Daniel Sutherland > Fox Williams LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Fox Williams LLP Offices
10 FINSBURY SQUARE
LONDON
EC2A 1AF
England
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Daniel Sutherland
Work Department
Corporate, professional practices group.
Position
Partner specialising in advising professional services firms, the law relating to limited liability partnerships and the regulation of law firms. Advises in connection with the formation, constitution and management of partnerships and limited liability partnerships, as well as advising firms and individuals on the issues arising on partner recruitment and departures, including partner duties and restrictive covenants. Also advises on the formation of alternative business structures (ABSs) for the practice of law and mergers and acquisitions of professional practices.
Career
Trained Fox Williams LLP; qualified 2006; partner 2014.
Memberships
Committee member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners.
Education
University of Exeter.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
(Leading individuals)Fox Williams LLP is well versed in establishing foreign law firm partnerships in the UK. Frequently advising on a range of regulatory issues including breaches of the SRA Code and investigations. The team is also equipped to handle disputes and quasi-employment work, offering ‘real knowledge and expertise’. The team is led by the ‘astute, commercial and pragmatic’ Daniel Sutherland, who has ‘strong regulatory knowledge and is superb on drafting’. Senior partner Gavin Foggo acts mainly in the financial services and professional services sectors and is described as ‘one of the very best litigators in this field’ and ‘tenacious’. Aron Pope has a contentious practice, advising both employers and employees in the financial and professional services, fintech and technology space on partnership and employment disputes involving whistleblowing, discrimination, restrictive covenants and team moves. Handling both contentious and non-contentious partnership work is the ‘highly conscientious and intelligent’ Ed Livingstone.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Partnership London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Transport > Aviation
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Transport > Travel
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Employment > Senior executives
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Transport > Aviation