Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP is an international law firm with a focus on private capital, operating at the intersection of personal, family, and business matters. The firm provides legal services across the private capital space, offering a broad range of integrated advisory, transactional, and contentious services.

Headquartered in London, the firm also maintains offices across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including Doha, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Singapore, Luxembourg, Manama, Paris, and Zurich. Its teams combine sector and geographical expertise with partnerships covering more than 200 legal jurisdictions, enabling support for clients with operations in a single country or across borders.

The firm advises on banking and finance, with particular focus on borrower work across sectors, real estate finance, projects, and bank and non-bank lender work including mezzanine, corporate finance support, and structured finance. Its commercial practice covers complex work for corporate organisations, including commercial contracting, compliance, corporate risk, EU, competition and trade, intellectual property transactions, licensing, and outsourcing.

Charles Russell Speechlys undertakes commercial dispute resolution through litigation, arbitration, and mediation in the UK and internationally, with recognised expertise in commercial disputes, corporate recovery and insolvency, judicial review, and fraud. Its construction, engineering, and projects work serves developers, investors, contractors, and engineering consultancies, alongside high-net-worth individuals undertaking high-value residential projects.

The corporate team advises on flotations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, venture capital, commercial contracts, outsourcing, data protection, competition, and tax. The firm’s corporate recovery and insolvency practice acts on both contentious and transactional mandates for insolvency practitioners, often involving international matters.

Employment and immigration services cover strategic and practical support for corporate clients on employment, pensions, and immigration issues, as well as advising senior individuals. The family practice advises on family breakdown, children, and relationship agreements. Financial services and tax teams address regulatory, transactional, and strategic issues.

In healthcare, the firm provides transactional, regulatory, and advisory expertise across social care, primary care, dental, and veterinary sectors. Intellectual property work includes contentious and non-contentious matters across copyright, patents, trade marks, designs, database rights, passing off, and confidential information.

Private property services extend to international banks, investment companies, and individuals, handling UK and international investment property transactions. Property litigation expertise includes acting for major institutional land and estate-owning clients, particularly in London, the South East, and the South West, as well as in insolvency-related disputes.

The real estate team advises on commercial property transactions, financing, planning, landlord/tenant matters, and portfolio management. The sports practice advises governing bodies, clubs, athletes, brands, and agencies across a wide range of sports including football, rugby, horse racing, Formula 1, cricket, e-sports, boxing, tennis, greyhound racing, athletics, and cycling.

The tax, trusts, and succession practice advises individuals, trustees, beneficiaries, entrepreneurs, and landowners on the establishment and management of trusts and associated tax implications.

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