Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (informally AG) is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is structured as a LLP and has more than 1,200 lawyers including 271 partners[1] in 14 offices located in Aberdeen, Doha, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Leeds, London, Manchester, Muscat, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo. The firm advises FTSE 100 and other major companies across corporate, commercial, finance and project, real estate and litigation business divisions with specialist fields such as private capital; energy, financial services, health and life sciences, real estate, retail and consumer, construction and transport sectors; and has a strong interest in tech.

Addleshaw Goddard LLP
HeadquartersMilton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street London EC1Y 4AG United Kingdom
No. of offices14
OfficesAberdeen, Doha, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Leeds, London, Manchester, Muscat, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo.
No. of lawyers1,200 +
No. of employees2,000 +
Major practice areasCorporate and commercial, real estate, construction and engineering, financial services, investment management, dispute resolution, criminal law, competition and regulation, restructuring, infrastructure projects and energy, tax, employment and intellectual property,
Key peopleCharles Penney (Senior Partner) - John Joyce (Managing Partner)
Revenue£288 m £ ($391 m) in 2020
Profit per equity partner£690,000
Date founded1775
FounderSamuel Booth - John Addleshaw - Theodore Goddard
Company typeLimited liability partnership
Websitewww.addleshawgoddard.com/en/

Addleshaw Goddard was formed on 1 May 2003 by the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co with Theodore Goddard.[2] In 2017, the firm merged with the Scottish law firm HBJ. With £288 m ($ 391m) (+4%) gross revenue in 2020, the firm is the 23th largest law firm in the United Kingdom and placed 136th on the 2020 Global 200 worldwide law firms ranking.  

History

Addleshaw Goddard traces its roots back to the very first public record of solicitors in the UK – the Law List – published in 1775.

Addleshaw Booth & Co

In 1775, Nicholas Smith founds a firm in Leeds, and Samuel Lister Booth is admitted as a solicitor in 1823. The successors of these practices combined over the years to become Booth, Clough & Booth in 1869. Further amalgamations lead to the firm becoming Booth & Co. In c.1936. John William Addleshaw begins legal practice in 1857 in Manchester and enters partnership with William Warburton in 1873. The firm becomes Addleshaw & Sons in 1904, and then Addleshaw Sons & Latham in 1917. In 1997, Addleshaw Sons & Latham merges with Booth & Co to become the national firm Addleshaw Booth & Co.

Theodore Goddard

In 1902, John Theodore Goddard founds blue chip, City of London firm, Theodore Goddard, which grows through amalgamation with other city practices, such as Rhys Roberts & Co (founded in 1883 by future Prime Minister David Lloyd George). The firm developed as a balanced general practice, with an emphasis on high-profile private client work. Goddard was appointed by Wallis Simpson as an adviser to her during divorce proceedings and in relation to her involvement during the United Kingdom abdication Crisis of 1936. Theodore Goddard retained a strong media and entertainment law practice with clients such as The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and others; and high-profile cases involving celebrities such as the Hello! magazine dispute over photographs of Catherine Zeta-Jones's wedding to Michael Douglas.

Addleshaw Goddard

In 2003, Addleshaw Booth & Co and Theodore Goddard merged to become Addleshaw Goddard. In 2012, Addleshaw Goddard opened offices in Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Oman and Qatar. In 2017, the firm expanded into Scotland by merging with HBJ. In 2019, the firm opened its first office in continental Europe, welcoming partners in Hamburg. In 2021, the firm opens an office in Paris.

Offices

As of January 2021, Addleshaw Goddard has 13 offices in Asia, Europe and the Middle East located in Aberdeen, Doha, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Leeds, London, Manchester, Muscat, Paris and Singapore and a worldwide network of strong relationships with chosen firms in North America, Europe and other emerging jurisdictions. The firm provides also legal services in Tokyo, Japan through a formal alliance with Hashidate Law Office.

Ranking and recent awards
Addleshaw Goddard, Leeds.

According to The Lawyer, a British legal newspaper, Addleshaw Goddard was ranked 15th largest law firm in the UK by turnover in 2006.[3] It was ranked 91st in the world by the same periodical. Two years later the firm remained ranked 15th nationally (by turnover) in The Lawyer's UK 200 Annual Report.[4] More recently Addleshaw Goddard ranked 23th in The Lawyer's top 200 firms in 2020.[5]

The firm was also placed 91st in The Times newspaper's 'Top 100 Graduate Employers' for 2008.[6] In March 2008 it was placed 40th in the Sunday Times '100 Best Companies to Work For' in the UK.[7] The firm is the only law firm to also be included in the newspaper's Top 50 Places Where Women Want to Work, and the Top 100 Graduate Employers rankings as well as the 100 Best Companies. The ranking rose 43 places since the 2007 survey – one of the biggest improvements by any organisation reviewed and the best in the legal sector.

The firm is an FT Innovative Lawyers Award winner, which recognises its pioneering approach to legal services. In 2020, Addleshaw Goddard won the Real Estate Team of the Year award delivered by Legal Business.

In 2020, Addleshaw Goddard has been ranked as a Top 15 law firms by Acritas (now part of Thomson Reuters) in their 2020 UK Law Firm Brand Index.

The Legal 500 (2021) listed 115 practice areas and ranked 40 Tier 1 rankings across the UK offices. The Chambers Guide (2019) ranked 38 Tier 1 rankings across the UK offices and recognised lawyers in the UK, Asia and the Middle East in more than 40 different disciplines.

References
  1. Chambers and Partners Legal Directory firm profile page
  2. Legal Business Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine profile of Addleshaw Goddard
  3. UK survey article Archived 25 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine The Lawyer
  4. UK 200 Annual Report Archived 13 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Lawyer
  5. UK200 2011 Archived 6 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The Lawyer
  6. Top 100 Graduate Employers Archived 27 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Times.
  7. "The 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008". The Sunday Times
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