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.
gunnercooke brings together experienced lawyers across all corporate and commercial disciplines. Every gunnercooke partner has minimum of 10,000 hours’ practising experience, which ensures that every client is advised by a trusted advisor or a team of trusted advisors who understand how to help them to navigate their legal issue. We call it delivering ‘peace of mind’.
gunnercooke is an international firm with 12 offices globally including the US, Germany, CEE and Scotland, and with further plans for growth in the coming years. These offices have enhanced the existing in-house capability of our dedicated international teams and dual qualified experts that cover China and Hong Kong, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil and Portugal. Our team has experience working across 101 different countries, speaking 30 languages and are dual-qualified in 15 jurisdictions. Our expertise means we can offer large teams to carry out complex cross-border matters for major international clients.
gunnercooke is a challenger law firm. It challenges the way that legal services are delivered to clients. It challenges the way that lawyers balance their lives. It challenges the way our communities are served by those of us more fortunate. Most of all, it gives lives back to our lawyers and enables them to design their life as they wish to live it – which we believe enables them to deliver a brilliant service to their clients. And it works. Today we are one of the UK’s leading commercial law firms, as measured by our clients, with a Net Promoter Score of on average +84.
Read more about our business and its culture here.
Partners at gunnercooke have each practised law for over 10,000 hours making each lawyer an expert in his or her field
Lawyers do not learn their trade at your expense. Anders Ericcson, the leading expert in the world on expertise, describes 10,000 hours of developed practice as the point at which you become an expert.
If your transaction requires multiple partners, every partner will have 10,000 hours of experience.
We have an NPS score of +94
Our net promoter score has never dropped below +92. This is judged by clients. A score can vary from -100 to +100. Above + 80 is deemed to be world leading. The industry average is +19.
You have the certainty over fees from the outset
It avoids all fee creep that is so common in traditional firms.
It encourages proper planning from the outset and a focus on value and the efficiency of execution.
It means lawyers share in the risks.
Why should lawyers be guaranteed 40% profit year in year out? It provides the price pressure of being more efficient.
Lawyers have the option to offer a service guarantee.
It has been offered countless times and never been called.
Our people are not just lawyers they are also business men and women who, because of the gunnercooke model, share directly in the revenues they earn and the success of their business.
This is how we know that they will operate commercially and in your interest – they have skin in the game and their success correlates directly with the quality of service that they provide.
We are passionate about recruiting the best talent into our organisation.
Every lawyer to join the firm, whether a partner or an associate,undertakes a rigorous 7 part recruitment journey to ensure that they have the right approach to both delivery of advice and to client service. Once they have joined, they work closely with our Development Office to ensure a culture of continuous improvement runs throughout the firm and our level of service continuously improves.
We believe that traditional approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility are archaic.
To this end we have developed inspire* our social business – a revolutionary approach to giving back to our communities. inspire* gives our business a purpose beyond profits and we are proud to be supporting communities and causes at the grass roots. Read more at www.inspirecharity.co.uk
gunnercooke lawyers are selected for their ability to guide clients through any situation that they may encounter during the course of their business. They are trusted advisors, problem solvers and truly ‘care’ about business outcomes for their clients.
Like a Marine, a Juilliard pianist, a NASA scientist or a Harvard or Oxford man or woman – you should spot them by a number of key character traits, hallmarks which are common across the practice, yet distinctive in their nature. These are:
Personality – Everyone wants to work with people they like! People who you look forward to working with, have fun with where you can, and who add value wherever possible!