Clarke Willmott

Time to celebrate! We’re proud to once again be achieving top-tier rankings in the 2025 edition of the Chambers and Partners guide.  This year, an impressive 29 specialist practice areas across our 7 regional offices were ranked, with 4 areas achieving the top Band 1 ranking. We’re delighted to see 63 of our lawyers receiving individual rankings, with 8 new individual Band 1 rankings and 3 brand new rankings in the 2025 guide. An impressive 11 lawyers were listed as ‘Associate to Watch’, 1 named as ‘Up and Coming’ and 1 named as a ‘Star Individual’. Well done to all our lawyers and teams for these fantastic results! Read more here: https://bit.ly/3Y9HY1q #ChambersGuide2025 

A new legislation, designed to strengthen the Football Governance Bill and establish an independent football regulator in England has now been reintroduced in the House of Lords. The Bill could bring reform and accountability to clubs and owners, helping to tackle financial inequalities. Partner and regulatory expert, Tim Williamson discusses what this new legislation could mean for English football. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4e8LVcL #SportSector #Legislation

Our commercial and private client litigation team can assist both corporate clients and individuals with fraud and asset recovery. Partner John Flint explains more about our teams specialisms and how they can help if you’re facing a civil fraud claim. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4dZJzNa #FraudAssetRecovery #CommercialLitigation #PrivateClientLitigation

The Clarke Willmott dodgeball team had a brilliant evening at the Bristol Sport dodgeball tournament, supporting the Bristol Sport and Bristol Flyers community foundation & project take-off, which provides disadvantaged children with access to sport. We were glad to be involved in such a fantastic event. We look forward to more Bristol Sport tournaments in the future. Thanks to the CW team who took part consisting of Alex Zanotti, Fin Crowe, James Casey, Olivia Senior, Ross Bradley, Tabitha Candy, and Tim Copplestone. #CWinspire

We were delighted to assist Bath & North East Somerset Council recently with the grant of a lease and facility management agreement of The Pavilion and Greens at Royal Victoria Park in Bath. This deal will see significant investment to improve the tennis and golf facilities, bowling green, and refurbishment of the café for the benefit of residents, at this beautiful location in the centre of Bath. The deal was led by Associate Aman Singh Randhawa from our commercial property team and partner in our corporate and commercial team Stephen Green Read more about the transaction here: https://bit.ly/4dVD1Pv

We were delighted to host a cocktail and mocktail making masterclass with Clifton Cocktail Club earlier this month as part of our Next Generation Initiative. Hosted at the Clubroom on the top floor at our new Bristol office in Assembly Bristol Building C, the event was a chance to network and meet other professionals in a relaxed setting. During the masterclass attendees were taught how to make classic cocktails whilst admiring the views across the city of #Bristol. Thank you to everyone who came along. We’re already looking forward to the next event. #CWEvents #CWBristol

Teams from our #Manchester office had a fantastic evening at the Insider Dealmakers Northwest Awards last week. Held at Manchester Central, the evening celebrated the achievements of the North West’s leading corporate financiers, accountants, bankers, funders, lawyers, and M&A professionals. It was a great evening celebrating and networking with others. #CWManchester Stephen Jarman Ed Foulkes Barry Riley Harvinder Kandola Stephen Green Umar Farooq Sophie Woodley Bassey Hogan Itam Rebecca Clarke Adam Ayub

Commercial property partner Andrew Stokes explains why now is the ideal time for commercial borrowers to check that essential business records are up to date if they are looking to refinance or acquire commercial property. Andrew explains what regulatory information should be included in records and how our commercial property team can help with speeding up the process. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4dWoLpT #CommercialProperty #InterestRates

We’re delighted to be hosting our Autumn Budget seminar with A C Mole on Friday 1 November. Following the expected Chancellor’s announcement on 30 October, Partner Tom Chiffers from our Private Capital team and Partner Amanda Gunter from AC Mole will provide you with their expert insight on how the measures announced by the new Labour Government will affect your business. Join us at Taunton Racecourse from 8:00am - 10:00am or watch live via YouTube from 9:00am For more details and to book, visit our website: https://bit.ly/3MWgW8m #CWEvents

Our personal injury team were delighted to host their seminar: ‘Amputation – Successful Rehabilitation’ earlier this month at our #Bristol office. Partners Lee Hart and Philip Edwards were joined by expert guest speakers throughout the event as they discussed the challenges affecting amputees. Thank you to all of the attendees who came along, it was fantastic to welcome so many people from different sectors & industries including private practice, NHS, prosthetics, orthotists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, case managers, rehabilitation consultants and many more. As part of the event, we were also proud to support Stride Forward and the work they do in supporting the severely injured. Find out more about our specialist personal and serious injury team here: https://bit.ly/3YifliH #CWEvents