Corporate & Commercial
Structuring, negotiating, and concluding agreements for enterprises and founders across the United Kingdom and the European Union. From share-purchase to shareholders' agreements, read twice before signed once.
Greenway Law Firm represents individuals, families, and enterprises across borders — with a practice built on patience, plain language, and the long view. We accept new clients by referral and by enquiry.
Law, like tea, rewards patience. We pour slowly, we listen longer than we speak, and we settle only when the cup is right.
Six areas of focus, each led by a partner who has spent the better part of a career inside it. We do not pretend to do everything, and we will tell you when a matter is not ours.
Structuring, negotiating, and concluding agreements for enterprises and founders across the United Kingdom and the European Union. From share-purchase to shareholders' agreements, read twice before signed once.
Cross-border litigation, arbitration under LCIA and ICC rules, and the quieter diplomacy that resolves matters before they ever reach a hearing room.
Acquisitions, tenancies, heritage properties, and the orderly transfer of wealth between generations — handled with the discretion the situation demands.
Contracts, restructuring, tribunal representation, and workplace investigations. We advise both employers and senior individuals, never at the same time.
Mediation, divorce, and the custody of children — conducted, wherever possible, away from the courthouse and around a table instead.
Advising Ghanaian and West African enterprises on UK inbound investment, structuring cross-border joint ventures, and resolving commercial disputes across common and civil law jurisdictions.
Three solicitors, one shared instinct: read the matter twice before recommending anything. Each of our attorneys has spent at least a decade in practice before joining Greenway.
Hermes founded Greenway in 2014 after fifteen years across London and Geneva. He is read for his calm, and trusted for his refusal to confuse activity with progress. His clients are founders, families, and the occasional head of state who would rather not be named.
Sienna came to the Bar by way of clinical psychology. She mediates first and litigates rarely, and is the reason many of our families never see a courtroom. Her practice spans divorce, custody, and the particularly British art of inheritance disagreement.
John qualified in Accra before joining chambers in London. His practice bridges the United Kingdom and West Africa, advising enterprises on cross-border investments, mineral rights, and commercial disputes across common and civil law jurisdictions. He is fluent in English and Twi.
A selection of work we are permitted to mention. Most of what we do, we cannot. The figures and jurisdictions have been altered; the substance has not.
Advised a private buyer on the £42M acquisition of a Geneva-based logistics firm, coordinating counsel across three jurisdictions.
Structured a mining joint venture between a London-listed entity and a Ghanaian state-owned enterprise, navigating dual regulatory frameworks.
Built and registered a fourteen-country trademark portfolio for a London fashion house preparing for Asian expansion.
Mediated a family inheritance dispute across the United Kingdom, France, and the United Arab Emirates without recourse to litigation.
Guided a 240-person firm through a sensitive restructure that concluded without a single tribunal claim being filed.
Negotiated the sale of a Grade I listed estate in Suffolk to a charitable trust, with covenants preserving public access in perpetuity.
These are not slogans. They are the operating instructions of the firm, and the order matters. We will not skip a step to save a week.
We begin every matter by listening for an hour, and then reading for a day. Advice given before either is haste, and haste is the most expensive thing in the practice of law.
Contracts are read twice — once for what they say, and once for what they omit. We are paid for the second reading.
Most matters resolve themselves if left for seventy-two hours. We are not afraid of the silence, and we do not send the first draft.
Letters drafted in plain English cost less to send, less to read, and rarely need a second letter. We have no interest in billing by the syllable.
We accept new clients by referral and by enquiry. Write to us with a brief description of the matter; we will reply within one working day to arrange a first conversation, by telephone or in person at Lincoln's Inn.
info@gwilf.com