Asserson Law Offices

The firm: Asserson launched in 2005 as a bold experiment in providing UK legal services a little differently. It has teams in real estate, planning, business law, finance, employment, arbitration and dispute resolution. We have offices in London and Tel Aviv and act for international clients doing business under English law.

Each of our teams operates as a boutique, with the advantages of a close-knit committed team, combined with the ability to connect across business areas when required.

Asserson has a track record of involvement in some of the most substantial disputes’ cases that have taken place in the UK Courts, frequently acting on high profile and leading cases. We are also involved in major real estate and corporate deals. The firm works with global businesses and private clients, frequently finding itself alongside and against some of the biggest international law firms.

Asserson has always sought to be a different kind of legal practice. Its senior lawyers and partners actively lead on client work. The lawyers are with the firm for the long-term, and maintain its client relationships with the same commitment. Asserson strives to understand its clients and their business, and in doing so seeks to work innovatively, to think differently, and ultimately on behalf of its clients, to win differently.

Areas of practice
Business law: Asserson brings together extensive in-house and private practice legal expertise to deliver services across all areas of corporate law, all business sectors, and across borders. It is actively involved in setting up businesses, helping them expand, supporting business reorganisation, whether through merger and acquisition, or other forms of restructuring, and it has experience at working through demergers and dissolutions when those are required.

Dispute resolution and international arbitration: Asserson’s team brings market-leading litigators and arbitrators together with some of the rising stars of the future on behalf of an international client base which includes sovereign states, international government agencies, multinational corporations, banks and high-net-worth individuals. It has expertise in a wide range of fields including banking law, complex financial instruments, mining, telecoms, fraud, proceeds of crime, human rights/public law, judicial review, renewable energy, professional negligence, international trust work and defamation.

Finance: Asserson’s expertise includes secured and unsecured lending, debt and equity restructurings, project finance and infrastructure transactions, emerging market investments, leveraged acquisitions and disposals and real estate finance. It acts for lenders and lending syndicates, multilateral lending institutions (IFIs), private equity funds and fund managers and borrowers. It regularly acts on transactions involving multiple jurisdictions.

Planning: The firm successfully manages landmark regeneration schemes and major public/private development initiatives with a strong track record in winning on appeal. Its team draws on a mix of private and public sector expertise, and often gets involved early on, providing strategic and long-term input through the lifetime of a project.

Real estate: Asserson real estate works across the commercial and residential sectors, through acquisitions and disposals, commercial leases, development schemes, planning advice, landlord and tenant matters, building contracts and warranties, and property finance. Its business model also allows Asserson to handle both large-scale initial transactions and subsequent plot sales, management work and leasing up.

Private client: We act extensively for family offices and individuals across litigation, real estate and corporate areas.