Withers - Playbook 2025

Looking to secure a Withers Vacation Scheme? Here’s a fresh Playbook designed to help you impress.

This Playbook covers:
🧠 Withers’ strategy for growth.
👥 Insights from recent hires.
🌍 Office expansion and global focus.
📊 Must-know financial data.
💼 Key clients and notable deals.

🧠 Practice Area Strategy

In short: Withers is doubling down on its private client roots while branching into new specialist areas like art law technology renewable energy and executive employment to meet evolving client needs

Details:

Private Wealth & Disputes
The firm is holding on to its identity as a “private client powerhouse”. This is underscored by Withers appointing private client disputes lawyer Paul Hewitt as its new Chair in London. Hewitt’s background, including leading major trust cases such as representing the late Nizam of Hyderabad in a £35 million international dispute, shows Withers’ commitment to high-stakes trust, estates and family disputes for ultra-high-net-worth clients. The firm has also grown its litigation capabilities. For example, it has hired a team of disputes lawyers in Singapore led by a former Morgan Lewis partner to serve clients’ contentious needs globally.

Art & Luxury Assets
Withers is staking a claim as a go-to firm for art law and luxury asset matters. In 2025, it launched a dedicated art advisory practice in New York, hiring former Sotheby’s Americas chair Mari-Claudia Jiménez as a partner to lead it. Jiménez now co-heads the firm’s global art practice alongside a London partner, advising collectors, galleries and auction houses. By November 2025, Withers added veteran art lawyer Frank Lord, a PhD art historian, and an ex-Christie’s specialist to that team. Catering to wealthy clients’ art and cultural property needs is a logical extension of Withers’ private client focus, and the firm’s investment here shows it is prioritising niche sectors important to its high-net-worth clientele.