Burges Salmon LLP has an established retail and consumer sector focus, utilising the expertise of the firm’s full service offerings across its corporate and commercial, real estate, employment, IP, technology, and regulatory practice groups. The firm works with some of the biggest retail and consumer brands and manufacturers and suppliers in the country, supporting them on a range of issues, from contentious and reputational matters to sector expertise with groceries, food, and drinks multinationals. Matt Sims, a specialist in UK real estate investment, development, and portfolio management and acting for retail, hospitality and logistics clients, leads the team.
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Key clients
- John Lewis Partnership
- Waitrose
- Starbucks Corporation
- Post Office Limited
- Apetito (Wiltshire Farm Foods)
- The senior management team of Loungers
- Lucta
- Bath & Body Works
- Victoria’s Secret & Co and PINK
- Aritzia
- Brooks Sports
Work highlights
Advise the John Lewis Partnership and Waitrose on the successful defence of a wide range of Employment Tribunal claims, spanning unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, breach of contract, harassment and wrongful dismissal.
Act as UK trade mark counsel to Starbucks, providing clearance advice on all new brands, slogans and logos, trade mark portfolio services and leading on UK enforcement actions.
Advise longstanding clients, John Lewis and Waitrose, on all aspects of work relating to their substantial UK property portfolios, which include hundreds of Waitrose stores and John Lewis department stores across the UK.
Practice head
Matt Sims
Other key lawyers
Emily Roberts; Jeremy Dickerson; Richard Hugo; Amanda Leiu