Professional Services

Our specialists draw on expertise from around the firm to deliver a bespoke service based on a depth of experience and thorough understanding of the commercial priorities and practical requirements of our professional services clients. This involves advising on M&A, regulatory matters, issues between partners or members, including profit sharing arrangements and establishing decision making processes.

Our employee ownership practice is market-leading and, as the government's Independent Adviser on Employee Ownership, our partner Graeme Nuttall has set the agenda for promoting employee ownership in the UK. The "Nuttall Review of Employee Ownership" sets out a vision for UK businesses which has been widely praised and adopted.

Why choose our Professional Services lawyers?

Our team has extensive experience helping clients navigate seamlessly through complex issues. We advise professions including, but not limited to, accountants, architects, engineers, lawyers and surveyors on issues including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, employee ownership structuring and buy-outs of professional services firms, LLP structuring, partnership formation, conversion to limited liability partnerships, and members' and partnership agreements.

We also advise on partner and senior employee terminations and exits, partnership disputes and the enforcement of restrictive covenants, regulatory breaches and distressed transactions, business restructurings, administrations and voluntary arrangements in the professional services arena.

As a law firm that has grown through strategic mergers as well as organic growth, Fieldfisher is well placed to advise on all matters relating to professional services firms.