International Focus

UK

Cumberland Ellis is located next to Gray’s Inn in the heart of legal London. Its location provides close contacts and links with barristers, intellectual property attorneys, bankers and other professional advisors.

The firm's location is also well placed for its dealings with the City of London and the financial sector, which are a short distance away, and the High Courts of Justice ensuring easy access to and for facilitating international arbitration and court applications.

Worldwide

Cumberland Ellis’ international practice benefits from its lawyer’s membership of the International Bar Association and as a founding member of the Law Society International Section. Its lawyers regularly attend the IBA Annual Conference and maintain close relationships with clients and business associates world-wide. As part of the service the firm provides, many of its lawyers are experts in their chosen fields and are members of such organisations as: Society for Computers; Law Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP); the Law Society Probate Section; the International Academy of Collaborative Practitioners; the Law Society Family Law Panel; the Law Society Dispute Resolution Section and Reunite (International Child Abduction).

Off shore

The firm has extremely close links with a number of excellent accountants, tax advisors, international trust and company formation agents in the Channel Isles, the Isle of Man, the Carribean and the Seyschelles.

Europe

The firm has extensive experience in the legal issues which surround European business and families. Its expertise includes advising on wealth management and family relationships, EU procurement, judicial review and cross border disputes and joint ventures. The firm has a wide and varied list of contacts with whom its lawyers have worked and continue to work for the benefit of mutual clients and is in a position to refer its clients to local advisors to ensure they receive the best advice possible.

United States

The Firm has a number of American clients and UK clients with interests in America and several of the firm’s lawyers regularly visit their clients and their business interests in the United States. The firm has maintained over many years, and continues to have, close and well established relationships with a number of excellent attorneys in New York, Washington, Texas and LA and several of the firm’s lawyers are members of the Society of English and American Lawyers.