When professional firms — and the partners who lead them — reach the moments that decide what they become, they instruct one team.
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Most firms have clients in professional services. Very few have made the firms themselves their life's work.
20171
Advising Bond Dickinson LLP on its combination with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, creating a transatlantic firm of around a thousand lawyers. Two partnerships, two jurisdictions, each with its own constitution, capital structure and regulator, agreeing to become one — the structural question the sector has been asking ever since.
Merger
20081
Acting for Vestra Wealth LLP against UBS Wealth Management in one of the City's landmark team-move disputes. What a departing partner may plan, when a duty of fidelity bites, what a firm can actually restrain — every lateral move since has been argued around those questions.
Litigation
20111
For the successful petitioner in a leading authority on unfair prejudice in LLPs — law that partnerships still navigate by.
Reported authority
20181
The merger that created BDB Pitmans: structure, member approvals, execution.
Merger
20181
The English elements of a transatlantic combination of two US firms with London practices.
Merger
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Establishing its London office. Silicon Valley's counsel, arriving in the City.
Establishment
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Constitutional change through a growth phase. Running.
Constitution
The constitution of your firm, drafted to reflect how it actually runs: ownership, capital, decision-making, profit-sharing, exits. Agreements that hold when relationships don't.
General partnership to LLP; LLPs and companies combined in group structures; new service entities. We designed several of the structures the sector now treats as standard.
Lateral hires, team lift-outs and defections — for the firm gaining, the firm losing, or the partners moving. Restrictive covenants, garden leave, repudiation.
Expulsions, deadlock, discrimination claims, unfair prejudice, dissolution. Contentious partnership work of the highest sensitivity, handled discreetly and, where it is called for, not discreetly at all.
Domestic and transatlantic combinations: diligence, structure, member approvals, integration.
SRA and professional-body regulation, authorisation, ABS structures, and the rules that shape how firms may own, operate and grow.
Lockstep, contribution and hybrid models; capital, drawings and retirement.
Boards, management committees, voting thresholds, and what happens when the founders stop.
Senior Associate
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Partner
Senior Partner
Highly sensitive contentious matters: team moves, partner exits, and the disputes firms cannot afford to lose.
Legal Director
Partner
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Legal Director
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Partner · Head of Group
Restructurings, LLP conversions and cross-border joint ventures, with particular depth in the legal sector.
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
The group writes its own drafting software: a document-builder producing first-draft members' agreements, engagement letters and resolutions from plain-English questionnaires, in the firm's house style, with live cross-references.
An AI programme under a formal confidentiality and governance protocol, with a stated line between what a machine drafts and what a partner decides.
Precedent banks and playbooks built from decades of partnership work, so each matter starts further on than the last one finished.
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A design concept for the Fox Williams Professional Services Group. Not the firm's official website; for that, see foxwilliams.com.
Set in Playfair Display and Open Sans — the firm's own two faces, self-hosted. Playfair carries every display line; Open Sans is held to body text, tabular figures and labels. Six type sizes, re-declared at each of four breakpoints, with tracking and leading set per size. The headline is drawn to a canvas and blitted back one column at a time, so the word falls into register on load and shears under the pointer. No scroll animation, no reveal on entry, no reading-time estimate, no progress bar, no gradients. Fourth version of this concept; the earlier three are elsewhere.