Edwin Coe LLP

Edwin Coe LLP is a commercial firm based in the heart of London’s historic legal district in Lincoln’s Inn. We provide a comprehensive range of legal services to meet the needs of a wide variety of businesses, individuals and organisations based throughout the UK and internationally.

Our collegiate approach provides clients with efficiency and cross-disciplinary support where necessary to ensure that their needs and objectives are fully supported and met in a cost-effective manner. Legal advice is led by partners whose experience and expertise means that they are able to get to the heart of matters quickly and to come up with insightful, practical and commercial solutions in the shortest possible time frame. For most clients this is preferable and more cost-effective than if work is carried out by junior lawyers, however, we discuss this on an individual basis with clients to ensure the most suitable arrangements for them. Clients regularly rate us as “excellent” in terms of efficiency, understanding their business needs, and keeping them informed of progress and developments.

Many of our partners are involved at a high level in professional bodies and associations, or are contributors and authors of established legal texts. This gives us an invaluable practitioner’s standpoint and means that we are well placed to assist clients with forward-planning, helping them to avoid many legal problems altogether.

Edwin Coe LLP is a member of Ally Law, a group of 70+ independent law firms and 2800+ professionals in 40+ countries who provide comprehensive legal services to companies worldwide.

Types of work undertaken

Banking & Finance: The team focuses on funding and investment for specific projects and the acquisition of assets and general corporate purposes.

Charities & Philanthropy: Our team offers a full-service approach to charities’ legal needs with particular specialisms in cross-border issues and philanthropy

Class Action Litigation: Our team specialises in bringing cases against entities whose actions have caused damage to small or large groups of people. Our experience in this field has included acting for groups of shareholders, private individuals and those belonging to professional bodies and trade associations.

Construction & Engineering: The team offers a full range of construction legal services to both domestic and international construction projects and works closely with the property and litigation departments to provide a full service to clients. The team also has a wealth of experience in acting for clients involved in construction disputes and regularly provides strategic and proactive advice.

Corporate: The firm’s  team acts on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, group reorganisations, cross-border and international transactions, public offerings/flotations, banking and new business start-ups. Commercial work includes intellectual property, commercial contracts and agreements.

Employment: The team advises businesses and individuals on all contentious and non-contentious matters, including collective redundancy, implementation of business restructures and protection of business interests, due diligence, business transfers and commercial transactions. The team provides a full service regarding preparation for representation at employment tribunals and in the High Court.

Immigration: The team provides services to both individuals and businesses. It helps those who want to come and live in the UK, set up businesses in the UK or who might want to make investments in the UK. The team also advises and assists in all areas of immigration and nationality law.

Information Technology: The team advises household names in IT as well as a wide range of media clients who are involved in areas such as film, TV, entertainment, new media, advertising, publishing, communications and PR. The team has particular expertise in dealing with regulatory and commercial issues faced by new and innovative technologies in the IT space and also advise on legal aspects of social media and user-generated content on websites and on new media aspects of defamation.

Insurance Litigation: The team assists and advises clients on a wide range of disputed insurance claims arising from denial of liability and policy avoidance by insurers. We act exclusively for policyholders and have no ties to particular insurers, underwriting syndicates, or insurance intermediaries. This means that we can provide the highest quality advice on all aspects of policy coverage, including related claims in professional negligence against insurance brokers and third party advisors.

Intellectual Property: The team has an impressive mix of IP contentious and non-contentious solicitors and trade mark attorneys. It provides a full service to clients from the acquisition, exploitation and protection of intellectual property, through to its commercial use and the handling of infringement and other contentious issues.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution: The team offers a complete dispute resolution service, including arbitration and mediation, asset protection and recovery, banking, commercial litigation, factoring, fraud, insurance claims, landlord and tenant protection, professional and disciplinary tribunals, and professional negligence claims. The team has considerable expertise in handling class actions and securities fraud.

Private client: The team specialises in preserving the wealth of individuals and families. It advises on and creates estate planning arrangements, including sophisticated wills, trusts and charities. It also administers UK estates and trusts.

Property: The team advises on all aspects of property acquisition and disposal, banking security work, property development, planning, landlord and tenant, licensing, mortgages and debentures, investment acquisitions, property portfolios, and rent and lease reviews. The team also has significant expertise in Property Litigation and property insolvency matters.

Restructuring & Insolvency: The team advises on all aspects of personal insolvency, corporate restructuring and recovery, company disqualification, professional licensing and disciplinary questions, and debt recovery.

Tax: The team provides a number of tax-related services to its wide and diverse client base. The team has a market-leading understanding of onshore and offshore markets and utilises its prior experience, gained both while working for HMRC and in the private sector, to provide bespoke solutions to both individual and corporate clients based in the UK and overseas.