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Retail & Consumer

From household names to high-growth disruptors, we help retail and consumer brands thrive - navigating complexity, unlocking opportunity, and building the legal foundations for sustainable success.

Driving sustainable growth in a changing retail landscape

We empower clients with practical, sustainable strategies to navigate digital change, retail shifts, and evolving customer expectations.

Leading digital and e-commerce innovation

We guide clients through digital transformation - launching virtual stores, AI tools, and secure, influencer-driven commerce that engages modern consumers.

Protecting brand value through risk and compliance expertise

We help clients build trust by advising on ESG, product safety, and cyber resilience - managing climate risks, green claims, and digital threats.

Recognised by Chambers and Legal 500, we advise leading retail and consumer brands including Tesco, Google, Meta, Unilever, Heineken, and Harrods. Our support spans cyber and data protection, M&A, real estate, strategic partnerships, supply chains, brand protection, disputes, and energy procurement. We guide high-growth businesses from Series A funding through to exits via trade sales, private equity, and IPOs, with clients such as Huel, Sweaty Betty, Trinny London, and Charlotte Tilbury. 

Our team advises on daily operations and strategic initiatives, including store portfolios, logistics, staffing, trading law, employment, immigration, IP, and branding. We also support global expansion, joint ventures, licensing, franchising, and regulatory compliance.

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Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.

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    With over 490 partners and 3000 people around the world, we are well-placed to support you across a full range of legal and advisory services.

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    Pinsent Masons advises Levy Merchandising on its first National Team Partnership

    Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised sports merchandising and athleisure-wear company Levy Merchandising on a landmark technical partnership and retail outsourcing agreement with the Football Association of Wales.

    Pinsent Masons advises Horizon 3 Healthcare on investment in Xeltis

    Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Horizon 3 Healthcare as lead investor in an additional €20.5 million funding round for Xeltis, a clinical-stage medtech company developing transformative implantable medical devices.

    Pinsent Masons appoints inaugural financial regulatory consulting head

    Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Ian Stott to found and lead its financial regulatory consulting practice. Ian will join Vario, the legal services delivery arm of Pinsent Masons, and work with specialists across the firm to enhance existing offerings and spearhead the development of its non-legal regulatory conduct and financial crime advisory and remediation services.

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