Taylor Wessing
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| Headquarters | Decentralised |
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| No. of offices | 33 |
| No. of attorneys | 1,200 |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Key people |
UK Managing Partner, Tim Eyles UK Senior Partner, Adam Marks |
| Date founded | 2002 |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | |
| taylorwessing.com | |
UK Managing Partner, Tim Eyles
Taylor Wessing LLP is an international law firm with 33 offices internationally. The Firm has around 400 partners and 1200 lawyers worldwide. The company was formed as a result of a merger of the British law firm Taylor Joynson Garrett and the German law firm Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler, retaining the first name of each.
The oldest predecessor of the Taylor law firm began life in 1782 as a firm run by a sole practitioner, Thomas Smith. The first Taylor joined him as a partner in 1788. From 1805, the original Taylor then practised on his own until he died in 1822.
By then another partner, Jacob Mould had joined and the firm continued under various names, usually incorporating the name "Taylor" until 1832 when the first Taylor's son (Taylor II) joined as a partner. The firm was then known as Mould Taylor & Co.
Mould departed shortly afterwards and the firm became Parker, Taylor and Rooke. From 1848, Taylor II practised on his own until 1866 when his son, Taylor III joined him, the firm becoming known as R.S. Taylor & Son. He was joined by the first Humbert in 1879, the firm becoming R.S. Taylor Son & Humbert. This name was streamlined to Taylor & Humbert forty years later.
Taylor & Humbert merged with Parker Garrett in 1982, becoming Taylor Garrett. The firm then merged with Joynson-Hicks in 1989, calling itself Taylor Joynson Garrett.
In 1873, the oldest predecessor of the Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler law firm was founded in Hamburg by Hermann May and Alfons Mittelstrass. The firm was focused on servicing the Hanseatic merchants. Around 1960, Günter von Berenberg-Gossler for the first time accepted multiple lawyers as partners at his firm, and the company became known as Berenberg-Gossler & Partner. Berenberg-Gossler belonged to one of the most prominent Hanseatic business families of Germany.
Count Rüdiger von der Goltz had established a law practice in Stettin in 1926, and in 1954, he accepted the young lawyer Kurt Wessing as a partner.
The law firm of Zimmermann, Reimer, Hohenlohe Sommer had been established in 1975 in Munich, and later became Zimmermann, Hohenlohe, Sommer, Rojahn.
In 1989, Berenberg-Gossler & Partner merged with Graf von der Goltz Wessing & Partner and Zimmermann Hohenlohe Sommer Rojahn. In 1993 the company merged with the renowned Frankfurt law firm Kanzlei Lange & von Braunschweig, and became Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange (often known as Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler).
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