Druces teams in Legal 500

Legal 500 highlights a number of areas for particular praise, including:

• Islamic Finance: The very experienced, friendly and approachable team is always at the end of the phone to help with advice on structuring both at an early stage to aid client negotiations and right the way through the life cycle of the deal.’
• Equity Capital Markets: ‘The practice is close knit with a genuine feel to it. There is a lot of partner time which makes any client feel welcomed and appreciated. Overall the staff are extremely knowledgeable and can be trusted on any issue in the ECM space.’
• Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency: ‘Each touch point is well managed, executed with precision and all provided with a personal and friendly service.’
• M&A: ‘Highly skilled and highly responsive individuals who clearly put client care and practical support at the forefront of their service. Collaborative in their approach to transactions, working closely and efficiently with the wider client advisory team.’
• Private Client: ‘In our core business we work with many law firms and Druces is by far the best experience we have ever hard. Different level, and extremely high standards.’
• Contentious Trusts and Probate: ‘The team has real expertise and the capability to deal with large cross border estate and trust issues’.
• Real Estate – Residential: ‘I have worked with Druces for several years and always found them to be reactive but more especially proactive. As a layman I have little or no knowledge of property law, my contacts at Druces have always been there to make sure I am on the right track and that we are aware of changes in the regulations as they affect our business‘.
• Real Estate – Commercial: ‘The Druces property team are a pretty agile lot – responsive, accessible and armed with good commercial advice. Their legal knowledge is extensive but the focus is on practical solutions.’
• Property Litigation: ‘My standout experience with this department was the forensic attention to detail, coupled with hard-headed commercial advice.’
• Real Estate Finance: ‘What makes Druces LLP unique is their ability to provide a bespoke service tailored to each client. They really know how to make a client feel like they are their only client. Their sophistication, depth of experience and legal creativity – especially in the area of complex real estate transactions – is simply unrivalled. When there is an unprecedented situation alleged to be perilous, there is no better partner to have in the trenches than Druces.’