Cripps Harries Hall

Partnerships & professional practices

Partnerships are flexible vehicles suitable for both small family businesses and large international concerns, but they present their own opportunities and challenges - which is why it pays to get advice from a partnership law specialist.

What we do

We have a team dedicated to partnership and LLP law and practice, general partnerships, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and limited partnerships. We have helped numerous professional partnerships and limited companies to convert successfully to LLP status. We set up new partnerships and LLPs. We advise on partnership agreements and LLP members agreements. We vary existing agreements - perhaps to add a remuneration scheme.

We also offer specialist advice and representation in partnership disputes and LLP disputes -  issues arising out of retirement, expulsion, exclusion, dissolution, discrimination, goodwill, partnership liabilities, insolvency, enforcement of restrictive covenants, and (in relation to salaried partners or members) employment rights. 

Our clients

Our clients include solicitors, accountants, surveyors, architects, doctors and patent attorneys, as well as a wide range of other businesses - such as property developers, investment managers, restaurants, care homes and farming.

Individual partners (or members of an LLP) also seek our advice about their personal rights and obligations, on joining or leaving a partnership or LLP, or if they have a dispute with their fellow partners or members.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

Partnership law is one of our specialities. Our partnership lawyers spend much of their time dealing with partners and their businesses, and so have a deep understanding of the practical issues involved as well as the legal issues.

Next steps

For further information please contact Stephen Williams.

Latest news Date
+ Cripps ranked number one in the region for eight practice areas in leading legal directory
Cripps Harries Hall LLP continues to demonstrate high quality legal advice with another year of top rankings in the latest edition of Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession.
 22/11/2011

Our team is dedicated to partnership and LLP law and practice. Some of our work includes:

  • Acting for numerous professional partnerships on their conversion to LLP status and other LLP matters; clients include Top 100 law firms and Top 50 accountancy practices
  • Acting for a major real estate investment company on the terms of their LLP joint venture with a listed UK householder
  • Acting for former members of solicitors' LLP to extract their capital and obtain other remedies
  • Acting for an excluded partner of a firm of surveyors to recover a substantial sum for him via mediation
Name Role Contact
Chris Langridge Partner +44 (0)1892 506 090
Tom Trowhill Solicitor +44 (0)1892 506 342
Stephen Williams Partner +44 (0)1892 506 344
Legal updates view all
+ Partnerships & professional practices - The test of true partnership - when are LLP members also employees? - February 2012
This week's decision by the Court of Appeal in Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP - [2012] EWCA Civ 35 - is a welcome clarification of the principles to be applied in deciding whether junior members of a limited liability partnership - typically described as "salaried" or "fixed share" partners - are also employees of the LLP.
 03/02/2012
+ Partnerships and professional practices update - LLP + no LLP members' agreement = litigation - March 2011
The recent case of Eaton v Caulfield & others (an unfair prejudice petition brought under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006, coupled with a just and equitable winding up petition under section 122(1)(g) Insolvency Act 1986) highlights the difficulties faced by LLP members who do not have an LLP members' agreement setting out their rights and obligations.
 21/03/2011
Guidance view all
+ Partnerships or LLP members' agreement checklist
This document is designed as a starting point for partners and LLP members when considering whether the provisions of their partnership or members' agreement are adequate.
 23/03/2011
In the press view all
+ Spiralling partnership disputes and "partner-exiting climate" encouraging specialist ADR
A spiralling number of partnership disputes is encouraging the development of specialist alternative dispute resolution, experts have said.
05/01/2011
+ How 'legal services reforms' will affect high street firms
Peter Garry comments
17/06/2010
+ What the legal services reforms could mean
Nothing defines the City of London quite as much as its propensity to check the bottom line - the importance of which has been underlined by the financial crisis and renewed attention to risk management. Peter Garry comments.
 20/05/2010

Key contacts

Stephen Williams
Partnerships & professional practices
+44 (0)1892 506 344
e-mail