Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Co-managing partners: Charlie Leveque and Tony Littner

Senior partner: Catherine Bedford

Number of partners: 46

Number of lawyers (non-partner): 88

Firm overview:

Harbottle & Lewis is a dynamic, multifaceted law firm that provides a wide range of legal services to a creative and entrepreneurial client base.

The firm is renowned for its sector specialisms and takes a highly collaborative approach, joining dots to provide a uniquely personalised service. Blending expertise, creativity and empathy, Harbottle & Lewis empowers clients and their people to achieve their goals.

The firm has an independent, entrepreneurial heritage and focuses on authentic and long-lasting partnerships built on trust, integrity and collaboration. Its diverse teams have a genuine passion for their fields of expertise and a drive to develop innovative solutions to often complex problems. The firm goes the extra mile to be the best at what it does, leveraging technology to support its work and combining pragmatism with smart commercial nous. Like the industries and people it serves, the firm is highly adaptable and forward-thinking.

Harbottle & Lewis partners with the big and the small, from the next big things to the stadium fillers, cutting edge startups to global corporations, early-stage entrepreneurs to established industry leaders, and household names to private individuals and their family offices. It is known for its broad and deep-seated sector knowledge. This is very much a part of its DNA and means it understands its clients’ worlds and their unique challenges. It combines its sector specialisms with expertise across all the traditional practice areas to provide clients with tailored solutions that truly add value.

Contacts:

Advertising & Marketing: Michael Lister, Sacha Wilson

Broadcasting: Sacha Wilson

Charity & Philanthropy: Colin Howes, David Scott

Commercial Property: Leo Marino

Corporate & Commercial: Colin Howes, Charlie Leveque

Corporate Finance: Tim Parker

Corporate Recovery & Insolvency: Rhys Llewellyn

Data Protection: Sacha Wilson, Amy Bradbury, Michael Yates

Dispute Resolution: Matthew Leverton, Sandi Simons

Employment: Marian Derham, Yvonne Gallagher, Howard Hymanson

Family: Catherine Bedford, Mark Irving, Nick Westley, Alex Ward, Lidia Cantele

Fashion: Sandi Simons

Film & TV: Jonathan Berger, Sarah Lazarides

Immigration: Poppy Lucas

Intellectual Property: Kostyantyn Lobov, Shireen Peermohamed, Andrew Terry

Interactive Entertainment: Kostyantyn Lobov, Mark Phillips

Media Finance: Abigail Payne

Music: Kieran Jay

Personal Injury: Daniel Marks

Private Capital: David Scott

Private Wealth: Sofie Hoffman, Chris Moorcroft, Zoë Camp, Siena Gold, Alexa Collis

Publishing: Shireen Peermohamed

Reputation Management: John Kelly, Gerrard Tyrrell, Amy Bradbury

Residential Property: Melanie Benson

Retail: Melanie Benson

Sponsorship: Michael Lister, Bob Mitchell

Sport: Michael Lister, Bob Mitchell

Tax: Gary Ashford

Technology: Sacha Wilson

Theatre & Performing Arts: Neil Adleman

Venture Capital: Tony Littner, Tom Macleod