Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Co-managing partners: Charlie Leveque and Tony Littner

Senior partner: Catherine Bedford

Number of partners: 48

Number of lawyers (non-partner): 76

Firm overview:

Harbottle & Lewis is a leading London-based law firm. For over 60 years, it has acted for some of the most creative, talented and successful people, businesses and corporates across all of their legal needs. The firm's clients range from multinational companies to start-up businesses; early stage entrepreneurs to established industry leaders; and household names to private individuals and their family offices.

The firm is well known for its market-leading knowledge and understanding of the technology, media and entertainment sectors. This sector knowledge is very much in its DNA. But its capabilities spread far wider than that. The firm has built a strong reputation advising clients in the traditional practice areas, such as property, litigation, corporate, tax, IP, reputation management and employment, and also more specialist and complex fields such as data, privacy and innovative and disruptive technologies. Whether we are talking about wealth, relationships or information, the firm's private capital expertise enables it to support its clients, as well as to help them successfully develop, grow and protect their assets.

Its advice is industry-specific, commercial and strategic. Whilst it consistently provides advice that is of the highest quality, the firm takes pride in its ability to make even the most complex of matters appear simple. Every lawyer at the firm takes the time to understand their clients and their businesses to ensure the advice they provide is effective and business ready. As a result, they enjoy a culture of long-standing client relationships, built on trust and anchored in the quality of their service.

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: Anita Bapat, Sacha Wilson

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: Sarah Gogan

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: Jonathan Burt, 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: Emma Wright, Rupam Dave, Sacha Wilson

Theatre & Performing Arts: Neil Adleman

Venture Capital: Tony Littner, Tom Macleod