Law

IPG's lawyers practise mainly in small and mid-sized independent firms, with a few larger practices among them. That scale matters to clients. The partner who takes the call is usually the one who does the work, and they know the courts, regulators and business customs of their own jurisdiction first-hand.

Between them, members advise on corporate and commercial matters, intellectual property, employment, commercial property, immigration, and dispute resolution and litigation, including arbitration and insolvency. Much of their work sits where two legal systems meet: a distribution agreement governed by one country's law but performed in another, a dispute that has to be pursued where the assets are, or an employee seconded abroad whose contract now answers to two sets of rules.

In those moments, clients need more than technical knowledge. They need a candid local view of how things work in practice, how long they take and what they are likely to cost. Because IPG lawyers know each other, those conversations happen early and honestly, and a colleague abroad will say plainly when an approach won't work.

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