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Seeking the best possible outcome for you, your business and the wider community.
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Brachers is an award winning law firm, providing valuable legal support to individuals and companies.
Founded in 1895, the firm proudly celebrates its 130th anniversary in 2025, having long been renowned for building lasting relationships with clients.
Joining Lawfront in 2025 was a strategic move for the firm to realise the bold and ambitious plans we’d set out to achieve; and to ensure we continue to offer our clients the best possible service.
Take a look at the Brachers’ story.
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Our clients
At Brachers, we believe in more than just providing legal advice. We’re committed to building long-term relationships with our clients, acting as trusted advisors who proactively anticipate their needs. This client-centric approach, combined with our deep understanding of our sectors, ensures we deliver exceptional results in every situation.
We are fortunate to provide our clients with a collaborative approach, enabling experts from across our legal teams to work together to ensure the very best results for private individuals and their families, SMEs, owner managed businesses, publicly funded organisations, healthcare organisations, schools, colleges, further education providers, charities, family businesses and multi-national corporations.
Alongside our full range of legal services at Brachers, we are proud of the specialist expertise we’ve built up in debt recovery, agriculture and healthcare. We further support clients with HR support through our associated HR consultancy company, Kent HR.
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Our expertise
At Brachers, we pride ourselves on our industry recognised expertise across a range of practice areas.
We are recognised in the prestigious The Times ‘Best Law Firms 2025’ list and are consistently ranked in the top legal directories, including The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, for our in-depth knowledge and commitment to delivering exceptional client service. Our team boasts numerous awards and accreditations, reflecting our dedication to excellence and our position as a trusted advisor to businesses and individuals in Kent, Sussex, and beyond.
Our heritage
Brachers is proud to have served the people of Kent for 130 years. From our beginnings in 1895, where Henry James Bracher set up the firm with two other partners, to today, one thing remains and that is our family ethos. We are dedicated to supporting our clients, colleagues and communities and build lasting relationships that often span over multiple generations.
Lawfront
In February 2025, Brachers became part of Lawfront, which provides legal services to individuals and businesses through leading regional law firms.
Backed by private equity fund Blixt, Lawfront’s vision is to build a high quality, national business, dedicated to its people, and retaining the very best in the profession to provide the very best possible service to clients.
Lawfront backs its regional firms to achieve their growth ambitions through investment in people, technology, cross-group collaboration and further local acquisitions, with the support of a highly experienced central team.
Leading law firms, Farleys Solicitors, Fisher Jones Greenwood, Nelsons, Slater Heelis and Trethowans, are also part of Lawfront.
Find out more about Our Story.
Our communities
Playing an active role in our community is extremely important to us at Brachers. From supporting a charity of the year, to sponsorship of local sports teams, our work to become a ‘Dementia Friendly Organisation’ and the extensive involvement of our staff in supporting local people and organisations, we are committed to make a difference and give back to those around us. This is showcased through our activities under Corporate Social Responsibility.
Our people
As a responsible business, we support our people in developing resilience and managing their wellbeing. We believe these are fundamental blocks in building a thriving workforce to deliver outstanding client service and have made it a strategic objective to develop this culture.
We are also proud of our accreditation by Best Companies as an ‘outstanding’ place to work, which recognises our high levels of employee engagement and commitment to creating a better workplace for our staff.
Find out more about life at Brachers and career opportunities.
Reflections on our year
As the year draws to a close we reflect back on 2024 and the successes of our clients, communities and colleagues:
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Our commercial division is recognised as a regional leader in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring. It advises on some of the leading deals in the region, many of which normally gravitate towards London law firms. Within commercial’s offering is our property and development team with specialisms established over many years in sectors to include construction, healthcare, education, agriculture, waste energy and resource management, secured lending and corporate support.
Our commercial teams, which also include employment, HR, dispute resolution, planning, environmental and health and safety, are proud to work alongside businesses and individuals across Kent and the South East.
We are also part of the Marcalliance global network of international lawyers, which connects us to legal experts around the world who are specialists in several industries. If you want to do business across international borders, we can access trusted expertise on local industry and legal regulations across the globe.
Find out more about our Business services.
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Our private client division is well regarded and offers valuable support to our clients and their families. They support business owners, directors and entrepreneurs together with our well established agricultural client base.
Our family team is one of the leading teams in the region. They act with sensitivity and in collaboration with you.
Our wills, trust and probate team assist across all stages of life and have experience of dealing with highly complex financial arrangements, tax planning, and difficult and complicated estates where personalised solutions are needed as well as the more straightforward instructions. The team also consists of residential conveyancing and personal injury services.
Find out more about our Personal Law.
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Our Debt Recovery & Insolvency team is one of the leading teams in the country committed to providing excellence through good recoveries and strong compliance being FCA accredited. Their client base varies from large national and blue chip PLCs to owner/managed enterprises throughout the UK. They also represent utility companies and have developed a particular specialism in acting for lenders and debt purchase companies.
Our litigation teams support our debt recovery and commercial teams working collaboratively with our clients and adopting a commercial approach to achieve the right result.
Find out more about our Debt Recovery services.
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Mike CookeDiligent, professional, succinct, expansive when necessary and knowledgable, but also caring. Really nice people to work with.
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Jayne Martin (client)Empathised with my problems. Clear, trustworthy advice.
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