Offices: London, United Kingdom

Imperial House 15-19 Kingsway London WC2B 6UN United Kingdom DX 37965 KINGSWAY T: +44 (0)20 7632 1600 F: +44 (0)20 7632 1638   London@mcguirewoods.com

Opened: 1978

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Our Office

The London office operates as McGuireWoods London LLP (formerly Grundberg Mocatta Rakison LLP, established in 1978). It is a City-based office that distinguishes itself from its London competitors by offering an international focus.

The London office deals with large and complex transactions, with a strong emphasis on in-depth quality; and in particular, a dedication to devising solutions to meet clients’ business objectives.

Our London lawyers have substantial international and domestic experience including:

• Corporate and Commercial, Securities and Financial Services, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, equity and debt securities offerings and listings, AIM and Plus, corporate finance, bank financing, agency, distribution, licence, franchise and consultancy agreements, intellectual property, information technology and e-commerce, corporate recovery and insolvency issues.
• Dispute Resolution including ADR, commercial contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, cross-border disputes, asset tracing and recovery disputes, civil fraud, as well as domestic and/worldwide freezing injunctions.
• Employment law including employment contracts, directors’ service agreements, consultancy agreements, confidentiality agreements, redundancy, pensions, unfair and wrongful dismissal claims, discrimination, restrictive covenants and directors’ duties.
• Property including purchase of residential, commercial and industrial freeholds, commercially and institutionally acceptable residential leases, redevelopment, mortgages and lending secured on property, property finance and planning.
• Private Clients, Tax and Family including for private clients: personal tax planning, non-domiciliaries, international tax issues, trusts, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and property taxation. For corporate clients, personal tax planning, cross-border corporate structures, employer and employee taxation, international tax issues, share option schemes and property taxation. Family includes, pre-nuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, divorce, ancillary relief i.e. capital settlements and periodical payments (maintenance), division of pensions and off shore trusts and choice of jurisdiction.
• Restructuring and Insolvency including re-financing, administration, insolvency litigation, insolvent and solvent litigations, individual and company voluntary arrangements.
• Competition, including merger control, licensing and distribution agreements and supply arrangements, intellectual property, restrictive practices, abuse of dominance, cartels and compliance procedures.

The team has an array of international qualifications that makes it one of London’s most cosmopolitan law firms.

Cross-border

Jurisdictions

Most lawyers in the London office have knowledge and experience of at least one jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom.

In addition to qualifications as English solicitors, a number of our lawyers are qualified in China, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and various U.S. jurisdictions.

Languages

Professionals in the office speak 28 languages including English, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Latvian, Mandarin, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu and Uzbek.

Territories

With the firm’s membership of Lex Mundi and the London office’s membership of OASIS, we have access to co-counsel in more than 100 countries.

Our attorneys firm wide are working on projects or cases in more than 60 countries. We have clients actively forming, investing in, acquiring, operating or selling businesses throughout the world. In the last five years, we have advised on transactions involving enterprises in every country in Europe and more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Our clients benefit from decades of experience from our London lawyers and solicitors in all of these areas. In addition, our London lawyers have regionally focused experience assisting clients with their business in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Russia and Eurasia, Eastern Europe, China, Africa and the Middle East, Israel, Spain, Portugal, India and South America.

We are also able to assist in tax efficient cross-border structuring of multi-jurisdictional businesses and of intellectual property licensing operations.

Regulatory information

McGuireWoods London LLP, trading as McGuireWoods, is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales (registered number OC307641). A list of members and their qualifications is available at the address above or on our website. McGuireWoods London LLP is a member firm of McGuireWoods LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in Virginia, USA.

McGuireWoods London LLP is a ‘recognised body’ as defined in the Solicitors Code of Conduct 2007, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom. The members of McGuireWoods London LLP are solicitors or registered foreign lawyers authorised to practise in England & Wales and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom. The firm’s SRA number is 401158.

The Legal Complaints Service is an independent complaints handling body that is part of the Law Society but operates independently of it, to which our clients may refer complaints if we cannot resolve them. Their contact details are as follows: (postal address) Victoria Court, 8 Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 5AE, (telephone) 01928 820082, (email) enquiries@legalcomplaints.org.uk, (website) www.legalcomplaints.org.uk. Clients of the firm are entitled to a copy of the firm’s complaints procedure on request.

McGuireWoods London LLP maintains compulsory professional indemnity insurance in a minimum sum of £3 million, each and every claim. The name of our primary layer insurer for the current policy period (1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010) is Travelers Insurance Company Limited. The contact details for the insurer are Exchequer Court, 33 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8AG: telephone 0700 22 22 999. Our policy number is UCSOL 3664986. Details of the minimum terms for the compulsory insurance, including territorial coverage, can be found at www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/code-of-conduct/professional-indemnity/minimum-terms-conditions.page.”