Legal

We see opportunities and risks from every angle by combining our legal expertise and business understanding

We believe businesses need legal services that provide certainty in a time of disruption, that help them think differently and even turn that disruption into their advantage.

We quickly identify opportunities and risks and provide clear, actionable advice on the best response. We’re legal partners who embrace technology to enable smarter, faster decision making. We understand our client’s businesses and how they need to evolve.

At PwC we’ve got lawyers. But we’ve also got accountants, consultants, experts in industries, deals, risk, tax and technology. We work together to help clients unlock value throughout their business while protecting their people and their organisation.

“We are more than just lawyers. We provide legal solutions across all commercial disciplines and draw on our wider business expertise to help clients unlock value, while protecting their people and their organisation.”

Trusha KachhelaHead of Legal

The future of Legal

The legal profession is going through significant change. Legal teams must adapt quickly to changing client and employee demands brought on by advances in technology. There is a growing need to get more value from legal services and those teams that succeed will be agile, innovative and knowledgeable.

Find out more about three areas where we expect to see significant change in the future: technology, people and business.

Technology has been one of the biggest disruptors to the legal sector in recent years, and we don’t expect that to change. PwC’s legal teams lead the market in providing tech-enabled legal solutions to clients including harnessing, amongst others: contract lifecycle management, AI pre-screening, document generation and data analytics tools.

Businesses face continuous pressure to modernise and we’re able to provide a full range of services to help our clients: from our analysis of the effectiveness of a legal function and the provision of proven consulting services, to embedding new LegalTech strategy in order to optimise business practice.

Our Legal services

Our legal business solutions team brings the best of business understanding, technology innovation and legal expertise, to advise our clients on industry and technology trends.

Our main areas of practice are outlined below:

NewLaw

We support our clients in managing and transforming their legal operations by providing process and technology optimised managed legal services and contract review and remediation services.

Employment

Our team provides the broadest employment law offering of any global law firm. We advise on complex UK and international HR projects, and acting on contentious and non-contentious matters.

Pensions

We advise on all aspects of UK pensions law and combine our legal advice with expertise from pensions professionals to form a joined-up pensions service.

Corporate

We support a range of services from shareholder agreements, joint ventures, limited liability partnerships, due diligence exercises and corporate simplification projects. Our team consists of specialists in business structuring, mergers & acquisitions and banking.

Data protection and privacy

We provide business-critical support on data protection, privacy, confidentiality and security matters to businesses, governments and public authorities all over the world.

Financial Services

We work with borrowers and lenders on a range of matters, from the negotiation of bank facilities, to fund acquisitions of properties to intra group financing.

Intellectual Property

Advising business, from start-ups to multinational companies, on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to technology, brands and content.

Government

We guide public bodies and utilities through domestic and international law, contentious and non-contentious issues.

Tax and Regulatory

Representing clients on a broad range of commercial tax and commercial disputes as well as environmental and sustainability regulations through ESG regulations.

Entity Governance and Compliance

Supporting international business with all aspects of compliance and governance issues.

Real Estate

We advise on complex real estate structuring and acquisitions, management and disposals.

Why Legal at PwC?

With more than 3,700 legal specialists in over 100 countries, we have one of the most extensive legal services networks in the world. Our team is uniquely placed as part of the Tax practice which provides opportunities for cross-working and collaboration between specialities. You may work alongside Tax Advisers, Management Consultants, and Accountants. We focus on quality of training, daily exposure to wider business skills and the highest standard of client work. Combined with our ambitious growth plans, this makes us an exciting place to launch your career.

Innovation drives us to explore new offerings and how we can deliver to clients. The nature of our work is extremely varied and our client base is hugely diverse - you’ll rarely work on similar projects twice. We create an environment where we respect and support new ideas. We encourage our people to reimagine the work they do and come together as one team to help each other be the best we can be.