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Will Sidery elcome to the 2019 eprivateclient Top Law Firms report that recognises the leading private client editor eprivateclient W law firms in the UK. This year 43 firms have been included in the rankings and these firms reflect the wide variety of advice available to clients from not just the UK but international individuals and families too. The geographical spread of the 43 firms across the UK from Aberdeen in the north to Bristol in the South West shows that the demand for and supply of high quality private wealth legal and tax advice can be found throughout the country. Congratulations to all the firms who made the list in 2019.

anlam is delighted to sponsor the 2019 eprivateclient Top Law Firms initiative and congratulate these firms S on their leading positions. The Sanlam Private Office is a centre of excellence to support the requirements Penny Lovell of individuals, families, charities and trusts with in excess of £1m CEO, Private Office, to invest across all of their affairs. Investment Management and Sanlam Private Financial Planning sit at the heart of the service with a focus on our Wealth high net worth bespoke offering for clients with very specific needs. We work very closely with other advisers in the private client world and are delighted to support this initiative, commending the most prominent private client practitioners. This year we were extremely proud to receive the PAM Performance Award for High Growth Portfolios for the second year running and were finalists in every other performance award category – a first in the history of the awards. Alongside our robust investment engine, we offer a suite of services and solutions that constitute a total wealth solution for HNW & UNHW individuals and access to a network of professional advisers in the legal, accounting, trustee, philanthropy and art advisory world. Many congratulations to all the firms included in this year’s initiative and we hope to have the opportunity to work together.

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Consolidation amidst uncertainty

elcome to the 2019 eprivateclient Top list with 177 in its UK private wealth team. The sixteen firms rankings – an in depth analysis of the top UK produced fee income for 2018 of just under £305 million - with law firms providing high quality private client an average of £19.1 million per firm. For the Tier I firms, UK W services to wealthy individuals and families private client fee income as a percentage of total firm income based both domestically and internationally. varied from just over six percent at to over As with the previous two years, the firms featured are divided 80 percent at Maurice Turnor Gardner. The firms also hired 79 into tiers, reflecting not only the size of firms’ private client new in 2018 with topping the pile with teams, but also their reputations within the private wealth sector 15 new fee earners in 2018. and the emphasis placed upon looking after wealthy clients and Tier II features 15 firms for 2019 with a total of 222 partners their families. (ranging in numbers from 24 (Thomson Snell & Passmore) to For 2019, 43 firms feature across three tiers with 16 firms six (McDermott Will & Emery). The firms have a total of 883 featured among Tier I, 15 firms in Tier II and a further 12 fee earners and total private client staff of 1295. The 15 firms featuring in Tier III. employed a slightly higher number of new solicitors to Tier I Overall, the 43 firms to feature have a total of 539 UK based in 2018 (88) and generated fee income of £152 million in 2018. private client partners (down from 605 last year). The firms Tier III features 12 firms for 2019 with 74 private client employ almost 2100 fee earners (an average of 49 per firm), total partners, 241 fee earners, total private client staff of 361 and UK staff of 3019 (down almost 18 percent on last year) and total fee income for 2018 of £43.2 million. The 12 firms employed UK fee income of £500.2 million, down 16 percent on last year 23 new solicitors in the past year, with private client boutique (£581 million). The Burnside Partnership at the top with six new solicitors. The 16 firms featured in Tier I have 243 private client partners, The rankings, built on the results of surveys sent to almost 150 ranging in numbers from five (Harbottle & Lewis) to 31(Russell- law firms in the UK, are based on data for 2018. Where data was Cooke). The firms employ 972 fee earners whilst total staff across not provided by firms, publisher’s estimates were made, which are the Tier I firms stood at 1363 with Russell-Cooke topping the clearly labelled on the rankings.

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2019 eprivateclient Top Law Firms Profiles

Anderson Strathern 10 McDermott Will & Emery 8 BDB Pitmans 7 Michelmores 8 Blake Morgan 10 Mills & Reeve 8 Boodle Hatfield 5 6 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 7 Murray Beith Murray 11 Burges Salmon 5 New Quadrant Partners 8 Charles Russell Speechlys 5 Payne Hicks Beach 8 Collyer Bristow 7 Penningtons Manches 8 Cripps Pemberton Greenish 7 Radcliffes Le Brasseur 11 10 Royds Withy King 9 Edwin Coe 10 Russell-Cooke 6 Farrer & Co 5 Stephenson Harwood 6 Forsters 5 6 Harbottle & Lewis 5 The Burnside Partnership 11 Harcus Sinclair 10 Thomson Snell Passmore 9 Howard Kennedy 10 Turcan Connell 6 Hunters Solicitors 11 Wedlake Bell 6 Private Wealth 7 Withers 6 Kingsley Napley 11 Womble Bond Dickinson 9 5 Wrigleys 9 Maurice Turnor Gardner 6

