Mills & Reeve

Mills & Reeve LLP
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
No. of offices7
No. of lawyers662
No. of employees1035
Major practice areasAgriculture, Charities, Corporate and Commercial, Education, Food and Beverage, Health, Insurance, Private Wealth, Real Estate Investment, Sport, Technology
Key peopleJustin Ripman
(Senior Partner)
Claire Clarke
(Managing Partner)[1]
Revenue£131.2 million (2021/22)[2]
Profit per equity partner£470,000 (2019/20)[2]
Date founded1789 (Francis & Co)[3]
1880 (Mills & Reeve)
Company typeLimited liability partnership
Websitemills-reeve.com

Mills & Reeve LLP is a law firm headquartered in London. It has offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Oxford. It is the UK's 40th largest law firm measured by 2021/22 revenues.[4] The firm has been named for a record nineteenth year running in the 100 Best Companies to Work For annual survey, one of a small number of organisations to have achieved a listing for 19 years running and the only UK law firm.[5]

History

The firm's roots can be traced back to 1789 when the practice which was eventually to become Francis & Co was started in Cambridge by the 24-year-old newly qualified solicitor Christopher Pemberton.[3] The original Mills & Reeve was formed in Norwich in 1880 when Henry Mills and Edmund Reeve came together to undertake the legal work arising out of the development of the tram system in Norwich.[3]

The current Mills & Reeve practice was formed in 1987 by the merger of the Norwich-based Mills & Reeve and the Cambridge-based Francis & Co, forming Mills & Reeve Francis.[3]

In 2013, Mills & Reeve merged with Manchester-based law firm George Davies[6] and in 2017 merged with London firm Maxwell Winward.[7]

In 2014, Mills & Reeve formed an exclusive "best friends" alliance with the French law firm Fidal.[8][9]

Notable clients

Mills & Reeve has worked with Trinity College Cambridge since 1861 (as Francis, Webster and Riches).[3]

Notable awards

Mills & Reeve was ranked in the Best 100 Companies to Work For 2022 list, appearing for the 19th year in a row.[10]

The firm was ranked as the 33rd most innovative law firm in Europe in the Financial Times' Innovative Lawyers Europe 2022.[11] and was ranked in the Thomson Reuters top 20 UK Law Firm Brand Index 2022.[12] Mills & Reeve has been ranked in the top four of RollOnFriday's Best Law Firms to Work At for the last six years, winning in 2018, 2019 and 2020.[13]

References

  1. ^ Byrne, Matt (August 20, 2015). "Mills & Reeve's Clarke reveals Norfolk as home of the trailblazer". The Lawyer | Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs.
  2. ^ a b "UK 200: Top 100 overview and top 50 profiles". The Lawyer. September 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e Jackson, Christopher (September 1990). A Cambridge Bicentenary: The History of a Legal Practice, 1789-1989. Morrow & Co. ISBN 0948903082.
  4. ^ "Double record-breaking triumph for Mills & Reeve". Mills & Reeve. 2022-02-28.
  5. ^ "About us". Mills & Reeve. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  6. ^ Byrne, Matt (2017-03-08). "Mills & Reeve boosts London with Maxwell Winward deal". The Lawyer. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  7. ^ Gannage-Stewart, Hannah (15 September 2014). "Fidal formalises best friends alliance with Mills & Reeve". The Lawyer. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  8. ^ "Mills & Reeve's French connection strengthened". Birmingham Post. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  9. ^ "Best Companies". b.co.uk/companies/mills-reeve.
  10. ^ "Special Report Innovative Lawyers: Europe". Financial Times. October 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "Best Law Firms To Work At". rollonfriday.com.