Firm’s Culture

We recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds, seeking out the best and those with the highest potential and we invest in their development.

We believe that people will thrive in an environment that supports achievement and teamwork. This helps us deliver the best possible service to our clients.

The firm is known for its strong teamwork and collegiality, with a reputation for being a good place to work with great people to work with. Our style is unstuffy, service focused, and friendly. We are proud that clients tell us that not only do they regard our work highly, they like working with us and see us as an extension of their teams. Our culture is underpinned by shared values, already strongly established in our predecessor firms. These are:

Clients come first

Our aim is to satisfy our clients through a deep understanding of their needs, their businesses and their industries, and by providing excellent, responsive and innovative service.

Excellence in all we do

We put intense effort into our work and actively look for ways to deliver the best results for our clients and so for our firm.

One Team

Legal excellence can be achieved only when lawyers in a firm cooperate in their practice rather than compete. In so doing, the firm created an environment where collegiality, trust and respect are the guiding principles under which we work.

Commitment to our firm’s success

We foster a corporate culture based on cooperation and the contribution of each individual inside and outside the firm. We greatly value quality, efficiency, service-orientation and team work in order to advise our clients successfully over periods of many years.

Social Responsibility

We embrace our responsibility to give back to our communities through pro bono and community service work and we are committed to a diverse workforce that is inclusive and welcoming.

Close to Our Community

Our firm has a strong commitment to good citizenship and community service. Our people – whatever their position – take an active role in areas such as pro bono, diversity, the environment, community fundraising, and charitable giving. We are as dedicated to community work as much as we are to our client work.

We measure our success on the basis of the difference our work makes – whether assisting charities around the world or monitoring and reducing our own impact on the environment. In addition to direct support and charitable giving by individuals and the business, we also provide match-funding for charitable fundraising activities.

In some instances, we work alongside our clients on their corporate responsibility activities, and we often invite clients to get involved with our own initiatives, whether it’s charity or pro bono work.

Where appropriate, we are eager to partner with our clients in whatever way we can – we see it as being as important for building and maintaining our relationship with them as the legal work we provide.