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Edwin Coe is delighted to announce that our lawyers and their practices have been recommended for their outstanding work in 18 categories in the newly released The Legal 500 UK 2025 directory. These independently researched rankings highlight the individuals and practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to clients across a wide range of categories.

Individuals

Across our practices, our lawyers are recommended 65 times by the Legal 500’s expert researchers, with new mentions/reappearances for George Orman (Employment), Valerie Sweeting (Group Litigation: Claimant), Wendy Hall (Personal tax, trusts and probate), Brenna Baye, Nik HariaZoe Burton (all Construction: non-contentious), Charles Wilson (Property Finance) and Alexandra Rusu (Property Litigation).

Our Senior Partner, David Greene retains his membership of two ‘Halls of Fame’ for Commercial Litigation and for Group Litigation, whilst Matthew Barnett (Personal tax, trusts and probate), David Goepel (Personal tax, trusts and probate), Daniel Bellau (M&A) retain their rankings ‘Leading Individuals.’

Zahira Hussain (Commercial Litigation), Emma Sangeelee (Employment: senior executive) and Thomas Johnson (Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market) also keep their ‘Next Generation Partner’ recommendations.

Practices

We are recommended in 18 practice categories – with new entries for Construction: non-contentious who are described as ‘highly knowledgeable in their own fields‘, and Immigration: Personalknowledgeable, experienced and practical‘. Immigration: Business reappears after dropping out last year, and Commercial litigation: mid-market ‘A well-oiled machine undertaking an impressive range of high-quality instructions in challenging fields’ moves up one tier to tier 3.

Our litigators were also recommended for Group Litigation: Claimant ‘broad competence, excellent analysis, short turnover time, and willingness to go the extra mile for the clients’, Fraud: Civil, Professional Negligence, Insurance Litigation: For Policyholders where one contact stated ‘One of the strongest teams out there acting for insureds. They know what they are doing and are highly skilled at getting the right results for their clients.

Our ‘commercial in their approach and friendly to deal with’, Property team is recommended for Residential Property ‘highly professional team’; Property Finance and also Property Litigation: ‘The team are extremely committed, efficient, knowledgeable and tenacious.’

In the Private Wealth sector, our team was recommended for Personal tax, trusts and probate along with Charities and not-for-profit. One client said the team ‘give their clients not just the perfect professional service, but the perfect personal service too’.

Our Employment team was ranked for Employment: employers and for Employment: senior executives, with one referee commenting that the team have ‘great technical knowledge combined with excellent client relations and a pragmatic approach.’

‘The Edwin Coe team has been extremely easy to work with. Their technical knowledge has been spot on and their professionalism is top tier’ commented a client in of our Intellectual Property team; and our Corporate team are recommended for M&A: £10m-£100m ‘very capable, no nonsense approach,’ and Equity Capital Markets: Small-Mid Cap, ‘very knowledgeable.

Congratulations to all involved!

For more detailed information, including specific lawyer rankings and commentary, please visit the Legal 500 website.

 

About Edwin Coe

Edwin Coe is a London-based full service law firm with international reach. Since 1913, we have offered a comprehensive range of integrated legal services to meet the needs of individuals, organisations and businesses based throughout the UK and internationally. Our industry-leading experts provide our clients with highly personal and responsive advice, balancing profit and purpose, to help achieve their personal and business goals.

With 40 Partners, we are ranked 115 in the current edition of The Lawyer’s ‘UK 200’ law firms and are recommended in all the major legal directories. We are proud to be B Corp™ certified, part of a global community of businesses working to redefine success in business, and create a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

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