In a global market, we expect to assist our clients wherever they do business. Many of our clients have global businesses, and some of them derive over 90 per cent of their revenue outside the UK. We represent many overseas clients wishing to establish their businesses in the UK, as well as those businesses in the UK with planned growth into foreign markets. Our lawyers have been involved in international transactions for our clients in over 60 different jurisdictions in the last two years.
Resources
We have a network of trusted advisers in most countries around the world. Our international offering is significantly enhanced through membership of the prestigious State Capital Group (SCG)*, which provides ready access to around 11,500 lawyers in a global network of more than 140 leading independent law firms in 160 jurisdictions, in 300 cities around the globe, eclipsing the offering of firms with international satellite offices. We have developed relationships of mutual trust and commitment with these firms over many years. We can refer to and work with whichever firm best meets the requirements of our clients.
Experience
Many of our lawyers are fluent in other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin and Urdu. Many of our lawyers also have experience of practising in other jurisdictions including China, India and the USA. Membership of the SCG affords a proximity to the local culture overseas as well as a depth of awareness and understanding of legal developments. Our experience is backed by reciprocal secondments and training programmes with the SCG and other law firms, including recent secondments to Shanghai, Bangalore and Qatar. ensuring we understand different cultural and commercial needs to help our clients navigate a complex and ever changing legal landscape.
Our China group and India group have strong connections in China and India with broad experience in technology, corporate, real estate and university related transactions.
Recent examples of our international experience include:
- Advising a global corporate group based in the Netherlands on their joint venture with a US-based group to establish a UK joint venture company for operation in the flower seeds market
- Assisting and advising a US parent company on the acquisition of a software business by its UK subsidiary as part of a wider business acquisition by the US parent
- Acting for a Hong Kong based global corporate on its collaboration arrangements with a leading UK university
- Advising an Oxbridge college on an £87 million joint venture with an Asian government to promote UK/Asian academic research
- Advising on obtaining an injunction in Germany to prevent the auction and to ensure the safe return of priceless historical manuscripts
- Advising various UK universities on their entry into India in relation to educational collaborations, including dual award programmes
- Advising a French online trading company on its business structure and obligations in the UK
- Advising a leading university on setting up the United Arab Emirates' largest multi-disciplinary diabetes facility in Abu Dhabi
- Advising a multinational oil company at short notice regarding a mandatory injunction against a Canadian entity in relation to the provision of helicopter services to a vessel sitting offshore in the Indian Ocean
- Conducting ICC arbitration proceedings on behalf of an international online gaming company
- Helping a UK university to establish an entity in China
- Advising and managing the worldwide trade mark portfolio of one of the main leading UK examination boards
- Advising in litigation regarding trade mark and copyright infringement claims in Europe, North America and South America
- Project managing multi-jurisdictional advice for an international underwriter
Our locations
We have offices across the UK in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester and Norwich.
*Member firms of the State Capital Group practise independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law.