The firm celebrates 19 rankings in the Legal 500 this year.
Top 100 City law firm Wedlake Bell is delighted to announce its 2025 Legal 500 rankings. The firm has once again been recognised for its excellence and commitment to delivering exceptional legal services to its clients.
Featuring in 19 categories this year, the rankings are based on sector expertise, commitment to innovation and focus on client satisfaction. These are listed below. This recognition underscores the firm’s dedication to providing high-quality legal advice and its continued success in delivering favourable outcomes for its clients.
In particular, the firm is very pleased to be newly ranked Tier 8 corporate restructuring & insolvency group and promoted to Tier 1 art and cultural property, Tier 3 construction (non-contentious) and Tier 4 pensions (non-contentious) groups respectively.
| Submission | Team Ranking |
| Art and cultural property | Tier 1 |
| Commercial property: corporate occupiers | Tier 2 |
| Commercial property: development | Tier 4 |
| Commercial property: investment | Tier 3 |
| Construction: contentious | Tier 5 |
| Construction: non-contentious | Tier 3 |
| Contentious trusts and probate | Tier 3 |
| Corporate restructuring & insolvency | Tier 8 |
| Debt recovery | Tier 1 |
| Employers | Tier 5 |
| Family | Tier 4 |
| Fraud: civil | Tier 4 |
| Intellectual property: trademarks, copyright and design | Tier 5 |
| IT and telecoms | Firms To Watch |
| M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m | Tier 2 |
| Pensions (non-contentious) | Tier 4 |
| Personal tax, trusts and probate | Tier 2 |
| Property litigation | Tier 3 |
| Residential property | Tier 2 |
| Senior executives | Tier 4 |