TMT, real estate, and waste and renewables.

Dispute resolution: expertise includes commercial disputes; property litigation; defamation and reputation management problems; insolvency and corporate recovery matters; public law; and judicial review.

Employment: expertise includes strategic reviews; full advisory service; claims for dismissal and discrimination; and presenting cases at the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Planning and environment: the team is one of the very few practices in the country to combine town planning consultants and specialist planning lawyers in one team.

Private client: expertise includes wealth protection for high-net-worth individuals; estate management; divorce and other family matters; personal injury; and house purchases and sales.

Property portfolio management: the firm works with some of the largest owners of property in the UK to help them sell, buy, occupy and manage their property efficiently and cost effectively. At the core of its service is its award-winning online legal instruction and management platform, DMH Direct.

Public sector: the firm works in partnership with local authorities, central government departments, registered providers of social housing, charities and other public sector bodies. Its sector expertise means it fully understands the challenges its clients face, their statutory limitations, powers and duties.

Real estate: expertise includes development and investment; housebuilding; construction and regeneration projects; acquisition; disposal; leasehold enforcement and enfranchisement; and licensing.

Real estate dispute resolution: the firm works with some of the largest owners of property in the UK, providing real estate litigation advice across the board. Clients include major corporates, retailers, local authorities and registered providers of social housing.

Real estate investment: expertise includes acquiring/selling land and properties, refinancing existing portfolios or restructuring existing finance structures, debt or equity.

Technology and intellectual property: expertise includes IP disputes (patents, copyright, trade marks); IT disputes; data protection and freedom of information; competition law; OFT investigations; procurement; regulatory advice; and commercial contracts.

Number of UK partners 54
Number of other UK fee-earners 106
Total staff 262