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2nd October 2024

Hunters celebrates another successful year in Legal 500 UK 2025

Hunters celebrates another successful year in Legal 500 UK 2025

We are delighted to announce another successful year in the latest edition of the Legal 500 directory, retaining rankings in seven practice areas and personal recommendations for 22 lawyers.

  • Family (Tier 2)
  • Personal tax, trusts and probate (Tier 2)
  • Family: mediation (Tier 3)
  • Art and cultural property (Tier 4)
  • Charities and not-for-profit (Tier 4)
  • Contentious trusts and probate (Tier 4)
  • Residential property (Tier 4)

Published for over three decades, the Legal 500 provides comprehensive coverage of the global legal market. By collecting data based on a series of criteria, the directory highlights firms and teams across more than 150 jurisdictions that deliver the most innovative and cutting-edge service.

Find out more about the Legal 500 and access Hunters’ full rankings here: Hunters Law LLP (Legal 500).

Family (Tier 2)

Retaining its Tier 2 ranking, our ‘commercially savvy’ Family & Relationships department is noted as being ‘one of the best in the country’ and having ‘high levels of emotional intelligence’.

Our ‘indomitable’ Head of Department, Henry Hood, is recognised for his specialism in cases involving landed estates and farms, while Richard Kershaw offers ‘unparalleled’ expertise in private equity cases. Jo Carr-West and Olivia Piercy are mentioned for their mediation and domestic abuse work, respectively; and the addition of Amy Rowe in 2024 added notable experience in international children law.

Leading partners: Henry Hood; Richard Kershaw; Amy Rowe
Next generation partners: Olivia Piercy; Amy Scollan
Recommended lawyers: Eri Horrocks; Jo Carr-West; Mark Stiebel; Alex Brereton; Maria Wright

Personal tax, trusts and probate (Tier 2)

Our Private Client department combines ‘the service to be expected by traditional landed and heritage clients and the responsiveness and flexibility of the next generation of private clients’. Leading the team into another Tier 2 ranking, Wilfrid Vernor-Milesalways has a constructive point to make/solution to offer’ and stands out on ‘value for money, billing, attention to detail and successful outcomes for clients’.

Calm, efficient and knowledgeable’ Partner, Lara Barton is recognised as being a trusted advisor to ultra-high-net-worth clients, and joint Head of Department, Matthew Yates, delivers ‘good advice and service’ focusing on lifetime and post-death tax planning.

Recommended lawyers: Wilfrid Vernor-Miles; Matthew Yates; Lucinda Tite; Sunir Watts; Charlotte Simm; Lara Barton; Mary Elliott

Family: mediation (Tier 3)

Leading partners: Jo Carr-West; Henry Hood

Charities and not-for-profit (Tier 4)

Under the guidance of ‘tenacious and determinedDominik Opaliński, our Charities & Not-For-Profit department is noted for its work assisting charities, NGOs, historical charities and almshouses on a broad range of issues, including complex cross-border matters, safeguarding issues and the enforcement of human rights.

Recommended lawyers: Dominik Opaliński; Mark Stiebel

Residential property (Tier 4)

Previously ‘one to watch’, our ‘approachable, sympathetic, friendly and efficient’ Residential Property department enters the directory at Tier 4. Head of Department, James Vernor-Miles, is ‘best of breed’, commended for overseeing transactions ‘masterfully with solid advice which is clearly based on huge experience’.

Scott Battram and Cordelia Smith are new entrants to the directory, recognised for being thorough and getting things done ‘efficiently, reliably and without fuss’.

Recommended lawyers: James Vernor-Miles; Scott Battram; Cordelia Smith

Art and cultural property (Tier 4)

Recommended lawyers: Mark Stiebel; Julia Lewis

Contentious trusts and probate (Tier 4)

Leading partners: Richard Kershaw