Foot Anstey

Under the leadership of managing partner Martin Hirst, Foot Anstey LLP continues to invest in people and technology to deliver value, quality, and innovation, supporting clients in achieving their strategic objectives. The firm’s strategy focuses on organic growth across six sectors, complemented by targeted talent acquisition, attracting recruits from national, City, and international practices.

The client base includes regional, national, and international businesses as well as public sector organisations. The firm applies its knowledge and expertise to support clients while also contributing to its communities, environment, and equal opportunities through collaborations with employees, clients, suppliers, and local partners.

Foot Anstey’s corporate team advises a wide range of clients, from global businesses on international transactions to entrepreneurs and business owners requiring local connections. Its expertise includes private equity, banking, restructuring and insolvency, international transactions, tax, and company secretarial services, with experience in public and private M&A, domestic floats, delistings, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, and group restructuring. The commercial team supports private, public, and third sector organisations across all aspects of business operations, including research and development, commercial contracts, complex projects and disputes, competition and procurement law, financial services, consumer credit, intellectual property, privacy and data protection, IT, telecommunications, outsourcing, and commercial collaborations.

The dispute resolution department handles a wide range of commercial disputes with specialist teams covering niche areas, while the employment team, the largest in the South West, advises major national and regional employers. The real estate department manages a large portfolio of public sector and private clients, undertaking prestigious City work as well as regional and local projects, supported by planning, property litigation, and construction specialists. Clinical negligence, personal injury, and mental capacity services are delivered through Enable Law, a separately regulated sister firm and one of the largest specialist firms of its kind in the South of the UK. The private wealth and succession team advises on tax planning, wealth management, succession planning, and family law.

The firm focuses on sectors including banking and financial services, energy, property, infrastructure and construction, media and technology, retail, leisure, and food and drink. Offices are located in Bristol, Exeter, London, Plymouth, Southampton, Taunton, and Truro.

Staffing Figures
53 UK Partners
382 Other UK fee-earners

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