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Mills & Reeve LLP
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Mills & Reeve LLP

UK 2026

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Leading firm in UK 2026

Overview

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  • Firm Overview:

    With Mills & Reeve, clients get a consistent experience with no surprises. They are told what they need to know, when they need to know it. Mills & Reeve's sector and market expertise helps it to understand clients’ issues. And its technology and innovations help clients achieve more with less effort. Mills & Reeve builds personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need.

    Firm Details

    Managing Partner: Claire Clarke

    Senior Partner: Charles Staveley

    Number of partners: 179

    Number of other fee-earners: 504

    Main Areas of Practice

    The firm is proud to have created an innovative legal environment, with expertise spanning ten key sectors: health, private wealth, education, insurance, charities, agriculture, real estate investment, food and beverage, sport and technology.

    Health & Care: Mills & Reeve acts for more than 100 NHS providers and commissioners, as well as some of the biggest independent health providers in the UK. Its lawyers are recognised experts in health law and work with major organisations such as the Department of Health and Social Care.

    Private Wealth: Mills & Reeve works closely with clients to offer smart advice for complex trusts and tax issues.

    Family: Mills & Reeve family lawyers offer mediation, collaborative law and arbitration, or if court is unavoidable, complex litigation.

    Education: Mills & Reeve is a nationwide leader in education law. Its team of 140 education specialists helps over 120 organisations with a broad range of legal challenges, covering issues like international collaborations, campus developments and regulatory issues.

    Insurance: Mills & Reeve works with some of the UK’s leading insurance companies, offering a broad experience base to tackle a wide range of legal challenges – including market disputes and reinsurance claims, and issues relating to counter-fraud and employment.

    Charities: Mills & Reeve’s 140-strong team of specialists include some of the UK’s most renowned authorities on charity law. Clients include Macmillan Cancer Support, the Wellcome Trust and the British Council.

    Food & Agribusiness: From farm to fork, those involved in the food and agribusiness sector face a range of challenges. Mills & Reeve understands the issues involved with experience of advising businesses from farmers and landed estates to major food processors and retailers.

    Real Estate: Mills & Reeve has extensive experience in handling issues ranging from significant transactions to day-to-day asset management. Its team of more than 100 lawyers has helped clients like Trinity College Cambridge and Lend Lease.

    Sport, media and entertainment: Mills & Reeve’s lawyers have more than 50 years of experience in advising clients across sport, media and entertainment. The team is headed up by Mark Hovell, who is a well-respected industry spokesman and is one of a select few arbitrators appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

    Technology: Mills & Reeve’s technology and life sciences team has a strong reputation for providing clear and proactive advice. They regularly offer guidance on issues like information technology and intellectual property.

    International Work

    Mills & Reeve offers specialist legal advice, wherever clients need it. Through working with Mills & Reeve, clients gain access to the best international lawyers on the ground, across the globe. The firm has built a worldwide network of leading independent, full service international law firms that share its values, high standards and commitment to client service. Mills & Reeve works with these firms so often and so closely, that clients receive a seamless experience, while also having access to local experts with detailed market knowledge and international legal advice.

    Offices

    Birmingham

    One Centenary Way

    Birmingham B3 3AY

    Tel +44 121 4568200

    Cambridge

    Botanic House

    100 Hills Road

    Cambridge CB2 1PH

    Tel +44 1223 364422

    Manchester

    No.1 Circle Square

    3 Symphony Park

    Manchester M1 7FS

    Tel +44 161 2355420

    Leeds

    1 City Square

    Leeds LS1 2ES

    Tel +44 113 3888440

    London

    24 King William Street

    London EC4R 9AT

    Tel +44 207 6489220

    Norwich

    1 St James Court

    Whitefriars

    Norwich NR3 1RU

    Tel +44 1603 660155

    Oxford

    27 Park End Street

    Oxford OX1 1HU

    Tel: +44 344 880 2666

    Get in touch!

    [email protected]

Ranked Offices at Mills & Reeve LLP

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UK - Head office

Greater London

24 King William St , London, Greater London, UK, EC4R 9AT, London

UK

West Midlands

One Centenary Way , Birmingham, West Midlands, UK, B3 3AY, Birmingham


Cambridgeshire

Botanic House, 100 Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, CB2 1PH, Cambridge


West Yorkshire

1 City Square , Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, LS1 2ES, Leeds


Lancashire

No.1 Circle Square 3 Symphony Park , Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M1 7FS, Manchester


Norfolk

1 St James Court Whitefriars , Norwich, Norfolk, UK, NR3 1RU, Norwich


Oxfordshire

27 Park End Street , Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, OX1 1HU, Oxford

Ranked Departments at Mills & Reeve LLP (57)

East Anglia

London (Firms)

Midlands

North East & Yorkshire

North West

Ranked Individuals at Mills & Reeve LLP (142)

East Anglia

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