RSM UK Legal LLP > London, England > Firm Profile
RSM UK Legal LLP Offices
25 FARRINGDON STREET
LONDON
EC4A 4AB
England
RSM UK Legal LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings
Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations Tier 2
RSM UK Legal LLP advises large multinational corporations on the implementation of global reorganisations, encompassing expertise in tax efficiencies, business expansion, streamlining and liquidation. More specifically, it is able to provide support on share and company valuations, ongoing company secretarial support, employee incentives schemes, VAT and transfer pricing issues, and insolvency work. Tristan Mutimer and Carolyn Brown lead the team; Mutimer acts for FTSE 100 companies on corporate reorganisations, simplifications and demergers, as well as debt restructuring and corporate governance matters. Bahareh Rahmani is another key practitioner.Practice head(s):
Tristan Mutimer; Carolyn Brown
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘The team is well placed to offer legal advice alongside tax advice.’
‘Tristan Mutimer, head of Corporate Legal, is extremely knowledgeable and professional in his approach. He limits the use of legal jargon, ensuring that clients are able to follow the often complicated legal process.’
‘There are a number of factors which make this team unique, these can be summarised as: 1) The team performs high-value work directed to the right client priorities – the team is focused on adding value and ensuring the client remains central to their advice. 2) The team’s lawyers solve problems rather than erect roadblocks – a real commercial outlook and looking beyond just the legal framework and issues. You never receive a list of problems, but rather well considered options.’
‘Tristan Mutimer (Partner) – Tristan cares about exceptional client service and works hard to deliver commercially focused legal solutions which achieve his clients objectives. He comes across as confident and knowledgeable about his area of expertise and will always refer queries onto a subject matter specialist where he feels it is outside of his remit. Tristan will also work hard to deliver to timescales he is set! His work ethic is therefore well known among his regular clients.’
Key clients
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Civica Group
M247 UK
I.M. Group
CRA International
Apcer Pharmaceuticals
Waterlogic Group
Neal’s Yard Dairy
IBA Group
Language Line Solutions
Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC)
Trace Group
Work highlights
- Advised KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the national flag carrying airline of the Netherlands, on the reorganisation of its UK corporate group.
- Advised Civica, a global leader in public sector software, on its group simplification and the rationalisation of in excess of £1bn of debt movements.
- Advised M247 UK on the simplification of its UK group.
Employment > Employers Tier 7
RSM UK Legal LLP - the legal arm of accounting firm RSM UK - assists with ongoing HR matters and the implementation of workforce structuring and restructuring projects. The firm is also recommended for senior investigations. As part of a tax and auditing firm, the practice is readily able to provide multidisciplinary advice. Charlie Barnes heads up the team.Practice head(s):
Charlie Barnes
Other key lawyers:
Jennifer Mansoor
Testimonials
‘A real strength has been their ability to tailor advice to our needs, not providing overkill but having a conservation with us as a client and fully understanding what those needs are.’
‘The responsiveness is impressive in terms of answering calls, emails or replying in a timely fashion. When something is outside their remit, a clear effort is made to gain information in a timely manner.’
‘We use RSM as our auditors and it was a logical step to contact them when we needed legal and HR advice for the furlough scheme. The team was there to walk us through the process of claims and drafting employee letters regarding the furlough scheme. They were invaluable.’
‘When we were desperate for legal advice during a time of need, Charlie Barnes was always contactable or would return my call – something a client appreciates. The advice he gave were clear and comprehensible without all the legal jargon.’
‘RSM Legal comes from an accountancy background – concentrates on products dealing with difficult issues such as minimum wage, working time and holiday pay calculations.’
‘Charles Barnes has a clear and detailed mind. He is able to pick up difficult legal issues and communicate these simply and clearly.’
‘Very supportive of the individual adviser. Enabling good advice to be promptly provided.’
‘Very good advice and interpersonal skills in navigating a practical way through IR35.’
Key clients
Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services UK Limited
CitizenM London Bankside Operations B.V.
Wellington Country Park
DM Hall LLP
Harbour Park Limited
Isabel Hospice
Lead Forensics Limited
Lingfield College
Skillcrown Homes Limited
W Westerman Ltd
W & G Harrison Limited
Montage Gold Corp
The Metrocentre Partnership
Work highlights
- Advising a temporary recruitment business in the health sector on the employment aspects of several key projects concerning the supply of temporary workers.
- Advising an international company which provides maintenance equipment and services to industrial clients on the legal and practical consequences of the IR35legislation which included a review of its end-to-end processes from procurement to engagement with contractors to ensure compliance with the legislation.
- Providing legal and strategic support to an international hotel chain on cases involving long-term sickness absence, disability discrimination, misconduct and employment tribunal claims.
RSM UK Legal LLP > Firm Profile
The firm:
RSM is the seventh largest audit, tax and consulting firm in the world. Globally, RSM has over 50,000 staff operating out of 860 offices in 123 countries. Global turnover exceeds USD7.2bn. In the UK, RSM has 3,700 staff operating from 32 offices nationally with a turnover in exceeding £375m. The RSM Legal team operates within this international framework to deliver specialist corporate and employment law advice which complement RSM’s wider service offering to provide our clients with truly holistic and global solutions.
