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Partnership - UK-wide

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What the Team is Known For

CM Murray offers extensive expert coverage of partnership matters, with the ability to handle both contentious and non-contentious work. The firm's key strengths are in the legal and financial services sectors, with long experience advising UK and US firms on individual and team moves, restrictive covenants and whistle-blowing cases. The team is active on cross-jurisdictional work and especially praised for its handling of partner discrimination issues. It also has notable expertise in representing individual partners during exit negotiations and investigations into allegations of misconduct.

Work Highlights

  • CM Murray advised Hunters Law on its successful merger with Peachey & Co.

Strengths

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We like the really specialist knowledge they have, both of the specific issues that are pertinent to partnerships and quirky professional services firm structures, and the law firm industry itself.

Partnership respondent
UK

CM were great throughout the case, knew documents inside-out and the law as well; they were constantly coming up with good strategic and tactical ideas and were superb at managing the client.

Partnership respondent
UK

CM Murray has deep experience and brings that to the matter in a way that is practical and solution-oriented.

Partnership respondent
UK

They provide highly responsive, tailored advice appropriate to the situation and their strong client understanding has meant high levels of pragmatism and sensitivity to budget.

Partnership respondent
UK

Notable Practitioners

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Clare Murray
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Clare Murray
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Eminent Practitioners
Clare Murray is founder and managing partner of CM Murray. She is a renowned partnership expert who advises on cross-border disputes and investigations, including cases concerning allegations of discrimination and restrictive covenant issues.

She's one of the leading lights in this area - she's very bright, practical and sensible at the same time.

Clare is a brilliant leader, one of the outstanding figures in the field. She is indefatigably energetic but also very good at delegating.

Clare Murray is an absolute titan: if you know she is on the other side you will and should worry.

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Corinne Staves
Corinne Staves
Star Individuals
Corinne Staves assists both domestic and international law firms, individual partners and high net worth clients with a wide range of partnership matters, including mergers, restructuring, team moves and succession planning.

Corinne was highly responsive, sensitive to the situation, commercial and personable.

One of the absolute leaders in the field on both contentious and non-contentious matters, regulatory and litigation.

Corinne Staves is extremely knowledgeable in her areas of expertise and very quickly grasps and explains complex issues.

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Sarah Chilton
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Sarah Chilton
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Band 1
Sarah Chilton's expertise includes cases concerning alleged sexual harassment and discrimination as well as partner exit negotiations and related disputes. She is triple-qualified in England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

She is technically excellent and commercially very sound: she understands she's being asked to help solve a problem and so is not overly legalistic but focused on the outcome.

She's very quick at getting to the heart of disputes and solutions for clients.

She is really good on the law and really inventive as to the points to take; she is quick at spotting issues and what to do about them. She's just fantastic.

Sarah was highly knowledgeable, skilful and a pragmatic but very human guide and support throughout a very difficult process. I would not hesitate to recommend her.

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Zulon Begum
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Zulon Begum
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Band 1
Zulon Begum assists professional services firms from the legal and financial sectors with partnership restructuring and amendments to LLP agreements. She also advises on the non-contentious aspects of sensitive issues such as partner exits.

She is calm and confident and gives the sense and feeling of really knowing the topic and the market, which is very important.

Zulon is extremely responsive and has a solid handle on the challenges of pressure and in the regulatory environment that we have been dealing with.

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Beth Hale
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Beth Hale
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Band 3
Beth Hale has extensive experience advising professional partnerships and individual partners on contentious matters such as partner exits, whistle-blowing claims and sexual harassment allegations. She currently also acts as general counsel for CM Murray.

Beth is an outstanding partner and has guided us well and strategically in a sensitive partnership issue.

She is extremely commercially sensible and solution-driven, which was a priority for us, as well as a very strong technical lawyer who knows her stuff and is happy to give a view and stick to it.

Beth is super-dedicated to her client's cause and super-empathetic.

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David Fisher
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David Fisher
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Band 4
David Fisher advises individual partners on highly sensitive and contentious matters, such as harassment allegations and breaches of LLP agreements. He also handles matters surrounding team moves.

David is very calm and measured, he gets the right outcome.

He is one of the most tactically astute solicitors in the market: he can see points that will work and those that won't at an early stage.

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Wonu Sanda
Wonu Sanda
Star Associates

Wonu Sanda is a solicitor advocate who has experience advising on contentious partnership matters including discrimination cases and misconduct investigations.

She is clever and switched-on.

Wonu is a fantastic lawyer.

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Ranked Lawyers at
CM Murray LLP

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Partnership: Contentious
Clare Murray
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Clare Murray
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Eminent Practitioners
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Sarah Chilton
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Sarah Chilton
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Band 1
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Beth Hale
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Beth Hale
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Band 3
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David Fisher
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David Fisher
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Band 4
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Wonu Sanda
Wonu Sanda
Star Associates
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Partnership: Large International Structures
Corinne Staves
Corinne Staves
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Zulon Begum
Zulon Begum
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Partnership: Non-contentious
Clare Murray
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Clare Murray
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Eminent Practitioners
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Corinne Staves
Corinne Staves
Star Individuals
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Zulon Begum
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Zulon Begum
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Members

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Beth Hale

Sarah Chilton

Sarah Chilton

Head of Department

Zulon Begum

Zulon Begum

Head of Department