Strength in numbers
gunnercooke operates as a group of associated firms and non-profits. Each member in the group brings a distinct character and set of aims; from consulting and training to connecting businesses with aligned charities. Find out more about the gunnercooke group.
We are a team of more than 600 professionals, with the depth of experience which makes us genuine experts in our fields. Together, gunnercooke’s people have strength across just about every corporate discipline and sector. We provide legal, commercial and strategic advice that delivers real value to the clients we work with, which span from multinational enterprises through to not-for-profit organisations. Our breadth of expertise covers some of the most interesting emerging disciplines such as charity, crypto, sports and competition law.
The gunnercooke group has 16 main global offices across England, Scotland, the US, Germany and Austria, with further plans for growth in the coming years. These offices enhance the existing in-house capability of our dedicated international teams and dual-qualified experts that cover Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, China, India, Poland and Hungary. Our team have clients across 123 jurisdictions, speak 46 languages and are dual-qualified in 21 jurisdictions. Our expertise means we can offer large teams to carry out complex cross-border matters for major international clients.
gunnercooke is a Top 70 law firm. We comprise a rapidly growing number of experts spanning legal and other disciplines. Clients benefit from flexible options on fees to suit their needs, access to a wider network of senior experts throughout the relationship, and legal advice which is complemented by an understanding of the commercial aspects of running a business.
gunnercooke professionals are not remunerated irrespective of the service they provide. gunnercooke is a revenue share firm so professionals are remunerated as a direct result of the service that they provide.
This difference ensures that gunnercooke professionals are totally focused on providing a high quality service. If they don’t, they lose clients and will directly lose income. The correlation is both fairer and more transparent.
Our professionals join as self-employed advisors, free to design and develop their own practice with the aim of providing the best possible service to their clients. They can choose to offer value based pricing models and are not tied to hourly rates.
Our Partners have control over how they run their practice, meaning they can offer a bespoke service that puts clients first and offers greater personal accountability throughout. They are not driven by the number of chargeable hours that they bill and so can spend time with clients understanding their business and building a commercial relationship.
Once a gunnercooke partner understands your business and trust has been built, they will offer a performance guarantee i.e. if you are not happy with the service you don’t pay the fee.
This gives you the reassurance of the quality of service that gunnercooke provides. Our lawyers are prepared to stand behind the quality of service that they deliver by having ‘skin in the game’.
Collaboration runs through our business. All work is led by senior entrepreneurial lawyers, who are backed up by a global collective of specialists across every commercial discipline.
gunnercooke people build and work in dynamic teams of their choosing, drawing on specific disciplines from across the firm, to best suit their clients’ needs. With cross-border specialists and strength in multiple jurisdictions and practice areas, we specialise in the rapid assembly of bespoke teams of multidisciplinary experts.
We are passionate about recruiting the best talent into our organisation. 80% of people that apply to join the firm are turned away. This ensures that we can maintain a monthly world class NPS score of over +90. We believe this to be the highest NPS score of any law firm.
This means that you have access to the very highest quality lawyers in the industry who are externally measured by Net Promoter Score. Once they have joined, they work closely with our Development Office to ensure a culture of continuous improvement.
Group services include an Operating Partner practice, which offers experts in senior management consultancy, and a legal technology arm driving process innovation and efficiencies.
gunnercooke’s groups offer additional value and service to our clients, enhancing the core offering through innovative and industry-leading management and technology expertise. Operating Partners often work closely with lawyers on projects to ensure the best possible commercial service for clients.
Purpose is at the core of everything we do. We believe that we have a responsibility to not only look after our people and our clients, but to look beyond the square mile of our business at our wider communities. We work directly in supporting over 175 charities and own a bookshop where the profits go to fighting loneliness and social isolation. We also have a biodiversity programme supporting the environment.
We are a firm that cares. We care about our own people and our clients but we also care about society and how we can make a difference both globally and to our local communities.