Clyde & Co has grown to become a leading global law firm in our core sectors. With a headcount of over 5,000 staff operating from over 60 offices and associated offices across six continents, we offer a comprehensive range of legal services and advice to businesses operating at the heart of global trade and commerce.
From developed to emerging markets, we aim to support our clients by putting the power of our globally integrated firm at their disposal with a range of seamless and efficient services and the very best, commercially minded, legal advice.
This, together with our sector expertise and regional understanding, allows us to help clients identify and manage risk and liability, navigate challenges, harness commercial potential and achieve sustained growth in today's complex and volatile business environment.
We are committed to being a responsible business which means taking responsibility for the impact we have on the environment and seeking to reduce it as much and as quickly as possible. It means taking responsibility for giving back and being a positive contributor to the communities in which we operate. And it means taking responsibility for fostering a truly diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace so that all our people can flourish and fulfil their highest potential, for the benefit of them, the firm and our clients.
Founded in 1933
5000 people in their team
Clyde & Co is the world's pre-eminent insurance law firm, providing the highest quality advisory and dispute resolution services to insurers and their clients operating in both established and emerging markets.
Placing our clients at the centre of everything we do, our aim is to combine our specialist market experience with market-leading relationship management to build a service which is tailored specifically to the needs of our clients, based on an understanding of their individual claims philosophies and underwriting appetite, as well as the capital, operational and regulatory issues they face.
We offer an unmatched depth of coverage and defence capabilities across every line of insurance and reinsurance business, from the smallest claim to the most complex loss. Our leading dispute resolution practice covers litigation and all forms of alternative dispute resolution in relation to contentious claims and we also have experience in acting for insurers in contentious regulatory proceedings.
Global risks are increasingly interconnected. We focus on new and emerging cross line products and issues, as well as more traditional lines, and have grown our business internationally, bringing together our global footprint and specialist local knowledge to ensure that we can quickly respond to client issues wherever they arise, and support our clients on the most complex multi-jurisdictional matters.
We provide a complete range of advisory services including advising on policy wording issues, product development, funding options and recoveries. We have dedicated corporate, commercial and regulatory insurance teams working across the globe who advise clients at every stage of their development, and work closely with our employment, real estate and tax colleagues, offering insurance clients the broadest range of legal services underpinned by genuine sector expertise.
We understand that an organisation’s contracts and commercial agreements are of pivotal importance to its success. We align with our clients’ in-house teams to ensure such arrangements are robust, appropriate and pragmatic.
Our knowledge and experience extends across all spheres of activity in both the public and private sectors. We work with organisations across the globe, assisting them on a domestic or international basis.
One area of specialism is outsourcing. We understand the key issues, including client service levels, confidentiality and security, and dispute resolution. Our specialists work with clients and providers of outsourced services before, during and after an agreement is in place. We are also well-regarded for corporate secretarial, company administration and general corporate compliance services.
Another focus for Clyde & Co is information technology and communications, encompassing both hardware and software functions. We are one of the first and only law firms to specialize in cyber liability and we are at the forefront of drafting cyber policies.
We have experience of negotiating with the major players in the IT sector, as well as more boutique operations, always with our clients’ commercial interests to the fore.
Clyde & Co has acknowledged experience across industry and commerce, serving clients in major sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality, technology, marine, transport, energy, construction, commodities and insurance.
Underpinning this is experience and capability in the provision of advice on the full range of business issues affecting today’s corporate enterprises.
We support clients domestically and internationally through out network of global offices. Our skill-set extends to all aspects of corporate finance, including capital dealings, market listings, mergers and acquisitions, disposals and restructuring. We can guide clients on every aspect of a transaction, supplying cross-border expertise as needed.
Another key focus is corporate governance, which is of growing importance thanks to increased regulation and the demand from shareholders and stakeholders for greater accountability.
We also help our clients with their equity portfolios, managing risk to maximise returns over the lifespan of an investment and achieve their overall business objectives.
We have built a formidable knowledge base in the real estate sector as a result of our involvement in numerous projects and cases over many years.
We understand the issues affecting international landowners, property developers, occupiers, local councils and other authorities and investors and provide specialist support across the property life cycle.
Much of the work we do is transactional, involving finance, planning and ongoing occupier-tenant relations. We also have a dedicated real estate litigation team that uses all forms of dispute resolution, with particular prowess in the settlement of claims, adjudication and court action.
Whatever the nature and size of our client’s involvement in real estate, we can help them foresee and overcome legal issues and respond to problems as and when they arise.
Our keen commercial awareness also ensures that the advice we give is shaped to enable our clients to take advantage of the opportunities the market offers.
