Gateley is a top 50 full service, national UK law firm with a passion for local service delivery. It offers solutions-driven, commercial legal advice based on an integrated partner-led service.

Headquartered in Birmingham, Gateley has a network of offices across the UK and abroad including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leicester, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Dubai.

With 145 partners and over 400 fee earners, the firm has specialist teams covering all aspects of legal services. These include corporate, banking, employment, real estate, planning, corporate recovery, pensions, construction, dispute resolution and private client. Gateley operates in a number of key sectors such as financial services, retail, telecommunications, social housing and local and central government.

The last year has seen Gateley consolidate its standing as a major national law firm, announcing a record turnover for the year to 30 April 2011 attributed to the opening of its Manchester office in July 2010. The firm was also ranked for the first time in the Legal Week Top 50 UK law firms by revenue.

The firm has won over 35 awards in the past three years, most recently 2011 Dealmakers Corporate Law Firm of the Year.

Deal highlights from 2010/11 include acting on the £19.6m acquisition of Look Fantastic Group Limited; HSBC Bank Plc on funding the £32.8m acquisition of Spice Telecoms Limited by SIATEL Holdings Limited; the £49m cash sale of Redrow's Scottish building arm to Springfield Property Limited; £112.7m takeover by Pearson plc by Coventry based EDI; £43m return of capital to shareholders for Dunelm Group plc

Key contacts in the Birmingham office

Corporate: Michael Ward (senior partner)
Banking: Andrew Madden
Real Estate: Rebecca Sherwin
Corporate Recovery: Mark Wilson
Commercial: Simon Pigden
Dispute Resolution: Stephen Goodrham
Employment: Victoria Garrad
Tax: James Gopsill
Construction: David Lloyd Jones
Pensions: Michael Collins
Private Client: Adrian Mabe