CORINNE STAVES

Corinne Staves advises on all aspects of partnerships, LLPs and professional practices law and practice. For individual partners this includes admission, promotion/demotion, regulation, managing difficult conversations and exit. She advises professional firms on these issues, as well as launching new firms, strategic risk and compliance, regulation, transactions (such as mergers, demergers and LLP conversions), governance and constitutional change and structure (including international structuring).

She also has extensive experience advising on bespoke and innovative solutions involving partnerships and LLPs in both a commercial and a family context.

Corinne was the first female Chair of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and is recognised in the Legal Directories as a leader in this field. She regularly speaks and writes on topical issues.

Chambers and Partners UK 2025 ranked Corinne a “Star Individual” in Partnership (Non-Contentious) and “Spotlight Table” for Partnership (Large International Structures): “Corinne is a very impressive individual. She is very empathetic and very commercially astute. She will get the job done at any cost, and make it look easy.” “Corinne brings a real depth of expertise and good business acumen. She is a pleasure to work with and you feel as though she is always part of your trusted team.”

Legal 500 UK 2025 ranked Corinne as a “Leading Individual” in the area of Partnership law: “Corinne Staves and Zulon Begum are two of only four or five UK lawyers who I believe are unreservedly capable of advising on partnership and governance matters in a complex merger.” “Corinne Staves, is a guru in the partnership world with a strength of drafting skills and professional regulation. She is a true leader in the partnership world. Her career goes from strength to strength and she is a really strong additional to the firm.”

She is also recommended by Legal 500 UK 2025 in the field of Professional Discipline: “Corinne Staves’ astuteness in delivering the right advice is exceptional.” 

Chambers and Partners UK 2024 ranked Corinne a “Star Individual” in Partnership (Non-Contentious) and “Spotlight Table” for Partnership (Large International Structures): “Corinne is highly experienced, commercial and pragmatic.” “She is a star of the partnership world.” “Corinne is a real pleasure to work with and commercially astute.” “She is wonderful to deal with – ever helpful and insightful, with a reassuring robustness when it matters.”

Legal 500 UK 2024 ranked Corinne as a “Leading Individual” in the area of Partnership law.

Chambers and Partners UK 2023 ranked Corinne a “Star Individual” in Partnership (Non-Contentious) and “Spotlight Table” for Partnership (Large International Structures), “It’s a pleasure working with Corinne as complex matters are made simple, the advice is very clear and focused, and any problem solving is well framed and highly collaborative.” Corinne is recognised as “Very knowledgeable and skilled in helping navigate sensitive discussions”

“She is head and shoulders above everyone else and has incredible presence in the market.”

“She is among the very best and really knows her stuff on the regulatory side.” 

Legal 500 UK 2023 ranked Corinne as a “Leading Individual” in the area of Partnership law and recognised her as a “standout partner”.

Chambers and Partners UK 2022 ranked Corinne Band 1 for Partnership (Non-Contentious). “Corinne is a terrific all-round practitioner who is very responsive, knowledgeable and good with any concerns clients may have.” “She is easy to work with, commercial, has tremendous energy and is a genius for identifying topics that are of relevance to her clients.”