Ashfords - Playbook (TC and Summer Scheme)

Want to get a TC or Summer Scheme at Ashfords? Our Playbook gives you all the insights you need to impress!

This Playbook covers:

🧠 Practice Area Strategy
🌍 Office and Growth
📊 Financial Performance
💼 Top Clients and Deals
🔎 How to Stand Out

Deadline: 31 March

🧠 Practice Area Strategy

In short: Ashfords is doubling down on real estate, energy, technology, private wealth, and corporate M&A as the engine rooms of its £100m growth plan, backed by rising rankings across all five areas.

Details

In June 2025, CEO Louise Workman, now in her second four-year term, unveiled a five-year plan to grow revenue from £61m to £100m by 2030, representing roughly 64% growth.

Here's how Ashfords strategy is playing across 5 key practice areas.

1. ⚡ Energy - the fastest-growing practice

What's happening: Ashfords advised Pennon Group on the acquisition of three solar PV projects (combined cost of approximately £85m) and AlphaReal on four solar and battery storage acquisitions worth over £150m. The firm hired Rhiannon Morgan-Williams from Simmons & Simmons to lead real estate work on renewable energy projects.

Why it matters: The UK government's net zero targets require massive private investment in renewable energy infrastructure. Every solar farm, battery storage facility, and grid connection involves real estate, planning, construction, corporate, and regulatory law. Ashfords is positioning itself as the go-to firm for developers and investors navigating this pipeline. Legal 500 awarded a new Tier 1 ranking for Project/Energy/Natural Resources.

What to say: "Ashfords' work for Pennon on the £85m solar acquisition stood out to me because it shows how energy mandates pull in multiple practice areas at once: corporate, real estate, construction, and regulatory. The firm's decision to hire from Simmons & Simmons for this area tells me it's building a genuinely specialist capability, not just handling energy work opportunistically."

2. 💻 Tech, Data, and IP - the key upgrade