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Legal insight tailored to your sector

Every business faces sector-specific legal challenges. We bring strategic foresight and commercially focused advice, so you can navigate uncertainty, capture opportunities, and plan your future with confidence.
  • Agriculture and Rural Business

    Respond to regulation, manage land assets, and plan succession with practical, forward-thinking support.

  • Education

    Shape governance, manage estates, and lead your institution through change with sector-specific legal advice.

  • Financial and Professional Services

    Anticipate regulatory shifts and manage complexity with guidance built for growth and long-term value.

  • Landed Estates

    Balance heritage with evolving legal duties, from diversification to stewardship and family governance.

  • Manufacturing

    Stay competitive across supply chains, expansion, and compliance with expertise tailored to industrial realities.

  • Media and Entertainment

    Secure your rights, protect your brand, and scale your reach across digital, broadcast, and live platforms.

  • Retail, Leisure and Hospitality

    Move fast with commercial advice across property, workforce, and branding, designed for your dynamic market.

  • Real Estate

    Shape deals and unlock commercial value across planning, investment, and development.

  • Sport

    Access expertise across elite, grassroots, and governing bodies, from contracts and image rights to disputes and governance.

  • Technology and Communications

    Safeguard your IP, manage risk, and scale quickly with insight shaped around fast-growth digital businesses.

Speak to a Legal Partner

Our team support you to navigate complexity, seize opportunity and move forward with legal clarity.

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Rob Cowling
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Looking for legal partners who understand your world?

We work with businesses across every sector, from small teams to large organisations. Whatever your size or industry, we understand the commercial pressures you face and where your sector is headed.

You’ll work with lawyers who speak your language, combining sharp legal thinking with lived experience in agriculture, education, tech, sport, and more. We focus not just on solving today’s issues, but on preparing you for what’s next.

We’ll also collaborate with your internal team and advisers to deliver advice that fits the way you work and evolves as your business does.

About Irwin Mitchell

Legal partners for ambitious businesses

We help protect your position and plan your next move across disputes, growth opportunities, and business change. 

Our advice is always shaped around your sector, your goals, and your long-term success. Whether you're a specialist SME or an international group, we’ll give you understanding that makes decisions easier, and outcomes stronger. 

Irwin Mitchell is a full-service law firm with 18 UK offices and a global reach. Our business lawyers work as long-term strategic partners, offering practical advice that helps you move with confidence. 

Contact our Specialists

Get strategic advice from a team that knows how to protect and grow your business. Please complete our enquiry form and one of our experts will contact you by the next working day.


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Why work with sector-specialist lawyers?

Legal problems don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re shaped by how your sector operates and what you’re trying to achieve.

You’ll get practical advice from lawyers who know your field, so you can make fast decisions, manage exposure, and stay focused on what matters.

Our experience covers:

  • Governance, regulation, and compliance
  • Contracts and commercial partnerships
  • Employment, restructuring, and disputes
  • Expansion, investment, and cross-border work
  • IP, brand, and reputation
  • Sector-specific risks and trends. 

You’ll work with a team that knows your business landscape and delivers advice with clarity, pace, and focus.

Here’s where you’ll find us

We are a full-service firm with solicitors in 21 UK locations, giving you national expertise with localised support.
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Our commitment to you

Our experts always start by listening, so we understand what matters most from day one.
  • 01
    Clear legal guidance

    You will always get straightforward, honest advice, with regular updates to keep you clear on the way forward.

  • 02
    Specialist knowledge

    A wide-ranging team of trusted specialists who understand what it takes to protect your future, your family or your business.

  • 03
    Your needs first

    Whether you’re navigating complex personal situations or business decisions, we take the time to understand your world and what’s at stake.

Recognised for excellence. Chosen for care.

  • Legal 500 Top Tier Firm UK 2026
  • Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025
  • ePrivateClient Top Law Firms 2025
  • Chambers High Net Worth 2025