Russell-Cooke Solicitors is a top 100 UK legal firm with approximately 250 lawyers, offering comprehensive legal services from its London base to clients across the UK and internationally. Specializing in a diverse range of practice areas, the firm is distinguished by its award-winning reputation, including Law Firm of the Year: The Independents at The Lawyer Awards 2025, and its commitment to ethical practice and client-centered solutions.
The firm serves a broad client base including commercial enterprises, not-for-profit organizations, and private individuals, providing strategic and commercial advice tailored to each client’s needs. With extensive experience across dispute resolution, corporate matters, and personal legal affairs, Russell-Cooke emphasizes building long-term relationships to deliver focused and effective legal support while managing risk and aiming to avoid litigation where possible.
Services Offered
- Charity law and not for profit law
- Charity constitutions and governing documents
- Charity employment law, safeguarding and personal data
- Charity governance and commercial
- Charity litigation
- International charities and nonprofits
- Philanthropy and charitable giving
- Property for charities
- Schools and educational charities
- Setting up a charity and registration
- Corporate and commercial law
- Buying and selling businesses or companies
- Commercial contracts and terms of business
- Company law and corporate governance
- Data GDPR confidentiality information
- Equity fundraising borrowing and lending
- Intellectual property registration and protection
- International businesses
- Notarial services
- Share options
- Shareholder partnership joint venture agreements
- Criminal and financial crime
- Extradition and international law
- Financial crime investigations and litigation
- Health and safety breaches
- Serious criminal investigations and prosecutions
- Dispute resolution
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Banking and financial disputes
- Civil disputes
- Commercial contractual disputes
- Commercial corporate disputes
- Commercial litigation
- Construction disputes
- Fraud and asset tracing
- In-house service
- Insurance disputes
- Intellectual property enforcement and dispute resolution
- Professional negligence
- Reputation management
- Education law
- Disputes with independent and state-funded schools
- Disputes with local authorities
- Equality Act claims—disability discrimination in schools
- School admission and exclusion appeals
- Special educational needs and disability discrimination in schools
- Employment law
- Contracts and entitlements for individuals
- Discrimination and whistleblowing for businesses
- Discrimination and whistleblowing for individuals & businesses
- Employment issues for businesses
- Employment policies procedures and contracts for businesses
- General employment disputes for individuals
- Settlement agreements for individuals
- Terminating employment for businesses
- Transactional support and TUPE for businesses
- Wrongful and unfair dismissal businesses
- Wrongful and unfair dismissal individuals
- Family and children
- Building families—legal advice
- Children law
- Ending relationships
- Planning your future
- Relationship advice—separation guidance
- Domestic abuse support resources
- Out of Court Options
- French law
- French administration of estates
- French cross-border tax advice
- French estate planning and wills
- French property law
- Droit International Prive, planification successorale, successions
- Italian law
- Diritto Internazionale Privato, Pianificazione Successoria, Testamenti e Successioni
- Italian administration of estates
- Italian property law
- Italian wills and estate planning
- Immigration law
- Sponsor licence advice
- UK immigration law advice for businesses
- UK immigration law advice for families and dependants
- Medical negligence
- Birth injury, cerebral palsy and maternal damage claims
- Infectious diseases and sepsis claims
- Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis claims
- Surgical claims
- Personal injury law
- Amputation injury claims
- Brain injury claims
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) claims
- Fatal claims and inquests
- Multi-trauma claims
- Spinal cord injury compensation claims
- Private client
- Cross-border succession capacity and tax
- Court of protection applications and deputies
- Family businesses
- International tax estate planning and estate administration
- Powers of attorney
- Probate and estate administration
- Russell-Cooke Trust Company
- Taxation for individuals
- Trusts and estate planning
- Wills
- Property litigation
- Build-to-rent and the private rented sector disputes
- Cladding building & fire safety
- Commercial lease disputes
- Housing litigation
- Party wall and neighbourly matters disputes
- Real estate disputes
- Residential property disputes
- Telecoms legal advice
- Real estate planning and construction
- Commercial development and construction
- Corporate occupier
- Corporate real estate
- Planning for businesses and individuals
- Real estate investment
- Residents freehold and management companies
- Residential property
- Buy to let residential conveyancing
- Buying and selling residential conveyancing
- Lease extensions
- Purchase and sale of freeholds
- Regulation and public law
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Environmental law
- Equality and human rights
- Investigations and crisis management
- Judicial review
- Private prosecutions and investigations
- Public inquiries
- Public law
- Regulators
- Regulatory investigations
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Insolvency disputes
- Personal insolvency
- Spanish law
- Spanish administration of estates
- Spanish cross-border tax advice
- Spanish estate planning and wills
- Spanish relocation advice
- Derecho Internacional Privado. Planificación Patrimonial y Sucesoria
- Trusts and estate disputes
- Capacity and court of protection disputes
- Family and inherited wealth disputes
- Contested legacies
- Rural and agribusiness services
- Sports law
- Family Office service
Operating from London with services extending UK-wide and internationally, Russell-Cooke supports clients in multiple languages including French, Italian, and Spanish, reflecting its cross-border expertise. The firm is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and maintains a strong commitment to responsible business practices, diversity, and environmental sustainability.
