Senior Partner Penny FrancisManaging Partner Hugh Maule- Number of partners: 83
- Total staff: 467
- Number of fee-earners: 171
The Firm Lawrence Graham LLP is a firm of business lawyers, advising clients around the world. It's not just commercially-minded – it's entrepreneurial and results-minded.
LG's approach is to get deep inside its client's businesses and the industries they work in, giving LG an extra edge in tailoring the most effective solutions for them.
The firm services clients from its international offices in London, Dubai, Monaco and Russia; but also through its close relationships with other advisers in its key jurisdictions. Together, the firm advises seamlessly on the most complex, cross-border deals and disputes.
The emerging markets of India, South East Asia and the Middle East remain of critical importance to the firm and its clients, while exciting new business opportunities in the more mature markets of Europe and North America keeps LG firmly centred on those regions.
LG is proud to have a culture that is open and refreshingly straightforward. It employs highly talented individuals, while valuing a strong team ethic - and that is fundamental to the way it works as a business.
Principal Areas of Work The firm has a particular understanding of the issues facing those businesses and individuals operating in its key sectors:
Financial Institutions: LG advises leading industry players, including banks, corporate finance houses, asset managers, fund administrators, insurance companies, commodity and energy traders, IFA umbrellas, financial advisers, mortgage brokers, insurance intermediaries, professional firms, retail and professional investment funds and individual directors.
Real Estate: LG is widely known for providing high quality practical and commercial advice at all stages of the process of creating and dealing with real estate assets. The firm's expertise mirrors the broad range of its clients' needs - from creating the right corporate structures for the particular investment and investors, to securing bank lending and from advising on regeneration and development projects through to construction matters and property disputes.
Private Capital: LG's unique and highly successful 'Billionaire's Club' has enabled it to pull rapidly away in recent years and distinguish itself from the pack of more traditional UK private client legal practices. Its private client practice remains firmly focused on the international ultra high net wealth market, providing advice to the world's wealthiest families and their banks and offshore trustees.
Hospitality & Leisure: Having advised on some of the largest deals in hospitality and leisure, the LG team understands the diverse and highly competitive nature of the industry. Its experience is evidenced in its work with leading pub chains, restauranteurs, hotel financiers, leisure facility developers and operators and gaming companies. Work includes structuring a multi-million pub estate sale, securing financing for a hotel acquisition or advising on new employment regulation. LG can tailor the most innovative and cost-effective business solutions for its clients.