Addleshaw Goddard

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Addleshaw Goddard LLP
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HeadquartersMilton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street London EC1Y 4AG United Kingdom
No. of offices19
OfficesAberdeen, Berlin, Doha, Dubaï, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester, Muscat, Munich, Paris, Riyadh and Singapore.
No. of lawyers1,700 +
No. of employees2,700 +
Major practice areasCorporate and commercial, real estate, construction and engineering, financial services, investment management, dispute resolution, criminal law, competition and regulation, restructuring, infrastructure projects and energy, tax, employment and intellectual property,
Key peopleAster Crawshaw (Senior Partner) – Andrew Johnston (Managing Partner)
RevenueIncrease2.svg £495,6m (€589m) in 2024
Profit per equity partnerIncrease2.svg £866,000 (in 2022)
Date founded1775
FounderSamuel Booth – John Addleshaw – Theodore Goddard
Company type Limited liability partnership
Website www.addleshawgoddard.com/en/

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (informally AG) is an international law firm headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. It is structured as a fully integrated LLP and has more than 1,700 lawyers including 429 partners [1] in 19 offices located in Aberdeen, Berlin, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, Muscat, Paris, Riyadh and Singapore and an affiliated office in Tokyo. The firm advises FTSE 100 and other major companies across corporate, commercial, finance and project, real estate and litigation business divisions with specialist fields such as private capital; energy, financial services, health and life sciences, real estate, retail and consumer, construction and transport sectors; and has a strong interest in tech.

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Addleshaw Goddard was formed on 1 May 2003 by the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co with Theodore Goddard. [2] In 2017, the firm merged with the Scottish law firm HBJ. In 2022, the firm merged with the Irish law Firm Eugene F. Collins. With £443 m ($550m – €506m) (+18%) gross revenue in 2023, the firm is the 19th largest law firm in the United Kingdom and placed 136th on the 2020 Global 200 worldwide law firms ranking.

History

Addleshaw Goddard traces its roots back to the very first public record of solicitors in the UK – the Law List – published in 1775.

Addleshaw Booth & Co

In 1775, Nicholas Smith founds a firm in Leeds, and Samuel Lister Booth is admitted as a solicitor in 1823. The successors of these practices combined over the years to become Booth, Clough & Booth in 1869. Further amalgamations lead to the firm becoming Booth & Co. In c.1936. John William Addleshaw begins legal practice in 1857 in Manchester and enters partnership with William Warburton in 1873. The firm becomes Addleshaw & Sons in 1904, and then Addleshaw Sons & Latham in 1917. In 1997, Addleshaw Sons & Latham merges with Booth & Co to become the national firm Addleshaw Booth & Co.

Theodore Goddard

In 1902, John Theodore Goddard founds blue chip, City of London firm, Theodore Goddard , which grows through amalgamation with other city practices, such as Rhys Roberts & Co (founded in 1883 by future Prime Minister David Lloyd George). The firm developed as a balanced general practice, with an emphasis on high-profile private client work. Goddard was appointed by Wallis Simpson as an adviser to her during divorce proceedings and in relation to her involvement during the United Kingdom abdication Crisis of 1936. Theodore Goddard retained a strong media and entertainment law practice with clients such as The Rolling Stones , David Bowie, Michael Jackson and others; and high-profile cases involving celebrities such as the Hello! magazine dispute over photographs of Catherine Zeta-Jones's wedding to Michael Douglas.

Addleshaw Goddard

In 2003, Addleshaw Booth & Co and Theodore Goddard merged to become Addleshaw Goddard. In 2012, Addleshaw Goddard opened offices in Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong (which has now been shuttered), [3] Oman and Qatar.

In 2017, the firm expanded into Scotland by merging with HBJ and adding offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. In 2019, the firm opened its first office in continental Europe, welcoming partners in Hamburg. In 2021, the firm opened an office in Paris.

In March 2022, Addleshaw Goddard merged with Top 15 Irish law firm Eugene F. Collins [4] [5] and extended its footprint in Continental Europe by opening 3 offices in Luxembourg, Frankfurt and Munich. In January 2024, the firm opened its 4th German office in Berlin and an office in Riyadh. In May 2024, the firm took over the Spanish office of King Wood & Mallesons and opened an office in Madrid. [6]

Offices

As of May 2024, Addleshaw Goddard has 19 offices in Asia, Europe and the Middle East located in Aberdeen, Berlin, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, Muscat, Paris, Riyadh, and Singapore and a worldwide network of strong relationships with chosen firms in North America, Europe and other emerging jurisdictions. The firm provides also legal services in Tokyo, Japan through a formal alliance with Hashidate Law Office.

Ranking and recent awards

Addleshaw Goddard, Manchester office. Manchester-st-peters-square-image.jpg
Addleshaw Goddard, Manchester office.

According to The Lawyer, a British legal newspaper, Addleshaw Goddard was ranked 15th largest law firm in the UK by turnover in 2006. [7] It was ranked 91st in the world by the same periodical. Two years later the firm remained ranked 15th nationally (by turnover) in The Lawyer's UK 200 Annual Report. [8] More recently Addleshaw Goddard ranked 19th in The Lawyer's top 200 firms in 2023. [9]

The firm was also placed 91st in The Times newspaper's 'Top 100 Graduate Employers' for 2008. [10] In March 2008 it was placed 40th in the Sunday Times '100 Best Companies to Work For' in the UK. [11] The firm is the only law firm to also be included in the newspaper's Top 50 Places Where Women Want to Work, and the Top 100 Graduate Employers rankings as well as the 100 Best Companies. The ranking rose 43 places since the 2007 survey – one of the biggest improvements by any organisation reviewed and the best in the legal sector.[ citation needed ]

The firm is an FT Innovative Lawyers Award winner, which recognises its pioneering approach to legal services. In 2020, Addleshaw Goddard won the Real Estate Team of the Year award delivered by Legal Business.

In 2022, Addleshaw Goddard was ranked as a Top 10 law firms by Acritas (now part of Thomson Reuters) in their 2022 UK Law Firm Brand Index. In 2023, Addleshaw Godard were named as the winner of the AllAboutLaw 'Most Popular Law Firm' award. [12]

The Legal 500 (2021) listed 115 practice areas and ranked 40 Tier 1 rankings across the UK offices. The Chambers Guide (2019) ranked 38 Tier 1 rankings across the UK offices and recognised lawyers in the UK, Asia and the Middle East in more than 40 different disciplines.

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References

  1. ↑ Chambers and Partners Legal Directory firm profile page
  2. ↑ Legal Business Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine profile of Addleshaw Goddard
  3. ↑ "Addleshaw Goddard shutters Hong Kong offices due to 'unique' challenges posed by city-state". 26 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "Eugene F Collins LLP Announces Merger with International Law Firm Addleshaw Goddard LLP". Eugene F. Collins. 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Addleshaw Goddard extends global footprint into Ireland through combination with Dublin's Eugene F Collins". Addleshaw Goddard. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Addleshaw Goddard extends global footprint with launch of 13 partner Madrid office". Addleshaw Goddard. 9 April 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  7. ↑ UK survey article Archived 25 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine The Lawyer
  8. ↑ UK 200 Annual Report Archived 13 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine , The Lawyer
  9. ↑ UK200 2023 Archived 6 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine , The Lawyer
  10. ↑ Top 100 Graduate Employers Archived 27 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine , The Times.
  11. ↑ "The 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008". The Sunday Times
  12. ↑ "Early Careers Trainee & Law Jobs". Addleshaw Goddard. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
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