Who we help

We bring together legal, tax, and property expertise to help developers, investors, and operators navigate every stage of a BTR project – from site acquisition and planning through to construction, funding, and long-term management.

Our specialist advisers can help charitable organisations successfully negotiate the day-to-day challenges and get the big decisions ‘right’, while maximising their returns and minimising risk.

At every stage of a data centre project our experts provide tailored guidance to ensure your development and operations run soothly and compliantly – from initial concept, to expansion and decommissioning to ongoing maintenance and operations.

We have a multi-disciplinary team of advisers, with many years of experience working with investors, operators and funders in the hotels and leisure industry and a thorough understanding of challenges faced by different industry stakeholders. 

With a team of over 230, we have the largest specialist residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service.

We regularly work with international businesses that are looking to do great business in the UK, whether this is setting up in the UK initially or managing UK-based operations.

We provide a full suite of services, from corporate lending to restructuring and recovery. Our expert team advise numerous UK-based banks and financial institutions, including all of the main clearing banks and a range of specialist funds.

Our sector specialists provide pragmatic legal and business advice to retail businesses. Agility and flexibility in reshaping retail operations requires innovative thinking and strong leadership. 

We have in-depth, market-leading understanding and experience of the sports sector from many years of providing high-quality, commercial and practical legal advice to clients.

Getting your business off the ground may have been challenging, but scaling it up will bring a whole new set of issues to contend with. Gateley can help start-up and scale-up businesses through each stage of the growth journey.

We advise sureties on a variety of matters covering a wide range of sectors and regularly act for many household surety names, including ACE, Aviva, Euler Hermes, HCC, QBE and Zurich.

Our team is at the forefront of the technology sector, working with innovative businesses, from start-ups to SMEs to multinational organisations. We have years of experience advising clients in the technology and digital sectors. 

We advise business owners throughout the whole business lifecycle including financing, investment, acquisitions, executive change, day-to-day governance, operational management, exit, and anything else that might crop up along the way.

We work with in-house lawyers on a flexible bespoke basis to make sure that requirements for legal support are delivered in line with client needs, expectations and budget. 

Our team is highly experienced at working with wealthy international clients, their families, their asset holding structures and their family offices. And our geographical experience is broad, with most of our clients coming to the UK from the Middle East, Australasia, Africa and Russia.

Our pensions professionals advise trustees on all aspects of pensions law, from the day-to-day management of their pension schemes to the legal aspects of major projects and transactions. 

Whether you are donating due to a strong personal cause, a change in circumstances, have been advised to by a financial adviser, or you just desire to do some good, we are able to help you structure your charitable giving in order to maximise impact and ensure regulatory compliance. 

We regularly act for turnaround and insolvency specialists, boards of directors, investors and other key stakeholders on financial and organisational restructuring.