Birketts LLP

Chief Executive:Jonathan Agar

Senior Partner:Chris Schwer

Number of partners:128

THE FIRM: 

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, it has more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol (opening Q4 2024), Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. It advises businesses, government and public sector organisations, and individuals in the UK and internationally.

The firm is divided into four principal practice groups: real estate (including planning and environmental); corporate services (including banking and finance, corporate, commercial, data protection, employment, immigration, and tax); litigation and dispute resolution (including IP); and private client advisory (including family).

Within these practice groups, we have deep sector expertise, spanning agribusiness; charities, not-for-profit and ecclesiastical; education; energy and infrastructure; financial institutions; food and beverages; healthcare; hospitality, leisure and retail; housebuilders; motor; private wealth; public sector; shipping, logistics and trade; social housing; and technology.

Birketts’ innovative delivery of the law is defined by its next level law proposition. Legal advice is informed by a clear understanding of the specific needs of the sector and the regulatory and political backdrop. The firm works with its clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Birketts seeks to innovate in all of its practices; focus is on investing in the right technology to deliver effective solutions to help clients achieve their objectives.

The firm enjoys a distinctively collegiate culture based on strong core values. Operating as one collaborative organisation, all of its people are encouraged to be professional and client-focused; to act with transparency and integrity; to be enterprising, and to proactively look for innovative ways to support clients; whilst taking pride in all that they do.

With its ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities it serves, and Birketts is committed to delivering the objectives set out in its ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that it does, with female partners comprising 41% of its partnership.

Birketts maintains the highest professional and ethical standards and is accredited with the UK Law Society’s practice management quality standard, Lexcel and hold the Centre for Assessment Customer Service Excellence accreditation. It is also ISO accredited in the areas of quality management (9001), environmental management (14001), information security (27001) and business continuity (22301).