In the guide, our firm’s Corporate and Commercial team is ranked in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Partners in this team are Victoria Sampson and Russell Brinkhurst (who was described in by Legal 500 last year as having a ‘very hands on and empathetic approach’).
Legal 500 states: ‘CooperBurnett assists both business and private clients. Practice head, Victoria Sampson, is experienced in transactions involving corporate governance, charity law and ecclesiastical law. The team is well-versed in issues surrounding charity acquisitions.”
Client quotes regarding CooperBurnett LLP from Legal 500 2026 include:
“Able to support clients through a process in an understandable, personable way.”
“I've worked with CooperBurnett for about ten years. Their professionalism and expertise is outstanding, while also having an excellent depth of knowledge in commercial law.”
Legal 500 was founded in 1987 as the ‘original clients’ guide to law firms’. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide’.
Legal 500 states: “Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.”
The latest Legal 500 rankings have also been confirmed CooperBurnett as one of the ‘firms to watch’ in Construction. The guide says Construction Partner David Brown is ‘an expert in contract disputes, insolvency matters and adjudication proceedings’. It then adds that ‘the construction group at CooperBurnett is highly sought-after among regional contractors and sub-contractors on high-value contentious matters’.
