Gateley Legal NI

Gateley is different because we are a genuinely integrated, multi-disciplinary professional services group where our clients can find legal, consultancy and advisory expertise under one roof.

Law at the heart of the business

We have a strong track record and can quickly pull together trusted teams of legal experts to assist in any case and obtain the best outcome for our clients, often in time-critical situations.

We act for a wide range of clients including multi-national corporations, private and public limited companies with a nationwide presence, family-owned businesses, and individuals (primarily shareholders, partners or property owners).

We provide the right legal advice, quickly and concisely, with an eye on the bigger commercial picture, agreeing with our clients the longer-term strategy and implications of the challenge.

We offer a partner-led service and take a commercial view on transactions, genuinely advising rather than sitting on the fence.

We operate as a national team and can quickly provide our clients with the level of support they need for any assignment, no matter how big or how small. We have experts based in all regions where we have offices and can provide our clients with local support whenever it is needed.

Gateley Legal is in the business of ‘getting the job done’.

1. The firm are consistently among the most active corporate legal advisers in the UK so the firm know what it takes to get a corporate deal done;
2. They work with 18 of the UK’s top 20 housebuilders so they know how to buy, sell and develop property;
3. They are advisers to 5 of the UK’s 6 largest clearing banks and regularly help lenders and borrowers with all aspects of funding;
4. The firm have advised on some of the highest profile restructuring deals in recent years;
5. They resolve commercial disputes in a straightforward and commercially sensible way; and
6. Gateley Legal manage all aspects of the employer/ employee relationship for businesses of all sizes, from the up-and-comers to the big hitter

Gateley Legal have structured the business around four platforms which recognise the challenges and opportunities that their clients are facing in respect of:

Business Services matters:

Gateley Legal Business Services Platform combines the considerable commercial, IP and dispute resolution lawyers with the Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Gateley IP.

Corporate activities:

The business' Corporate Platform combines the skills of corporate ,banking, finance ,tax and restructuring lawyers in Gateley Legal with the inward investment experience of consultants within Gateley Global.

People issues:

The People Platform brings together the advisory skills of the firms leadership and development consultancies t-three and Kiddy & Partners with the expertise of their employment and pensions lawyers within Gateley Legal and the independent pension trustees within Entrust.

Property matters:

Within their Property Platform, Gateley Legal lawyers advise on construction, planning, residential development ,real estate finance ,real estate development, real estate disputes and real estate investment. The property tax specialists within Gateley Capitus combine with the built environment consultants within Gateley Vinden and Gateley Hamer to offer a one stop shop for all real estate needs. Gateley Legal Property Platform is further complimented by Gateley Smithers Purslow , a specialist provider of surveying services, principally to the insurance industry.

Gateley Legal Platforms combine the skills and expertise of the lawyers within Gateley Legal with the extensive expertise of other professionals from their consultancy businesses. It is the combined skills and knowledge of these experienced professionals that help their clients to solve the problems that they face. To mitigate risk, to realise growth and to maximise opportunities.