The constitution of your firm, drafted to reflect how it actually runs — ownership, capital, decision-making, profit-sharing, exits. Agreements that hold when relationships don't.
Partnership & LLP law · City of London
The firm behind the firms.
When professional services firms — and the partners who lead them — face their defining moments, they call one team. The Professional Services Group at Fox Williams.
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Most law firms have clients in professional services. Very few make the firms themselves their life's work. For decades, we have advised partnerships and LLPs on the agreements that bind them, the disputes that test them, and the deals that transform them.
Band 1
Ranked in the top tier for Partnership law by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500
Both sides
Trusted by firms and by individual partners — often on the most sensitive matters in their careers
One group
Corporate, employment, disputes and regulatory specialists in a single multi-disciplinary team
Every chapter of
a firm's life.
General partnership to LLP; LLPs and companies combined in group structures; new service entities. We designed many of the structures the sector now treats as standard.
Lateral hires, team lift-outs and defections — for the firm gaining, the firm losing, or the partners moving. Restrictive covenants, garden leave, repudiation: we wrote much of the playbook.
Expulsions, deadlock, discrimination claims, unfair prejudice, dissolution. Contentious partnership work of the highest sensitivity, handled with discretion — and, when needed, with force.
Domestic and transatlantic combinations — due diligence, structure, member approvals and integration, on some of the defining mergers of the UK legal market.
SRA and professional-body regulation, authorisation, ABS structures and the rules that shape how firms may own, operate and grow.
US and international firms opening or growing a London office — entity choice, regulatory approvals, partner hiring and the local law of running a global partnership.
Management boards, remuneration reviews, succession planning and the quiet counsel senior leadership teams need before decisions become public.
Matters that made
the market.
Bond Dickinson × Womble Carlyle
Advising Bond Dickinson LLP on its combination with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice — creating a 1,000-lawyer transatlantic firm.
Vestra Wealth v UBS
Acting for Vestra Wealth LLP in one of the City's landmark team-move disputes, against UBS Wealth Management.
Bircham Dyson Bell × Pitmans
Advising BDB on the merger that created BDB Pitmans — structure, approvals and execution.
Eaton v Caulfield
Acting for the successful petitioner in a leading authority on unfair prejudice in LLPs — law that partnerships still navigate by.
Wilson Sonsini — London
Advising Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on establishing its London office — Silicon Valley's counsel, arriving in the City.
Town Legal
Guiding Town Legal LLP through constitutional change for its growth phase — the quiet work that lets ambitious firms scale.
Advisers to advisers.
A multi-disciplinary group drawn from corporate, employment, dispute resolution and regulatory practice — because a firm's hardest problems never respect departmental lines.
Daniel Sutherland
Partner · Head of Professional Services Group
Restructurings, LLP conversions and cross-border joint ventures, with particular depth in the legal sector.
Gavin Foggo
Senior Partner
Highly sensitive contentious matters — team moves, partner exits and the disputes firms cannot afford to lose.
Aron Pope
Partner
David Butler
Partner
Joanna Chatterton
Partner
Tom Custance
Partner
Jane Mann
Partner
Sacha Schoenfeld
Partner
Lucy Sorell
Partner
Ed Livingstone
Legal Director
Tom Pennington-Hare
Legal Director
Rebecca Richardson
Legal Director
Adèle Standard
Legal Director
Anjali Aravindhan
Senior Associate
Stephanie Tsang
Senior Associate
Grace Waterhouse
Senior Associate
Joseph Cannon
Associate
Old-fashioned judgement.
New-fashioned tools.
We build, not just advise
The group designs its own drafting technology: a document-builder that produces first-draft members' agreements, engagement letters and members' resolutions from plain-English questionnaires — in the firm's house style, with live cross-references.
AI with governance
An AI programme run under a formal confidentiality and governance protocol: the efficiency of machines, the judgement of partners, and a clear line between the two.
Knowledge that compounds
Precedent banks and playbooks built from decades of partnership work — so every matter starts further ahead than the last one finished.
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