Trowers & Hamlins is an international law firm with over 170 partners and more than 1,100 people across the UK, Middle East and Asia. With a significant presence in Manchester, we offer businesses, organisations and communities a powerful combination of detailed local knowledge and the broad perspective and resources of an international law firm.
Our expertise has a particular focus on corporate, commercial, construction, finance, disputes, employment and real estate advice for clients in Manchester and the North West. We also work internationally and, as members of the global network of pre-eminent independent law firms, ‘Interlaw‘, we provide access to over 8,000 lawyers in 150+ cities worldwide.
Throughout our long history we have held fast to our values and characteristics – service, quality, integrity, and innovation – which have made us as a leading law firm and an inclusive and a rewarding place to work and build a career. Over 240 years later, these attributes remain firmly embedded in our culture and practices.
We are well known for being experts in the sectors in which our clients work and getting to the crux of the issues they face. This gives us the best foundations to extend our thinking beyond the day to day delivery of transactional and advisory legal services and provide our clients with fresh thinking and commercially-driven solutions.
Business expertise
We provide tailored advice to institutions, companies and owner managers at all stages of their business life cycle, from set up, through growth and ultimately to exit. From merger and acquisitions, raising capital, shareholder agreements and governance to commercial and technology agreements and data privacy, we are pragmatic, commercially-focused and responsive, ensuring that we help to deliver our clients’ growth ambitions whilst regulating risk and ensuring compliance.
We help businesses develop people strategies to become employers of the future, manage change and tackle problems. When disputes arise, businesses rely on us to stand alongside them to prevent or resolve conflicts with a well-judged pre-litigation strategy. When litigation is the only answer, we fight to win. We also regularly advise on restructuring companies and all forms of insolvency.
Real estate expertise
As a top 20 real estate law firm acknowledged for the breadth of our practice, we help clients to deliver large, complex deals ranging from major commercial acquisitions to substantial regeneration initiatives, luxury leisure and retail premises and private and social housing. Whether you are a developer, work in local or central government, or are a regulator, financier or occupant, we have valuable experience from all sides of the negotiation table. We are convinced of the built environment’s role as a cornerstone of society, and are working alongside clients and industry leaders to pioneer the future of real estate.
