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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)
â– Advising over 350 executives on high level employment issues
■Over £1.6bn of residential sales for private developers and housing associations
â– Advising international UK based HNW and Ultra-HNW individuals in relation to their personal and business legal issues
â– Major regeneration and development schemes around the UK
â– Ground-breaking joint ventures between developers and affordable housing providers to deliver thousands of new homes and mixed-use developments
â– Advising Family Offices on a range of corporate and commercial issues
â– New social enterprises providing leisure and arts facilities to communities across the country
â– 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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