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With offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Dublin and Belfast, we are recognised by clients and industry alike as being distinct for our unique culture, market-leading practice areas, sector focused approach and for providing solutions to complex, multijurisdictional business challenges, with a pragmatic and human touch.

We push ourselves to take on challenges, to try new things, to drive innovation and to be aspirational in everything we do. Whether it is providing global employment law advice, managing a global IP portfolio or piecing together a multijurisdictional corporate transaction the firm has the right people, in the right place, at the right time through a combination of our own offices, strategic alliances and expert desks.

We don’t try to do everything. But what we do, we do well. We work with leading businesses helping them protect and enhance their most important assets – their people, their ideas, their brand and their future.

We offer highly ranked, market leading practice areas and a deep cross-firm market expertise in our chosen sectors. This means we can help our clients by combining first class commercial thinking with innovative but pragmatic solutions and advice both in the UK and internationally, through combination of our international offices and overseas alliances.

The firm’s major practice areas include brands and intellectual property; commercial; corporate; data and privacy; dispute resolution; employment; immigration; investigations and regulatory; partnership; real estate; tax, reward and incentives; and trade mark and portfolio management. We provide our services through our key sectors including advertising and marketing; financial services; media and entertainment; professional services; retail, hospitality and leisure; fashion and luxury; sports business; and technology.

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