*From July 2019 Penningtons Manches will trade as Penningtons Manches Cooper

Methodology

The Top Law Firm rankings begins with a survey of over 100 firms serving wealthy clients in the UK. The key data of number of partners, number of fee earners, total number of staff, fee income and private client fee income as a percentage of total fee income is used to produce the rankings that are published on www.eprivateclient.com. In addition, the number of clients and the number of UK offices are also used to formulate the list. When data is not supplied, estimates based upon published data and PAM Insight’s market knowledge are used.

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Farrer & Co

Sarah von Schmidt Departmental managing partner Partners: 16

Fee earners: 56 Tier 2018 Fee Income: £13.4 million*

Forsters

Patrick Harney I Partner and head of private client Partners: 23

Fee earners: 86 Boodle Hatfield 2018 Fee Income: £24.96 million Andrea Zavos Partner Partners: 11

Fee earners: 16 2018 Fee Income: £8 million Harbottle & Lewis

Glen Atchison Managing partner Burges Salmon Partners: 5

John Barnett Fee earners: 17 Partner and head of private client 2018 Fee Income: £5.367 million Partners: 16 Fee earners: 79 2018 Fee Income: £17.1 million

Charles Russell Speechlys Macfarlanes Bart Peerless Piers Barclay Partner Partner and head of private client Partners: 46* Partners: 12

Fee earners: 172* Fee earners: 71 2018 Fee Income: £18.27 million* 2018 Fee Income: £30.1 million

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Maurice Turnor Gardner Taylor Wessing Claire Maurice Andrew Hine Senior partner Partner and head of private client Partners: 9* Partners: 9 (+1 consultant)* Fee earners: 15*+ Fee earners: 36* 2018 Fee Income: £6.61 million* 2018 Fee Income: £17.88 million*

Mishcon de Reya Turcan Connell

James Libson Alexander Garden Executive partner & head Chairman of Mishcon Private Partners: 9* Partners: 22 Fee earners: 45* Fee earners: 133 2018 Fee Income: £9.92 million 2018 Fee Income: £37.60 million

Russell-Cooke Wedlake Bell

Richard Frimston Camilla Wallace Partner and head of private client Partner Partners: 31 Partners: 14

Fee earners: 134 Fee earners: 29 2018 Fee Income: £18.50 million 2018 Fee Income: £9.2 million

Stephenson Harwood Withers

James Quarmby Dora Clarke Partner and head of private wealth Partner and regional divisional leader for private client & tax Partners: 7 Partners: 25 Fee earners: 12 Fee earners: 86 2018 Fee Income: £8 million 2018 Fee Income: £61.3 million*

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Collyer Bristow Peter Daniel Partner Partners: 20

Fee earners: 42 TierII 2018 Fee Income: £9.15 million

BDB Pitmans Cripps Pemberton Helen Ratcliffe Greenish Senior partner Myles McIntosh Partner Partners: 15 Partners: 23 Fee earners: 78 Fee earners: 74 2018 Fee Income: £7 million* 2018 Fee Income: £14.70 million

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth

Damian Bloom Nick Rucker Partner, head of private client Partner and national head of tax, Partners: 9 trust & estates Fee earners: 30 Partners: 20 2018 Fee Income: £10.68 million* Fee earners: 92 2018 Fee Income: £15.9 million

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McDermott Will & Emery New Quadrant Partners

Simon Goldring Louise Stoten Partner & head of tax Senior partner and private client Partners: 11 Partners: 6 Fee earners: 26 Fee earners: 17 2018 Fee Income: £4.5 million 2018 Fee Income: £7.3 million*

Michelmores Payne Hicks Beach

Jonathan Riley Alastair Murdie Partner and head of private wealth Senior partner & head of private client Partners: 17 Partners: 12 Fee earners: 72 Fee earners: 33 2018 Fee Income: £11.7 million 2018 Fee Income: £8.1 million

Mills + Reeve Penningtons Manches

Chris Belcher Clare Archer Partner Partner and head of private client Partners: 12 Partners: 13*

Fee earners: 45 Fee earners: 46* 2018 Fee Income: £8.6 million 2018 Fee Income: £7.6 million*

*From July 2019 Penningtons Manches will trade as Penningtons Manches Cooper

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Royds Withy King Womble Bond Dickinson

