Beachcroft

Beachcroft LLP is one of the largest national commercial law firms in the UK, providing commercial legal advice and litigation services from seven locations nationwide (two in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Winchester) and also in Brussels. Working with both national and international organisations, excellent service delivery and in-depth insight into clients' businesses are at the heart of the firm's strategy. The firm delivers integrated legal services to clients in six main industry groups: financial institutions (including the insurance industry); health & public sector; real estate & construction; consumer goods & services; industrial goods & services; and technology & telecommunications.

Beachcroft is recognised as a market leader in the handling of disputes within the financial services sector, both in terms of the size of its practice and the scope of work it handles. Every day, over half of our partners and over 300 of our lawyers are advising clients, predominantly in the insurance sector, on a wide range of disputes. Clients include 24 of the UK’s top insurers, among them Aviva, Zurich and Allianz Insurance plc, as well as niche insurers, reinsurers, brokers, Lloyd’s syndicates and companies which self-insure.

Specialist areas include: property damage claims, including construction, engineering, fire, flood, escape of water and subsidence and recoveries; reinsurance; fraud; major incident management; catastrophic and complex personal injury; directors’ and officers’; educational liabilities; energy; occupational disease; product liability, professional & financial risks; safety, health & environment; sports litigation; strategic litigation.

The firm has received a number of industry accolades in the last year. Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2008, recognised 74 Beachcroft partners as leading lawyers, ranking the firm at number 13 in the UK, up from 16 last year. In Legal 500, a guide to the top 500 lawyers in the UK, the firm received a tier 1 ranking for 17 of its practice areas across the UK. Beachcroft is one of the largest law firms in the country to obtain the ‘Investors in People’ award across all of its offices.

For further information, please visit: www.beachcroft.co.uk or e-mail Charlotte Shakespeare cshakespeare@beachcroft.co.uk.

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