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Welcome to international law firm Addleshaw Goddard. Each year, over 3000 major businesses, including 45 FTSE 100 companies, trust us to deliver. They appoint us time and again, in over 90 countries. And while the challenges they bring us vary, we solve them with the same, single-minded focus: finding the smartest way to achieve the biggest impact.

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45

96

FTSE 100 clients

countries

We’ve acted for many of the world’s most recognised and respected companies in the last 2 years – including 45 FTSE 100 companies.

We’ve helped clients in 96 countries in the last few years, via our 13 offices across 3 continents.

24

40

Years valued service

Tier 1
rankings

The average length of our FTSE 100 client relationships is 24 years. Clients that appoint us return to us.

40 AG practice areas ranked in Tier 1 across the UK in legal directories 2021.

100

5th

Awards and accolades

Most innovative

Over 100 awards and accolades for the practice and business of law in the past four years.

The FT ranked us as the 5th most innovative law firm in Europe.

>1300

>50

Lawyers globally

Specialist practices

Over 1300 lawyers around the world, including over 280 partners.

Specialist in over 50 areas of business law.

2500

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COMPANIES

CSR initiatives

Over 2,500 companies have relied on our specialist technology, consultancy and innovation teams.

We are active in over 40 different Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives focused on ‘Unlocking Young Potential’.

Hot Topics

Hot Topics

Rhyme and Reason: Poetry and the Law

Rhyme & Reason is a celebration of the law, and the people within companies who practice it. To provide a fresh perspective, we turned to five poets, because lawyers and poets use the same tools… words.

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Hot Topics

Hot Topics

Emerging Stronger: Restructuring

Restructuring can be a positive process. Find out more about how to identify and navigate some of the key issues facing the market, from the ongoing impact of Covid-19 to managing supply chain risk and the challenges facing the construction sector, among others.

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CLIENT IMPACT

CLIENT IMPACT

FUNDING THE £98M UNFUNDABLE DEAL

Confidence is often the first step in the journey to achieve a successful deal. So when debt advisers told UPP that its ambitions to acquire 2,000 student rooms were unfundable, we disagreed – and went on to prove them wrong.

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CLIENT IMPACT

CLIENT IMPACT

70% faster property reviews in the bag for Primark

189 stores. 40,000+ pages of leasehold contracts. 28,000,000 words. When Primark needed to determine the repair responsibilities for its property portfolio, we faced a herculean challenge. With just two weeks to deliver, we put technology to work.

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CLIENT IMPACT

CLIENT IMPACT

How some high voltage thinking saved our client over £100m

When one of the world’s leading automotive companies purchased a large plot for a major new factory, there wasn’t enough power to support their ambitious growth plans. With an eyewatering energy bill looming, one simple question led to a surprisingly straightforward solution – and over £100m saving.

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CLIENT IMPACT

CLIENT IMPACT

Developing a ground-breaking approach to leader formation

The GCs of tomorrow need more than legal knowledge alone. We worked collaboratively with Network Rail to co-create its GC Readiness Programme.

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