James McNeile David Dale Partner & head of private client Head of wealth Top Law Firms Partners: 22 Partners: 13* 2019 Fee earners: 108 Fee earners: 66* 2018 Fee Income: £15.2 million 2018 Fee Income: £14.42 million*

Thomson Snell & Passsmore Wrigleys

Nicola Plant Andrew Wriglesworth Head of private client Co-head of private client Partners: 24 Partners: 10

Fee earners: 75 Fee earners: 75 2018 Fee Income: £14.42 million* 2018 Fee Income: £4.42 million*

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Dentons Roddy Harrison Partner Partners: 9*

Fee earners: 15* Tier 2018 Fee Income: £3.6 million

Edwin Coe

Alison Broadberry Partner and head of private client III Partners: 3 Fee earners: 12 2018 Fee Income: £3.15 million

Anderson Strathern Harcus Sinclair

Colin Henderson Keith Bruce-Smith Partner and head of private client Managing partner Partners: 7 Partners: 2*

Fee earners: 43 Fee earners: 6* 2018 Fee Income: £3.8 million 2018 Fee Income: £1.31 million*

Blake Morgan Howard Kennedy

Helen Bunker Liz Palmer Divisional director – private law Partner and head of private client & family Partners: 7 Partners: 5* Fee earners: 50 Fee earners: 15* 2018 Fee Income: £6.20 million 2018 Fee Income: £3.54 million*

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Hunters Solicitors RadcliffesLeBrasseur

Robert Wright Victoria Fairley Partner Partner, head of tax and private client Partners: 7 Partners: 10 Fee earners: 19 Fee earners: 25 2018 Fee Income: £5.08 million* 2018 Fee Income: £3.93 million

Kingsley Napley The Burnside Partnership

James Ward Anna Burnside Partner and head of private client Partner Partners: 5* Partners: 5

Fee earners: 10* Fee earners: 10 2018 Fee Income: £3.7 million* 2018 Fee Income: £0.91 million

Murray Beith Murray Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove

Hugh Younger Tim Osborne Senior partner Senior partner Partners: 6* Partners: 8*

Fee earners: 21* Fee earners: 15* 2018 Fee Income: £4.68 million* 2018 Fee Income: 100 million*

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Top 35 Cripps Under 35 joins merges with Gateley from Irwin prime Central Mitchell Private Wealth law firm

eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35 Ravi Francis joined the growing 2018 eprivateclient Top firm Cripps is merging with private client department at UK law firm Gateley. Pemberton Greenish in an attempt to form “one of the country’s Joining from Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth, Mr Francis joins leading legal practices” focusing on real estate, private wealth former colleagues Richard Jordan, Mark Pearce and Louise and growing businesses. O’Toole who have all joined Gateley’s from IMPW since the start The merger exploits an increasing gap in the legal market. of 2019. The firm is designed around the needs of its clients and will trade Mr Francis, who was named as a Top 35 under 35 in 2012, as Cripps Pemberton Greenish. With its well-managed, open 2013, 2017 and 2018, spent four years at Irwin Mitchell Private and adaptable culture, it will deliver the clear communication, Wealth, having joined Thomas Eggar (now merged with IMPW) commercial advice and highest service standards demanded in March of 2015. Prior to that Mr Francis worked at Harrington by sophisticated, fast moving clients. Carmichael between 2011 and 2015. South east based Cripps has a substantial client base in London, while Pemberton Greenish has an established reputation in prime central London, particularly for its work for large property businesses and in private wealth. The merger hopes to strengthen their presence in London and deepen its expertise in key areas. The merger will broaden and deepen the combined firm’s capabilities by: offering a fuller range of real estate, business and private client services to the firms’ clients and the wider market; and significantly increasing its scale of private wealth practice, affording clients greater depth and breadth of expertise. Gavin Tyler, managing partner of Cripps, said: “It has been a key strategic objective for a number of years to significantly develop our London business. By merging with Pemberton Greenish we will be able to take a joint step forward to deliver a broader, deeper, and even more personal service to all our clients. Being headquartered in Kent however remains a key part of who we are, the clients we want to work with and why Cripps is the firm it is.”

