Tom Redfern

Redfern Legal LLP is a business-focused London law firm founded by senior partner Tom Redfern, and has been named International Business Law Firm of the Year in England at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025. The firm advises clients located, in its own words, "from around the world to around the corner" — businesses, international groups and individuals — with a particular emphasis on international business and cross-border matters, including inward investment into the United Kingdom.

Tom Redfern established the firm and continues to lead it as senior partner, setting a client philosophy built on delivering commercial solutions rather than legal problems and on building long-term relationships as clients grow their businesses. That business-minded outlook shapes the way the firm approaches its work, treating legal advice as a practical tool for achieving commercial objectives rather than an end in itself, and positioning the firm as a partner to companies expanding across borders.

Redfern Legal offers a broad, integrated range of services that support international businesses at every stage. Its practice areas include corporate and commercial law, business and family immigration, commercial property and real estate, employment law, and intellectual property and data protection, alongside its core international work focused on inward UK investment. This combination allows the firm to guide overseas companies and entrepreneurs establishing or growing a presence in the UK, coordinating the corporate, immigration, property and employment elements that such moves typically involve.

International business law requires an ability to knit together multiple legal disciplines and to bridge different commercial cultures and expectations. For an overseas group entering the UK market, matters rarely stay within a single practice area: a transaction may raise questions of corporate structuring, visas for key personnel, premises, staff and the protection of brands and data all at once. Redfern Legal's model, bringing these strands together under one roof with a strong international orientation, is well suited to clients who value a single, commercially focused adviser across the whole picture.

The firm acts for a diverse client base of businesses, international groups and individuals, reflecting Tom Redfern's aim of serving clients wherever they are based while giving them a coordinated, relationship-led service. Its emphasis on long-term partnership and commercial outcomes underpins its reputation among internationally active clients. The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition as International Business Law Firm of the Year in England highlights the standing of Redfern Legal LLP and its founder in cross-border business law.