Browne Jacobson LLP is a full-service law firm distinguished by its commitment to making a positive impact across both business and society. With a strong presence across the UK and Ireland, the firm stands out for its deep sector expertise, innovative approach to legal services, and dedication to social mobility, diversity, and inclusion.
The firm operates with a focus on fairness, simplicity, and creative client solutions, leveraging a management structure that combines business acumen with legal excellence. It serves a diverse clientele including businesses, public sector organizations, and individuals, with particular strength in sectors such as education, health and care, financial services, technology, and real estate. Browne Jacobson has been recognized as the top law firm for social mobility for five consecutive years, reflecting its commitment to broader societal values.
Services Offered
- Artificial intelligence regulation and governance
- Ascensus executive coaching for in-house lawyers
- Banking and finance (asset based lending, leverage finance, project finance, real estate finance)
- Barristers services (Court of Protection, dispute resolution, healthcare inquests, offender health, independent review panels, SENDist tribunals, student discipline)
- Commercial law (agency and distribution, competition and anti-trust, consumer and e-commerce, digital and sourcing, franchising, international trade and commerce, sanctions and export controls, supply, manufacturing and logistics)
- Construction and engineering services (dispute resolution, projects and contract procurement)
- Corporate (company secretarial, employee ownership trusts, equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, restructuring and insolvency, transaction support and due diligence, venture capital)
- Criminal compliance and regulatory (anti-bribery, competition and anti-trust, counter fraud for insurance, data protection and privacy, environmental, financial services regulation, fraud and asset recovery, health and safety)
- Dispute resolution and litigation (business ownership disputes, commercial dispute resolution, construction and engineering dispute resolution, contentious procurement, corporate legal liability, costs, counter fraud for insurance, cyber liability and data security insurance, employers and public liability, environmental claims, fraud and asset recovery, insurance coverage disputes, international dispute resolution, partnership disputes, patents and patent litigation, professional indemnity, real estate litigation, reputation management, technology disputes)
- Education law
- Employment (HR services, immigration, Modern Slavery Act compliance)
- Financial services and insurance advisory (banking and capital services for insurance clients, commercial commission payments, complaint handling, digital and data, ESG, financial crime, financial services regulation, insurance distribution for financial services businesses, mergers, acquisitions and funding, motor finance commission, policy drafting and distribution, start-ups, venture debt financing)
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Health and social care disputes (children’s services, clinical negligence, costs, employers and public liability, health procurement, investigations and inquiries, maternity services, social care)
- Health law (access, funding and continuing healthcare, deprivation of liberty, inquests, integrated healthcare lawyers, medical treatment disputes, delayed discharges and safeguarding, mental capacity and the Court of Protection, mental health, safety and learning, service reconfiguration, consultation, transformation and decommissioning)
- Information law (data protection and privacy, freedom of information)
- Insurance claims defence (abuse and social care, business crime and fraud, clinical negligence, construction all risks, corporate legal liability, costs, coverage disputes and policy interpretation, directors and officers, disease, employment practices liability claims, environmental claims, financial institutions, intellectual property claims, major incident response and management insurance, delegated authority claims resolution, products liability, professional indemnity, property damage and business interruption, regulatory)
- Intellectual property (advertising and marketing, anti-counterfeiting, complex licensing, R&D and collaboration, copyright and related rights, designs, patents and patent litigation, trade secrets and confidential information, trade marks)
- International services (fraud and asset recovery, French group, intellectual property, international dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency)
- Legal project management
- Partnerships and LLPs (partnership disputes)
- Private client services (trusts, wills and estates, will, trust and inheritance disputes)
- Public contracts, projects and funding (commercialisation and wholly-owned companies, contentious procurement, employment and pensions for public sector, health procurement, local government procurement, PFI disputes and handback, procurement for academy trusts, procurement in higher education, public private partnerships, public procurement, regeneration, subsidy control, waste)
- Public law (abuse and social care, constitutional and administrative law, contentious procurement, data protection and privacy, disease, education law, employers and public liability, freedom of information, health and safety, health law, local government procurement, planning, public inquiries, social care, subsidy control, Welsh law and devolution)
- Real estate (estates and rural, local government real estate, planning, property dispute resolution, real estate finance, real estate investment, real estate tax, regeneration, restructuring and insolvency)
- Tax
The firm operates from offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, London, Manchester, and Nottingham, offering services in English and French. It has a strong track record in multi-jurisdictional matters and is recognized for its sector-led approach and thought leadership in areas such as AI, life sciences, and social mobility.
