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Winckworth Sherwood
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Winckworth Sherwood

UK 2026

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Overview

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  • Senior Partner: Robert Botkai

    Managing Partner: Richard Tinham

    Number of partners: 67

    Assistant solicitors and fee earners: 145

    Contacts:

    Charities: Alison Talbot and Joanna Bussell

    Construction: Eleanor Kilminster

    Corporate & Commercial: Richard Tinham

    Ecclesiastical: Aiden Hargreaves-Smith

    Education: Andrea Squires

    Employment: Andrew Yule

    Funds: James Duncan

    Licensing: Robert Botkai

    Parliamentary: Paul Irving

    Planning: Colette McCormack

    Private Client: Tim Snaith

    Property Litigation: Emma Chadwick

    Real Estate: Francesco Ferrari

    Social Housing: Charlie Proddow and Alan Duncan

    Tax: Robin Dabydeen


    THE FIRM Winckworth Sherwood is a full-service commercial firm headquartered in London. The firm has built an enviable and diverse client base and has earned a reputation for delivering high quality advice alongside a focus on exceptional client service and a commercial approach.

    Examples include:

    ■ Over £2.9bn of deals (value of corporate transactions)

    ■ Advising over 350 executives on high level employment issues

    ■ Over £1.6bn of residential sales for private developers and housing associations

    ■ Advising international UK based HNW and Ultra-HNW individuals in relation to their personal and business legal issues

    ■ Major regeneration and development schemes around the UK

    ■ Ground-breaking joint ventures between developers and affordable housing providers to deliver thousands of new homes and mixed-use developments

    ■ Advising Family Offices on a range of corporate and commercial issues

    ■ New social enterprises providing leisure and arts facilities to communities across the country

    ■ New education academies that will transform the delivery of primary and secondary education


    PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK Winckworth Sherwood’s core legal service offerings include: Charities; Commercial & Corporate; Construction; Data Protection and Regulation; Ecclesiastical; Education; Employment; Family; Finance and Banking; Hospitality, Retail & Leisure; Immigration; Licensing; Litigation; Local Government; Parliamentary Agency and Infrastructure; Private Client, Family Offices and Private Wealth; Real Estate, Development and Planning; Social Housing; Tax and Telecoms. Please visit wslaw.co.uk for more information.


    CLIENTS Many of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions; housebuilders and developers; investors; professional partnerships; family offices; not for profit organisations; and private individuals.


    RECRUITMENT In the last year Winckworth Sherwood has made a number of lateral hires at partner level. to further expand its offering. Winckworth Sherwood also recruits 8 trainees a year. Please visit wslaw.co.uk for more information.

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UK - Head office

Greater London

Minerva House 5 Montague Close, London, Greater London, UK, SE1 9BB, London

UK

Lancashire

111 Piccadilly, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M1 2HY, Manchester


Oxfordshire

2 Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, OX2 9GG, Oxford

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