Managing Partner Simon McCrum- Number of partners: 22
- Number of other fee-earners: 60
- Total staff: 144
The Firm Darbys Solicitors LLP is both very much a part of the Oxfordshire and Thames Valley 'Establishment', (acting for a host of University colleges and local authorities, as well as for many thousands of local families and businesses), and also involved in the 'cutting edge' of commerce and industry in acting for spinouts and the wider bio-sciences and life sciences sectors, and in acting for national and multi-national companies in a range of sectors. Its avowed aim to build long-lasting relationships with clients over time rather than to make as much money as possible out of every case, are evidenced by the innovative support schemes that it offers to its commercial clients, to the owners and directors of those businesses, and to individuals and families.
Principal Areas of Work The areas of expertise that clients can benefit from in each of the firm’s two divisions are:
Commercial Division: Corporate/merger/acquisition; IP/IT/technology/media, commercial litigation; employment law, planning, commercial property; immigration/international labour; insolvency; corporate defence; equine sector; agricultural law.
Private Client Division: Wills/trusts/tax planning; personal injury; clinical negligence; matrimonial and children; private defence; insolvency; disputes; residential conveyancing; equine law; agricultural law.
Areas of PracticeBusiness Service: 50%Private Client Services: 50%