Burges Salmon Explained

Firm Name:Burges Salmon LLP
Firm Logo:Burges Salmon logo.svg
Headquarters:Bristol, United Kingdom
Num Offices:Bristol, London and Edinburgh
Num Lawyers:340+[1]
Num Employees:900+
Practice Areas:Banking and Finance, Commercial, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment and Pensions, Real Estate[2]
Revenue:£108.7 million (2021)[3]
Date Founded:1841 (Bristol)
Company Type:LLP
Homepage:www.burges-salmon.com

Burges Salmon LLP is a law firm based in Bristol, England.

About Burges Salmon

Burges Salmon is a UK law firm with a national and international client base.[4]

The firm operates throughout the UK and in European and international jurisdictions.[5] The firm currently has sector expertise in a range of areas including energy, transport, food and farming, real estate, financial services and infrastructure.[2] The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sector Alliance.[6] [7]

In 2012, Burges Salmon chose the Bristol Children's Hospital charity,[8] Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, as its charity of the year - raising £84,000 to help support the expansion of the hospital.[9]

In 2013, the firm became a founding sponsor of Aardman and The Grand Appeal's Gromit Unleashed public art exhibition – sponsoring Aardman's Gromit sculpture at London Paddington station.[10]

The firm publishes an annual review called Insight.[11]

History

The origins of the firm go back to 1841[12] when Edward Burges set up as a sole practitioner. His father and grandfather had both been lawyers before him.[13]

Following the death of the founder in 1890, the practice was continued by his son W. E. Parry Burges who formed a partnership with a Mr Sloan, resulting in the name becoming Burges & Sloan. In 1947 the partnership was joined by Stuart Evans, who was then practising alone as Salmon, Cumberland and Evans. The firm's move to Narrow Quay House in 1982 saw the shortening of the name to "Burges Salmon".[14]

In 2010, Burges Salmon re-located from Narrow Quay to its current head office at One Glass Wharf[15] in the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.[16] In 2012, the firm also moved its London offices from Chancery Exchange to New Street Square, enabling it to operate from both Bristol and London.

Burges Salmon has authored a number of publications including the Burges Salmon Guide to Nuclear Law and the Burges Salmon Guide for Landowners and Farmers, also known as The Pink Book .

In 2008, allegations were made against Burges Salmon that sub-prime loans may have been mis-sold to farmers, and was investigated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.[17] In October 2010 the Solicitors Regulation Authority announced that it had closed the investigation with no further action.[18]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Burges Salmon LLP – Bristol – Law Firm Profile - Chambers UK 2015 – Chambers and Partners . https://archive.today/20130717082859/http://www.chambersandpartners.com/UK/Firms/57-72570 . dead . 17 July 2013 . chambersandpartners.com . 7 March 2015.
  2. Web site: Expertise Burges Salmon. burges-salmon.com. 20 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230529183541/https://www.burges-salmon.com/expertise . 2023-05-29.
  3. Web site: Legal Business - Burges Salmon rides out Covid crisis to break £100m revenue threshold . legalbusiness.co.uk . 5 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20220625161617/https://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/firms_companies/burges-salmon/ . 2022-06-25.
  4. Web site: Burges Salmon – independent UK law firm. www.burges-salmon.com.
  5. Web site: About us Burges Salmon. https://web.archive.org/web/20231020124354/https://www.burges-salmon.com/about-us . 2023-10-20.
  6. Web site: Legal Sustainability Alliance Members. 15 July 2013. 14 September 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090914102906/http://www.legalsectoralliance.co.uk/members?page=2. dead.
  7. Web site: Burges Salmon LLP - The Legal 500 . 9 March 2024 . The Legal 500 .
  8. Web site: Home Page - Grand Appeal. grandappeal.org.uk.
  9. Web site: Bristol law firm Burges Salmon raises £80,000 for Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal with cheese related antics - Bristol Post . https://archive.today/20130717082944/http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-law-firm-Burges-Salmon-raises-pound-80/story-18341193-detail/story.html%23axzz2Xy9urFHd . dead . 17 July 2013 . thisisbristol.co.uk . 7 March 2015.
  10. Web site: Gromit Unleashed - Sponsor a Gromit in Bristol . https://web.archive.org/web/20130324020340/http://www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/sponsors/ . 24 March 2013 . dead . Gromit Unleashed . 7 March 2015 . dmy-all.
  11. Web site: Our annual review - Burges Salmon – a leading UK law firm . burges-salmon.com . 7 March 2015 . 26 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150226105425/http://www.burges-salmon.com/who_we_are/annual_review/default.aspx . dead .
  12. Web site: Burges Salmon. Law Careers. 3 December 2015.
  13. Web site: Burges Salmon. Legal Week. 3 December 2015. 8 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208160922/http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/wiki/1171286/burges-salmon. dead.
  14. Web site: Turnover Passes £70m for Burgess Salmon. 22 January 2013 . Insider Media. 3 December 2015.
  15. Web site: One Glass Wharf - Burges Salmon Office Space . https://web.archive.org/web/20121225035236/http://www.stridetreglown.co.uk/projects/offices/59-one-glass-wharf.html . 25 December 2012 . dead . 7 March 2015 . dmy-all.
  16. Web site: Home - Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone . bristoltemplequarter.com. 7 March 2015.
  17. Web site: Burges Salmon faces SRA loans probe. Legal Week. 3 December 2015. 8 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208112404/http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1147168/burges-salmon-sra-loans-probe. dead.
  18. Web site: Burges Salmon spared SDT after 'hellishly complicated' investigation. Legal Support Network. 3 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205816/http://www.legalsupportnetwork.co.uk/risk-compliance/news/burges-salmon-spared-sdt-after-hellishly-complicated-investigation . 2016-03-04.

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