Legal 500 UK 2025/2026

The 2025 edition of the Legal 500 has, once again, recognised Glovers for its expertise in our key practice areas, marking another year of excellence.

The Commercial Property team rank highly in the ‘Corporate Occupiers’ and ‘Hospitality and Leisure’ categories and are noted as being ‘The best hospitality-focused property team in the UK. No other firm understands the unique needs of the hospitality industry better than Glovers’.

Philip Shotter and Paul Jagger are recognised as being ‘giants in their field’ whose ‘understanding of the hospitality sector and their clients’ specific needs is exceptional’.

This ‘tight-knit’ team of talented lawyers, including Andrew Nicklinson and Naana Binfoh, have ‘an impressive list of clients’ and are ‘adept at acting across the full range of hospitality, leisure and retail’. Clients comment that ‘the smartest restaurant operators use Glovers because they are the best’.

The Property Finance team continues to receive high praise with their strong capabilities in development finance highlighted as a ‘notable strength’ and widely recognised as being a ‘very pragmatic and experienced’ team with an ‘ability to understand a deal quickly and assess the key risks being a great strength’.

Headed by Darran Smith, who is described as ‘the star of the team’,  and ‘consistently reliable’ alongside John Mills who is ‘simply superb’, the team is regarded as ‘one of our go-to firms for complex cases’.

Kenny Friday and Paul Dench lead our Property Litigation team with excellent client feedback. Paul Dench 'stands out and has accumulated 25 years of expert knowledge which enables him to turn around work demands without stress or fuss’ and is a ‘firm favourite with clients’.

Kenny Friday ‘has considerable expertise in acting for lenders/receivers in all litigation concerning secured lending, He is calm under pressure and always adopts a clear strategy for litigation from the outset’.

We pride ourselves in delivering client satisfaction and the firm has, once again, been one of only a few firms in our practice areas to be awarded a ‘Client Satisfaction’ accolade. These are only awarded to firms who achieve exceptionally high scores for client service and client experience in Legal 500’s annual survey of hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide.