Forbes Solicitors

Lawyers 158
Turnover £20.5 million
Offices 11

Forbes Solicitors operates nationally, with offices in Lancashire, Manchester, Leeds and London advising commercial clients and individuals on matters, including crime, family, employment and property law.

The firm is one of the largest criminal legal aid providers in the country, predominantly operating in the northwest but regularly instructed in cases on a nationwide basis. The firm’s work includes focusing on serious, complex and high-profile cases, and those with an international dimension.

It has developed a specialism in advising in large-scale conspiracies to defraud and international drug-trafficking offences and is at present instructed in eight complex crown court case in Preston, Leeds, Manchester and London.

Forbes Solicitors’s financial crime team is instructed in a £260 million money laundering case, a £200 million asset-based lending fraud, and a case involving alleged local government corruption.