Shakespeare Martineau

Shakespeare Martineau is a full-service law firm, providing legal services to businesses, organisations, families and people throughout life and in business.

Our purpose is clear and our ambitions are unlimited: we want to unlock potential in our people and clients, inspiring confidence, growth and development. We provide creative solutions and advice that helps you fulfil your commercial and personal goals. What is vitally important to us though is that we build lasting relationships, championing our clients and providing the best possible business and personal advice.

We want to be the advisors who help you drive forward, engage in new ventures, challenge the established way, embrace the new abnormal and take advantage of opportunities. 

Working with organisations of all sizes, we deliver a broad range of specialist legal services and have expertise across multiple areas including but not limited to: real estate (including planning and environmental), energy, education, banking and finance, healthcare, investment funds, manufacturing, agriculture, family business, Islamic finance, later living, social housing and charities.

As part of Ampa Group, we are a certified B Corporation, meaning we have been verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

With more than 1,200 people, we have a strong presence across the East Midlands, with working space in Derby, and office hubs in Nottingham, Leicester and Lincoln as well as Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Solihull, Southampton, and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Marketing Derby is committed to showcasing what is best about Derby and Derbyshire, supporting small local start-ups to world-leading names. Fundamentally, they play a pivotal role in the growth of the region.

At Shakespeare Martineau, we are driven to help our clients thrive, to unlock their potential and to take advantage of opportunities. Establishing this relationship, therefore, was a no-brainer given that our values closely align with those of Marketing Derby.

With offices in Leicester and Nottingham, and working space in Derby, we strengthen our legal presence across the East Midlands – completing the regional picture and enhancing the support we provide to clients throughout the area.

Having a presence in Derby enables us to work more closely with clients and referrers, many of whom are Bondholders, delivering a full range of legal services and supporting the regeneration of the city and its surrounding areas. This reflects our core values and aligns with Marketing Derby’s ambitions.”

Derby is home to some of the world’s leading businesses, including Alstom, Rolls-Royce and Toyota Manufacturing UK. Regenerating the city relies upon building on the success of the hi-tech business base and supporting start-ups, SMEs and innovative schemes that will make Derby a desirable place to invest, live, work and visit. “With excellent air, road and rail connections, and 80% of the UK population within a four-hour reach, Derby is strategically positioned for significant growth and investment.

With £5.4bn invested in Derby since 2011, the potential for further investment is not just speculative. Having seen schemes such as Vaillant Live, the Market Hall and the Nightingale Quarter brought forward, the future is bright for Derby.

Not only is Derby blessed with the potential for regeneration, it benefits from a large pool of friendly, collaborative and innovative entrepreneurs working towards making the city a better place to live, work and visit for generations to come. We are delighted to be working with them and other fellow Bondholders in achieving their ambitions.

We have advised Derbyshire-based clients for many years – our legal support is not confined by geography and extends far beyond our regional offices.