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London Public Law Practice

Our public law team leads work for industry leaders around the world on highly sensitive, complex and strategic matters that demand sophisticated multi-jurisdictional expertise. Clients operating globally turn to us for our extensive cross-border experience, particularly to help them grapple with the challenges of increasingly divergent laws and policies across multiple jurisdictions. This capability is increasingly critical as regulatory regimes diverge and compliance challenges multiply across the US, UK, and EU.

Our London practice works seamlessly with our firm's US-based government controversies and public policy litigation practice, enabling us to provide integrated cross-border advice that few competitors can match. The frequency with which clients call on us for these complex cross-border matters reflects the exceptional multi-jurisdictional capabilities of our team.

The London team has played a key role in some of the United Kingdom’s most high-profile public inquiries, Parliamentary Select Committees, and judicial review cases shaping the public agenda. The team’s extensive work includes challenges to government policies including the UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s unlawful prorogation of Parliament ahead of the UK’s departure from the European Union. We have also advised clients in major UK public inquiries, including the Post Office Horizon Inquiry, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Leveson Inquiry into the practices of the British press, the Covid-19 Inquiry, and the Infected Blood Inquiry. 

Wide-Ranging Expertise

Ours is a broad practice handling the full spectrum of advisory and contentious work in the administrative and public law space, from high-stakes judicial review to regulatory compliance and parliamentary advocacy. Our focus on matters at the intersection of law, business and politics – often involving significant reputational risk – makes us advisers of first choice when the stakes are highest.

  • Our practice encompasses judicial review and challenges to public decision-making, public procurement disputes, representation at public inquiries, and preparing clients for hearings before parliamentary select committees.
  • We have deep regulatory expertise across multiple sectors, with particular strength in healthcare & life sciences, technology, defence, food and beverage, energy, mining, and natural resources. This sector knowledge enables us to anticipate regulatory developments and provide commercially astute advice that protects client interests.
  • Our team's extensive human rights expertise combines with a strong pro bono commitment. We represented Coram, the UK's longest-standing children's charity, on a pro bono basis in its participation in the UK COVID-19 Inquiry - intervention that proved essential to ensuring vulnerable children's voices were heard in this landmark inquiry. We also have a long-standing strategic advisory role for Index on Censorship, advising on the organisation’s extensive work to further free speech initiatives around the world and the combat censorship.
  • Our specialisation in contentious work brings significant commercial benefits for clients. As a purely contentious office, we are conflict-free relative to Magic Circle and other full-service law firm competitors who must navigate conflicts with corporate clients.

This combination of specialist expertise, transatlantic capability and conflict-free positioning establishes us as a market-leading practice both in the UK and globally.

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London Public Law Practice

Our public law team leads work for industry leaders around the world on highly sensitive, complex and strategic matters that demand sophisticated multi-jurisdictional expertise. Clients operating globally turn to us for our extensive cross-border experience, particularly to help them grapple with the challenges of increasingly divergent laws and policies across multiple jurisdictions. This capability is increasingly critical as regulatory regimes diverge and compliance challenges multiply across the US, UK, and EU.

Our London practice works seamlessly with our firm's US-based government controversies and public policy litigation practice, enabling us to provide integrated cross-border advice that few competitors can match. The frequency with which clients call on us for these complex cross-border matters reflects the exceptional multi-jurisdictional capabilities of our team.

The London team has played a key role in some of the United Kingdom’s most high-profile public inquiries, Parliamentary Select Committees, and judicial review cases shaping the public agenda. The team’s extensive work includes challenges to government policies including the UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s unlawful prorogation of Parliament ahead of the UK’s departure from the European Union. We have also advised clients in major UK public inquiries, including the Post Office Horizon Inquiry, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Leveson Inquiry into the practices of the British press, the Covid-19 Inquiry, and the Infected Blood Inquiry. 

Wide-Ranging Expertise

Ours is a broad practice handling the full spectrum of advisory and contentious work in the administrative and public law space, from high-stakes judicial review to regulatory compliance and parliamentary advocacy. Our focus on matters at the intersection of law, business and politics – often involving significant reputational risk – makes us advisers of first choice when the stakes are highest.

  • Our practice encompasses judicial review and challenges to public decision-making, public procurement disputes, representation at public inquiries, and preparing clients for hearings before parliamentary select committees.
  • We have deep regulatory expertise across multiple sectors, with particular strength in healthcare & life sciences, technology, defence, food and beverage, energy, mining, and natural resources. This sector knowledge enables us to anticipate regulatory developments and provide commercially astute advice that protects client interests.
  • Our team's extensive human rights expertise combines with a strong pro bono commitment. We represented Coram, the UK's longest-standing children's charity, on a pro bono basis in its participation in the UK COVID-19 Inquiry - intervention that proved essential to ensuring vulnerable children's voices were heard in this landmark inquiry. We also have a long-standing strategic advisory role for Index on Censorship, advising on the organisation’s extensive work to further free speech initiatives around the world and the combat censorship.
  • Our specialisation in contentious work brings significant commercial benefits for clients. As a purely contentious office, we are conflict-free relative to Magic Circle and other full-service law firm competitors who must navigate conflicts with corporate clients.

This combination of specialist expertise, transatlantic capability and conflict-free positioning establishes us as a market-leading practice both in the UK and globally.

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