Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Senior Partner: Aster Crawshaw

Managing Partner: Andrew Johnston

Number of partners: 428

Number of lawyers: 2800

Firm Overview:

Addleshaw Goddard is a global law firm trusted by over 3000 major organisations, including 51 FTSE 100 companies, to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations and mitigate risk.

Our work spans more than 50 areas of business law, paving the way to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients across multiple industries.

Appointed time and again, the firm helps clients to do business, operate and grow - effectively and safely - in over 100 countries worldwide. And while the challenges clients bring to firm may vary, it approaches and solves them with the same, single-minded focus: finding the smartest way to achieve the biggest impact.

The firm has a track record of innovation in the design and delivery of legal services. It's award-winning approach is a fusion of smart people, flexible resourcing, savvy technology, innovative processes and strategic consulting, providing a platform for new thinking, beyond pure legal advice. The inherent flexibility in its approach lets Addleshaw Goddard customise the firm’s response by combining relevant expertise, with appropriate resource, the right tools and smart technology in either an integrated or stand-alone package.

The range and scale of Addleshaw Goddard’s work is compelling, and encompasses high-value strategic advice to the everyday. It means the firm is able to attract talented, like-minded individuals who love what they do, are committed to clients’ success, and strive to build valued partnerships through their collective energy and expertise.

The firm’s client portfolio is testament to its strength and range of expertise, including financial institutions, public sector bodies, successful businesses and private individuals. It is a market leader across its chosen sectors: financial services, industrials, retail and consumer, real estate, energy and utilities, sport, technology, transport, and health. Addleshaw Goddard offers a full range of legal services in all major jurisdictions and economic centres worldwide through the combination of its own offices, strategic alliances and a comprehensive preferred firm network of tried and tested correspondent full service law firms from amongst the best their respective jurisdictions have to offer. Addleshaw Goddard also has a formal alliance in Tokyo with Hashidate Law Office. Addleshaw Goddard has built up a wealth of insight and specialist expertise, that has been drawn together and expanded upon through the creation of a number of multi-disciplinary, international business groups covering key emerging jurisdictions. These are highly regarded and cover:

India:

The dedicated India business group has a long history of supporting clients with in-bound and out-bound interests in India and across a variety of sectors.

Korea:

Members of the Korea business group act on behalf of Korean clients in projects and disputes all over the world with example instructions covering power and water, infrastructure such as roads, tunnels, bridges and ports, heavy industries including off shore facilities and utilities including pipelines and exploration works.

Malaysia:

Addleshaw Goddard has supported businesses investing in Malaysia in a variety of sectors over many years and has developed long term relationships with a number of the Malaysian Government funds that are investing in the UK and Europe. In conjunction with the Singapore office, the team also assists those who are looking to further their businesses in South East Asia.

Nordics:

The firm has advised over 30 clients on 50+ major projects touching the Nordic region in the last 3 years and has a particular focus on: In-bound investment (Nordic clients investing into the UK, France, Germany, Ireland and other jurisdictions where AG has full-service capability); Outbound investments (Advising UK clients and clients from other AG jurisdictions investing into the Nordics); Cross-border transactions and disputes (Advising Nordic clients on cross-border transactions and disputes in jurisdictions where AG is not located).

North and Sub-Saharan Africa:

The firm has a wealth of experience in Africa, regularly advising clients on both deals and disputes in Algeria, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa and across the whole SADC territory whilst experience in Libya includes outbound investment work for their sovereign wealth funds.

North America:

AG has lawyers in the firm who have been acting for clients with a wide range of business interests across the continent for many years. It has also advised American businesses needing assistance across the Atlantic and beyond, developing a wealth of expertise and experience along the way.

Main Areas of Practice:

France:

The work of our Paris lawyers includes the high value, the everyday and everything in between. We have extensive knowledge and experience of the French market and are leaders in our specialist fields spanning cross border disputes and transactions, real estate and commercial services (specifically Finance, M&A and Private Equity, Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration and White Collar Crime, Real Estate, Construction, Commercial Contracts, Data Protection and Employment).

Germany:

The firm has four offices in Germany - Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich - and is well established in the German market, providing local expertise on a global scale to clients with business interests across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the US as well as Africa and other emerging and frontier markets. Expertise spans banking and finance, corporate, M&A and private equity, litigation, commercial, international trade, and employment. The firm is particularly known for the impact it has created on behalf of its clients in several key markets, particularly transport, renewables, manufacturing, media, real estate and retail.

Ireland:

Our full service team has been operating in the market for over 125 years – supporting clients in areas such as financial services, real estate, retail and consumer, technology and life sciences.

Spain:

A wide range of listed and private companies, financial institutions, industrial, commercial and services groups, private equity firms, investors, and management teams come to AGs highly experienced team – which has been working together for 25 years in the country - to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations, and mitigate risk. No matter their opportunities or challenges, AG's lawyers in Madrid always focus on meeting clients' business objectives, and on delivering practical, imaginative solutions when or where standard responses are not good enough.

Dubai:

The Dubai office services those clients investing in the UAE and those who use Dubai as a hub for investment in the GCC. Having local specialist expertise in corporate and commercial, employment, private equity, construction, projects, arbitration, real estate, shipping and dispute resolution, it can also call upon the resources of the firm’s other specialists in the GCC to provide access to in-depth local knowledge and full service legal expertise that clients find reassuring.

Oman:

In Muscat, Oman legal services are provided through Addleshaw Goddard (Middle East) LLP’s association with Nasser Al Habsi & Saif Al Mamari Law Firm as an integrated practice providing advice to both Omani and non-Omani clients.

An experienced Oman-based team with a wealth of expertise advising clients with business interests in the Gulf region, Addleshaw Goddard’s absolute commitment to developing long term relationships and deep experience of doing business in the GCC across a range of legal disciplines, means that the firm has the right experience and credentials to support the opportunity and growth anticipated in the years to come, wherever it may occur. The Muscat office provides corporate, finance, projects and infrastructure and ancillary legal services as well as disputes capability to ensure all necessary support is given for clients engaged in corporate and commercial activities in Oman.

Qatar:

The firm’s experienced team combines a deep understanding of Qatar and the GCC, with specialist expertise in corporate and commercial, finance, private wealth management, construction, projects, arbitration and dispute resolution to deliver high value, complex assignments across the Gulf region. Addleshaw Goddard also has the expertise and experience in Islamic Finance to help clients develop and use Shari’ah compliant structures and products for their business and transactions.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:

The team in Riyadh offers international expertise gained by working on complex and ground-breaking multi-jurisdictional transactions combined with deep-rooted local law experience. Each of our Corporate M&A, Finance, Projects and Restructuring teams include attorneys licensed to practice in the Kingdom as well as other international jurisdictions. Clients include banks,financial institutions, government entities and government related entities as well as multinationals and public and private corporates with interests in the Kingdom. Our broad sector expertise in banking, finance, energy, oil and gas, renewables, infrastructure, transport, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, F&B and consumer goods aligns closely with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.

Singapore:

Lawyers in the team have lived and worked in the ASEAN region for many years acting on contentious and non-contentious matters in the construction, energy and infrastructure sectors as well as on cross border project developments, financings, joint ventures and corporate transactions in emerging and frontier markets in Africa and in Asia, representing multi-national companies, contractors, terminal operators, financial institutions, renewable energy companies, investors, property developers and others. Addleshaw Goddard also has experience of advising clients about disputes under all of the principal international arbitral rules and industry specific bodies.