Clarke Willmott LLP

Clarke Willmott LLP is a regional law firm operating across England and Wales with a sector-led approach tailored to clients’ industries. The firm is recognised for its high level of service, transparent fee structures, and practical, straightforward advice. Its strategy of combining sector expertise with an understanding of clients’ day-to-day business operations has established its reputation across multiple key industries.

The firm maintains specialist teams in real estate and construction, social housing, and retail, alongside leading practices in private client services, commercial services, agriculture, renewable energy, and sport. Clarke Willmott serves a broad client base, including private businesses, sole traders, public sector bodies, high-net-worth individuals, and charitable organisations, providing advice across nearly all areas of law.

Clarke Willmott has seven regional offices and employs over 650 lawyers and support staff, including more than 110 partners. The firm focuses on steady, planned growth and the continued development of its teams to deliver services on a national basis.

Its agriculture and estates team offers comprehensive legal services to the agricultural and rural landowning communities. The banking and finance team advises banks, building societies, specialist lenders, and borrowers on lending transactions, recoveries, financial litigation, and professional negligence matters. The commercial services team supports companies of all sizes with transactional and commercial work, employment issues, procurement, restructuring and insolvency, litigation, and debt collection.

The financial services team provides sector-specific advice, including corporate and litigation matters, for product providers, brokers, lenders, and financial advisers, as well as guidance on consumer credit authorisations. The green energy team advises on renewable and nuclear energy projects from inception through planning, acquisition, financing, construction, regulation, commissioning, grid connection, and ongoing operations.

Clarke Willmott’s housebuilder team is recognised for advising the UK residential development sector, including large volume housebuilders, strategic land companies, smaller traditional builders, and niche start-ups, covering all property-related aspects. The intellectual property practice supports businesses from start-ups to household names in protecting, enforcing, and exploiting IP rights.

The private client team advises professionals, high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, and clients in entertainment, sports, and agriculture on succession planning, trusts, tax, wealth protection, divorce and family law, property matters, litigation, and personal injury and clinical negligence. Its national real estate team provides comprehensive advice across commercial property, including construction, procurement, development, investment, regeneration, planning, environmental, property litigation, finance, tax, telecommunications, and asset management. The social housing team is one of the largest in the UK, acting for national and regional registered providers across a wide range of legal areas. The technology team advises on ICT acquisitions, outsourcing, managed services, website development, Cloud agreements, software as a service, data protection, and social media matters.

Languages
All main business languages

Memberships
Society of Construction Law
Institute of Directors
Solicitors Regulation Authority
The Law Society of England & Wales

Staffing
110+ UK partners
340+ other UK fee-earners