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Bristows at-a-glance

  • Our firm was founded in 1837 in the City of London
     
  • We currently have 34 partners and a total staff of over 200
     
  • We have two joint managing partners - Iain Redford and Mark Watts
     
  • Around two thirds of our staff, including a third of our partners, are female - one of the highest ratios for a commercial law firm in the United Kingdom
     
  • Around 10% of our staff are employed on a flexible working basis
     
  • We employ people from all over the world with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Around one fifth of our workforce describe themselves as being other than white or British
     
  • The average length of service for our staff is over seven years
     
  • We have always been involved with innovative clients and technologies. Clients from our early days include the Electric Telephone Company, the Celluloid Manufacturing Company and Steam Plough Patents. Today's equivalents include Novartis, Diageo, Dolby and Capgemini
     
  • We have always had an international focus, acting for many overseas companies - in fact, at the beginning of the 20th Century we established the UK businesses of many US corporations. During the 1930s our transatlantic business continued to flourish and we were involved in drafting agreements for the laying of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable
     
  • Our international focus continues today. Over the last three years, approximately 80% of our income has come from overseas clients
     
  • Over 90% of our partners are recommended for their particular specialisms by Chambers and/or the Legal 500
   

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