Offices: London, United Kingdom

11 Pilgrim Street London EC4V 6RN United Kingdom DX 249 London/Chancery Lane T: +44 (0)20 7632 1600 F: +44 (0)20 7632 1638 London@mcguirewoods.com Map & Directions

Opened: 1978

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Our Office

The London office operates as McGuireWoods London LLP (formerly Grundberg Mocatta Rakison LLP, established in 1978). It is a City-based office that distinguishes itself from its London competitors by offering an international focus.

The London office deals with large and complex transactions, with a strong emphasis on in-depth quality; and in particular, a dedication to devising solutions to meet clients’ business objectives.

Our London lawyers have substantial international and domestic experience including:

• Corporate and Commercial, Securities and Financial Services, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, equity and debt securities offerings and listings, AIM and Plus, corporate finance, bank financing, agency, distribution, licence, franchise and consultancy agreements, intellectual property, information technology and e-commerce, corporate recovery and insolvency issues.
• Dispute Resolution including ADR, commercial contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, cross-border disputes, asset tracing and recovery disputes, civil fraud, as well as domestic and/worldwide freezing injunctions.
• Employment law including employment contracts, directors’ service agreements, consultancy agreements, confidentiality agreements, redundancy, pensions, unfair and wrongful dismissal claims, discrimination, restrictive covenants and directors’ duties.
• Property including purchase of residential, commercial and industrial freeholds, commercially and institutionally acceptable residential leases, redevelopment, mortgages and lending secured on property, property finance and planning.
• Private Wealth Services including for private clients: personal tax planning, non-domiciliaries, international tax issues, trusts, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and property taxation. For corporate clients, personal tax planning, cross-border corporate structures, employer and employee taxation, international tax issues, share option schemes and property taxation. Family includes, pre-nuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, divorce, ancillary relief i.e. capital settlements and periodical payments (maintenance), division of pensions and off shore trusts and choice of jurisdiction.
• Restructuring and Insolvency including re-financing, administration, insolvency litigation, insolvent and solvent litigations, individual and company voluntary arrangements.
• Competition, including merger control, licensing and distribution agreements and supply arrangements, intellectual property, restrictive practices, abuse of dominance, cartels and compliance procedures.

The team has an array of international qualifications that makes it one of London’s most cosmopolitan law firms.

Cross-border

Jurisdictions

Most lawyers in the London office have knowledge and experience of at least one jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom.

In addition to qualifications as English solicitors, a number of our lawyers are qualified in Finland, France, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Ukraine, and various U.S. jurisdictions.

Languages

Professionals in the office speak 22 languages including English, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Kiswahili, Latvian, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Urdu.

Territories

With the firm’s membership of Lex Mundi and the London office’s membership of OASIS, we have access to co-counsel in more than 100 countries.

Our attorneys firm wide are working on projects or cases in more than 60 countries. We have clients actively forming, investing in, acquiring, operating or selling businesses throughout the world. In the last five years, we have advised on transactions involving enterprises in every country in Europe and more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Our clients benefit from decades of experience from our London lawyers and solicitors in all of these areas. In addition, our London lawyers have regionally focused experience assisting clients with their business in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Russia and Eurasia, Eastern Europe, China, Africa and the Middle East, Israel, Spain, Portugal, India and South America.

We are also able to assist in tax efficient cross-border structuring of multi-jurisdictional businesses and of intellectual property licensing operations.

Regulatory information

McGuireWoods London LLP maintains compulsory professional indemnity insurance in a minimum sum of £3 million for each and every claim. The name of our primary layer insurer for the current policy period (1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012) is Zurich Insurance PLC. The contact details for the insurer are: 299 High Street Sutton SM1 1LJ; telephone 020 8643 3355. Our policy number is B080113986P10. Details of the minimum terms for the compulsory insurance, including territorial coverage, can be found at www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/code-of-conduct/professional-indemnity/minimum-terms-conditions.page.