Addleshaw Goddard

With a strong reputation for advising on regulatory and contentious partnership matters, Addleshaw Goddard is a popular choice for professional service firms including law, accounting, real estate, and financial services. The partnership practice is also highly adept at handling cross-border cases, partnership transactions, SRA and FCA investigations, and IP matters. Leading the group is William Wastie, who is noted for being ‘supremely knowledgeable’ and ’always available.’ He has deep experience assisting on international mergers, strategic development, and internal governance issues, as well as LLP disputes for law firms, financial services businesses, architects, and consultancy firms. The team also benefits from the expertise of Aster Crawshaw – who has expertise in leading on M&A and international structuring – and Jon Cheney – who has extensive knowledge of both contentious and non-contentious partnership matters such as international and domestic mergers, reorganisations, and joint ventures. Johnny Cakebread stands out for his breadth of practice which covers mergers, acquisitions, and disposals, international structuring, constitutional and governance reviews, and regulatory issues. Other key practitioners include Ben Sanderson and Luc Swietochowski, both of whom have strengths in partnership transactions. Chris Hallinan departed the firm in June 2023.

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Testimonials

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‘The Addleshaw Goddard team are professional, pragmatic, responsive, approachable, talented and deliver excellent client service. They understand our business, our sector, our challenges and provide advice and support to meet our needs.’
‘Jon Cheney and Jonathan Cakebread have undertaken a significant project for us over the last 12 months and are always available to help, support and guide in a pragmatic, focused and easily understood manner. They are responsive, proactive and solution driven. Sector experts at the top of their game.’
‘Excellent strength in breadth and depth which is unique in the market. A one-stop shop for any partnership law question - from acquisitions to individual partner exits and everything in between.’
‘William Wastie is supremely knowledgeable, always available, and really cares about his clients.’
‘Luc Swietochowski is relatively new to the team, but excellent at transactional work in our experience.’
‘A first rate practice with excellent knowledge of the dynamics of professional partnerships and evolving market practice.’
‘Aster Crawshaw's style combines a great mix of gravitas and common sense and he delivers usable advice in a user-friendly way.’
‘Practical straightforward thinking - their understanding of the client and their business seems effortless which makes the whole process of instructing and obtaining advice very easy indeed. It also garners a great deal of trust.’

Key clients

Moore Kingston Smith LLP
A&L Goodbody LLP
Cooper Parry Group Holdings and Cooper Parry Audit LLP

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