The lawyers and law firms ranked below advise primarily professional services clients - such as architects, surveyors, accountants and lawyers - on both contentious and non-contentious work related to partnership law and structuring.Representative non-contentious matters include M&A transactions, LLP conversions and the creation of partnership vehicles for corporate or investment purposes. It also includes advice on establishing overseas offices, the drafting of partnership agreements and regulatory matters. Contentious work includes disputes regarding partner exits and team moves, remuneration and retirement issues and investigations into discrimination and harassment. There is a separate table for those specialising in the representation of medical partnerships, including GP, dental and veterinary surgeries. This table includes leading firms and lawyers from around the UK. Lawyers from Scotland and Northern Ireland can be included here but they may also have their own dedicated table.
