Established 1894 · Bath · London
Established 1894 · Bath · London
The same building. The same approach. Six generations of clients have walked under the same brass nameplate.
The City reach. The same standards. Corporate work runs through London; the disposition runs through Bath.
The Senior Partner
Clients come to us when the matter is consequential. Our work, in the simplest terms, is to make sure the consequences are the ones they intended.
Margaret Pellican is the firm’s senior managing partner and the fourth Pellican to lead the Bath chambers. She qualified in 1991, made partner in 2002, and assumed senior partnership in 2018. She sits on the firm’s three principal committees and chairs the practice review.
She splits the working week between the Bath chambers and the London office. Most clients meet her in Bath.
How we work
A long meeting before the work begins. A small team that does not change. Plain advice in writing. We do not chase volume, and we do not pitch to win mandates we cannot do well.
Most new clients arrive on referral. We accept work in three of every four enquiries. The reason for declining is always given in writing.
Practice
Acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, and the boring but consequential paperwork in between.
Read more →Wealth structuring for owner-managers and established families. Discretion as a working principle.
Read more →Commercial and residential transactions across the South West and Greater London. Listed buildings a speciality.
Read more →Commercial disputes, contentious probate, and partnership disputes. We litigate when we must and settle when we should.
Read more →Estate administration, trust drafting, and the inter-generational planning that keeps the foregoing simple.
Read more →Tax counsel for transactions, estates, and trusts. Calm, conservative, and well-evidenced.
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Locations
14 Queen Square
Bath BA1 2HJ
United Kingdom
Eight Bishopsgate, 32nd Floor
London EC2N 4BQ
United Kingdom
Bath or London, in person or by video. We reply to every enquiry within two working days, in writing, and we say plainly whether we are the right firm for the matter.
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