Addleshaw Goddard at the IBA 2026
One Week. One Conference. Infinite Opportunities.
We are delighted to once again connect in person with our friends, colleagues and business contacts around the world, discussing local market trends, recent projects and successes, as well as opportunities for future collaboration. As a helpful reminder, please find below your AG partner contacts and some information about Addleshaw Goddard. We are looking forward to seeing you and hope you enjoy your time in Copenhagen, please don't hesitate to reach out if we can assist you or your clients on any current or future projects.
Your IBA Team
London, UK
London
Netherlands
France
Key facts
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Our team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, and noted for its 'leading advisory offering handling all issues facing the sector’. We work with some of the largest and best-known brands, including household consumer goods, multi-channel retailers and high-street occupiers.
We deliver granular day-to-day advice and handle major strategic projects from transforming supply chains, reimagining ESG and businesses impact on the environment, navigating workforce challenges, understanding the role of bricks and mortar vs. ecommerce, digitalisation, and internationalisation. Combining specialist market insight and our knowledge of local and global regulations allows us to apply the right risk lens and find solutions for our clients.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Retail
- Consumer
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Addleshaw Goddard’s transport team is recognised as one of the most experienced in the sector.
Ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500, we have the technical expertise on national, and international, transport projects.
We solve complex problems through in-depth knowledge of the transport sector from both a regulatory and operational perspective.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Automotive
- Airports and Aviation
- Bus
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Electric Vehicles
- Freight
- Ports and Terminals
- Rail
- Roads and Highways
- Shipping
- Sustainable Transport
- Tram
- Transport Hubs & Regeneration
- Transport Technology
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The healthcare and life sciences industry is an innovative one, currently experiencing challenges due to funding, increasing demand on services and in a heavily regulated environment.
However, opportunities are plentiful as the market changes, including digital healthcare technologies having positive and disruptive effects, the increasing interaction between the public and private sectors and the growth of the retirement villages market.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Healthcare Infrastructure and Public Sector
- Life Sciences & Sci-tech
- Private Health Providers, Operators and Insurers
- Care Homes and Later Living
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As one of the firm’s key areas of expertise, real estate is at the heart of Addleshaw Goddard.
We view real estate in the broadest sense, taking into account all aspects impacting the built environment in which we operate. We consider the detail of the design of the building, energy consumption and how technologically future-proof it is and the issues relating to public property companies...and much more.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Innovation and Alternatives
- Alternatives
- Logistics and Light Industrial
- SciTech
Living Sector
- Affordable
- Build to Rent
- Housing
- Later Living
- Student Accommodation
Work and Play:
- Hotels & Leisure
- Offices
- Retail
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With manufacturing clients ranging in size and geographical reach, we have developed a wide knowledge of the industrials market and tailor our approach to best suit our clients' needs.
Addleshaw Goddard operates in a variety of industrial sub-sectors from automotive to construction. We advise our clients on all aspects of their legal requirements from strategic acquisitions and disposals to procurement, disputes and logistics.
Our clients are at the heart of what we do, and we act on behalf of some of the sector's biggest businesses including Associated British Foods, Britvic, PZ Cussons, Skanska and Tata as well as a leading carrier airline, a FTSE 100 multinational manufacturing business and a leading car manufacturer.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Aerospace & Defence
- Automotive
- Chemicals
- Electronics
- FMCG Manufacturing
- Paper, Packaging and Printing
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Our International Energy and Utilities Group has extensive experience around power generation and renewable energies, from nuclear and gas, to solar, biomass, wind and offshore marine.
Whether your focus is to reduce costs, improve energy security, exploit commercial opportunities or enhance your green credentials, you need advisors who understand the uncertainties and can provide pragmatic, incisive advice that helps to minimise risks.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Battery Storage
- Biofuels
- Biomass
- CHP
- Decommissioning
- Downstream Energy
- Energy Market Regulation
- Mining and Minerals
- Nuclear
- Offshore and Onshore Wind
- Oil and Gas
- Solar
- Waste
- Water
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Our market-leading lawyers have extensive experience across a diverse range of finance-related assignments including underwriting, primary syndication and debt transfers (including portfolio transactions).
We enjoy a formidable reputation amongst domestic and international banks, building societies and other major financial institutions as well as sophisticated borrowers.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Asset Based Lending, Trade & Supply Chain Finance
- Asset Finance & Leasing (incl. Aviation, Rail Finance & Shipping Finance)
- Corporate Debt
- Debt Capital Markets (incl. Private Placement)
- Derivatives & Securities Financing
- Funds Finance
- Healthcare Finance
- Hotel Finance
- Islamic Finance
- Leveraged Finance
- Loan Portfolio Solutions
- Project Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Social Housing Finance
- Social, Sustainable and Green Finance
- Speciality Finance
- Structured Finance & Securitisation
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Global Connect
We help our clients to succeed by delivering services through our own office network of 1500+ lawyers in 22 cities worldwide and through Global Connect, our proactive and dynamic preferred firm network, with 200+ expert, local, ranked firms which between them have over 16,000 specialist lawyers in over 300 jurisdictions.
Working alongside our Global Connect firms, we have built up a wealth of insight and specialist expertise in all the major jurisdictions. We draw this knowledge together through our multi-disciplinary, international groups covering all the major regions in the world.
Find out moreAddleshaw Goddard has been advising clients for 250 years, and today we support them across our 22 offices, in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. Our 1500+ lawyers have helped large companies and institutions to complete deals, deliver major projects, secure funding, operate effectively and protect their interests across the world.