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Bircham Maurice Dyson Bell Turnor Gardner and Pitmans hires Rupert Law announce Ticehurst to lead merger firm’s litigation team

Following partnership votes, UK law firms Bircham Dyson Bell Maurice Turnor Gardner (MTG) appointed Rupert Ticehurst (BDB) and Pitmans merged in September 2018. as head of litigation in October 2018. The combined firm, BDB Pitmans, officially launched on He has joined from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) 1 December and will be fully integrated both operationally and where he was head of private client litigation since 2011. He has financially, with combined revenues of over £50 million. a background in advising on trusts, wills and tax planning but BDB Pitmans will operate from four locations: London, Reading, spends most of his time engaged in litigation. Prior to BCLP he was and . The firm of 80 partners and over at , where he was a partner and headed its private 400 staff will be led by legacy BDB managing partner, Andrew wealth and charities practice. Smith and chief operating officer, Mark Jones, alongside an Clare Maurice, MTG’s senior partner, said: “We are coming up to executive board consisting of John Hutchinson (managing partner our 10 year anniversary and I am proud and delighted to welcome of legacy Pitmans), Suzanne Brooker (deputy managing partner of Rupert to the team. We have come through one of our busiest legacy Pitmans), David Archer (senior partner of legacy Pitmans) years ever and his arrival reflects our strategy to invest in our and three legacy BDB Partners. Helen Ratcliffe of legacy BDB will top tier contentious trusts, estates and probate practice.” be senior partner of the combined firm. Last year Mr Ticehurst advised on a trademark dispute over The legacy firms have also taken this opportunity to vote on the shape of London black cabs, securing a Court of Appeal converting to an Alternative Business Structure (ABS). Once victory for Frazer Nash and Ecotive, allowing them to begin regulatory approval has been obtained, the firms said this would production of their environmentally-friendly Metrocab after a “enable the merged firm to take advantage of opportunities that passing off challenge by the London Taxi Company. He also acted arise to expand services and resources as it develops and grows.” for the successful defendant in the landmark High Court and Court Andrew Smith, managing partner of legacy BDB, commented: of Appeal case, Slutsker v Haron Investments Ltd, involving a claim “We are delighted that the partnership voted overwhelmingly in based on the Russian Family Code. favour of this merger. From our earliest discussions we saw clear Maurice Turnor Gardner has experience of all the issues which alignment both in the cultural fit between the two firms and the affect wealthy individuals (and their families and trustees) and practical benefits of what our combined offering geographically professional practices in the UK and elsewhere. and in practice areas would bring to our clients and our people. Mr Ticehurst was joined by eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35 We look forward to working with our new colleagues and Simon Goldring in January 2019. launching our fully integrated firm in December.” Legacy Pitmans managing partner, John Hutchinson, added: “This is indeed an important day for both firms and we have every reason to celebrate. The essential process of due diligence and consultation has resulted in a merger that genuinely ticks all the boxes for client service, culture, people and finance. Pitmans has been serving our clients for over 140 years and it is with great pride we share this exciting news that will secure and drive the firm’s future success.”

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On Monday 29 April 2019, PAM insight and Sanlam UK co-hosted a champagne reception at the Bond Street auction house of Bonhams in London for the 2019 eprivateclient Top Law Firms. As well as senior figures from the successful firms, a number of Top 35 Under 35s, 50 Most Influentials and PAM Awards judges also attended

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David Scott, partner, Harbottle & Lewis

Katrina Williams, director, R&H Trust (Jersey)

Andrew Lewis, head of business acquisition, Sanlam UK

James McNeile, partner & head of private client, Royds Withy King; and Chris Belcher, partner & head of national private client team, Mills & Reeve Harvey Cammell, deputy chairman & global director of valuations, trusts & estates, Bonhams

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Andrew Hine, partner and head of private client, Taylor Wessing & a 2019 eprivateclient 50 Most Influential; and John Annetts, partner, Howard Kennedy

Tristan Blythe, editorial director, PAM Insight; and Mark Fleming, director, private client, Sanne

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Hilesh Chavda, associate, Royds Withy King

Robert Wright, partner, Hunters

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Panvir Thind, wealth planner, Sanlam UK

Jonathan Conder, private client partner, Macfarlanes

Jonathan Hyde, senior manager, PwC & a 2018 eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35

Patrick Malone, senior associate, RadcliffesLeBrasseur & a 2018 eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35

Alice Vink, senior associate, Stephenson Harwood & a 2018 eprivateclient Top 35 Under

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Emily Osborne, partner, Stephenson Harwood; and Nicola Plant, partner and head of private client, Thomson Snell & Passmore

Penny Lovell, CEO – private office, Sanlam Private Wealth; Tristan Blythe, editorial director, PAM Insight; and Sarah von Schmidt, partner, head of private client group & a 2019 eprivateclient 50 Most Influential

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Penny Lovell, CEO – private office, Sanlam Private Wealth

Zoe Camp, partner, New Quadrant Partners Jonathan Shankland, partner & head of international private wealth, RadcliffesLeBrasseur

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