Approach

The accelerating pace at which legal processes are being automated is changing how lawyers work and challenging traditional firm models. The productivity gains obtainable through the discriminating use of digital tools means that increasingly smaller teams of experienced lawyers are in a position to undertake more voluminous work to deliver substantially more value back to the client. As an agile and evolving firm we place emphasis on sector expertise, practice experience, leveraging digital tools, and nurturing broader client relationships.

Mission

Our mission is to be a premier insurgent legal services provider creating value for clients in the energy and infrastructure space - we want to be creative and facilitate outcomes.

International

Our clients include buyers, sellers, developers, and publicly, privately and state-owned companies, we regularly advise:

  • on English law governed M&A and project finance;
  • as international lead counsel (partnering with top-tier independent firms for local law input);
  • on German M&A and project finance; and
  • German project development and regulatory work.

Our network covers firms in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, and the UAE.

Advisory Models


Hargrove on its own


Hargrove Umbrella (extended team)

Hargrove+
(including collaboration partners)

Advantages

Clear advantages over a traditional international law firm model include:

Partner led teams
Disentangled organisational and cost structures
No referral constraints
No conflicts
Magic circle quality

Germany

Germany has some excellent boutique legal practices that within their specialisms are at eye level with practice groups of international law firms.

ESG

Hargrove is guided by principles of integrity, this includes implementing and regularly reviewing policies that relate to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG). We are increasingly being sensitised to further issues around ESG by clients requiring a broader approach to be taken to target supply chains.

ESG related internal policies include:

  • our legal work is almost exclusively focussed on supporting renewable energy and de-carbonisation projects or resource extraction related to the green transition;

  • being a transparent and equal opportunities employer, striving, where commercially possible, to do the right thing over and above minimum regulatory requirements, we have long established home office policies intended to support the provision of a good work life balance.

  • moving towards a paperless office with an absolute minimum printing policy, and the use of recycled paper (free of bleaching agents and optical brighteners);

  • no bottled water policy (filtered tap water is freely available in carafes) and fruit and vegetable bowls are organic and where possible regional;

  • no flights where journey reasonably possible by train e.g. to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf etc. (subject to client driven exceptions) and colleagues are strongly encouraged to cycle or use public transport for their commute; and

  • suppliers are where possible regional.

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