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We provide expert legal services for businesses, individuals and families based in the UK and internationally.
Discover our international capabilities
N. America
Expert international lawyers with deep US market knowledge, helping businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals achieve their goals.
Canada
Multidisciplinary legal expertise ready to support your Canadian ventures—whether personal or commercial.
S. America
Native Spanish and Portuguese speakers with extensive regional networks, guiding businesses and individuals towards their South American ambitions.
Africa
London-based lawyers with strong local connections and local language capabilities, supporting inward investment for businesses and individuals alike.
Europe
Multilingual lawyers with pan-European experience, delivering seamless support for inward and outward investment across the continent.
E. Europe
Lawyers who have lived and worked across Eastern Europe, offering authentic regional insight for your investment goals.
Asia
International lawyers with Asian language skills and established local networks, helping you navigate opportunities across the region.
Australia
Experienced international lawyers with strong local connections, supporting your personal and business objectives.
UK Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories
We can provide legal advice on matters involving these jurisdictions, including by working with appropriately qualified local counsel where required.
DMH Stallard is a law firm based in England, with a strong and well established international network.
We support businesses with international ambitions and families with international reach. In an increasingly complex world we can help you navigate the challenges of doing business and managing complex personal matters across borders. In a time of global turbulence, changes in the use of technology, a complex geopolitical and economic environment, through our international network of Partner firms, we can provide businesses and international families with the legal expertise to
- ensure that businesses are compliant, can achieve their commercial ambitions and defend their positions if necessary
- help preserve family wealth and manage tax liabilities for the benefit of future generations.
We will put together the right legal team for you, drawing upon the firm’s different disciplines, sector expertise and geographies, and working with the best law firms in the markets in which you operate. We work with two international affiliations of law firms and have long established relationships with both, this means our clients can be assured of a tried and tested global service.
Our international legal services range from providing specialist legal advice to UK businesses with an international footprint or global ambitions, working with overseas firms with UK expansion plans and working with non-domicile or international families co-ordinating legal advice for our clients across multiple jurisdictions.
Our independence means you will receive a service that is tailor made to your requirements. We provide:
- International and cross border legal advice for UK clients – where we co-ordinate the legal advice required for our clients or provide details of trusted law firms who have the expertise in their chosen jurisdiction(s).
- UK legal advice for international firms who are looking to build their UK offering, we can provide expertise in real estate, corporate and commercial law, employment and immigration law and should you need it litigation and dispute resolution.
- Non domicile families and individuals – we can provide those with their main home outside of the UK with tax advice, inheritance tax planning, probate advice, divorce and much more. We have a team of immigration, tax and private client and family law specialists with the knowledge and experience to help you.
We are members of two international networks to help provide the best tailor-made legal advice for our clients. When you need legal guidance, assistance or advocacy, you can rely on DMH Stallard’s global networks to provide the legal expertise you need.
We are members of:
LEI was established to meet the demands of clients who need support with cross border transactions and disputes. The network was established over 30-years ago, and we were a founding member. The network offers clients a personal, cost-effective and partner-led service provided by over 800 locally qualified lawyers in 37 jurisdictions.
LEI is a strong, closely-knit group of law firms that provides real benefits to its members and their clients when they have required high quality and responsive legal assistance in a foreign jurisdiction. Clients that have benefited from LEI’s members’ cross-border connections range from individuals to small, medium and large corporations.
INBLF, International Network of Boutique and Independent Law Firms, isa network of law firms around the globe, to ensure that the best possible legal services are available to clients of INBLF member firms wherever the need arises.
Clients enjoy the advantages of direct access to leading attorneys in INBLF member firms. Our boutique firms have deep experience in their selected areas of practice, while our independent firms are steeped in the legal traditions and cultures of their home countries.
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Recent work
Services
International Legal Advice
We provided employment/immigration, commercial, real estate, dispute resolution and intellectual property services to support expansion/consolidation into the UK market.
Business Immigration
Sale
Company Sale
We acted for the shareholders of a UK manufacturing and distribution company who sold their shares to a US giant. This included cross border guarantees and security provisions.
Corporate
Overseas Asset Protection
We defended our client against the misuse of their trademark and breaches of their franchise agreement overseas for who franchised a range of international casual and fine dining restaurant brands.
Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation Lawyers
Damage Mitigation for a Global Business
We advised and acted for a leading international retailer in defence of a substantial claim brought against them by a retail partner. We used mediation to reach a settlement and conclude this matter on excellent terms for our client.
Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation Lawyers
Non – Domicile Tax Mitigation
Advising clients with a domicile of choice abroad (and a domicile of origin in the UK) on the use of offshore trusts to hold their UK assets whilst they continue to be domiciled abroad.
Personal Tax Law
Worker Migration Advice for Major Arts Productions in the UK
Advised a leading production company in the UK in relation to the Creative Worker (temporary) work immigration route, facilitating the placement of internationally renowned performers and unit company members for its UK productions.
Business Immigration
International Divorce
DMH Stallard advised, led negotiations and achieved favourable financial settlement for our client. One party was based in the US and split his time between the UK and US each year. This cross-border matter necessitated input of experts in both UK and US.
Divorce
Insights
Insights
A regular review of your Will and wider estate planning doesn’t have to be complicated. With the right professional advice, you can be confident your plans still provide peace of mind for the future.
30/07/2026
Insights
DMH Stallard has advised the shareholders of Sygna Holdings Limited on the sale of a majority stake in the business to leading European integrated facilities management company Apleona.
16/07/2026
Insights
Traditionally, a period of international instability and low business growth is not good for investor confidence, with the result that prices and deal volumes drop; but that is not what we are seeing.
15/07/2026
Announcements
Joanna Watson-James joins the firm in Guildford, helping clients with their succession and inheritance tax planning for future generations.
10/07/2026
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