The national legal services team is headed by highly experienced partner Carolyn Brown, also a leading employment law practitioner.
Types of work undertaken
Employment: Our employment legal advice team supports organisations with legal advice to establish and manage both people structures and their people arrangements.
We guide you through business set up and organisational changes, like workforce integration / separation or legal and regulatory change, as well as partnering with you to overcome challenges to your people structures such as terminations and employment claims. We provide pragmatic advice on complex people challenges such as long-term sickness absence, dismissals and senior exits.
We work as part of RSM’s wider People Advisory Services and so our employment legal expertise is supplemented by specialist colleagues in employment tax, share plans, HR, and payroll, ensuring our advice to you is seamless and holistic.
Applying our unique combination of legal, HR and employment tax specialist knowledge, we advise organisations on issues such as National Minimum Wage, holiday pay, equal pay and employment status enabling you to address all practical and legal aspects of these regulatory challenges.
Corporate: As part of a global professional services firm, our corporate law team has access to a wealth of specialist advisers enabling us to provide you with the full spectrum of expert advice you need to achieve your best outcomes.
Our corporate law services team advises on:
- business sales and purchases;
- business restructuring, re-organisations, demergers and simplifications;
- joint venture and shareholders’ agreements;
- corporate tax;
- loan agreements;
- implementation of tax planning advice;
- corporate vehicle formation;
- bespoke company constitutional documents; and
- shareholder exits.
International Business Reorganisations:
RSM UK Legal LLP has a team of dedicated corporate solicitors who specialise in such corporate re-organisation projects.
Large international group re-organisations can be complicated and often require legal, tax and accounting advice to ensure that the re-organisation is carried out in a legal and tax efficient way.
Our specialist lawyers work with RSM’s tax, accounting and other business consultants, both nationally and internationally, to deliver a seamless end-to-end solution that ultimately saves you time and allows you to focus on business operations. This is important because corporate re-organisations often happen at business-critical times in a company’s life cycle, such as pre- or post-sale or listing.
Share schemes: RSM’s expert employee incentivisation team helps clients to design tailored solutions taking into account their clients’ business size, aspirations and objectives.
RSM’s legal services are complimented by:
- Employment tax specialists
- HR project consultants
- Payroll services
- Outsourced finance specialists
- Company secretarial services
- Corporate taxation specialists
- Accounting and Business Advisory specialists
- Private tax specialists
RSM’s legal services are at the forefront of the development of the legal services sector, being part of the largest firm of accountants outside the Big Four to establish itself as a multi-disciplinary practice. In addition to the benefits this affords clients, the firm is the first multi-disciplinary practice to specialise in successfully delivering employment legal advice to private sector large corporates and their people as part of a wider People Advisory Services offer.
RSM’s legal service lines are led by highly experienced specialists and it has depth in the areas of employment legal, corporate legal and share schemes.
The firm is ambitious and has grown through key strategic hires. It has added further depth and breadth to its complementary legal service lines while continuing to review service line expansion sympathetic to its core clients and its vision to become the first-choice adviser to major mid-market businesses globally.
Other offices: London, Basingstoke,
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Employment | Carolyn Brown | ||
Corporate | Tristan Mutimer | ||
Share Schemes | Fiona Bell | ||
Employment | Charlie Barnes |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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Charlie Barnes | Director. Specialises in employment law | View Profile | |
Fiona Bell | Partner. Specialises in Corporate, Commercial, Employee Share Plans, Employee Trusts, Advice to Remuneration… | View Profile | |
Tristan Mutimer | Partner. Head of Corporate Legal Services | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Number of UK partners : 3 Number of other UK fee-earners : 6Diversity
At RSM, our people are our most valuable asset. We want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel that they can bring their true self to work.
Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our clients’ needs.
Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That’s why we’re working together with all our stakeholders to ensure our firm’s principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.
Listen. Educate. Act.
To drive forward our continuing commitment to ensure all our people feel valued we have set out a diversity and inclusion strategy of dialogue, understanding, and action. We consider this agenda to be a business imperative.
Listen
By bringing together the diverse voices and perspectives of our people, we endeavour to promote a culture of constructive conversation and engagement. We gather feedback from our networks, employee surveys and create spaces for people to share their experiences and be heard.
Educate
We empower our people to better understand diversity and inclusion and challenge thinking so that together, we can continue making progress. We have an annual calendar of learning opportunities which includes national broadcasts and regional events. We also provide resources and learning activities so that our people can inform themselves.
Act
Through intentional and purposeful action, we will deliver on our promise. Ensuring that our processes, benefits and learning opportunities reflect the diversity of our people and their needs.
Awards, accreditations and partnerships
To support our inclusion journey, we partner with and have received accreditations from a range of organisations helping us deliver our aims, including:
- Being awarded Top 100 Employer and Gold Employer Award in Stonewall’s 2022 Workplace Equality Index
- Disability Confident Employer
- Signatory of the Valuable 500
- Neurodiversity in Business membership
- Signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles
- Leadership Through Sport and Business
- Access Accountancy
- Working Families
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