Travers Smith LLP

Managing Partner: Edmund Reed

Senior Partner: Andrew Gillen

UK 

Number of partners: 88

Number of associate solicitors: 342

Number of other fee-earners: 50

INTERNATIONAL  

Number of partners: 1

Number of associate solicitors: 2

AREAS OF PRACTICE  

Advisory: 15%

Corporate: 50%

Dispute Resolution: 20%

Finance/Financial Services: 15%

CONTACTS 

Technology & Commercial Transactions: Dan Reavill

Corporate: Spencer Summerfield

Corporate M&A and ECM: Adrian West

Derivatives & Structured Products: Jonathan Gilmour

Dispute Resolution: Heather Gagen

Employee Incentives: Mahesh Varia

Employment: Tim Gilbert

Environment & Operational Regulatory: John Buttanshaw

EU/Competition: Nigel Seay

Finance: Charles Bischoff

Financial Services & Regulatory: Tim Lewis

Funds: Aaron Stocks

M&A: Spencer Summerfield

Pensions: Susie Daykin

Private Equity & Financial Sponsors: Lucie Cawood

Real Estate: Emma Pereira

Regulatory Investigations: Rob Fell, Tim Lewis

THE FIRM It is not just law at Travers Smith. Travers Smith treats its clients’ business and challenges as its own. The firm’s clients know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, the firm will work as one of their team to get things done.

Our clients know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to help them achieve their goals. With our offices in London and Paris, and through a carefully cultivated network based on relationships with independent law firms from all over the world, we are able to provide a first-class, seamless service to clients around the globe.

We regularly conduct cutting-edge and industry-first work for clients across industry sectors and have carved a market-leading reputation for our expertise in international asset management, cross-border M&A and global dispute resolution and investigations.

Our clients include publicly listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity firms, and other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes. They come to us not only because of our expertise, but also the way we conduct our business and collaborate with one another.

Our practice area teams specialising in technology & commercial transactions, competition, corporate finance and M&A, dispute resolution, derivatives and structured products, employment, environment and operational risk, infrastructure, finance and restructuring, financial services and markets, funds, incentives and remuneration, pensions, private equity and financial sponsors, real estate, regulatory investigations and tax regularly work together as one cohesive team on matters and deals.

Our success is rooted in the excellence of our people, our clients and our commitment to using our influence and knowledge to do good in the society. This is our difference and we are proud of it.

INTERNATIONAL For its international and cross-border work, Travers Smith has focused on building carefully cultivated relationships with independent law firms all over the world, sharing quality standards and strengths. This enables the firm to provide a first-class, seamless service for clients around the globe. Travers Smith has chosen this route because it gives it the ability to pick the best firm for every piece of work, providing a one-firm approach wherever the firm’s clients conduct their business. Travers Smith regularly coordinates the provision of overseas advice for particular matters, as well as recommends law firms for its clients to instruct directly. What distinguishes Travers Smith’s model is the investment the firm makes into developing its relationships with the best independent law firms in the world.

RECRUITMENT Travers Smith is always looking to recruit people from all backgrounds, with academic excellence and sound judgement who take their careers, but not themselves, seriously. The firm’s training philosophy is that skill and expertise are best acquired through practical experience, complemented by carefully targeted formal instruction. Great emphasis is placed on continuous learning and development towards personal and professional growth.