Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Senior Partner: Aster Crawshaw

Managing Partner: Andrew Johnston

Number of partners globally: 428

Number of lawyers globally: 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:

Main Areas of Practice in Europe:

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.