Started in 1834 as a two-partner firm in Birmingham, Wragge & Co LLP is now a UK-headquartered international law firm

Law firm

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other...

 providing a full range of legal services to UK and international clients. Its 123 equity partners

Equity (finance)

In accounting and finance, equity is the residual claim or interest of the most junior class of investors in assets, after all liabilities are paid. If liability exceeds assets, negative equity exists...

 and 500 lawyers advise on deals, projects and disputes from offices in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, London

London

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, Brussels

Brussels

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, Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, Munich

Munich

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 and affiliated offices in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

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 and Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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According to The Lawyer 200 in 2010, Wragge & Co is the 27th largest law firm in the UK with a turnover of £96.2 million. Sixteen of its partners feature among Legal 500’s ‘leading individuals’, while they are ranked for 41 different practice areas in Chambers UK 2010.

Main areas of practice

Wragge & Co specialises in the following legal disciplines:

• Antitrust
  Competition law
  Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies....
  
  
• Commercial
  Commercial law
  Commercial law is the body of law that governs business and commercial transactions...
  
  
• Corporate
  Corporate law
  Corporate law is the study of how shareholders, directors, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders such as consumers, the community and the environment interact with one another. Corporate law is a part of a broader companies law...
  
  
• Dispute resolution
  Dispute resolution
  Dispute resolution is the process of resolving disputes between parties.-Methods:Methods of dispute resolution include:* lawsuits * arbitration* collaborative law* mediation* conciliation* many types of negotiation* facilitation...
  
  
• Employment
• Finance
• Information technology
• Intellectual property
• Insurance
  Insurance
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• Pensions
• Projects
• Public law
  Public law
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• Real estate
  Property law
  Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property and in personal property, within the common law legal system. In the civil law system, there is a division between movable and immovable property...
  
  
• Tax