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Our business model is straightforward – the highest quality advice, outstanding client service and value for money.

The model is underpinned by a highly collaborative culture, which has created an infectious ambition to grow. Increased scale and focus have enabled us to achieve leading positions in our work for substantial and high growth businesses and individuals as well as in the health, higher education and further education sectors, real estate and insurance across the UK.

Our clients talk about the strong relationships that we build with them. We like that as those relationships are the true measure of our success.

Some of the things you should know about us:

  • We are a major UK firm and among the 50 largest UK law firms
  • We use our network of firms across the globe (including fellow members of the State Capital Group*) to support our clients’ international requirements
  • Our commercial clients include global and UK based businesses, FTSE and AIM listed organisations, private companies and start ups
  • We advise more than 70 universities and colleges, over 100 healthcare trusts and NHS bodies, 65 local authorities as well as leading international insurers
  • We have the largest private tax team outside of London and one of the largest family teams in the world
  • Around 800 people work in the firm including 91 partners and over 350 other lawyers
  • 98 per cent of them would recommend Mills & Reeve as a good place to work
  • We have been one of the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to work for since 2004 and have held the Investor in People accreditation since 1998
  • We have six offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester and Norwich
  • 71 of our lawyers are ranked as leading individuals in the Chambers UK Legal Directory
  • We have achieved 36 top tier rankings in Legal 500 and 26 in Chambers UK

*Member firms of the State Capital Group practise independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law.