Bevan Brittan LLP

Managing Partner: Duncan Weir

Senior Partner: Jodie Sinclair

Number of UK Partners: 117

Number of other UK Fee-earners: 320

Contacts

Commercial & Infrastructure: Jonathan Turner

Health & Care: Tim Hodgetts

Employment, Pensions & Immigration: Benedict Gorner

Litigation, Advisory & Regulatory: Virginia Cooper

Property: Rob Harrison

The firm

Bevan Brittan is a UK national law firm with 117 Partners and 887 employees supporting around 1,900 clients from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London. It advises businesses across construction, energy & resource management, higher education, and financial services sectors, complementing its market leadership within housing, local government and health and social care.

Principal areas of work

As a major UK commercial law firm, Bevan Brittan provides a full range of commercial legal and advisory services, including commercial contracting, corporate transactions, governance, property, commercial and clinical litigation, regulatory and employment law.

Market expertise

During the reported 12-month period, Bevan Brittan supported clients across its chosen markets. 

Energy & Resource Management experts advised Viridor on a £2 billion Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility project, Boom Power on East Yorkshire Solar Farm - its first Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, and Char.gy on its concession contracts (each valued at multi million pounds) for the deployment of electric vehicle charge points across numerous local authority areas.

Housing lawyers supported Peabody on its £8 billion Thamesmead Waterfront regeneration project, Vivid in relation to a number of first in sector loans under schemes backed by the National Wealth Fund’s social housing retrofit guarantee, and Magna Housing on a major £150 million refinancing deal.

Central and Local Government specialists advised the City of London on a landmark £437 million lease and works arrangement to transform the historic Smithfield Market buildings into the new home of the London Museum, and Cardiff Council on a major deal to build a new £300 million arena.

While market-leading health specialists worked on a wide range of deals including the corporate acquisition of the Artisan Care Group by Avery Healthcare, Ikshana Management Company’s first venture into the care home market acquiring two facilities in Romsey, and Envisage Dental UK’s acquisition of several dental practices across the country.

Bevan Brittan’s Responsible Business programme remains a core strategic priority, with its progress to date highlighted in the firm’s inaugural Responsible Business Report, published in autumn 2025. As part of its long-term sustainability commitments, the business has pledged to achieve Net Zero by 2040 and powers all of its offices using 100% renewable energy. It also donated £100,000, shared equally between its four deserving office charities, for the third year running as part of its commitment to the communities where it is based.